Character Ideas
Dec 31, 2011 18:28:11 GMT -5
Post by league on Dec 31, 2011 18:28:11 GMT -5
Now some of you might have suffered through a few of my crazier character ideas that I have put forth. The problem is I have such odd ideas all the bloody time and once in a while I just feel like telling someone else, partly to get feedback and partly because I just like to share the crazy.
So far I've run the gambit for a third character on the site, one idea was a garbage truck with a third form, based on a shark. Kinda similar how Arachnid has a third form, based on a spider. A metal munching Hannibal-Cannibal with a taste for metal and the ability to 'swim' through the ground.
Another was sort of based on an old motorcycle, like the kind you see biker chaps riding. Basically a mean little bugger named Siege. Would have made a good Decepticon for taunting Arcee or an antihero-esk Autobot if I felt like going that direction.
My latest idea is the most complex of the bunch and requires a hell of a lot of explaining. It was created while I was doing the mindless task of painting a room, which let my mind wander freely. Now, it could have been the paint fumes or boredom, perhaps even both, but it is by far the most out there of the bunch.
The background of this character was that he started out as a faceless Seeker(why I like giving crap to underrated Seekers I will never know), overshadowed by smarter and more talented fliers. No one really knew his name or even bothered to remember it if they were told. He finally got fed up with his lot in life and signed up for an experiment that promised to make him a fighting force like no other. The scientists in charge of the project were trying to create a brand of warrior more deadly and competent then the battle-drones, but still able to be mass produced in some manner.
In testing a theory they stretched the Seeker's spark and programming to it's limits, in the end fracturing both it and his mind, leaving only shards of the mech's former self. These shards were harvested and placed into new bodies. However it seemed that the shards were unable to fully power a normal sized transformer so the scientists created a smaller version which the shards had no trouble. There were five bodies, each retaining some fragment of the original transformer but not a single memory before becoming something new. The bots have a sort of 'hive mind'.
The project is deemed a failure because the cut in size does not make the sort of intimidating warrior Megatron would be looking for. The five were placed into pods and shot at the closest sun in an attempt to destroy them and hide the failure. But one of the five seemed to possess a rather advanced grip on mechanics and was able to hack the pods, steering them away from doom and to the closest planet with energon. Earth.
When they crash landed they were put into a deep sleep, only woken up years later when a large mine of energon was blown up during the fighting between stranded Autobots and Decepticons.
Back story out of the way. The bots are only a little taller then an adult human, about half Arcee's height. They are able to combine together to make a single robot, once more fusing their broken minds, emotions and ideals together to make a whole bot, who calls itself HIVE. The bot is about the size and heft of Bumblebee or Barricade and is more of a scout class, being light, flexible but still quite strong.
When separated each of the five bots acts a certain way, depending on what shard was used in creating them. Think of TFA Starscream and his clones, each only a reflection of the original.
My mind went with an insect theme, using a lot of BW characters. Such as Waspinator the paranoid coward who is at times naive. Yellow Jacket the pride filled joker who loves to prank both her teammates and other bots. Yellow Jacket was originally going to be named Buzzsaw, who was a pallet swap of Waspy, but I have no idea what Soundwave's player in this RP may have planned so I changed it. Moving on. The next two are ants, Antagony a black army ant who is cunning and spiteful, she lives for vengeance and if you have wronged her she will never forget it. Then there is Inferno, rage incarnate he lives by instinct alone and will challenge all who dare stand against hos colony. Lastly is Lockjaw, a acid shooting class of termite who is the brains of the group. He gained raw intelligence and a a bold, unflappable outlook.
Each of the five have one weapon and two minor abilities. Such as Waspinator having exploding stinger-shots and the ability to fly, or the ants and Lockjaw the ability to dig rapidly through the dirt.
They are all fairly weak, being so small any of the group could be broken in a few hits, Jockjaw taking slightly more. They all share a connection, down to the very core, to the point they can communicate without the use of coms or speaking aloud. Also when one is destroyed a backup exists in the others, which means the surviving bots only need to grab the fallen bodies and repair them before restoring the shard. This makes them fragile, but extremely hard to kill off for good. Only way to do that is to take out HIVE when fully combined or kill all five before they have the chance to retreat and regroup.
When combined into HIVE it only has a few weapons, but does not suffer from the unbalanced minds of it's lesser parts. I'm not sure if HIVE should be able to transformer or not, the idea of it becoming a giant bug chimera would be rather awesome, but could be a bit much. It's one of the few things I don't have ironed out.
