Ganking a meme from eaten_by_bears

[casusfere]

Pick a character and I will give and explain the top five
ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I
believe are essential to accurately depicting them. Any and all characters
welcome (including ones I haven't written but might know about...)

Comments

[niyazi-a.livejournal.com]

Well this is probably really obvious, but...Onslaught?

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

1. He's a tactical genius. Outwitting him is very difficult, and he's nearly impossible to rattle - he contends with both Swindle and Vortex on a daily basis. He's seen and heard it all.

2. Pride. He's not as smart as he thinks he is. He resents being forced to bow first to Starscream then to Megatron. He believes he is the best, and does not like being told (or shown) that this is not true.

3. He's got a violent temper that erupts very suddenly with very little warning.

4. Loyalty. Throwing a team member under the bus isn't an option for him.

5. He lives to serve the Empire. He just thinks it would run better with him at the top.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Vortex?

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

His rotors are sexy

1. He's brilliant. Flat out smarter than the vast majority of people he comes in contact with, and he finds this funny.

2. Everything is funny, including ambushes. Including ambushes where he's the one being ambushed.

3. He's a sadist. Pain is even funnier than ambushes. Screaming is extra extra funny, and trapping someone who is afraid of heights a few thousand feet in the air in a spinning wind funnel is downright hilarious.

4. Instant gratification. He's capable of thinking up complex plans, but he doesn't have the dedication or attention span to follow through with them. If he can't see results immediately, he'll drop it for the next interesting thing to cross his processor.

5. He acknowledges that Onslaught's the leader for a reason and that his plans are superior, but he's also not afraid to tell Onslaught to stuff it, or to deck his commander in the face if he doesn't like something.

[eaten-by-bears.livejournal.com]

Red Alert.

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

1. He's the security director, and he's got the job for a reason. He's good at it.

2. His sensor net is extreme. He can, according to his Universe profile, hear a pin drop at 1.4 miles. Think about how far that is, and think about hearing everything that happens within four miles, whether you'd like to or not. The sheer amount of data he has to process every waking moment is staggering. His eyesight and sense of smell are equally impressive.

3. He does not have a glitch. His paranoia is a combination of a nervous personality, a very sensitive sensor net, and personal experience. This paranoia has saved Autobot lives. The other Autobots know this, as well.

4. He's very aware that there is a war going on, and that the Decepticons want them dead. This makes it very difficult for him to relax even for a little while, knowing that somewhere, Decepticons are thinking up new plans to kill his friends. He doesn't believe in "vacations" from the war, not even for a single evening of partying or relaxation for the Ark.

5. He's socially awkward, and has little patience for anyone who does not take security protocols seriously. He becomes frustrated with his fellow Autobots when they do not listen to him, and tends to become more tense and then angry when his concerns are dismissed. His sensor net makes sure he hears what people are saying behind his back, and it upsets him, but he lacks the social and communication skills to do anything about it besides become bitter and snappish.

[eerian_sadow]

Galvatron

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, a challenge. :D

1. He's crazy. Unpredictably nuts. Completely, totally insane. Therapy will not help - just ask Torkulon. His insanity runs towards paranoia and violence.

2. He does not take challenges to his authority well, and anyone who dares will be lucky to get away alive.

3. Everything is a challenge to his authority. Things that are especially challenging to his authority: Tactics, saving his life.

4. Megalomania - Galvatron believes that he is invincible and that he cannot lose. Repeated evidence to the contrary does not seem to compute.

5. He's incredibly powerful and he's very nearly as invincible as he thinks he is. There's a very good reason that the other Decepticons follow him, despite his insanity.

[eerian_sadow]

yay challenge! :D

There's a very good reason that the other Decepticons follow him, despite his insanity.

yeah, there pretty much has to be. because no one willingly follows a batshit crazy leader who's obviously batshit crazy.

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

Self preservation, best Decepticon reason ever. =D Sure, he's batshit, but you wanna be the one who tells him that? Just make Cyclonus do it. Starscream made for a very good object lesson there. The guy survived betraying Megatron, got shot and/or beat up on a regular basis... and Galvatron obliterated him in a single shot. Disintegrated, nothing left. Who wants to step up after that?

[eerian_sadow]

Who wants to step up after that?

no one. well, no one with a functional processor who isn't Rodimus, anyway. ;-)

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Breakdown ;)

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

1. Paranoia. Everything is staring at him with little beady optics, cameras in the streetlights, following him everywhere, watching...

2. He's strangely loyal to Motormaster. He resents being hurt by Motormaster, but he clings to his gestalt leader as a source of stability in a universe that's out to get him. With little optics hidden everywhere. (*having too much fun*) This extends to the rest of the gestalt as well.

3. He's afraid of Motormaster. He's just more afraid of the rest of the world.

4. He's smart. His speech problems are not a result of low intelligence but a separate issue. He's smarter than Motormaster and Motormaster knows it.

5. He's a war machine created by a violent dictator, and has spent his entire life fighting. His reaction to being frightened is violence. Startle him, and he's likely to shoot you. Several times. Then leave tire marks over the remains.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__wilderness__/]

Motormaster!

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

1. Empathy is not his strong point. In fact, empathy isn't a point at all. It doesn't even make the list of potential points. He doesn't understand others' feelings, and doesn't care to. He does, however, enjoy hitting them. He's perfectly aware that his team hates him, and doesn't care as long as they stay dependent on him.

2. He does not have complete control over his team. Individually, violence is a good incentive, but if they were to all decide to move against him, he couldn't stop them, and he knows it. When he needs to, he can and will reason with them to get them to agree to what he wants.

