In a dark room we fight
Make up for our love
My love is wasted
Trying to put my interpretation of the Megatron and Starscream dynamic into visuals. I think they have a deeply complicated history. I think there's admiration and respect there in the same window that there's resentment and hurt. I think they make each other worse. I think at the end of the war they have so much to say to each other and neither will be the one to say it. I think they need to heal apart before they can ever address whatever it was they were.
Overwhelmingly compelled to design a TFP based Soundwave for an AU ending to the show
War ends with a whimper rather then a bang and both sides end up having to try and rebuild society and Cybertron together tenuously.
Soundwave ends up finding a middle ground between his gladiator frame and his stealth frame because he no longer needs to leave the space in his armor for where his minicons used to be, since only laserbeak survived. So he gets some of his bulk back. And even though there are no factions anymore, he keeps his Decepticon sigil and rank placard still on him. It's an honor and loyalty thing.