1. Exploring the concept of Cybertronians being unaware humans are sentient - or, the less scrupulous hiding it in order to make a profit - and adopting humans as “pets” is a very well-established trope, and has its place in fanfiction just the same as any other trope. It’s fun! People like it for a reason!
2. Humans would make the WORST PETS OF ALL TIME, EVER, FULL STOP.
Care requirements are horrible. Complicated. We evolved in harmony with an unutterably delicate and complex ecosystem, and removing us from it without immediately killing us requires three advanced degrees per mech, specialized equipment, and an entire team of scientists, medics, and engineers. If you don’t have the resources of a major xenological park to hand, including the deep pockets of shanix to pay for it all, you’ve already failed.
Behavior wise? Humans lose our shit in captivity. We use captivity as punishment for our species. You throw a human in a cage, and they know they’re in a cage, and it won’t matter what enrichment you provide. They will become unhinged. They will have one goal: to break out of the cage. They will be angry at you when they break out of the cage.
You are getting the hellish combination of an under-stimulated Border collie, an unpredictable chimpanzee, an isolated Seaworld orca missing their pod, with the spite of a recently shaved cat. When your “pet” human breaks out, when, not if, the mech “owner” will wake from recharge to find someone with tiny hands and advanced problem-solving abilities is now living in their walls. They are coming out only with the intention of committing acts of sabotage and violence that would make the DJD think “That’s a bit much.” They are going to kill you in your recharge.
Besides, humans don’t live long compared to mechs. It would be like mechs keeping a fruit fly as a pet, if the fruit fly had opposable thumbs, a shiv made out of scrap metal, and a personal vendetta against the mech for putting them in a cage.
“But humans are domesticated, they even domesticated themselves! They love to play and follow routines and respond to positive stimuli! They’re so cute when they sleep! They pack bond easily!”
I present to your attention the Soundwave model from Transformers Cyberverse. The model is movable, and as a demonstration, I repeated some poses from the series.
Smile for the picture 📸 cassetticon eyes caught you in 4K, 8k even… don’t think they’re gonna forget you any time soon… ehh I don’t have much to say I just wanted to draw ES Ravage again 😛 such a good ravage design… Soundwave’s too
Since we've got Bumblebee, Megatron, and Optimus babies, i think it's only fair we add Soundwave to the bunch! Especially after the pregnancy scenario with him a little while back. I'd love to see how Soundwave and the cassettes would react to human reader having a baby and adding a new sibling to the fam!
Yes, indeed it is!! I wrote this adorable little fic, I hope you like it!!
"Status; positive?" Soundwave asked you one final time, kneeling beside the floor level berth as he ensured your blanket nest was sound. More snuggled than you'd ever been in your life, you smiled patiently as your mate continued his endless fussing over your comfort, and nodded your head as your eyes met his visor.
"Yes, I'm still sure." you assured him yet again, taking one arm off the bundle in your lap to lay a comforting hand over his. Trusting your judgment but as careful as ever, he nodded in return and lingered his gaze on the newborn peeking out of his swaddling, a kind of softness settling over his angular features as the two of you sat in a moment of comfortable silence. The little one was more or less asleep at the moment, but had already made a habit of waking in short, bleary bursts of cuteness before inevitably conking out once again, and the two of you had yet to grow tired of the awe you felt at everything he did. Hopefully his siblings would be just as happy to meet him.
"Affirmative." Soundwave said after collecting himself, rising to his pedes to access the bot sized door to your makeshift maternity ward. It took a few steps for him to unlock all the security features he'd personally installed, but as the final lock came undone with an audible thunk and the heavy metal doors whooshed apart, you had just enough time to catch three human sized bots waiting on the other side. "Cassettes granted access-"
"Where-?!"
