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Character Information
Character Name: Sunstreaker and Hunter O'nion
Fandom: Transformers (IDW G1 continuity)
Source: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sunstreaker_(G1)#IDW_comics_continuity
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hunter_O'Nion
Character History: Before the war began, Sunstreaker and his brother Sideswipe were among those Cybertronians who regularly visited the Forge, an illegal underground arena where their fellow bots participated in gladiator-style death matches for “fun” and financial gain. When Megatron first arrived on the scene as a warrior in the ring, claiming victory in his initial match, Sunstreaker was there to cheer him on. As the future Decepticon warlord rose among the ranks of the combatants, he began to put out calls for others to join him. Sunstreaker gladly answered, not knowing at the time that the rally was meant to eventually take all comers and turn them into an army at Megatron's command. Despite later joining the Autobot side when the war fully erupted planet-wide, Sunstreaker picked up some valuable experience in the ring during his short stint as a gladiator. This may have helped him prepare for the next step in his life as the Autobots organized to better take on the threat sweeping across Cybertron. Many younger bots found themselves assigned to older mechs for more in-depth training and while he likely did not think himself fortunate at the time, Sunstreaker was lucky to learn from one of the best - a tough, old veteran named Kup. Later on, as he progressed through the ranks, Sunstreaker became Sideswipe's P-3 Training Officer and strike partner. Unfortunately, he also had a bad habit of treating his own brother like a sub-par rookie, damaging their relationship for vorns to come and instilling a deep sense of resentment in his twin.
Following the fall of Cybertron due to the rampage and defeat of Thunderwing (the nearly unstoppable, out of control precursor of Pretender technology), Sunstreaker found himself separated from his brother and assigned to the crew of the Ark-19 under the command of Prowl. First arriving on Earth in 2002, the detachment group set themselves up at the bottom of Lake Michigan with their shuttle as acting base in order to observe possible Decepticon infiltration activity among the planet's dominant species. For four years, the Autobots managed to keep themselves mostly hidden from humans. Unfortunately, due to Ratchet's tendency to want to save lives on the road and the occasional Decepticon appearance, rumors began to spread of alien activity across the United States, a good portion of it occurring in the deserts of Arizona. Thus the website mechatopia.com was born, created and maintained by an amateur alien hunting conspiracy theorist named Hunter O'nion.
Prior to his alien chasing days, Hunter grew up in what passed for a normal family. Father, mother, older sister. Nice house that likely had a white picket fence out front. Unfortunately, his father passed on when Hunter was eight years of age and his mother responded to the tragedy by falling into the trap of alcoholism. Hunter's sister bailed out on her family as soon as she was old enough, leaving her brother to “stay to the bitter end.” (The assumption can be drawn here that their mother eventually passed away, as well, leaving Hunter by himself.) In 2006, Hunter found himself settled into life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, working by day and running his website by night.
The need to find out the truth regarding “extra-vehicular activity” eventually led Hunter on a wild goose chase into Arizona where he met a young woman named Verity Carlo who, unfortunately, had stolen a palm pilot with Decepticon-sensitive information on it. Both would have ended up dead had Ratchet not rescued them (along with mechanic Jimmy Pink, friend of Verity) from Runabout, Runamok and Thundercracker. Feeling he had no choice but to reveal himself to the three humans and keep them with him in order to better protect them, Ratchet ran into a heap of trouble with Prowl, who brought Ironhide and Sunstreaker with him to drag the team medic back to Ark-19. When the palm pilot revealed information that the Decepticons might step up their invasion of Earth, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Verity, Jimmy and Hunter left on an unauthorized expedition to Nebraska to locate what they thought might be an abandoned enemy bunker.
They found what they were looking for...and Megatron was inside of it.
Following an escape from that same area where the Decepticon leader sought to punish a few of his troops for recent disobedience under Starscream's command, Ratchet and the rest returned to base to discover Optimus Prime himself had been called in to deal with the recent and disturbing turn of events. It was then Prowl decided that all three humans needed to be sent home and kept out of the conflict, much to their disappointment. Ironhide and Sunstreaker were assigned to drive them all home. Verity and Jimmy rode with Ironhide, Hunter with Sunstreaker.
