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needsmoarbombs) wrote2013-04-10 06:16 pm
needsmoarbombs) wrote2013-04-10 06:16 pm
Entry tags:
Ink City Application
Mun Name: Jayde
Journal:mordoriannazgul
Contact Info: e-mail: Jaydepuff@aol.com; aim: Jaydepuff; plurk: Greywolf360
Other Characters: n/a
Name Dreadwing
From: Transformers: Prime
Appearance: He looks like this in robot mode. He can also change into a jet, which looks like this.
Age: Old; probably several hundred thousand at least
Gender: Identifies as male
Personality: The first thing that Dreadwing is characterized as in the show is honorable, which is rather atypical of most Decepticons. He is a mech that will keep his word if he has promised it and tends to engage in surprisingly honorable combat… to a fault, anyway. He’s more than fine with the occasional dirty tactic, particularly if that tactic involves explosives set to either hinder his foes or provide him with a distraction to escape. He’s also very tactically minded; Dreadwing will choose his battlegrounds carefully (as seen in Loose Cannons when he lures Wheeljack and Optimus Prime into a shipping crate maze), or alter them to his advantage if able (such as planting bombs all over a forest in Hard Knocks), and is willing to stage a tactical retreat if things go completely sour. He is even willing to work with bitter enemies to remove a mutual threat from play.
Dreadwing is also a passionately loyal mech, particularly to Megatron, but this is also to a fault. He will follow Megatron’s orders to the letter, unless avenging his brother is on the line, or he’s certain that following the order will put Megatron in more harm than disobeying it. However, with the betrayal he feels over his Lord’s choice to side with his brother’s desecrator, his loyalties are in question. While he wouldn’t dare join the Autobots, he has lost his faith in the Decepticon cause and cannot willingly follow them any longer. If nothing else, he still retains his loyalty to his twin Skyquake. He has strong feelings about family, having travelled light-years to find his brother’s killer… and then, betraying the Decepticons and trying to kill Starscream for raising Skyquake’s body from the dead. This is also the only event that ever truly makes Dreadwing lose his temper; he is generally very even-tempered and calculating. When he does lose his cool, it tends to end poorly for the other party, unless Megatron happens to step in and violently stop Dreadwing.
Beyond this, he is generally a very down-to-earth, serious sort. Even when a plan works out, he doesn’t tend to smile… unless something explodes. He’s very fond of his explosives, and of missteps made by his enemies. He is not so fond of Wreckers, having several tousles with Wheeljack and Bulkhead, Wheeljack’s in particular crossing through several solar systems before arriving on Earth. Really, he doesn’t like Autobots in general, but he find Optimus Prime to be an honorable and capable bot that he is willing to work alongside on occasion, and even outright help when the situation calls for it. Prime entreating him to join the Autobots will forever fall on deaf ears, however: leaving the Decepticons is one thing, but joining the Autobots is another entirely, and he isn’t prepared to betray his old loyalties that far.
Backstory: Not much is known about Dreadwing from the time before he arrived in the series. He was made with a split-sparked twin named Skyquake, and they were terrors during the war. Dreadwing headed up a squadron of Seekers and learned how to manufacture and implement explosives at some point during the war for Cybertron. Like the rest of the Cybertronians he left when the planet became barren, wandering the stars and snuffing out Autobots as he found them.
At least that was what he was doing when he felt his twin come back online… and then die shortly after. Oops. After that, he started heading in the direction of his Skyquake’s demise (somehow), still removing any Autobots he came across. Which eventually led to him meeting Wheeljack and that went about as well as you’d expect two ordinance specialists fighting would go. It probably didn’t help that Dreadwing had just exploded Wheeljack’s old Wrecker buddy Seaspray. After that they played cat and mouse through a dozen solar systems before they ended up on Earth… and continued trying to blow each other up, until Dreadwing made it to Megatron’s ship. Megatron was pleased to see him, but not so much about Dreadwing’s insistence on avenging Skyquake’s death. Dreadwing tried to do it anyway because he’s insubordinate like that (and was kind of weirdly focused on killing all the Wreckers to start it off). At least he survived the attempt, unlike Skyquake? And he even got to blow up half a shipping yard!
