Character Bios [S2]

[NaitoKage]

Did you lose interest in the character Una? Hm.. Well, that wont really be a problem, good you updated us.

[una]

Not that I lost interest, but what I was going for had changed. I decided to focus and develop more on Whitegrazer and her master's relationship rather than someone from her past.

Here is Whitegrazer's Season Two profile:

Season Two Profile

Name: Whitegrazer
Allegiance: Maximal
Function: Soldier/Instructor
Alt. Mode: Andalusian Horse (Will not turn Transmetal)
Height:
Quote: "Brute force isn't the only way to defeat your opponents. Using your enemy's aggression against them and taking them down to see their error of their ways, now that is the way of proving yourself. Proving that you don't have to stoop as low as your enemy. Proving that in battle, you can still maintain your peace and focus. Proving to yourself that anger, fear, brutality, cruelty, the basic fundamentals of war themselves aren't the answer, that the only way to fight evil is by showing evil itself, it is wrong."


Strength: 8
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 6
Endurance: 8
Rank: 7
Courage: 7
Firepower: 4
Skill: 8

Biography:
A kind, gentle soul, Whitegrazer woke up from her stasis pod into a war she didn't expect to take part in, but deep down knew such a thing would occur between the Predacons and her people. Despite her distaste for war due to her hardened, past experiences, she will do whatever it takes to protect her people and defend the ideals she for so long has fought for with grace and serenity. Even to the point where she will gladly sacifice herself to protect those she cares for. The Maximal horse is taking her own initiatives to secure peace by studying her enemy and her talks with Steelclaw she has started. She doesn't know what would come out of these talks, but she hopes that with time and understanding, the war could end dipolmatically. Of course, she realizes that when push comes to shove, her duty to her people will always be first as their mission is too important to fail.
Though, she is a soldier and instructor, Whitegrazer's past is still shrouded in mystery as well her strange abilities to form connections, which was revealed in a talk with Optimus to be because of her being an Empath of sorts. It was also heavily hinted that she had more abilities, but has since lost them due to chest injury.

Relationships:

Master a.k.a TC

Little is known yet of this person who Whitegrazer calls master, all known is he doesn't like her calling him that and that he is dead. Their relationship seems to be of a father and daughter type. As Whitegrazer is calm and compassionate, he expresses more frustration, aggression, but pragmatic personality, disapproving of her idealism, closeness towards the people around her, and her mercy towards enemies. Also, it seems the Master knows more than he is letting on even Whitegrazer seems to question it. Who is this Cybertronian?

Aurora
Ever since Aurora's activiation, Whitegrazer has developed a maternal instinct towards the young Maximal and keeps telling how Aurora reminds her of herself when she was young. She always protecting her and doing what she can to keep her out of harm's way. She gives Aurora advice and is slowly training her to protect herself. It seems Whitegrazer feels like her overprotectiveness towards the little one is misguided after watching Aurora's reaction towards the death of Icebreaker. Because of this, Whitegrazer has begun to feel that she really needs to train Aurora and do her best to make Aurora a reliable, strong member of the Maximal team.

Optimus Primal
Whitegrazer respects and geniunely likes Optimus, viewing him as a good leader and good person. Because of his leadership, she will do what she must to make sure he is protected and follow his orders. Spending time with him in her meditation, missions, and her training sessions along with her other comrades and alone, her feelings had developed to view him as more than just a friend, which Optimus as well viewed her. What has intrigued her was the fact of how fast their bond developed so quickly, but no matter the reason, she wishes to do what she can to be there for Optimus whenever he needs any consoling, advice, and cherishing every moment they both can have in this chaotic war.

Steelclaw
Whitegrazer knows how Steelclaw views her. To her, that doesn't matter and knows views change once truth shows itself. She respects him, but deep down, she disagrees with his views and opinions. She believes in peace between the Maximals and Predacons because of she has seen it with her own optics and experiences. She wishes to have more conversations with him yet that may prove difficult. But she is a persistent Maximal. On the battlefield, though, she will fight him. Not out of hatred or aggression, but to protect her allies and prevent a war from escalculating.

Weapons/Abilities:

Diffusion
An old fighting style passed from Autobot ancestors to Maximals she learned and used to teach in the Maximal Military Academy. Diffusion is when the fighter focuses on taking out an enemy without permanent harming them. It's akin to the Aikido fighting style.

