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Warning 2: References to abuse.
Hey everyone! ^^
Here’s some headcanons for my Huntsman!Starscream prompt about Starscream’s relationship with some RWBY characters and some additional headcanons.
Now, if anyone want to use the prompt, keep in mind that the use of those headcanons is not an obligation.
If you want to use all the headcanons in your take of the prompt: go ahead!
If you want to use only some of those headcanons: go ahead!
And if you want to use none of those headcanons and use your own ideas: go ahead! ^^
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->Summer Rose:
-Summer played an important role into Starscream’s determination to change as she was the first person who wanted to genuinely help him.
-When she was alive, Summer and Starscream were really close.
-The two formed a brother-sister bond when Starscream left Cybertron for Renmant with team STRQ.
-Back on when team STRQ was stuck on Cybertron, Summer protected Starscream from been beat up again by Megatron after an argument over a plan to destroy the Grimms.
-Summer called Starscream “Star” as a nickname.
-Summer’s death deeply affected Starscream.
->Taiyang Xiao Long:
-At first Taiyang was wary of Starscream but he trusted Summer so he go along with helping Starscream whenever he was injured.
-Through team STRQ’s stay on Cybertron, Taiyang became more comfortable with Starscream and end up sympathizing with him.
-Nowdays: ever since Starscream started a new life in Renmant, both him and Taiyang became closer as friends and Taiyang even consider Starscream as a part of the family.
-After Summer’s death, Starscream and Taiyang supported each other through their mourning despite some hard times because of their sadness over Summer’s death.
-Starscream helped Taiyang to raise Ruby and Yang, and with Qrow the three of them were like a “dads team”.( Like “Three men and a baby” vides)
->Qrow Branwen:
-During team STRQ’s time on Cybertron Qrow didn’t trust Starscream and kept an eye on him in case he try something funny.
-Qrow would often tease Starscream and taunt him which resulted in comical(?) situations in which Summer and Taiyang had to restrain an enraged Starscream from jumping at Qrow’s troat.
-The two would often snipe at each other, Qrow calling Starscream “Screamer” to taunt him and Starscream calling him “Bird brain” in return and throw snarky remarks at each other.
-Nowdays: After the team’s time on Cybertron and Starscream started a new life on Renmant, his and Qrow’s relationship became better and the two became good friends.
-The two still tease each other but in a more friendly way and the nicknames “Screamer” and “Bird brain” became friends nicknames.
->Raven Branwen:
-Out of all team STRQ back on Cybertron, Raven was the one who didn’t trust Starscream at all.
-She kept a very close eye on Starscream and would be have the “I got my eye on you” attitude toward him.
-After the team left Cybertron and Starscream goes with them to Renmant Raven’s opinion about Starscream became neutral, the two got respect for each other and while Raven don’t completly trust him and isn’t really close with him they are at least on more understanding ground.
-Nowdays: The relationship between Starscream and Raven became rather rocky mostly ‘cause Starscream wasn’t very happy about Raven going MIA and abandoning Yang.
->Starscream’s huntsmen team teammates(who are those teammates is up to whoever who use the prompt):
-Since Starscream is, well, Starscream, his first times with his huntsmen team weren’t the best.
-Because of his arrogance and stubborness he often not worked with his teammates as a team which caused some team relationships problems.
-He eventually learned to work with his teammates and to contribute to build a good team work.
-With time, Starscream and his team formed a good team and created a strong friendship and end up being one of the best hunters teams in Beacon.
-(Whoever who use this prompt can decide if Starscream is the leader of the team or not)
->Ozpin:
-When they first meet, Ozpin was intrigued by Starscream, after all having one of your huntsmen team bring back with them someone who was apparently from another world after they disappeared for a while wasn’t something which happen everyday.
