#tsunamiis rambles

Or rather, my brain soup came up with a headcanon for the Earthspark cassettes [and Soundwave in turn] at 11pm-

So in Season 1, Episode 7, "Family and Friends", Bumblebee mentions that Soundwave tried to employ one of his cassettes while starved on energon, only for them to explode instead. Now most of the fandom [me included] like to think this cassette was Rumble, because the angst potential. Bro.

Sooo what if I made it more angsty,,,

The cassettes were like peas in a pod, with Soundwave being the latter. Rumble and Frenzy were twins, and being music lovers, they both donned weaponized instruments to bring to the battlefield melodious murder.

While Frenzy had her laser-blasting guitar, Rumble had an electrifying bass, both metaphorically and literally. They synchronized with eachother, using their respective weapons' high and low notes to disorient and disable opponents: Frenzy made audio receptors ring with her guitar's shrill notes, and Rumble made the ground tremble with the booming notes of her bass. Adding Laserbeak and Ravage's support, the cassette quartet was a force to be reckoned with.

But now, the cassette quartet wasn't even a quartet anymore, because Rumble was gone.

Frenzy could still remember seeing Soundwave's chest explode, with Rumble barely having left it. Armour and wiring turned to flame and cinders, blue and red charred black and brown. She could never forget how Soundwave's chest cavity spewed out parts of his internal frame, how Rumble blew up into a hundred pieces of burning metal, how she could hear them scream till their voiceboxes glitched and their sparks practically implode as one of them died.

She didn't remember much after that - thank Primus she couldn't - because the only memories she did have after witnessing her twin's death was a whole lot of pain, unconciousness and grief. She knew Soundwave didn't forgive himself after that; he still hadn't, and she and her remaining siblings noticed how cautious he grew of all their energon consumption, making sure they had enough fuel all the time. Soundwave didn't even seem to care that he almost died in the process, because he was drowning in the abysmal depths that was grief for the part of him that did die that day. All of them were griveing.

And Frenzy wasn't really the same anymore after that. None of the cassettes or Soundwave were. Frenzy didn't have any rumbling bass to complement her sharp guitar, no maroon to go with her purple, no stupid red idiot to playfight and bicker with. Not anymore, not after Rumble kicked the damn bucket and left a missing piece in each of their sparks. For Frenzy, it felt like half her spark was gone, because to her, it really was.

She didn't even get to say goodbye.

When they came to Earth and saw Lord Megatron with the Autobots, the enemy who they'd been fighting for milennia, who Rumble died against, Frenzy knew Soundwave had every right to be furious. She felt her own anger bubble when the traitor tried to coerce them into surrender.

"Don't make this personal, Soundwave." He had said, as if he was the one who lost a sibling, the one who lost a kid. The former warlord would never understand just how much Soundwave and the cassettes had sacrificed for the war, for him.

Frenzy readied her guitar, digits over the chords that would produce the loudest notes she could muster. That was Rumble's job, and it was supposed to stay that way.

She wanted to rupture the deceiver's audials and make his processor implode within itself - even though Rumble was the one who enjoyed it more than she ever would.

HECK YEAH! Both are awesome as hell and I'm glad other people share the same opinion!

Also THANK YOU SO MUCH! I might be a teeny bit exaggerative rn but it always makes my week whenever someone compliments my art, it's my pride and the mere thought of others actually enjoying seeing my work never fails to make me smile like an idiot :DD /pos

ESPECIALLY THIS PARTICULAR LINE:

"Rant to me, I like the sound, I like your voice, I like your mouth"

Because it fits SO well with the fact that Bee is an excessively hyperactive yapper who cannot keep his mouth shut even if his life depended on it, and no matter how much he'd try Prowl could never get himself to hate all the talking because it's just so... Bumblebee behaviour, and he likes Bumblebee.

Bee could ramble about the most random stuff that can come to his processor, and Prowl would patiently wait and listen regardless of whether he wants to or not, because he likes seeing Bee happy and he likes hearing Bee's voice.

