App rough draft
IC:
Character name: Blackout
Fandom: Transformers, movie
Timeline: After 2007 movie, to include bits of RoS and Alliance as necessary
Age:oooooooold robot is old.
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
He can transform into a Sikorsky Pave Low helicopter. He has a sonic wave weapon and a laser cannon in his chest (it’s canon, srsly), and if we use the game version, his rotors detach to be weapons-the main rotors are a sword and the tail rotor is a nice spinny choppy blade. He can hack most human computers, and he can survive in space.
At the time I’m canon pulling, he no longer has his symbiont Scorponok. Which makes him sad.
(This is Blackout from canon: I will accept any limitations you want to put on his abilities. I’m more interested in playing his personality than making him a raaarrrr badass, though it’d be nice if he had a teensy bit of that).
How would they use their abilities?:
He’s a combat guy. It’s what he does well. He’s also got a nice roomy cargo bay for moving stuff. And he can lift heavy stuff and reach the high shelves. He has a very strong sense of honor and loyalty, so he will intervene for what he sees is ‘right’ or to defend someone he views as an ally. He can be a bit of a bully, but as we see from canon, he’s more likely to await orders than act on his own.
Appearance:
He’s 33 feet tall, if we keep him to canon, in his bipedal mode, with a large engine mount behind his head, and six long rotors down his back. He’s dark-grey, with very little heavy armor and a lot of exposed cabling-this is because to be able to fly, he has to strip weight. He has red optics.
His alt mode is a Sikorsky Pave Low helicopter. (Stats for that easily provided upon request) tailfin number 4500X.
Background/Personality: (Bayverse canon is amazingly self-contradictory, so I’ll try to parenthetically note which canon source I’m using!)
Blackout was already in the Civil Defense of Cybertron, when the aliens from the Eshems Nebula attacked Metrotitan. He believed in Megatron as a military commander-that military strength was vital to the security of Cybertron.(Planetfall, Defiance) More than that, he believes when Megatron says that military discipline will be the salvation of Cybertron, not only from extra-planetary enemies, but from its own corrupt system, that had demanded the military to fight, but denied them vital resources.
He was brought to Megatron’s attention by his abilities in battle including his sonic disruptor modules, and swiftly became his second. Not that Megatron had any respect for Blackout’s intelligence-the copter isn’t smart-but Megatron does recognize the value in Blackout’s loyalty and combat abilities. (Planetfall)
He was at Tyger Pax when that bastard Optimus doomed Cybertron by sending the Allspark into space. This was his first real run-in with Starscream, who wanted to launch immediately after the Allspark, wanting to wait for orders. Starscream doesn’t think much of him, either. He deploys his symbiont Scorponok, here, to make his point. (All previous from Defiance and Planetfall)
They have a bit of a volatile disagreement later, as well (Ghosts of Yesterday) when Blackout doesn’t think Starscream is, well, trying hard enough to succeed at either of their missions, so he took matters into his own hands. This led to a physical confrontation, which Blackout lost spectacularly.(GoY) This, nor the discovery of Starscream’s lying, did not endear him to the Air Commander. Blackout thinks life sucks enough without lies and trickery. His fellow Decepticons might embrace deception, but he’s too simple and straightforward for that.
They pursued the ship-AND Megatron, as they saw him tear off after it-all the way to Earth, where Blackout was the first to approach and hack the computer systems. He was unimpressed with their firewalls and their firepower. (Don’t ask too much about this: canon source Planetfall and canon source Prequel contradict each other on the when and where!) EVENTUALLY, he hacks details in Qatar to help discover where Megatron is buried. (Though that idiot Barricade and his symbiont were ultimately needed for that, and sweet slaggin’ drag-aft time they took of it).
He fought in the battle to retrieve the Allspark at Mission City, where he had the ignominious shame (not like he knows that big word there) of getting taken out by a human, a lame motorcycle stunt, and a grenade. Yeah, he’s a bit sensitive about that. (Movie) After this charming shuffle off the mortal coil, Blackout’s seemingly (see what I did there?) deactivated frame was taken by Sector Seven for some nice charming rounds of xeno-vivisection as they tried to figure out how he worked. (Alliance)He really doesn’t like humans very much. In his perspective they kept Megatron a prisoner, tortured him extensively, reverse engineered from him, and then he was destroyed, Cybertron’s future lost, and then his own frame tortured/destroyed by these squishy creatures who do not grant him any dignity or agency.
