Date Night

Date Night

🗍   Soundwave x Reader       ☰ 229          📎  Ao3         ☕  Kofi

⚠️ Fluff

Dating a secretive Decepticon requires creative thinking. And a Nintendo Switch.

After a quick dinner and a hot shower, you wriggle into some comfortable clothes. You launch yourself into bed, Switch in hand, and snuggle back against the pillows. A few clicks and you’re greeted by the familiar sight and sounds of Animal Crossing’s main menu.

Once in the game, you rush to the airport and button mash your way through the menus, hitting ‘I wanna fly!’ by mistake. Annoyed, you repeat the process until you get the dodo code and text it to Soundwave. Not that he needed it. He’s proved on multiple occasions that he could hack his way onto your island.

You decide to do a few laps around the chairs while you wait.

It isn’t long until the announcement that someone is visiting scrolls past on your screen.

You can’t help the little smile that creeps up onto your face, a bubble of excitement welling up inside of you. It feels silly to get this excited over a virtual date, but you push it aside. Soundwave makes you happy. You just hope he feels the same way.

The arrival scene comes up.

Huh, he’s changed his title again.

Accomplished Reaction?

You laugh as the cutscene plays and he walks through the gates, dressed in a hot dog costume and sunglasses. The moment it’s over, a little chat bubble appears over his head with a smiley face.

:)

I’M FUCKING DYING. THIS IS CANON, NO ARGUMENT WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

Megatron would probs end up causing some big controversy during one of his rants or he gets cancelled on twitter for attacking a city or sumn and he has to make a youtuber apology video

He would try to get cancelled. This guy has been getting cancelled his entire life. Megatron would cackle in glee upon seeing his name trending.

A very stressed Soundwave would then tell Megatron to try and "make amends with his new subjects." Megatron would agree and make the worst apology video in existence.

Megatron is sitting cross-legged on the floor on a fluffy carpet in the room of a suburban house. No, the Nemesis does not have any carpet anywhere in it (except the Home Depot carpet samples Laserbeak likes to play with). Yes, Megatron seized control of someone's home in order to film an apology video in some teen girl's bedroom. He felt that filming it somewhere with fairy lights, white carpet, and mandala tapestries would make it "more authentic." It just makes it less convincing.

The authorities show up outside this captured suburban house. Oh, and the Autobots. I almost forgot about them. The red and blue flashes of cop lights are seen flashing in the room.

Megatron sniffles. "knock out please shut the curtains, we need the lighting to be just right for this video."

curtain clattering noises

Then, seconds later:

"KNOCK OUT STOP POSING IN THE WINDOW"

The camerawork is awful. We at first just get a look at Megatron's crossed knees. He then grabs the camera with both talons and tilts it up as the focus rapidly goes in and out. He's genuinely awful with cameras so it requires no effort to produce camerawork this poor. It's one of those early 2000s cameras your mom would film you opening Christmas presents with. Soundwave is struggling to resist the urge to take control of the camera and is doing deep breathing exercises.

There are splashing noises outside. Laserbeak is playing in the pool.

Megatron then zooms in too much and gives everybody a far too close look at his forehead. Since he's made of metal his forehead is shiny and you can see Soundwave and Starscream behind the camera in the reflection. Soundwave has his faceplate held in his servos. Starscream is poking the color-changing fairy lights. He... kind of likes them.

"i am sorry i attacked the eastern seaboard," Megatron says with a wheeze before then breaking out into a coughing fit. "and the western one," megatron adds. "also the southern one."

Starscream's voice is heard from the background. "What 'southern seaboard'?!"

"i attacked some country's south coast. not sure which one. but i am sorry for that one too.

Optimus's voice is heard booming outside. "MEGATRON. STOP THIS TYRANNY AND LET THE HUMANS AND THEIR HOUSE GO."

"my haters are outside."

Megatron begins crying fake tears. He can't produce them naturally because he's a severely dehydrated son of a bitch. Breakdown is offscreen spritzing him with a spray bottle in the hopes it will produce a convincing fake tear effect.

Megatron then grabs the camera with both talons, shoots up to his pedes, and then angrily point at the camera as he does a 180:

"FALSE. I regret nothing. It's not my fault you charlatans can't build cities that can't handle me taking a leisurely stroll through them!"

Megatron accidentally destroyed a Wal-Mart when he got high on dark energon and walked through it. This is somehow Wal-Mart's fault.

Optimus rips the wall down, barges in, and the next ten minutes of the video is them fighting each other. Soundwave grabs the camera and the camerawork is actually really good!

Starscream flies off with bundles of fairy lights attached to his wings. They're still changing colors.

Hi-hello, TFP-Lover! Could I have some help with a TFOC I'm making? Mainly with a name and alt mode.

she's a femcon, and tfa-shockwave style, she has an autobot disguise. and much akin to tfp starscream, she acts innocent in front of her bot 'comrades' so they don't suspect her of actually being the impostor (amogus???)

I was thinking Eris for the name, but let me know what you think!

And as always, stay safe!

-Spiffy

Of course! I was thinking Snake or something more serpentine for her actual name since your character is a spy! Eris would be good for her Autobot name!

Her Autobot paint job should be a brighter version of her actual one! For example, if you decided to do pink and white for “Eris”, then “Snake’s” paint job would be dark red and a grayish black!

I’m not sure about what alt-mode— maybe a motorcycle? That would be cool!

This is utter ✨perfection✨

SOMEONE CALL THE PATERNITY COURT

What do you think soundwave's various relationships with the other decepticons are like? I love seeing how different people interpret their interactions! (I run that new soundwave rp/ask blog and found your blog through that- I love finding other tfp blogs because I find it's hard to find people still active in the transformers community at times lol ^^ No pressure to answer if you aren't as active here anymore tho!)

Sorry I wasn’t able to respond in forever! I took a break from my blog for a bit due to personal reasons.

I think Soundwave is hesitant to form bonds with most of his coworkers, so he doesn’t have many personal interactions with most of them. However, he does keep tabs on them (since he is the eyes and ears of the decepticons) so he does know about their interests and hobbies. Therefore, I’ll write my headcanons as him rating his coworkers from 0-10!

DREADWING: 8/10

Soundwave likes how devoted he is to the deception cause! There’s a lot of treachery nowadays so it’s a breath of fresh air!

However, Him and Dreadwing don’t have similar hobbies. Soundwave isn’t a big fan of demolition and he doesn’t know if Dreadwing is into technology and computers. Soundwave would be willing to learn how Dreadwing builds his bombs, though!

He thought Megatron killing Dreadwing was a stupid decision. He killed one of the few competent mechs around for an unjust reason:(

STARSCREAM: 4/10

Not the biggest fan

While he does respect him and thinks he’s an amazing battle strategist, his constant treachery doesn’t sit well with him

He also think he’s a coward, which drops his rating more

KNOCKOUT: 9/10

Slightly biased because of one of my prior posts, but I think Soundwave would actually like Knockout!

Knockout balances out Soundwave’s almost pure logistical and cold nature, which is good when debating future plans. Knockout is also one of the few mechs to understand his body language and puts Soundwave’s opinion into mind when offering ideas:)

He gets a point off though for being friends with Starscream

That’s all I’m going to do for now, but if anyone more of Soundwave rating his peers, I’d be happy to oblige!

Starscream hating mayo is so fucking perfect I cannot begin to describe how much joy it brings me

whats starscreams dennys order

Curly fries of course!