Sideswipe
Oct 29, 2011 16:09:14 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2011 16:09:14 GMT -5
-Player Info-
Player Handle: Stark
AIM/Email: starkraves4u (AIM)
-Character Info-
Name: Sideswipe
Age (or human equivalent): early 20’s
Gender (or human equivalent): Male
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot
Occupation/Specialization: Commando/shocktrooper
Appearance/Altmode: Sideswipe is a mid-range mech size-wise. His alt is a Rosso Andromeda Red Mucielago Lamborgini Roadster and in bipedal mode he looks a bit like THIS . He and Sunstreaker are almost gear to gyro twins in build. Sideswipe’s color scheme in bi-pedal mode is red armor over matte black undermesh and his build is taller and slenderer than most Bots with his alt type. He’s not small though. (Example: he comes up to Optimus Prime’s shoulder.) His body layout is pretty conventional – wheels set into the joints of his elbows and his lower legs, headlights set into his chest plates. Black and red metal for his helm, back swept into kind of horns. His optics are blue. The Autobot insgnia is on his chest but he still has the Decepticon mark on his upper back, though, faded and nearly scratched out. The face for his hardlight projection tends to look like THIS.
Note: When speaking English, Sideswipe talks with a hodgepodge South London fused with Brooklyn accent and adopts slang from where ever. The affect is rather like someone badly faking both accents. He does this because it 'sounds cool'.
(Art Credit: Mamonna PB: John Boyega)
Weapons: Two high-voltage combat scythes built into his forearms that shunt forward into short blades when he needs them, a mounted plasma canon built into his right arm, generally keeps a high-powered sniper-style laser rifle in his subspace. Modded forearm hydraulics give him a pile-driver like punch capable of seriously damaging most mid-grade armor and hazarding top-grade armor.
Personality: Sideswipe is high energy and highly social and tends to be a bit of a goofball when he's allowed... and lots of times when he's not allowed. Because he's given over to restlessness and boredom and will often seek out and bother others out of sheer exasperation, pranking, irritating, talking - Primus alive can he talk. He’s got a VERY easy going longwave EMF so that's Cybertronian for ‘gets along with everyone’… just don’t get on his bad side. He won’t blacklist you for nothing, but if he does, Sides is exactly as vicious as Sunstreaker and in battle, no one gets more joy out of a good fire-fight.
He’s extremely proud; not an egomaniac like his brother but still, he’s cocky and he lets it show. He doesn't let others tell him what to do. Autonomy and choice means a lot to him. It's one of the few true things on his moral compass and he absolutely holds a grudge against those he perceives as oppressors or undeserved authority figures. A double-talker and a charmer, it's hard to get a straight answer of of of him. The twins' hard life has taught Sideswipe not to trust anyone but himself and Sunstreaker... and even Sunstreaker is an alien to him sometimes. He tends to get lonely quickly, but bounce back fast. Always up for mischief.
For a quick summary on his relationship with his brother, refer to THIS cept the death threats occasionally end with real attempted murder.
Likes: Sunstreaker, off-roading, techno, languages, swearing, fireworks, FPS-games, E-bay.
Dislikes: Being bored, getting caught, being used, being quiet, being still.
History: The twins were sparked as part of a build-bot cohort so low down the caste-system social ladder, they didn’t even have names and their cohort had to take loans to pay for their frames. During their sparking something went weird and a single spark split, bringing them online together, twinned. Sunny and Sides were odd and difficult and didn't fit their function class and the others looked at them like freaks. When Sunstreaker prove too vicious and uncontrollable, their cohort tried to have him reprogrammed. This was Sideswipe’s first experience with betrayal. He flipped out, broke his brother out, and they ran.
They ditched their cohort and more or less became part-time criminals and hustlers and thugs. Oh yeah, and gladiators. Their current bodies are illegal Elite Guard frames that they adopted to hide from their Creators. When they down-moded into their new frames, they joined the Kaon gladiator rings and took the names Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. They met and even briefly trained with Megatronus, though they never ran in the same combat tiers. The Twins established a respect and semi-professional friendship with the rebel-leader and they did lots of his dirty work during the pre-rebellion uprisings.
