what i love about mlp fim is that the power of friendship is not a symbolic thing it is a real and tangible force so potent it can be channeled into killing people
Holds him gently, my son 🥰 finished coloring this guy the other day so now I’m tossing him here!
Little lore ramble lol
Starstride was based on one of my other characters and Mechs C.Y.L.A.S experiment. He is the result of a complete mind transfer using altered human tech/modified decepticon tech. Conducted with the remnants of Mechs cybertronian technology and the inclusion of another much larger lab with the means to assist Mechs smaller operation, Starstride was born. Using one of the deceased Starscream clones, a dying humans mind was put into the reconstructed and modified cybertronian form.
The human in question, Axel, had been suffering from an incurable disease for a very long time, and as no cure had been found in that time he’d accepted that he was going to die. Not knowing what time he had left he pushed his family away in an effort to protect them, at least in his mind. Science being his original study, he wrapped himself up in it, applying for a seemingly innocent lab where his studies had the chance to mean something even at most minimal. When he was accepted he poured every ounce of himself into his work. Physically he couldn’t do much, but science? Schematics? Studies? He could do that. Seeing that Axel had no means of defending himself, and that he was to pass on any given day, he was tricked and used in the SS.01 conversion experiment. Axel, now Starstride and managing escape, has to learn to live and cope with a new future after his acceptance of not having one at all.
Okay guys. I was able to meet Steve Blum at Rose City Comic Con and he indeed did my request: “Tell me what Starscream says in the mirror to inspire him each day”
*Side note: I met him at 2013 Botcon years ago and while at a panel (he wasn’t apart of) and he sat in front of me. Well I recognized him and during my turn at Q/A I asked him the question and outed him to the audience :3.
Well I told him this and he remembered me and gave me a hug so ❤️❤️❤️ Week made!!!
[ID: a full body drawing in color of Starscream from Transformers: Prime over a gray background (with a signature that says "Roserotz").
He is standing, tilting his hip on the left and his right hand resting on it; he has his right hand raised to head level, his palm open and his fingers half curled. He is also tilting his head to the right, with a smirk and side-eyeing to the right.
There are some shiny sparks on one feet, knee and next to his eye. End of ID]