TFs: DARE TO BE STUPID

I just couldn't help myself

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OKAY, SO

Transformers Animated. Shockblurr.

Good ship, good trash pile, let me rub my little trash panda hands all over it.

The only trouble is, okay. Virtually everything I find for this ship is d/s flavored. Good! That is my favorite! And obviously Blurr is the tiny, high-energy, high-emotion dom, and Shockwave is the cool, restrained center of the scene, with all this inertia, just BEGGING to be cracked. Right?

Ha.

I've got a couple pieces of art from Herz and Larry that match up to what I want, but I am suffering in terms of fic content. The best I've got is The Brave Shall Heed The Call, which is pretty even ground for them, but everything else I've checked out so far has dom!Shockwave and sub!Blurr.

Spoiler: whine whine WHINE WHINE

Okay, so I don't mind-mind dom!Shockwave and sub!Blurr. I do mind that things are so skewed in this direction, and I do mind that so much of this stuff plays it, like.... it's so obvious. The little guy from the "good" side is being dominated and controlled to kingdom come by the massive, intelligent plotter from the "bad" side. Frequently combined with slavery, or other morally sketchy situations.

But like, all of this has Shockwave.... wrong. It has Shockwave wrong. It depends on him being this USER, it depends on him setting the scene in orbit around his own self-gratification, it depends on him wanting a personal thing and chasing it, it depends on him getting people well enough to manipulate them. It's all about Shockwave wanting to put his dick in stuff and/or break a person. None of that is what he acts like.

Shockwave is a probably-significantly-old decepticon, who went undercover with a bunch of autobot babies, in a slow-burn infiltration game. He worked his way up through the ranks playing things mostly straight, acting as a competent commander, being right near autobot high command, which is probably the center of autobot corruption, and staying patient and sticking to the plan. Even when Blurr is trying to figure out who the mysterious traitor in the autobots is, Shockwave keeps his cool so well, right up until the last moment. I don't want to call Shockwave passive. But he's got inertia. He doesn't move unless there's a REASON to move.

So okay, I can describe this better if I come at it from a positive angle. Imagine Shockwave, curious and detached, who doesn't people very naturally autistic tfa shockwave pass it on. When he's roleplaying an autobot, everything comes back around into playing that part convincingly. When he's himself and allowed to act like himself, imagine him sitting back and observing. Imagine him watching with unsettling focus, being reserved and clinical and maybe occasionally poking you to see what you do.

And from that point, imagine him as the large, central focus of a scene, where Blurr is orbiting him. Blurr is so, so high energy. There's fun in tying him up and not letting him move. But also, make him the dom, make him the only mobile person in the mix, and watch him go. He'd be so involved in everything, it would be so great. Shockwave is more passive and lets people come to him, Blurr is impossible at waiting and always has to move, it plays right to their natures. And while this is going on, Shockwave can observe, and Blurr can act.

But Shockwave's reserve. Oh my goodness. He's giant, he's detached, he's clinical, he's intellectual. How do you see that and not want to break him?

Especially from Blurr's point of view. From where he's standing, Shockwave lied to him for years, gained his trust, was a traitor the whole time, and just about killed him. Shockwave is like 'it wasn't personal, it was what was necessary to preserve my cover as a decepticon agent.' And Blurr is like 'that doesn't actually make me any happier about the situation'. Shockwave is confuse. I am all about people finding that emotionally complicated, fragile balance. And especially in a situation like this, where all the anger is on Blurr's side, and Shockwave is aware of it, that just adds so much FLAVOR to Shockwave voluntarily handing over complete control to Blurr! It's so fascinating!!

And as far as the breaking goes, okay. So Shockwave, it's going to be insanely hard to crack him mentally. But physically? Overstimulate him to hell and back. High energy, high input, this is everything that caters to Blurr's nature. Overwhelm him, overload him and don't give him a chance to recover before you overload him again. Toys, vibration, anything fun you can think of to play with, add it ALL. Shockwave can endure a lot, I'm sure, but there's a point where the body just starts to give out. Just imagine Blurr, this tiny, tiny bot, standing over Shockwave like that. Imagine Shockwave shaking. Not begging for release or anything, but with how MUCH it is showing through in every line of his body and the way he moves and the way he watches Blurr. Imagine the tiny little tells that Blurr has to learn how to read, like the angle of his antennae, or the way the light reflects off his optic. Shockwave doesn't have a face, he has a lot of control over his body, he's very hard to break. But that just makes it a challenge, and makes it so much more satisfying when you succeed.