Personalitywise (I’m going to extrapolate from canon while trying to make a character who is fun to play): Strengths and Weaknesses: He is ferociously loyal, to the point of defending something even though he doesn’t agree with it, because he feels loyalty to the person. He isn’t very bright, and he’s aware of others making fun of him for it. And it hurts, mech. It really does. He values a leader who can make a clear decision and pursue it directly. He hates deception. He’s a terrible public speaker, who doesn’t say much, hoping to let that whole ‘actions speak louder than words’ thing do its work.
He feels lost without a mission or someone telling him what to do. Being Megatron’s Hound was the closest thing to heaven for him: he had Megatron’s complete faith in his ability to carry out orders. He had honor and respect. Which is why he’s so keen on getting Megatron back-or in lieu of Megatron, anyone else who will command his loyalty. He takes his confidence almost entirely from other’s esteem of him. He doesn’t mind if that comes from fear.
He’s also lost his symbiont, Scorponok, and is…devastated. Symbionts are half-sentient, able to communicate only in light and color and emotion, and Scorponok was the most intimate friend he’d ever had. Someone who looked up to him, too. He doesn’t understand what happened to Scorponok and fears he may have driven the droneling away, but he can’t figure out how. Or worse, Scorponok might be dead, in which case, he’s the worst symb master ever.
He also (if you’ll let me) remembers ‘dying’ and being thrown into the Laurentian Abyss. (He can, in theory, wake up here from that moment?) He remembers Sector Seven’s experimentation on him, and the callous way they tossed his body, without even bothering to salvage.
These events have managed to shake his confidence-no leader to tell him what to do, no mission, a string of catastrophic failures and the feeling of helplessness at losing his symbiont, at being unable to stop the torture in the experimental lab in Nevada. This makes him an angsty mech, beginning to question who he is and what it’s all about.
Character name: Blackout
Fandom: Transformers, movie
Timeline: After 2007 movie, to include bits of RoS and Alliance as necessary
Age:oooooooold robot is old.
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
He can transform into a Sikorsky Pave Low helicopter. He has a sonic wave weapon and a laser cannon in his chest (it’s canon, srsly), and if we use the game version, his rotors detach to be weapons-the main rotors are a sword and the tail rotor is a nice spinny choppy blade. He can hack most human computers, and he can survive in space.
At the time I’m canon pulling, he no longer has his symbiont Scorponok. Which makes him sad.
(This is Blackout from canon: I will accept any limitations you want to put on his abilities. I’m more interested in playing his personality than making him a raaarrrr badass, though it’d be nice if he had a teensy bit of that).
How would they use their abilities?:
He’s a combat guy. It’s what he does well. He’s also got a nice roomy cargo bay for moving stuff. And he can lift heavy stuff and reach the high shelves. He has a very strong sense of honor and loyalty, so he will intervene for what he sees is ‘right’ or to defend someone he views as an ally. He can be a bit of a bully, but as we see from canon, he’s more likely to await orders than act on his own.
Appearance:
He’s 33 feet tall, if we keep him to canon, in his bipedal mode, with a large engine mount behind his head, and six long rotors down his back. He’s dark-grey, with very little heavy armor and a lot of exposed cabling-this is because to be able to fly, he has to strip weight. He has red optics.
His alt mode is a Sikorsky Pave Low helicopter. (Stats for that easily provided upon request) tailfin number 4500X.
Background/Personality: (Bayverse canon is amazingly self-contradictory, so I’ll try to parenthetically note which canon source I’m using!)
Blackout was already in the Civil Defense of Cybertron, when the aliens from the Eshems Nebula attacked Metrotitan. He believed in Megatron as a military commander-that military strength was vital to the security of Cybertron.(Planetfall, Defiance) More than that, he believes when Megatron says that military discipline will be the salvation of Cybertron, not only from extra-planetary enemies, but from its own corrupt system, that had demanded the military to fight, but denied them vital resources.
