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iseedeadbees) wrote2016-05-22 09:45 pm
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OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Ryo
Are you 16 or older: yup
Contact: mummifiedsalarian@plurk
Current Characters: N/A
Tag: starscream (idw)
IN CHARACTER
Name: Starscream
Canon: Transformers (IDW)
Canon Point: Transformers Ex-RiD issue 33, right after he's like "Yo Wheeljack we should totally fix this combiner" but before the whole Combiner Wars thing kicks off.
Age: Somewhere in the 5 millionish range
History: BOOM a wiki
Personality:
To put it super simply, Starscream was that little guy with big dreams to become the big guy for no reason other than he REALLY WANTED TO. Every attempt to become the big guy was met with pitiful failure when the actual big guy knocked him the hell back down and said "you cut that shit out you little guy you will never be the big guy". Now, Starscream is the big guy. The biggest guy, in fact, and he is power tripping his ass off and life is great. Mostly great.
One of the most fitting words to describe Starscream is "manipulative", though to call Starscream simply manipulative would be the understatement of the century. He's had millions of years worth of experience when it comes to twisting people into doing and thinking what he wants them to, and seeing as things at least seem to be falling into place for him, it could be said that this is an art he's finally mastered, at least for the most part. As a general 'rule of Starscream', it's safe to assume that he always knows more about a person or situation than he lets on, and he always manages to find a way to use that information in his favor. I mean it usually backfires magnificently but so far his rule of Cybertron is going pretty smoothly.
While his past exploits as far as trying to become the big dude in charge can be likened to slamming your face up against a brick wall over and over again while yelling "SURELY THIS WILL WORK THIS TIME", he does seem to have learned a great deal from his past mistakes. Where he pretty consistently failed at usurping power from Megatron over the Decepticons (and royally screwing up whenever he did manage to succeed on that front), he's managed to lie, cheat, murder and sweet talk his way into being chosen as the ruler of Cybertron. While this can be at least partially credited to the fact that a bigass Metrotitan said "Hey Starscream you're totally the chosen one", he still seized the opportunity to take full advantage of the situation and morph it into something that ultimately lead to him becoming the king of robot mountain. To his credit (yeah """""""credit"""""""), he is making the best of his new position (In an Starscreamy asswaffle kind of way), and the planet is recovering thanks to it, but this is still Starscream. He's not afraid of getting what he wants "for the greater good" through less than honest tactics. The ends justify the means for the betterment of Cybertron as far as he's concerned, especially if it stands to benefit him personally in some way.
One would think that simply being Starscream would be a PR disaster the likes of which the universe has never known, given his history and general shitty attitude, but despite how much of a fuck he is, he's managed to work out an effective little system for himself. He's realized at least to some degree that one cannot simply bark orders and expect people to obey. His new fancy position has made it necessary for him brush his ruthlessness under the rug for certain occasions and fall back on his charismatic people charmer skills, something that served him rather well around the beginning of the war when he was out acting as a recruiter for the Decepticon cause. He can be convincingly polite when a situation calls for it, managing to successfully keep a cool head when in view of the public and to persuade people to accept things from his perspective through the power of fancy wordplay and gloriously fabricated bullshit. He knows exactly what to say and how to say it to make people go "yes good this is a good thing what a good Starscream." The people who know him best still think he's an asshole, but at least he's an asshole that gets results.
When he's not out in public and trying to be all pretty and polite for the cameras, he's just as ruthless and cunning as he was during the war. Bribery is not beneath him, nor is setting people up to unwittingly take some sort of fall in order for him to gain political favor. He has a knack for appealing to people's greed to squeeze favors and the like out of them, and then discards them without a second thought once their usefulness has ended. When bribery doesn't work, he won't hesitate to make threats or to carry them out to get his point across. He's also been known to cover up the misdeeds of others in order to maintain mutually beneficial relationships, such as the incident with Chromia exploding some dudes and Starscream sweeping it under the rug in order to keep Windblade on board with the whole finding lost colonies thing.
While Starscream has a pretty impressive grasp on how people work and think in order to manipulate the ever loving balls out of them, when it comes to actually building meaningful relationships with anyone, he falls pretty flat. Friendships aren't something that he intentionally goes out of his way to develop, and when he does occasionally take the plunge it's usually from a "how can this benefit me" angle with numerous ulterior motives in mind. He had managed to build a pretty tight little friendship with Metalhawk, only to turn around and kill him just because he figured it would give him a leg up politically. How rude.
