Megatron's Stupid High Commands:

If you guys write a an analysis of my art/AU and then delete it, know I am in your walls

I absolutely adore @/_ThreeNine999’s lil wave models that do lil dances on X/Twitter 🤧 they’re so tiny and shaped it’s insane I want to eat them like gummies… also Starscream is bullying the lil Sound cuz jealous he isn’t tiny and cute too 🙄 clearly a consequence for being mean and not a wave!

Don’t ask me about the last one idk how it got there. Anyways I had the idea of What If Soundwave’s sound abilities were strong enough that it could damage even him? Like maybe yeah he’s more resilient to sound, but I’m sure even for him the super intense vibrations burst his own face platings eventually too 🤔 I also just wanted to show off his bat teeth tbh. Referenced by vampire bats, technically that would mean his teeth are specialized to make sure a mech bleeds

Primus forbid a mech eats in peace, Starscream 😒 so what if he eats/drinks energon like its caught prey

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Batwave concept 🤔… except also bugwave…. I wanna implement both of those thangs (because of how the poll went). I couldn’t figure how his face would look so I’ve come to the conclusion that his visor(?) Is his face 😌 (tho there’s a chance I might change it to a human head,, not sure yet) it’s just that he mimics a human by tucking his head in a certain way that’s convincing enough, trust.. as for the bug stuff? It’s more subtle I’d say, sure the exoskeleton is a clearer thing (yes that technically means he’s shirtless in this one, boy cover up!!!) but there are biological things happening that I don’t feel like explaining yet 😌 just know I spent a whole night researching certain bugs. For his bat side I mostly referenced fruit/flying fox bats cuz their slim faces worked best with him

I felt like there wasn’t enough obviously-bug stuff going on so I kinda wanted to give him two pairs of wings like bugs do, but I’m not sure yet if they Are bat wings or if they’re like bug wings that mimic bat wings 🤔 which would be preferred??? Usually though, in this au thing he’d have them covered/hidden, kinda like how mantids or beetles would have their wings flush to the body and typically seem hidden. Tho a part of me still wants to give him insect wings cuz it matches his usual streamlined body yknow?

I’ve been drawing my Human Soundwave always covering his neck because I always imagined it to be how he’d hide his non-humanness 🤔 not sure how tall he is yet tho. Likely very tall tbh, maybe his visor thing is the equivalent of a bug face (exoskeleton) ,,, yet is shaped like a bat’s head. If that makes sense

Bonus the line art just cuz I like how it is… since bugs are like the top dogs in mimicry I like to imagine Soundwave going in on that 😌 similar to how many people like to think Prime Soundwave looks like a sparkeater! Soundwave here? Mostly not human. But pretends to be and is good at it

This is how I imagine Soundwave handles Starscream when he's being difficult, it only works to a varying degree of success and depends on the universe 🤣

This one in specific is probably TFP and G1 given how their relationships span out in my writing on ao3

Though I could always argue that if ES Soundwave said down, ES Starscream would get down immediately and shut up (a mad wife is not to be messed with haha)

But seriously, you two should be proper adults and communicate instead of doing this. i'm sure once the shock of realizing what happened passes, they will and make up from whatever argument it was. But the seekers (TC, Skywarp, Nova Storm) will never let Starscream live this down (he lost the, 'no, i'm not whipped by Soundwave' argument in a sparkbeat)

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like Starscream was probably arguing with Soundwave over something dumb (theyre married by now) and the girls are like, "ur not gonna grovel?!"

Starscream: ????? I HAVE PRIDE, THANK YOU-

Soundwave: GET DOWN NOW!!!

Starscream on his knees before he even realizes what happened and groveling

Soundwave: "…"

the girls: "…."

Starscream: "...." (he is as shocked as everyone else and confused why he's on the ground for soundwave, but if he runs now, then it's worse and soundwave will be more mad)

Based on that one chiikawa comic because it's so Tailgate

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I was watching a lot of Prime Soundwave clips lately, namely the ones where he uses his data cables, and the thing that stands out to me the most is how they’re So incredibly snake-like, even in sound design! The best instance was the scene where he was rescuing Laserbeak and turned back to pick up a piece he missed, and the pure silence of the scene with only the eerie wind and the near silent hissing/slithering noises of the cables (especially the way they moved) was just super snake-like that I figured it’d be very cool if in a human setting he’d have snakes for his cables! Do all the decepticons get jump scared when they notice the little snakes? Maybe (yes but I doubt Shockwave did), but Soundwave never pays them any mind. Maybe he could secretly record all the reactions for himself and makes little compilations. (Starscream will hate to ever admit how startled he got) I also think Prime Soundwave’s former higher status before he stepped down, he probably has quite the good fits still

Also just the line art/sketch here cuz I really cooked I think. Maybe Predaking would love the snakes

Lost track of time while drawing so I didn’t notice I went way past my schedule but whatever 💋 One Starwavewave is just where Soundwave has two mechs that complain to him always that he’s doing his job wrong after they told him themselves to do it 😒 the correct course of action is to dent their heads in with the equivalent amount of force of the pain of the migraines that they give him.. How To Soundwave: 101 (truthfully, this must be why he just watches and let them get beat up all the time)