Cassette and Deck Unit Ideas Running Rampant
If anyone knows any fics that meet any of these, please do comment with them. I’m in such a cassette mood right now, it’s stupid.
1. Cassettes are symbiotes as such they want the host that is most likely to ensure their survival. Either one of Blaster’s bunch ends up in Soundwave’s possession or one of Soundwave’s bunch ends up in Blaster’s. The Deck Unit has to take care of, and fulfill the needs of the cassette, within reason and no matter the awkwardness in order for it to sync up or realize that their new host is capable. The more cassettes a Deck Unit has is a sign that they are a capable host although often a Deck Unit will stop at a certain amount that is his carrying limit.
2. I’ve read a couple fics that mention that the Autobots have voiced concerns about the potential repercussions of a host/symbiote relationship and the likely servitude that could accompany that when they have a motto based on freedom.
A. Blaster lied to get into the Autobots; It’s exactly the Master and slave relationship that the Autobots are worried about. This fact is discovered, but can the Cassettes adapt to not being in that system.
B. One of Soundwave’s Cassettes ends up in peril, saved by Blaster or another Autobot changing the script coding for the Servitude programming making that Cassette indebted to the Autobots.
C. At the beginning of Blaster’s time with the Autobots his cassette were separated from him and interviewed by medics to make sure that they were in fact free beings and not forced servants.
3. During the time that Blaster is dead in the G1/Headmasters cartoon, the medical staff attempts to introduce Blaster’s cassettes to his brother Bluster-
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bluster
It does not go well, but good thing they resurrected Blaster as Twincast right?
4. Speaking of Twincast, is a mech really the same after a resurrection? He sprung to life and charged into battle with bravado, but after he comes back and things settle down. The cassettes have to come to grips with that while they have Twincast, maybe things aren’t alright in Cassetteville. A getting to know you again-type fic.
5. Speaking about Resurrections, who is to say Blaster hasn’t been revived before? Using this thought to explain the personality difference between G1 comic Blaster and G1 cartoon Blaster. How did his Cassettes take this shift? Are they in fact a complete new set because he last set died with him? If so do they know they are he’s second set? Does he know they are his second set?
6. Supposedly in the Episode “Carnage in C-Minor” Soundwave was defeated by Blaster hitting his ‘Erase’ button. Wouldn’t this have effected what’ve unlucky cassette/s was/were stored? Did one or more of his cassetticons end up with their memories wiped?
7. So from Ratbat we know that it’s possible to take a spark/lasercore/whatever and place it in a cassette form, did Blaster ever do this? If so… did he ever tell the mech who he used to be?
8. How is a Cassette’s quality of life different if he/she does not have a Deck Unit?
9. What if Twincast knew Flip Sides was basically a ticking timebomb that could turn any minute but the only option he had was to wipe her personality and memories completely pretty much destroying her lovely sweet persona, with the Decepticon coding, and he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
10. Alright don’t shoot me for this but I absolutely love the idea of Glit.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Glit
He is the first (and only to my knowledge) cassette mentioned who has a build that services his Deck Unit in a necessary manner. He also doesn’t appear to fit the standard Decepticon mold for his mindset. So a couple bunnies that just involve him and incorporating him into a G1-esque cartoon-ish setting.
A. He was Soundwave’s first cassette before the war, and remembers a much different mech than the one that loyally serves under Megatron. He doesn’t see optic to optic with his host and that is why he is often seen fraternizing with the Autobots.
B. He was built by a Deck unit separate from Blaster and Soundwave, and while he is a Decepticon he is not necessarily Soundwave’s. Blaster somehow discovering the mech one day due to some unknown event tries to offer the cassette a place with the Autobots, but being like a true stray cat, you can feed them, get them to come back but never truly get them to stay.
