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This is going on my “things to write/draw after my creative block” list, but consider this:
Megatron near the beginning of the war says “fuck it” and kills Starscream, and everyone just kinda thinks ‘Welp, too bad but he had it coming after those assassination attempts’ and move on
A few days later Starscream is standing in the conference room, pissed but not really phased about the dying part. Turns out he’s been dead for a long time, but his ghost keeps repairing and repossessing his corpse. No one’s quite sure when he first died (he keeps lying about it) but considering the whole war thing they got bigger mysteries to solve
This drastically shifts the dynamic, and now Megatron and Starscream have a mutual “I will jump you at a moment’s notice, but it’s okay we’ll be fine” thing going on
The thing with Galvatron was like an official break-up between the two, because this time Megatron left no body for Starscream to try and repair