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Man, I love women
Anyways I can't get them out of my head! so here you go, some yuri robots :D
Poor Skyfire, bro just landed here and immediately encountered a version of his enemy (*cough* "ex-wife" *cough*) absolutely drenched in Dark Energon. Silver is cackling at Skyfire's reaction.
This amazing design and Au belong to @drinkysketch! Thank u for letting me borrow your Skyfire!! :D
(Decided to try colouring them in black and white, kinda enjoyed it)
Maroon and Silver just watched "Fire in the Sky". Maroon has acquired new blackmail material.
Silver, Jasper and Maroon Starscream belong to me!
"Awakening the Sleeping Giant" p2
people seemed to like the first post so have a little more :)
might put it on ao3 later or something
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The language barrier is a problem, Ulchtar finally decides once they touch down, and his new friend seems to agree.
He’d hit a snag in trying to describe where to go when he realized the Giant had been asleep for longer than English had existed as a language. Thankfully, gestures seemed to be more-or-less universal, so he was able to get across the idea of where to go eventually. They’re currently nestled in a cave somewhere in the Scandinavian mountains. It’s a remote place, especially after the alien attacks in the area a few years back. But he knows that this isn’t a permanent solution.
They need to learn to communicate before the inability to do so gets them both killed.
Which is why they’re now taking turns scratching out a massive diagram on the cave floor with sticks…Well, a stick and a small tree. They’d been trading words back and forth for a good two hours now. As best as he could tell, the Giant’s language was actually quite simple—consisting mainly of nouns, verbs, descriptors, and modifiers to those two things. It wasn’t particularly elegant, but it was versatile enough.
They’d started with things that were easily drawn-out or mimed: things like “person,” “me,” “you.” There was sort of a pronoun system, and the Giant…seemed to be a “he,” or an equivalent. Then they’d tried to build from there—he’d figured out some of the verbs, and how to phrase things as a question, and from there the two of them had hit it off. Now he was trying to get the guy up to speed, because everything would be a whole lot easier if they knew what was going on.
“So…[me-category-] human.” He points to the crude little figure of a human he’s drawn, and the Giant nods along.
How to explain the war…? “Humans [-planet-creation-positive-] Earth.” He points to the rough map of the world they’ve drawn out, then to the Giant’s rather detailed drawing of a kaiju. “[Planet-creation-negative-] Earth.”
They lean down a little closer to the drawing. “Quintesson,” he says with what sounds like outright distaste. Ulchtar’s a little taken aback by that.
“[Question.] Quintesson [-them. Name?]”
“[Name-positive.] Quintessons [negative-negative-negative.]” They confirm. Okay, triple negatives, so this guy hated the damned things just as much as anyone else. Maybe it wasn’t just Earth under siege…?
“Quintessons [motion-inside] Earth…[creation-negative] humans.” He’s painfully aware of his limited vocabulary, hoping it’s enough to get the point across. The Giant seems to pick up on the intent, tensing up just a little.
He continues. “Humans…[Eyes-positive-you. Humans-creation-negative, desire-negative.] So... [negative-brain-do-positive-you. Creations-do-similar.]” We found you. We didn’t want to die. We studied you. Tried to make things like you.
The Giant whirls towards him at that, picking him up to hold him at eye level. The grip is just tight enough to hurt, just enough to feel like a threat. “[You…complete-negative-me?]”
Ulchtar waves his hands in front of his face frantically, mortified. Oh, he’s really fucked up this time. He didn’t realize the Giant remembered getting taken apart like that. “[M-me-do-negative! Complete-positive-repeat!]” He sputtered. I put you back together!
It wasn’t technically a lie. He hadn’t exactly done it out of the kindness of his heart, but it wasn’t a lie.
The glare softens just a bit, the grip relaxing. He's not in immediate risk of death anymore.
They keep talking for a few hours, until it gets too dark to really see what he's doing anymore.
He hmms, trying to think of the right words…
“Uh…” He points up at the sliver of sky above them. “[Sky. Light-negative. Me-vision-negative.]”
“[…Recharge-you? Eyes-positive-me.]” He was offering to keep watch while Ulchtar slept, he mentally translated.
He nodded, fumbling mentally to figure out how to respond to that. “[…Gratitude-positive.]”
Then, another thought occurred to him. “[You. Name. Question?]”
The Giant paused for a second at that, wings drooping just a little bit. “[…name-knowledge-negative. Memory-negative-negative.]”
…oh.
