When exactly the Decepticon Communications Officer first got the compulsion to watch you, he doesn't quite know. All he knows is that at some point it happened, and some time after that it just became routine.

Sending Buzzsaw to make sure you're safe when you go out if he doesn't have time to infiltrate the camera networks around you to look after you himself, making sure the cameras and microphones he set up in your hab-suite are functional, syncing one of his datapads to yours so he can always see what you're up to, and taking every precaution to ensure that nobody else is tracking you have all become perfectly normal parts of Soundwave's day to day life.

It's all for your safety, and while Soundwave doesn't quite understand why he's so fixated on it despite barely interacting with you, it might have something to do with the fact that your smile gives him the same feeling he gets when he knows his cassettes are safe and happy.

To Soundwave, you can light up a room with your mere presence, and keeping you safe is simply the option that makes the most sense, the option that feels right. If Shockwave were here, he'd say it's the most logical option.

While getting to know you in person would be nice someday, for now, Soundwave is content with simply being a bystander, sometimes pulling a few strings to get you to smile that bright smile of yours.

He already knows everything there is to know about you, but he wouldn't mind pretending he doesn't and getting to know you the old-fashioned way.

Soundwave's digit pauses on the mouse of the computer he's working on, turning the volume up on the microphone in your hab-suite and zooming the camera in on your face.

It just feels natural.