On their way through Lebanon, Missouri, the group fell under attack by the Machination, an organization led by a man named Dante and the severed head of Scorponok, Decepticon fugitive from justice and one of Ultra Magnus' most wanted. They separated Sunstreaker and Ironhide, creating a diversion and then making it look like the latter and his passenger were both destroyed on the highway. The Machination left a decoy body behind to fool the Autobots (which it did for a short time until Ratchet had a chance to examine it) and took Hunter and Sunstreaker captive, subjecting both of them to terrible experiments in their Florida base. The human of the pair was operated on, his body subjected to a number of cybernetic implants that turned him into the first successful Headmaster prototype. Sunstreaker's head was removed from his body and used as a central hub for those successful Machination Headmasters who were created after, his chassis utilized as the design basis for the organization's shell bodies. But despite all of this, Hunter could not be contained. When his captors' attempts to brainwash him failed, he escaped his holding room and located Sunstreaker's head, completing his conversion as a Headmaster before escaping to find a shell body of his own. Dante and Scorponok attacked as a combined Headmaster unit, themselves, intending to kill Hunter, but failed to finish him before he figured out how to transform and break out of the base.
With no one else to count on, Sunstreaker sided with Hunter, the two working as a team to find a way to bring the Machination down. When Sunstreaker's real head was relocated to a lab in Dallas, Texas, the pair traveled there to try and reclaim it, only to discover that Hot Rod was still on Earth and mixed up in the mess, as well. Another group called Skywatch had uncovered the bodies of Shockwave and the Dynobots some months before, harnessing all but Grimlock with internal control devices. Fallon, Nevada quickly became a war zone as Grimlock was accidentally teleported in by the Machination, the Headmasters attacking him in the streets. Skywatch retaliated by unleashing the Dinobots, only to lose control of them in the middle of the fight. Before anyone could stop them, the Dinobots escaped with more recently arrived Cybertronians - the Monsterbots - and headed for Dallas to get at Scorponok. In a last ditch effort to salvage the situation, Skywatch brought what they thought was a controlled Shockwave into play, who only proved to make the situation in Dallas even worse upon his explosive arrival.
Sunstreaker and Hunter's own attempt to stop Scorponok failed initially when they entered the base and were cut down, the latter escaping and leaving the shell body behind to hide in the halls where he remained in agony until a wounded Hot Rod found his way back inside. By this time, Hunter had located Sunstreaker's real head and, in a fit of desperation with tears of remorse in his eyes, tore out the connections to disable the Machination Headmasters outside. Scorponok reappeared and tried to kill them both before they could destroy his real head, but swift action on Swoop's part severed the real head's connection from its Headmaster unit, leaving Dante and Scorponok in a dazed, almost vegetative state. Ultra Magnus, having received a distress call from Hot Rod earlier, arrived and collected the whole crew, jailing Scorponok, Grimlock and Shockwave. Hunter was reunited with the Earth detachment Autobots, Jimmy and Verity. And Ratchet managed to salvage Sunstreaker's original head, reattaching it to a new body and dampening the connection between the yellow Twin and his human counterpart so they could function as wholly separate entities once more.
A year passed and the Autobots were betrayed by one of their own, the Decepticons defeating Optimus Prime and his main unit, banishing them to a ruined Cybertron. Megatron, having torn the Matrix from Prime's chest, turned his attention to Earth and began to ravage it, destroying city after city with the intention of making the planet New Cybertron with the help of the Constructicons and Insecticons. Meanwhile, across the universe, Autobot outposts were falling to Decepticon raiding parties who had somehow managed to acquire all the codes necessary to seize control of the enemies' shuttle systems.
