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This week on Keeping Up with the Cassettes! (AKA an excuse to soft launch my femme!skywarpxfemme!frenzy ship)
yandere (G1) Soundwave w/ yandere Cassettes ✗ gender neutral! human! darling
Rules for the Cassettes; Set by Soundwave
Autoscout may not be used by darling without Soundwave's permission. (He doesn't care how much you beg to Autoscout. He expects the cassette to resist such temptations. It will be more than easy to replace it with another.)
Beastbox isn't allowed to interrogate darling. (Soundwave worries, perhaps even fears, that Beastbox's violent conduct will lead to your passing. He has thought of breaking Beastbox for that singular reason. Threat: possible. Fear: illogical, yet present.)
Buzzsaw is not allowed to create his masterpieces around you. (He becomes too absorbed in his refined process, which leaves you an opportunity to egress. Soundwave also doesn't want to deal with Buzzsaw's brooding at your disruption and rejection of his artistic abilities.)
Enemy may not argue with you. (He relishes in your hatred for him. He thrives off it. Soundwave will never voice this, but it creates a fierce jealousy within his spark. Soundwave: only one darling is allowed to ultimately despise. your hatred of him = your love for him)
Frenzy is not allowed to fight you. (He's aggressive and reckless. You're human, easily breakable.)
Garboil is not allowed to nest with you. (You're quite possibly the only thing that is able to distract Garboil from his job. He is essential to the DSP. Therefore, he is not allowed to put you in his nest-like berth and recharge with you. The cassette is, to put it lightly, disgruntled about it.)
Howlback is not allowed to mark you. (She's territorial, tending to draw blood when she bites. Soundwave doesn't want his darling littered in cassette hickies. He certainly doesn't want his darling covered in love bites that don't originate from his denta.)
Laserbeak cannot be your caretaker. (Laserbeak often stalks you when he's not settled in Soundwave or gathering information for Decepticon causes. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. But a closer look reveals a weakness. He is not fit for battle. His cowardice will overpower his attachment to darling. Not trustworthy.)
Overkill is not allowed to transform when you're around. (He is absolutely plagued with the impulse to try and impress you. You make his circuitry run so hot that he short-circuits quite often. This happens more times when he is attempting to transform than not. A dino the size of a human child's toy will not be effective in any way when it comes to either defending or restraining you.)
Ratbat is banned from using you as a source of fuel and bait. (Ratbat is like if OCD and a billionaire created offspring. He'll use you to his advantage and then sheepishly apologize to Soundwave. That apology is bullshit, and Soundwave knows it. Ratbat loves you, but he loves himself more.)
Ravage cannot guard darling for extended periods of time unless absolutely necessary. (His loyalty is unmatched, but he's just as blind as he'll be if caught off guard by his one weakness: bright lights. Or perhaps two: you. He'll refuse to recharge unless ordered by either Soundwave or Megatron. This has led to him needlessly straining his spark on numerous occasions. So Soundwave always keeps comms with Ravage open so he can monitor one of his best cassettes and ensure safe efficiency.)
Rumble and Frenzy are banned from looking after darling on their own. (It is far too easy to manipulate them. They are also lovable dumbasses who get easily distracted. Promise them kisses, and they'll let you escape. One realizes you tricked them. The other thinks you're just grabbing something before coming back to kiss them. They bicker about it for the next- however long until Soundwave appears. And that's why the rule is here now.)
Rumble has to keep you away from fights, preferably somewhere high; you're usually seated on his shoulder. (He isn't a close-combat type of bot. The earthquakes he causes are dangerous. Soundwave doesn't need Rumble getting overzealous and harming you as a result. Rumble will get fanatical. That's why he makes sure Rumble knows to look after you before he causes excessive destruction.)
Slugfest needs permission before doing anything to or with darling. (He's dull with an explosive personality. It's even easier to manipulate him than Frenzy and Rumble. It's self-explanatory, really.)
Squawktalk has explicit orders to limit his talking while around darling. (It's a nearly impossible task. But if darling is clever enough, they can get Squawktalk to squawk about some pretty important things they can use to their advantage. It's way too easy to beak read him. It's really a blessing in disguise. If you aren't already deaf or HoH, he'll make you wish you were. Invest in some noise-canceling earbuds.)
Wingthing is to be at your side at all times that Soundwave is not. (If you try to rid yourself of the cassette recorder containing Wingthing, he will transform and alert Soundwave. The resulting punishments are not pretty.)
ref sheet for this jazzwave AU! (which I now have tagged as #jazzwave au)
thanks to all the people continuing support of a year and a half old, half-baked comic, and a bolt of divine inspiration, I made a little more for this AU :)
also because i gotta do my part to get jazzwave off life support
Question - does anyone have recommendations for transformer lore for cassette / carrier types of robots? Like, did they ever get an "enigma of combining" treatment of any kind? But like cassette edition?
I am once again, pondering the potential for combination and what it could mean for transformer's society, in a sort of 3rd thing outside of Amica and Conjunx. And I'm so interested in the symbiotic realm that cassettes live in, because they kind of fit in where my personal headcanons for combiner connections exist?????
Forever on the fools errand to make something more out of the silly "Buy cool robots!" cartoon and the emotional landscape of combiners
No parental supervision cassettes:
lazerbeak bearded vulture buzzsaw cape vulture send post