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PLAYER INFORMATION-
Name/Nickname: Moria
AIM/E-mail/Contact: AIM: standbackufools ; Plurk: standbackufools
LJ: leviathan_prod
I am over the age of eighteen.
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Dinobot, Transformer: Beast Wars
In-Game Name: Dinobot
Age: He’s unsure, really. He was in stasis mode for quite a while. On Cybertron, he was fully adult, and had been operational for about two hundred years before falling into stasis lock and sleeping.
Gender: Technically none, but Male for all intents and purposes
Position & Ship: Quartermaster, Convoy
Appearance: Dinobot has two modes of physical appearance, Robot and Beast Mode.
Robot Mode: Standing at about 8 and half feet tall, Dinobot’s robot form is mostly humanoid, but boxy. His arms appear well muscled, and colored in the same striped way as his Beast Mode. He has five thin, claw-like digits on each hand, two of which are opposeable . His face is bright blue with optical sensors that are normally red, but can also glow green. His teeth are thin and very pointy, and it looks like he has more than the standard 32. He has a helmet-type headpiece, with two pointed audials and a medallion in the center. The head of his Beast Mode decorates his chest, and his legs and lower chest are covered in rib-like armor protrusions. Overall, his outer armor is silver and brass in color, with blue ‘skin’ on his face and chest beneath the velociraptor head.
Beast Mode: He’s a velociraptor. Think Jurassic Park. That’s pretty much it. He has mostly light brown skin with dark brown stripes and lots of shiny sharp silvery-white teeth. From tail to nose, he’s about 7ft long.
Personality: Dinobot would have fit perfectly well in the company of the Knights of old. Or a Shakespearean play. He is a warrior first and foremost, and everything else is secondary. Dinobot has an extreme sense of honor and will do whatever it takes to ensure that his actions are just and honorable. A side effect of this is that he is hot-tempered, impatient, and very quick to take offense at even the slightest provocation. He does not take to being trolled well AT ALL, and will not hesitation to draw his sword and demand satisfaction.
Loving a good fight, Dinobot’s thirst for battle is almost unquenchable. This works out well for him because he is a very good fighter. Dinobot was created as a Predacon, and so when faced with a problem, he will look for the violent solution first. Even if no longer around his former comrades, he is still very much a Predacon in his mind, and has trouble understanding why Autobots and Humans tend to spend so much time talking instead of doing. He also struggles with the idea of long term peace. To his mind, war is the only true way to survive. This does not mean that he is stupid. An apt student of military history, he is adept and capable of devising complex and well thought-out battle strategies.
His honor is, like the rest of him, Predacon, and therefore extremely complex. Dying gloriously and in battle ranks as the most honorable thing one can possibly do, and so is ultimately what Dinobot strives for. In battle, he will always try to see to it that he fights his opponent on as equal ground as possible. If his opponent is unarmed, he will not use weapons. If his opponent stumbles and almost falls off a cliff, he will save the opponent, because to win a fight from something like that would be only a hollow victory. He prefers to beat his opponents the old fashioned way- brutally as as fairly as possible. That way, his victories are all the more impressive.
Dinobot can be a bit hypocritical sometimes. He lives for honor, but is perfectly willing to be very sneaky and underhanded once in a while if it will help him achieve his ultimate goal. He is not above deception, of course, being Decepticon. (It’s kind of required.) He is fully capable of putting his elaborate honor system on hold to: pretend to form alliances, lure people into false senses of security, flat out lie and then completely crush them later. It’s all part of being Dinobot. If it gets him closer to achieving his personal goals, he’s even willing to put his own team members at risk, sowing seeds of dissent and spreading rumor and hearsay that he knows will cause others to make stupid mistakes. He can be extremely manipulative.
When it comes to betrayal... well, that’s complicated. To a Predacon, treachery is not necessarily a bad thing, as it keeps the mind sharp. Dinobot’s honor, therefore, does not preclude betrayal, as long as it is done for reasons that will allow him to get closer to his goals. It should be noted, though, that if he later feels he made the wrong decision, he may feel guilty enough to consider committing seppuku, though he will never actually do it. He considers it too cowardly.
