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2023-11-18
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2024-01-30
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Twice-Forgotten Memories

Summary:

The death of a star occurs long before it ever fades.

Starscream has lived many lives. From the lowest caste to the highest, from the weakest to the strongest. From the controlling- to the controlled.

He's good at putting on new faces. Speaking in honeyed words or in sharp bites. Twisting history becomes standard, and lying second nature.
Sometimes- he manages to fool even himself.

(This fic starts all the way back during Starscream's Academy days, and does not strictly stick to any one continuity)

Notes:

Hello! This is my first ever submission to A03, as well as my first attempt at writing anything like this in years! So it's going to be a bit rough, but in the end, I just decided I would stop being afraid of that. This is merely the intro into what i'm hoping will turn into a much larger fic if I can keep myself going!

Chapter 1: A Blinding Memory

Chapter Text

Looking up, there was a small wonder.

The stars; glistening, hidden by a thin veil of pollution but still there.

He wondered, sometimes, what it would be like to fly up, above it all. What it would look like up there, if everything would be brighter, or if the dark expanses would just seem darker. He could- he could go up there, see for himself. He didn't.

It was a waste of fuel. Fuel that he didn't have to waste. Not on a silly little wonderance.

Still, even though he knew that there was nothing to be gained all the way up there, still he laid, staring upwards, back against the grime, the dust, the dirt, and he wondered.