Ulchtar can’t help but feel a little bad for asking now. He tries to shift the topic a bit, pointing to himself. “[Me. Name.] Ulchtar.”
That gets a tilt of the head. “[You. Name. Sound-similar…Star-sound-positive-positive-pitch-positive?]” In this language, the name and the phrase do sound kind of alike, actually. He laughs at that.
“Star…scream? [Desire-name. Name-sound-positive-positive-positive.]” He adds three positives for emphasis, because it does sound way more badass than “Ulchtar.”
The ground shakes just slightly, and he realizes the Giant is laughing.
Don't get too attached, he reminds himself. They could betray you any second. He's just as dangerous as these Quintessons if he wants to be.
“Oh, knock it off…” He curls up on a relatively comfy-looking patch of cave moss, bundling himself up in some extra clothes in lieu of anything warmer. The cave’s warmer than outside, but still a bit chilly even with the ambient heat from the Giant’s engines heating it up.
It doesn’t stop him from eventually slipping into sleep.
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The mech with no name shifts his weight just a little, trying to get comfortable in his hiding spot among the mountains. It’s not much—just a little nook in the rocks where it’s tough to spot him—but it’s better than being out in the open, as badly as he wants to stretch out his wings and fly again.
He doesn’t want to put the human—Starscream—Ulchtar—in danger.
Ulchtar’s the only companion he has in this world right now, after all.
So he’s probably going to stick with him for a bit—in no small part because he really doesn’t know where else he’d go. Most of his memory is long since corrupted, throwing him all kinds of errors whenever he tries to think back to before.
He knows, in broad strokes, what he is. He knows he’s a mechanical lifeform. He knows he’s a shapeshifter of some sort. He knows he can fly, and is probably designed to explore space. He knows what the parts inside of him are—what a spark is and that he needs to drink energon to survive. He knows the Quintessons want him dead.
But he doesn’t know who he is. His name. Where he came from. What his own species is called…
Does he have a species?
This whole world was filled with organic life, and nothing else—it was clear that the other machines he’d seen in that laboratory weren’t alive, but rather artificial constructs. They resembled him, but only superficially. He can’t feel their sparks, let alone any sort of EM field—something even the organics of this world have, albeit very faint ones.
Which leaves him with a very frightening question.
Am I alone?
His internal clock is telling him he’s been on this planet for six million years, trapped in stasis.
Surely someone must’ve looked for him, right? One of his kind, maybe? Surely six million years would’ve been long enough for a search party to find him.
If nobody had ever come looking for him, then…then either there was nobody left to send, or he’d mattered so little that nobody had ever bothered to remember him.
He wasn’t sure which hurt more: being alone, or being nobody.
Something wet drips onto his face.
Terrible time for rain, he thinks to himself.
But when he looks up, there’s not a cloud in the sky.
How odd…
He brushes it away, trying not to think about the question hanging over his head.
The night after that is largely uneventful, up until he notices a strange blue-green light on the horizon.
He pokes his head through the entrance. Was dawn supposed to come this early? Was it usually that color?
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When he’s exhausted, Ulchtar is a pretty heavy sleeper.
That said, the fact that the Giant doesn’t wake him up when he moves away is still damned impressive. No, he only wakes up when it starts getting cold again. Still groggy, it takes him a few seconds to realize his vanished from his spot—something that makes him snap awake instantly in a panic.
He looked up towards the surface. Had he been abandoned? Was the Giant going back to—
Oh.
He sees his companion’s winged silhouette just beyond the mouth of the cave, illuminated in blue and green and violet.
He’s staring at something.
Ulchtar creeps closer, and quickly understands why. There’s an aurora snaking across the sky in full force above the mountains, and the Giant watches in wonder.
His wings twitch when Ulchtar draws near, as if sensing him somehow. “Starscream [recharge-positive?]” He asks. It seems like the nickname is sticking.
“[Recharge-positive],” he agrees. It’s another half-truth; he was sleeping fine until he got cold.
The Giant points up at the aurora, looking very confused. “[Occurrence. Name. Question?]”
“Aurora borealis.”
“[Common-positive? Threat-positive? Question?]”
“[Common-negative. Threat-negative.]” Ulchtar assures him.
He seems to relax a bit at that. “[Eye-similar…sky-heat-positive-light-positive.]”
“Yeah, kinda…” He really does not have the vocabulary to explain how the hell an aurora works. "The sky set itself on fire" is as good an explanation as any.
