Random Character Facts

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Alrighty folks, this game is exactly what it says on the tin. Just list whatever random facts about your characters you think would be fun to share.

I'll start things off with Red:

1. As a Guardian, he has a thick accent which he hides to the best of his ability, because he doesn't like being questioned about where he's from. (Or questioned about anything relating to the Guard, honestly.) He currently speaks with a watered down vaguely Scottish-sounding accent, which tends to get thicker and more noticeable when he's angry. (Make Braveheart jokes at your own risk.)

2. He has a few nervous tics that he really can't help. Most aren't terribly noticeable, but they can be annoying. Also misleading--Red isn't always angry with you when his left optic twitches, it just does that sometimes.

3. He has too many habits to name. Most of them bad. For example: He grinds his jaw when he's frustrated, he cracks his knuckles when his fingers go stiff instead of giving them a break from work, he sometimes waits until he's close to crashing before trying to recharge so he can actually stay asleep, and he tends to inspect his energon before ingesting it. A quick inhale to run it by his olfactory sensors and make sure there aren't any contaminants in it, and he's good. (You can never be too careful, after all.)

4. He's a total Kuudere.

5. He tends to feel a little out of place when he's doing something non-work related. This includes holding casual conversations and engaging in recreational activities.

6. He's prone to wandering, to the point where if he's left to his own devices he will explore every inch of any given area he's in. Partly because he feels the instinctive need to secure the area, partly because he's just a curious guy.

7. His optics are modded in such a way that he sometimes looks like he's staring blankly into the abyss when he's really just refocusing them.

8. He has an encyclopedic memory when it comes to pretty much everything security-related. Go ahead, ask him to quote a protocol handbook word for word. He can do it.

9. He has a quiet, almost raspy sort of laugh. The kind of reluctant, muted chuckling that has to be dusted out of a vocoder that doesn't really remember how to make the sound.

10. He doesn't swear often, but when he does, he tends to switch to one of the xeno-languages he learned back in the Guard. Which is a good thing, because his squad used vulgarities fit to make a Wrecker blush, so they're best left untranslated.

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1. Roulette doesn't eat much. At the best of times she picks at her rations like a bird and can go for a good while without refueling. Mostly because she doesn't do anything demanding.

2. When the situation calls for it, Roulette can be exceedingly patient. If she's pinned down by a sniper, she can wait it out as long as she needs to just to gain the upper hand.

3. She's scared of Megatron. No really.

4. She's not scared of Soundwave. Yes, really. She's actually super ok with being around him. The worst he can do (to her thinking) is spy on her and she leads a very dull life.

5. She still has no idea if Shockwave has done something to her when she wasn't looking...

6. Roulette has a fondness for human culture set in the 1940's - 1950's. She loves the music, she loves the cars, and she loves the style for some reason.

7. She picked Betty Page as her holo-avatar because the woman had a nice smile.

8. She hates flying.

9. She has named her guns. No, she won't tell anyone what their names are.

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-Pokes at thread, decides to share-

1. Wheeljack has a heap of tools stored in subspace. They're also magnetic so when he's working he leaves them attached to himself and tends to forget about them. Which does mean there have been situations where he's gone looking for a tool only to find it later attached to his head.
Of course, why he bothers leaving them on him when he could just subspace them as needed is another matter altogether.

2. No, you didn't imagine that. Wheeljack was totally just checking you out right now...or your weapons at least. He's always eyeing up weapons, though whether he's plotting to steal them and blow something up or trying to figure out how to make them is a 50/50 split. Though if you give him the slightest indication that it's okay to examine your weaponry, he'll invade your personal space before you have a chance to blink.
And he will loom. And stare. And it will be creepy. Because he is mentally dissecting your gun and the arm that it's built into and the rest of your frame and oh gawd, why is he building an uncannily accurate replica of you...?

3. Cybertronian scientists normally have some ethics coding installed in them in order to avert mad science shenanigans from happening, which means turning one of them into a soldier is really difficult.
Wheeljack adapted freakishly easy to becoming a soldier. Someone probably should examine his coding for what the hell went on there.

4. He built the Jackhammer from scratch. Well, he had a manufactured starship which he's crashed and damaged and rebuilt so many times that nothing of the original ship remains. Hence why he's so reckless with it, the ship's almost a part of him and he treats it no better than he treats his frame.

5. Wheeljack spent a lotta time in deep space. The Jackhammer has many, many pet names. He'll die before letting one slip however.