Small Pistol
A small, silver pistol that is attached to the right side of her waist.

Jutte
A dagger-like melee weapon, she only uses against swords or deflecting bullets. Only uses them for defense. Giving to Whitegrazer by the deceased Icebreaker

Cryodriver Ice Shotgun
Another gift from Icebreaker, a weapon that only freezes opponents with a low mist for distractions.

**Empathatic abilities**

According to Whitegrazer, during a discussion with Optimus, she calls herself a low class Empath. She said she used to be one of a higher class, but due to injuries of her past, her abilities are limited. Yet, she is still in some ways able to feel strong emotions from those she is closest or feelings she once has experienced also from people, Maximal or Predacon, friend or not. And, though the definition of an Empath is a person with the paranormal ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual, Whitegrazer has shown to have other abilities:

Bonds - Whitegrazer has already shown to be able to form some link towards those she has a strong feelings towards like Optimus and Aurora--though the little one isn't aware of it as of yet. Although, she has been known to feel the nanomachines Nemesis carries. Those bonds she shares communicate all types of information to her and to one she formed a bond with, but information is limited through the perceptions of one or the other, and can cause confusion. Also, the stronger the bond, the more intense it can be on both parties, especially if one is going through some thing traumatic. For example, when Optimus is getting tortured by the Predacons, Whitegrazer felt the same pain as Optimus and it awakened her own trauma of her past as a soldier. Just as she can felt the pain of others, Whitegrazer can also mentally and emotionally relieve such pain in tight concentration, talking through her connection to help them keep focus or distract them from the pain.

Medium - Whitegrazer has an ability to talk to the dead like her mentor. Though, it is only seems to be TyCross she is able to commute with.

Visions/Clairvoyance- Whitegrazer has been known to get flashes. Though, this seems limited to those she is closer to. In having a bond or feeling through it, with the combination of fear, anger or sadness, and Whitegrazer own natural ability to be in tune in her environment, she may see flashes of things to come or a danger. Sometimes, though, she could feel the distant force of death if she is in meditation or not distracted by internal or external forces.

Weaknesses:

Battlefield
Whitegrazer takes a more supportive role on the battlefield due to her light armor and --as comrades call her-- nakedness, focusing on hand to hand combat. She helps the one who are of the offensive by giving them backup or distractions. Her beast mode is vulnerable than her robot form as it has a weak point at the legs. But if the offensive line is down or if she is the only one with higher rank, Whitegrazer would take up the role as offensive. With the combination of courage and her high tolerance of pain due to will and her meditation techniques, she is a very persistent opponent who will never give up or allow everyone to harm her team and their mission. She will use any viable resource at her disposal, but mostly, her melee combat skills.

Out of Battlefield
When she is focused on a goal, she will do whatever she can to complete it, which leads her to forget small things on occasion. Chatty to the point of annoyance for some Maximals and Predacons, this may get her severely injured when she lets down her guard. Despite her warm, empathetic personality, her controlled nature and her ideal that one must inspire to better themselves might make some people view her as unrelatable and/or think she puts herself above people. This perceived, misguided view may hinder the very thing she hopes to accomplish.

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I had changed her stats abit as well as added the three stats points. I took one point off her intelligence and gave it to her endurance. Took one off her speed.

S1 Stats (For Reference, just in case)

STRENGTH: 7.0
INTELLIGENCE: 8.0
SPEED: 7.0
ENDURANCE: 6.0
RANK: 7.0
COURAGE: 6.0
FIREPOWER: 3.0
SKILL: 8

[NaitoKage]

Hm.. Looks good. No complaints on by me, Approved.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

Awww. I like the relationships part you added, una. Still upset about losing Warspark, though. The drama, una! THE DRAMAAAAA! Just kidding. You know I support your decision. ^^

[una]

Don't worry, you will get some drama.

Aww, thanks, I thought it would be neat to add as these three relationships are the most prominent. But I just remember that I forgot someone...her master. *headdesk* D'OH! I will correct that now.

[Phoenix]

Updated Aurora and Nemesis' profiles to reflect new weapons and stats.

[NaitoKage]

Okay, I don't see much problem with either.

