#Platonic windscream

[catnerdenby]

Starscream

Dragonfly Starscream!

Gosh, you have no idea how much I love this little bugger! He's just very prescious to me! It's the first one I made a design for, but the stuff here even isn't his first design! Its "beta" was more like his TFA counterpart, but that was before I researched actual Dragonflies.

Anyways, this idiot here is most similar to Armada Starscream, but like. Very young. Slightly older than my Bumblebee, but one of the youngest Cybertronians out there.

He's intelligent and cunning, but also has a compassionate side to him not yet ruined by war, despsite being born into it. Or rather, made into.

This Starscream, is unlike any Starscream from animated shows. He isn't the only Starscream to ever exist in that universe, however he is the only Starscream still alive.

What am I on about? Why, so glad you asked! My boy is a clone! The original was killed quite in the beginning of the war, but the Decepticons had his CNA, so when Megatron deemed the time right, she cloned the mech. But in order to not get the traitor that the OG had been, he had decided to raise the clone from sparklinghood.

Megatron and Starscream have by no means a parent-child relationship, no. Megatron barely took part in raising him. It was mostly whoever was free at that moment, that had been tasked with guarding and teaching him.

The SIC during Starscream's sparklinghood was a mech called Barricade. When Starscream came of age, Barricade mysteriously went missing, and Megatron gave the role of the second in command to Starscream, as the latter had proven himself to be not only intelligent, but also an adept fighter, and someone easily manipulatable in hopes of earning praise.

Not soon after, both the Nemesis and the Ark crash-landed on Earth, where they remained inactive for a thousand years or so. The Nemesis had crashed to the bottom of the ocean near Australia, while the Ark had found it's place not far that much farther in the Great Australian desert.

There, Starscream finally got to prove his worth as a Second in Command. Which in Megatron's mind really wasn't that much.

The Decepticons were beaten, and had to return to the Nemesis, which was semi-fixed, and driven away. Only for the ship to crash again into a beach cave in Great Brittany.

There Starscream found his alt-mode as he and his seekers were scoping their surroundings. The emperor dragonfly.

The many lenses of the dragonfly's eyes work when he closes his main two optics, so he sees almost everywhere around him, just not as well as his main ones. They also aren't that good in his alt-mode, but clearer than the eyesight of most others.

At one point, after many punishments and suffering through public humiliation, Starscream begins to doubt Megatron, so he goes away to cool off.

There he comes across Windblade, who despsite their better judgement decides to still help Starscream, who hit his head pretty hard.

They find companionship in each other and begin meeting up in secret. But with Starscream's luck, it's no wonder that Megatron soon finds out about this.

Windblade asks Starscream to join the Autobots, but Starscream refuses, not yet ready for that. Windblade understands and they part ways once more.

He is confronted by Megatron, who gives him one last beating, tearing his wings in the process, and seriously injurying him. He is left behind to die.

To his luck, he is found by the Autobots, still barely functioning, and taken in for medical care. The Autobots manage to fix him, except his wings, which are made of a material that is only found on Cybertron, and even there it's rare.

Luckily, he can still fly, just not as well. Occasionally he gets flied around by Windblade, which always gives him great joy.

He joins the Autobots, and while most still don't trust him, especially Bumblebee, who for some reason hates him with a burning passion, Prowl, and Ironhide, who might hate him even more.

His existence is turned upside-down when a mech called Skyfire is thawed out of the ice. They seem to recognize Starscream, who does not recognize him.

Skyfire says that they used to be partners, that they went to the Crystal City Academy Of Sciences together. But Starscream has no idea what the bigger mech is talking about, as his entire life had been on the Nemesus until a few months ago.

Thus is revealed Windblade's long time suspicion; Starscream is a clone. Prowl and Ironhide begin warming up to him after that, which greatly confuses the young seeker. Bumblebee becomes meaner than before.

And that's about how much I have of him at the moment. I love him a lot :3

Like his OG version, he is also very curious and inquisitive, and unlike most other Decepticons, actually excited to learn about Earth.

Throughout his life he had a hobby of photography, and he also has a collection of space rocks from meteors or Decepticons have given him.

