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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Owen
AGE: 26
JOURNAL: n/a
IM / EMAIL: Aircommanderp | ediershaw@gmail.com
PLURK: Jolta
RETURNING: No
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Drift
CHARACTER AGE: 5 million, give or take.
SERIES: Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
CHRONOLOGY: Post banishment.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Don't care
BACKGROUND: Super angsty complicated past GO.
But let's cover this in summary, shall we?
Among the many homeless citizens in the gutters, there was a homeless Cybertronian named Drift. There are ways he got by, such as stealing energon or letting himself get high on drugs available on the streets. After a particularly bad episode and being beaten, Drift was taken by a well-meaning officer named Orion Pax to a nearby clinic owned by a young doctor known as Ratchet. Quick to repair the drifter, Ratchet told Drift that he was special and to make something of himself. Drift left the clinic, and eventually ran into another homeless citizen named Gasket, who was kind and optimistic and helped guide Drift.
Over the course of time, the lower citizens began their revolt and times became more violent. Gasket, his best friend at the time, ended up shot and killed by an Autobot law officer after Gasket tried to protect another person. In a fit of rage, Drift killed the officers, and found he had a knack for violence. Eventually, Drift joined the Decepticons in their revolution and was renamed Deadlock, which then began into a full scale global war between Autobots and Decepticons and then eventually crawled across the galaxy and several planets.
Millions of years passed and Deadlock became second-in-command under a general named Turmoil. Eager to end the war as quickly as possible, Deadlock continuously disobeyed orders and slaughtered hundreds of Autobots. Sick of his traitorous second-in-command, Turmoil attempted to execute Deadlock and failed as the warrior escaped. Deadlock was then found by Wing, a knight under the Circle of Light, a group of religious Cybertronians who chose to be neutral to the war. Wing took in Deadlock, telling him that he could leave if he could defeat Wing in combat without guns. Deadlock was incapable. Gradually, Wing found out more about Deadlock and his motivations, how Deadlock wanted the war to be done. Wing was able to convince Deadlock and tell him that the peace he sought was with the Circle of Light in New Crystal City.
A group of slavers and a bounty hunter after Deadlock (named Lockdown) attacked the city. The knights of the Circle of Light, as well as Deadlock, defended the city but it cost Wing's life. Finding a new path, Deadlock became Drift again and chose to leave the Decepticons and attempt to join with the Autobots. With blessings from the Circle of Light, Drift accepted Wing's sword and left.
Autobots in a reckless team known as the Wreckers planned an attack on Turmoil and his crew in order to rescue their teammates. Drift joined in the battle, assisting the Autobots and rescuing Perceptor. After a discussion with the Wreckers' leader Kup, the old soldier decided that everyone deserved a second chance, even Drift. Thus, Drift was accepted into their team and the Autobots.
They returned to Cybertron and found themselves assisting the abandoned Autobots there, left behind under the assumption that Optimus Prime was dead (which he was not) and knowing that there was a traitor among the Autobots. Drift provided his skills to defend the Autobots, and together they found their way to Earth, fighting the Decepticons there who intended to wipe out the humans and make Earth their new home and conquer it. The Decepticons were eventually defeated and called for a temporary retreat with Megatron badly wounded. For the next few years, Drift spent time on Earth with the other Autobots, trying their best to make amends with the humans who were left with a horrid impression of the Cybertronians.
Once the Matrix was returned to Optimus Prime by Rodimus, the Autobots left Earth to head back to Cybertron to save it from Galvatron. After several battles, eventually Galvatron caused Drift to go out of control and start attacking his teammates. Determined to not turn on his comrades, Drift impaled himself onto his own sword, nearly killed himself. Quickly, Ironhide and Prime took Drift to get repairs done.
The Autobots and Decepticons alike ended up victorious against Galvatron, but mostly from the Matrix as Optimus released its energy. The war was determined to be over, at long last.
In this new post-war world, Cybertronians from across the galaxy returned to Cybertron, and none of them were impressed. They and the planet alike were furious at the damage done to their home planet. Drift suggested to Rodimus that they try to find the Knights of Cybertron and relocate their roots in order to find a way to live peacefully and bring a new golden age to Cybertron. Agreeing, Rodimus arranged for a crew while Drift arranged for a ship. Purchasing it from the neutrals, Drift named it the Lost Light, giving it to Rodimus.