6. When he left Crystal City to join the Autobots, Wheeljack caused an enormous row with his cohort over his decision. His biggest regret was never resolving the rift that came between them. After Crystal City was destroyed, Wheeljack always intended to go back and pay his respects to them.
Then he met a nice scientist who gave him a lobotomy. Since then, his biggest regret looking back at his life was not leaving Crystal City sooner. Wheeljack likes the skills he has an engineer but the lifestyle he had back then appals him now. And he still hasn't paid his respects to his cohort and doesn't really care too much about it.

7. Wheeljack doesn't handle keeping still very well. Some part of him is always active, be it his processor or his servos. Preferably his servos. His processor can only think about a project for so long before he's itching to work on it.

8.The Crystal City technoversity was constantly threatening to revoke his tenure. Too many explosions but he did produce some amazing results so they were forced to keep him.

9. Wheeljack gave a lecture once.
Once. The technoversity never made that mistake again.

10. Wheeljack hadn't even reached half a vorn of age before causing his first explosion. It involved a gas leak, a chemistry class and resulted in some really slagged off chemists. His cohort was dismayed but resigned that such would be his path in life based on their experience with his predecessor.
For Wheeljack, it was love at first sight.

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1. Fairwinds' original carrier was Switchback, an early supporter of the Decepticon movement.

2. Switchback had six cassettes, of whom only Fairwinds survived in the attack on the transport that also killed their carrier. Coming from such a noisy, busy cohort, Fairwinds finds silence and peace in general quite uncomfortable, and is constantly seeking company and things to fill the time.

3. Her throttled processor was an elective modification not long after she began courting Megatron as a carrier. She didn't want to turn surly as a result of the ongoing war, was her excuse. In actuality, she didn't want her personality to change from that of when her cohort cassettes were alive, and believed that it would also make her more appealing to Megatron. For his part, and off the record, Megatron assented with the line that freedom was her right - even the freedom to be stupid.

4. Fairwinds has no alternative mode to avian and docking.

5. She had an ant farm, once. Then Megatron had a controlled fire in their quarters, and organics were add to The List.

6. Fairwinds loves body horror films. They gross her out.

7. Air Raid has her name and a doodle of dubious taste lasered into one of his innermost plates. She still holds a torch for the loveable ace, all these years later.

8. She loves being underestimated, and will play up to the part if it might serve her later.

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1. Buffalo Dump's sense of smell and taste is very much a product of his job in the Dead End. He is more tolerant of strong and/or noxious odours, scents and tastes than others might be; it's one of the reasons why he doesn't mind drinking Pine-Sol in Energon, which is his favourite drink.

2. Buffalo Dump is a very goofy drunk. It takes a very strong or a large number of drinks to get him sufficiently wasted, and when he is, he will listen to really stupid ideas when he'd otherwise refuse to. He can usually tell when this state is coming on, as he achieves a moment of clarity — despite his intoxication — where he feels something terrible is about to happen.

3. Buffalo Dump calls everyone younger than him either "younglin'" or "bitlet". The former is reserved for teenagers and adolescent Cybertronians, while the latter is usually for newbuilds and minibots.

4. B-Dump has a long-wave field. It can fill up to a small room if he lets it, and he'll sometimes forget to tuck his EMF away in the presence of strangers. To those he cares for or calls cohort, he'll often use his field to exert a calming, protective presence over any bad situation, to try and help everyone feel that things will be okay.

5. Buffalo Dump will break for ducks crossing the road. And squirrels. And cats. And old ladies that need time to cross the street. Really, he honestly can't stand how some people (or Cybertronians) will run over something in their way just because it was in their way.

6. B-Dump's room is very dimly-lit. It's easier on his injured optic, and he finds heavy darkness and shadow comforting and soothing. If he's not meant to be working somewhere, he'll often retreat back to berth to sit and collect himself, especially if he's not feeling well.

7. Buffalo Dump's chest-space and subspace is massive, though not as big as his alt's hopper. The former is usually empty, the latter mostly used for subspacing parts away when he transforms — he won't go many places without his flask of Pine-Sol, however.

8. B-Dump finds collecting and sorting garbage soothing. It reminds him of home, and he's coded to clean up after others, so he finds great satisfaction in the fact he can continue his job on this new world of his.

9. Due to the amount of Pine-Sol he drinks, Buffalo Dump smells like a mountain forest every time he exhales from his vents.