C. Glit was called in front of Megatron for Aiding Autobots. Megatron threatened to have his front legs removed and the other Decepticons stepped up to defend Glit. This probably put Glit on Megatron’s shit list. This is a Decepticon that inspired loyalty from Megatron’s troops enough to have them object loudly, forcefully enough to Megatron himself to spare the small Medic. How did a medic that refuses to carry weaponry, that treated the enemy as well as his allies, manage to first off survive, let alone manage to gain that much hold with his fellow Decepticons? Just How? And Perhaps for the first time Megatron would feel slightly threatened by, but in some way kin to, the presence of someone so small, so insignificant (perhaps referencing the Comic Megatron Origins where Megatron himself rises from nothing) managing to inspire that loyalty.
D. Glit is truly one of Blaster’s cassettes, explaining his peaceful nature. How did he become a Decepticon, and why?
E. Ratchet vs Glit battle of the different schools of Medicine. Alright so let us create a setting with the idea of their being two different prominent Schools of Medical Sciences on Cybertron, Ratchet being the top student of one and Glit being the top student of the other. When they meet on the battlefield, doing repairs the rivalry to prove their school the best can sometimes flare up.
11. Since you already are cringing from anything near to Kiss Players, I was thinking… Sundor.
A. I’ll spare you too much, Sundor is Sunstorm. That is the bunny. Have at it.
B. Sundor can actually interact with Sunstorm without fear due to his sun + space bridge incident changing his armor.
12. With how small cassettes are if they drink high grade (such as Glit up there) profusely do they run the risk of burning themselves out?
13. On a Similar note, do cassettes have any unique medical conditions that only they can get?
14. What if a cassette develops somehow claustrophobia?
15. What if only cassettes can become Deck Units and every Deck Unit was once a cassette? Every Deck Unit know what it is like to be in the position of his symbiotes this furthers the link between them and the drive to protect them. More on this idea-
A. If a Deck Unit dies, then the cassettes have to elect someone to get reformatted into the new Deck Unit. This is how Blaster or Soundwave became a Deck Unit.
B. When Blaster dies in the G1/Headmasters cartoon, before he is brought back the cassettes discuss their options in regard to who is going to be their new Deck Unit. I vote Rewind, or Steeljaw.
C. Blaster talks to one of his cassettes giving them the “If something ever happens to me…” speech.
D. Soundwave dies, Megatron chooses one of his cassettes to take the Deck Unit’s place. The cassette has no say in the matter.
1. Cassettes are symbiotes as such they want the host that is most likely to ensure their survival. Either one of Blaster’s bunch ends up in Soundwave’s possession or one of Soundwave’s bunch ends up in Blaster’s. The Deck Unit has to take care of, and fulfill the needs of the cassette, within reason and no matter the awkwardness in order for it to sync up or realize that their new host is capable. The more cassettes a Deck Unit has is a sign that they are a capable host although often a Deck Unit will stop at a certain amount that is his carrying limit.
2. I’ve read a couple fics that mention that the Autobots have voiced concerns about the potential repercussions of a host/symbiote relationship and the likely servitude that could accompany that when they have a motto based on freedom.
A. Blaster lied to get into the Autobots; It’s exactly the Master and slave relationship that the Autobots are worried about. This fact is discovered, but can the Cassettes adapt to not being in that system.
B. One of Soundwave’s Cassettes ends up in peril, saved by Blaster or another Autobot changing the script coding for the Servitude programming making that Cassette indebted to the Autobots.
C. At the beginning of Blaster’s time with the Autobots his cassette were separated from him and interviewed by medics to make sure that they were in fact free beings and not forced servants.
3. During the time that Blaster is dead in the G1/Headmasters cartoon, the medical staff attempts to introduce Blaster’s cassettes to his brother Bluster-
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bluster
It does not go well, but good thing they resurrected Blaster as Twincast right?
4. Speaking of Twincast, is a mech really the same after a resurrection? He sprung to life and charged into battle with bravado, but after he comes back and things settle down. The cassettes have to come to grips with that while they have Twincast, maybe things aren’t alright in Cassetteville. A getting to know you again-type fic.
5. Speaking about Resurrections, who is to say Blaster hasn’t been revived before? Using this thought to explain the personality difference between G1 comic Blaster and G1 cartoon Blaster. How did his Cassettes take this shift? Are they in fact a complete new set because he last set died with him? If so do they know they are he’s second set? Does he know they are his second set?