Becoming third-in-command in the Lost Light, Drift adapted a new Cybertronian alt-mode and reawakened spiritual side. Eager to please, Drift more or less became Rodimus's "yes man", although their friendship is genuine. On the other hand, Ratchet was on board the ship, bitter and angry with how Drift spent most of his life in the Decepticons after Ratchet had repaired him. While Drift supported Rodimus, he bickered with Ratchet frequently during their adventures together.
However, there was a darker part of their time on the Lost Light. Before launch of the ship, Prowl had called up Rodimus and convinced him to take on board Overlord, an infamous and powerful Decepticon warrior. While Drift didn't think it was a good idea, he supported Rodimus in any case. The point of it was for Chromedome to attempt to discover the source of how Overlord was so powerful so that Prowl could create Autobot soldiers just as strong as him. However, all of this ultimately failed and Overlord ended up rampaging through the ship, killing and injuring many.
Once the crew found a way to eject Overlord from the ship, Rodimus was prepared to take the blame. Drift was not prepared to let him do that and instead stepped in to take responsibility. He convinced Rodimus to keep carrying on, that it was his destiny to do so. With all of his regret, Rodimus publicly announced that Drift was at fault for Overlord's presence and ripped off his Autobot badge, banishing him from the ship.
Drift was last seen taking a shuttle and leaving the Lost Light.
PERSONALITY: At the very immediate first impression, Drift seems like a really nice guy. He's so bubbly cheerful that it's almost downright offensive to everyone else around him, seeing no boundaries before him as he brings up his overly religious and New Age theories into the fold. Feeling stressed out? Oh man, it must be your aura! You really need to get around to getting that cleansed! Maybe if we do some robot-styled feng shui, we can get that fixed for you! Others have remarked upon his demeanor as being a "happy hippy" guy, and frankly that's a great description... of his surface personality. All of the obnoxious optimism that Drift portrays? You can bet it's all an act. Drift has the perpetual need to play this out and go over the top in attempting to impress people around him, particularly Rodimus and Ratchet. He's not very well loved in the Autobot ranks, so he tries to make what friendship he can get stick. This isn't to say that Drift is completely unkind, but it's horribly exaggerated most of the time.
Beneath the facade Drift is very clearly insecure with who he is. Often times, Drift finds himself emulating people he's admired in the past instead of trusting his own instincts. Bottom line with this factor is that Drift, throughout his entire life, has had a hard time trying to find his place in the universe. At the moment, he seems to have taken to imitating people he's looked up to with varying degrees of instant karma and disappointment. The biggest complication that Drift seems to have with himself is that he can't seem to trust himself to make his own decisions. This likely links back to the fact that so many of his closer friends have died right in front of him, and his past regrets about joining the Decepticons in the first place.
Despite his flaws, Drift is incredibly loyal to those who even give the slightest implication of being his friend or, at the very least, are part of his crew. He will go out of his way for someone who gives him the time of day, and he will do everything in his power to protect them. This could almost be to the point of being nearly overly protective, though. Some people are a tad "trigger happy" and Drift can definitely become a slight bit "slash happy" in regards to keeping people well protected. This is in conjunction to the fact that there's a language that Drift is fluent in due to his history: he knows violence, and he knows it well. At times, it is almost the only thing he can express fluidly, which is why he enjoys a good battle and teaching others how to defend themselves.
POWER:
- Cybertronian Form: Can shift between robot and human form. In robot mode, he can of course, transform into a vehicle. He stands roughly three or four times the size of your average human. He carries three swords, and is incredibly agile and light on his feet. He can survive in the vacuum of space and project a holoform.
- Swordplay: He can produce blades of any size from any place in his body. At first this can be activated in a defensive response or state of heightened anxiety. Later he will learn to control it. It splits the skin and does cause blood loss, but does not damage internal organs. If he pulls the blade back into himself, the wound heals quickly in a few hours. If he pulls the blade out and wields it, he will continue to bleed until he receives medical treatment. Blades can be any size, he can produce multiples, though the more he produces the more taxing it is. They will only be straight blades, (i.e. he cannot control the shape). With enough practice he can produce his own greatsword.