They nod along. “[Vision…positive-positive-positive.]”
That’s a lot of words to say “it’s pretty,” Ulchtar thinks to himself with a little smile, but jolts when his friend’s wings suddenly flatten against his back, an expression of…something like recognition on his face.
“[Name. Me. Memory-negative-now-positive. Sky-heat-positive-light-positive!]” He puts his hands together and looks to Ulchtar almost expectantly, as if he wants him to try translating this name too.
"...Skyfire," he decides after a few seconds.
The look "Skyfire" gives him at that...He's trying his best not to get attached, to do his best impression of a chessmaster moving his pawns around, but by God, if push came to shove he would kill for that smile.
According to tech specs, Thundercracker is stronger then Skyfire which is hilarious, it makes sense because he’s a warrior but still
I was trying to recreate one of those old-school posters
«Believe me my friend, caravans of the ships
Will carry us forward from star to the star
On outlandish deserts our dusty footprints,
They soon will be seen from afar...»
skystar comic sketch in which skyfire conveniently forgets that he is in fact an aircraft
Great! Now I want to cry
Already posted this to TikTok but thought I'd post it here as well.
Song: Boats and Birds by Gregory and the Hawk
It took a while for me to make some art in regards to my fic. My drawing hand has been in pain for a while so I needed to rest for a bit. Hopefully y’all like it! And remember! The fic is finished! I’m just posting each chapter every Friday!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64420186/chapters/165400033
Chapters: 1/14 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave & Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave/Starscream (Transformers) Characters: Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave (Transformers), Jetfire | Skyfire (Transformers), Predacons (Transformers), Sky Lynx (Transformers), Darksteel (Transformers) Additional Tags: Flashbacks, Character Death, Post-War, starscream is tired, Skywarp - Freeform, Thundercracker - Freeform, Enemies to Friends, Maybe Lovers, POV Third Person, Grief/Mourning, Starscream cries in this, Parent Starscream (Transformers), Not Beta Read, We die like Jetfire, TFP lore tweaks, Author went insane Summary:
The war is over, Megatron has been slain at the hands of the Autobots. Shockwave had managed to pull Starscream away just before he jumped in to recklessly avenge his master.
The war is over now... At least to Starscream, now he has a few plans of his own once he calms down from the loss of Megatron: To regain his old frame, and to return to Earth and pick up someone left behind. As he does this plan, he will have the old memories he'd long since buried, resurface while he gains new bonds with an enemy and two others.
[THIS FIC IS FINISHED AND WILL DO WEEKLY CHAPTER UPDATES]
Do you love me? (new animatic)
For the record, no, I will never get over Fire in the Sky and its implications for their relationship.
Song used.
My brain thought of Skystar angst.
Essentially the idea would be, Skyfire and Starscream get separated by the polar windstorm while they’re on Earth, Starscream goes searching for Skyfire and actually finds him!
Hooray! Right?
No.
Because Skyfire is already trapped in the ice by the time Starscream finds him, and instead of leaving the planet to get help, Starscream begins trying to claw Skyfire out of the ice by himself. The reason he doesn’t go get help is that he’s noticing that he can’t read Skyfire’s signal in the ice and is afraid if he leaves, he won’t remember where Skyfire’s buried. So he starts using his clawed servos and his thrusters to claw Skyfire out.
Unfortunately, that much strenuous activity with no ample source of energon is severely draining, and the cold is starting to really affect Starscream… he gets weaker and more tired. He eventually just gets so tired that his body shuts down and he tiredly mutters “Soon as I wake up Sky… I’ll get you out of there.”
Starscream never wakes up.
Now cut to millions of years later and the Autobots and Decepticons are on Earth and going through the events of “Fire in the Sky” only this time, Rumble’s little ‘cave-in’ not only reveals Skyfire, but also the frozen and greyed remains of of a seeker frame. The seeker corpse is left there to remain frozen in place, Megatron sees no use in him since he’s dead, he is however interested in Skyfire’s preserved body and thus they dig him out and shock his body back into the waking world.
I’d see Skywarp and Thundercracker not knowing who Skyfire was but they were brothers with Starscream and didn’t know where he was.. that is until they hear Skyfire calling out for Starscream and realized the seeker body that was found curled up and frozen near Skyfire was Starscream’s. The two seekers are in shambles after that and as Skyfire awakens, he is confused by the sight of all these strange new faces, he tries asking where Starscream is but Megatron stops him and tells him that it’s been millions of years since he was last awake, they saved his life from the ice and now Skyfire owes the Decepticon cause his life.
