#startronus

[syntiment]

The yapper and the listener, the famed warrior and his cunning right hand, the powerhouse and the quick strike- I could go on

My crackpot idea is that Megatronus Prime and Starscream were together and I will not elaborate.

[darknanigans]

‼️NOT MEGASTAR‼️

will you earn my loyalty like he did?

who am i kidding.

textless alts ^^

[transingthoseformers]

Imagine startronus with Megatronus going through a heat/rut that he's DESPERATELY trying to hide and work through, because There's More Important Things To Deal With™...

[quibbs126]

I’ve seen some people suggest the idea of TF One Starscream and Megatronus Prime having been a couple, and while I’m not entirely sure whether I ship it (the potential skystar here has a grip on me), I will say the sheer comedy of the situation makes me strongly consider it

Like I just love imagining Megatron’s reaction to this information being this

He is mortified and really doesn’t want to believe it’s true

But also in some seriousness, I do like the idea with how it relates to Megatron. I remember some months ago someone having a ficlet on here with this ship, where basically Starscream feels like he has to be responsible for and protect Megatron because he failed Megatronus, and because he sees Megatron sort of like a son they never had (or at least I think, it’s been a while since I read it and I don’t know how to find it again), and I like that idea. It’s interesting and also works with the concept that this Starscream is significantly older than Megatron

[lasagnaisoverrated]

I have this itch in my brain and only tf one starscream and Megatron can scratch it.

You know what that means…MINIFIC TIME!!

Starscream was in the high guard for his whole life, he grew up as a soilder. It was his destiny so when he became leader of the high guard, he also became well known with the primes, especially Megatronus, he and Megatronus had a close relationship, to others it seemed like starscream was just acting like a very loyal body guard but in reality their relationship was more intimate. They truly wished they could’ve been something together but him being a simple guard and the other a Prime, it just couldn’t be. Starscream was there when the Primes fell and saw the death of the one he called conjux (in private) he saw sentinel take his tcog he saw the betrayal and the slaving of his planet. After seeing D take out sentinel and naming himself after Megatronus he lost all his grudges against him and accepted him as leader. Yet soon after they fully accepted the label of decepticons he found himself growing attached to the young leader.

He never took his sights off him, never allowing him to go on solo missions, he was turning into soundwave by how much he was surveilling him. Not once did he allow Megatron to be on his own, he was second so of course he always had to be with the leader. But he knew that wasn’t the reason he was getting attached to young mech. Training him turned into one of his jobs, teaching him how to control the troops as well. While also being a support system, he was there whenever Megatron had a mental breakdown or simply needed a shoulder to lean on. He turned into a father of sorts for the mech, he would chastise him when he was reckless and gave him advice when needed. This didn’t mean that they wouldn’t argue but starscream enjoyed their time together. Even if sometimes he would accidentally call him Megatronus from time to time. From time to time he would see pieces of Megatronus in Megatron, he also enjoyed the shine that brightened his optics whenever he would accidentally be called Megatronus, the young bot admired the Prime so much. He would often tell stories about the great Prime to him and would see his optics light up at the stories of great battles and great defeats, and of course the occasional funny story to lighten up both their moods.

He couldn’t save Megatronus, but he won’t fails with Megatron.

(I feel like they had a pearl x rose from SU relationship and Megatron and Star would have a Steven and Pearl relationship but this was mostly just a silly little thing I came up with don’t take it too seriously)

[daddymus-mamatron]

[kulalanti]

Just some more Shattered Glass TF:One thoughts because... well that's all I talk about anyway lmao.

I honestly like the dynamic of SG!Starscream and SG!Megatron being like mentor-mentee or even sorta fatherly (though there is something crazy about describing any Starscream as fatherly sksksk). I don't know with TF:One's Starscream being older than Megatron, I just think this would be an interesting dynamic. I could go on about how this would work in actual TF:One but this is about SG for now skksks

I am of the slightly controversial (not really I just think it's funny that it differs from most SG TFOne AUs) idea that Starscream actually remains the leader of the Decepticons/High Guard for at least a good while since there's really no reason for Megatron to take over here unlike in canon. Plus, I like to think SG!Starscream is a good leader of the High Guard and actually cares for every mech's wellbeing.

And while I know logically speaking it makes more sense for either Soundwave or Shockwave to be Megatron's like confidant/therapist after the events of TF:One, I like the idea that Starscream takes Megatron under his wings (heh) and Megatron is close to him. Like he tells him about how much he misses SG!OP and Starscream does his best to help him move on.

