Some Starscream Warmup Sketches

My brain thought of Skystar angst.

Essentially the idea would be, Skyfire and Starscream get separated by the polar windstorm while they’re on Earth, Starscream goes searching for Skyfire and actually finds him!

Hooray! Right?

No.

Because Skyfire is already trapped in the ice by the time Starscream finds him, and instead of leaving the planet to get help, Starscream begins trying to claw Skyfire out of the ice by himself. The reason he doesn’t go get help is that he’s noticing that he can’t read Skyfire’s signal in the ice and is afraid if he leaves, he won’t remember where Skyfire’s buried. So he starts using his clawed servos and his thrusters to claw Skyfire out.

Unfortunately, that much strenuous activity with no ample source of energon is severely draining, and the cold is starting to really affect Starscream… he gets weaker and more tired. He eventually just gets so tired that his body shuts down and he tiredly mutters “Soon as I wake up Sky… I’ll get you out of there.”

Starscream never wakes up.

Now cut to millions of years later and the Autobots and Decepticons are on Earth and going through the events of “Fire in the Sky” only this time, Rumble’s little ‘cave-in’ not only reveals Skyfire, but also the frozen and greyed remains of of a seeker frame. The seeker corpse is left there to remain frozen in place, Megatron sees no use in him since he’s dead, he is however interested in Skyfire’s preserved body and thus they dig him out and shock his body back into the waking world.

I’d see Skywarp and Thundercracker not knowing who Skyfire was but they were brothers with Starscream and didn’t know where he was.. that is until they hear Skyfire calling out for Starscream and realized the seeker body that was found curled up and frozen near Skyfire was Starscream’s. The two seekers are in shambles after that and as Skyfire awakens, he is confused by the sight of all these strange new faces, he tries asking where Starscream is but Megatron stops him and tells him that it’s been millions of years since he was last awake, they saved his life from the ice and now Skyfire owes the Decepticon cause his life.

The events of the episode would follow but rather than Starscream’s betrayal to Skyfire, Thundercracker or Skywarp are the ones to shoot him because they ‘can’t believe someone so weak and softsparked would have outlived their brother.’

The Autobots save Skyfire from dying and while the Autobots and Decepticons do their usual battle, Skyfire is able to come across the spot he was excavated from and see the corpse of the one he loved so much, he’s overcome with grief and is left holding the greyed remains of his sparkmate before helping the Autobots defeat the Decepticons, and instead of Skyfire going back into the ice this time, he goes to warmer climates with the Autobots and lays Starscream in a beautiful meadow where the red flowers and grass can grow over him and lay him to rest in a beautiful and undisturbed location.

These are the cutest things!!!!

I'm learning to draw with gouache.

🎨🐤🖌️

Учусь рисовать гуашью.

I’m actively refusing to let my back pain stop me from drawing my versions of the seekers.

Chapters: 3/14 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave & Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave/Starscream (Transformers) Characters: Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave (Transformers), Jetfire | Skyfire (Transformers), Predacons (Transformers), Sky Lynx (Transformers), Darksteel (Transformers) Additional Tags: Flashbacks, Character Death, Post-War, starscream is tired, Skywarp - Freeform, Thundercracker - Freeform, Enemies to Friends, Maybe Lovers, POV Third Person, Grief/Mourning, Starscream cries in this, Parent Starscream (Transformers), Not Beta Read, We die like Jetfire, TFP lore tweaks, Author went insane Summary:

After a challenge was set between Shockwave and Starscream, the seeker gets lost in his memories tied to the day he lost his dear partner Skyfire.

Shockwave finishes Starscream's frame in the meantime, only to find out that the Seeker finished his task as well, questions will be asked and Shockwave will learn of a previously hidden side of Starscream.

[THIS FIC IS FINISHED AND WILL DO WEEKLY CHAPTER UPDATES]

Chapters: 1/14 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave & Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave/Starscream (Transformers) Characters: Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave (Transformers), Jetfire | Skyfire (Transformers), Predacons (Transformers), Sky Lynx (Transformers), Darksteel (Transformers) Additional Tags: Flashbacks, Character Death, Post-War, starscream is tired, Skywarp - Freeform, Thundercracker - Freeform, Enemies to Friends, Maybe Lovers, POV Third Person, Grief/Mourning, Starscream cries in this, Parent Starscream (Transformers), Not Beta Read, We die like Jetfire, TFP lore tweaks, Author went insane Summary:

The war is over, Megatron has been slain at the hands of the Autobots. Shockwave had managed to pull Starscream away just before he jumped in to recklessly avenge his master.

The war is over now... At least to Starscream, now he has a few plans of his own once he calms down from the loss of Megatron: To regain his old frame, and to return to Earth and pick up someone left behind. As he does this plan, he will have the old memories he'd long since buried, resurface while he gains new bonds with an enemy and two others.

[THIS FIC IS FINISHED AND WILL DO WEEKLY CHAPTER UPDATES]

I don’t know why but imagine if Starscream and the ‘Cons do still end up finding Skyfire, but unfortunately, once he’s out of the ice, Skyfire just kinda remains dead. Starscream sees his friend after so long, after to realize that, yeah, he’s dead and there’s nothing you can do about it.