- Late to Anime School: Sakura petals will fall when he experiences either extreme joy or sadness, if he is in love, if he has toast in his mouth, or if he is late to an appointment.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Okay so not to cause panic or anything, but I think. I might be dying. Something is happening in here and I'm not sure, but my tanks are killing me, I feel really insanely gross. How does anyone exist like this? Can someone take me to a medic or something? I thought you know, I thought I might just be hungry, so I had some of that cake stuff in the fridge. It just got worse! I ate the entire thing and I just feel worse! How am I supposed to get anything done like this?
Especially if I really am dying.
O-oh Primus help me I feel like I'm gonna purge. Okay, okay, deep breaths. Maybe more cake...
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: This was probably the single worst thing that has ever happened to him. That includes almost dying a few times, being run through, and tortured. This beats them all out, he's decided. He doesn't want to even move, but his irritatingly needy human body urges him to eat, to drink, and is itchy beyond compare. Even naked as he is, everything itches, there's so much texture. All sensations are way too vibrant for him to even process at once. He needs someone to help him, but he can only lay there in his bed, wishing to finally wake up. Moments later when he doesn't wake, shaken but relieved in his shuttle, Drift curses under his breath and finally musters the will to drag himself from the nest of blankets he's been hiding in, dragging one with him as he hobbles to the kitchen to attempt to ingest... whatever the hell organic matter he's supposed to eat.
There, a welcome gift from one of the other cybertronians... a cake. Garnished with strawberries on white frosting, it doesn't look entirely repulsive. He dipped a finger into the frosting and tentatively licked it.
Well.
Hauling the cake out, he simply takes a fork and starts to eat. It feels weird and he tries not to think about mashing up organic matter in his mouth and how it feels going down. The sweetness is a decent distraction. He didn't even bother slicing it. He has no idea how you're supposed to eat this but he's starting to hope 'in it's entirety' is an option.
FINAL NOTES: Drift will be humanized for the most part.
NAME: Owen
AGE: 26
JOURNAL: n/a
IM / EMAIL: Aircommanderp | ediershaw@gmail.com
PLURK: Jolta
RETURNING: No
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Drift
CHARACTER AGE: 5 million, give or take.
SERIES: Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
CHRONOLOGY: Post banishment.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Don't care
BACKGROUND: Super angsty complicated past GO.
But let's cover this in summary, shall we?
Among the many homeless citizens in the gutters, there was a homeless Cybertronian named Drift. There are ways he got by, such as stealing energon or letting himself get high on drugs available on the streets. After a particularly bad episode and being beaten, Drift was taken by a well-meaning officer named Orion Pax to a nearby clinic owned by a young doctor known as Ratchet. Quick to repair the drifter, Ratchet told Drift that he was special and to make something of himself. Drift left the clinic, and eventually ran into another homeless citizen named Gasket, who was kind and optimistic and helped guide Drift.
Over the course of time, the lower citizens began their revolt and times became more violent. Gasket, his best friend at the time, ended up shot and killed by an Autobot law officer after Gasket tried to protect another person. In a fit of rage, Drift killed the officers, and found he had a knack for violence. Eventually, Drift joined the Decepticons in their revolution and was renamed Deadlock, which then began into a full scale global war between Autobots and Decepticons and then eventually crawled across the galaxy and several planets.
Millions of years passed and Deadlock became second-in-command under a general named Turmoil. Eager to end the war as quickly as possible, Deadlock continuously disobeyed orders and slaughtered hundreds of Autobots. Sick of his traitorous second-in-command, Turmoil attempted to execute Deadlock and failed as the warrior escaped. Deadlock was then found by Wing, a knight under the Circle of Light, a group of religious Cybertronians who chose to be neutral to the war. Wing took in Deadlock, telling him that he could leave if he could defeat Wing in combat without guns. Deadlock was incapable. Gradually, Wing found out more about Deadlock and his motivations, how Deadlock wanted the war to be done. Wing was able to convince Deadlock and tell him that the peace he sought was with the Circle of Light in New Crystal City.