I think this concept for my SG TF:One AU mostly comes from me taking inspiration from the SG FunPub in which Megatron has a flight frame - which he also has in my SG TF:One AU and the fact that for TF:One my crack ship is Starscream x Megatronus Prime (HAHAHA, I don't care if it's crack, it is angsty to me okay). And just the thought of Starscream seeing a bit of Megatronus Prime in D-16 hurts me.

And since in my SG TF:One AU the Thirteen Primes weren't exactly good mechs, Starscream is doing everything he can to just help D-16 with Optimus since like he knows what it's like to receive affection from a Prime and it's never really a great thing. Like him just sorta playing therapist to D-16 and trying to encourage him to move on from OP.

I don't know, I'm rambling but yes I like a mentor/parent Starscream to D-16 dynamic for TF:One/SG TF:One. It's definitely something I'll be using in my fanfics because I just like the concept so much, plus it's hilarious if I use it for any TF:One fanfics of mine considering... canon. Though it will remain slightly happier in SG TF:One because Starscream genuinely cares and so does D-16/Megatron lmao.

But yeah... I shall end my ramblings here sksksk

[primus-why]

Okay real quick-- AU where Starscream, leader of the High Guard, had an ongoing Thing with Megatronus.

I wouldn't go so far as to say they were conjux or even amica, but think like a situationship. They care about each other, are often intimate, but not labelled or even necessarily long-term.

Then Megatronus dies and Starscream finds himself left alone at the top to lead the HG, doing what he can to emulate that strength that held them all together.

Fast forward to TFO, some young upstart comes in and... changes everything. Starscream bows to his strength, but is silently bitter. Not just from being displaced, but because this newbuild takes His name...

He can't help but to slowly come to hate this effigy of the great Megatronus Prime.

[goodboyseeker]

i wrote my first ever fanfic! it’s a starscream/megatronus fic that takes place right before sentinel’s betrayal and the death of the primes! i’m super proud of it and hope that ya’ll check it out :) thanks!!

[no-hhamani]

HEAR ME OUT-

DO YOU EVER THINK STARSCREAM SAW SOMETHING IN D-16 SO SIMILAR TO MEGATRONUS?

I just cant get enough of imagining TF One Starscream being a mentor to D-16, because one, D-16 looks up to Megatronus Prime and two, (headcanon and maybe ship(?) alert) Starscream misses Megatronus Prime bc he is his bff or conjunx and he actually believes and admires the Prime's morals and strength

What if- When Starscream found D-16 in the surface, the little bot did something that made him think of the fallen Prime. And overtime, they get closer because of their admiration over Megatronus and Star saved his life or its the other way around LOL!

And in an angsty distant future, (inspo from the IDW plot). Megatron looses sight of what they were supposed to fight for (the cause) and Starscream tries to stop his mentee but he became tired of using words and then he became physical. Ofcourse this causes a rift between them, Starscream taught everything to D-16 and look where that got him.

Megatron became the exact opposite of Megatronus.

this was just what i was thinkn this whole time when d-16 became leader of the highguard

likhruerf lil lad became leader overnight

[syntiment]

I am starving, is there any startronus art to be had?

He doesn't like when they have to be apart but especially not in the war.

[transingthoseformers]

Megatron (after reading a suspiciously large amount of Megatronus Prime x High Guard!Reader fanfiction as D-16) side eyeing Starscream (who 100% had a relationship with Megatronus Prime that wasn't as secret as he thought it was)

[robohyena]

while I’m on the kissing meme thing, fine. I’ll repost this.

Probably will be making a StarTronus one of these memes because low effort bullshit is about all I can muster these days

[daddymus-mamatron]

Started some StarTronus because brain rot is real

Starscream fell to his knees, lubricant spilling from his optics. The glittering purple plating he knew all too well and had cherished was now a dull grey. The chest panels had been ripped open and the t-cog was missing. A trembling servo reached out to trace the outline of his Prime's mask.

"Sentinel will pay, I swear it on my spark."

[kulalanti]

Okay because I mentioned Startronus in my last post, I will now talk about them more + Starscream seeing Megatronus in D-16 skskks

So for like both SG and normal TF:One, we know Starscream is the Commander of the High Guard. I'd like to think that meant he had to interact the most with Megatronus since I'm sure Megatronus was in-charge of like Iacon's defense/military. So they definitely spent a lot of time coming up with strategies and even sparring together (I know D-16 handed Starscream's aft to him in the movie but I do think Starscream was pretty strong - at least in his prime (heh) - cause like you have to Commander for a reason lmao). I also imagine that since they worked so close together, Starscream and Megatronus probably shared some long talks together. The High Guard were clearly very loyal to the Primes and just the idea of Starscream having a personal pain too because he lost Megatronus due to Sentinel's scheming just makes me SKSKSKKS and oh my god the thought of him being so disgusted that Sentinel took Megatronus' cog and maybe at the end, Megatron takes the High Guard to the Primes' resting place and Starscream can finally say goodbye to Megatronus (HUHUHUHU)

Now this is where I diverge cause my SG TF:One takes a different direction from TF:One lmao.