Then Megatron asked him to get rid of Airachnid, but the attempt ended up accidentally getting rid of Breakdown instead. Even better, Airachnid then tried to kill Megatron with an Insecticon. It was a good thing Dreadwing disobeyed Megatron’s orders again, this time to rescue his leader before the Autobots could finish what Airachnid started. He even made a cease-fire deal with Optimus to do it! … not that Megatron held up to it, of course. Still, points for effort.
Sometime after that, the Nemesis was disabled and Megatron, in his infinite wisdom (wis-dumb) decided to shove dark energon into it to repair it faster. The ship was suddenly sentient and disabled every Cybertronian on the ship, including Dreadwing. What a jerk ship. Luckily it managed to decode the locations of a bunch of artifacts, so the Decepticons and the Autobots went on a McGuffin quest! Dreadwing was sent to the Antarctic with a compliment of vehicons to retrieve it, and they managed to pick up an extra prize: the traitor Starscream. It’s an excellent day for Dreadwing! Until Optimus Prime shows up and they have an awesome fight and Dreadwing gets buried in a snowbank. He digs himself out just in time to follow Optimus – with Starscream in tow – to where the artifact is. Commence EVEN MORE FIGHTING until Starscream shows up in the power armor they were after and throws them around like ragdolls. They temporarily ally to deal with Starscream and manage to work amazingly well together… which Dreadwing probably left out of his report to Megatron because no. Just no.
Dreadwing isn’t seen again until he and Megatron go to Cybertron, where they do some good old-fashioned grave robbing… after Megatron convinces Dreadwing that desecrating the dead is totally avenging Skyquake. This is around the time that the Decepticons learn of the four Omega Keys, and they’re off on yet another McGuffin quest! Dreadwing ends up sent to a forest to locate the third key, and arrives early enough to plant explosives on half the trees in case guests show up. Guests that happen to be Bulkhead and Smokescreen. Boom goes the forest! Unfortunately Bulkhead manages to catch on to Dreadwing’s usual tricks and gives him back one of his own bombs. Even if he’d been able to get the key, Starscream manages to steal it out from under everyone’s noses. He has the worst luck with Starscream, really. Even worse, right after that they lost the Omega Keys they had… only for Starscream to bring them right back to buy his way back into the Decepticons.
Megatron wants to know Starscream’s intentions, so he has Dreadwing dig Knock Out of the wall he got stuck in to initiate a cortical psychic patch tohave a season recap dig through Starscream’s memories. Dreadwing misses most of it, but shows up in time to stop Knock Out from stranding Megatron in Starscream’s brain. Yay! But here is where things get hairy. When he’d gone grave-robbing with Megatron Dreadwing expressed a certain distaste for harm coming to the remains of the dead, considering his dead twin. Then he finds out that Starscream brought Skyquake’s body back as a zombie. Even worse, he heard Megatron tell Starscream to keep his trap shut about it because he was going to let him come back to the Decepticons. Distraught and betrayed, Dreadwing made a decision. He took the Forge of Solus Prime to the Autobots, asking only that they use it wisely – and denying Optimus for a final time when asked to join the Autobots. Then he went back to the ship and gave Starscream a warm welcome back… by trying to murder him. Megatron ordered him to stand down and Dreadwing refused, moving to kill Starscream-
-cue arrival in Ink City.
Moral Standing: Lawful evil, though he’s leaning more towards lawful neutral now
Dreams: Seeing the war to its end; originally he had wanted to see it end in Megatron’s favor, but with his loss of faith he’ll take any end. A glorious or meaningful end, preferably in battle, would be worth it. He doesn’t want to die without doing something worth it first. And he would like to be reunited with his brother, even if it has to be in the afterlife. Barring that, avenging his brother’s desecration by killing Starscream would satisfy him.
Fears: His worries are primarily over the potential for failure; failing his faction (though he has, and turning his back on them pains him still), failing his brother, failing missions. He holds himself to a high standard and doesn’t like losing unless it’s tactically acceptable. He also fears that his betrayal and ultimate sacrifice will be for naught, or worse that Starscream will survive it.
