What moment made you go nuts the most in the last arc?
The DamiAnya piggyback ride or Damian’s keep your nasty hands off my woman moment?
Hi Fiji!! 🥰Oh my gosh what a throwback! What an arc! I loved when he picked her up like a little sack of potatoes and carried her so far away from that haunted house 😭 and even better, that he went BACK for her, facing his own fear like a little hero aaaawwww my babies
I'm interested to know what your fave bits are too 😁 that arc really had some new gems!! and I think madame schlag's new background really took the cake for me as well 😂
I juat finished catching up on "When Work's Your Passion" and I was wondering — did we ever get a literal translation for the word ki'a? The first time it's used, Soundwave goes on to think of the reader as an exotic pet, but I wasn't sure if that was the actual meaning or not.
Sorry if this has been answered already, or if I missed a translation in the text itself.
Thank you!
(I really like WWYP btw <3333)
Sooooooooo I'll post my answer below the cut, for the sake of those who don't want ✨ spoilers ✨
I need you to know that I'm delighted when people ask me about this
Short answer:
YES IT TRANSLATES INTO PET and YES I'M CACKLING
Long Way Over-thought Answer:
If memory serves (i don't have easy access to my lore notes document atm), I have it as being an "approximate" translation rather than a perfect 1:1
I like to think there's actually a few words in various Cybertronian dialects that you could use for 'pet' and Soundwave picking *this one specifically* was a dick move. He wanted to insult us, but his insult accidentally became an endearment jokes on him (and also us i guess xD)
But basically, he claimed legal and caretaking responsibility for her the moment he started calling her that. It's usually reserved for 'non sentient' or simply very low caste individuals. Ie, animals and say, minicons who have tool alt modes like Swindle does in most my fics, or a bot classified as a drone. It is not a nice word for a Cybertronian to call someone, and honestly, it's hilarious to be that the Autobots never found it he's been calling her it this entire time.
I kind of wanted them to, but it just... Never came up, pleasantly, and the reader spends so much time writing extremely detailed reports of everything she did and observed that's a high priority, she skips whatever is deemed as inconsequential. Plus that healthy dose of not wanting to invite the Autobots to discuss at all how Sources treats us ;) hehehehe. Anyhow, i decided I'd rather we find out after we're abducted, because it'll hit different than if we'd found out much earlier.
Anyhow, he hasn't actually named the reader, so much as he's been addressing us by a title (as he said, an "appropriate designation") this whole time. It'd be like looking at your service dog and saying "Service Dog, wishes to remain Soundwave's Service Dog?"
It's why he so often uses phrases with a possessive / says "little K'ia" or "Soundwave's K'ia" - it wasn't to be cute, (though he's definitely by now picked up on the fact reader thinks it is).
It's because he's literally referring to us as an owned thing rather than by our name and was mocking us. It gave him distance from his captor.
Jokes on him though he caught the feelings with a capital F even though he LITERALLY avoided NAMING HER SO HE DIDN'T GET ATTACHED and also the insult went away over reader's head indefinitely until #abducted because we're too work focused and gullible, so like. He failed on all counts lmfao
Also i need to delete something in the tags so i can add "pet play" to them, because i feel like this is heading in a funny and sexy direction. 😏
also
Don't worry i have an even BETTER name in store for us courtesy of the twins, Ravage, and @sinspark4 who is basically the Rumble to my Frenzy soooo yeah the Twins and Ravage
Hey, uh, telling me you like my work so much you uploaded it to an AI to try to see what might happen next is not a compliment. It gets you blocked. How fucking weird
I hate that I have more ideas than motivation some days.
Anyway, got a question for my Twisted Wonderland fans.
Yandere/kidnapping with the TWST boys. Would y'all prefer individual (all 22), all Housewardens, all overblots (yes, I'm aware that that's a very similar list), or a dorm group?
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