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

[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. ;-)