Tag: Gladiator Soundwave
Imagine Gladiator Soundwave grumpily having to get up from his cuddlepuddle to go fight some idiot and opening his chestplates, dumping a pile of symbionts into Orion’s and Megatronus’s laps. The Frumbles immediately start snickering, Ravage starts batting at Orion’s face, and Lazerbeak won’t stop squirming. It’s going to be a long, long day. Orion shares a look with Megs and squeaks, “We’re fragged.” Megatronus just sighs and mentally prepares himself for shenanigans.
“hold these babies”
Imagine Soundwave doing the knead on someone’s things who he trust. Megatronus jokes that he could run an illegal bakery out of Kaon just by sticking some energon dough under Soundwave’s servos and petting him so they could buy their way out of Kaon.
Soundwave gives him the Unamused Cat Look. It’s a bit less serious than usual because he’s still purring.
Imagine Orion smuggling towels, energon, painkillers, and noise-canceling headphones into the pits of Kaon and basically setting up his own tiny station in one of the cramped, dark corners of the gladiators’ quarters during tournaments. Soundwave and Megatronus usually scare off anyone who would try to ask for help by their mere presence, but soon word gets around that a little archivist has medical supplies and two of Kaon’s top gladiators wrapped around his little finger and wants to help.
Tiny, adorable archivist befriends approximately half of Kaon’s gladiator population, other half is beaten up and/or stabbed for threatening tiny adorable archivist.
*Megatronus voice*: Orion, hold my Soundwave
Orion awkwardly attempts to juggle data-cables for a few seconds before giving up and draping Soundwave over one shoulder.
Soundwave just cackles sleepily the entire time.
Cuddling is probably a way of forging alliances within the Gladiator community, and Megatronus probably cuddles with a lot of people, but only for short periods of time. The people he spends the most time with are absolutely Soundwave and Orion once he shows up. Soundwave’s considered kinda weird in that he doesn’t really interact much with anyone else and only really snuggles up to Megatron, Orion, or his cassettes (not that he gets invitations to cuddle from anyone else).
Soundwave would prefer not to let anyone else near him and all his exposed protoform. When he is comfortable, though, he flops down all over someone like a cat and lazily wraps them in tentacles.
I think a lot about Pits of Kaon gladiator cuddlepuddles before and after a match. Just…Megatron and Soundwave curled up together trying to catch some shuteye for a few hours before they go out to fight, or plopping down in each other’s laps for 15 minutes between events. And you bet Orion is absolutely involved in the cuddlepuddles. He’s often spotted in the gladiator quarters of the arena stroking Megatronus’s helm with one servo and loosely holding Soundwave’s tentacle in the other.
Good way to stay sane in a place where nearly everyone is trying to kill you- lots of contact with whoever isn’t.
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