One of the driving forces behind Dinobot’s honor is his belief that destiny has one truly great test of character in store for everyone. He, of course, wishes to pass his, but this belief causes him to have second thoughts about quite a few of his choices. Much as he would like to appear otherwise, Dinobot does not live without doubt. He has wrestled multiple times with the idea of whether everything is only fate or if he can change the future. This question plagues him, and has led to making many bad decisions over the course of his life. He is well aware of this, and he does his best to atone for those as well he can. He has a flair for the dramatic (meaning he can be quite a Diva), which is only enhanced by his tendency to quote Hamlet at various intervals. Dinobot lacks any peace of mind that usually comes with being a warrior who lives for honor. If something does not go according to his plan, or even the way he thinks it should go, he’ll let everyone know about it and then go off and brood. He’s even been known to panic when things go really wrong, and has needed to be forcibly calmed on more than one occasion.
Very sarcastic, he will not hesitate to tell you when he thinks you’re doing something wrong or when told to do something he considers ‘beneath him.’ He’ll still do it, begrudgingly, but he’ll let you know he doesn’t like it. Sure that any way other than the way he would do things is wrong, Dinobot is always of the opinion that he would make a much better leader than whoever is in charge. To this end, he has a problem with authority, and will be very happy to challenge it whenever possible. He is also infuriatingly stubborn, and will refuse to give way on even the simplest of opinions. If it comes to the point of trading blows, so much the better.
He does not trust or make friends easily. Because of his long history as a Predacon, Dinobot tends to see the worst in people, but he also has a very clear understanding of how sneaky, underhanded people operate, and can provide helpful insight when dealing with said types of people.
If you are one of the few he considers actually worth respecting and/or listening to, count yourself lucky. He will fight with you and be your comrade, and even risk being injured for you if he likes you enough. Earning his respect is hard. Earning his hate, however, is relatively easy. If you hurt him or one of those on his side, he will come after you, and come after you HARD. He does not let go of a grudge lightly.
He will never concede defeat, not even when faced with extreme odds and no hope of survival. That is, after all, what Dinobot ultimately wants out of life: the chance to die gloriously and with honor in battle.
Abilities/Weapons: As a warrior well known for his fighting prowess, Dinobot is skilled in most forms of combat. He is proficient in using guns and similar machines, but prefers close range combat whenever possible. In Beast Mode, his velociraptor instincts prove quite useful in a fight, and he is quite capable of defeating (and, on one remarkable occasion, consuming) an enemy of the same size and stature with just claws, teeth, and tail.
When Dinobot transforms to robot mode, a number of the features of his Beast Mode become useful weapons. His tail converts into a two-pronged blade/shield that rapidly rotates. He uses this most commonly to deflect enemy fire, but he can also batter his opponents with it, and on rare occasions has even used it to provide a controlled descent from a great height. He also wields a segmented sword, the segments of which spin in opposite directions. When not in use, it is sheathed within his spine.
A side effect of the mana crystals fused to his programming also give Dinobot a rather unique ability: he can emit beams of pure mana from his eyes. These beams are green in color and act like low-power laser beams. They are able to obliterate inanimate objects such as rocks or trees, but the beams have a much different effect on humans and demi-humans. They are not powerful enough to kill anyone directly, but they are strong enough to stun and throw a person back if fired at a close enough range. Dinobot mainly only uses them for distance fighting, but they are only effective at a distance of about two hundred feet or so. Any farther than that and they lose their strength and are more likely to miss completely.
How well can your character hack?: Medium. As a Cybertronian, Dinobot can interface directly with a journal, but the technology on Reial is largely alien to him, and he does not have the luxury of having spent much time with humans willing to teach him. In Beast Mode, he fares little better, but can operate a journal with his claws enough to make a voice post.
