Just your average g/t fan

My first thought was about a giant dragonborn, possibly with dragons also being the only giant creatures and their job is to protect Skyrim, etcetera. But that feels a little too obvious.

More interesting to me is a tiny dragonborn. A borrower whose childhood home was ravaged by dragons and, while it was eventually killed, they lost anyone important to them. Being nearby, they absorbed the soul, even if they didn’t know what it was at the time.

Maybe they tried to learn more about dragons or maybe they just stumbled across the knowledge. Either way, they learn a Shout, not that they knew what the weird glowing carvings meant.

It’s a dormant ability until one day they’re borrowing and get caught, an angry person preparing to kill the ‘thief’. They panic, and the power instinctively comes out, a Shout that rattles the walls and makes glass panes shake. Or, well, they will after time resumes. Luckily the Shout they had picked up allowed time to freeze just long enough for them to escape.

One problem is that Shouts are loud.

Loud enough for the dragons to hear, to know that the dragonborn has returned. Loud enough for the Blades to rejoice in a renewed purpose.

All that with a dragonborn who has no idea what they just caught the attention of, nor what would eventually come looking for them.

Not quite sure how I’d want the Blades to play into everything, but I can imagine they’d be confused by the small stature of the dragonborn, wondering how such a pitiful thing could defeat the colossal beasts that are dragons. Maybe some would call for them to be killed to allow a new dragonborn. Others would claim that the Gods work in mysterious ways. Overall, they’d probably feel vaguely antagonistic although they’re arguably better than being eaten by a dragon. I’d really like to tap into Skyrim’s whole ‘there are only really bad choices here’ thing.

It’d start off as above, the human terrified and Starscream indignant and insulted. He’s probably half tempted to get rid of the human regardless, but a bigger shame than having a human soulmate would be to kill them. So he takes them.

I like to think soulflowers represent different aspects of a relationship. The human would have a rose with a long, thorny stem that coils around their wrist. It blooms when they’re snatched up, shining briefly in vibrant red before going grey.

Grey means a strained bond, and Starscream refuses to have that be how others see the relationship. Even if he doesn’t want the human soulmate, he does want their love, the adoration that should come with a soulmate. He deserves it for not killing them. And they’re meant to be with him. A rocky introduction, but they’ll get over it.

Starscream takes the ‘challenge’ to make them love him. There are moments where he’s almost sweet and cracks of red seep through the grey, but he pushes, snaps, and the grey returns even darker than before. He wants their love now. Why are they so ungrateful? He’s done so much for them.

The colour was what could have been. A softening of a spark hardened by war, the comfort of a soulmate slowly learning the humanity within this alien, that beautiful thing that should have been.

But being a soulmate shouldn’t be a shackle and the human will never forget the crooning voice calling for them to come out of hiding as they were hunted for fun. The cackling and threats before that deathly silence when their whole life changed. If they weren’t his soulmate, they’d be dead. The very thing protecting them was the last thing they wanted.

It’d end on Thundercracker letting them go, feeling like they’ll still like him, having bonded with them amidst everything, only to be surprised when they run off, having used him and Skywarp to survive. The human would be hurt, regretting having to manipulate and lie their way through the months, possibly even years, that they’d been taken, but it was necessary.