*Auspex glances at him sidelong, moving her hand over to rest her helm against it* Innocence? No one was talking about innocence. Starscream is hardly that, except in perhaps some very far-flung dimension. They had only remarked that their Starscream shared the same concern that they and I feel, for a spark that they cannot find. I only mentioned that I had seen such concern from another Starscream that I know. You are extrapolating too much from a few simple statements.

I'm not sure why it seems so impossible to you, but everyone has such emotions about someone, and petty grievances no longer seem as important as they once were, when a spark is one with all other sparks. It is not a change of personality, but of perspective.