Okay, best description of my reaction is horrified fascination. Followed by more horrified, then sort of fascinated, and now back to horrified... (whee! Emotional ping pong.)
Your word choices are gorgeous, and the descriptions you build up such a striking image of Soundwave as something all crystalline and languid and so very much not a creature of the battlefield, but his own kind of icy power.
But what he's going to do to Bee is so vile... Um, back to "eep!"
And then back to fascinated. Soundwave's implicitly equates the "not-quite-sentient" Ravage with the innocent/weak and regards Ravage's death as hypocrisy on the part of the Autobots, but it's wonderfully ambiguous as to how much of Soundwave's rage about Ravage's death is pain at the loss of the life of his symbiont as a living creature, Soundwave's loss of a tool, or the pain Soundwave himself suffered as a result. I wonder if he even sees those as separate things?
And finally, I'm sort of worried about the new symbiont-to-be... I wonder if/how much of Soundwave's anger and resentment toward Bumblebee will spill over into the symbiont bond. Man, how much would that suck for the poor creature to know that its host/master hates it for something that it will never be able to understand and probably will have no memory of doing?
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Date: 2010-12-31 03:14 am (UTC)Okay, best description of my reaction is horrified fascination. Followed by more horrified, then sort of fascinated, and now back to horrified... (whee! Emotional ping pong.)
Your word choices are gorgeous, and the descriptions you build up such a striking image of Soundwave as something all crystalline and languid and so very much not a creature of the battlefield, but his own kind of icy power.
But what he's going to do to Bee is so vile... Um, back to "eep!"
And then back to fascinated. Soundwave's implicitly equates the "not-quite-sentient" Ravage with the innocent/weak and regards Ravage's death as hypocrisy on the part of the Autobots, but it's wonderfully ambiguous as to how much of Soundwave's rage about Ravage's death is pain at the loss of the life of his symbiont as a living creature, Soundwave's loss of a tool, or the pain Soundwave himself suffered as a result. I wonder if he even sees those as separate things?
And finally, I'm sort of worried about the new symbiont-to-be... I wonder if/how much of Soundwave's anger and resentment toward Bumblebee will spill over into the symbiont bond. Man, how much would that suck for the poor creature to know that its host/master hates it for something that it will never be able to understand and probably will have no memory of doing?
I'm just blown away by the story.