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Betta132 - Soundwave tentacle headcanon — Description
Soundwave always gets back up. It's something he learned in the Pit:
No matter what happens to you,
No matter how much you hurt
Or how scared you are
Or how much you want to crawl away
Unless you want to die
Slowly and painfully,
You get back up
And you kill whoever hurt you.
If you don't get back up, you'll probably die.
If not, they'll get a medic, one who either doesn't have sedatives or doesn't like them.
And then...
After you're patched up, they throw you in with the rest.
And if you don't get back up then,
You're their toy until you do.
So unless you want to be hurt
Unless you want to feel beyond terrible
Unless you want to make yourself wonder why you didn't just die
You.
Get.
Back.
Up.

So no matter what just happened,
No matter what,
Soundwave always gets back up.
He's walked off the field with missing arms,
With dripping wounds
And torn-out cables
And darkened optics
And twice a missing fuel tank.

The second time, he tore the organ out himself.
He had no choice.
Acid injected into his tank made him choose between being in more pain
Or letting the acid get to the developing symbiotes.
He chose pain.
It HURT,
But he tore out his fuel tank with his own knives
And he got up
And he killed the one responsible
And he walked away.

He's shown it before, time after time.
He gets up.
He walks away.
He does not stay down.

Until he does.
This time, it's not because of wounds.
Not entirely.
He doesn't get back up
Because this time
It was his lord who hurt him
And he can't bring himself to get back up
When his world has just crashed down
And he has been betrayed by the only mech he trusted.
He hurts.
Not just his body.
His very spirit hurts.
Every fiber of his being hurts.
He doesn't know how to get up any more.
He just can't.
Not yet.
Later.
Maybe.
Maybe he'll get up again.
But for now
He's just going to lay here
And hurt.