In a terrible twist no one on the Autobot side saw coming, the traitor among them was not Mirage, who had unwittingly supplied the false information that led to their downfall in the first place, but Sunstreaker, who had given the false data to Mirage to cover his own aft. Suffering from a form of PTSD following his separation from Hunter, Sunstreaker made a deal with Starscream that was supposed to help orchestrate the fall of Megatron. Part of their deal, however, involved the Decepticons taking full control of Earth... Haunted by memories of the Machination's torture and abuse, Sunstreaker told Starscream that he wanted every human punished for what he had to suffer through; he wanted every life wiped from the face of the planet. The plan backfired when it turned out that Starscream had no intention of betraying Megatron at that moment, the Autobots led to the slaughter and punished by Devastator before being exiled to Cybertron through the first completed space bridge on Earth. There they found themselves constantly running and hiding from The Swarm, three thousand failed, ravenously hungry Decepticon experiments let loose on the planet with only three successful subjects out of them all - Bombshell, Kickback and Shrapnel.
Joined by Kup and the Wreckers, the Autobots attempted to flee to a new area of Cybertron to make a stand. In the resulting chase, Perceptor was wounded and thus unable to fulfill his duty of sniping some explosives set on the only bridge to the new base to keep The Swarm from crossing. Sunstreaker, guilty over what had befallen his fellow Autobots thanks to his treachery, sacrificed himself to blow up the bridge and spare the rest.
Shortly after Ratchet and Wheeljack managed to get Optimus Prime back on his feet, The Swarm managed to attack again. The group was saved in the nick of time by Omega Supreme, who had received a distress signal from Hot Rod. He pulled the lot out and carried them to Earth where a final showdown with the Decepticons began. And though Earth was saved in the end, New York City spared a nuking, the Matrix was not recovered.
And in those moments following Decepticon retreat, Sideswipe found his way into Bombshell's lab where he discovered a brutalized Hunter O'nion, the human-Cybertronian hybrid hooked into the Decepticon mainframe where he had been used as a hub to extract Autobot codes and trace enemy movements. Deeply disturbed by his find and thinking that Hunter was not long for the world, Sideswipe pulled the plug...and left.
Character Personality: Sunstreaker's exact age in canon is unknown, but is in the ballpark of several million years. He has been around long enough, at least, to witness Megatron's rise to power as leader of the Decepticons.
Typically, the easiest way to describe Sunstreaker is as follows... An arrogant, temperamental asshole with post traumatic stress disorder. He has always been self-serving to a degree, convinced that somehow he is better than just about every other Autobot out there in every possible way. His brother Sideswipe has never been spared Sunstreaker's haughty nature; the two did not have the best relationship for a long time due to the latter's tendency to treat the former as sub-par. Sunstreaker is the type to hold grudges, never forgetting when he has been embarrassed or treated poorly. He dislikes organic lifeforms, humans more than any other due to what the Machination put him through as a prototype Headmaster. After all, so great was his hatred at one point that he struck a deal with Starscream in order to see the entire human race annihilated. Deep down, however, Sunstreaker now has that nagging feeling that he is ultimately a failure. He betrayed his own comrades. He pushed Hunter away, even though he felt that a part of himself had gone missing without the human in his life. Afraid to admit these things to himself, these unwelcome emotions tend to make Sunstreaker grouchy on his good days, and downright vile on his worst. His attitude can lead him to snub authority and, unlike many other Autobots with more respect for life, he is willing to kill if he thinks it necessary. A former gladiator, he knows what it feels like to destroy with his bare hands and a good portion of the time, it doesn't really bother him all that much. Oddly, this clashes with his vain nature to an extent since battle usually results in physical damages. One may assume that in the case of a fight, venting frustrations and winning are at least marginally more important than maintaining his good looks. And if winning causes him to take risks, so be it. Sunstreaker is not adversed to pulling stunts like jumping Decepticon Seekers...while they're still in the air.
On the whole? Sunstreaker is a sociopath who really does not play well with others.
Hunter's age in canon is also unknown, but it's probably safe to assume he's in his twenties. (For sake of ease in game, he will claim to be twenty-four years of age.)