Essentially, "friends" to Starscream are just stepping stones in the grand scheme of things. The only real exception to this is Wheeljack, who stuck up for Starscream like one time but shit apparently that was enough for Starscream to decide that Wheeljack was totally the most awesomest person like ever. He likes Wheeljack so much that he doesn't even want to lie to him like he does everyone else, though he actually has no idea why he feels that way at all because Starscream is emotionally constipated just like all the other robots. Welcome to Transformers where everyone is twelve years old.
On top of his massive ego, Starscream also has a knack for bouncing back into action after things manage to go to hell for him, which happened after pretty much every one of his attempts to take over the Decepticons failed. He has this unreal mental resiliency that has him up and scheming again in no time. His ambitious nature and unreal stubbornness are usually all he needs to get his head back in the game, but that doesn't mean he's immune to episodes of over the top self loathing and hopelessness. After his brief tenure as the leader of the Decepticons, where instead of achieving anything at all he ended up watching everything he'd ever wanted basically crumble before him, he'd all but completely given up the will to live until Megatron literally beat some sense into him.
Also speaking of Megatron, Starscream is absolutely terrified of him. So that's a thing.
His years of lying, manipulation and treachery on top of the whole 4 million year long war thing in general have made him pretty... completely paranoid. He doesn't trust anyone (Aside from like Wheeljack) and has convinced himself that pretty much everyone he's ever known hates him (to be fair this might actually be true, but still). He shared this information with Bumblebee once, who is actually quite thoroughly dead. So, on top of being totally paranoid, Starscream's also either completely losing his grip on reality and has started to hallucinate dead people, or he's just straight up being haunted by ghost Bumblebee. We don't know yet. Either way, Ghost Bumblebee is basically Jiminy Cricketing Starscream and sometimes Starscream listens when he gives good advice. It's almost like Starscream has a conscience. Y'know, every now and then. He's capable of not being an absolute asshole, it just doesn't happen often.
Abilities/Skills:
Not really an ability or skill but I guess NOTABLE? Starscream is on the "average" end of the Cybertronian size spectrum, standing somewhereish between 20 and 25 feet tall. Pretty big, but not like hella Megatron big. Seeing as he's a giant metal robot he's obviously quite durable in ways that fleshy meat people aren't. He's able to transform into a neato jet, and according to his fabulous self, is able to fly beyond three times the speed of sound.
He has millions of years worth of combat experience at his disposal, and while he generally prefers long range weaponry he's also been shown to have some proficiency with swords. Which is good for him because in his current body he doesn't have his fancy blasters, just two shoulder mounted missile launchers. Said missile launchers are powerful enough to knock a dinobot (those are big and mean just trust me on this) on it's ass, buuuut he only seems to have two missiles at a time so unless he can find someone who feels like making him new ones or something, once they're gone, they're gone. Sucks to be Starscream.
On top of his combat skills, he's also honed his ability to sweet talk his way into and out of pretty much anything. He'd prefer to talk his way out of a fight than actually engage in one.
Like the other Cybertronians, he's capable of projecting a holomatter avatar (think hologram but solid and it can punch you). He just needs to like. Make one.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
STRENGTHS:
-Buttloads of combat experience
-Craploads of self confidence
-Annoyingly resilient
-Rolled a natural 20 in charisma and diplomacy somehow OR is just really good at faking it. Either way.
-Can fake being likable
-Rather good at being overly prepared for things. Like an evil Boyscout.
-Airplane!
WEAKNESSES:
-Not actually likable
-Arrogance so much arrogance
-Punchable face
-It takes a lot to bring him down like ~emotionally~, but when he's down he is down.
-Rampant paranoia
-Megatron's fists
-Probably your fists
-Doesn't work overly well with others like seriously
Items:
Two missiles that go in his shoulder launcher things (I mean I guess those would count as items and not body parts or something? idk robots man) aaaaaaaand two laser sword dealies ((it is these))
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
Given the apparent nature of this ship, I can only assume that those of you who have been here for a while have grown accustomed to confused new arrivals asking questions that you've likely heard a million times before. With that in mind, I would hope that one of you would have had the foresight to compile an FAQ of sorts to catch new people up to speed on the general goings on around here. Should that not be the case, I've compiled a list of my own questions that I would very much like answered in a timely manner.
Anyway. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Starscream. I'm looking forward to coexisting peacefully with you for the duration of my stay here, which hopefully won't be any longer than necessary. To the other Cybertronians on board, as Cybertron's ruler I expect nothing less then your full cooperation. Let's all try to get along, hm?
