Post by Kick-Start on Jul 20, 2017 8:44:23 GMT
BASICS
Designation : Kick-Start
Nicknames : Kickers, Kick, KS
Gender : Femme
Faction : Decepticon
Home Planet : Cybertron
Home City State : Crystal City
Occupation : Science Officer/Medic
Personality : Sometimes described as the first 10/10 genius, Kick-Start could well be the most intelligent Cybertronian ever.
Every wanna-be Warlord has his most loyal flunky, and Kick-Start is to Shockwave, what Soundwave was to Megatron. She admires him for absolutely everything that he is, from his intelligence all the way to his total lack of emotions. And despite those lack of emotions, Shockwave knows this, and also knows that to have a totally loyal, logical, and intelligent flunky like Kick-Start is very useful. In fact, it is fortunate for the Decepticon cause that Shockwave is a loyal Decepticon, or they wouldn't have Kick-Start either. Obviously she's not as important... but she learned all she knows from him - which could be worse than learning all he knows. If Shockwave came back, she'd still idolise him.
If you need some sick, sadistic weapon invented, Kick-Start is the one to come to. If you need somebody medically tortured until they talk, Kick-Start will be happy to give a hand. Her speciality is the study of the living Spark, and how to keep it alive while she works, and the deep investigations into portals and the manipulation of space and time. Of course, if you expect her to stop once she's gotten all your information, you're suffering from some serious 'trust issues'.
Sadly, being intelligent isn't the same as being sensible. Kick-Start is usually logical. And then she gets her 'ideas'. If you want something horribly unethical done, just head on over. She's probably done it already.
99% of the time Kick-Start is absolutely loyal to whoever's in charge anyway. The problem arises in the fact that she's a real schemer. She could never take over the Decepticons by force, so she generally builds up her plans with brains instead.
APPEARANCE
Optic ( Eye ) Color : Red
Primary Paint Color : Purple
Secondary Paint Color : Blue
Height : 12' (including upgrades)
Features :
Alternative Mode :
Supermoto - Yamaha XT660X
Equipment and Abilities
Armor : There's a lot more armor than there is Kick-Start. Most of her is 'padding', meaning that if you hit her... you'll probably miss.
Primary Weapon : EMP gun.
Description: A paralyzing shot that can knock any unshielded sentient or non-sentient electrical device out.
Secondary Weapon : Precision Welder
Description: A close-range defence welding tool. It can melt through almost any armour, or it can join metal, but causes only low damage unless applied to sensitive areas.
Gadgets : Sub-Space Container
This appears as a black, starlit globe about the size of a basketball. It can be manipulated, and not only does it hold all of Kick-Start's tools, but can expand to hold her too, which effectively results in shrinking her to the size of the globe.
Melee : Energon Scalpel
Melee Weapon Description : Basically a high-power knife that can cut through almost anything, but again, causes low damage. Kick-Start was not built to damage things.
Stilleto Heels
These heels add almost a foot to her percieved height. They have been infused with SCIENCE, and can slice through just about anything, including Cybertronian armour. Kick-Start has had enough time to herself to show that there are no exceptions thus far. They aid in defending herself in melee combat.
Abilities : Kick-Boxing. Kick-Start has had plenty of time to teach herself.
OTHER
History[Optional as some like to make it up as they go along] :
Kick-Start was originally forged and became a Mini-Con in Crystal City, becoming apprenticed to a neutral theoretician named Two-Ton. Due to the predjudice against Minicons at the time, Kick-Start added more and more armour to bulk herself up from 8' to 12". This was just enough to class her as a standard Cybertronian, although she's still considered terribly short by anybody's standards. Sadly, Two-Ton off-lined in the destruction of Crystal City, leaving Kick-Start devastated and alone.
At her lowest point, Kick-Start was reduced to giving science lectures in the street, often surrounded by students, where she was noticed by the recently empurated Shockwave. She had gathered a number of fans by this point, most of whom were highly intelligent themselves but were considered to have the wrong alt for a job in the sciences. He was impressed by the logic of her theories and offered her an apprenticeship to learn the non-theoretical sciences from him, which she accepted. Since Shockwave's emotion and imagination had been severely stunted at this point, it is suspected that Kick-Start provided the basis for many of his more unpleasant theories. It wasn't long before Kick-Start was utterly devoted to Shockwave and his sciences. If he ever comes back, that won't have changed. She is attracted to intelligence, but not muscle.
While Shockwave was working on ways to manipulate time and space, Kick-Start was working on ways to create sentient silicon life straight off the shelf. Soldiers more expendable than any you've ever seen, without Sparks, their main purpose being to enter battle and kill until they were killed. She was present in the Sea of Rust when Shockwave's tower was taken down, and for the most part, nobody was even sure that she got out alive.
Unfortunately for those who believed the world had scored a victory for medical ethics, Kick-Start had retreated into her bunker in the ruins. She adapted the Nibblets to turn them into her way to explore the Rust Ruins, documenting what was left and in places even restoring it without ever having to leave her lab. While the Rust Ruins look as destroyed as ever from the outside, go down a couple of levels and several million years has been plenty of time to restore most of the place to its former glory, and turn the rest of the place into a huge laboratory.
In the past several million years, Kick-Start has been setting up her secret labs all over Cybertron, usually in areas of archaeological interest but not always. Every so often one is found by explorers and treasure hunters, but due to the sheer number of them, actually shutting down all of them is nothing short of impossible. It's even been rumoured that she converted an entire moon into one great big weaponised laboratory, just in case. She uses Vehicons as lab assistants and test subjects and kidnappers for test subjects.
Nowadays she's mostly working on investigating the intricacies of the living Spark, and continues Shockwave's work, convinced that he'll be coming back. She's working on perfecting portals, but twisting space and time fits right there beside that. She's so close to the completion of the personal Ground Bridge, that she can almost taste it... all she needs is a few hundred more test subjects.
Strengths :
- Kick-Start is (probably) the most intelligent Decepticon alive.
- She believes in planning for the long-term and has schemes to make herself the head
- With no ethics, there's pretty much nothing limiting Kick-Start's sick and twisted genius.
Weaknesses :
- All that intelligence comes at the cost of Kick-Start's fighting abilities - she has very little damage output.
- She's a coward - she hates getting into physical battle and prefers others to do it for her.
- She's very clever, but she's not quite as clever as she thinks herself.
- Despite her plans being excellent for the long-term, they're so long-term that they could never see fruition.
SAMPLE RP
[Optional, some are new to RP and will grow as a writer.]
Note that a piece of your history, your journey to Earth for example, could be used.
Note that a piece of your history, your journey to Earth for example, could be used.