The events of the episode would follow but rather than Starscream’s betrayal to Skyfire, Thundercracker or Skywarp are the ones to shoot him because they ‘can’t believe someone so weak and softsparked would have outlived their brother.’
The Autobots save Skyfire from dying and while the Autobots and Decepticons do their usual battle, Skyfire is able to come across the spot he was excavated from and see the corpse of the one he loved so much, he’s overcome with grief and is left holding the greyed remains of his sparkmate before helping the Autobots defeat the Decepticons, and instead of Skyfire going back into the ice this time, he goes to warmer climates with the Autobots and lays Starscream in a beautiful meadow where the red flowers and grass can grow over him and lay him to rest in a beautiful and undisturbed location.
I may have brain rot…
-Zooms in with popcorn and an intense eagerness to hear more- PLEASE DO GO ON, I WILL READ THIS!!!
Ahhhhhhh I can see Starscream freaking the fuck out after Skyfire attacks Megatron to protect the seeker. Like "Why in the name of Primus did you do that?! Now Megatron's going to want your head! He's going to see you as the enemy!" And Skyfire just replying back with "He made himself my enemy the moment he tried to hurt you. I know you can protect yourself and you can take a hit, but you're my friend. I refuse to let that psycho hurt you again, not without a fight." Ahhhhhhghghgnvnrefjnc and then they talk and Starscream feels safe for like the first time in so long!!! -incoherent giggles-
Aghhhh I love it!!!
Oh my god, imagine if we had gotten Skyfire in TFP instead of Smokescreen?
No hate to Smokey fans, I'm just asking to picture an AU where if we had to add a new Team Prime member late in the game, it could have been Skyfire. (Please bear with me, I'm mostly just jotting down ideas so it's a bit all over the place)
Idk I just have this very specific dynamic in mind, like:
Skyfire: So I crashed here a gazillion years ago when I was exploring with my science partner.
Arcee: What happened to them?
Skyfire: I... don't know. You didn't find anyone else with me?
Bulkhead: 'Fraid not...
Skyfire: ... Oh.
Bumblebee: *beep boop bwee*!
Raf: Yeah! We'll go back and help you find them!
Skyfire: Really?? But... aren't you guys too busy to mount a search and rescue for a stranger? I don't want to be a burden...
Optimus: Even if you two are strangers to us, we will not abandon a fellow Cybertronian. Saving a life is always worth the effort.
Skyfire: Thank you, Prime.
《LATER》
Ratchet: The medbay is prepped to warm up your friend once they're brought in.
Skyfire: Thank you all again!
Arcee: So what's our perimeter? Did you see where they landed?
Skyfire: Well, no, I crashed before he did.
Bumblebee: *breep bworp*
Skyfire: I suppose it's possible he could have survived...
Miko: Couldn't you look him up in some sort of Cybertronian phonebook and just call?
Skyfire: I did try to reach him, but it seems he's changed his com line. Which makes sense, I suppose. So much has happened...
Bulkhead: Hm... oh! What about the N.A.I.L. census? I know it's super out of date, but...
Miko: Hold on, "Nail" census? Is there a census for sledgehammers too?
Fowler: N-A-I-L. It stands for Non-Aligned Indigenous Lifeforms. They're the Cybertronians who didn't pick a side.
Raf: So... they're neutral? Not Decepticon...
Jack: ... or Autobot.
Ratchet: A census was created and distributed among the N.A.I.L.s so they would be able to find eachother after the exodus. They planned to regroup and form their own colonies off-world.
Optimus: Hm. It would be a good idea to exhaust our options that avoid risk.
Skyfire: Agreed! Let's check out that census.
Arcee: I can pull it up. What's your friend's name again? You guys were from Vos, right?
Skyfire: Mhm. And his name is Starscream.
Team Prime: ...
Skyfire: ... Do you want me to spell that for you, or...?
Miko: I'm sorry, I think I misheard you, because I could have sworn you just said Starscream.
Skyfire: Uh yup. That's correct.
Arcee: *closes out of the census*
Skyfire: ... is there a problem?
Ratchet: Oh, there are several problems!
Cue Team Prime explaining all the things Starscream has done, and Skyfire has a hard time believing it, so he sets out on his own to see Starscream for himself.