With the Autobots, he also becomes interested in aqoustic guitar and joins the Autobot band, to the great displeasure of Bumblebee, who plays the violin.

[artsy-hobbitses]

So if the TTB couples had a theme song to them, what would be their song? Ex: beauty and the beast : WindScream

MiragexHound: Tell Him/Something About The Way You Look Tonight (These bitches GRANDIOSE about their feelings)

Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet I'll hold him close to feel his heart beat Love will be the gift you give yourself

SideswipexStrongarm: I think I’m in love/Hooked on Feeling (These bitches engaging in TSUNTSUN TO DEREDERE COMBAT)

I keep on frontin' Yeah, I stay bluffin' I keep you wondering Keep you hunting for my lovin' But I crave us hugging Yeah, I stay stubborn 'Cause I can't admit that you got all the strings And know just how tug 'em

WindScream: Carry Your Throne/ You Raise Me Up (VERY SPECIFICALLY the Lena Park version for that one Romeo/Juliet anime opening for voice AND narrative purposes)

They try to break inside the walls with These lies but I'm pulling up the draw bridge We rose this love from the dirt now Set fire to the sky watch it burn down It's a ceremony but the crowd's gone And you got nothing but my crown on If you're lost in this darkness I'll carry your throne No, I won't let it swallow you whole

RavagexLaserbeak: Head Over Feet/I’ll Be (These bitches DOMESTIC DORKS)

You're the best listener that I've ever met You're my best friend Best friend with benefits What took me so long? I've never felt this healthy before I've never wanted something rational I am aware now I am aware now

Dratchet: Writing’s on the wall/Love is all (These bitches ANGSTY)

I'm prepared for this I never shoot to miss But I feel like a storm is coming If I'm gonna make it through the day Then there's no more use in running This is something I got to face If I risk it all Could you break my fall? How do I live? How do I breathe? When you're not here, I'm suffocating I want to feel love run through my blood Tell me, is this where I give it all up? For you, I have to risk it all 'Cause the writing's on the wall

MegxOP: Someday out of the blue/A Million Dreams (Can these bitches pine any harder?)

I still believe I still put faith in us We had it all And watched it slip away Where are we now? Not where we want to be Those hot afternoons Still follow me

ProwlxJazz (QPP): Iris (No notes, Prowl baby ur an angle)

And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am

Overarching theme: L’envie d’Aimer (Because love--romantic, platonic, familial, community, all its forms--is what ties everyone together and saves everyone/the world in the end)

[autobots-and-their-crazy-kids]

Broke: Windscream, where Windblade makes Starscream a better person... 

Woke: Windscream, where Starscream makes Windblade an evil person and she loves it!  

Bespoke: Windscream, where it’s platonic and they both become better people together! 

[zenniet]

Couldn't find your rules, if its not to much trouble, could you reblog them? Thanks

Well my rules are kind all over the place rip, if u can't get them in /tagged/rules then here the gist of it

- No snuff or hard vore or anything with implied or referenced death

-No angst

-No incest/underage stuff

-No bathroom kinks (negotiable)

-Preferably no platonic requests, this is a valveplug blog

-I don't really write for overlord, getaway, or the djd just because I don't rly know them that well? You can stuff request them but don't get your hopes up lmao

-No megastar or windscream

If you're not sure about what you've got in mind, feel free to message me and I can clarify!

[brandxspandex]

I’m not going to insist that Windblade had any sort of strong positive emotional attachment to Starscream in canon. I think that if one wants to read their relationship that way there are moments towards the end of the series that can be used as the basis of such an interpretation, but I’m not going to claim that she was explicitly fond of him in canon. In terms of how I personally like to interpret their relationship, I see Starscream as having developed one-sided feelings for her in canon, with Windblade having very ambivalent feelings for him by the end. Again, this is my personal preferred interpretation, not what I think is explicitly canon. The reciprocal windscream I write either involves Windblade’s ambivalent feelings morphing into romantic feelings post-canon, or takes place in AUs.

