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Welcome, all! This is an ask blog designed to ignite your curiosity and answer those questions you've got brewing regarding the relationship between the infamous Autobot saboteur and enigmatic Decepticon communications officer. Jazz and Soundwave, along with the rest of the gang, are more than happy to tell you more about themselves! So don't be shy, ask away!

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If Aura or the Twins had to pick to be Autobot or Decepticon which would they choose?

It depends.

If you’re talking pre-war, when the Decepticons were painted out to be revolutionaries seeking to rise above a system that was oppressing them, Aura would be more than willing to join their ranks. She isn’t the kind of bot who’d standing idly by when there’s help to be given. However if you put her in the middle of the conflict where the Decepticons have strayed from their original means, she’d side with the Autobots though she’d find herself morally conflicted given the history of how the war originally began.

Of course, this is if you imagine her as her own entity separated from her parents. If you put her in a situation where she’d have to choose between either her sire or her carrier, then she’d chose neither. Obviously she’d find herself in the company of the bot who carried her and would be subtly assimilated into their ranks but she’d be quick to break away from it upon learning that one of those who created her is a member of the opposite faction.

Now Tenor and Vibes are a different story.

They’re not as prone to moral conflict as Aura is so they’d be more than eager to join the Decepticon ranks. Tenor and Vibes are the creations of Decepticons so the concepts of survival and every mech for themselves are deeply ingrained into them. As twins, the only things that truly matter to them are each other and everything else is either an asset or a danger to their wellbeing.

However, if you put in Jazz and Soundwave into the mix, they’d probably side with Soundwave in this particular case given how their ideologies are more in tune with one another. They’d be loathe to bring actual harm upon Jazz in the battlefield but would have no qualms inflicting damage upon his comrades.

So, in summary, Aura would go nuetral. Vibes and Tenor would join the Decepticons.

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What’s Aura’s opinion on her siblings?

She absolutely adores them.

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There’s more Jazzwave kids!

Yes; meet Tenor (right) and Vibes (left)!

Unlike Aura, Tenor and Vibes are actually adopted. They were orphaned during reconstruction efforts and made their way into Jazz and Soundwave care after various other mechs found themselves unable to handle their rebellious attitudes.

At first they were wary of the two but with time, they grew to love them as their own creators. They even went as far as to ask that their frame upgrades include aspects of both Soundwave and Jazz’s frame specs.

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Its adorable how tiny jazz is next to soundwave

They’re both quite fond of the size difference too.

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Jazzwave family, do they ever group hug?

They’re much too big to group hug, especially considering that they got two recent additions into the family (twins Vibes and Tenor) but they’re more than happy to do stuff together and spend time in each other’s company.

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Are we ever going to see fully grown/adult Aura art? Also, is she a host like her sire and if not, does she just have a familiar/companion sort of thing just to feel closer to who her sire is?

She grows up to be a pretty big bot. Taller than Jazz and an inch or two above Soundwave. Originally, neither intended to give her a war modified frame but her Spark’s size (and her subsequent host mech coding) made it a necessity.

Her overall size and natural perceptiveness made her the perfect candidate for rescue work so she became a first responder for the Iacon Division.

Most of the time she gets put out in the field helping out the general public with small-time stuff like getting bots stuck up on monuments down or settling domestic disputes. Her line of work makes it dangerous for her to have any symbionts but given the fact that her Spark’s similar to Soundwave, she keeps her coding in line by letting her sire’s cassettes occasionally take residence in her docking chamber.

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Has anything ever triggered Jazz/Soundwave’s protectiveness for each other? Like any close calls? 👀

The moments are few and far between. They’re both pretty capable of taking care of themselves and trust each other’s ability implicitly.

However, when Jazz was carrying, Soundwave’s protectiveness of him grew exponentially. He went out of his way to make sure he was well-rested and cared for and if anyone so much as said something mildly irritating to Jazz, Soundwave scared them off.

Arguably it was just his coding kicking in but Soundwave had witnessed enough atrocities involving younglings and creators to know just how fragile both can be.

Jazz is always protective of Soundwave and it comes primarily from his habit of having those he cares about constantly being put in positions of authority that consequently make them targets as well. In the beginning of their relationship, Jazz would shadow Soundwave whenever he went to a questionable destination and secretly ward off anyone or anything that so much as looked at the telepath the wrong way.

When Soundwave was eventually voted into a government position, it put him in the way of mechs with various questionable motives. Various Autobot (and Nuetral) electives couldn’t look past his Decepticon history and actively worked against him. It was mostly opposition on bills that Soundwave presented or supported but a few took their tactics off the floor. 

One mech tried to get him put out of commission by lacing his Energon dispenser with corrosives but Soundwave had enough experience with such things to detect the agents on the first sip. Thankfully the event only resulted in some discomfort and minor damage in his vitals but seeing Soundwave sluggish and unresponsive was enough to get a fright out of Jazz.

Naturally, he responded by applying (and getting) position as Soundwave’s assistant/bodyguard.

Nobody’s tried anything since.

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Did Aura Gain Soundwave's Telepathy, Jazz's Grappling Hook, and/or Either of their Sound Systems.

