#primescream

yes yES BE GENTLE TO EACH OTHER KISS HUG CUDDLE YEEEEEES KISS HIM K I S S H I M

I don't care if it's out of character, it brings me comfort and that's enough🥹

This is my first fully rendered transformers piece, and I think it turned out pretty well. Though I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about the coloring, like it could be better

At first, I struggled a bit (and still currently struggling) with drawing them, but I came to the conclusion that I don’t need to try to replicate everything 100% exactly like the (very detailed) models from the show. A lot of things can be simplified, and even if I draw some details incorrectly, the characters will still remain recognizable, so it's not a big problem :")

I feel a bit anxious about contributing to the fandom and drawing fanart, because I’m a newbie - I’ve only watched a couple of tf animated series, like tfp, rid2015, tfa, cyberverse, war for cybertrone, tfone(tfone got me into the fandom, it's so good), also bayverse

I haven’t read the comics at all, and I’m interested in shipping characters (which is also something not everyone accepts, especially when we talk about giant fcking aLIEN ROBOTS🤨). Unfortunately, I’ve come across people who shame “fake” fans for not knowing the lore deeply enough and for “having watched nothing but tf prime and thinking they're a fan”. People can be mean sometimes

Anyway

First thing you learn about me: I like tfp starop/opstar very much, nice to meet you 🤝

Pairing: Starscream/Optimus Prime

Rating: Gen

Additional Tags: Cybertronian Culture, Crushes, Age Difference, Jealousy, Worldbuilding, Background Relationships, Post-Canon

Summary:

Optimus Prime wants Starscream to acknowledge him as Prime. Starscream had sworn to serve the Primes once, a lifetime ago.

A story about Optimus having a crush, and Starscream examining his loyalties. Features gossip magazines, etiquette lessons, and Hot Rod braiding rope from plant stems.

Facing a divide between cultures so vast that there is no middle in which to meet, a prisoner of war and a warlord will either find a connection between them, or plunge a dying world into its final catastrophe.

Optimus Prime has always stood alone and untouchable, a creature of harsh duty and crushing loneliness, a leader who can command anything, but never, ever love. The arrival of an exiled Starscream brings the possibility of a joy that he had never thought possible - along with a threat to destroy the dream of a peaceful Cybertron and the Matrix of Leadership itself.

*****

I’ve been fixing and re-posting The World’s Translated Thus for a couple of months now, so now that I’ve got about 100K of the fic already up, s anyone who missed my fevered StarOp fic (before I got swallowed into the maw of traditional publishing) is welcome to jump on board.

I’m not one for huge warnings, but this is sitting around the “Carolina Reaper” on the Scoville Heat Scale and it’s really meant to hurt A LOT before you get that sweet sweet comfort.

Starscream: Kinky.

Optimus: I think you are sweet and beautiful.

Starscream: Wait...

Optimus: You deserve to be cared for as much as you care for others!

Starscream: No!

Optimus: Your feelings and needs are valid and deserve to be heard!

Starscream: *fighting back tears* I need a safeword!