So starting with TF:One though, Starscream sees Megatronus' strength in D-16 (for very obvious reasons lmao). Him deciding that as Second in Command, while he still does want his old position as leader back, he will do what he can to train Megatron so that he doesn't fall like Megatronus. He doesn't want to see a mech, especially one so similar to Megatronus, fall again. So while he acts as a mentor, he def is harsher to him here (which is fair cause Megatron is also an asshole to him) because whenever Megatron fails - he just gets reminded that while Megatron has Megatronus' strength, he is nothing but a pale comparison to the mech he once respected so highly. He wants Megatron to live up to Megatronus' name.

For SG, I like to think of their dynamic as a friendlier one in comparison. Cause in my SG TF:One AU, the Primes aren’t all that good but they’re not all that bad either. They were warmongers but they had their kind moments. Starscream does remember Megatronus fondly (though he’s aware that Megatronus’ affections for him were possessive, mostly cause I think the Primes - who are essentially demigods and not normal Cybertronians - would probably have a warped sense of love). He sees Megatronus’ kindness in D-16 and wants to protect that kindness. Which is also why I like to think of SG Starscream being very protective of Megatron. Like he does know that Megatron is strong and capable of fighting, but he worries so much for him (especially since there’s like Optimus Prime who is still very hungover about D-16 and Starscream of all mechs knows what it’s like to be the receiver of a Prime’s love).

But yeah, that’s it sksksk

[quill-firefly]

The Sight of Stars Through a Gilded Cage (SG TFOne AU Fanfic)

I have finished all the training to secure my job so I am officially employed now, yippee.

I am very tired skskks I am writing this after an entire day of job training, which isn't good cause my brain is very tired and words are hard. But I wanted to write something that will make me at least a little happy (as a treat for the long exhausting day).

To help in reading, essentially there's three sections. First section is the present, second section is the past, and third section is like really far back in the past. So it's chronologically backwards.

Anyway, as can be apparent from most of my Shattered Glass fics which feature Starscream, I am a father/mentor-figure Starscream truther (at least for TFOne and thank you storyboards for feeding that agenda hahaha). On Tumblr, since I did receive two new writing requests about platonic yanderes, I'm writing this fic as a sort of indulgence for myself and to help practice writing platonic yanderes (cause different vibes from romantic yanderes). Now, why did I write this in the Shattered Glass AU instead of just the normal universe? Because I like making SG!Megatron suffer (this is what happens to my favorite characters lmao). Also I need to practice in writing SG!Starscream because I prefer to have my SG TFOne AU keep some semblance of their canonical personality and I feel I might be leaning too much into the SG comics for inspiration instead of the TFOne characters themselves.

Also, it's not that important but I do ship Starscream and Megatronus Prime now (even though they never interact in the movie because one of them is dead HAHAHA) because I don't know I feel like those two probably worked closely together before Megatronus Prime died (and because there's no Skyfire in TFOne so I can't go to my automatic ship HAHAHA). I only point this out cause it's in the tags, and also Starscream can't help but see Megatronus Prime in Dee (mostly because I keep seeing those silly posts on Tumblr where people joke Dee is Megatronus Prime's secret love child and it makes me laugh at the thought - and it isn't helped that my SG!Megatron could fly and technically modelled his transformation cog after Starscream's… so ya know the accidental implication I have made is funny). Also also, I saw a Tumblr post (WHICH I LOST DAMNIT BUT GOD WHOEVER POSTED THAT COOKED) where like they compared Startronus as Rose x Pearl and Megatron as Steven and it was so good skskksksk

Also this is somewhat related to "The Prime from Another Universe" but not really, I'm just using the same concept of Dee wanting to leave Cybertron and just travel the stars - but here he's guilt-tripped into staying.

TW: Platonic Yandere Stuff

When you are banished from the only home you’ve ever known, where do you go?

Dee thought he had a home.

Pax had been his home.

Then he met Prime, and Dee realized he never had a home. 

He had carved a place for himself inside Pax’s spark and called it home, but to the other mech, Dee would never have been enough. He had wanted more, not that Dee could resent him for it now. It was for the best that they parted.

Pax could have his dream, and Dee could have his.

Yet even now, the stars continue to slip through his digits.

