I need to wake up (woke up for some event or sth and waiting for my friends to come over) and writing/thinking wakes me up faster than a cold shower, so excuse whatever gets posted here:
I think I'm too obsessed with the idea of fruit being involved w Starscream & Soundwhere lately wherever I can toss it/it invades everything I hc or write lately (esp if it involves Soundwave liking fruit or Starscream peeling fruit), but cryptid Soundwave waiting for Starscream to peel him a stick of fruit flavored something and then being handed it like to take from him -> he eats the offered stick and servo (it takes some screaming and shouting to make him stop; he bit harder though)...oops?
Does it help this is his expression -> โ_โ (no not really, but hey he's not normal and some bats can be messy eaters)
Starscream might need Shockwave to put a new servo on him, he's not getting his back anytime soon; finders keepers or ig the offered sacrifice = mine now
Had a little idea of Soundwave having (security) camera inspired eyes ๐ I think the idea goes pretty nice. Makes sense for him, accentuates that no he is not normal apparently, also is just cool imo. Iโm still figuring out how itโd look but generally I feel okay about this concept so far ๐ and also how theyโd work. I also havenโt thought that far, but Iโm sure u guys could think of something
ES Soundwave and good girl Ravage
Soundwave TFP gotta be one of my favorite gender
Here a little an attempt to combine some aspects of Soundwave designs
starscream + the hatchlings in my human formers bayverse au thing. The hatchlings are still mini protoforms, except built and incubated in pods to be used as living weapons. their veins pump a splash of energon, oil, and most importantly human blood
Starscream feels the same caretaking instinct youโd feel for your favorite childhood tamagotchi over them
May I request tfp soundstar ๐ please ?
No method more efficient for keeping an eye on that bug than just Holding him always I think ๐ Starscreamโs just gonna have to deal with it. Soundwave has stuff to do and canโt always be away from his screens
๐ญ me after my beta reader told me "You need to add more hurt tags bruh!?" I can't explain the hurt, it comes to me naturally, I'm already sobbing bc of it...๐ฅน
every author you love has written something so terrible they screamed into a pillow. welcome to the tradition.
very ES Soundwave...very bird....very someone come over to pick up your owl!? (Starscream come over)
I adore adore the concept of characters who share/are asked to dance. I get a little obsessive with the idea of dancing between robots, so excuse this rabble of nonsense. But, the way Zeta has imaginably gotten on one knee for Sentinel to meet him at optic level is so tender. It shows a lot of care and need for the needs of his apprentice and like I had previously written my brain starts to play a whole little orchestra/symphony for them in this scene. I forgot that I originally wondered if Zeta would have lowered the volume/tone/sound of his voice for Sentie as well. But the timber of his voice may be lowered to make sure Sentinel feels respect, safe, gentle as treating a baby bird analogy. I love canary metaphors.
Zeta is so formal and respectful in his actions/pose as well, the pressed servo on his chest with a slight bowed position to Sentinel as he asks, "May I have this dance?" The openly handed over servo for Sentinel to rest his servo on if he so desires. And then how Zeta has his optics closed with a content smile; the gentle expression is very gorgeous and I love it tbh.
And the halo like effect behind his helmet? The little details in his armor, he is the starlight itself; maybe Sentinel is his galaxy (or was). Anyway, back to Sentinel's expression in the first image drawn, the palm of his servos fit so delicately and perfectly into Zeta's and the little curve he has too when placing it there, he probably enjoys knowing this is his right or at least he's allowed to have a Prime bend to his optic level, be so formal, step on one knee maybe for him. It's like they really have no height difference, they're both about to hit the wide open space of flooring and everyone will watch them dance like the world isn't there anymore.
Sentinel's smile is so so it's like how what I can recall, I compared the look on his face to be akin to one of a hatchling, in this case birds. Young avian's tend to imprint on the first thing they see, it's who they depend on, and believe whole heartily that is their whole world. It does show in his optics too, the smug little smile that spreads across his face. He's really cute tbh. It's devotion almost, maybe it's shared, maybe it's on different levels of it, but Zeta is treating Sentinel like how one treats a baby bird and Sentinel treats him like he's the whole world, the only thing he's ever gotten to experience/known, who's showed him what life can be.
NOW, the second image, oh how did i miss this before. But it looks like Sentinel has little, I don't want to say marks on his face (?), but it kinda looks like it, ignore me for this little footnote; I just wanted to have it down for myself by saying how they look sort of like the lines across Zeta's armor. Who knows really why Sentinel now has those post apprenticeship (his cape is gone by now) I have no real reason to overthink much, but I wanted to mention it for myself really (felt silly, if it isnt relevant, it isnt relevant)
I find it special that Zeta still tries to bend a little downward for Sentinel again, but it's...not to the same degree he did before and we don't know his expression either. We don't know what kind of expression he's making to Sentinel. He could be very well making the same type of face he did before or, it's a truer/better reflection of the current state of his relationship to Sentinel by now, who knows!
But, what I do notice is how Sentinel is standing there. He's probably off to the side, not wanting to be spotted or just wants to be ignored, left alone. Bby is literally holding a champagne flute glass of something in his servo and has the other one pressed to his sides. Like mentioned before, is it at his hip, is it clenched, is it hidden behind his back so Zeta can't even see the opportunity to take it? Who knows, idk for sure, but that servo is not being taken, he DOES not want to dance. And the way he stares too is so clear, he's got that look of immense disinterest, or I guess distrust. He's probably trying to figure out what Zeta wants/is doing right now asking for a dance like this again; he's not a a hatchling anymore, so easily persuaded by a dance or empty grand gestures
I do apologize if this wasn't as detailed as what I wrote before because I kinda forgot what I wrote ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
But here another quote to make up for it:
โก "You coil so tightly from me that your digits dig into the palm of your servos until all that can be seen are the marks of your ire and the burning passion of what was. You even do it so tightly and bitterly that I can't help but wonder why? Why, you insist that we're at war. A war that surrounds a deep blue abyss. 'It's because,' you say, but I miss when you still looked at me like I was your whole world, and not a passing bundle of rotting metal at the bottom of the ocean. Oh, how the vision of when you used to stand by my side so proudly still lingers. Heaped to my spark and seared into my wires, my old memories still remain." โก
"Sometimes I miss you, adorned in my colour, smiling as if I'm all you've ever known"
Based on this Zeta design!!
In case anyone forgot, Sentinel was Zeta's apprentice! I made a little tweak to Sentinel pre-Primacy design. Thought it'd make more sense that he just had normal jet wings.