As the war began, they were Decepticons for about 10 minutes before Sides talked Sunny out of it - Megatron asking one too many terrible things of them. They still have a shitty rep with the Autobots - usually deserved given their excessively violent MO - but the Bot army was still willing to take them on as mercenaries and later as frontliners. Despite their long-time military service, they were abandoned by their last combat unit and left to Decepticon capture.
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Special Skills Sideswipe is a lingustical specialist fluent in just about any language Cybertronian or human and its been rumored but never confirmed by mechs who want to live that he might have some singing ability. He’s really good at blackmarket trade and brokering deals of shady natures.
Extra Info: If its in a foreign language, he’s swearing at you. Also, Sideswipe's jetpack was not part of his original frame design but rather one he was coerced into having integrated to his systems. He loves flight-fighting now, but originally it messed him up pretty bad.
Player Handle: Stark
AIM/Email: starkraves4u (AIM)
-Character Info-
Name: Sideswipe
Age (or human equivalent): early 20’s
Gender (or human equivalent): Male
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot
Occupation/Specialization: Commando/shocktrooper
Appearance/Altmode: Sideswipe is a mid-range mech size-wise. His alt is a Rosso Andromeda Red Mucielago Lamborgini Roadster and in bipedal mode he looks a bit like THIS . He and Sunstreaker are almost gear to gyro twins in build. Sideswipe’s color scheme in bi-pedal mode is red armor over matte black undermesh and his build is taller and slenderer than most Bots with his alt type. He’s not small though. (Example: he comes up to Optimus Prime’s shoulder.) His body layout is pretty conventional – wheels set into the joints of his elbows and his lower legs, headlights set into his chest plates. Black and red metal for his helm, back swept into kind of horns. His optics are blue. The Autobot insgnia is on his chest but he still has the Decepticon mark on his upper back, though, faded and nearly scratched out. The face for his hardlight projection tends to look like THIS.
Note: When speaking English, Sideswipe talks with a hodgepodge South London fused with Brooklyn accent and adopts slang from where ever. The affect is rather like someone badly faking both accents. He does this because it 'sounds cool'.
(Art Credit: Mamonna PB: John Boyega)
Weapons: Two high-voltage combat scythes built into his forearms that shunt forward into short blades when he needs them, a mounted plasma canon built into his right arm, generally keeps a high-powered sniper-style laser rifle in his subspace. Modded forearm hydraulics give him a pile-driver like punch capable of seriously damaging most mid-grade armor and hazarding top-grade armor.
Personality: Sideswipe is high energy and highly social and tends to be a bit of a goofball when he's allowed... and lots of times when he's not allowed. Because he's given over to restlessness and boredom and will often seek out and bother others out of sheer exasperation, pranking, irritating, talking - Primus alive can he talk. He’s got a VERY easy going longwave EMF so that's Cybertronian for ‘gets along with everyone’… just don’t get on his bad side. He won’t blacklist you for nothing, but if he does, Sides is exactly as vicious as Sunstreaker and in battle, no one gets more joy out of a good fire-fight.
He’s extremely proud; not an egomaniac like his brother but still, he’s cocky and he lets it show. He doesn't let others tell him what to do. Autonomy and choice means a lot to him. It's one of the few true things on his moral compass and he absolutely holds a grudge against those he perceives as oppressors or undeserved authority figures. A double-talker and a charmer, it's hard to get a straight answer of of of him. The twins' hard life has taught Sideswipe not to trust anyone but himself and Sunstreaker... and even Sunstreaker is an alien to him sometimes. He tends to get lonely quickly, but bounce back fast. Always up for mischief.
For a quick summary on his relationship with his brother, refer to THIS cept the death threats occasionally end with real attempted murder.
Likes: Sunstreaker, off-roading, techno, languages, swearing, fireworks, FPS-games, E-bay.
Dislikes: Being bored, getting caught, being used, being quiet, being still.
