OCs in Project Predacon
Name: Turbostreak
Autobot or Decepticon?: Decepticon
Position: Medic
Mech or femme?: Mech
Height:(forty feet max) 30 feet
Build:(slim like Arcee, bulky like Bulkhead, etc.) sleek
Main color: black
Secondary color: yellow
Alt mode: Bugatti Veyron
Special features?:(optional) His red optics have smaller, lighter coloured pupils
Main weapon: inbuilt buzzsaw
Secondary: N/A
Backstory: For most of the war, Turbostreak served under Knock Out as an apprentice. While ‘hot stuff’ in his youth, Turbostreakquickly learned how to be his own person under Knock Out. Before departing from Cybertron, he was made Knock Out’s successor by Megatron should anything happen to Knock Out, with a suggestion to come with them to Earth. Along the way,Turbostreak quickly gathered some allies who then became part of Starscream’s plan to be a reborn Decepticon armada when Megatron quit leading.
Personality: Pretentious, but poised. Prone to bouts of self-love, much like his former mentor, Knock Out. Will readily get his hands dirty for Starscream when it comes to taking an Autobot’s life. Butters Starscream up to keep doing his best, since the Seeker has leadership insecurities. Performs small acts of kindness for Wildbang.
Fighting style: relies on speed, but hardly fights on the front line
Strengths: reliable doctor, tactician, willing fighter
Weaknesses: vain, can’t care less about the Deceptions who leave, unpleasant
Anything else?: As a medic, he rarely leaves the Nemesis
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Name: Sunburst
Autobot or Decepticon?: Autobot (defected from the Decepticons during the war on Cybertron)
Position: Warrior
Mech or femme?: Femme
Height:(forty feet max) 25 feet
Build:(slim like Arcee, bulky like Bulkhead, etc.): Slim
Main color: Yellow
Secondary color: Fiery red with gold and black accents
Alt mode: Lockheed YF-12/KZ1000 Police (Triple Changer)
Special features?:(optional): Golden yellow optics
Main weapon: Double sided blade
Secondary: Wrist blades
Backstory: Sunburst joined the Decepticon ranks in the early stages of the War for Cybertron because of her disillusionment with the caste system. Initially, she believed Optimus and his followers were unorganized and lacked a true warriors courage and ability to embrace the necessary violence and energon-shed of war. But, as the war progressed and vital energon supplies dwindled, she began to see the streak of cruelty that ran true within all of Megatron’s followers; they fought viciously not out of dedication to the cause or out of necessity, but rather because they enjoyed the violence.
One day, her squadron was out patrolling and scavaging for energon when they were ambushed by yet another Decepticon raiding party. Her fellow squad members were slaughtered mercilessly simply because the other raiding party believed they were hoarding energon for themselves. In the midst of the chaos an Autobot squadron came upon them and overpowered the Decepticons.
Injured and alone, Optimus Prime’s right hand bot, Prowl chanced upon her and took pity on Sunburst. He brought her back to camp, and saw to it personally that she received energon and necessary repairs. Because of his kindness and what she witnessed in the Autobot camp, Sunburst’s spark was moved and she elected to defect to the Autobots shortly afterward. Her insights into Decepticon tactics proved valuable in the war, and she personally brought down one of Starscream’s fearsome seekers on her own.
At last fighting for a cause she believes in, Sunburst is fiercely loyal and well accustomed to war. Although, as with many Autobots, at spark she is a peace-loving femme and longs for the day when she can lay down her arms and walk away from the battlefield. Until that day, however, she fights with conviction and skill.
Personality: Mischievous rebel, serious, though she can sometimes be a bit energetic, thrill seeker, likes to take risks, stubborn, somewhat cocky, can be arrogant, never backs down from a challenge.
Fighting style: Sunburst is skilled with her blades and utilizes her slender frame to her advantage when confronting larger mechs; she is well suited for ambushes and recon missions. But among her close friends, she is mild-tempered, logical and compassionate.
Strengths: Conviction in the Autobot cause lends her a ferocity in battle; being smaller and quicker than most mechs means that she is often underestimated—to the peril of her opponents.
Weaknesses: She isn't good against distance attacks; she can't stand to see others who are like her being treated unfairly and who don’t care about their injured (kind of a fiery rage which could be good or bad).
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Name: Wildbang
Autobot or Decepticon?: Decepticon (defected from the Autobots just before the start of the war)
Position: Muscle
Mech or femme?: Mech
Height:(forty feet max) 31 feet
Build:(slim like Arcee, bulky like Bulkhead, etc.) Bulky
Main color: Silver
Secondary color: Neon orange with royal blue accents and black Seeker Tattoos
Alt mode: Boeing AH-64D Longbow Apache
Special features?:(optional)
Main weapon: Plasma Cannons
Secondary: Battle mace
Convinced by the necessity of an elite unit, Wildbang took it upon himself to approach the Autobot Leader, Optimus Prime for permission to form such a unit. Reluctantly, Optimus gave Wildbang permission to do so with the requirement that all the units activities were reported to Prowl and himself. It wasn’t long before the Wreckers were formed, backed by Wildbang and reluctantly Bulkhead and Wheeljack. But even among ranks of the Wreckers, Wildbang’s approaches were too extreme.