Weaknesses:
Like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, Dinobot requires Energon in order to properly function. If he goes without it for too long, he will slip into stasis mode. This is a fail-safe mechanism, but being in stasis mode makes him unresponsive, akin to being in a coma. He can consume Energon directly, or hook up to a recharge berth overnight.
Denouement altered Dinobot’s programming, forcing his Predacon body to require a Beast Mode. More than an hour or so spent in his Robot Mode at one time will cause Dinobot to go into involuntary stasis lock unless he reverts to Beast Mode.
Although the mana crystals gave him the eye-laser ability, this did not come without its own setbacks. As Dinobot has not had this ability for long, it is a bit unreliable, and shots can go wide. They can also backfire on him and cause him (and his opponent, usually) to be thrown back several feet. This weapon also rapidly depletes his Energon levels. He can only use a few shots at a time before being forced to revert to Beast Mode or else going into stasis lock. Should he take on heavy damage during a fight, the ability will wear off even sooner, and cause him to lose even more energy. He supposes that as he becomes more comfortable with their use, he will get better and better at firing them and be able to use more shots before causing stasis lock, but for now he vastly prefers not having to use them whenever possible.
History:
Long ago on the floating isle of Cybertron, a Great War was fought between the giant robot factions of Autobots and Decepticons. The Decepticons lived only for conquest and destruction, and the Autobots did their best to stop them from completely destroying their continent. In an attempt to tip the odds in their respective favors, newer and more powerful weaponry was created by both sides. This included new arms and more importantly, newer and badder robots.
The Decepticons were the first to discover how to integrate the matrices of the inorganic robots into organic shapes. Now new Decepticons could be built with the ability to transform into animal forms- called Beast Modes. The result of this was an new, elite shock-troop subset of Decepticon: the Predacons. Not to be outdone, the Autobots quickly developed their own equivalent of such troops, and called them Maximals.
From the ranks of the newly created Predacons came Dinobot, who clawed his way to the top of notoriety for his supreme capabilities as a warrior. More striking still was his reputation for having one of the highest senses of military honor. The Decepticon council took note of this, and gave him a small squadron to command. He trained them well in the ways of the warrior, and he and his group won small victory after small victory. For the next two hundred years or so as Dinobot grew from sparkling to full adult, his warrior instincts were even further sharpened, and the missions he was given became of more and more strategic importance.
Eventually he was given what would become the most important mission of his life, both for its strategic note and, more importantly for Dinobot, the opportunity for true glory on the battlefield. He and his squad were ordered at all costs to personally destroy the prestigious leader of the Autobots: Optimus Prime.
The resulting battle was climactic: a battle to end all battles... quite literally. The continent - severely depleted of almost all its resources, could no longer take the repeated blasts of the ravages of war. Unable to handle the strain of such an epic battle, Cybertron shattered. Ironically, the only piece of the continent to remain aloft was the battlefield, but the resulting shock knocked all of the robots on it offline, and forced them into stasis mode.
For many years, maybe centuries, maybe longer, Dinobot and the other Cybertronians slept. One day a team of scientists and explorers, representatives of the Philosophers of Reial, stumbled upon the remains of Cybertron and its slumbering inhabitants. Seeking to use such advanced technology for their own twisted purposes, the Denouement scientists took a few of the robots back to their home continent with the ultimate goal of rebuilding them.
Their first experiments with the largest and strongest-looking robot- Optimus Prime- ended rather badly for the Philosophers. He and the smaller bot they had reactivated at the same time managed to escape from their clutches. But one or two mistakes was not enough to deter the Philosophers from their goal, not when the gains stood to be so monumentally rewarding.
They tried again, this time with a slightly smaller robot who had been found near Optimus, who looked reasonably tough but perhaps slightly more manageable- Dinobot. Learning from their mistakes with Optimus Prime, they kept him in stasis for as long as possible, and tampered with his programing. They managed to fuse mana crystals directly into his programming, forcing his body to require having a Beast Mode, which had always been only optional before. Their reasoning was that if he would be unable to remain in Robot Mode for longer than an hour or two before having to revert to Beast Mode, he would be easier to control. Or at least that was the idea.
