i just. i would like a roster of everyone's parallel counterparts. what is parallel starscream doing. what about parallel soundwave. Also NEW ISSUE TOMORROW :D
holy shit, oh my gosh, is that a skin? and if not, which color gives you that effect with the new shiny genes?
@KingStarscream why did you do this to me Okay, SO. I can't draw real people, and I've barely picked up my tablet in months and this all hit me as I was about to go to bed. But when a certain someone suggested kristen stewart as starscream's holoavatar and kesha as rodimus's, was I... supposed to not draw it?? And was I supposed to not ship it? HA, yeah, that wasn't happening. This is way rushed, disclaimer, disclaimer, etc. And yet here we are Spoiler The only other thing I'm going to say is that glittery lipstick for rodimus is extremely important, everyone ought to do the thing, very critical
glitter everything for Rodimus he falls into a vat of glitter, Ultra Magnus hyperventilates for hours
Sad things: I ran out of steam before I could do justice to their hips, so you don't get to see Starscream's lacy booty shorts now :(
like.... GOD????? i don't know what to do with myself this is Entirely Too Much edit: HOLY SHIT THE LITTLE CROWN NECKLACE I DIE
ANYWAYS, this was what I was writing before a certain someone distracted me with holoforms Spoiler: short, sfw EMPURATA PROWL! *grabby hands*
I keep trying and failing to go to sleep (self-sabotage is a gr8 life strategy), but lets have a TRIPLE POST COMBO with some sad, nsfw starscream thoughts Spoiler: nsfw, abuse mention So. Starscream+Megatron+history -> Starscream is hella skittish about vulnerability, etc. BUT. Take it a step further, imagine that our pretty boy has a very delicate, sensitive interface array. Take it a step further, imagine he's very aware of what can be done to someone if you exploit that weakness. And then imagine him not just leery about intimacy, imagine him terrified of letting someone at his array, imagine the paralyzing fear knowing the ways they can hurt him if he gives them that opening, and not even being able to show even a hint of that fear, because whoops, you've just told them what your weak spot is. Bravado will take you a long ways if you have to rely on it, but once you're with someone you care about and badly want to trust, that creeping, inescapable fear must be just that much harder to handle.
A Megatron who, though on the path of redemption thanks to his time on the Lost Light, his introspection, him having to face Terminus again, still thinks of his relationship with Starscream as mutual stress relief.
Spoiler: NSFW implications, abuse-think Sure, he hurt Starscream. More than once. More than he can count, actually. But Starscream wanted it, right? The needling him, the defiance, the flaunting around... Starscream was flirting, winding him up on purpose only to drop him, goading him into a response. War is stressful. He was stressed, that's all. Starscream made him feel better for a few hours. And he... he had to keep a firm hand, okay, but Starscream had to have wanted it. It was a mutual thing. They were good for each other. Starscream kept him on his toes, he kept Starscream alive. All he's got to be sorry for is maybe being a little rough sometimes, but he's sure Starscream understands.
.....well now I need to find an excuse to get Megatron and Starscream in the same room, thanks obama petra (i will write the tfp thing and then i will write the similar-but-different idw thing, i just need to pick a good person to run interference here OuO)
More low-key and less speculative: when you've personally ordered so many absolute atrocities over such a long period of time, and you're starting to unpack that and come to terms with that and come to terms with still being alive and wanting to stay alive but also wanting, hopelessly, hopefully, achingly to make up for what you did somehow, (and being angry, still, at how broken things were, and how broken things are, and how broken things would be if you were never born, and somehow you've got to add 2 + 2 together to get something that doesn't make sense), you're probably going to have trouble recognizing problematic behavior patterns you fell into in individual relationships. One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic. And the scale of processing that and recognizing your own complicit actions in that are probably significantly thrown out of whack.
:'( Though the mental image of Starscream's disembodied human butt wearing lacy booty shorts is now stuck in my brain Windblade walking right up to Megatron and being like, 'Who. The fuck. Do you think you are.'