He was brought to Megatron’s attention by his abilities in battle including his sonic disruptor modules, and swiftly became his second. Not that Megatron had any respect for Blackout’s intelligence-the copter isn’t smart-but Megatron does recognize the value in Blackout’s loyalty and combat abilities. (Planetfall)
He was at Tyger Pax when that bastard Optimus doomed Cybertron by sending the Allspark into space. This was his first real run-in with Starscream, who wanted to launch immediately after the Allspark, wanting to wait for orders. Starscream doesn’t think much of him, either. He deploys his symbiont Scorponok, here, to make his point. (All previous from Defiance and Planetfall)
They have a bit of a volatile disagreement later, as well (Ghosts of Yesterday) when Blackout doesn’t think Starscream is, well, trying hard enough to succeed at either of their missions, so he took matters into his own hands. This led to a physical confrontation, which Blackout lost spectacularly.(GoY) This, nor the discovery of Starscream’s lying, did not endear him to the Air Commander. Blackout thinks life sucks enough without lies and trickery. His fellow Decepticons might embrace deception, but he’s too simple and straightforward for that.
They pursued the ship-AND Megatron, as they saw him tear off after it-all the way to Earth, where Blackout was the first to approach and hack the computer systems. He was unimpressed with their firewalls and their firepower. (Don’t ask too much about this: canon source Planetfall and canon source Prequel contradict each other on the when and where!) EVENTUALLY, he hacks details in Qatar to help discover where Megatron is buried. (Though that idiot Barricade and his symbiont were ultimately needed for that, and sweet slaggin’ drag-aft time they took of it).
He fought in the battle to retrieve the Allspark at Mission City, where he had the ignominious shame (not like he knows that big word there) of getting taken out by a human, a lame motorcycle stunt, and a grenade. Yeah, he’s a bit sensitive about that. (Movie) After this charming shuffle off the mortal coil, Blackout’s seemingly (see what I did there?) deactivated frame was taken by Sector Seven for some nice charming rounds of xeno-vivisection as they tried to figure out how he worked. (Alliance)He really doesn’t like humans very much. In his perspective they kept Megatron a prisoner, tortured him extensively, reverse engineered from him, and then he was destroyed, Cybertron’s future lost, and then his own frame tortured/destroyed by these squishy creatures who do not grant him any dignity or agency.
Personalitywise (I’m going to extrapolate from canon while trying to make a character who is fun to play): Strengths and Weaknesses: He is ferociously loyal, to the point of defending something even though he doesn’t agree with it, because he feels loyalty to the person. He isn’t very bright, and he’s aware of others making fun of him for it. And it hurts, mech. It really does. He values a leader who can make a clear decision and pursue it directly. He hates deception. He’s a terrible public speaker, who doesn’t say much, hoping to let that whole ‘actions speak louder than words’ thing do its work.
He feels lost without a mission or someone telling him what to do. Being Megatron’s Hound was the closest thing to heaven for him: he had Megatron’s complete faith in his ability to carry out orders. He had honor and respect. Which is why he’s so keen on getting Megatron back-or in lieu of Megatron, anyone else who will command his loyalty. He takes his confidence almost entirely from other’s esteem of him. He doesn’t mind if that comes from fear.
He’s also lost his symbiont, Scorponok, and is…devastated. Symbionts are half-sentient, able to communicate only in light and color and emotion, and Scorponok was the most intimate friend he’d ever had. Someone who looked up to him, too. He doesn’t understand what happened to Scorponok and fears he may have driven the droneling away, but he can’t figure out how. Or worse, Scorponok might be dead, in which case, he’s the worst symb master ever.
He also (if you’ll let me) remembers ‘dying’ and being thrown into the Laurentian Abyss. (He can, in theory, wake up here from that moment?) He remembers Sector Seven’s experimentation on him, and the callous way they tossed his body, without even bothering to salvage.
These events have managed to shake his confidence-no leader to tell him what to do, no mission, a string of catastrophic failures and the feeling of helplessness at losing his symbiont, at being unable to stop the torture in the experimental lab in Nevada. This makes him an angsty mech, beginning to question who he is and what it’s all about.