The scientists, being war-crazed, obsessed men of Science, decided that since Dinobot needed a beast mode, why not give his sensors the most bad-ass selection of ground-based animals they could? They took his still unconscious form to the island jungle of Kagatau. They could not have known that Dinobot’s sensors would have activated as soon as he arrived on the island. They also couldn’t have known that the shock of acquiring a new Beast Mode would jar the Predacon out of stasis. And certainly they could never have predicted that a very bewildered but very angry velociraptor would suddenly wake up ready to kick ass and take names.
...Needless to say, it went rather badly for the scientists.
Dinobot managed to control his ire long enough to detain and question one of the unfortunate men of Science about where he was, why he was a dinosaur and who had had the audacity to tamper with his programming. Most importantly, he learned that Optimus Prime had also been awakened, had stolen a ship built with Cybertronian programming, and was now out and about somewhere on the main island. Swearing revenge on all of Denouement for such vile mistreatment of him, he took the stores of Energon the unfortunate scientists had brought with them, and disappeared into the jungles of Kagatau.
He spent several months trying to unsuccessfully take over the entire island. He was not unsuccessful because of any lack of military brilliance... it was more that he eventually became extremely frustrated that he could not find any life intelligent enough to follow his orders. It didn’t seem to matter how many giant three toed sloths he killed to make a point, even the native velociraptors seemed unable to comprehend that he was now their supreme leader. Finally, he gave up. He was not admitting defeat, but he was running dangerously low on Energon. Fortunately, he was aware there was another source that was his for the taking....
Another, perfectly innocent exploration vehicle came to study the native life of Kagatau. Dinobot, who of course has a warrior’s mentality and believes that there are no innocents in war, quickly took over the ship by particularly violent means, and was able to leave the island of Kagatau. Arriving on the main continent of Reial, he set about completing his new set of goals: tracing the energy signature of Optimus Prime, take command of the new ship, and wage all out war upon his new hated enemy: Denouement. If completing his new goal happens to involve taking out Optimus Prime.... well, as long as it’s honorable, he’s okay with that.
SAMPLES-
Third Person (roleplay):
From atop a tree in the jungles of Kagatau, Dinobot allowed himself a grim smile. At last! His quarry was nearly in his grasp. Finally he could be rid of this miserable island and its crude, ignorant life forms. Life forms too stupid to even recognize his supremacy! The native organic velociraptors in particular... Dinobot snarled. You’d think their brains were only the size of a small legume! But enough of such idiocy! His goal was in sight. He would not be denied! He watched the small band of explorers pile out of their puny aircraft... a small one, but it would serve his purposes well enough. The last was leaving, and.... now!
“Dinobot, Terrorize!” He yelled his activation code and leaped from the tree, changing from Beast Mode to Robot as he fell, and grabbed his sword out of its sheath in his spine.
He made quick work of them all, even those that screamed in terror. Wiping his blade upon some grass, he sneered at these weak, pathetic organics as he boarded their ship- his real objective. “Such mewling, whimpering cries... you cannot even die honorably!”
Victorious, he smirked at the forested island as it shrank into the distance, and could not help but wax poetic. “That it should come to this! ...How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
First Person (journal):
[Voice]
Blast this infernal machine to slag! Whoever designed this useless, worthless pile of metal ought to be--
[realizes the journal is working now]
Greetings, organics. I am Dinobot, once a Predacon, but now Predacon no more. I, like our esteemed Captain [can you hear the sarcasm?] come from the world of Cybertron, and I am your new Quartermaster.
I’m certain I will find you all exceedingly disappointing. Prove me wrong, if you can. And a word to the wise: let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for
that's villainous, and shows a most ...pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Dinobot out.
[translation: don’t troll me or I’ll bite your damned head off.]
