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Bumblebee for silver_arcadia

Player Information:
Name: Hane
Eljay: hane
AIM: HaneShinohara

Character Information
Name: Bumblebee
Alias, if any: Goldbug, Satan’s Camaro
Series: Transformers (G:1 original series)

Mode of entry into the RP:
displaced character

Brief description on how you expect your character to start out:
wakes on Arcadia after a huge explosion that MAGICALLY TOSSED HIM THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, conveniently missing his long-range communications and most/all of his weaponry. Central meanwhile looking very innocent while discreetly hiding all of it behind its screen.


History:
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there existed a planet called Cybertron. And on that planet called Cybertron there existed a race of autonomous robotic organisms that could feel and think just like you and I, except more awesomely because they were giant alien robots. And it was awesome.

Then Hasbro/Takara realized that wouldn’t cut it for marketing the toys and turned half of them evil. These were the Decepticons, led by the eeeeeevil Megatron, and they fought a war for universal domination with the goody two shoes Autobots and their boyscout-of-awesome leader Optimus Prime. And the Neutrals left over tried to stay the hell out of the way, which didn’t really work out so well.

The war raged for millennia upon millennia. Cybertron was utterly ravaged, eventually turning the battle into one for resources more than territory. The Autobots guarded their base Iacon and scavenged for energy (or energon) while the Decepticons hoarded their own supplies. The decision was made that more energon needed to be located and stored for not only the war but the survival of their race, and the Autobots set off in their ship the Ark. The Decepticons, of course, followed in the Nemesis and there was a big fight and some random meteors and then everyone fell out of the sky and conveniently right onto Earth. Which was like, just below them. Somehow. So they crash and lay dormant for four million years or something until a volcano erupts and Starscream does something stupid and everyone gets reactivated.

Being more or less stranded, both sides took up their war on new territory and did exactly what they’d been doing on Cybertron: establishing bases, hoarding energon, and on some days going out to fight each other. In other words, continuing the status quo. But then the native humans got involved, it was discovered that Earth was extremely rich in energy sources that could power their offensives (and get them home to Cybertron and save the dying planet once they got there) and everything just went downhill from there. The Autobots became de facto defenders of Earth and its resources/inhabitants, as the Decepticons would go on to try every possible plan to seize power, no matter how half-baked, including stealing rubies, flooding dams, blowing up the world, and even negotiating with pathetic meatbag humans.

One of these crazy schemes included a Nefarious Top Secret Decepticon Experiment that everyone fought over until it exploded in their faces, most notably Bumblebee’s, as he was promptly blown through a wormhole (!) and deposited on Arcadia(!!). Because that sort of lame plot device never happens in canon.

No of course not.



Personality:

Total boy scout. Possibly the boy scoutiest boy scout ever to boy scout and still not be Prowl.

Positive, energetic and curious, Bumblebee is one of the smallest and weakest Autobots, often used as a spy, messenger, scout, or That Guy We Send To Talk To the Aliens Cos We Can’t Trust Ironhide Not To Shoot Them and Jazz Talks Too Much. He looks up to his older and stronger companions, especially Optimus Prime (and who doesn’t) and tries his best to prove himself worthy of the Autobot cause and Optimus’ trust. To this end, he’s been known to take stupid risks and put himself in unnecessary danger in order to ‘make up’ for his stature, and emos whenever he screws up. Small also means weak for a robot, at least to Bumblebee’s view, and it bothers him that his size and lack of high powered weaponry sometimes make him a liability to his fellows, needing to be rescued or backed up by a ‘normal’ comrade. At one point he actually leaves the Autobots and wanders around on his own, feeling that he was useless to them. For the most part, though, Bumblebee is a reliable and capable soldier, easy to get along with, always ready with a wisecrack and willing to take any mission Prime might give out with little to no regard for his own personal safety. He’s also significantly closer to the Autobots’ human allies, becoming good friends with the Witwicky brat, Spike, and is more up to date on human culture than many of the others.

Except Jazz. It’s hard to top Jazz.

Also unlike some of his comrades, Bumblebee has no absolutely doubts that humans are special and wonderful and should be protected at all costs. Granted, this is what Prime thinks, and we all know how Bumblebee is about things that Prime believes.

The Decepticons also seem to like targeting Bumblebee, so his whole inferiority complex isn’t entirely unfounded. He does get beat up a lot, and probably wouldn’t if he were a little bigger. Or had a bigger gun. Or stopped hanging around humans. Or stopped putting himself in positions where all the Decepticons could gang up on him.


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Abilities:
- ...he’s a giant robot. He is made of metal that is much more better than Earth metal. He can take bullets as long as they don’t melt him. He can smash stuff. He is, however, not a towering giant robot, and I’m going to say he stands at about 9-10 feet high. Canon puts him at 15 feet but we can say Central did it, and also scale does not exist. Srsly.

- His alt mode is a yellow Volkswagon Beetle and is classic and adorable, if not flashy. Like certain unmentioned Camaro alt modes. Also he does not have things hanging from his mirror that read ‘Bee-otch.’

- He’s more tech savvy than you are, being the product of unspeakably advanced alien technology, but he’s not a scientist or a medtech or a hacker or even that guy who fiddles with things, so no, he can’t fix your spaceship all by his lonesome or build a giant laser death ray out of tape and bubblegum. Geez. In fact, he’ll probably have to rely on Central for his own repairs.

- Damnably hard to kill. Even Unicron (along with every single season of the TV series) didn’t manage it. That’s impressive, you know.

- He seats four!

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