-After seeing Starscream’s skills in the science field and warrior field, Ozpin saw his potential as an opportunity and made Starscream part of an huntsmen team and also hired him as a teacher at Beacon.(And it’s also to keep an eye on him just in case)
-Ozpin give Starscream a his agreement for his studies on Dust and use of Cybertronian technology which permit Starscream to develop advanced technologies and equipements which was very profitable for Renmant’s cities and huntsmen against Grimms.
-Starscream respect Ozpin for his abilities as a leader and strategist.
-However as much Starscream respect Ozpin, he is very frustrated with Ozpin’s habit to keep many secrets from everyone.
->Glynda Goodwitch:
-Glynda wasn’t fond of Starscream when she met him, especially after learning about his “not very glorious past”.
-She was very suspiscious of him and had shared her concern to Ozpin about hiring Starscream as a teacher at the academy and permit him to join a huntsmen team to which Ozpin responded to her that while he took her concern into account he believe that team STRQ wouldn’t bring back with them someone who would bring danger to Renmant.
-Starscream’s bad attitude during his first time on Renmant didn’t made Glynda’s opinion better, to her he was insufferable and annoying.
-Everytime Starscream tried to get “familiar” with her and call her by her first name to which Glynda everytime respond coldly to him “That’s Miss Goodwitch to you!”.
-Nowdays: With Starscream’s progressive change of attitude, Glynda kind off warned up to him and kind off trust him and permit him to call her “Glynda”, however, she still find him annoying when Starscream get cocky.
->Beacon’s teachers:
-Peter port: Starscream isn’t very fond of Port, to him he is an annoying fool who took things too lightly.
-He also don’t appreciate at all Port flirting with the female students, especially Yang.(“I don’t care if it’s just play flirting, this idiot better stay away from my niece!”)
-Bartholomew Oobleck: Starscream respect Oobleck for his abilities as an hunter and appreciate his knowledge anthousiasm.
-Ooobleck as for him is very interested about Starscream’s homeworld’s history and they often had conversations together about Cybertron, it culture, history ect…
->Ruby Rose:
-Ruby love her uncle deeply, Starscream had took care of Yang and her since they were very young with their father and Qrow, to her he is a part of the family.
-When Ruby and Yang were younger, Starscream told them a lot of stories about Cybertron, the Autobots and the Decepticons, the adventures of team STRQ on Cybertron(with Qrow and Taiyang participating in the story telling for this one) ect…
-When Ruby became interested into huntsman weapons, Starscream encouraged her, teaching her all he know about weapons, their conceptions, their use ect… leading Ruby to become the weapon nerd we all know.
-Starscream even helped Ruby to create Crescent Rose by helping her tocreate the blueprints.
-Ruby and Yang sometimes try to play matchmakers and to find “the one” for their uncle when the occasion seem to appear, Ruby even had a notebook with written inside all what Yang and her found about what is Starscream’s type for a romantic partner.
->Yang Xiao Long:
-Just like Ruby, Yang love her uncle very much.
-She loved her uncle’s stories about the Autobots and the Decepticons to the point that when she got her bike she name it Bumblebee since it was yellow and black like the Autobot scout from Starscream’s stories. (“You realise that Bumblebee’s transformation wasn’t a bike right?” “Come on uncle Starscream! They’re both yellow and black and super awesome, that’s what matter!”)
-She and Ruby are partners in their matchmaking quest to “help” their uncle to find “the one”.
-Like with Ruby, Starscream taught Yang everything he know.
-Starscream is very protective toward Yang when it came to romantic relationships, he doesn’t like when someone hit on Yang nor when Yang herself hit on someone(for this part he even pull the “no dating till you’re married” non-sense, with Taiyang’s approval)
-(“No dating until you’re married young lady!” “What?! But that doesn’t make sense! How the married part could happen if I can’t even-” “NOT. UNTIL. YOU’RE. MARRIED!”)
->Weiss Schnee:
-Since Starscream’s new form in Renmant is a bird faunus, Weiss was wary of him at first.
-She show him respect like she do with the other teachers of Beacon but she was conflicted about how to feel about him.
-However, Starscream was a good teacher, despite being strict, and step by step and with time Weiss end up having genuine respect for him.
