as a chinese american transformers fan, you have no idea how happy i am to see soundwave and the twins be chinese like lets goooooo
YEAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
its very precious to me as well 😭 i don’t think it was even a conscious decision i blacked out and the wizard said “project onto fictional characters” and i was like ok wizard. the wizard said “project the goofy position of living in a cultural diaspora on as many of your characters and ocs as narratively possible” i was like ok sounds good wizard
here’s a fun fact! allll the way back in part 3, what soundwave was ladling into the bowl was supposed to be 粥！specifically, 红豆粥，red bean porridge?? basically porridge. I was having a horrible time looking at my references going “im not rendering all these blucking beans” so i got really lazy and it kinda just ended up looking like a horrible bowl of oil. i still regret how i rendered this panel. what the hell were you cooking here soundwave. i think it was widely acclaimed to be chicken soup and at this point who knows what this biohazard is
granted, soundwave’s true appearance is entirely up to interpretation! I drew their domestic life based on what im most familiar with, but I went into his character with no plans for him to have an origin. Is he even human? Who knows. It is, and will be for the whole series, up to the reader to decide :D