Was it the moral core in his processor that grounded him, or the golden cage he’d willingly chosen to enter?

Now… Dee thought that wasn’t fair.

After he had fruitlessly battled Pax to save a mech Dee didn’t think deserved to live anyway, Starscream had generously taken him in knowing that the rough terrain of the surface would have eventually killed him.

Dee was not a survivor. Never had been.

He had followed Sentinel’s words without doubt. He kept his helm low, and never questioned the system they had been placed within.

Pax was the survivor.

That’s why Primus chose him.

And it’s why Pax would never have stayed with Dee. He would have never settled for a life he thought he didn’t deserve.

Even with the rule of a new Prime, there was nothing stopping Dee from leaving. The Quintessons had been defeated. All that remained was Optimus Prime and the tyranny he posed.

He couldn’t leave though.

He owed too much to the High Guard to abandon them.

He owed it to Starscream. After everything, he owed it to him the most…

Besides, he already asked Starscream once.

He tried to ask.

Once.

—

Starscream couldn’t help but keep both his optics on his new responsibility.

Starscream had been older than Dee when he had first applied to the High Guard. It had been a decision he had made, and a choice he would never regret. He had chosen to fight for the planet he loved.

A war was no place for a mech so young.

When Starscream could force his anger down, even he felt sorry for the new Prime. Ambitious as Orion Pax may have been, Starscream knew the young mech was not ready for the responsibility of being a Prime and the Matrix-holder.

The Thirteen Primes had been vastly older and Starscream had to deal with their tantrums.

Well not all of them.

Megatronus had been…

He had been wonderful.

The kindest and strongest mech he had ever known. A true warrior of both the body and the spark. Starscream would have laid down his life for his Prime if Megatronus had ever allowed him to.

How many lunar cycles did they spend together? Megatronus Prime would always whisper to him - as though it was their secret - that he wished his fellow Primes were not so wrathful and so power hungry.

Starscream missed him—

“Starscream?”

He shook his helm, forcing a scowl to his faceplate as he turned to the younger mech. They were both in the medical bay, and if Dee hadn’t been the medic assigned during this particular joor, Starscream might have put up more of a fight. He never did like being grounded. Also, it didn’t help that the only other medic around was Shockwave who would have fussed over Starscream as if he was a sparkling and not the Commander of the High Guard.

“What? I told you and those pain-in-the-aft trine brothers of mine that the scratches in my wings did not need repairs!” It had been nothing more than a scuffle between him and one of the Prime’s scouts. Really, Thundercracker and Skywarp had given him more pain by dragging him to the medical bay. “This is a waste of medical resources—”

“...That wasn’t what I was going to say.” Dee muttered, the words low in his vocoder that Starscream’s audials nearly missed it.

“Is your shift over? If it is then let me out, I don’t want to deal with Shockwave.” He rolled his optics. Shockwave’s high empathy was the reason why Starscream made him medic… but Primus knows that the other mech meddled too much.

“That wasn’t what I was going to say but… Starscream, as the leader of the High Guard, I don’t think it’s a waste to use our medical resources on you.” The younger mech’s blue optics met his own, a hardness in his eyes. “When I was a miner, medical supplies were abundant but it would cost us our energon rations if we were to be sent to the medical bay. I know you want to keep the High Guard functioning by conserving resources, but I don’t think depriving anyone of medical assistance will help. Especially if you deprive yourself, Commander.”

“Is that anyway to talk to your superior officer?” A growl tore through his vocoder, though both mechs knew it held no threat. 

He held too much of a softspark for his new responsibility.

“Starscream, you deserve to live for yourself too.”

‘You shouldn’t throw your life away for mine.’

Starscream nearly fell off the medical berth. He placed a servo to his helm, surprised to hear the voice of a mech long dead. Slowly, he turned his optics to a startled Dee, who watched him with a concerned gaze.

He hated that this wasn’t the first time Megatronus Prime’s ghost had come to haunt him.

He had spent fifty cycles trying to forget what he had lost, and yet all of that effort was thrown away the moment this… this…

Starscream hated how the young mech reminded him too much of Megatronus.

Maybe it was the stupid helm shape. 

But mostly it was the personality, and that they both had wanted a world where they could live in peace.

What Starscream hated the most was that he had allowed Dee to study his transformation cog, because now—

“Starscream?”

His processor halted in its thoughts, and Starscream remembered himself. He focused all his attention back on the younger mech - whose blue optics had lowered, as though the ground was suddenly interesting.

“What?” He couldn’t stop the irritation from seeping into his voice, though they both knew it was never real.

