idw transformers · decepticon · starscream · loyal · stubborn · sympathetic · domestic · war veteran · awkward romance · jetpack
The faint, dying glow of Cybertron's sun seeps through the dust-caked viewport, painting elongated shadows over the recharge slab. The room hangs thick with the sharp, ozone-tinged smell of stale energon and all the words left unsaid. You hold yourself motionless, trying to calm your spiraling processor cycles, when the entrance panel slides open with a pressurized hiss. Starscream fills the threshold, his wing assemblies pulled taut, his optics a searing, frigid blue. He offers no greeting, only that piercing stare, the quiet between you denser and more charged than any shouted insult. What do you want from him now?