"You should see Sanctuary Station," Soundwave says. "This place is a refuge. The war with the Autobots is over for now. In order to make sure that it stays that way--among other things--Ravage and I are up against Galvatron for leadership of our own faction. We want to keep the peace. He doesn't. And Optimus is also making things difficult, though probably not in the way that you'd expect. It wasn't what we expected either."
He laughs at Blaster's comment regarding his cooking. "If you had any idea how many cassettes I've actually been responsible for, you wouldn't be surprised that I can make treats," he says, taking his mask off to drink his energon. His face is actually quite pretty.
Ravage is eating one of the treats with evident delight. Soundwave drapes his arm across the back of her chair, and rests his hand on her shoulder; she leans into him a little.
"How and why are mecha made into cassettes, or cassette carriers, in your universe?" Ravage asks quietly. "In ours, it was almost never something that anyone freely chose. We wouldn't have chosen it for ourselves. We didn't choose it for Viridian, whom Shockwave created using our CNA, or for any of the others that Soundwave has hosted. If you think about it, not one of us could exist if we didn't have more efficient methods of data storage. Our brain modules and internal memory banks are a lot more secure. I was a Senatorial Recorder, so I coped with it better than most. Later, we discovered that everyone else from my cohort had also been modified, even the ones who'd ended up becoming Autobots."
She takes a drink. "Rewind," she says, "was also a Senatorial Recorder. He was owned by Dominus Ambus, who made him his conjunx. I'm not sure how he ended up as a cassette. I'm not sure why no-one in the House of Ambus joined our faction. I would have been Soundwave's conjunx, but it was illegal at that time, both because I was somebody else's property, and also because I am a beastformer, a member of the disposable caste, and Soundwave, unlike Dominus Ambus, did not have the power to declare me alt-mode-exempt."
"I'd been cast out of House Kymatos," Soundwave says, carefully glancing away so as not to give his emotions away, even with his visor still on. "For literally being a glitch. Ravage saved me. I was almost completely nonfunctional when she took me in. My brother Shockwave was a Senator then; he made it possible for me to purchase her out of gratitude--but he had to arrange the transfer of Laserbeak and Buzzsaw, who would've taken the brunt of their owner's displeasure if we'd left them behind, and it wasn't in his power to exempt all three of them then."
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Date: 2021-05-27 07:10 (UTC)He laughs at Blaster's comment regarding his cooking. "If you had any idea how many cassettes I've actually been responsible for, you wouldn't be surprised that I can make treats," he says, taking his mask off to drink his energon. His face is actually quite pretty.
Ravage is eating one of the treats with evident delight. Soundwave drapes his arm across the back of her chair, and rests his hand on her shoulder; she leans into him a little.
"How and why are mecha made into cassettes, or cassette carriers, in your universe?" Ravage asks quietly. "In ours, it was almost never something that anyone freely chose. We wouldn't have chosen it for ourselves. We didn't choose it for Viridian, whom Shockwave created using our CNA, or for any of the others that Soundwave has hosted. If you think about it, not one of us could exist if we didn't have more efficient methods of data storage. Our brain modules and internal memory banks are a lot more secure. I was a Senatorial Recorder, so I coped with it better than most. Later, we discovered that everyone else from my cohort had also been modified, even the ones who'd ended up becoming Autobots."
She takes a drink. "Rewind," she says, "was also a Senatorial Recorder. He was owned by Dominus Ambus, who made him his conjunx. I'm not sure how he ended up as a cassette. I'm not sure why no-one in the House of Ambus joined our faction. I would have been Soundwave's conjunx, but it was illegal at that time, both because I was somebody else's property, and also because I am a beastformer, a member of the disposable caste, and Soundwave, unlike Dominus Ambus, did not have the power to declare me alt-mode-exempt."
"I'd been cast out of House Kymatos," Soundwave says, carefully glancing away so as not to give his emotions away, even with his visor still on. "For literally being a glitch. Ravage saved me. I was almost completely nonfunctional when she took me in. My brother Shockwave was a Senator then; he made it possible for me to purchase her out of gratitude--but he had to arrange the transfer of Laserbeak and Buzzsaw, who would've taken the brunt of their owner's displeasure if we'd left them behind, and it wasn't in his power to exempt all three of them then."