The Intergalactic Highway

ARACHNITRON'S ALTERS:

PREDACON- STRENGTHS: The Predacon programming is independent, confident, cunning, vicious and manipulative. She is brave in battle and much more aggressive than the other two alters.

PREDACON- WEAKNESSES: The Predacon programming is defiant and stubborn to a fault. She often underestimates her opponents. She is childish and petty and has quite a temper. Her anger and hatred is sometimes uncontrollable. She is unwilling to share the body with the other personalities and this is often damaging to the body itself.

In this state, her optic coloring changes to red.

MAXIMAL- STRENGTHS: The Maximal programming is loyal and docile. She is also amiable and much more friendly than the other two personalities. She wants what is best for the body itself and is willing to work with the Predacon though she knows it will be a trying task.

MAXIMAL-WEAKNESSES: With the Maximal in control, Arachnitron suffers from heightened fear and anxiety levels. She often finds it difficult to handle stressful situations. She is overly cautious and is the least likely of the three to take risks even ones that may be helpful to her and her alters.

With this personality in control, her optics are green.

HYBRID- STRENGTHS: The Hybrid is a mixture of the other two personalities. Like the Predacon, she is courageous and strong-willed. Like the Maximal, she is loyal and docile.

HYBRID- WEAKNESSES: The Hybrid is cold, withdrawn and anti-social. She rarely interacts with others. She is almost always in a constant state of confusion. This personality often experiences memory loss as well. She has low self-esteem and self-worth. She often finds it hard to pick a side; and thus, often lets one of the other personalities dictate her actions. Because of the constant battle between the other two personalities, this personality is the least stable...prone to drastic changes in mood and desires (a sort of bi-polar type disorder) and forever in great pain and physical exhaustion. She is extremely naive and easy to manipulate.

Towards the end of season 1, the Hybrid, driven by her desperation to alleviate the mental anguish and confusion, decides to help Tarantulas in exchange for his inserting an inhibitor chip that would block the influence of the Maximal and Predacon programming.

With the Hybrid in control, her optics are green.

"THE RAGE" Another side effect of the gene manipulation is a zombie like state she refers to as “the rage.” In this state Arachnitron is blind, mute, and deaf. She has no control of her actions and often causes unspeakable damage to her surroundings. This is a rare occurrence having little to do with actual emotions. It is more of a result of an overload in her core processor which attempts to reset itself. This is less of a personality and more a programming glitch.

NaitoKage wrote:Heh, so two of the forms have same optic color? Should be good to know if I do more art.

Hmm.. the personalities strangely do remind me besides the Xenogears reference, a story called Change 1 2 3. It was about a girl that was born under unusual circumstances and ended up trained under three martial artists which she claims as her fathers. She ends up with a personality disorder which triggered under stress, with each personality "Hibiki", "Fujiko", and "Mikiri" (Or in one of the systems for counting in japanese.. Hi=1 Fu=2 Mi=3) has a different martial arts style based on Hard techniques, soft techniques, and throwing techniques.These changes would physically reflect in her body even changing somewhat. She also has a final personality known as "Zero" which only surfaces a few times as a murderous form, combining the fighting skills of all and lashing out at anything near her. Eventually this Zero personality would be the first to be merged, allowing the other personalities to combine as a form of controlled aggression.

In the end, her personality disorder was cured by love, as each side of her fell for the other protagonist of the series fusing the personalities into the main one.

Though in reference to the cure.. I doubt Arachnitron would be cured that way.

Blazemane wrote:And if you have a few ideas, Scaleblade, I'd be interested to know what some of those other close-range weapons are.