Once they see each other and spend a bit more time with each other, Skyfire can see how much Starscream has changed. But he still cares for him. He thinks Starscream can be better than this, deserves better. He doesn't like the Decepticon culture, the way Starscream has become so paranoid and twitchy and violent, constantly looking over his shoulders and not trusting anyone. That's no way to live!
But as Starscream is about to go back to the Decepticons, he starts a spat with Skyfire. (In his own way, Starscream is just keeping Skyfire out of Megatron's servos, because he knows the shuttle will end up following him.) So Skyfire goes back to Team Prime and is like... "I don't want to take up your brand, but if you'll allow me to stay here I can use my skills to assist in the med bay and help look for energon to share. I don't have it in my spark to go into battle. Of course, I know some basic self-defense, but I just don't want to be involved in this war's violence. I'd much rather heal and help others, and... if at all possible, I want to try to rescue my old friend." and Optimus agrees.
Cue an energon mining mission where Team Prime + Skyfire fall under attack by some vehicons/insecticons or whatever, and Skyfire is able to show off his quick thinking skills and brute strength in front of everyone to save the day! This could be especially impressive to anyone in Team Prime that may have thought N.A.I.L.s were cowards or unable to fight.
Fast forwarding a bit, Skyfire has tried many ways to lure Starscream away from the Decepticons, but the seeker continues to rebuff him, yelling at him to stay away from him, saying cruel things, and renouncing him as a friend. But Skyfire doesn't give up. He explains to the kids when they ask him about his persistence later that he knows Starscream is hurting/is in danger, that he's always been duplicitous when it comes to his true feelings.
Going back to Starscream... imagine if Soundwave presented evidence to Megatron that there's a new face among Team Prime these days. "A new member?" Megatron ponders, but then looks a bit closer, "Hm... they wear no brand. So the Autobots are hosting a neutral? How interesting..." Then Soundwave reveals that Starscream has known about this new arrival, but hadn't reported any of his encounters. What's more, it appears they know each other. "... How very interesting indeed."
Team Prime stumble upon an energon deposit that's already being mined by Decepticons (including Starscream), so they hang back to decide if they should use the element of surprise to strike, or if they should try their luck elsewhere. While observing this mission from back at the base, Skyfire sees Megatron make a surprise visit and confront Starscream. Starscream tries to deny that he even knows him that well, and claims that Skyfire isn't very skilled so he won't be much use to the Autobot's cause. But Megatron doesn't buy it. He grabs Starscream, intent on beating the truth out of him, but Skyfire commandeers the groundbridge and bridges right to their location. We get to see more of that brute strength in action as he hits Megatron from behind, yelling at him to let Starscream go. It disorients Megatron long enough for him to grab Starscream and run off with him, telling him he won't let Megatron hurt him anymore. Skyfire and Starscream don't return to their bases that night.
And that's all I got for now! I figured they'd hide out on earth, possibly in that old ship Starscream had once visited in the show. Maybe they straight up disappear for the rest of the show up until that time where all the kids were captured and had to get exchanged for Omega Keys, or at the end where everyone has to defeat a Unicronified Megatron. Like I want them to show up as Science Bros Who Are Here To Kick Ass And Help... double bonus if things are dire and Wheeljack gets roped in for science stuff too. You'd really have a Moment of a former Decepticon, an Autobot Wrecker, and a Neutral working together and that would just be Neat.
I emerged back from the dead, not with Eddsworld (sorry fam) but with Transformers!!
I am a total sucker for Transformers, especially with G1. The potential for storylines is so beautiful, especially for Starscream’s character development. He’s a queen, I love him lol.
As for the other writing and the logos on Skyfire and Starscream, I thought it would be interesting if they had NASA style logos from when they were scientists. So I came up with this symbol and name!
should be something between 100 and 4000000
two second-in-commanders....they might kiss
What's op's favorite ship\\dynamic or transformer???
im not normal about them
And yea the big marshmallow is favorite
i struggle drawing Skyfire so some stuff to familiarize myself with his design </3
This one goes out to all my Skystar fans out there, thanks for putting up with me, I have presents for you from my archives. Pipebomb
old gay men... they deserve to watch tv together and go to bed at 8pm <33
Don't worry, we ain't gonna hurt you :) /j
But is there anyway you can feed us too and give us some skystar to calm down? Pretty please?
WELLL.. SINCE YOU ASKED SO NICELY, shuffling through my archives
Here’s an older skystar piece I never posted here
what kind of bug do yall think he found
got sad over Starscream (again) so i needed some emergency skystars for myself🥀
and the sillies