A group of slavers and a bounty hunter after Deadlock (named Lockdown) attacked the city. The knights of the Circle of Light, as well as Deadlock, defended the city but it cost Wing's life. Finding a new path, Deadlock became Drift again and chose to leave the Decepticons and attempt to join with the Autobots. With blessings from the Circle of Light, Drift accepted Wing's sword and left.
Autobots in a reckless team known as the Wreckers planned an attack on Turmoil and his crew in order to rescue their teammates. Drift joined in the battle, assisting the Autobots and rescuing Perceptor. After a discussion with the Wreckers' leader Kup, the old soldier decided that everyone deserved a second chance, even Drift. Thus, Drift was accepted into their team and the Autobots.
They returned to Cybertron and found themselves assisting the abandoned Autobots there, left behind under the assumption that Optimus Prime was dead (which he was not) and knowing that there was a traitor among the Autobots. Drift provided his skills to defend the Autobots, and together they found their way to Earth, fighting the Decepticons there who intended to wipe out the humans and make Earth their new home and conquer it. The Decepticons were eventually defeated and called for a temporary retreat with Megatron badly wounded. For the next few years, Drift spent time on Earth with the other Autobots, trying their best to make amends with the humans who were left with a horrid impression of the Cybertronians.
Once the Matrix was returned to Optimus Prime by Rodimus, the Autobots left Earth to head back to Cybertron to save it from Galvatron. After several battles, eventually Galvatron caused Drift to go out of control and start attacking his teammates. Determined to not turn on his comrades, Drift impaled himself onto his own sword, nearly killed himself. Quickly, Ironhide and Prime took Drift to get repairs done.
The Autobots and Decepticons alike ended up victorious against Galvatron, but mostly from the Matrix as Optimus released its energy. The war was determined to be over, at long last.
In this new post-war world, Cybertronians from across the galaxy returned to Cybertron, and none of them were impressed. They and the planet alike were furious at the damage done to their home planet. Drift suggested to Rodimus that they try to find the Knights of Cybertron and relocate their roots in order to find a way to live peacefully and bring a new golden age to Cybertron. Agreeing, Rodimus arranged for a crew while Drift arranged for a ship. Purchasing it from the neutrals, Drift named it the Lost Light, giving it to Rodimus.
Becoming third-in-command in the Lost Light, Drift adapted a new Cybertronian alt-mode and reawakened spiritual side. Eager to please, Drift more or less became Rodimus's "yes man", although their friendship is genuine. On the other hand, Ratchet was on board the ship, bitter and angry with how Drift spent most of his life in the Decepticons after Ratchet had repaired him. While Drift supported Rodimus, he bickered with Ratchet frequently during their adventures together.
However, there was a darker part of their time on the Lost Light. Before launch of the ship, Prowl had called up Rodimus and convinced him to take on board Overlord, an infamous and powerful Decepticon warrior. While Drift didn't think it was a good idea, he supported Rodimus in any case. The point of it was for Chromedome to attempt to discover the source of how Overlord was so powerful so that Prowl could create Autobot soldiers just as strong as him. However, all of this ultimately failed and Overlord ended up rampaging through the ship, killing and injuring many.
Once the crew found a way to eject Overlord from the ship, Rodimus was prepared to take the blame. Drift was not prepared to let him do that and instead stepped in to take responsibility. He convinced Rodimus to keep carrying on, that it was his destiny to do so. With all of his regret, Rodimus publicly announced that Drift was at fault for Overlord's presence and ripped off his Autobot badge, banishing him from the ship.
Drift was last seen taking a shuttle and leaving the Lost Light.
PERSONALITY: At the very immediate first impression, Drift seems like a really nice guy. He's so bubbly cheerful that it's almost downright offensive to everyone else around him, seeing no boundaries before him as he brings up his overly religious and New Age theories into the fold. Feeling stressed out? Oh man, it must be your aura! You really need to get around to getting that cleansed! Maybe if we do some robot-styled feng shui, we can get that fixed for you! Others have remarked upon his demeanor as being a "happy hippy" guy, and frankly that's a great description... of his surface personality. All of the obnoxious optimism that Drift portrays? You can bet it's all an act. Drift has the perpetual need to play this out and go over the top in attempting to impress people around him, particularly Rodimus and Ratchet. He's not very well loved in the Autobot ranks, so he tries to make what friendship he can get stick. This isn't to say that Drift is completely unkind, but it's horribly exaggerated most of the time.