History: The twins were sparked as part of a build-bot cohort so low down the caste-system social ladder, they didn’t even have names and their cohort had to take loans to pay for their frames. During their sparking something went weird and a single spark split, bringing them online together, twinned. Sunny and Sides were odd and difficult and didn't fit their function class and the others looked at them like freaks. When Sunstreaker prove too vicious and uncontrollable, their cohort tried to have him reprogrammed. This was Sideswipe’s first experience with betrayal. He flipped out, broke his brother out, and they ran.
They ditched their cohort and more or less became part-time criminals and hustlers and thugs. Oh yeah, and gladiators. Their current bodies are illegal Elite Guard frames that they adopted to hide from their Creators. When they down-moded into their new frames, they joined the Kaon gladiator rings and took the names Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. They met and even briefly trained with Megatronus, though they never ran in the same combat tiers. The Twins established a respect and semi-professional friendship with the rebel-leader and they did lots of his dirty work during the pre-rebellion uprisings.
As the war began, they were Decepticons for about 10 minutes before Sides talked Sunny out of it - Megatron asking one too many terrible things of them. They still have a shitty rep with the Autobots - usually deserved given their excessively violent MO - but the Bot army was still willing to take them on as mercenaries and later as frontliners. Despite their long-time military service, they were abandoned by their last combat unit and left to Decepticon capture.
Strengths:
- Lightening Bruiser – He is very fast but this doesn’t sacrifice his ability to take a hit or dish it out. Specifically, Sideswipe's armor is heavier than it appears, upper mid-grade, high-density making even a direct hit something he can shake off if the weapon is not high enough caliber. His pile-driver punch is nothing to laugh at either.
- Bash Brothers – He and his bro are precognitive to each other in battle, a two-mech army. As former gladiators, that's almost literal sometimes. They were often assigned as pinch hitters to suicide or badly out-gunned units to help hold other wise unholdable lines.
- Common Sense Sides is a fast-talker with dangerously good instincts both in and out of battle and strategy in a tight place comes to him very quickly.
- Jet Judo– Sides can fly… and then sometime he kicks Seekers in the face. The nature of his jet pack makes him highly maneuverable in flight and can match most jet-alts for spreed. So even if he doesn't have the endurance of real aerialists like the Seekers or Aerialbots, when he is in the air he's fast and hard to hit.
- Confident – You just can’t get a good mech down!
Weaknesses:
- Sunny – Sides will do just about anything to protect his brother. He owes no bot any higher loyalty and can be distracted in battle if his brother is in danger.
- Fuel Consumption – Flying will wipe Sideswipe's energy out, especially long distance or prolonged aerial combat. If he does not take down a flyer fast, they can outlast him and wait until his energy is drained or force him to go to ground.
- Over-confidence – Actually, you CAN get a good mech down with a big enough cannon.
- Jet Mod – The jet turbine on Sideswipe's back is un-armored and not well integrated into his sensor grids. When activated a direct hit to the unarmored mod will A: knock him out of the air and B: be so agonizing it will incapacitate him completely.
- Shock-tech – The electrical draw off his charged combat scythes, though it can knock out a mech significantly larger than him, is limited and over clocking it can damage him and knock him off line. Has an 10 hour recharge interval to get back to full power.
- Vicarious Perception – A condition specific to some spark-splits, they share strong sensory data in flashes. So if Sunstreaker is very badly damaged, Sideswipe will sometimes get a sympathy pang that may be unnoticeable to incapacitating. These flashes only last a moment, but the data shared can be touch, sight, sound, taste etc. This condition was recently exacerbated by torture during Decepticon capture.
Special Skills Sideswipe is a lingustical specialist fluent in just about any language Cybertronian or human and its been rumored but never confirmed by mechs who want to live that he might have some singing ability. He’s really good at blackmarket trade and brokering deals of shady natures.
Extra Info: If its in a foreign language, he’s swearing at you. Also, Sideswipe's jetpack was not part of his original frame design but rather one he was coerced into having integrated to his systems. He loves flight-fighting now, but originally it messed him up pretty bad.