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[S] Sawtooth: School Squarewave Strider Style

Stridercest Week 2025 - Day 3 - 360 kickflip

but I'm going to start tagging with 'roboyfriends' as well.

Title: Wavelength

Rating: S for SAPPY.

Author’s Notes: It turns out I’m not alone in wanting Sawtooth and Squarewave to be robo-boyfriends. So now we get confessions via rap battles as suggested by Nadya. Also terrible rhyming on my behalf because originally I wasn’t going to play that game but then it happened anyway.

Sorry this isn't under a cut, my read more is absolutely refusing to work.

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It happens during a rap battle, between the flow of lyrics and iconic beats fit for prime time. Sawtooth is all talent and style, whirring gears and clicking joints, voice electronic, hypnotic as he preaches sick rhymes.

And Squarewave’s the one that’s down on his knees, his game weak as the breeze, about to beg please when his metal mind starts to freeze. With language and letters hotwired to to reveal, Sawtooth tells the story of an emotion that’s real.

Through algorithms and binary and mechanical finery, Squarewave absorbs what it is that’s implored. It comes out syncopated, yet impossibly elated, when Squarewave tells Sawtooth words that are related.