#i wassss thinking about turning hashtag into a vampire

[sketchy-galaxy]

Oh hey its Halloween let me tell yall about the 🕷️🦋 Vampire au

It was a dark and stormy night...

And in this AU the war is over! Meridian is saved from the attack in the Bay but still loses an arm and continues to work with GHOST. Starheart is also a part of GHOST and unfortunately for both of them they find out that Starscream and Croft are creating a blood-spark serum that is very much not complete. They are infected by their respective parallels, Starheart turns into a blood drinking vampire and Meridian craves energon!

So the two flee the scene and work together. Starheart hunts Cybertronians, Meridian uses his arachnimechs to hunt humans. They have 'heightened senses' so they smell blood/hear heart beats. But other than that, they're relatively normal.

This au is funnnn. Cause their relationship is GOOD, they genuinely are trying to work together as a team and it works! They're fighting with each other not against one another so they work with each other's weaknesses. Starheart is very much the brawn while Meridian is the brains of their operation.

Actually, speaking of which, their dynamic is very much two 'types' of vampires. Starheart is the Hunting Vampire, she goes out at night and stalks her victims before lunging. She's in the action. Meridian is the Stay-at-home Vampire. He doesn't really leave his lair and sends his thralls (the arachnimechs) out to do his bidding. Obviously they're very effective at what they do. The goal for these two is to take over GHOST, once they do Meridian would have access to energon and Starheart could hunt to her spark's content in Witwicky.

They win, obviously, and it's really up to the Maltos to stop them. But yeah, i love this au its so much fun to write and imagine these two in a positive light. I wouldn't say it's perfect, but I will say Meridian places a hand on Starheart's wing and she does Not flinch. So there is some trust there.