Name/Nickname: Moria
AIM/E-mail/Contact: AIM: standbackufools ; Plurk: standbackufools
LJ: leviathan_prod
I am over the age of eighteen.
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Dinobot, Transformer: Beast Wars
In-Game Name: Dinobot
Age: He’s unsure, really. He was in stasis mode for quite a while. On Cybertron, he was fully adult, and had been operational for about two hundred years before falling into stasis lock and sleeping.
Gender: Technically none, but Male for all intents and purposes
Position & Ship: Quartermaster, Convoy
Appearance: Dinobot has two modes of physical appearance, Robot and Beast Mode.
Robot Mode: Standing at about 8 and half feet tall, Dinobot’s robot form is mostly humanoid, but boxy. His arms appear well muscled, and colored in the same striped way as his Beast Mode. He has five thin, claw-like digits on each hand, two of which are opposeable . His face is bright blue with optical sensors that are normally red, but can also glow green. His teeth are thin and very pointy, and it looks like he has more than the standard 32. He has a helmet-type headpiece, with two pointed audials and a medallion in the center. The head of his Beast Mode decorates his chest, and his legs and lower chest are covered in rib-like armor protrusions. Overall, his outer armor is silver and brass in color, with blue ‘skin’ on his face and chest beneath the velociraptor head.
Beast Mode: He’s a velociraptor. Think Jurassic Park. That’s pretty much it. He has mostly light brown skin with dark brown stripes and lots of shiny sharp silvery-white teeth. From tail to nose, he’s about 7ft long.
Personality: Dinobot would have fit perfectly well in the company of the Knights of old. Or a Shakespearean play. He is a warrior first and foremost, and everything else is secondary. Dinobot has an extreme sense of honor and will do whatever it takes to ensure that his actions are just and honorable. A side effect of this is that he is hot-tempered, impatient, and very quick to take offense at even the slightest provocation. He does not take to being trolled well AT ALL, and will not hesitation to draw his sword and demand satisfaction.
Loving a good fight, Dinobot’s thirst for battle is almost unquenchable. This works out well for him because he is a very good fighter. Dinobot was created as a Predacon, and so when faced with a problem, he will look for the violent solution first. Even if no longer around his former comrades, he is still very much a Predacon in his mind, and has trouble understanding why Autobots and Humans tend to spend so much time talking instead of doing. He also struggles with the idea of long term peace. To his mind, war is the only true way to survive. This does not mean that he is stupid. An apt student of military history, he is adept and capable of devising complex and well thought-out battle strategies.
His honor is, like the rest of him, Predacon, and therefore extremely complex. Dying gloriously and in battle ranks as the most honorable thing one can possibly do, and so is ultimately what Dinobot strives for. In battle, he will always try to see to it that he fights his opponent on as equal ground as possible. If his opponent is unarmed, he will not use weapons. If his opponent stumbles and almost falls off a cliff, he will save the opponent, because to win a fight from something like that would be only a hollow victory. He prefers to beat his opponents the old fashioned way- brutally as as fairly as possible. That way, his victories are all the more impressive.
Dinobot can be a bit hypocritical sometimes. He lives for honor, but is perfectly willing to be very sneaky and underhanded once in a while if it will help him achieve his ultimate goal. He is not above deception, of course, being Decepticon. (It’s kind of required.) He is fully capable of putting his elaborate honor system on hold to: pretend to form alliances, lure people into false senses of security, flat out lie and then completely crush them later. It’s all part of being Dinobot. If it gets him closer to achieving his personal goals, he’s even willing to put his own team members at risk, sowing seeds of dissent and spreading rumor and hearsay that he knows will cause others to make stupid mistakes. He can be extremely manipulative.
When it comes to betrayal... well, that’s complicated. To a Predacon, treachery is not necessarily a bad thing, as it keeps the mind sharp. Dinobot’s honor, therefore, does not preclude betrayal, as long as it is done for reasons that will allow him to get closer to his goals. It should be noted, though, that if he later feels he made the wrong decision, he may feel guilty enough to consider committing seppuku, though he will never actually do it. He considers it too cowardly.
