Are Starscream’s Trinemates just,,, straight-up dead?
Spoilersish below the cut
In short...yeah. While they survived the crash and the adjustment period to Paradise, because Starscream was effectively dead and cut off for so long they, no longer able to feel him in their tine bond and having felt him “die”, kind of were forced to move on. They adjusted to Paradise, survived the remaining war there, but...unfortunately didn’t survive when the first of the viral Megatrons started fucking shit up, as they were among those who fought the new Megatrons, knowing full well that they were nothing but corrupted copies.
it’s particularly jarring for Starscream because he basically has a sort of “phantom spark syndrome” occuring, despite knowing they’re dead. Because his spark was inactive when theirs went out, it’s still reaching for them instinctively, trying to make a connection that can’t be completed.
Of course, they still lived on Paradise for decades during peacetime...makes you wonder what they left behind :)
