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]

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.