3. Loyalty - he has it, but it's not his driving force. He will protect his team from outsiders and he will side with Megatron, but if comes down to his life or someone else's, he will dump them out of the shuttle every time. He will take the blame for his team, but he'll also take it out on them soon as they're in private.

4. Lack of ambition. He's as high on the ladder as he wants to go. He thoroughly enjoys controlling the lives of his team, but he doesn't care to put up with any more slaggin' subordinates. These ones are more than enough of a headache.

5. He's more social than he lets on. He enjoys controlling his team, but he also enjoys spending time with them. If he can combine spending time with his team with his love for breaking things, he's a very happy truck. Stunticon demolition derbies take precedence over petty trifles such as rescuing Megatron from Starscream and his new combiner minions.

[macboris.livejournal.com]

(Me? Obvious? Never.)

Astrotrain?

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

1. He doesn't so much want to take over the Decepticons as he is really sick of getting ordered around in stupid ways. He's not a leader, even if he does enjoy getting worshiped by the occasional primitive culture. Lording it over Starscream was also a bonus in that particular incident.

2. He resents being used as a cargo shuttle when he is in fact a warrior, and a good one. He feels taken advantage of, and that utilizing his abilities in this way makes the other Decepticons not respect him.

3. He's not so good with people. He generally wants to be left alone, and prefers the company of drones to other Decepticons.

4. He gets along with Blitzwing largely because Blitzwing doesn't expect a whole lot out of him. They both serve as someone for the other to talk to, but neither expect the other to play nice or being socially acceptable or understanding. He also uses Blitzwing as a buffer between him and everyone else - people tend to bother him less if they have to first contend with a bored and belligerent Blitzwing before they get to him. casual sex is an added bonus

5. He doesn't care who's in charge. Megatron, Galvatron, a My Little Pony named Milo, it's all the same to him.

[eerie-iri.livejournal.com]

Thundercracker?



Hey Casus,

I've got a few drabbles written up, they're mostly pairings, but I don't particularly want to post them up on my accounts. Right now, I'm just trying to post up stories which are over a thousand words, not drabbles.

However, I read in one of your journals that you like Impactor/Springer, Vortex/Springer, Prowl/Springer and Sentinel Prime/Prowl, and these are the main pairings in the drabbles I've got.

So, I was just wondering if you'd like me to send you the drabbles I've written up?

Talk to you later.

~Eerie

P.S. I'd send you this in a message, but I don't know how to do that here.

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

Ahh, TC. :3 A favorite of mine, ol' TC

1. He's a Decepticon. Obvious, but it seems to get forgotten. He's survived millions of years in a cutthroat society of killers, and he's not above lying and cheating to get whatever he wants.

2. He's a soldier, and he kills other soldiers with no regret but he doesn't enjoy hurting civilians. Deep down, he still believes that the soldier's duty is to protect those who do not fight. He has little stomach for bombing non-combatants.

3. He no longer believes in Megatron. The war has caused too much destruction, and Megatron has lost sight of his original goals.

4. He doesn't believe that the Autobots are any better a choice than the Decepticons, and it's not because he doesn't understand the Autobots, but because his moral code is so different from theirs. He feels they do not and cannot understand him.

5. Thundercracker is an old soldier. The military way of life is too ingrained in him for him to consider anything different, but he's tired of fighting, tired of warfare and alien worlds, and all he wants is to go home. It weighs on him everything that's happened to Cybertron and his part in it, and that there will likely never be a "home" for him to go to again.

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

Great googley mooglies, a new comment? Sorry, I haven't been signing into LJ lately, so I didn't notice until recently.

1. He's the goddamn Air Commander. And Starscream is good at what he does. He's the second in command of the entire Decepticon army, and no one's managed to displace him yet. At least, not permanently. He's managed to survive assassination, outright challenges, and the Autobots.

2. He's the most resilient little slagger in the entire army. No matter how many times he gets smacked down, he's going to get back up, sneak around behind you, and shoot you in the back.

3. He's ambitious. He wants to be first, and he doesn't accept that Megatron is "better" than him in anything. He knows he's capable of being as good or better than Megatron at anything he puts his mind to. If he's not, it's just a matter of experience and effort. Regroup and try again until success. Megatron is the yardstick he measures himself by.

4. Despite constantly fighting with Megatron, he respects him. He's been part of the movement since the beginning, and he's still devoted to it. Given a choice between following Megatron or someone like Shockwave or another usurper, he'll choose himself Megatron.

5. Starscream is smart. He was a scientist and a politician (Vos!), and now a top military commander. He knows what he's doing, and with the obvious exception of "Would now be a good time to take over the Decepticons", he's right more often than not.

[casusfere.livejournal.com]

1. Swindle is a criminal. He's a sneaky criminal who gets things around smart people like Onslaught. He was hand-picked by Onslaught for Onslaught's rebellion against Shockwave because he's very good at being a sneaky criminal who can get anything anywhere.... for a price.He'll deal in anything that'll make him money. This includes selling his own teammates.

2. His team includes Vortex. Whether you write them as enemies or friends, there's very little Swindle hasn't seen. If he didn't see it in his criminal career, he's seen it dragged back to their quarters bleeding and screaming. Nothing shocks him anymore, and he doesn't have an emotional response to the things Vortex does on a regular basis. Been there, done that, made a profit from it.

3. He's not the most powerful mech in the army, and he's very aware of his own mortality.

4. He's also not a pushover. He's got more weapons than mechs twice his size, and no one knows when he's going to pull out some massive gun banned on all civilized planets that he was planning on selling under the table.

5. He resents authority, including Megatron, Galvatron, and Onslaught.