A young man who felt he needed something more engaging in his life, something more to believe in after his family fell apart, Hunter is something of a geek with a bit of conspiracy theorist on the side. After his father died and his mother tried to find consolation at the bottom of a bottle, Hunter buried himself in science fiction and fantasy books, comics and movies. Video games were a decent outlet for some of his frustrations. He also loved stargazing, wanting to lay back on his roof for hours at a time and believe that humans were not alone in the universe as an intelligent species. At the same time, he learned to be a little wary of other people he didn't know well, thanks largely in part due to his rough high school years where the more popular set picked on him with frequency. And as he began to gather evidence in favor of alien life on Earth, Hunter started to doubt the government and related organizations as well. He is not a man who likes to have the truth hidden from him.
Still, he makes a good foil for his partner's more vain and violent personality. A caring human being who was ready to give his life at several points for the sake of his home planet, Hunter manages to balance logic with sentiment most of the time; he understands what it means to think with both his head and his heart. He is the kind of person who does good because it IS good, and not just when it's easy. This also means that he empathizes with Sunstreaker about how they were treated by the Machination. To a degree, Hunter even feels guilty for what happened. And it hurts him when Sunstreaker openly rages against not just the human race, but against him for having been a part of it at all. More than anything, Hunter would like to be accepted fully by his partner. He cannot feel whole without Sunstreaker and vice versa, and thus emotional rejection from the Autobot is probably one of the most painful situations Hunter has faced since the deaths of his parents, even moreso than Bombshell's abuse.
Powers: Like their fellow Cybertronians, Hunter and Sunstreaker have the ability to transform to alternates modes... It's just that Hunter's other mode is Sunstreaker's head, which is useless unless they have a shell body to attach themselves to in robot mode. The shell body can change from vehicle to robot mode and back, with or without the head attached; it is controlled via mental commands from Hunter's body, where both personalities and life forces ultimately reside now (thanks to Nautilus placing them both there). In robot mode, the shell body is equipped with laser-guided ground-to-air rockets (which can be utilized in vehicle mode as well) and an electron energy pulse cannon. Their vehicle type is a yellow Lamborghini Diablo with a top speed of 205 mph, Sunstreaker's original Earth mode. (He has reverted from the Lamborghini Gallardo, the model he took on after his separation from Hunter.) The shell also comes equipped with a holomatter generator, which can project a “hard light” image of Hunter when he is attached to the shell body, thus allowing both sides to communicate openly at the same time. Generally speaking, however, Hunter is usually the one in control when their head is detached, and it is easier for him to override Sunstreaker in robot and vehicle mode than vice versa because it is his cyborg body that houses them both. This rule can be bent, however, if Sunstreaker is determined enough and can find a weak spot in Hunter's emotional state to manage an override.
Hunter's body, because it has been given so many cybernetic implants, is stronger, faster and more durable than the average human form (it is probably safe to assume he is twice as fast on foot as a regular human and has enough strength to lift an average-sized car over his head). His armor is also removable, though the ports and other connection points are still easily visible unless he covers himself from head to toe with clothing.
The fighting style both use is akin to street brawling. Sunstreaker, thanks to his gladiatorial background, is good at breaking things with his hands and feet, and is perfectly comfortable with using whatever he finds laying around as a weapon. Hunter is the weak link in any battle, and will usually try to defer to his partner when it comes to combat. Unfortunately, this only boosts Sunstreaker's superiority complex and makes him hesitant to really teach Hunter much about fighting, as this gives him something to hold over the man's head. Equally unfortunate is that his ego and confidence sometimes make Sunstreaker vulnerable and blind to well-set traps.
To a degree, the two have access to one another's memories. Many of the deeper, darker, older memories are a little tougher to access, however. General knowledge tends to be shared, as well. For the most part, Sunstreaker is not interested in what his gnat of a partner knows...except when it comes to profanity. Humans are largely disgusting creatures, so their disgusting curses are fair game to use on them. Hunter, meanwhile, sometimes adopts Cybertronian slang to try and better live up to his other half.