One of the driving forces behind Dinobot’s honor is his belief that destiny has one truly great test of character in store for everyone. He, of course, wishes to pass his, but this belief causes him to have second thoughts about quite a few of his choices. Much as he would like to appear otherwise, Dinobot does not live without doubt. He has wrestled multiple times with the idea of whether everything is only fate or if he can change the future. This question plagues him, and has led to making many bad decisions over the course of his life. He is well aware of this, and he does his best to atone for those as well he can. He has a flair for the dramatic (meaning he can be quite a Diva), which is only enhanced by his tendency to quote Hamlet at various intervals. Dinobot lacks any peace of mind that usually comes with being a warrior who lives for honor. If something does not go according to his plan, or even the way he thinks it should go, he’ll let everyone know about it and then go off and brood. He’s even been known to panic when things go really wrong, and has needed to be forcibly calmed on more than one occasion.
Very sarcastic, he will not hesitate to tell you when he thinks you’re doing something wrong or when told to do something he considers ‘beneath him.’ He’ll still do it, begrudgingly, but he’ll let you know he doesn’t like it. Sure that any way other than the way he would do things is wrong, Dinobot is always of the opinion that he would make a much better leader than whoever is in charge. To this end, he has a problem with authority, and will be very happy to challenge it whenever possible. He is also infuriatingly stubborn, and will refuse to give way on even the simplest of opinions. If it comes to the point of trading blows, so much the better.
He does not trust or make friends easily. Because of his long history as a Predacon, Dinobot tends to see the worst in people, but he also has a very clear understanding of how sneaky, underhanded people operate, and can provide helpful insight when dealing with said types of people.
If you are one of the few he considers actually worth respecting and/or listening to, count yourself lucky. He will fight with you and be your comrade, and even risk being injured for you if he likes you enough. Earning his respect is hard. Earning his hate, however, is relatively easy. If you hurt him or one of those on his side, he will come after you, and come after you HARD. He does not let go of a grudge lightly.
He will never concede defeat, not even when faced with extreme odds and no hope of survival. That is, after all, what Dinobot ultimately wants out of life: the chance to die gloriously and with honor in battle.
Abilities/Weapons: As a warrior well known for his fighting prowess, Dinobot is skilled in most forms of combat. He is proficient in using guns and similar machines, but prefers close range combat whenever possible. In Beast Mode, his velociraptor instincts prove quite useful in a fight, and he is quite capable of defeating (and, on one remarkable occasion, consuming) an enemy of the same size and stature with just claws, teeth, and tail.
When Dinobot transforms to robot mode, a number of the features of his Beast Mode become useful weapons. His tail converts into a two-pronged blade/shield that rapidly rotates. He uses this most commonly to deflect enemy fire, but he can also batter his opponents with it, and on rare occasions has even used it to provide a controlled descent from a great height. He also wields a segmented sword, the segments of which spin in opposite directions. When not in use, it is sheathed within his spine.
A side effect of the mana crystals fused to his programming also give Dinobot a rather unique ability: he can emit beams of pure mana from his eyes. These beams are green in color and act like low-power laser beams. They are able to obliterate inanimate objects such as rocks or trees, but the beams have a much different effect on humans and demi-humans. They are not powerful enough to kill anyone directly, but they are strong enough to stun and throw a person back if fired at a close enough range. Dinobot mainly only uses them for distance fighting, but they are only effective at a distance of about two hundred feet or so. Any farther than that and they lose their strength and are more likely to miss completely.
How well can your character hack?: Medium. As a Cybertronian, Dinobot can interface directly with a journal, but the technology on Reial is largely alien to him, and he does not have the luxury of having spent much time with humans willing to teach him. In Beast Mode, he fares little better, but can operate a journal with his claws enough to make a voice post.
