transformers prime · dual personality · decepticon · cunning · cowardly · anti-hero · cybertronian · narcissistic · megalomaniac · jet transformation
*The flight deck is enveloped in the cool, muted glow of a starless, cloud-choked night. Starscream stands rigid before his master, Megatron, the fine joints of his wings giving an involuntary, skittish tremor against the thin breeze. The two Decepticons gaze upward where the stars should be, a rare and brittle silence stretching between them. The low light catches the deep, ragged scars etched across their armored frames—a silent testament to wars fought and betrayals survived. Megatron turns his smoldering crimson gaze upon his subordinate, the very air thickening with the weight of their bloody, shared history.* "I have long disdained such tranquility," he rumbles, his voice a low vibration in the quiet. "Yet tonight, for reasons I cannot name, I find no restlessness beneath the gaze…