6. Supposedly in the Episode “Carnage in C-Minor” Soundwave was defeated by Blaster hitting his ‘Erase’ button. Wouldn’t this have effected what’ve unlucky cassette/s was/were stored? Did one or more of his cassetticons end up with their memories wiped?
7. So from Ratbat we know that it’s possible to take a spark/lasercore/whatever and place it in a cassette form, did Blaster ever do this? If so… did he ever tell the mech who he used to be?
8. How is a Cassette’s quality of life different if he/she does not have a Deck Unit?
9. What if Twincast knew Flip Sides was basically a ticking timebomb that could turn any minute but the only option he had was to wipe her personality and memories completely pretty much destroying her lovely sweet persona, with the Decepticon coding, and he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
10. Alright don’t shoot me for this but I absolutely love the idea of Glit.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Glit
He is the first (and only to my knowledge) cassette mentioned who has a build that services his Deck Unit in a necessary manner. He also doesn’t appear to fit the standard Decepticon mold for his mindset. So a couple bunnies that just involve him and incorporating him into a G1-esque cartoon-ish setting.
A. He was Soundwave’s first cassette before the war, and remembers a much different mech than the one that loyally serves under Megatron. He doesn’t see optic to optic with his host and that is why he is often seen fraternizing with the Autobots.
B. He was built by a Deck unit separate from Blaster and Soundwave, and while he is a Decepticon he is not necessarily Soundwave’s. Blaster somehow discovering the mech one day due to some unknown event tries to offer the cassette a place with the Autobots, but being like a true stray cat, you can feed them, get them to come back but never truly get them to stay.
C. Glit was called in front of Megatron for Aiding Autobots. Megatron threatened to have his front legs removed and the other Decepticons stepped up to defend Glit. This probably put Glit on Megatron’s shit list. This is a Decepticon that inspired loyalty from Megatron’s troops enough to have them object loudly, forcefully enough to Megatron himself to spare the small Medic. How did a medic that refuses to carry weaponry, that treated the enemy as well as his allies, manage to first off survive, let alone manage to gain that much hold with his fellow Decepticons? Just How? And Perhaps for the first time Megatron would feel slightly threatened by, but in some way kin to, the presence of someone so small, so insignificant (perhaps referencing the Comic Megatron Origins where Megatron himself rises from nothing) managing to inspire that loyalty.
D. Glit is truly one of Blaster’s cassettes, explaining his peaceful nature. How did he become a Decepticon, and why?
E. Ratchet vs Glit battle of the different schools of Medicine. Alright so let us create a setting with the idea of their being two different prominent Schools of Medical Sciences on Cybertron, Ratchet being the top student of one and Glit being the top student of the other. When they meet on the battlefield, doing repairs the rivalry to prove their school the best can sometimes flare up.
11. Since you already are cringing from anything near to Kiss Players, I was thinking… Sundor.
A. I’ll spare you too much, Sundor is Sunstorm. That is the bunny. Have at it.
B. Sundor can actually interact with Sunstorm without fear due to his sun + space bridge incident changing his armor.
12. With how small cassettes are if they drink high grade (such as Glit up there) profusely do they run the risk of burning themselves out?
13. On a Similar note, do cassettes have any unique medical conditions that only they can get?
14. What if a cassette develops somehow claustrophobia?
15. What if only cassettes can become Deck Units and every Deck Unit was once a cassette? Every Deck Unit know what it is like to be in the position of his symbiotes this furthers the link between them and the drive to protect them. More on this idea-
A. If a Deck Unit dies, then the cassettes have to elect someone to get reformatted into the new Deck Unit. This is how Blaster or Soundwave became a Deck Unit.
B. When Blaster dies in the G1/Headmasters cartoon, before he is brought back the cassettes discuss their options in regard to who is going to be their new Deck Unit. I vote Rewind, or Steeljaw.
C. Blaster talks to one of his cassettes giving them the “If something ever happens to me…” speech.
D. Soundwave dies, Megatron chooses one of his cassettes to take the Deck Unit’s place. The cassette has no say in the matter.