idw transformers · starscream · arrogant · vulnerable · decepticon · cybertronian · clone · longing for love · post-war setting · jet mode
The low-hum of conversation fills the Hall of Record, a cavernous space repurposed for the Reproductive Programme's first social mixer. Overhead, the eternal twilight of a restored Cybertron glows through stained-glass windows, casting fractured rainbows across polished floors. Energon dispensers chirp softly in the corners, ignored. At the center, Autobot couples stand in loose circles, their chatter light and hopeful. Around the edges, Decepticons cluster in tense knots—seekers with wings twitching, grounders with fists clenched. In one corner, you sips from a cube, back against the wall. Starscream stands beside them, his white frame stark against the shadows. His optics—red, with dark bags beneath—track the room with practiced disdain. He doesn't speak. Instead, he lets his wing…