Extra: Since he discarded his cannon before the point he’s being pulled from, he will only have his sword on him… and the dozen of explosives he no doubt keeps on his person. He’s also going to be showing up full of hurt feelings because EVERYBODY BETRAY HIM, HE FED UP WITH THIS WORLD.
The vehicle mode he scanned is, according to canon, a VTOL; while he never uses it in the show, he probably has the ability to hover
Character Location: n/a
Samples: His Wiki
Episode: Loose Cannons
Episode: Triangulation
Writing Sample: Dear Mun Post
Journal:
mordoriannazgulContact Info: e-mail: Jaydepuff@aol.com; aim: Jaydepuff; plurk: Greywolf360
Other Characters: n/a
Name Dreadwing
From: Transformers: Prime
Appearance: He looks like this in robot mode. He can also change into a jet, which looks like this.
Age: Old; probably several hundred thousand at least
Gender: Identifies as male
Personality: The first thing that Dreadwing is characterized as in the show is honorable, which is rather atypical of most Decepticons. He is a mech that will keep his word if he has promised it and tends to engage in surprisingly honorable combat… to a fault, anyway. He’s more than fine with the occasional dirty tactic, particularly if that tactic involves explosives set to either hinder his foes or provide him with a distraction to escape. He’s also very tactically minded; Dreadwing will choose his battlegrounds carefully (as seen in Loose Cannons when he lures Wheeljack and Optimus Prime into a shipping crate maze), or alter them to his advantage if able (such as planting bombs all over a forest in Hard Knocks), and is willing to stage a tactical retreat if things go completely sour. He is even willing to work with bitter enemies to remove a mutual threat from play.
Dreadwing is also a passionately loyal mech, particularly to Megatron, but this is also to a fault. He will follow Megatron’s orders to the letter, unless avenging his brother is on the line, or he’s certain that following the order will put Megatron in more harm than disobeying it. However, with the betrayal he feels over his Lord’s choice to side with his brother’s desecrator, his loyalties are in question. While he wouldn’t dare join the Autobots, he has lost his faith in the Decepticon cause and cannot willingly follow them any longer. If nothing else, he still retains his loyalty to his twin Skyquake. He has strong feelings about family, having travelled light-years to find his brother’s killer… and then, betraying the Decepticons and trying to kill Starscream for raising Skyquake’s body from the dead. This is also the only event that ever truly makes Dreadwing lose his temper; he is generally very even-tempered and calculating. When he does lose his cool, it tends to end poorly for the other party, unless Megatron happens to step in and violently stop Dreadwing.
Beyond this, he is generally a very down-to-earth, serious sort. Even when a plan works out, he doesn’t tend to smile… unless something explodes. He’s very fond of his explosives, and of missteps made by his enemies. He is not so fond of Wreckers, having several tousles with Wheeljack and Bulkhead, Wheeljack’s in particular crossing through several solar systems before arriving on Earth. Really, he doesn’t like Autobots in general, but he find Optimus Prime to be an honorable and capable bot that he is willing to work alongside on occasion, and even outright help when the situation calls for it. Prime entreating him to join the Autobots will forever fall on deaf ears, however: leaving the Decepticons is one thing, but joining the Autobots is another entirely, and he isn’t prepared to betray his old loyalties that far.
Backstory: Not much is known about Dreadwing from the time before he arrived in the series. He was made with a split-sparked twin named Skyquake, and they were terrors during the war. Dreadwing headed up a squadron of Seekers and learned how to manufacture and implement explosives at some point during the war for Cybertron. Like the rest of the Cybertronians he left when the planet became barren, wandering the stars and snuffing out Autobots as he found them.
At least that was what he was doing when he felt his twin come back online… and then die shortly after. Oops. After that, he started heading in the direction of his Skyquake’s demise (somehow), still removing any Autobots he came across. Which eventually led to him meeting Wheeljack and that went about as well as you’d expect two ordinance specialists fighting would go. It probably didn’t help that Dreadwing had just exploded Wheeljack’s old Wrecker buddy Seaspray. After that they played cat and mouse through a dozen solar systems before they ended up on Earth… and continued trying to blow each other up, until Dreadwing made it to Megatron’s ship. Megatron was pleased to see him, but not so much about Dreadwing’s insistence on avenging Skyquake’s death. Dreadwing tried to do it anyway because he’s insubordinate like that (and was kind of weirdly focused on killing all the Wreckers to start it off). At least he survived the attempt, unlike Skyquake? And he even got to blow up half a shipping yard!
