shokveyv:

cogito-ergo-dumb:

I love the “starscream was a scientist” backstory because it informs absolutely none of his current character? Like yeah I used to be a scientist and I was really good at it and now I kill people and those two things are entirely unrelated like he isn’t an evil scientist and he didn’t have some tragedy where he had to Give Up science to fight he just. changed his mind one day out of spite apparently

 he gave up science after dumbass skyfire got himself stuck in an iceberg and ruined their scientific expedition, the science communtiy was like “lmFAO GTFOoooOOOO” Also because of his warframe build vs scientific models like a microscope. muh elitism prevents you from succeeding in our college because fuck you stupid guntoating warmachines, yall ain’t good for nothin but shootin [it wasn’t said like this but that’s the vibe you got: naggly little shits], War Academy is much more “exciting” because you don’t have people shooting you down at every turn. well i mean, they do shoot you down but that’s physical

this kinda stuff is elaborated in Transformers Animated during bootcamps, and then further in the G1 und IDW comics. Hence the introduction of Functionist Classes: Starscream fits into the Flight class rather than Scientific class. which is gonna cause problems when you want to be a nerd. 

and was then seduced wrangled persuaded to join the decepticon legion by megs because muh revolution because what else ya gonna do with your life if you get shunned by your scientific peers, i’d fuckin shoot an autobot if i were seething with hatred for everyhting in life too

though yes, it does inform of his current situation because starscream often DOES point out flaws in megatron’s plans, including ones that require scientific background to know. he also built meg’s fusion cannon. The one megatron shoots him with. He built it to impress megatron, only to get shot by it when megatron started going by feels over reals and not listening to what starscream had to say over what Megatron felt was right hence why decepticons keep losing and starscream getting screamier as the days go by because it’s just as infuriating to hear your scientific knowledge being shot down in a wartime scenario as it is in a college scenario