Well, I never thought I would see the day Transformers and my favorite piece of music all time would merge!

You get all the brownie points in the world for putting Mozart's Requiem into a story with Soundwave.

And yes, the Lacrimosa is exquisite. There's an even more beautiful section that doesn't get as much attention--the Agnus Dei. If you haven't heard it, I recommend maybe you could look that one up too :)

Beautiful fic! And KUDOS for keeping Soundwave in character.

I aplaude you, Shylight, for putting what I always wanted to happen into words, and beautiful words at that.

I've always thought Soundwave would like some of our music, and you chose a fine example.

When I listened to it, I was chilled to the bone.

A very nice little piece of work. I’m not a huge fan of Soundwave (I think he’s just a little creepy) but I think you got his personality down pat. He could care less about saving the humans, but the music he loves would disappear along with them if the opera house was destroyed.
I particularly like the way you described the music and Soundwave’s reaction to it. And I agree, if there was one type of music that Soundwave would like, it would be Classical.

‘The human known as Mozart was a genius. Absolutely brilliant.
Apparently, the humans had a few redeeming qualities after all.’

My favorite part :D Thanks so much for writing this.


RoseQuartzCasa

If any piece of music could change a Decepticons mind about humans, Mozart's Requiem would be the one. It certainly gets me emotional. :)
~SuperMoose

I liked how you described the requiem when Sounds heard it for the first time.

"Their voices added one by one like raindrops until there voices became a powerful, torrential downpour."

I never heard the song, but this sentence explains a lot!

"Soundwave also understood the language of war but he knew another one as well. He was fluent in the universal language of music."

I can feel his sweet side there... makes me luv the tape deck more. Oh, and also Rumble. How sweet of 'im. ;D

I'm certainly putting this in my favorites.

Beautiful...
Absolutely brilliant.
I can actually see Soundwave enjoying the music of Mozart.
Exquisite.
The indifferent one swayed by the soft strains of violin and the elegance of the human voice.
I found the song, and I can see why it struck such a chord.
Simply divine...

I love Soundwave too. I really enjoyed this fic. The concept--that of Soundwave being won to a new appreciation of humanity by an exposure to one of our greatest musical works--is a dynamite one and you handled it very well here. The contrast between the Lacrymosa and "Bad Touch" could not have been better chosen, and the lines "Soundwave also understood the language of war but he knew another one as well. He was fluent in the universal language of music." were a particularly elegant way of expressing that part of his character. Good job.

Lacrymosa truly is a beautiful song. One of my favourite pieces. I wish I could sum up just what about this I found so fantastic, but alas the English language fails me once more.

Let's just leave it at: That was gorgeous.

Sweet. *loves Soundwave too* I remember a few weeks ago that I was watching opera on one of the channels we get. Also I have a CD of Celtic instrumentals, I think Sonders would like that. ;). Also this fic gave me an idea for a fic that I'm planning. In case you're interested, it's gonna be a SoundwavexOC romance fic. ;).

Gorgeous little ficlet. Right after I read it, I went and downloaded Lacrimosa and listened to it while reading the lyrics.

Very unusual perspective you've written, but I found Soundwave's reaction to be very enlightening. How strange for a Decepticon to have an artist's heart.

We squishies aren't entirely useless, are we, Soundwave? x3

Have you ever listened to 'O Fortuna' of Carmina Burana? I think that would have been another song Soundwave might have liked.

Great story, hope you write more.

-Kuronyo

Beautiful choice of music - lucky mech'd be able to hear all 7 layers too.

Sweet fic. I'd like to think that Soundwave really might do such a thing... as for me, it reminded me of my choir days and the songs we'd sing... *happy sighs*

EXCELLENT! This oneshot is AWESOME. I love every word of this fic.

Indeed, Mozart vas a genious.

And by the way... Latin is a language (yeah, is a dead one, but language in the end), not a dialect n.n.

TAKE CARE!

I read this while listening to "Lacrymosa"... *sniff* that - that was beautiful, man... *sniff*

Soundwave likes classical? Lol. It's always the big tough baddies that like the sophisticated pieces, huh? XD
I loved reading this. Music is pretty nifty. =]