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Character Information
Character Name: Sari Sumdac
Fandom: Transformers: The Animated Series
Source: You guys know this series, right? Right?
Character History:
Sari Sumdac was raised by her father, Isaac Sumdac, in the city of Detroit. Due to Isaac's innovative work as a robotics scientist, Sari grows up in a world of artificially intelligent robots performing basic tasks such as secretarial and waste disposal work. She also has a tutor bot, which has served as a combination guardian/teacher, and is homeschooled in her father's home/robotics lab, without much interaction with anyone else.
Until, that is, actual intelligent robots land on earth. After watching the Autobots take down an out-of-control experiment from her father's lab, Sari convinces her new friend Bumblebee to take her back to the Autobot base. In hiding from the other Autobots until Bumblebee can explain, Sari accidentally stumbles upon the AllSpark, the key to all Cybertronian life. The AllSpark scans Sari, and turns her security key into a key resembling Cybertronian technology, which is soon discovered to be able to heal, enhance, or repair nearly any tech that Sari comes across.
Throughout Season 1, Sari divides her time between her father's house and the warehouse where the Autobots have taken up temporary residence. Unaware that Megatron himself is housed within her home building, Sari spends her time (usually with Bulkhead and Bumblebee, though she gradually grows into the company of the rest) causing trouble and teaching the Autobots about what life on Earth is like. Unless, of course, the Autobots are under fire from the Decepticons, which is when Sari will usually beg to come along and help.
Season 2 led to Megatron's revival, Isaac Sumdac's capture, the AllSpark splitting into fragments (making Sari's key the most important asset to the Autobots) and Sari's realization that there was no birth record or social security number in her name and that legally she didn't exist. Cast out of her inheritance in the absence of her father, Sari was forced to abandon her home and move in with the Autobots permanently. Gradually, despite the temporary loss of her father and a misplaced sense of identity, Sari grows to love her new home and the additional time spent with her best friends, and has a few close scares concerning the Autobots leaving Earth for a variety of reasons.
Despite being only a little girl, Sari has proven to be reasonably capable in a fight, helping the Autobots with her key and even managing to take on the two Constructicons by herself. With the culmination of Season 2 leading to Megatron and Starscream both removed from Earth and inoperational, the decision of the Autobots to remain on the planet to recover the AllSpark, and the return of her father, Sari's problems seemed to be all over with...
...Until her damaged, skinned elbow revealed sparking circuitry underneath.
Character Personality: Sari is currently eight years old. As a young child, she is prone to moments of whining, hyperactivity, boredom, and illogical stubbornness, which can put her at odds with a lot of people. However, she is also extraordinarily brave; while at first initially shocked and scared by both the Autobots and the Decepticons, Sari quickly grows used to the reality of both and decides to do whatever it takes to help her new friends.
Because Sari was raised by her father and a tutor bot in seclusion almost her entire life, she finds it hard to form attachments to children her own age (who find her engaging, unapologetic behavior weird), and feels much more at home with machines. She loves music, rollerblade hockey, watching tv, and amusement parks: activities made all the more enjoyable now that her best friend Bumblebee is with her, but can occasionally let out her mischievous, thrill-seeking streak. Prone to moments of self-centrism, Sari is unwilling to let go of her friends for any supposed Greater Good, wanting to stay in the company of her robotic pals for all time.
Due to being young and organic as opposed to 30 feet tall and made of metal, Sari at times can feel insignificant and slighted by the rest of the team, and thus tries to make up for her lacking abilities with boundless enthusiasm and liberal use of her key, which she sees as the one lifeline she has to being a true member of the Autobots team (which is why she is understandably upset whenever it's taken from her). There's nothing she loves more than spending time with the Autobots and teaching them Earth culture, so as to make them an integral part of her world and convince them to take on permanent residence. She is not above begging and pleading.
Appearance: Sari is small, brown-skinned, has wide brown eyes and two dark red pigtails sticking out at high angles, with her bangs pinned back by barrettes. She wears a yellow dress, big yellow shoes, and occasionally wears headphones if listening to music. The AllSpark key is hung around her neck with a piece of string.
Powers: Other than being at least partially made out of cybernetic technology, Sari has the relative size and strength of a young Earth child, with the additional power of the AllSpark key, which she uses freely and consistently to help the Autobots, or generally just have a good time.
Samples
First person:
Bumblebee, where are you? Sheesh, mess up one guy's paint job and he never talks to you again...You're a giant robot, you can't hide forever! Come out come out wherever you are....
Huh. I guess he really isn't here, after all. That's weird. Guys?
Hello?
This isn't funny, you know!
Third Person:
Sari was bored out of her skull.
It was unfair! She shouldn't be bored, watching TV. TV was awesome! But no, Prowl just had to decide today was a learning day, which is why Sari was stuck on the couch with Bumblebee, arms crossed stubbornly across her chest and scowling as some dumb meerkat or whatever wandered around the desert for a better part of a half hour onscreen.
She yawned. Bor-ring. Bumblebee looked nearly ready to slip into stasis mode himself. Casting a quick glance over her shoulder, Sari gauged whether or not Prowl would be coming back into the room any time soon. Satisfied that the bot was well enough away, Sari got up from the tv and twisted her key into the side panel. Stupid Prowl had taken away the remote.
The channel flipped to World Wide Wrestling, and Bumblebee shook himself awake. Giving a quiet cheer, Sari ran back to the couch and plopped down beside him, eagerly watching the two heavy-set men throw each other around the ring. When one pinned the other to the mat, both human and bot threw their arms up in the air and cheered wildly.
Their cheers were abruptly cut off by the sound of the tv clicking off. Prowl, standing just behind them with remote in hand, looked down disapprovingly.
Taking a second to strike up her best, cutest grin in the hopes that Prowl would be swayed by the power of Adorable, Sari hissed to Bumblebee out of the corner of her mouth,
"Let's make a break for it!"
Oops. Looks like Prowl heard that too.
Giving a weak laugh and a shrug, Sari paused a moment, then screamed at the top of her lungs,
"RUN!"
The little girl took a flying leap off the couch and bolted towards the door, jumping into car-mode Bumblebee as he drove up alongside her, and was whisked away in a split second, out of the warehouse and into the city of Detroit.