Weaknesses:
Like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, Dinobot requires Energon in order to properly function. If he goes without it for too long, he will slip into stasis mode. This is a fail-safe mechanism, but being in stasis mode makes him unresponsive, akin to being in a coma. He can consume Energon directly, or hook up to a recharge berth overnight.
Denouement altered Dinobot’s programming, forcing his Predacon body to require a Beast Mode. More than an hour or so spent in his Robot Mode at one time will cause Dinobot to go into involuntary stasis lock unless he reverts to Beast Mode.
Although the mana crystals gave him the eye-laser ability, this did not come without its own setbacks. As Dinobot has not had this ability for long, it is a bit unreliable, and shots can go wide. They can also backfire on him and cause him (and his opponent, usually) to be thrown back several feet. This weapon also rapidly depletes his Energon levels. He can only use a few shots at a time before being forced to revert to Beast Mode or else going into stasis lock. Should he take on heavy damage during a fight, the ability will wear off even sooner, and cause him to lose even more energy. He supposes that as he becomes more comfortable with their use, he will get better and better at firing them and be able to use more shots before causing stasis lock, but for now he vastly prefers not having to use them whenever possible.
History:
Long ago on the floating isle of Cybertron, a Great War was fought between the giant robot factions of Autobots and Decepticons. The Decepticons lived only for conquest and destruction, and the Autobots did their best to stop them from completely destroying their continent. In an attempt to tip the odds in their respective favors, newer and more powerful weaponry was created by both sides. This included new arms and more importantly, newer and badder robots.
The Decepticons were the first to discover how to integrate the matrices of the inorganic robots into organic shapes. Now new Decepticons could be built with the ability to transform into animal forms- called Beast Modes. The result of this was an new, elite shock-troop subset of Decepticon: the Predacons. Not to be outdone, the Autobots quickly developed their own equivalent of such troops, and called them Maximals.
From the ranks of the newly created Predacons came Dinobot, who clawed his way to the top of notoriety for his supreme capabilities as a warrior. More striking still was his reputation for having one of the highest senses of military honor. The Decepticon council took note of this, and gave him a small squadron to command. He trained them well in the ways of the warrior, and he and his group won small victory after small victory. For the next two hundred years or so as Dinobot grew from sparkling to full adult, his warrior instincts were even further sharpened, and the missions he was given became of more and more strategic importance.
Eventually he was given what would become the most important mission of his life, both for its strategic note and, more importantly for Dinobot, the opportunity for true glory on the battlefield. He and his squad were ordered at all costs to personally destroy the prestigious leader of the Autobots: Optimus Prime.
The resulting battle was climactic: a battle to end all battles... quite literally. The continent - severely depleted of almost all its resources, could no longer take the repeated blasts of the ravages of war. Unable to handle the strain of such an epic battle, Cybertron shattered. Ironically, the only piece of the continent to remain aloft was the battlefield, but the resulting shock knocked all of the robots on it offline, and forced them into stasis mode.
For many years, maybe centuries, maybe longer, Dinobot and the other Cybertronians slept. One day a team of scientists and explorers, representatives of the Philosophers of Reial, stumbled upon the remains of Cybertron and its slumbering inhabitants. Seeking to use such advanced technology for their own twisted purposes, the Denouement scientists took a few of the robots back to their home continent with the ultimate goal of rebuilding them.
Their first experiments with the largest and strongest-looking robot- Optimus Prime- ended rather badly for the Philosophers. He and the smaller bot they had reactivated at the same time managed to escape from their clutches. But one or two mistakes was not enough to deter the Philosophers from their goal, not when the gains stood to be so monumentally rewarding.
They tried again, this time with a slightly smaller robot who had been found near Optimus, who looked reasonably tough but perhaps slightly more manageable- Dinobot. Learning from their mistakes with Optimus Prime, they kept him in stasis for as long as possible, and tampered with his programing. They managed to fuse mana crystals directly into his programming, forcing his body to require having a Beast Mode, which had always been only optional before. Their reasoning was that if he would be unable to remain in Robot Mode for longer than an hour or two before having to revert to Beast Mode, he would be easier to control. Or at least that was the idea.