Character Name: Sunstreaker and Hunter O'nion
Fandom: Transformers (IDW G1 continuity)
Source: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sunstreaker_(G1)#IDW_comics_continuity
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hunter_O'Nion
Character History: Before the war began, Sunstreaker and his brother Sideswipe were among those Cybertronians who regularly visited the Forge, an illegal underground arena where their fellow bots participated in gladiator-style death matches for “fun” and financial gain. When Megatron first arrived on the scene as a warrior in the ring, claiming victory in his initial match, Sunstreaker was there to cheer him on. As the future Decepticon warlord rose among the ranks of the combatants, he began to put out calls for others to join him. Sunstreaker gladly answered, not knowing at the time that the rally was meant to eventually take all comers and turn them into an army at Megatron's command. Despite later joining the Autobot side when the war fully erupted planet-wide, Sunstreaker picked up some valuable experience in the ring during his short stint as a gladiator. This may have helped him prepare for the next step in his life as the Autobots organized to better take on the threat sweeping across Cybertron. Many younger bots found themselves assigned to older mechs for more in-depth training and while he likely did not think himself fortunate at the time, Sunstreaker was lucky to learn from one of the best - a tough, old veteran named Kup. Later on, as he progressed through the ranks, Sunstreaker became Sideswipe's P-3 Training Officer and strike partner. Unfortunately, he also had a bad habit of treating his own brother like a sub-par rookie, damaging their relationship for vorns to come and instilling a deep sense of resentment in his twin.
Following the fall of Cybertron due to the rampage and defeat of Thunderwing (the nearly unstoppable, out of control precursor of Pretender technology), Sunstreaker found himself separated from his brother and assigned to the crew of the Ark-19 under the command of Prowl. First arriving on Earth in 2002, the detachment group set themselves up at the bottom of Lake Michigan with their shuttle as acting base in order to observe possible Decepticon infiltration activity among the planet's dominant species. For four years, the Autobots managed to keep themselves mostly hidden from humans. Unfortunately, due to Ratchet's tendency to want to save lives on the road and the occasional Decepticon appearance, rumors began to spread of alien activity across the United States, a good portion of it occurring in the deserts of Arizona. Thus the website mechatopia.com was born, created and maintained by an amateur alien hunting conspiracy theorist named Hunter O'nion.
Prior to his alien chasing days, Hunter grew up in what passed for a normal family. Father, mother, older sister. Nice house that likely had a white picket fence out front. Unfortunately, his father passed on when Hunter was eight years of age and his mother responded to the tragedy by falling into the trap of alcoholism. Hunter's sister bailed out on her family as soon as she was old enough, leaving her brother to “stay to the bitter end.” (The assumption can be drawn here that their mother eventually passed away, as well, leaving Hunter by himself.) In 2006, Hunter found himself settled into life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, working by day and running his website by night.
The need to find out the truth regarding “extra-vehicular activity” eventually led Hunter on a wild goose chase into Arizona where he met a young woman named Verity Carlo who, unfortunately, had stolen a palm pilot with Decepticon-sensitive information on it. Both would have ended up dead had Ratchet not rescued them (along with mechanic Jimmy Pink, friend of Verity) from Runabout, Runamok and Thundercracker. Feeling he had no choice but to reveal himself to the three humans and keep them with him in order to better protect them, Ratchet ran into a heap of trouble with Prowl, who brought Ironhide and Sunstreaker with him to drag the team medic back to Ark-19. When the palm pilot revealed information that the Decepticons might step up their invasion of Earth, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Verity, Jimmy and Hunter left on an unauthorized expedition to Nebraska to locate what they thought might be an abandoned enemy bunker.
They found what they were looking for...and Megatron was inside of it.
Following an escape from that same area where the Decepticon leader sought to punish a few of his troops for recent disobedience under Starscream's command, Ratchet and the rest returned to base to discover Optimus Prime himself had been called in to deal with the recent and disturbing turn of events. It was then Prowl decided that all three humans needed to be sent home and kept out of the conflict, much to their disappointment. Ironhide and Sunstreaker were assigned to drive them all home. Verity and Jimmy rode with Ironhide, Hunter with Sunstreaker.