Unfortunately, she did not gain telepathy. However, she is a tad more perceptive to other bots’ EM fields and energy readings and capable of detecting telepathy if she finds herself victim of it. But some argue that it’s a byproduct of growing up with an outlier as a creator, nothing more.

As for the grappling hook, the need for wartime modifications allowed her frame to be constructed with no weapons whatsoever. Even if she found the grappling hook intriguing, she’d had to have it physically installed by a frame technician.

Having inherited her sire’s repressed emotional parameters, she isn’t too fond of music and lacks the connection that her carrier has with it. So when the choice came up to have a sound system upgrade, she declined it. That doesn’t mean she is a complete stranger to music, though. Despite her apathy towards the genres, she’s well versed in the science behind it and can produce music that gets others enthusiastically moving.

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Jazz’s smile is precious

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Who’s that little tiny bot next to Aura in that one ask?

That would be Jumpstart. He’s a symbiont that Aura met at the Academy and who’s been trying to court her as his host.

Jumpstart’s interest was a bit of an infatuation, to be frank, and he’d stuck by her side the moment he met her. Aura, being relatively unfamiliar with having her own symbionts, accepted his company in order to learn more about him and his kind.

Needless to say, their relationship wasn’t very dynamic and when Thunderstorm entered the picture, Jumpstart was all but forgotten.

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Does aura have any close friends? Any other bitlets?

Unfortunately, not many. She lacks her carrier’s charisma and takes more after her sire when it comes to social situations.

It’s led to quite a fair bit of bullying, mostly on behalf of Spitfire, Starscream and Skyfire’s bitlet. He’s a bit older and his time spent being raised in New Vos has allowed him exposure to the archaic ideologies of purism, which states that Seekers are the superior forms of Cybertronians and outliers, particularly ones like Soundwave and Aura, are inferior.

His bullying took the form of verbal taunts for most of their young life but as they got into their newer frame updates, Spitfire’s bullying became more physical and you’d often find him on top of some stairs, laughing and jeering while Aura struggles to get to her feet at the bottom of the flight.

She bears it with quiet dignity and after some time, her resilence ended up attracting the empathy of Thunderstorm, Bluestreak and Thundercracker’s creation. He started out protecting Aura from Spitfire’s contempt but eventually grew to like her as a friend, albeit Aura was a little hesitant to accept his friendship.

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Oooo how was the honeymoon? Where/what did y'all do? (And of course, what misadventures went alongside it?)

JAZZ: We traveled a lot, mostly. When we weren’t sitting in the cockpit of our ship and reminiscing, we tended to dock on uninhabited planets and enjoy the scenery for a couple orns then we’d gradually resort to sitting near the ship and enjoying each other’s company.

I’d offer private singing recitals to Soundwave, who seemed enjoy them no matter how long or short they tended to be.

We were pretty sappy, truth be told.

But sappiness aside, we took our solitude among the stars as an advantage to also get to know one another intimately.

Back home we had the kids, y’know? Rumble and Frenzy are pretty clingy and there’d be moments where our fans would find themselves online and spinnin’ full force and me and Sounders would be moments away from finally getting more than a kiss shared between us when our habsuite door would burst open and either one of the twin menaces would stumble in and interrupt everything.

Thank Primus for honeymoons!

But in all honesty, through its duration we mostly just focused on us. We hadn’t bonded yet, not with our sparks, and the honeymoon served as an opportunity to see if we were compatible enough to do so.

We quickly learned that we were. And man, I swear no other mechs have ever bonded faster than me and Sounders did during our honeymoon.

I’m afraid to say that apart from a few fragging injuries, one of which had us stuck together for orns, we had very few misadventures to speak of. Though there was that time on this planet in which this odd tentacle flora and Soundwave--

Yeah, no misadventures to speak of. None that won’t tarnish our public image, that is! :D

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Soundwave’s cassettes each celebrate the day that Soundwave found and adopted them into his ranks. 

Frenzy and Rumble LOVE giving gag gifts to the others but one day they all decide that enough is enough and gave them both a taste of their own medicine.

They both refuse to admit that they looked hurt by the shirt’s implications but neither denied the warm hugs and reassuring affection that Soundwave offered them in private later on.

Jazz proceeded to participate in a gaming marathon with the both of them to aid in cheering them up not long after.

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Jazz bought Soundwave a sweater and being the petty indulger that he is of his conjunx’s actions, Soundwave agreed to a brief photoshoot.

Megatron regrets not using this as Decepticon propaganda during the war.

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And that is how Jazz and Soundwave eventually decided to get hitched. Properly, that is.

With a ceremony and guests and an officiator and plenty of enex to bust everybot’s FIM chip to high heaven.

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Well shit now Soundwave has to get jazz preggo again so we can see the bump!!!

They’re way ahead of you!

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What hobbies does Aura have, especially ones she can do with her creators?

She loves watching movies with Jazz. Horror flicks, in particular human ones from Earth.

The cassettes are way too easy to scare and Soundwave spends most of his time criticizing the special effects and plot holes so Aura can’t really enjoy them much with them.

But Jazz finds them fun and he allows her to cuddle up in his lap where she feels safe to brave through some of her favorite movies.

She and Soundwave bond a lot through video games. They tend to play on master levels and get a kick out of bringing out each other’s competitiveness. They have fun playing side by side or connecting from long distance when Soundwave’s at work.