As a newcomer I don’t think Windblade should have necessarily known that Starscream would be a bit of a dick because he was a Decepticon, and anyway, he wasn’t a bit of a dick, he was a lot of a dick. The other Autobots and Decepticons who also lived through the war, many of whom managed to treat her with the civility that Starscream didn’t, made it clear to her that they thought Starscream was notably worse than your average Decepticon, so Windblade wasn’t going to write his supreme dickishness off as “ah he’s a Decepticon, what can you expect?”

I’m not sure what you mean when you say that Windblade never put any actual effort into helping Starscream when the first issue of her miniseries was all about her stressing out because she was doing everything she could to help him while he just mistrusted and threatened her in return. She then goes on to save his life on at least three separate occasions, putting herself in mortal peril in at least one of those instances. I dunno about you but I’d call that pretty damn helpful. She also explicitly said that she wanted to help him more, but he refused to trust her enough to receive that help, and she wasn’t sure how to work through that because as you said, she wasn’t his therapist.

Helping Starscream was never her main priority or primary responsibility anyway; she wanted to help Cybertron, the colonies, and people in general. She tried to help Starscream mainly because it seemed like what was best for Cybertron at the time, and because she’s a compassionate person who’s compelled to help others. But she didn’t put 100% of her effort into helping Starscream because that was never her job, and her efforts were focused elsewhere. If Windblade had managed to focus on helping Cybertron while also doing everything she could to help Starscream through his countless psychological and emotional problems without losing her patience and letting him get to her then I think she would have been very unrelatable and the accusations of her being a Mary Sue would be accurate.

And yeah, Windblade does what she thinks is right rather than what is right because like the rest of us she doesn’t have a direct connection to a higher Platonic realm of absolute moral truths. But I don’t think it’s accurate to say that she doesn’t explore other options or learn; her first miniseries is about her coming to the revelation that she wants to help everybody rather than take any particular side. She spends her entire character arc toeing the line of what is morally acceptable to her because she constantly explores more dramatic and morally ambiguous options. She develops from a character who starts off having doubts about the norms of her society but who otherwise accepts the status quo, to someone who openly challenges the most powerful and respected figure of her society.

She most definitely bothers to try to learn about Cybertron, the war, and Starscream; in her first mini she goes out of her way to try and get an unbiased opinion of Starscream from the people who fought on his side. The opinions she gets leads her to an incorrect conclusion, but that doesn’t counter the fact that she tried. Then when was she was running in the elections her whole thing was listening to her constituents one-on-one to try and understand their perspectives to better represent and do right by them. She spends her entire character arc struggling to help Cybertron while also doing what’s right; I don’t understand how this can be interpreted as her not putting in work.

[puppidoodle-blog]

For the ship meme! :3 Windscream >u>

The ship is my: LIFE. MY O!T!P!. BOI U KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS SHIP IS TO ME

I consider this ship’s feelings: Mutual | Mixed | Strange | Awkward | Platonic | Sibling-like | One-sided | They don’t really like each other |

I’d consider the relationship: Healthy | Awkward | Abusive | Doesn’t work properly | They’d never get together |

(Hang on tho: I think that in the beginning of the relationship it would be unhealthy, but eventually they’d work it out and it could be a healthy relationship. 

That’s the thing about windscream, it can either be really Bad, or really Good. Since I’m a positive type of skrub I like to think of how their relationship can get Better and be a healthy, wholesome relationship. i like angst too tho so for some reason i like imagining scenarios where they argue and Feelings are Poured. good shit right there)

Children: No | Yes | They’d think about it (windscream beans ftw boii)

General Opinion:

I don’t think I’ve ever fallen for a ship harder honestly (’cept for symmrat cuz that always holds a special place in my heart)

For me, what makes it interesting is the whole Trust thing, like from all the fics I wrote and all the shitty doodles I’ve made at 2 in the morning is;

Windblade being the one to finally break through Starscream’s defenses and getting him to finally start trusting in people

so I guess imo the ship’s whole theme is: Learning to trust

if that makes sense idk man i’m running on like 3 hours of sleep bUT

YEAH THAT’S WHAT I THINK ABT THIS. I TRIED TO EXPLAIN STUFF BUT IM SORRY MAN MY BRAIN IS DEAD RN SORRY :’D

(same ship also submitted by @enmused :3)