Frustrated, Wildbang set off on his own with the intention of taking down the Leader of the Decepticon Seekers, Starscream. Of course, Wildbang was overmatched when he attempted to take Starscream and his Seekers by surprise. After a brief, but intense skirmish, the Seekers overpowered Wildbang. But impressed by Wildbang’s initiative, Starscream intervened before the Seekers could terminate his Spark.
He told Wildbang about another side of the Decepticons, one of commitment, loyalty, and dedication to restoring Cybertron to its former glory where all were equal and the caste system was banished. He told the Wrecker about how Optimus and the Autobot’s were villainizing the Decepticons in order to hide their own plans of tyranny. Fuelled by his frustrations with the Autobots, Starscream’s well spoken words easily swayed Wildbang’s Spark, and it wasn’t long before he found a place at Starscream’s side within the Seeker’s coveted ranks.
Personality: Blunt, easily frustrated with a hot temper. Once Wildbang has decided to support a cause, he fights with unparalleled dedication and viciousness.
Fighting style: Wildbang never hesitates to use his fists, but he always prefers excessive firepower.
Strengths: His large and dominating frame gives him the upper-hand in close range fighting.
Weaknesses: While strong, he is not particularly fast when he is engaging in hand to hand combat. Also, his shoulders, torso and back are well plated and nearly impenetrable, but the protective plating is not as thick on his ankles and legs.
Anything else?: While a supporter of Megatron and his methods, Wildbang’s loyalty is to Starscream and the Seekers first.
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Name: Ion
Autobot or Decepticon?: Predacon
Position: Reconnaissance
Mech or femme?: Mech
Height:(forty feet max): 25 feet
Build:(slim like Arcee, bulky like Bulkhead, etc.): When in bipedal mode, he has a relatively slight build with well armoured shoulders. In his draconic form, he retains something of a slender build, but his formidable wing span gives him added presence.
Main color: black
Secondary color: teal and silver accents
Alt mode: Lamborghini Huracan
Special features?:(optional) When in draconic form, his wings are a particularly impressive sight because while their skeletal structure is metal, the actual wing membranes consist of an energon energy field that glows blue.
Main weapon: sword
Secondary: standard ion cannons
Backstory: Created in Shockwave’s lab on Cybertron, Ion was one of the earliest attempts in the Decepticon Scientist’s Project Predacon. Shockwave only ever perceived Ion as a marginal success simply because he emerged fully functional, however he was much too small for the Decepticon’s original purpose. All of the other Predacon clones in Ion’s group were even smaller and so Shockwave terminated them out of hand, perceiving them as failed specimens.
He only deigned to keep Ion so that he could carry out a number of fact-finding experiments that would later allow him to perfect his designs for Predaking. Shockwave kept Ion confined under flawless security precautions, although small Ion was quick, fiercely intelligent and a keen fighter even at a young age. After Shockwave was rescued from his solitude on Cybertron and after Shockwave onlined Predaking for Megatron, the Decepticon Scientist began to transport his lab from Cybertron to the Decepticon warship piece by painstaking piece.
Trusting the laborious effort to the work of Vehicons, it was during the commotion that Ion escaped through the spacebridge to Earth. Eager to take to the skies, Ion flew fast and far from the Decepticon warship, invisible in the cover of night, he virtually disappeared into the moon soaked clouds. It was days before Shockwave realized what had happened, and by then he had no way of tracking the escaped Predacon. Drawn perhaps by fate, Ion took cover in the desert surrounding the small city of Jasper in Nevada.
There he watched the inhabitants with growing fascination. Through bred by Decepticons, Ion was intrigued by humanity and longed to descend among them. He knew other Cybertronians frequented Jasper’s streets, but Ion feared discovery which would result in his recapture by Shockwave and so never gave into his yearning to emerge and explore the city.
It wouldn’t be until Smokescreen was transformed into a Predacon himself, that Ion would be pulled from his solitude, summoned by a call of kinship. In so answering a summons he does not completely understand, he comes to form a bond with the newly emerged Predacon as well with the Autobots.
Personality: Mild and gentle, Ion longs for the company and affection of others after so much of his existence was passed in relative solitude. Naturally inquisitive, he is curious about the Earth and its many species. His slender frame, natural speed and unique ability of invisibility make him well suited for stealth. Having at last found solace in his new companions among the Autobots, Ion is fierce fighter when cornered: he is not eager to be reunited with Shockwave or any of his Decepticon brethren.
Fighting style: Ion prefers to engage opponents in his draconic form, since it is in this form that he is at his fastest and strongest.
Strengths: His armour is stronger and more resistant that the average Cybertronian; his ability to breath fire gives him the upper hand in combat.
Weaknesses: Ion is untested in combat and, while he fights instinctively, he is prone to rookie mistakes that leave him vulnerable. His unique wing-span can also make him an easy target.
Anything else?: Ion also has the ability to achieve a level of invisibility. He can maintain this ability so long as he is not engaged in combat, but the moment he either takes offensive action or he sustains any injury he loses the ability to maintain his invisibility.
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