Trinkets 6
Title: Trinkets 6/?
By: gilded_orchid
Rating: PG-13
Universe: G1/Alignment-verse AU
Characters: Jazz, Prowl, Glyph, Starscream, Soundwave, Casseticons. Mentions of Sentinel Prime and D-16 (Megatronus).
Content: Pre-War/Exodus AU, The prompt involved with this is scarlet/beginning of a beautiful friendship
Words: 2845
A/N: We’re moving closer ( Read more... )
Still, it's nice to see Starscream sane and normal and competent. And of course treacherous, but this is more along the lines of concern, than the lure of power.
What really hurt about the chapter was, how we see the friendly side of Soundwave - even in the gladiatoral pits. That we see the caring side of Starscream who seems to be truly and rightfully concernced for Cybertron. That we know that this is the prolog to tragedy and yet we still see the possibility (that grows slimmer and slimmer) how it all could turn out in a good way.
But it will not.
It's interesting to think about Starscream, Skywarp and Prowl as the advisors of Sentinel - and all of them despairing. Sentinel really was a bad leader, even though he wasn't the only cause.
“I refuse to accept a reality where this is normal behavior for a Prime, and not manifestation of a particularly bizarre glitch.”
- this sentence from Starscream was a surprise. Because that's loyalty, maybe not to Sentinel himself, but in their society in their belief system. I wonder, what will destroy this faith.
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I really don't know what to make out of those three either, especially given the G1 flavors I'm working into Prowl's history. Sentinel isn't the only reason war breaks out, but this is hands down his worst incarnation so far. He's horrible at being a Prime. I can understand Starscream being traitorous if that's what he was bodyguarding. Same for Skywarp and Thundercracker. As for Prowl, the only thing keeping him going is probably sheer loyalty--not even to Sentinel perhaps, but to his job. The advisors are working around to the idea that they need a better Prime and soon, but they haven't quite given up on Sentinel entirely by this point.
As for Starscream, I actually have a pet theory going. Judging from the novels and games, he had a very clear agenda of his own (as always), and he was much smarter about it than in some other verses. There was actually a point that I was halfway convinced he was going to use Megatron as a blunt tool to shatter the old regime and then get rid of Megatron and enact his own plans, *especially* since he actually worked under the table with the Autobots at one point. Instead, Megatron feeds him Dark Energon, and all of a sudden he's pulling boneheaded maneuvers and gets incredibly erratic. I don't think he lost faith; I think the Dark Energon drove him freaking nuts and he's not quite pulled himself back together; probably won't, since Megatron's fueling the army off that stuff...
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I can understand the three as well. Who wants to literally put their spark and life on the line for someone like this? Especially when he doesn't even appreciates you, and that seems to be the case here.
Interesting... if Prowl were a little bit less loyal to his job, a bit more... well, let's say willing to take risks, maybe we would later see him on a different side of the war. I myself have played with the idea of Prowl not assassinating Prime, but ... of elegantly stepping aside and looking somewhere else when it happens. This is something I could see from you Prowl as well.
I really, really like your pet theory. It fits well. More so, it fits with the continuity of the games well. I didn't ead the novels, but if there it's the same... mmh. The Starscream of the games struck me as an remarkable intelligent, independent, powerful, and sneaky mech. Wasn't there a scene in the game, in which Starscream was horrified of Megatron's usage of the Dark Energon? In fact I think nearly every time it was Starscream who showed a much more careful and restrained reaction to Dark Energon, even going so far to simply guard if for a few millenia.
But I can't seem to remember if Megatron forced the Dark Energon on Starscream, or if Starscream took it out of free will...
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