On their way through Lebanon, Missouri, the group fell under attack by the Machination, an organization led by a man named Dante and the severed head of Scorponok, Decepticon fugitive from justice and one of Ultra Magnus' most wanted. They separated Sunstreaker and Ironhide, creating a diversion and then making it look like the latter and his passenger were both destroyed on the highway. The Machination left a decoy body behind to fool the Autobots (which it did for a short time until Ratchet had a chance to examine it) and took Hunter and Sunstreaker captive, subjecting both of them to terrible experiments in their Florida base. The human of the pair was operated on, his body subjected to a number of cybernetic implants that turned him into the first successful Headmaster prototype. Sunstreaker's head was removed from his body and used as a central hub for those successful Machination Headmasters who were created after, his chassis utilized as the design basis for the organization's shell bodies. But despite all of this, Hunter could not be contained. When his captors' attempts to brainwash him failed, he escaped his holding room and located Sunstreaker's head, completing his conversion as a Headmaster before escaping to find a shell body of his own. Dante and Scorponok attacked as a combined Headmaster unit, themselves, intending to kill Hunter, but failed to finish him before he figured out how to transform and break out of the base.
With no one else to count on, Sunstreaker sided with Hunter, the two working as a team to find a way to bring the Machination down. When Sunstreaker's real head was relocated to a lab in Dallas, Texas, the pair traveled there to try and reclaim it, only to discover that Hot Rod was still on Earth and mixed up in the mess, as well. Another group called Skywatch had uncovered the bodies of Shockwave and the Dynobots some months before, harnessing all but Grimlock with internal control devices. Fallon, Nevada quickly became a war zone as Grimlock was accidentally teleported in by the Machination, the Headmasters attacking him in the streets. Skywatch retaliated by unleashing the Dinobots, only to lose control of them in the middle of the fight. Before anyone could stop them, the Dinobots escaped with more recently arrived Cybertronians - the Monsterbots - and headed for Dallas to get at Scorponok. In a last ditch effort to salvage the situation, Skywatch brought what they thought was a controlled Shockwave into play, who only proved to make the situation in Dallas even worse upon his explosive arrival.
Sunstreaker and Hunter's own attempt to stop Scorponok failed initially when they entered the base and were cut down, the latter escaping and leaving the shell body behind to hide in the halls where he remained in agony until a wounded Hot Rod found his way back inside. By this time, Hunter had located Sunstreaker's real head and, in a fit of desperation with tears of remorse in his eyes, tore out the connections to disable the Machination Headmasters outside. Scorponok reappeared and tried to kill them both before they could destroy his real head, but swift action on Swoop's part severed the real head's connection from its Headmaster unit, leaving Dante and Scorponok in a dazed, almost vegetative state. Ultra Magnus, having received a distress call from Hot Rod earlier, arrived and collected the whole crew, jailing Scorponok, Grimlock and Shockwave. Hunter was reunited with the Earth detachment Autobots, Jimmy and Verity. And Ratchet managed to salvage Sunstreaker's original head, reattaching it to a new body and dampening the connection between the yellow Twin and his human counterpart so they could function as wholly separate entities once more.
A year passed and the Autobots were betrayed by one of their own, the Decepticons defeating Optimus Prime and his main unit, banishing them to a ruined Cybertron. Megatron, having torn the Matrix from Prime's chest, turned his attention to Earth and began to ravage it, destroying city after city with the intention of making the planet New Cybertron with the help of the Constructicons and Insecticons. Meanwhile, across the universe, Autobot outposts were falling to Decepticon raiding parties who had somehow managed to acquire all the codes necessary to seize control of the enemies' shuttle systems.
