#The Starscream (trope)

[terriblyrenderedenigma]

On Transformers and Human soulmate tropes...

(i do personally attack starscream at the end, i'm sorry starscream lovers, i love him too, but he's just a sad, devious little guy.)

Just a little thought here, so, I love soulmate tropes. Depending on the plot, they can be really fun and take so many interesting paths as a medium used within storytelling, whether romantic or platonic.

But what i want to talk about specifically is Transformer x Human soulmate tropes. Like, you have this super sweet side to it where the bot can be like 'I have waited my entire life to find you, finally, I can hold you in my arms and we never have to part again'. Depending on the character/story/type of SM (soulmate, shortening it because I'm not gonna keep writing it out) trope of course.

Can I just say how...instrumentally fucked this is though? So you have this race of robots who live for, what is essentially millennia out in the wild unless they catch the smoke. Their soulmate ends up being this little creature that lives for 80, maybe 100 years tops before dying. -Unless we're going for some kind of mind switch body type thing, but we all know how that went with spike in g1.

Our beloved robo blorbos will eventually have to cope with the fact that their soulmate, the person or creature they're MEANT to be with via laws of the universe, will die a LOT sooner than they will.

This especially hits hard with the decepticons who, depending on continuity -- hate humanity already. Bots who've gone through so much, losing their home, friends, and their dignities; have to learn to put up with and accept this creature as their fated mate/spouse/conjux endura, whatever you want to call it- SOULMATE.

Then the decepticons just have to deal with the fact that they're going to lose this person too, just like they've already lost everything else and oh GOD. Maybe they choose to forget about them and move on, stay alone and mourn what could have been if the universe hadn't had such a fucked sense of humor. Maybe they choose to accept it, but never let their SM too close because they know they'll just be hurt so much more hurt when the inevitable comes.

Then you have to think about decepticons having to possibly protect their SM from other cons! From being taken and 'saved' by the autobots.

Imagine some bots or cons just flying off the handle, going crazy just to try and keep their human alive in any way they possibly can, afraid of running out of time.

(Starscream lovers forgive me for the angst)

And Starscream especially, Maybe he'd try. He'd have a great time, take a chance, and give it a go. But what if he's actually terrified? Maybe he'd also self sabotage a little, knowing the relationship will never last too long anyways; not in the short blink of time it would be next to his life. Maybe, he doesn't actually know what to do with himself in a positive relationship after being, i dunno, consistently dogged on by megatron and he freezes.

There's something actually good for him, and since he isn't sure how to receive or accept that fact, he's gone. And maybe he'll come back, but the cycle could repeat.

(Im sorry, unless you put a tracker on him and call his ass and really give him some therapy. get him some god damn therapy.)

But yeah. All around, the angst potential is immense for this stuff and it makes me sad to think about so I thought i would share it instead of just write about it in an actual fic because my character analysis and ability to comprehend my own thoughts is so shit.

Okay, CIAOOOOOO~

[perish-the-creator]

These two are the exact same character and I am going insane over it.

[thatfantasylovingdork]

TV Tropes is amazing. Here, look at the below entries for Screams Like A Little Girl:

I MUST WRITE A SKYSTAR FIC WHERE SCREAMER FREAKS OUT OVER GETTING A SHOT AND SKYFIRE HELPS HIM CALM DOWN ⬆️

I HAVE NEVER HEARD HIM SCREAM SO FAR I MUST HEAR IT THAT MENTAL IMAGE IS KILLING ME ⬆️

(Bonus: A dude from the movie Robots that I once compared Starscream to also screams like a little girl apparently. They must be cousins or something.)

[kazuchuu]

So he's just collecting daughters now?

[transingthoseformers]

No because I desperately need to "and there was only one bed" Megatron and Starscream tbh

[thatonezodiacfan]

just once I would like to see something other than “big villain and small sidekick, small sidekick fails to do something, therefore big villains beats them up/take out anger on small sidekick” just once I would like to see the big villain proceed to beat up everyone else in the room to relieve stress and then pat the small sidekick on the head and make them pancakes

(PLEASEEE)

[hazardous-muttboy]

Amazing shockboob sketch for the day

[valdrift]

ok. MAYBE i like transformers a little bit .

[problematicbots]

I can never truly fully appreciate Starsceam as a character because this mf singly creates all my least favorite that is so cliche that I don't even need to watch Transformers or know what it is to experience it tropes. The obvious "Starsceam trope" and the "abused henchman" trope or at least make it way more mainstream. I definitely don't hate him but for better or for worse he is probably the first example aside from Brutus and Judas when the general public thinks of when it comes to a traitor .

[clitoris-maximus]

we need evil toxic power imbalance megastar yaoi in tfone. its time to finally flip the script.

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

One has to wonder how Vosdra can trust the Blorgons

when his own creations tend to turn on him again and again.

[nocakesformissedith]

mean girl clique Starscreams ILY so much

[thatfantasylovingdork]

I wound up shipping Ratchet from Robots 2005 and Transformers Prime Starscream and I don’t know how that happened.

(I’ve literally never seen TFP and I watched Robots like once as a kid but I don’t remember Ratchet at all.)

(Literally what happened is I noticed how TFP screamer and ratchet looked very similar, then I read on tv tropes that they both have girly screams, then I decided they must be cousins, and right now I’m like ‘nah they aren’t cousins but they are boyfriends and they freak out about just about everything all the time but they support each other through it <3’.)

[cosmics-beings]

why is it a common trope for megaop to make starscream just like, overly jealous or wahtever? or even when people make megastarop, starscream actually isn't in the relationship he's just kinda treated like shit. i know it's a fandom thing but it can be annoying. like u can make megaop without always making starscream like some jealous person on the side, and if you don't like starscream then don't tag it as megastarop T-T.

[scribe-of-hael]

A villain you have fallen for that is a so whimsical, charming and Dastardly.

Only to be a silly Goofy ball who stumbles over his words when he catches you staring at him with the same wonder he does for you.

[pastelpaperplanes]

Good day, I'm wondering what is something that you look for in a romance story? No matter how cliché it is, it'll no doubt let you give the story a chance.

I am not immune to the Meet Cute and Slow Burn