#asterlith.highlights

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who are you to leave?

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wreckers kpop au /hj

if I like these they'll become digital and colored perhaps ...

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do you feel it now

insp by @sukiloudshart designs

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part of why jazzwave is so intriguing to me as a dynamic is because they're both quite devoted to their work instead of purely emotional or self-centered pursuits; have similar areas of expertise (music, but also being third in command), therefore acting as each other's foils, but also have very different personas; and also they seem to both just be crazy skilled (and also crazy, if you want) in anything that isn't g1 because that doesn't count (half joking, but we all know g1 is silly whether we've watched it or not)

anyway my brain really latched on when i first properly read about them in deal with the devil by satellitesoundwave (ao3) (shoutout to this fic. totally recommend for anyone who wants an ~20k word fic centered entirely on jazz and soundwave, with trickery but also worldbuilding), so that definitely was one of the main factors that influenced my ideal jazzwave dynamic. i need them to throw each other on the floor and play mind games and then go back to their factions and when their leaders ask what happened they're just like. "oh nothing, just the usual"

bonus points if they have a special rivalry thing going on because again, they're each other's foils, they've got to be absolutely annoying to each other because one just stops the other whenever they want to do anything. and of course this would get frustrating over time, but this could also feed a sort of competitive obsession with each other. bug again, they're very loyal to their respective factions, which kind of makes this dynamic more unique than others'.

have no idea where i was going with this but. hi here's my thoughts on jazzwave i guess. probably going to talk about prowl/starscream later because i have even more to say about them

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i'd like to think of idw prowl as someone left in the shadow of love. no, i haven't read all the media with him in it. in fact, i've barely seen him in canon. but. i have thoughts based on what i have seen

i'd like to think that he is a product of being left behind by a love so great it could not be replaced. a love for justice. a love for truth. a love for the faction. a longing for the thunderous wave of war. you know? and these were the loves that could not be fulfilled, because the other side left. the other side walked away, and all that was left was prowl.

so he lets go of morality, he lets go of peace, he lets go of trust. he will always be chasing the loves. he is always chasing.

he lets go of values that others share to instead pursue the loves, and the journey only reinforces his black-and-white thoughts, the beliefs he clings onto.

generally. restating my earlier thoughts, prowl — to me — feels quite like the remnant of abandonment, standing in the shadow of true love.

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augh someone tell me it isn't just me seeing the prowl/starscream parallels

elaboration under cut so this isn't a random massive chunk

so, i was listening to "peasant's throne" by lilith max (because of keferon's animatic to it, featuring prowl), and added it to both my prowl and starscream playlists (all media/mixed-continuity). then, i went "WAIT."

they're both subordinates to the main leader (megatron and optimus, of course) and second-in-commands. them both being SiCs must count for something, right? and i thought—starscream and prowl, with prowl in a blend of his idw incarnations (wow. he. uh. from what i've heard, his characterization varies wildly with each writer, but i think you get the gist of what i mean.) and starscream in general.

now, imagine. these are SiCs that disagree with their respective leaders' morals, decisions, mindsets. but they're not going to speak out about everything they really think, because they believe that their leaders won't understand. won't even bother to listen to reason. "too soft-sparked," "too stubborn," whatever the reason be. instead, they're going to plot, and they're going to plot hard.

so they get their plans in action, unbeknownst to each other.

maybe somehow they find out about each other. a "you could help me" situation happens on both sides, because they're not stupid. they know that an alliance could help, even with starscream's reputation for disloyalty and prowl's general … well, autobot-ness (at least, to decepticon view). but sure, they're working together, but they don't trust each other yet. they do try at least a bit to cooperate, though, and it's working … uh, it's working, at least.

this could turn out shippy or not. maybe they're friends. coworkers. allied. whatever you want. doesn't matter, all i'm covering is the dynamic.

but you get the point, yes? they have similar motives, in respect to their own sides. they have the goals and they know how they're going to get there. they both plan and plot and scheme away, out of sight.

the autobot tactician and the decepticon commander.

what a pair, huh?