In a terrible twist no one on the Autobot side saw coming, the traitor among them was not Mirage, who had unwittingly supplied the false information that led to their downfall in the first place, but Sunstreaker, who had given the false data to Mirage to cover his own aft. Suffering from a form of PTSD following his separation from Hunter, Sunstreaker made a deal with Starscream that was supposed to help orchestrate the fall of Megatron. Part of their deal, however, involved the Decepticons taking full control of Earth... Haunted by memories of the Machination's torture and abuse, Sunstreaker told Starscream that he wanted every human punished for what he had to suffer through; he wanted every life wiped from the face of the planet. The plan backfired when it turned out that Starscream had no intention of betraying Megatron at that moment, the Autobots led to the slaughter and punished by Devastator before being exiled to Cybertron through the first completed space bridge on Earth. There they found themselves constantly running and hiding from The Swarm, three thousand failed, ravenously hungry Decepticon experiments let loose on the planet with only three successful subjects out of them all - Bombshell, Kickback and Shrapnel.
Joined by Kup and the Wreckers, the Autobots attempted to flee to a new area of Cybertron to make a stand. In the resulting chase, Perceptor was wounded and thus unable to fulfill his duty of sniping some explosives set on the only bridge to the new base to keep The Swarm from crossing. Sunstreaker, guilty over what had befallen his fellow Autobots thanks to his treachery, sacrificed himself to blow up the bridge and spare the rest.
Shortly after Ratchet and Wheeljack managed to get Optimus Prime back on his feet, The Swarm managed to attack again. The group was saved in the nick of time by Omega Supreme, who had received a distress signal from Hot Rod. He pulled the lot out and carried them to Earth where a final showdown with the Decepticons began. And though Earth was saved in the end, New York City spared a nuking, the Matrix was not recovered.
And in those moments following Decepticon retreat, Sideswipe found his way into Bombshell's lab where he discovered a brutalized Hunter O'nion, the human-Cybertronian hybrid hooked into the Decepticon mainframe where he had been used as a hub to extract Autobot codes and trace enemy movements. Deeply disturbed by his find and thinking that Hunter was not long for the world, Sideswipe pulled the plug...and left.
Character Personality: Sunstreaker's exact age in canon is unknown, but is in the ballpark of several million years. He has been around long enough, at least, to witness Megatron's rise to power as leader of the Decepticons.
Typically, the easiest way to describe Sunstreaker is as follows... An arrogant, temperamental asshole with post traumatic stress disorder. He has always been self-serving to a degree, convinced that somehow he is better than just about every other Autobot out there in every possible way. His brother Sideswipe has never been spared Sunstreaker's haughty nature; the two did not have the best relationship for a long time due to the latter's tendency to treat the former as sub-par. Sunstreaker is the type to hold grudges, never forgetting when he has been embarrassed or treated poorly. He dislikes organic lifeforms, humans more than any other due to what the Machination put him through as a prototype Headmaster. After all, so great was his hatred at one point that he struck a deal with Starscream in order to see the entire human race annihilated. Deep down, however, Sunstreaker now has that nagging feeling that he is ultimately a failure. He betrayed his own comrades. He pushed Hunter away, even though he felt that a part of himself had gone missing without the human in his life. Afraid to admit these things to himself, these unwelcome emotions tend to make Sunstreaker grouchy on his good days, and downright vile on his worst. His attitude can lead him to snub authority and, unlike many other Autobots with more respect for life, he is willing to kill if he thinks it necessary. A former gladiator, he knows what it feels like to destroy with his bare hands and a good portion of the time, it doesn't really bother him all that much. Oddly, this clashes with his vain nature to an extent since battle usually results in physical damages. One may assume that in the case of a fight, venting frustrations and winning are at least marginally more important than maintaining his good looks. And if winning causes him to take risks, so be it. Sunstreaker is not adversed to pulling stunts like jumping Decepticon Seekers...while they're still in the air.
On the whole? Sunstreaker is a sociopath who really does not play well with others.
Hunter's age in canon is also unknown, but it's probably safe to assume he's in his twenties. (For sake of ease in game, he will claim to be twenty-four years of age.)