Prose/Action Sample:
blam test drive
Are you 16 or older: yup
Contact: mummifiedsalarian@plurk
Current Characters: N/A
Tag: starscream (idw)
IN CHARACTER
Name: Starscream
Canon: Transformers (IDW)
Canon Point: Transformers Ex-RiD issue 33, right after he's like "Yo Wheeljack we should totally fix this combiner" but before the whole Combiner Wars thing kicks off.
Age: Somewhere in the 5 millionish range
History: BOOM a wiki
Personality:
To put it super simply, Starscream was that little guy with big dreams to become the big guy for no reason other than he REALLY WANTED TO. Every attempt to become the big guy was met with pitiful failure when the actual big guy knocked him the hell back down and said "you cut that shit out you little guy you will never be the big guy". Now, Starscream is the big guy. The biggest guy, in fact, and he is power tripping his ass off and life is great. Mostly great.
One of the most fitting words to describe Starscream is "manipulative", though to call Starscream simply manipulative would be the understatement of the century. He's had millions of years worth of experience when it comes to twisting people into doing and thinking what he wants them to, and seeing as things at least seem to be falling into place for him, it could be said that this is an art he's finally mastered, at least for the most part. As a general 'rule of Starscream', it's safe to assume that he always knows more about a person or situation than he lets on, and he always manages to find a way to use that information in his favor. I mean it usually backfires magnificently but so far his rule of Cybertron is going pretty smoothly.
While his past exploits as far as trying to become the big dude in charge can be likened to slamming your face up against a brick wall over and over again while yelling "SURELY THIS WILL WORK THIS TIME", he does seem to have learned a great deal from his past mistakes. Where he pretty consistently failed at usurping power from Megatron over the Decepticons (and royally screwing up whenever he did manage to succeed on that front), he's managed to lie, cheat, murder and sweet talk his way into being chosen as the ruler of Cybertron. While this can be at least partially credited to the fact that a bigass Metrotitan said "Hey Starscream you're totally the chosen one", he still seized the opportunity to take full advantage of the situation and morph it into something that ultimately lead to him becoming the king of robot mountain. To his credit (yeah """""""credit"""""""), he is making the best of his new position (In an Starscreamy asswaffle kind of way), and the planet is recovering thanks to it, but this is still Starscream. He's not afraid of getting what he wants "for the greater good" through less than honest tactics. The ends justify the means for the betterment of Cybertron as far as he's concerned, especially if it stands to benefit him personally in some way.
One would think that simply being Starscream would be a PR disaster the likes of which the universe has never known, given his history and general shitty attitude, but despite how much of a fuck he is, he's managed to work out an effective little system for himself. He's realized at least to some degree that one cannot simply bark orders and expect people to obey. His new fancy position has made it necessary for him brush his ruthlessness under the rug for certain occasions and fall back on his charismatic people charmer skills, something that served him rather well around the beginning of the war when he was out acting as a recruiter for the Decepticon cause. He can be convincingly polite when a situation calls for it, managing to successfully keep a cool head when in view of the public and to persuade people to accept things from his perspective through the power of fancy wordplay and gloriously fabricated bullshit. He knows exactly what to say and how to say it to make people go "yes good this is a good thing what a good Starscream." The people who know him best still think he's an asshole, but at least he's an asshole that gets results.
When he's not out in public and trying to be all pretty and polite for the cameras, he's just as ruthless and cunning as he was during the war. Bribery is not beneath him, nor is setting people up to unwittingly take some sort of fall in order for him to gain political favor. He has a knack for appealing to people's greed to squeeze favors and the like out of them, and then discards them without a second thought once their usefulness has ended. When bribery doesn't work, he won't hesitate to make threats or to carry them out to get his point across. He's also been known to cover up the misdeeds of others in order to maintain mutually beneficial relationships, such as the incident with Chromia exploding some dudes and Starscream sweeping it under the rug in order to keep Windblade on board with the whole finding lost colonies thing.
While Starscream has a pretty impressive grasp on how people work and think in order to manipulate the ever loving balls out of them, when it comes to actually building meaningful relationships with anyone, he falls pretty flat. Friendships aren't something that he intentionally goes out of his way to develop, and when he does occasionally take the plunge it's usually from a "how can this benefit me" angle with numerous ulterior motives in mind. He had managed to build a pretty tight little friendship with Metalhawk, only to turn around and kill him just because he figured it would give him a leg up politically. How rude.