ALSO ANOTHER NOTEWORTHY LINE WHICH IS MY FAVOURITE LYRIC:

"Look in the mirror, I love that boy, don't hurt my dear, don't hurt my joy"

THIS LINE. THIS GODDAMN LINE THAT MAKES ME TEAR UP BECAUSE I IMAGINE BEE HAVING INSECURITIES AND PROWL TRYING TO PROVIDE COMFORT.

Lemme remind yall that Bee literally gave up the opportunity to become an official Elite Guard [which was his DREAM] just so he could stick with Bulkhead, and the reason he was getting promoted was because he'd outed Wasp, who he thought was the Decepticon spy within Boot Camp when in reality it was Longarm/Shockwave, which he only found out millennia later after Wasp escaped and Shockwave revealed his true identity to Bee and Bulkhead.

You can probably imagine the load of insecurities that this, coupled with the humiliation of being kicked out of Boot Camp and Sentinel barely remembering him, would cause Bee to have. He genuinely regrets listening to Longarm/Shockwave and ruining Wasp's life, he had to give up his dream opportunity so he could stick with his best friend, and he is horrified when he realizes the real Decepticon spy was the same bot who he trusted back at Boot Camp.

SO BACK TO PROWLBEE - After the whole ordeal with Wasp, the Jettwins and Longarm/Shockwave in the present time, Prowl notices how Bee looks miserable. He manages to get it all out from an equally concerned Bulkhead, and his spark aches.

Because Prowl learns that Bee had not only been carefully manipulated into framing a somewhat innocent bot, he also gave up his dream to stick with his only other friend at the time. And after the incident with Wasp, his self-esteem had dropped to an all-time low.

So Prowl takes Bumblebee to a mirror, or any reflective surface, anything that would let Prowl show the bot in the reflection that he is still a good spark, that no one hates him, that he is still loved. By their friends, by their teammates, by Prowl. To tell him that he doesn't have to hurt himself, to beat himself up for doing something he then believed to be the right thing. To tell him he is the brightest light of Prowl's life, that he is adored, he is cherished, he is still Bumblebee.

Edit: and ONE MORE LINE I FORGOT TO ADD:

"I am just a fool to keep on chasing after nothing great, you are just a fool to keep pretending that you're loving me"

This could go both ways OH MY GOD. Bumblebee, who felt like a fool because he tried chasing after things that were now too great for him, especially the long-abandoned dream of being an Elite Guard, and now he thinks he's doing the same [i.e. longing to be with Prowl] because he may act confident, but deep down he thinks Prowl is too good for him - he's quiet, skilled, disciplined, smart, and Bumblebee knows he's neither of those, because he's rash and impatient and horribly impulsive, which are all traits that Bee knows Prowl doesn't really enjoy, making him think his bond with Prowl is either fake, or half-hearted [hence the latter line, you are just a fool to keep pretending that you're loving me].

Prowl, on the other hand... I imagine he'd have some insecurities too; he failed to learn the one cyberjitsu technique that would've qualified him as a true member of the dojo, he failed to protect the dojo and he failed to save Yoketron. He failed to preserve the protoforms within the dojo, and he'd used the last one to try and save his mentor, which failed in the end. All this, just because he didn't want to be enrolled in the Elite Guard for the war, and he left in disgrace. Though faithful, he is losing hope to redeem himself for his mistakes [i.e. he believes he is chasing after nothing great] and also believes that Bumblebee is too good for him as well - Bee is loud, funny, energetic, hopeful, and Prowl is the complete opposite. Bee gets along with others, Prowl doesn't, nor does he make any effort to. Prowl does like Bee, but a small part of him thinks Bee doesn't wholeheartedly like him back.

In the end, though, they do get along. They do get closer, they share eachother's joy and pain, they try to understand eachother even if it's a long and weary process. In the end, they are happy, and they are happily eachother's fools.