[una]

This isn't really important, but I added one more thing to Whitegrazer's weaknesses.

Edit: I'm going to actually more detailed about them.

Edit 2: Done! Hope that's all right.

[Venatrix]

Name: Venatrix
Functions: Warrior
Faction: Predacons
Protoform: Transmetal
Rank: Predacon Special Forces
Motto: "One mind, any weapon."

Strength: 6
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 7
Endurance: 8
Rank: (Assigned by staff)
Courage: 7
Firepower: 5
Skill: 10

Physical Description:

-Robotmode:


-Beastmode:
Black Panther. Completely black, accept for her red eyes. Practically invisible at night.

Abilities:
During her existence on Cybertron, Venatrix fulfilled her programming as a sniper/assassin nearly perfectly.
Her skills at stalking her targets and end them silently at point blank range with a simple but deadly blade, or at long range with a sniper rifle where highly valued.

After meeting with Dinobot, she learned to use her native talents in melee and unarmed combat to a degree that she could hold her own against any type of opponent for a long enough time for her to find a weakness in their defences and exploit it to her advantage.
Her skills she learned on prehistoric Earth, during the Beast Wars, she was able to perfect to a degree where she excelled in them among both her allies and enemies.
Her tracking skills, control over her beastmode and its perks like smell, hearing, sight, stalking abilities, evasion and adaptation to alien situations are well advanced.
She can shoot a moving target right where and when she wanted to hit it, with nearly any hand held ranged weapon.
Venatrix, agile, and calculating in combat.
In both beastmode and robot mode she has the ability to fly by using the thrusters the pop out of her shoulders.
She is slower in the air then Cheetor, but can out-manoeuvre him just as easily as he can beat her by speed.
Like the panther, she has formidable strength when she’s in beastmode.
Strong bode to climb nearly anything, and jaws that can pulverize boulders with ease.
Her stamina is in both modes above average.

Weapons:
-Twin swords with a beam generator on either side of the blades, which she can connect at the end of the hilts and form a double-bladed sword. Both swords are able to be transformed into energy beam rifles.
Venatrix can use both, but then she is a lot less accurate then when she uses one.
Both rifles have a sniper scope installed on them, so she can use her old specialization.(Robot mode).
-Claws (both modes).
Both in Beast mode as in Robot mode her claws are her primary weapons when she's not using her blades in bot mode. Combined with her unarmed skills, these claws are a force to reckon with.
-Teeth/jaw (Beast mode).
Her razor-sharp teeth, and powerful jaws make it almost impossible to escape critical injuries when she has her prey between her jaws.
Her Jaws are by far the most powerful parts of her body.
She can apply enough pressure to effect the overall stability of anything that can fit between her jaws.
Given enough time and energy, she is able to crush the heaviest armored part of Rampage or Depthcharge.
-Tail/Whip/Transmetal battle staff (Robot mode).
The tail of her beastmode can be used by her in robot mode as a whip or a battlestaff.

Personality:
Venatrix is a very complex female. Hard to bond with, and hard to read her.
But when you get her to talk, she has a tendency to be nice..... sometimes.
She is forming a similar bond with a code of honour like her idol, Dinobot.
Calm and reasonable most of the time. Carefree, wild, and rebellious at other times.

History:
Venatrix has been part of the Predacon Special Forces for some time. The Predacon council usually send her kind to do all their dirty work. Assassination, Black-Ops, etc. She had done some missions side by side with the infamous Ravage. They used to make a good team together, having him take on the targets at long range, while she takes the short ranged targets, and guard each other’s backs constantly this way.
Their cooperation didn't last however, since his skills where needed elsewhere , and they never seen each other since.
After that she usually worked alone.
Eventually she was starting to get bored with the concept, and didn't feel that her skills where used in her current missions.
Not until she received the latest mission.
Infiltrate the rogue group of Predacons under the leadership of Megatron.
However, on the first day of going undercover, she was found out by Dinobot, and decided to take him out as her mission orders suggested.
However, she didn't count on the fact that Dinobot was more of a warrior, like herself, but stronger and more experienced.
She was disarmed rather quickly, and was about to be terminated when Megatron stepped in and stopped Dinobot.
He gave her the option of joining him, or go offline.
Given it little thought, she decided to join Megatron's forces, and ended up helping Dinobot with stealing the golden disks.