->Blake Belladona:
-Blake respect Starscream as a teacher, she’s very interested by his lessons and appreciate his no-nonsense teaching.
-She also respect him for not hidding he is a faunus and standing up for others faunus or not faunus alike.
-Starscream consider Blake as one of his best students.
-When Blake’s faunus identity was revealed, Starscream had a talk with her as her teacher and when she comfess feeling like a coward Starscream explained to her that real cowards justify their cowardice while she doesn’t and that she’s more brave than she think, much to Blake’s sceptiscism.
->Team JNPR:
-Starscream found out about Jaune’s false application and reported it to Ozpin, only to learn that Ozpin was aware of that but still permited Jaune to become a student 'cause he feel in Jaune a potential as a huntsman.
-With this knowledge, Starscream is particuliary strict with Jaune in class, not to discourage him and push him to quit the academy, but to on the contrary “encourage him” to push himself to work hard to make the best of himself and develop this “potential” Ozpin saw in Jaune.
-Althrough Nora isn’t a bad student, Starscream tend to find her a “bit overwhelming”.
-To Starscream Ren is a good student and very studious, the latter sometimes go talk to him after class to ask him questions about his lessons.
-As for Pyrrha, Starscream consider her as one of his best students, he is very interested by her magnetic abilities and sometimes, with her agreement, they meet up at his office so he can study her semblance.
->James Ironwood:
-Ironwood and Starscream met for the first time during a mission which invloved huntsmen teams from Beacon and teams from Atlas against a big invesion of Grimms who were attacking cities.
-Ironwood wasn’t sure what to think of Starscream, on one hand he was a very capable and competant huntsman but on the other hand his attitude was just so frustrating.
-His opinion about Starscream became more positive when during a fight against Grimms, Starscream saved his life when he was about to get fataly injured by a Grimm.
-Nowdays: After the mission both Ironwood and Starscream get on better terms, seeing each other as good friends through the years.
-Over the years a trust bond was built between them, if asked Ironwood would even tell he trust Starscream with his life.
->White Fang:
-The White Fang remind Starscream a bit too much of the Decepticons: a group which form to fight oppression but end up becoming corrupted.
-Since Starscream is a Faunus in Renmant, White Fang tried to “recruit” him during fights against them, to which Starscream is always like “NOPE!”
-Everytime Starscream hear about White Fang’s crimes he get uncomfortable flashbacks of the Decepticons and Megatron.
Additional headcanons:
-When he started a new life in Renmant, Starscream embraced back his scientist side and contributed to the developpement of new technologies in Renmant.
-Ex 1: With his studies on Dust, Starscream created “Dust pills” which, when eaten, can temporary incrase someone’s abilities or give abilities.
-Ex 2: Starscream helped to develop new weapons to fight Grimms, he even helped Ironwood and Pietro with the creation of Penny.
-When Yang and Ruby were younger, they fed Zwei with experimentals Dust pills that Starscream created and tested, and by so were safe, because they wanted to see what a cute and badass dog would be like but due to have been fed with a lot of Dust pills, and being experimental pills, they had a wierd effect on Zwei which make him had and Aura and made his abilities permanent, althrough Starscream was intrigued by this turn of events, he and Taiyang still grounded both Yand and Ruby for “having been reckless”.
-In his class, Starscream as one important rule: if one student messed up, like breaking rules for exemple, the whole team get punished, this is to teach the students about how actions/decisions of one or some members always impact on the whole team and by so they must be careful on what they do and think about the consequences their actions could bring to their team.
-Due to their horrible behaviors, Cardin and the rest of team CRDL are one of the teams, even maybe THE team, who got the most punished in Starscream’s class.
-With his knowledge of cybertronian tech and biology, Starscream helped to advance mechashift weapons like Ruby’s and Yang’s to new heights, allowing for them to compact even more when not in use. ((Idea from Alpinemaster on AO3, thanks for the idea! ^^)
