#his aft aint comin back from dat

[lexicorp]

Honestly just needed what I had in mind visualized tbh-

Soooo I actually have a reason other than just cuz for having Starscream's iris' yellow instead of the typical white p much all other bots got. Its an Outlier thing! Warp's can go a shade of purple pink mid-warp, and thunder's can get a bit blue when he really uses his sonic powers. Also theres a reason why Soundwave always wears his visor, so ya cant try and tell if he be readin ur mind waves.

So with Starscream's Outlier ability, that's at base a super healing thing, his optics will get more yellow whenever it's actively trying to fix damages or during adrenaline jumps.

When it comes to the drama surrounding Megatron forcing Starscream to change his optics from blue to red a bit after the war started-Star fought that shit hard. His blue optics were like the one thing from Skyfire that /hadn't/ been taken from him. But ultimately, he lost that fight. Changed them. Hoped it'd help chill Megs even a bit. It didn't, rlly, which pissed him off even more, but he wasn't gonna jus change em back again for fear of Megs kicking his aft for it again. (later lore when Megatron is out of the picture, Star is hesitant to change em to blue again mainly due to feeling it'd be like, blasphemous now.)

i'm not immune to the SkyStar flavored angst-