In closing. I really, really like this idea and am going to use it somewhere even if I can't do so here. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like some input if you guys have a way to improve it or even make HIVE suitable for this RP, I would love to hear it.
So far I've run the gambit for a third character on the site, one idea was a garbage truck with a third form, based on a shark. Kinda similar how Arachnid has a third form, based on a spider. A metal munching Hannibal-Cannibal with a taste for metal and the ability to 'swim' through the ground.
Another was sort of based on an old motorcycle, like the kind you see biker chaps riding. Basically a mean little bugger named Siege. Would have made a good Decepticon for taunting Arcee or an antihero-esk Autobot if I felt like going that direction.
My latest idea is the most complex of the bunch and requires a hell of a lot of explaining. It was created while I was doing the mindless task of painting a room, which let my mind wander freely. Now, it could have been the paint fumes or boredom, perhaps even both, but it is by far the most out there of the bunch.
The background of this character was that he started out as a faceless Seeker(why I like giving crap to underrated Seekers I will never know), overshadowed by smarter and more talented fliers. No one really knew his name or even bothered to remember it if they were told. He finally got fed up with his lot in life and signed up for an experiment that promised to make him a fighting force like no other. The scientists in charge of the project were trying to create a brand of warrior more deadly and competent then the battle-drones, but still able to be mass produced in some manner.
In testing a theory they stretched the Seeker's spark and programming to it's limits, in the end fracturing both it and his mind, leaving only shards of the mech's former self. These shards were harvested and placed into new bodies. However it seemed that the shards were unable to fully power a normal sized transformer so the scientists created a smaller version which the shards had no trouble. There were five bodies, each retaining some fragment of the original transformer but not a single memory before becoming something new. The bots have a sort of 'hive mind'.
The project is deemed a failure because the cut in size does not make the sort of intimidating warrior Megatron would be looking for. The five were placed into pods and shot at the closest sun in an attempt to destroy them and hide the failure. But one of the five seemed to possess a rather advanced grip on mechanics and was able to hack the pods, steering them away from doom and to the closest planet with energon. Earth.
When they crash landed they were put into a deep sleep, only woken up years later when a large mine of energon was blown up during the fighting between stranded Autobots and Decepticons.
Back story out of the way. The bots are only a little taller then an adult human, about half Arcee's height. They are able to combine together to make a single robot, once more fusing their broken minds, emotions and ideals together to make a whole bot, who calls itself HIVE. The bot is about the size and heft of Bumblebee or Barricade and is more of a scout class, being light, flexible but still quite strong.
When separated each of the five bots acts a certain way, depending on what shard was used in creating them. Think of TFA Starscream and his clones, each only a reflection of the original.
My mind went with an insect theme, using a lot of BW characters. Such as Waspinator the paranoid coward who is at times naive. Yellow Jacket the pride filled joker who loves to prank both her teammates and other bots. Yellow Jacket was originally going to be named Buzzsaw, who was a pallet swap of Waspy, but I have no idea what Soundwave's player in this RP may have planned so I changed it. Moving on. The next two are ants, Antagony a black army ant who is cunning and spiteful, she lives for vengeance and if you have wronged her she will never forget it. Then there is Inferno, rage incarnate he lives by instinct alone and will challenge all who dare stand against hos colony. Lastly is Lockjaw, a acid shooting class of termite who is the brains of the group. He gained raw intelligence and a a bold, unflappable outlook.
Each of the five have one weapon and two minor abilities. Such as Waspinator having exploding stinger-shots and the ability to fly, or the ants and Lockjaw the ability to dig rapidly through the dirt.
They are all fairly weak, being so small any of the group could be broken in a few hits, Jockjaw taking slightly more. They all share a connection, down to the very core, to the point they can communicate without the use of coms or speaking aloud. Also when one is destroyed a backup exists in the others, which means the surviving bots only need to grab the fallen bodies and repair them before restoring the shard. This makes them fragile, but extremely hard to kill off for good. Only way to do that is to take out HIVE when fully combined or kill all five before they have the chance to retreat and regroup.
When combined into HIVE it only has a few weapons, but does not suffer from the unbalanced minds of it's lesser parts. I'm not sure if HIVE should be able to transformer or not, the idea of it becoming a giant bug chimera would be rather awesome, but could be a bit much. It's one of the few things I don't have ironed out.
In closing. I really, really like this idea and am going to use it somewhere even if I can't do so here. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like some input if you guys have a way to improve it or even make HIVE suitable for this RP, I would love to hear it.