I made this post into an extended YouTube video essay
working on starscream’s backstory for To Earth and Back Again, my poor guy 🙏😔 In my fic he used to be the literal Decepticon poster boy and was very idealistic and eager to be involved in the cause, before he and Megatron began to develop their whole situation and Starscream’s life took a turn for the worse
(BUT IT’S OK IT’S GONNA GET BETTER)
Cover for my Transformers fic “The Trials of Optimus Prime”
SUMMARY:
Megatron finds an unfortunate legal loophole that allows him to accuse Optimus Prime of a crime- and soon Optimus is going to court, with Megatron as the prosecutor, Elita-1 as his defense attorney, and Starscream of all people as the judge. Autobots and Decepticons alike go up to the witness stand to tell Cybertron about who Optimus Prime is. Can Optimus prove his innocence? *Should* he? And for Primus' sake, can everyone please STOP embarrassing themselves?
tired: making 'haha mpreg' jokes about the Weird Pregnancy Stuff in mtmte/idw, betraying the fact you think 'robots undergoing objectively insane levels of Weird Pregnancy Body Horror Metaphor despite being literally inorganic' is less worthy of mention than 'and some of them use he/him! freak shit!'
wired: hey so when are we gonna use the existence of functionism as a metaphor for labour and class to discuss that rung being literally built to Make People in a way that the comic presents as frightening and confusing is a way to talk about how we can bring the concept of reproductive labour into the fold eh
I animated Megatron and Starscream from my transformers fan continuity to How the World Works by Bo Burnham
Content warning for Starscream getting beat up
Sorry to contribute to more Starscream suffering in the world, I promise if I ever draw the full au that he’ll get a happy ending
I don't like ES season 2 and 3 but I can't stop thinking about this episode 😔
I LOVE THEMMMM
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FR YES HE’S SO COOL. He needs swords more often
I need to say this. Starscream with swords is criminally underrated.
Like seriously imagine being an Autobot and you saw a seeker with swords diving towards you.
KOBD MERMAIDS AAAAAAAAAH
One day, I tried turning KOBD into merformers! 🪸🫧
Knock Out gathers shiny treasures and keeps them as a collection in his secret cave just like Ariel, and Breakdown enjoys sinking a fishing boat every day! haha
They're living happily, singing a song in the sea 🐬🩷🩵
Does Breakdown live in your au?
No, since a lot of the story is going to revolve around Knockout coming to terms with Breakdown’s death, he doesn’t come back to life and he stays dead. At least that’s how I’ve currently planned it.
That being said, given that I’m writing a backstory for Knockout, I’m writing lots of flashback Breakdown stuff. I’m super excited to explore their past muahaha
Thanks for the ask! :D
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