Beneath the facade Drift is very clearly insecure with who he is. Often times, Drift finds himself emulating people he's admired in the past instead of trusting his own instincts. Bottom line with this factor is that Drift, throughout his entire life, has had a hard time trying to find his place in the universe. At the moment, he seems to have taken to imitating people he's looked up to with varying degrees of instant karma and disappointment. The biggest complication that Drift seems to have with himself is that he can't seem to trust himself to make his own decisions. This likely links back to the fact that so many of his closer friends have died right in front of him, and his past regrets about joining the Decepticons in the first place.
Despite his flaws, Drift is incredibly loyal to those who even give the slightest implication of being his friend or, at the very least, are part of his crew. He will go out of his way for someone who gives him the time of day, and he will do everything in his power to protect them. This could almost be to the point of being nearly overly protective, though. Some people are a tad "trigger happy" and Drift can definitely become a slight bit "slash happy" in regards to keeping people well protected. This is in conjunction to the fact that there's a language that Drift is fluent in due to his history: he knows violence, and he knows it well. At times, it is almost the only thing he can express fluidly, which is why he enjoys a good battle and teaching others how to defend themselves.
POWER:
- Cybertronian Form: Can shift between robot and human form. In robot mode, he can of course, transform into a vehicle. He stands roughly three or four times the size of your average human. He carries three swords, and is incredibly agile and light on his feet. He can survive in the vacuum of space and project a holoform.
- Swordplay: He can produce blades of any size from any place in his body. At first this can be activated in a defensive response or state of heightened anxiety. Later he will learn to control it. It splits the skin and does cause blood loss, but does not damage internal organs. If he pulls the blade back into himself, the wound heals quickly in a few hours. If he pulls the blade out and wields it, he will continue to bleed until he receives medical treatment. Blades can be any size, he can produce multiples, though the more he produces the more taxing it is. They will only be straight blades, (i.e. he cannot control the shape). With enough practice he can produce his own greatsword.
- Late to Anime School: Sakura petals will fall when he experiences either extreme joy or sadness, if he is in love, if he has toast in his mouth, or if he is late to an appointment.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Okay so not to cause panic or anything, but I think. I might be dying. Something is happening in here and I'm not sure, but my tanks are killing me, I feel really insanely gross. How does anyone exist like this? Can someone take me to a medic or something? I thought you know, I thought I might just be hungry, so I had some of that cake stuff in the fridge. It just got worse! I ate the entire thing and I just feel worse! How am I supposed to get anything done like this?
Especially if I really am dying.
O-oh Primus help me I feel like I'm gonna purge. Okay, okay, deep breaths. Maybe more cake...
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: This was probably the single worst thing that has ever happened to him. That includes almost dying a few times, being run through, and tortured. This beats them all out, he's decided. He doesn't want to even move, but his irritatingly needy human body urges him to eat, to drink, and is itchy beyond compare. Even naked as he is, everything itches, there's so much texture. All sensations are way too vibrant for him to even process at once. He needs someone to help him, but he can only lay there in his bed, wishing to finally wake up. Moments later when he doesn't wake, shaken but relieved in his shuttle, Drift curses under his breath and finally musters the will to drag himself from the nest of blankets he's been hiding in, dragging one with him as he hobbles to the kitchen to attempt to ingest... whatever the hell organic matter he's supposed to eat.
There, a welcome gift from one of the other cybertronians... a cake. Garnished with strawberries on white frosting, it doesn't look entirely repulsive. He dipped a finger into the frosting and tentatively licked it.
Well.
Hauling the cake out, he simply takes a fork and starts to eat. It feels weird and he tries not to think about mashing up organic matter in his mouth and how it feels going down. The sweetness is a decent distraction. He didn't even bother slicing it. He has no idea how you're supposed to eat this but he's starting to hope 'in it's entirety' is an option.
FINAL NOTES: Drift will be humanized for the most part.