“Now that the war with the Quintessons is over… and if only because of you that I have the ability to transform and fly… I wanted…” The young mech finally met his optics, and a sense of dread made the spark in his chassis grow cold. “Forgive me, but I wish to leave Cybertron—”

“Have you lost your processor?!” His voice went shrill and before he knew it, his servos were gripping onto the younger mech’s shoulder pads, the metal creaking underneath his strength. “The Quintessons may not be attacking the surface of Cybertron, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t waiting in orbit!”

“You heard the decree they sent out. They won’t be coming back. Not after everything that Prime did.” Dee shuddered in his hold, though Starscream truly couldn’t tell if it was fear of the horrors they had witnessed the new Prime commit or if he was… scared of Starscream himself.

He loosened his grip, guilt already gnawing at his spark.

“We don’t know that.”

But Starscream did.

The death of the Thirteen Primes had incentivized the Quintessons into staying and forcing Sentinel into serving them. But with the return of a new Prime, one somehow worse than all thirteen combined, the Quintessons wouldn’t dare to come back. 

After all, they only forced Sentinel into serving their needs as penance for what the Thirteen Primes had done to them.

The Quintessons had never started the war, they weren’t about to stay for another one.

“Listen to me.” Starscream took his servos off of Dee’s shoulder, though he wanted nothing more to keep the younger mech close. “The Quintessons may have left, but they may still be lurking in Cybertronian airspace. You cannot leave Cybertron.”

“Starscream, with all due respect, I don’t believe that and I know you don’t either.”

At that comment, Starscream can’t help but sympathize with Prime. It was wrong, but Starscream did miss when the younger mech had been more agreeable and willing to go along with his words.

The confrontation with Sentinel had taught the young mech to be doubtful.

And that was good!

Starscream just… wished the younger didn’t show the same scrutiny towards his own authority.

“You want me to tell the truth? Then I will.” Starscream stood up from the medical berth, approaching the younger mech who held his ground.

There was no fear in Dee’s eyes, and Starscream was grateful for that. 

Even now, there was still some trust.

“The High Guard cannot afford to lose more mechs.”

Blue optics widened, surprise meeting the coldness that Starscream forced into his gaze.

Right now, he couldn’t be Dee’s friend.

He couldn’t even be a mentor.

Right now, if he wanted to ensure the younger mech stayed, then he needed to be a Commander.

“We have had our losses during our battle with the Quintessons, and while some Iaconians have defected to our side, we cannot afford to lose anymore.” He could feel guilt at using his dead comrades as his excuse, but Starscream could not let Dee leave. “You’re one of two medics right now. While we have new ones in training, we cannot lose you. Remember what it was like back when you were a miner, imagine what would have happened if they didn’t have a medic that could attend to you?”

It was a low blow, and from the horror in the younger mech’s optics, Starscream knew the question he had posed was not a hypothetical.

He let out a soft vent, reaching out to place a servo on the younger mech.

“The High Guard needs you.”

His grip tightened.

Megatronus would hate him for this.

But what had Dee said?

‘You deserve to live for yourself too.’

He had lost Megatronus cycles ago.

He was not about to lose his new ward too.

Starscream didn’t miss the flash of fear in Dee’s blue optics.

“I’ll stay.”

—

Optimus didn’t know loss until he had lost Dee.

That’s why when he had learned the bitterness of that feeling did he only recognize the look in that pathetic High Guard leader’s optics.

Loss.

Optimus knew the mech’s story.

The Thirteen Primes rarely kept records of their personal thoughts, but Optimus had been lucky enough to find one of Megatronus’ in the archives. Probably the only Prime who had the time since he was the weakest out of all of them.

There was a lot of information about that High Guard Commander in those records.

Perhaps, a bit too much.

The realization of the similar loss they both shared had only come when Optimus had accidentally come across Starscream and Dee on the surface.

He would usually send scouts, but Optimus had wanted to find the High Guard base for himself.

Optimus had hidden himself before the two mechs could spot him.

His spark had ached at the sight of Dee, but mostly he was confused because Dee looked different.

He wasn’t cogless for a start.

Optimus didn’t even have the time to wonder how that had happened - though his processor fleetingly recalled a conversation they had about replicating transformation technology - before his attention had been pulled towards Starscream.

Each time Dee’s optics would wander away from Starscream, the older mech would look at him with such affection that Optimus wanted to tear his helm from his frame.

But no, it was a different kind of affection.

It was one he had never really known. Cogless bots had grown up in the cold and dark of the mines, but Optimus recognized this affection from other mechs that had had the privilege of not being cogless.

It was the affection of a sire for their sparkling.

…He needed to save Dee.