10. B-Dump has bumped his head into enough doorways and overhangs that he now reflexively ducks his head whenever he enters/exits a room. His thin "horns" also have a habit of twisting backwards if he hits them too hard off of something.

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1. As an actor, Mirage worked under a stage name and kept his actual identity unknown to the public with a little help of his electro-disruptor, and copious amounts of indispensable income which helped persuade his coworkers to keep things hush hush so his career wouldn't bleed over into his private life.

2. He was essentially his cohort's PR manager, in the sense he acted as the representative of their house for most business deals and social events. He was designed and brought up to be a prince charming who oozed charisma and could make and keep allies through a carefully cultivated cult of personality.

3. One would think someone who's interests were so firmly rooted in the finer things, such as music and art, would find killing for sport to be distasteful. And yet for some reason, it's Mirage's favorite sport. You'd think he'd like dancing or something of the like, but nope, it's the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of a well-aimed shot that interests him the most.

4. He's been known to ironically call people peasants, in a tongue-in-cheek way.

5. He used to own a pair of hunting dogs. They were absolutely useless when it came to tracking and retrieving turbofoxes, but Mirage never really begrudged them that because he considered himself too skillful to even need their assistance. He just liked them for the company, and because they helped complete the image of a proper turbofox hunter. Naturally, they're long since deceased.

6. He tends to sit with his legs crossed, or with his hands folded in his lap. He's never really been able to break out of his old posturing habits.

7. The Sax solo from George Michael's Careless Whisper plays whenever he enters a room.

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It's now Nova's turn to be grilled..

1) Nova's been to Earth before. It was long ago in a galaxy far, far away. It was actually rather boring. The Nazcia Lines were the result of that boredom. She is adamant, however, that she had nothing what so ever to do with Stonehenge. "They were like that when I got here, I swear!"


2) Nova's a walking Rosetta Stone. In her travels she's learned over 1800 languages, of which 70% can be considered extinct. She can also read The Language of The Primes (though she can't speak it)

3)Unlike most Cybertronians, Nova is used to being around species of smaller stature. She's so used to it in fact, that she often walks with her holoavatar beside her.

4) Nova's original frametype wasn't too dissimilar from Optimus'. Hmmmmmm.....

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1. For a pacifist, Alti sure has a lot of heavy scarring.

2. He likes woodcarving, particularly making little useless nick-knacks.

3. Altruous is not his original name, though it is the only one that matters to him.

4. He has the awful habit of adopting people as his grandchildren whether they like it or not.

5. He's old. Old enough to have been alive to help rebuild Cybertron after the Quintessons were driven out.

6. He was not the only vector to have his name – many of the previous priests in his order had taken the name as well, as like him they believed altruism was the most greatly needed virtue in their society.

7. He has no idea if there are any other surviving members of the Order of Vector Sigma, but he's hopeful that he's not the last.

8. One would think a bleeding spark like him wouldn't have lasted a week in Kaon, but Alti's from the Sonic Canyons. You've gotta be tough to survive in a place that's so inhospitable to life that it rains scrap-metal and debris, and is so deafeningly loud people have to modify their vocalizers just to be heard over the constant roar of noise.

9. He has been injured by patients during counseling sessions before, which is unsurprising since war tends to give people explosively-violent tendencies and PTSD, which is never a good combination.

10. He talks to animals and inanimate objects like they're friends who can actually hear and understand what he's saying. He's never questioned why he does this and doesn't see why he should.

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1. I always pictured Nell talking like Sara Evans. She can also sing pretty well too, though I can't see Nell singing something so...Sappy?

2. Also related to Nells voice – I originally seen her having a lighter accent and it ended up being thicker.

3. Nell and kids do not mix. Seriously, never have her babysit a toddler – the kid would learn a lot of curse words. A friend of her's learned that the hard way.

4. She likes her beer, but she likes whiskey even more. The cheap stuff will do in a pinch too, though she won't say no to the higher priced bottles on occasion.

5. While she's pretty much a jeans and t-shirt girl, she does own a dress and heels – they rarely see the light of day. She also has a surprisingly decent collection of really nice lingerie, it's just about the only thing she's REALLY 'girly' with.

6. As far as music goes, she likes Iggy Pop, Blondie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Santana, War, The Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, and Artic Monkeys.