I have so much more to rant about because I genuinely love this ship so much but my mind is literally malfunctioning rn so I'm gonna go ahead and cry in my pillow about these two now-

haii thank you for asking omg, I haven't been active on here at ALL but this ask [+an event my buddy is in rn on here] reawoke my tumblr shenanigans /pos

SO a bushmed hc I absolutely adore is the both of them being bird lovers and experts; Sniper is well-versed with Oceaniac birds [honeyeater, crimson rosella, laughing kookaburra, etc] while Medic is more knowledgeble on birds native to Europe [european goldfinch, sea eagle, sandpiper, so on]

They both love rambling about and learning new things of birds to/from eachother, and aspire to open a bird sanctuary when, or rather if, they ever retire from Mann Co. They both own avian pets [Medic with his doves, Sniper with his owl] and often care for stray chicks or injured birds they might come across! Medic is a huge bird mom and Sniper adores that.

Medic as a parental figure for Scout

Since I headcanon Scout doesn't have his parents [divorced and left him to his brothers, who later kicked him out] what if Medic took on a parental role for Scout?

And because Spy is already a father to BLU Scout [and we all know the absent father he is] Medic takes it upon himself to give Scout the parental affection he never got.

Medic would know what it was like to be neglected.

- RED Sniper and BLU Sniper are biologically related to eachother, no one knows how or why. They like to discuss stuff about their partners though [RED Medic and BLU Medic respectively]

- BLU Scout, Medic and Pyro are actually more nervous/anxious than their RED counterparts, and they often fidget and stay quiet a lot. The first two are just as sassy as their RED selves though 💀

- Both Scouts are dating their own teams' Pyros and seem to like argueing with eachother over whose Pyro is better 💀

- While BLU Scout has his mom and RED Spy, RED Scout doesn't have either of his parents. He only had his brothers, who kicked him out the family after their parents divorced and left them. But not to worry, RED Medic and RED Spy act as his father figures and BLU Scout and his mom make sure to give RED Scout lots of love, not to mention RED Pyro :D

- Unlike his RED self, BLU Scout doesn't have any brothers. He sees his Demo as a brother figure though!

- BLU Soldier and RED Demo share a friendly rivalry! No one actually knows if they're in a relationship together or just close buddies, and they, being the idiots they are, refuse to elaborate further just for shits and giggles.

- BLU Spy and Engie are also in love, the former is very open about it while the latter is ✨️chill✨️

- BLU Medic has poor vision and a missing left arm, and his teammates make sure to always stick by his side, especially BLU Sniper.

- What do you mean "does BLU Medic have trauma" of course he does, what do you think I am, uncultured?

- Both Medics are trans, RED Engie is aromantic, the rest are all ✨️gay✨️

- BLU Heavy didn't know what the Kazotsky Kick was until RED Heavy taught him. Now they do it together, even during matches.

- BLU Demo has a missing foot, which his Engie made a prosthetic for! He also offered to make one for his Medic, which was kindly refused.

- None of the mercs have phones except for the Scouts, and even then they only have Nokias 💀 RED Spy has one of those old telephones and BLU Pyro made a small cellphone out of cardboard [no it does not work].

- BLU Pyro has a pet Dalmatian named Spark while RED Pyro kept the small mutated bread and RED Scout named it 'Yeaster Bunny'.

- While RED Medic has Archimedes, BLU Medic's dove is named Socrates.

- RED Engie has heterochromia [left eye amber and right eye brown] but isn't too shy about it, he prefers to only take off his goggles within the RED base however.

- This is an unspoken rule that goes for both teams; if either Pyro gets insulted, the rest of the team will be out for blood. No one disrespects the baby and gets out alive. No one.

- Both teams like to go out occassionally if they have free time or holidays. RED likes going camping or on road trips while BLU enjoys going to the nearby city and maybe even buy some stuff. If one team is about to go out, they'll invite the other. And if they do go out together, they tend to leave random citizens confused as to why both teams look identical to eachother.

- BLU Demo has a small troll face covering his eye under his eyepatch, which his RED counterpart ADORES.

- The RED base's weather is hot and dry, while the BLU base is chilly and snowy. Which is also hilarious if you acknowledge the fact they're half an hour away from eachother. As a consequence the REDs usually wear summer clothing when they're not in their merc outfits and the BLUs wear heaping layers of winter clothing, much to the RED team's horror.