This is kind of a view on q!Bad's current personality and it's heavily based on my own experience with my personality and how quickly people will define you by your worst traits during your worst moments. I Mostly wrote this for my own peace of mind but feel free to read and engage however you want :D
I've been seeing the sentiment that q!Bad is being his true self rn, because he snapped and went "back"(?) to his true self.
I disagree. q!Bad isn't being the person he "really" is. He's being the person he becomes under extreme emotional distress.
Was he always a good manipulator? Yes. Was he always hypocritical? Yeah. Was he always paranoid? Yep. Was he always somewhat morally dubious and willing to do what others wouldn't? Yeah.
Did he ever really cause harm to anyone before this arc? Not really. He annoyed people a lot, but it was never the way it is now.
All his worst traits have amplified and his good traits are somewhat surpressed. And he has traits that are unusual for him. Like, he's been awfully meaner to people and doing dangerous pranks that he normally wouldn't. He was always capable of a degree of cruelty and violence, but not towards his friends.
The worst part is before the eggs went missing he was dealing with a lot of emotional turmoil, after the furniture shit and being imprisoned on no proof. Like it has been shit upon shit for q!Bad lately. Like his trust issues have been sky high, and it really culminated today, with him telling q!forever outright that he's not welcome in his home...
Anyways, the person q!Bad was when he was stable/"under normal conditions", was kind, caring, helpful, trustworthy/reliable, protective, paranoid, childish, hypocritical, a bit of a liar, and a bit of a manipulator. That was so much more his true self than what he is now.
However this arc is one that might permanently alter how q!Bad is as a person. I honestly don't see him return to how he was before and if he does, it'll take awhile.
I'm sad.
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Sabo still struggles with memory loss. He had his childhood back, of course, he remembers Ace and Luffy and everything they did together. But he doesn't remember some stuff. Some anecdotes Luffy tells oh so excitedly? He can't recall that those happened. And if he does, it's all blurry and never at all like Luffy says. But he never says anything because that would break his brother's heart, to know his older brother isn't fully back with him, so he nods and smiles and pretends he knows what Luffy is talking about every time.
His room is filled with Post-it notes. Stupid, really. Dumb stuff. But he has all the meetings he needs to remember and the missions he has to do, along with everything he wants to write down at some point properly. The walls are covered in pictures of the people he loves (Luffy, Ace, Koala, Robin... All the others that have ever meant something to him because he refuses to forget somebody again).
He keeps writing dumb stuff down. Anything. He refuses to forget. He denies the possibility of doing it again.
But he forgets. Sabo keeps forgetting important dates. Important parts of his life, like his past with his brothers (he forgets a random adventure they had that he swore he had talked about the day prior) and crucial things he has to do. He has a hard time picturing his memories. Putting them in his brain. Turning them into images. Saying it's frustrating is a huge understatement.
Koala helps him out, of course. She's hard on him so he finishes his paperwork, but she knows it's difficult sometimes. She's his personal calendar and diary. She informs him of what he has to do during the week and always tries to talk and talk about anecdotes that she knows he still remembers but knows he loves to hear again.
His mental health isn't the best either, but he refuses to acknowledge it. There's a revolution at hand, he can't stop working. And fighting. And doing more and more and more. But sometimes it's just too much. Sometimes he goes into depressive episodes he can't control, and the medication is either addicting or the worst thing that has ever happened to him. Sometimes he's a bit too intense. Koala says he needs to calm down, that he has a problem with his fixation on the revolution and his past. Sabo keeps saying that it's fine. But he sometimes forgets or has blurry images of the fights and the people he has killed, filled with energy and excitement and like he has the power of a God. He doesn't like those. Enjoys the moment. Hates to forget it. Hates to know what he did during it too, even if it was for a good cause. Despises the look Koala gives him, also. Makes her promise not to tell Luffy about all of this.
But it's fine, he keeps saying. Sabo will keep trying to never forget anything ever again.
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Obligatory Beach Episode
A beach episode that got a little sad, I'm deeply sorry about that. But it's wavewave, so. Here. Take. Shockwave is a lot sweeter here, but his mind is back in order. :)) You'll see why. :)))
"Alright, shut up, we're here." Soundwave spoke, dropping his pack in the sand. The beach was pretty peaceful, but wouldn't be for long. The waves almost looked welcoming.
Soundwave let his cassettes loose before flopping forward on the sand. The cassettes giggled madly before taking off in all directions.
"Do not go too far out to sea, I am not built to swim and I'm not about to make Soundwave be the lifeguard." Shockwave warned as he laid out a tarp on the beach to sit on. He sat as slowly and gracefully as he could manage before gently patting Soundwave's back.
Soundwave grumbled a bit as he laid there, doing his best not to inhale sand as he calmed down. He was injured, he knew that, but couldn't be bothered to patch himself up. Shockwave would probably do it himself if Soundwave didn't.
"You made an impact crater." Shockwave observed quietly as he checked Soundwave over. It was really his spoken version of checking in with Soundwave to make sure he was doing okay.
Always casual observations. That was his "I see you and I understand your emotions" action. Soundwave idly supposed it was Shockwave's way of saying "I love you" when he didn't have the bearings to do it.
Soundwave hummed in acknowledgement to the observation, almost laughing at the simplicity of the statement. Shockwave hummed back a little before starting to gently turn Soundwave over so he could patch him up.
Shockwave's hand worked swiftly and gracefully, rinsing the wound out, welding it closed, and securing a little temporary plate that was similar to bandages to the area to ensure that it would be protected and held together.
Then he let Soundwave roll back over before starting to sift through the sand for specimens to study. Soundwave watched for a moment, laying a hand on Shockwave's blaster.
