#jazzravwave

Chapters: 18/? (last chapter contains complete character & ship lists) Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence  Relationships: Ravage/Soundwave (Transformers), Deathsaurus/Esmeral (Transformers), Optimus Prime/Starscream, Mirage & Soundwave (Transformers), Lyzack/Nickel (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet, Hound/Mirage (Transformers), Jazz/Ravage/Soundwave (Transformers), Noah Diaz/Mirage (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock & Hot Rod, Megatron/Ultra Magnus (Transformers), Misfire/Swerve (Transformers), Rodimus | Rodimus Prime & Deathsaurus, Ultra Magnus & Esmeral (Transformers)   Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Primax 1020.27 Iota, War Crimes, Mind Control, Colonialism, Transformers Spark Bonds, Cybertronian Golden Age Decadence, Neuroatypical Characters, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Instability, Past Sexual Assault, Past Underage Sex, Esmeral Is Not Your Therapist, Starscream being Starscream, In-Character Poetry, Ridiculous Robot Pig Latin, The Towers Were Worse Than You Think, Matrix of Leadership (Transformers), Cityspeaker Esmeral, Canon Soup, Original Character(s), Creepy Quintessons (Transformers) Series: Part 5 of The Voice of Stanix (Primax 1020.27 Iota), Part 14 of All Hail Ravage Summary:

I. Getaway stole the Lost Light, and nobody is happy about it except him. Three planets died, but Megatron didn't, and nobody knows where Overlord is. Prowl's broken promise to the Galactic Council is going to have consequences, and Rodimus wants his ship back.

II. The broken Matrix of Leadership just woke up, and Optimus doesn't know what it’s doing, how, or why.

III. Mirage will do anything to get Hound back--even make peace with his long-estranged amica, Soundwave.

IV. Galvatron refuses to give up his claim to Decepticon leadership. If Ravage wants to be the leader of Destron entire, she'll have to cancel him the old-fashioned way: by killing him herself. And the EDC would like her to do it as soon as possible.

(and yes this is absolutely influenced by the discussion we’ve been having about robot ageing, I added some bits in this morning)

This is from Designs and Persuasions, fourth fic in the Voice of Stanix series and half of the third arc of that series.

I almost spoilered this, but then I realised that Jazz/Soundwave/Ravage is already in the tags for this fic so it’s already spoiled.  It’s first person from Ravage’s POV in this section. (If you haven’t read Voice of Stanix, you should know that in this AU, Ravage and Laserbeak, Stalker and Buzzsaw, Stripes and Sundor, Glit and Squawktalk, Howlback and Garboil, and Pounce and Wingspan were a defunded pre-war military experiment that was sold off illegally rather than being destroyed, and spent the first ten years of thelr lives living as siblings and training together.

The cats and birds were designed to work as partners, and Ravage has never forgiven Stripes and Sundor for joining the Autobots and leaving to follow Orion Pax when he quit the Decepticon movement.)

“I shouldn’t say this,” said Jazz, and before I could tell him not to, if he knew that he shouldn’t, he said it: “Stripes never stopped caring for you. I believe that he still hasn’t. He got into fights with Steeljaw about it.”

“That’s crazy.” I sighed. “I still can’t believe he let the Autobots cassettify him, and that he hasn’t had it undone. Do you know how much better my rotten back feels now that my spine gets to unstretch itself half the time?”

“It was an arms race.” Jazz shrugged. “Soundwave didn’t tell me your back hurts all the time—”

“My chronic pain issues were not his first thought when you were in bed with both of us and the thing you were doing to him was amazing but would have hurt me,” I said, laughing. “But I’ll take it if it means we don’t have to talk about Stripes.”

“We should,” said Jazz. “I think he was in love with Blaster, actually.”

“You’re going to make me pity him. Stop,” I said.

“Ah, but you should. Blaster wouldn’t touch him. Or any of his others. He thinks it’s wrong, and that Soundwave is using you and that he whored you out to Megatron.” Jazz groaned. “Fuck. He hates me now too, I’m sure.”

“He’s always hated us,” I said, “so yeah, so probably. I know what Blaster thinks of us, and I don’t care. But I’m sorry he’s turning on you; the war isn’t over, it’s just gone cold. Sorry but really, he isn’t anyone’s friend.”