Soundwave stepped in front of the eager trio just as they tried to charge inside, his visor leveling on Frenzy in a voiceless repeat of a warning he'd delivered many times already. Thankfully the bitlet in your arms merely gave a tiny twitch at the noise, but was otherwise silent as the cassettes sheepishly shrunk down before approaching with almost exaggerated tip toeing. Looking beyond the big bot, Frenzy spoke up again in a much more controlled whisper, craning her neck for a better view. "Where is he?"
"Right here." you invited gently, encouraging them to approach. Seeing the bundle in your arms gave Frenzy, Ravage and Laserbeak a moment of pause before all three hurried to your side, moving as quietly but swiftly as their respective legs and wings could take them. Having expected such excitement, you merely ensured the sparkling was easily visible before preparing for the inevitable flood of questions.
"No way, he really is a bot!" Frenzy said first, crawling over the berth for a closer look but keeping a comfortable distance. Soundwave kneeled behind you as the entire family gathered around, and even with hushed tones all the action had the little one perking up to look around with his broad visor. The purple cassette only grew more awed as he cooed in mild confusion. "The teeniest one I've ever seen, too!"
Laserbeak, though equally touched by the new arrival, brightened at the sight of his chubby face and rounded visor before turning to his sister with an expression of victory. "Ha, you owe me ten credits! I told you he'd have a visor!"
"Don't be so darn smug, you had half a chance of getting it right." Frenzy scoffed, crossing her arms and meeting the other bot's insufferable gaze. "Besides, I'm the one who predicted him in the first place."
"True, but we didn't wager on that." Laserbeak countered with a snicker, the sound of which caused the sparkling to stir with more energy. Yawning and rubbing his face, the bitlet made an adorable show of smushing his rounded cheeks before his digits found his way to his mouth and he began to suckle, emitting a quiet hum of contentment. The adorable sight softened him, and the avian lowered his voice as he continued. "Cute lil feller, isn't he?"
"Yeah, can't pretend that's not adorable." Frenzy concurred as Ravage sat quietly at her side, observing the newborn with a few tentative sniffs as the others continued talking. "But how long until he gets an altmode?"
"Development rate, uncertain." Soundwave answered simply, reaching over you to adjust your blankets. The movement made the sparkling reflexively reach for his sire, stubby digits flexing before the uncertain mech offered his son one of his own, which the newborn grasped tightly.
"There's not a lot of info out there about how these things go, so we're just going to figure it out day by day." you explained further, chuckling softly as the sparkling nommed on Soundwave's digit. "For now, he's just a normal newborn."
"A cute one. Look at his widdle servos..." Frenzy said without thinking, so enamored with her new sibling she briefly forgot to be cool. Catching herself with a blush and a cough once she caught Laserbeak smirking, the femme averted her gaze and mumbled a quick addendum. "That uh... that grip will make him a good guitar player, that's all."
Oblivious to how much his arrival had been anticipated, the sparkling decided to return to napping right in the middle of nomming on his sire, yawning once before conking out in your arms once more. The cuteness was too great for anyone to resist, and even Ravage gave a soft purr of adoration as the group gathered more closely around the new arrival, basking in his presence as he snoozed in perfect contentment. He couldn't know it yet, but he was perhaps the safest little one on Earth.
IDW Soundwave makes me sick to my stomach. He needs someone to love him, just a fella who loves elephants and his cassettes, and had a dream. Absolutely sickening
Oh, i remember this! No truck fucking, but also hard to explain...?
Basically, a lot of truckers feel VERY attached to their trucks, to the point where it's common for truckers to refer to them as their "first baby".
So, knowing this, this trucker's wife organised a photoshoot where her husband's "first baby" got to meet his "second baby". Kind of like those pregnancy photoshoots with dogs?
He thought it was great, and they shared it on social media trucker groups. In a turn i would not expect, a lot of other truckers got really emotional about it. Like, grown men cooing over a stranger's pregnancy photoshoot, going to their wives and asking if they can do something similar 🥺🥺🥺. All in all, strangely wholesome???
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