Shockwave's helm fins perked up at the subtle invitation to narrate how he felt about what he was thinking of, and he excitedly seized the opportunity.
"I like the earthly oceans pretty well, actually. They are quite biodiverse. There is always something new to learn and observe, and since we don't quite need oxygen like the humans do, we can observe for longer and learn more." Shockwave spoke, his voice lulling Soundwave a bit.
Soundwave listened eagerly to Shockwave's voice, allowing it to invite him to rest after such a long war of Cybertron finally ended after such bloody battles.
Ravage trotted up and planted herself on Soundwave's back and Soundwave hummed a bit as he decompressed back into the sand.
"You're having a good time, huh?" Ravage teased. Soundwave chuckled and nodded. Ravage seemed satisfied with her host's response. "Good. You deserve to rest, Sou. That was a tough final battle."
"Are you hurt at all, Ravage?" Soundwave asked quietly.
"No, thank goodness. None of the others are hurt in a way that matters either. Rumble has a new scratch on his paint, but he's proud of it. And Frenzy has a dent, but they're very pleased with it." Ravage offered the rundown with a smile, kneading Soundwave's back.
"Oh that's good..." Soundwave murmured, going back to listening to Shockwave. Shockwave had his optic about three inches away from a clam that he held delicately between two fingers.
"What is Shockwave doing?" Ravage asked softly.
"Observing a clam. Don't be surprised if he pries it open." Soundwave supplied absently as Shockwave narrated some more.
Nothing interrupted them, and Shockwave guided Soundwave down to the water late that first night at the beach, offering a dance, which Soundwave gladly accepted.
Soundwave played music through his body, humming to it as he held onto Shockwave's shoulders and swayed with the scientist. They had nowhere to be, no one to see, nothing that took priority now. So they danced together.
Shockwave was even less graceful as he struggled to dance in the sandy, watery environment and he laughed as he fell over. Soundwave laughed as he fell with him too, gently bumping his helm to Shockwave's.
Silent "I love you"s passed between them as they interacted.
The night changed slowly into day and day into night, over and over, and it seemed more and more like a dream each passing day of bliss and rest.
Soundwave wouldn't realize for a long time that he was dead, it was more realistic than any of the dreamworld simulations he'd been put through to break them as training.
But the realization eventually came when Soundwave hiked to the mountain that was on Cybertron that didn't belong on his earthly island with all of the flora and fauna of earth on it.
The Cybertronian mountain had its own flora blending nicely with the earthly flora of the island. But it was unmistakable as Soundwave stepped onto the metallic ridge where he prayed the most.
The mountain was where some of Soundwave's dead cassettes would be buried...but they were all accounted for, even the dead ones.
Soundwave had been so tired and relieved after the war ended for him that he just accepted them back into the fold, with literally no questions asked.
They were dead. So, was he dead as well?
The gods had deemed it necessary for Soundwave to rest in his own personal paradise with all of his cassettes as illusions or actual the actual sparks of each one. Shockwave himself was also dead, he was there first actually, but knew his role in this dreamlike, happy world of Soundwave's island paradise.
Shockwave reassured him that they could leave physically any time Soundwave wanted, but this was a world curated to his needs and desires that they could come back to at any time.
Soundwave took the reassurance with a soft sigh of relief and decided it would be fine to stay there for a while longer before going out to see who he had to meet up with once more.
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MMU oc post! I've been wanting to make a post about him for ages :)
Fyodor Arcady
- Alek's twin brother
- his name is Fyodor, after a saint that was associated with his birthday (9th Nov) see this post for more information on that and where I got the inspiration
- in school he spells it Theodore, in the same way many people hc Aleksandr as going by Alexander
- talking of school, he attends a fancy business school in America, as his parents are divorced when they were both 10
- Aleks went with their mother, and Fyodor stayed with their father. Not that they really had a choice because their father wanted Fyodor to be the one to take over the company and so chose him
- he's going to be the heir to his father's business, even though Aleks is actually the older brother (by like 7 minutes)
- they keep that hush hush and say Fyodor's the older son
- he's fine with that, he wants to take it on and Aleks doesn't
- things are... difficult between him and Aleks
- they both come from a 'broken home' so there's already that stigma, not to mention both their parents are famous (actress and businessman) and right in the public eye
- their parents are always comparing them, like their mother will say "Fyodor, can't you be more like Aleksandr? He's got such good English manners, being in America has made you quite uncouth" while their father is all "Aleksandr, couldn't you be more like Fyodor? He's very confident and business minded, all that countryside has made you soft"
- they both miss each other so much though
- he looks more like his mother, same dark coloured hair and sharp jawline but he didn't inherit her height (Aleks got that) so short
- they both have a slight smattering of freckles though
- really sporty, good at football (ig he'd call it soccer???)
- but quite bad at maths, which of course makes him worry at a business focused school
-once cheated on a maths test so his father would be proud of him, but felt so guilt ridden he stole it back in the middle of the night and claimed the teachers must have lost it
- Fyodor is charming and a smooth talker, and has no problem lying unlike Aleks
- hates pranks, he thinks they're distracting and annoying and time consuming
- he lives with his father in a fancy penthouse flat in Boston, but never actually stays there
- his father likes to flaunt his wealth, so everything in the flat is all new to show off what the Arcady fortune can buy and it never really feels like a home
- so he mostly stays round friends in the hols
- he (and Aleks) wonder why they can't go and stay with their brother once in a while, they seem to have enough money for everything else, why not travel???
- (each parent thinks that the twins 'picked' a parent and so aren't interested in having the other twin come and stay)
- he's in love with the flat's housekeeper's daughter
- he always leaves her favourite flowers in a vase on his bedroom windowsill to let her know he's thinking about her, and writes her secret letters when he's at school
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