Then Megatron asked him to get rid of Airachnid, but the attempt ended up accidentally getting rid of Breakdown instead. Even better, Airachnid then tried to kill Megatron with an Insecticon. It was a good thing Dreadwing disobeyed Megatron’s orders again, this time to rescue his leader before the Autobots could finish what Airachnid started. He even made a cease-fire deal with Optimus to do it! … not that Megatron held up to it, of course. Still, points for effort.
Sometime after that, the Nemesis was disabled and Megatron, in his infinite wisdom (wis-dumb) decided to shove dark energon into it to repair it faster. The ship was suddenly sentient and disabled every Cybertronian on the ship, including Dreadwing. What a jerk ship. Luckily it managed to decode the locations of a bunch of artifacts, so the Decepticons and the Autobots went on a McGuffin quest! Dreadwing was sent to the Antarctic with a compliment of vehicons to retrieve it, and they managed to pick up an extra prize: the traitor Starscream. It’s an excellent day for Dreadwing! Until Optimus Prime shows up and they have an awesome fight and Dreadwing gets buried in a snowbank. He digs himself out just in time to follow Optimus – with Starscream in tow – to where the artifact is. Commence EVEN MORE FIGHTING until Starscream shows up in the power armor they were after and throws them around like ragdolls. They temporarily ally to deal with Starscream and manage to work amazingly well together… which Dreadwing probably left out of his report to Megatron because no. Just no.
Dreadwing isn’t seen again until he and Megatron go to Cybertron, where they do some good old-fashioned grave robbing… after Megatron convinces Dreadwing that desecrating the dead is totally avenging Skyquake. This is around the time that the Decepticons learn of the four Omega Keys, and they’re off on yet another McGuffin quest! Dreadwing ends up sent to a forest to locate the third key, and arrives early enough to plant explosives on half the trees in case guests show up. Guests that happen to be Bulkhead and Smokescreen. Boom goes the forest! Unfortunately Bulkhead manages to catch on to Dreadwing’s usual tricks and gives him back one of his own bombs. Even if he’d been able to get the key, Starscream manages to steal it out from under everyone’s noses. He has the worst luck with Starscream, really. Even worse, right after that they lost the Omega Keys they had… only for Starscream to bring them right back to buy his way back into the Decepticons.
Megatron wants to know Starscream’s intentions, so he has Dreadwing dig Knock Out of the wall he got stuck in to initiate a cortical psychic patch to
-cue arrival in Ink City.
Moral Standing: Lawful evil, though he’s leaning more towards lawful neutral now
Dreams: Seeing the war to its end; originally he had wanted to see it end in Megatron’s favor, but with his loss of faith he’ll take any end. A glorious or meaningful end, preferably in battle, would be worth it. He doesn’t want to die without doing something worth it first. And he would like to be reunited with his brother, even if it has to be in the afterlife. Barring that, avenging his brother’s desecration by killing Starscream would satisfy him.
Fears: His worries are primarily over the potential for failure; failing his faction (though he has, and turning his back on them pains him still), failing his brother, failing missions. He holds himself to a high standard and doesn’t like losing unless it’s tactically acceptable. He also fears that his betrayal and ultimate sacrifice will be for naught, or worse that Starscream will survive it.
Extra: Since he discarded his cannon before the point he’s being pulled from, he will only have his sword on him… and the dozen of explosives he no doubt keeps on his person. He’s also going to be showing up full of hurt feelings because EVERYBODY BETRAY HIM, HE FED UP WITH THIS WORLD.
The vehicle mode he scanned is, according to canon, a VTOL; while he never uses it in the show, he probably has the ability to hover
Character Location: n/a
Samples: His Wiki
Episode: Loose Cannons
Episode: Triangulation
Writing Sample: Dear Mun Post