7. If she didn't join the Army, or if she actually listened to her father and didn't join, she likely would be a cop.

8. If she had been a cop? she would have been in VICE, Narcotics, or the Missing Persons units.

9. She joins the loving animals (specifically dogs) group, and she'd love to have one – one day.

10. Nell could of ended up in the wrong crowd when she was younger if it wasn't for her dad being such a strong influence in her life. If she did? She would have been working at a chop shop and/or hot wiring cars for crooks.

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I think I'll have Sarita take a crack at this:

1) When her parents still owned their coffee shop, Sarita did a bit of barista work before deciding it wasn't for her. Her knowledge of coffee has faded from disuse, but, if given time, she still could come up with something that looks kind of like it came from Starbucks. She just hasn't put much thought into it.

2) Sarita is fiercely protective of children, to a Mama Bear-like degree.

3) The strength of spicy food that Sarita can tolerate is insane. Though that tolerance has gone down from not eating it as much, she still would only sweat a little at things that otherwise set tongues on fire.

4) Sarita has a strong acceptance for the alternative. She has made friends with people in so many cultures, subcultures and ways of life, the fact that there IS alien life fascinates her to no end. While she tries to remain wary and keep her wits about her, let us not forget that she willingly hopped into Deuce's cockpit, to go on a roadtrip with a complete stranger, partially because he turned into a fighter jet.

5) Sarita was part of a theatre club, but only likes theatre as a treat or something to indulge herself in once in a while. As time went on, she decided acting and the stage wasn't as appealing to her as singing was — she's only retained a passing knowledge of a few plays and some skill at acting.

6) Sarita's had food stolen from her before, and she's also been beaten up for it. As a result, she has a tendency to hover or crouch over her food, and gobble it down as quickly as possible. This is especially pronounced when she's significantly hungry.

7) When she was a child, Sarita tried to bring lost cats home a few times, but her parents kept throwing them back outside. The McCoys did not like animals, and Sarita grew up with the constant reminder that animals were smelly, dirty, had a tendency to crap everywhere, etc. This developed into an avoidance/uneasiness around larger animals such as dogs, for when Sarita was homeless, she was bit and/or stolen from by stray dogs and dog-hybrids. James the cat seems to be getting through to her, though.

8) Sarita participated in child pageants up until the age of 16. Her mother, while good to Sarita up until she left home, still had stage mom tendencies. Sarita is quite blase about some of the things you might see on Toddler's & Tiaras, such as the children getting hopped up on pixie sticks and caffeine — because that's what her mother did. Their "go-go juice" recipe was a cocktail of energy drinks and a Pixie Stick poured into pineapple juice, Sarita's favourite drink at the time.

9) Sarita knows how to hunt and set traps for animals. While she'd never admit it in certain company, she's poached before to keep herself fed; some of her travels have taken her to very remote countryside.

10) Sheila (the Sedan) once broke down on Sarita for 7 months. Unable to get the car fixed due to lack of funds, Sarita train-hopped, hitch-hiked and walked a large section of countryside spanning from Oregon to California. This experience taught and helped practise the survival skills Sarita uses now.

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1. Rook can dance - the sort of dancing that distracts a mech and earns you credits. He learned it because it makes it a whole lot easier to slip a knife somewhere it oughtn't be when your target's that particular sort of distracted. It also means he hates dancing in general.

2. The Aero likes climbing high places in bad weather. Just to remind himself that something other than the war might kill him; in a paradoxical sort of way, it reminds him he's alive.

3. Rook has a thing for big mechs. Really, really, really big mechs.

4. Rook has two mecha who can show up in his life and say, "You owe me." And he absolutely dreads the thought of one of them doing so one of these days.

5. For a while before the war, Rook used to make energon candy. It was steady money, if very boring, and he managed to keep on doing it, as a distraction, quite a ways into war-time.

6. Rook stopped making candy when he was caught and discovered the constant taste-testing had made his blood taste like candy.

7. Though he won't admit it, a third of Rook's sneaking out isn't to scavenge for goodies, but to street race in Vegas. The Aero isn't sure what to do with the money he wins (he does not race for pinks) but hey, surely it'll come in handy at some point.

8. If he's been in enough fights, it might be hard to tell how many sharp pointy objects the Aero's hiding on his person; he has a habit of picking up sharp pointy bits from sharp pointy Cons, and adapting them into knives. As they're mech-bits, they don't read any different from his frame on surface scans.

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A few new ones on Roulette.

1. Roulette was cold sparked in a unit with her sister. They were designed to be pretty, but not intimidating, and to lure in a mech to have fun with them. The sisters were basically twins in every regard but didn't share any spark related abilities like feeling each other.