Essentially, "friends" to Starscream are just stepping stones in the grand scheme of things. The only real exception to this is Wheeljack, who stuck up for Starscream like one time but shit apparently that was enough for Starscream to decide that Wheeljack was totally the most awesomest person like ever. He likes Wheeljack so much that he doesn't even want to lie to him like he does everyone else, though he actually has no idea why he feels that way at all because Starscream is emotionally constipated just like all the other robots. Welcome to Transformers where everyone is twelve years old.
On top of his massive ego, Starscream also has a knack for bouncing back into action after things manage to go to hell for him, which happened after pretty much every one of his attempts to take over the Decepticons failed. He has this unreal mental resiliency that has him up and scheming again in no time. His ambitious nature and unreal stubbornness are usually all he needs to get his head back in the game, but that doesn't mean he's immune to episodes of over the top self loathing and hopelessness. After his brief tenure as the leader of the Decepticons, where instead of achieving anything at all he ended up watching everything he'd ever wanted basically crumble before him, he'd all but completely given up the will to live until Megatron literally beat some sense into him.
Also speaking of Megatron, Starscream is absolutely terrified of him. So that's a thing.
His years of lying, manipulation and treachery on top of the whole 4 million year long war thing in general have made him pretty... completely paranoid. He doesn't trust anyone (Aside from like Wheeljack) and has convinced himself that pretty much everyone he's ever known hates him (to be fair this might actually be true, but still). He shared this information with Bumblebee once, who is actually quite thoroughly dead. So, on top of being totally paranoid, Starscream's also either completely losing his grip on reality and has started to hallucinate dead people, or he's just straight up being haunted by ghost Bumblebee. We don't know yet. Either way, Ghost Bumblebee is basically Jiminy Cricketing Starscream and sometimes Starscream listens when he gives good advice. It's almost like Starscream has a conscience. Y'know, every now and then. He's capable of not being an absolute asshole, it just doesn't happen often.
Abilities/Skills:
Not really an ability or skill but I guess NOTABLE? Starscream is on the "average" end of the Cybertronian size spectrum, standing somewhereish between 20 and 25 feet tall. Pretty big, but not like hella Megatron big. Seeing as he's a giant metal robot he's obviously quite durable in ways that fleshy meat people aren't. He's able to transform into a neato jet, and according to his fabulous self, is able to fly beyond three times the speed of sound.
He has millions of years worth of combat experience at his disposal, and while he generally prefers long range weaponry he's also been shown to have some proficiency with swords. Which is good for him because in his current body he doesn't have his fancy blasters, just two shoulder mounted missile launchers. Said missile launchers are powerful enough to knock a dinobot (those are big and mean just trust me on this) on it's ass, buuuut he only seems to have two missiles at a time so unless he can find someone who feels like making him new ones or something, once they're gone, they're gone. Sucks to be Starscream.
On top of his combat skills, he's also honed his ability to sweet talk his way into and out of pretty much anything. He'd prefer to talk his way out of a fight than actually engage in one.
Like the other Cybertronians, he's capable of projecting a holomatter avatar (think hologram but solid and it can punch you). He just needs to like. Make one.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
STRENGTHS:
-Buttloads of combat experience
-Craploads of self confidence
-Annoyingly resilient
-Rolled a natural 20 in charisma and diplomacy somehow OR is just really good at faking it. Either way.
-Can fake being likable
-Rather good at being overly prepared for things. Like an evil Boyscout.
-Airplane!
WEAKNESSES:
-Not actually likable
-Arrogance so much arrogance
-Punchable face
-It takes a lot to bring him down like ~emotionally~, but when he's down he is down.
-Rampant paranoia
-Megatron's fists
-Probably your fists
-Doesn't work overly well with others like seriously
Items:
Two missiles that go in his shoulder launcher things (I mean I guess those would count as items and not body parts or something? idk robots man) aaaaaaaand two laser sword dealies ((it is these))
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
Given the apparent nature of this ship, I can only assume that those of you who have been here for a while have grown accustomed to confused new arrivals asking questions that you've likely heard a million times before. With that in mind, I would hope that one of you would have had the foresight to compile an FAQ of sorts to catch new people up to speed on the general goings on around here. Should that not be the case, I've compiled a list of my own questions that I would very much like answered in a timely manner.
Anyway. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Starscream. I'm looking forward to coexisting peacefully with you for the duration of my stay here, which hopefully won't be any longer than necessary. To the other Cybertronians on board, as Cybertron's ruler I expect nothing less then your full cooperation. Let's all try to get along, hm?
Prose/Action Sample:
blam test drive