#miswave

[wearehere2helpyou]

(missing the) target practice

*points at its 'ask me about my transformers rarepairs' shirt*

[wirlibirb]

does anyone care enough to give me a summary and/or screenshots of each of the scavengers and their personalities? so far i find them fun but they appear so rarely in mtmte that i've only seen them like twice so far?? (i haven't read all the way through yet)

i want to write them, and i want them to be at least somewhat in character, so info would be appreciated

although they are my priority right now, any underappreciated/rarer characters or just your blorbo if you want to talk about them would be great also! please talk to me about cool tfs, preferably with screenshots, quotes, and/or summaries of their personalities.

tl;dr: please tell me about your blorbos/whatever, this started off with the scavengers but please talk about anyone. i would like a summary of their personality.

[wearehere2helpyou]

Hi! Would you like to talk about your Soundwave Misfire rairpair? It's actually pretty cute ngl. How did they meet?

bahah thank you for asking!!

i've laready pestered @robot-rarepairs-dotcom about this in this specific ask but, yeah, why not yell it out loud and proud for the people in the back? and come to think of it maybe i should make a comic out of it sometime someday??? or a fanfic? no, i shant...

so. from the top. the war is still raging on all fronts. there is the fighting with blasters, guns, cannons ad whatnot, sure. but. its said that wars are won off the battlefield. and soundwave, as the chief intel officer is here to secure the rightful victory of the decepticons.

but its not an easy job by any means. there is infinite amount of information to be sourced and only so many tasks sw can attend to at a given moment. so knowing the right cybertronians and having mechs in the right places was all but crucial. and the neutral underground is one such place. but here comes an obstacle. neutrals dont take kindly to 'cons. it'd be a long and tedious process to plant a new network in there. it'd be so much easier if soundwave could find anyone who is already a regular in those spaces. and time is of the essence. there must be something, someone...

...and here comes the idea to employ the scavengers as contacts.

soundwave is naturally skeptical of the idea. the scavs? the bottom of the bottom of the barrel? undisciplined, lousy and, most probably, disloyal? but that just further proves the point. no one would put them under scrutiny. no one would pay them any mind, no one would care. they could slip in anywhere, anytime, get what soundwave needs and then disappear with no trace, since no one even payed them more than a passing glance and a dismissive scoff.

their questionable allegiance is another thing. the one thing soundwave is certain theyre loyal to is survival. he can grant them that. the decepticon high command has a lot of shanix to spare.

and its not like they need to get any major missions, either. soundwave could run a test trial to figure out whether this solution was at all worth investing into.

besides, the scavenegers (as most of the low-ranks) were expendable assets, after all.

and so the chief intelligence officer yields. soon after they send an anonymous signal to the w.a.p., requesting to meet their representative in some shithole bar on a neutral planet.

misfire lost the straw pull and was chosen to be the representative. which in practice meant he was the one speaking with the mysterious figure while the rest of the gang was to sit around (mostly) quietly and listen. and enage if the things went south. because, where one goes, the others do as well.

only when the mission renders sucessful, soundwave reveals himself - to shock and awe of the scavs. but, nevertheless, a long term symbiotic relationship formed. scavengers did what they were instructed to, to mixed results, but they did nontheless. soundwave paid accordingly. all was well.

but there is more to it than meets the eye.

soundwave, though he would never admit it, would grow fond of the scavengers - the lowkey, chill and maybe even fun life they had. a far cry from what he was forced to put up with in the high command. no more power struggle, no more persisting rumors of war. for a moment, aboard of the w.a.p. he could no longer be the head of the decepticon intel office. he could... just exist. not sure how he feels about it, yet. he needs more time to figure it out.

at the center of this is misfire, naturally. the one who talked to him first and the one who was sort of ushered into the role of the one to build a figurative scavengers-soundwave relationship bridge. naturally at first misfire and the others didnt take too kindly to soundwave. as a team they had rather complicated views on the high command as a whole. and soundwave was the very idea of the high command. as skeptical as the scavenger would be, the relationship was beneficial. soundwave became a token of survival for them. but soon enough though, that was to change.

i mean, misfire isnt stupid. he's introspective. he likes people. he likes knowing people. even soundwave was not beyond his curiosity. and, accidentaly or not, he got to know soundwave. the little things about him, that naturally started to seep out of his hardened shell now that he could, primus forbid, finally relax. soundwaves concealed passion for music, his innermost philosophical reflections, the way he cares about his casettes. the mask faltered.

soundwave is being taught how to be his own mech - who he is and who he has potential to be off the battlefield. he's been taught about the importance of trust as a part of loyalty and to overcome the egoism and dispassionateness which emerged as a part of desensitization that came about from everything he has experienced. misfire has been taught of bravery, the many ways to be strong and how important it is to fight for what he believes is right - to live for something beyond just the sake of living.

soundwave has also been converted into a gamer. he's become frighteningly skilled at whatever the cybertronian equivalent of mario kart is. but he lets misfire win :]

oh, and since then soundwave has brought along his casettes to one of his w.a.p. visitations. misfire is slowly but surely advancing to become "the cooler dad". soundwave is not sure how to feel about this.

[wirlibirb]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

so i went insane about @/lagsemantics's misfire/soundwave ship

also yes, i am posting this late because oopsies i forgot about it lol. anyway, it's self promo time

[wirlibirb]

Asking about miswave, 'cause i've never came across that ship before and now i'm genuinely curious :0

Who and who are in the pair (i assume the first half stands for Misfire?)? How do you see their dynamic? Any headcanons about them?

AAAA yes it's misfire and. soundwave. yeah THAT soundwave.

their dynamic is complicated to me kind of?? still figuring it out :>>>> BUT. honestly i've thought a lot about lagsemantics's post, who as far as i know created the ship?? feel free to fact check me T_T

i wrote a long reply to this but tumblr decided to just literally delete evrything. :CCCCCCCC

in summary: i'm planning more to write about them but taking it super slowly bc right now i'm pretty busy with irl stuff! also, instead of stuff like soundfire (could be mistaken for soundwave/jetfire, soundblaster/jetfire, soundblaster/misfire, etc etc) i chose miswave because mis- is more recognizable (as you've proved :D), and there aren't too many -waves

a little headcanon: vehicular modes tend to run hotter than non-vehicular (unless you turn into a heat-generating appliance or something), so soundwave/misfire is cold/hot. i'm too tired for more right now because i was infuriated by tumblr deleting my response T_T