Venatrix desided to follow Megatron not for his charisma or plans, but to learn from Dinobot, and become a much more skilled warrior then she already was.
She challenged him often to a dual, and lost every single one of them.
She learned a lot from these duals, and became more and more difficult for Dinobot to beat.
Even though he would never admit it out loud, she was starting to get stronger, and he knew she had him teaching her his skills, sharing his knowledge of being a warrior, unwillingly. And he let her.
After Dinobot challenged Megatron, and was blind-sided by Scorponock, Venatrix stayed with the Predacons.
But more and more she wonders, if this was the right choice.......

Weakness:
Venatrix has learned the way of the warrior from Dinobot, and also inherited his weakness, his honour.
Surprise attacks were originally her specialty before she met Dinobot, but now she won’t even consider attacking someone without giving them a chance to fight back.

Hope this works

[NaitoKage]

*puzzled look, tilts head* Alright.. lets see..


Your Beamsabers turn into guns, that's fine.. but they also combine into a sniper rifle?.. I know you like Gundam Seed destiny and all.. but that's.. a bit much. Couldn't you just carry around a Sniper rifle?.. You have the slot open since claws are a free weapon.

Tailwhip/battlestaff is fine, in TF tech that sorta thing was called the "Electromagnetic Nunchaku" in TF Victory, going from a staff, three part staff, or chain whip.

Finally is the stats. One, your stats only add up to 48. As a Transmetal your stats allow you to go to 50 points. Secondly, I see no reason why you need to dualize your stats for your beast mode to increase it's strength, this isn't a special ability or anything of that sort. So if you wanted you could put those three extra points into strength, or beef up the firepower for your sniper rifle.

[Venatrix]

Changed the stats to ad the 2 more points.

I added some more details to the Jaws description.

I disagree with the guns combining part.
This is transformers. Things transform and combine. The swords did as well.
I find it pointless to carry another, not to mention a rather big, gun around. Even in subspace.

In my mind, it looks nifty when she draws her swords, releases them in the air, and while she kneels down into her preferred position sniping position, the swords transform into a single sniper rifle and land in her grip. Then "BAM!" Waspinator's flight stabilisors have a neat hole burned straight through them.
Then of course watching him unable to be able to control his direction and speed, and slam into a mountainside at full speed...... Oh yesss.

[NaitoKage]

Stats add up fine now, Really want those multiweapons eh?.. Yeesh..

As for the jaws.. with a strength of 6, it doesn't really fit the description. You might want to swap endurance stat for strenght stat to get that kinda effect..

[Venatrix]

Nope, she needs the endurance points.
So it looks like swapping numbers isn;t such a bad idea for Venatrix hm?
When she uses her blades, firepower isn't used, as the same go's for her beastmode.

And adding some weaknesses to her sniping abilities i can also add a kickback effect so she cant keep aim after a shot is fired, and the so called loss in strength is visible.

[NaitoKage]

Eh, then she doesn't need the jaw effect.

As for the multiweapon, to me it just seems redundant for a five in one weapon effect, not to mention such systems even in transformers are considered horribly unreliable and prone to failures. For someone like Venatrix who carries herself as a "elite" probably wouldn't carry something that unreliable.

A rifle is a highly accurate weapon. Only difference between a Sniper rifle and a Rifle is usually a Scope. Unless we're talking bigger calibur sniper rifles like 50 cal or even the 20 mm Anti tank gun the millitary has been working on.. But Venatrix doesn't have the firepower for either. Also.. we're talking about a beam weapon, which doesn't even need a really long barrel. If you really want the Sniper effect so bad, she could just carry around a scope to attach to either rifle to increase the range accuracy.

As for why we don't allow stat slides like that, is because then players will try to have the highest attack power or highest defense power and swap out on the fly, making them fairly overpowered. That was allowed in certain cases, but at the cost of being a special ability and under very specific character related circumstances (IE:Saberfang's "The beast" persona.)

[Venatrix]

Haven't thought about that..... hmmm.... then i'll just leave the sniper rifle then.
I'll have Ven make do with what she has.

Edited.

Deleted the sniper rifle and placed a scope on both her original rifles.