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He’s probably thinking about his dead friends :<

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Not a proper-sentence prompt so much as just-a-distraction-prompt, but the thought of Chromantic meeting Soundwave has lived rent free in my brain since you mentioned it, so I'd love to see a snippet of your take on that if you're up for it! :3c

Send me an ask with the first sentence of a fanfic and I’ll write the next five.

“You’re from the Dead End,” Chromantic said.

Soundwave nodded, and a weight Chromantic hadn’t even noticed was immediately lifted. Soundwave was staring--he did that a lot, Chromantic had noticed, looking at and around Chromantic as though he could somehow see the quiet signals bouncing off inactive sensors.

Maybe he could. Either way, the speed at which they’d been given quarters (without rent, no matter how much Chromantic protested), plus the complete lack of surprise at a conjunxed couple’s mere existence all slotted comfortably into place.

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2, 18, and 20 for the meta asks!

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

It’s partly written but...the plot point where prowl rescues soundwave from the new institute? it’s going to be Good. (i hope)

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

At this point I feel like a lot of my different IDW fics/series are just AUs of the same thing, probably because they deal with the same characters/themes. prowlcoswave is arguably a sequel to scorecards (which still isn’t finished!), scorecards is just prowlcoswave without prowl, the unwritten postcanon prowl/cosmos fic is a sequel to scorecards but soundwave died during the unicron event, etc etc

It definitely makes me appreciate writers who tackle the same characters in very distinctive ways haha

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

Not so much meta as it is an observation about my own writing but......

one day I’d like to write a longfic exclusively from Soundwave’s POV  :<

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6, 7, and 17!! c:

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

Writing Cosmos’s POV sparks joy! I’ve warmed up to Soundwave and Prowl over time, but Cosmos is still my favorite character to write. I love him. When I was writing more Cyberverse fic, I had a lot of fun writing both Hot Rod and Dead End.

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

Run on sentences, abrupt endings/transitions, lots of dialogue, and minimal descriptions of the environment...I’ve never asked anyone what my writing style is, but I think they’d agree?

17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

I’m sure they do...especially when it’s darkfic. Overall I find myself subconsciously projecting onto characters, lmao (usually in pretty mundane ways), but I will say that my railing against Soundwave canonically suddenly becoming Faithful/Religious and stanning the ~one true prime~ is most definitely me aggressively and deliberately working through some stuff :`D

(no one’s argued with me about my take on soundwave yet, either here or on ao3, @ anyone who wants to, I know Soundwave questions it, I know Optimus questions his own decisions and legitimacy and whatever, but the narrative never actually goes anywhere significant with this line of questioning. I stand by my take on Soundwave.)