Bleh, I could write more words, but I've already written so many today. I just don't understand why ALL the fic seems to be tilted in the opposite direction! I don't understand why Shockwave is the active, involved puppetmaster, and Blurr is the hapless puppet or at least the person who's there to cater to Shockwave's desires. It could be so! much! more! interesting!!!

 

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Tarn flips his shit because DISRESPECT! OF A DECEPTICON FIGUREHEAD! and my childhood crush. But also that is not the commander who would be a pillow princess are you fragging kidding me can't you even use your optics--

 

Oops I accidentally a new kink bingo document :?

But I had a TFP idea that I couldn't resist. It's plug and play, a tiiiiiiny bit nsfw but just barely, Soundwave/Shockwave (i really, really like this ship)

 

Also, an incredibly late additional shockblurr gripe

You have a SHAPESHIFTING ROBOT and you're not making sexy use of that? None? None at all??? What a WASTE :(

I guess that's just more reason for me go get my act together and start kink bingoing that continuity too, but ghdhgjxb I need to finish this stupid starbladebee before I lose it forever

 

Well, I am well on my way to buying my very own waspinator (I will stick him right on my base and let everyone else be annoyed by his occasional WASPINATOR LIVES survival thing), but on my quest, I tripped across someone with a base filled entirely with 600+ bots and that was just [quiet whimpering] (I think I misread 4000 base power as 1000 base power). But also, I wrapped up the story act one at 100% completion and surprise three-star crystal, and three-star windblade is in the house I am so pleased with things right now. She will be beautiful and e%quisitely STRONG, and when I have enough robots to satisfy my robot hoarding ways, I will feed her all my lesser windblades to make her even stronger

 

Ooooh, nice! I really enjoy playing motormaster a lot, he's such a nice balance between the speed of Bumblebee and the beefiness of Ironhide, and he's got a sword. All the best things. I was put off for ages by his weird square head shell, but... how can I not love him after this?

(also his TFA backstory is very different from usual, as per usual TFA standards, but it's so extra fun to think about, and I can only picture him as The Boulder from ATLA. and I definitely need to go back over his IDW content, because I totally ignored him the first time around. plus he's in the land of TAAO, imprisoned by my favorite garbage son, so there are all kinds of fun things that could happen with him in the future)

I blew all my saved energon on a Soundwave crystal when he came up for winning, and I didn't get him, but I did at least get a 3-star Bumblebee, who I buffed up like whoa until I was finally able to clear that 6th stage. And then I continued buffing him up until I had a chance at completing anything except the easiest path :P He completely carries my team, so I want to get someone else somewhere near his level so I don't have this massive, glaring weakness on my squad. I've been getting raided pretty constantly, so I'm trying to buff up my home team and base mods too, and gahhhh, give me more ways to earn ore, I will grind for ages because I have nothing even resembling self-control, just give me a way to do the thing!

....also also, this one line from the TFA Motormaster wiki page is fascinating me. It's like the whole trope of 'the noodle incident'. I know they're not telling me exactly what the team did with the forestonite on purpose, but now I've got this all-consuming need to know

 

The thing makes me extra curious is that forestonite is a mystery mineral with whatever awesome properties the transformers writers decide it needs to have this time around. I think the TFA almanac says that Strika carries a small supply to give her an extra burst of speed in emergencies, but it's left very vague how any of this works. I'm thinking that if the entire team was recolored crazy, maybe they stumbled onto a surprisingly large deposit of it or something? Maybe there was a fight and somebody shot it and it exploded and... something something chemical reaction? Plus the stunticons in this universe are decepticons who were on spark support to keep them alive, who volunteered to be transferred into autobot-shaped/sized bodies (so they're like half the size of normal decepticons, at the best), and in the fourth season, they were going to be involved with infiltration jailbreak shenanigans on Cybertron, while disguised as entertainers. So basically the only thing in the world I want is all the misadventures of this ridiculous team. It's going to be solid gold from start to finish.