The scientists, being war-crazed, obsessed men of Science, decided that since Dinobot needed a beast mode, why not give his sensors the most bad-ass selection of ground-based animals they could? They took his still unconscious form to the island jungle of Kagatau. They could not have known that Dinobot’s sensors would have activated as soon as he arrived on the island. They also couldn’t have known that the shock of acquiring a new Beast Mode would jar the Predacon out of stasis. And certainly they could never have predicted that a very bewildered but very angry velociraptor would suddenly wake up ready to kick ass and take names.
...Needless to say, it went rather badly for the scientists.
Dinobot managed to control his ire long enough to detain and question one of the unfortunate men of Science about where he was, why he was a dinosaur and who had had the audacity to tamper with his programming. Most importantly, he learned that Optimus Prime had also been awakened, had stolen a ship built with Cybertronian programming, and was now out and about somewhere on the main island. Swearing revenge on all of Denouement for such vile mistreatment of him, he took the stores of Energon the unfortunate scientists had brought with them, and disappeared into the jungles of Kagatau.
He spent several months trying to unsuccessfully take over the entire island. He was not unsuccessful because of any lack of military brilliance... it was more that he eventually became extremely frustrated that he could not find any life intelligent enough to follow his orders. It didn’t seem to matter how many giant three toed sloths he killed to make a point, even the native velociraptors seemed unable to comprehend that he was now their supreme leader. Finally, he gave up. He was not admitting defeat, but he was running dangerously low on Energon. Fortunately, he was aware there was another source that was his for the taking....
Another, perfectly innocent exploration vehicle came to study the native life of Kagatau. Dinobot, who of course has a warrior’s mentality and believes that there are no innocents in war, quickly took over the ship by particularly violent means, and was able to leave the island of Kagatau. Arriving on the main continent of Reial, he set about completing his new set of goals: tracing the energy signature of Optimus Prime, take command of the new ship, and wage all out war upon his new hated enemy: Denouement. If completing his new goal happens to involve taking out Optimus Prime.... well, as long as it’s honorable, he’s okay with that.
SAMPLES-
Third Person (roleplay):
From atop a tree in the jungles of Kagatau, Dinobot allowed himself a grim smile. At last! His quarry was nearly in his grasp. Finally he could be rid of this miserable island and its crude, ignorant life forms. Life forms too stupid to even recognize his supremacy! The native organic velociraptors in particular... Dinobot snarled. You’d think their brains were only the size of a small legume! But enough of such idiocy! His goal was in sight. He would not be denied! He watched the small band of explorers pile out of their puny aircraft... a small one, but it would serve his purposes well enough. The last was leaving, and.... now!
“Dinobot, Terrorize!” He yelled his activation code and leaped from the tree, changing from Beast Mode to Robot as he fell, and grabbed his sword out of its sheath in his spine.
He made quick work of them all, even those that screamed in terror. Wiping his blade upon some grass, he sneered at these weak, pathetic organics as he boarded their ship- his real objective. “Such mewling, whimpering cries... you cannot even die honorably!”
Victorious, he smirked at the forested island as it shrank into the distance, and could not help but wax poetic. “That it should come to this! ...How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
First Person (journal):
[Voice]
Blast this infernal machine to slag! Whoever designed this useless, worthless pile of metal ought to be--
[realizes the journal is working now]
Greetings, organics. I am Dinobot, once a Predacon, but now Predacon no more. I, like our esteemed Captain [can you hear the sarcasm?] come from the world of Cybertron, and I am your new Quartermaster.
I’m certain I will find you all exceedingly disappointing. Prove me wrong, if you can. And a word to the wise: let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for
that's villainous, and shows a most ...pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Dinobot out.
[translation: don’t troll me or I’ll bite your damned head off.]