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[camwyn]

Started in on the initial AU stuff the other day & I realised I hit a small snag. Even when I'm writing characters I don't like- say, Father, from Equilibrium- I have to be able to do one of two things to get them right:

1. Think like them
2. Respect them

And, um, well... Starscream. Havin' some trouble mustering either.

Shockwave? Shockwave I can do. He's easy for me to get into, from either direction. TV Starscream I always just wanted to throttle, and movie Starscream either has next to no characterization (movie 1) or is a cringing suck-up (movie 2). I have little to no interest in buying the Reign of Starscream comics that came out between the movies; I'm going to have to come up with some respect for the mech from somewhere before I go any further...

I'm gonna see if I can watch a couple of old kung-fu movies, I think. Screamer kind of reminds me of the guy who's planning on running the kung fu school as soon as the sifu gets too old or too tired to hold his position, only the hero of the movie gets in his way. Maybe I can get something out of that.

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[camwyn]

No, no, I know what Starscream's thinking, and I can write that easily enough. It's just that it's hard to get over a lifetime of thinking 'Starscream is a whiny, untrustworthy bitch who Megatron should've shot in the face at the first opportunity'.

[tundra-no-caps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Starscream's voice is also so annoying. I remember him.

He was still cool, as a mech.