2. Roulette was named after the game she ran. It was only later that she was allowed to move on to cards or some other form of gambling after she proved to be rather proficient with sleight of hand and other trickery. Sadly, she hadn't retained much of those skills throughout the years. She can still count cards and do some tricks.

3. Shadow Striker was also named after a game she ran but adopted the new moniker when the revolution started to pick up.

4. Despite the flirty behavior and easy going nature, Roulette didn't spend a lot of time with mechs or femmes in intimate regards. (Though this is not to suggest she's never been with anyone. Hoo boy.) Even before shackling herself with Shockwave, she wasn't a very outwardly directed femme.

5. It is literally coded into her to be playful. She did work in a Casino. As much as she'd like to fight the impulses, the nature is still there buried under several centuries of personal growth.

6. Roulette probably has Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to Shockwave. While the mech can't actually care for her in any way other than the very detached, clinical way. Roulette wars with being oddly protective of him and hating his very spark.

7. She has poor self esteem in some regards. She knows she's pretty and can make a mech like her relatively easily. But that doesn't mean she likes herself all that much.

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Because many headcanons do I have.

1. Shale hates large bodies of water, she just can't bring herself to go near them if she can avoid it. It's probably the thought that given they're all so heavy she'd certainly sink to the bottom and probably die.

2. In the same vein Shale has a fear of fish. Something that spends it's entire life underwater can't be trusted. And do you see their eyes?! Creepy!

3. She doesn't sleep a lot. Shale is almost always restless and needs to find things to do all the time. Often this results in her being exhausted beyond what someone should endure. Once she fell asleep hauling a giant load of rubble and nearly flipped herself. It was still a fight and a half to get her to leave so she could rest.

4. She likes flowers, plants in general really. But flowers are her favorite. She would love to have some but she'd crush them so she just admires them from a safe distance. She especially likes lilies.

5. Her favorite bands so far are AC DC and Pink Floyd. She enjoys their sound even though sometimes she can't understand what Bon and Brian are saying.

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1. Vega uses British slang when in casual conversation. In much more professional situations she refrains but in idle chit chat it comes up quite often. Some of the terms include - but are not limited to:

Blinding - an adjective for excellence

Chuffed - To be very pleased about something

Corker - Something/Someone that/who are outstanding

Damp Squib - Something that fails on all accounts. Reference to small explosive charges that fail when they are wet.

Fence — n. A person who deals in stolen property. v. To pawn off stolen property to a buyer.

Gaffer - Boss, employer, foreman

Kerfuffle - A skirmish or fight caused by differing views

Miffed - Upset or offended

Tosh - Nonsense

2. Vega's very best friend in the whole universe is Steelstrike. They're hardly seen apart.

3. Depending on the situation Vega addresses Steelstrike in three different ways.

"Blue" - the most common of the three, used in everyday conversion and idle chit chat. She got it from the color he is, because she's creative like that.

"Steel" - Usually when this name is brought up the situation is far more professional. Or he's not listening and she needs to get his attention.

"Steelstrike" - It's very rare Vega calls him by his full name, but when she does it means she's very upset at the moment.

4. Vega still enjoys drinking, but after so long her tolerance is nowhere near as impressive as it used to be for someone of her size. She aims to fix that.

5. When sitting Vega naturally opts to cross her legs "Indian style" as some humans call it. It's what's the most comfortable for her damaged leg.

6. Vega doesn't swear a lot. It's rather rude according to her. Thus why she uses British slang, it's "softer" as she puts it.

[Javelin]

1. Javelin loves to dance. And she's not bad at it! She loves and all music, especially if it has a beat to move to. (She's gonna have to get used to the fact there are humans underfoot...)

2. She can have a crude mouth when she gets angry. Want to know how pissed she is? Listen to her cursing. When it starts getting crass, she's really mad.

3. Javelin doesn't talk about her past much, if at all, and if she does, then she trusts you a lot. However, she loves to ask others about theirs, and may seem nosey to some.

4. When she's nervous or anxious, her foot will start to jump. If she's sitting it'll start bouncing in place. She hates it.

5. If she really starts laughing, she'll start to giggle-snort, and despises it.

6. If pressed about her past, she'll shut down. The more you ask, the angrier she'll get.

7. She is highly impressed by 'bots who can use blades and desperately wants to learn. Someday, she promises herself, she's going to get some good daggers.