A young man who felt he needed something more engaging in his life, something more to believe in after his family fell apart, Hunter is something of a geek with a bit of conspiracy theorist on the side. After his father died and his mother tried to find consolation at the bottom of a bottle, Hunter buried himself in science fiction and fantasy books, comics and movies. Video games were a decent outlet for some of his frustrations. He also loved stargazing, wanting to lay back on his roof for hours at a time and believe that humans were not alone in the universe as an intelligent species. At the same time, he learned to be a little wary of other people he didn't know well, thanks largely in part due to his rough high school years where the more popular set picked on him with frequency. And as he began to gather evidence in favor of alien life on Earth, Hunter started to doubt the government and related organizations as well. He is not a man who likes to have the truth hidden from him.
Still, he makes a good foil for his partner's more vain and violent personality. A caring human being who was ready to give his life at several points for the sake of his home planet, Hunter manages to balance logic with sentiment most of the time; he understands what it means to think with both his head and his heart. He is the kind of person who does good because it IS good, and not just when it's easy. This also means that he empathizes with Sunstreaker about how they were treated by the Machination. To a degree, Hunter even feels guilty for what happened. And it hurts him when Sunstreaker openly rages against not just the human race, but against him for having been a part of it at all. More than anything, Hunter would like to be accepted fully by his partner. He cannot feel whole without Sunstreaker and vice versa, and thus emotional rejection from the Autobot is probably one of the most painful situations Hunter has faced since the deaths of his parents, even moreso than Bombshell's abuse.
Powers: Like their fellow Cybertronians, Hunter and Sunstreaker have the ability to transform to alternates modes... It's just that Hunter's other mode is Sunstreaker's head, which is useless unless they have a shell body to attach themselves to in robot mode. The shell body can change from vehicle to robot mode and back, with or without the head attached; it is controlled via mental commands from Hunter's body, where both personalities and life forces ultimately reside now (thanks to Nautilus placing them both there). In robot mode, the shell body is equipped with laser-guided ground-to-air rockets (which can be utilized in vehicle mode as well) and an electron energy pulse cannon. Their vehicle type is a yellow Lamborghini Diablo with a top speed of 205 mph, Sunstreaker's original Earth mode. (He has reverted from the Lamborghini Gallardo, the model he took on after his separation from Hunter.) The shell also comes equipped with a holomatter generator, which can project a “hard light” image of Hunter when he is attached to the shell body, thus allowing both sides to communicate openly at the same time. Generally speaking, however, Hunter is usually the one in control when their head is detached, and it is easier for him to override Sunstreaker in robot and vehicle mode than vice versa because it is his cyborg body that houses them both. This rule can be bent, however, if Sunstreaker is determined enough and can find a weak spot in Hunter's emotional state to manage an override.
Hunter's body, because it has been given so many cybernetic implants, is stronger, faster and more durable than the average human form (it is probably safe to assume he is twice as fast on foot as a regular human and has enough strength to lift an average-sized car over his head). His armor is also removable, though the ports and other connection points are still easily visible unless he covers himself from head to toe with clothing.
The fighting style both use is akin to street brawling. Sunstreaker, thanks to his gladiatorial background, is good at breaking things with his hands and feet, and is perfectly comfortable with using whatever he finds laying around as a weapon. Hunter is the weak link in any battle, and will usually try to defer to his partner when it comes to combat. Unfortunately, this only boosts Sunstreaker's superiority complex and makes him hesitant to really teach Hunter much about fighting, as this gives him something to hold over the man's head. Equally unfortunate is that his ego and confidence sometimes make Sunstreaker vulnerable and blind to well-set traps.
To a degree, the two have access to one another's memories. Many of the deeper, darker, older memories are a little tougher to access, however. General knowledge tends to be shared, as well. For the most part, Sunstreaker is not interested in what his gnat of a partner knows...except when it comes to profanity. Humans are largely disgusting creatures, so their disgusting curses are fair game to use on them. Hunter, meanwhile, sometimes adopts Cybertronian slang to try and better live up to his other half.