“He was Beachcomber’s friend,” said Jazz with a sigh, “and I know Soundwave regrets that. You don’t have to tell me.”

“Then don’t say things like that.” I sat up and hugged my knees to my chest. “Do you really love me, Jazz? More important, do you really love him?”

Jazz shrugged. “I don’t actually know what that means sometimes,” he said after a moment. “But I know I need Soundwave, and I care for him so much more than someone in my old position should ever have let myself care, and he is a part of you, and you are a part of him, and you are very, very beautiful, and kinder than you know.”

His smile went crooked. “And I think I do.”

“That’s fair,” I said, though I was still mad that he’d brought up Beachcomber, who was alive, and well; I didn’t mind that Blaster had been angry, I minded that he couldn’t take the win and give up on killing my conjunx, after three million years.

“You’re mad.”

“I’ll get over it.” I gave him a crooked, frustrated smile, and a long. slow, luxurious blink. “I know it’s hard for you right now. It’s never fun to find out what the people you thought were your friends are, not when you know you were wrong.”

Jazz shrugged. “Yeah.” He did not mention Megatron. He didn’t have to.

“I love what you did for Soundwave when I couldn’t be there. I love what you did for us both at great cost to yourself, and how much you’ve done to end this insanity. I want to know you better than I do, which would be easier if you would stop trying to hide who and what you are. And I love getting fucked by you. But I’m terrified of becoming a triad again, especially since a triad with us is always a little lopsided.”

Jazz laughed. “That’s fair, too. But please keep in mind that I want it lopsided. I don’t want to go where you go when you go there. Not with him or with anyone else. And I don’t want a spark-bond. I don’t like it when things are too heavy, and it doesn’t mean I feel any less, it’s just…”

Chapters: 20/? (last chapter is endnotes) Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Ravage/Soundwave (Transformers), Deathsaurus/Esmeral (Transformers), Optimus Prime/Starscream, Mirage & Soundwave (Transformers), Lyzack/Nickel (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet, Hound/Mirage (Transformers), Jazz/Ravage/Soundwave (Transformers), Noah Diaz/Mirage (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock & Hot Rod, Megatron/Ultra Magnus (Transformers), Misfire/Swerve (Transformers), Rodimus | Rodimus Prime & Deathsaurus, Nightshade & Tarantulas, Glit/Fortress Maximus (Transformers) Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Primax 1020.27 Iota, War Crimes, Mind Control, Colonialism, Transformers Spark Bonds, Cybertronian Golden Age Decadence, Neuroatypical Characters, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Instability, Past Sexual Assault, Past Underage Sex, Esmeral Is Not Your Therapist, Starscream being Starscream, In-Character Poetry, Ridiculous Robot Pig Latin, The Towers Were Worse Than You Think, Matrix of Leadership (Transformers), Cityspeaker Esmeral, Canon Soup, Original Character(s), Creepy Quintessons (Transformers), Don't Wrangle My Nightshade Tag (no Maltos yet here)   Series: Part 5 of The Voice of Stanix (Primax 1020.27 Iota), Part 14 of All Hail Ravage Summary:

I. Getaway stole the Lost Light, and nobody is happy about it except him. Three planets died, but Megatron didn't, and nobody knows where Overlord is. Prowl's broken promise to the Galactic Council is going to have consequences, and Rodimus wants his ship back.

II. The broken Matrix of Leadership just woke up, and Optimus doesn't know what it’s doing, how, or why.

III. Mirage will do anything to get Hound back--even make peace with his long-estranged amica, Soundwave.

IV. Galvatron refuses to give up his claim to Decepticon leadership. If Ravage wants to be the leader of Destron entire, she'll have to cancel him the old-fashioned way: by killing him herself. And the EDC would like her to do it as soon as possible.

Content Advisory: Canon soup with IDW/G1 base, heavily seasoned with Japanese G1 and TFP. This series began as a Soundwave/Ravage MTMTE fix-it fic. The Voice of Stanix is a series of seven novel-length fics which starts with Diamonds & Rust. This is the fifth in the series. Chapter Summary: Ravage worries, Megatron dreams, Glit flirts, and (with Thunderblast’s help) Galvatron figures things out.