No worries Naito, I know how it is, real life has to take priority over gameplay and what not (and snow can get pretty awful in my neck of the woods too, especially last year
), I'm thankful for any help you can give at all lol. Hammering out this OC is taking longer than I planned, totally my bad. I'll also try to get a post in for the actual game tomorrow, sorry for the delay, I know Umbra is waiting on Megs to speak up already lol.
Name: Deathroll (Death-Roll, like the move Gators use to kill their prey)
Faction: Predacon, formerly Decepticon
Bio in Progress: Originally one of many decepticon soldiers who served as crewmen aboard the first Megatron's flagship, the Nemesis, Deathroll along with many other lost soldiers fled the ship in an escape pod before the Nemesis sank beneath the sea. He would have remained lost forever, trapped inside his pod, left to rot in stasis like many of his forgotten shipmates, just another casualty of the great war, if not for the intervention of the new Megatron and his Predacon faction. To survive on ancient earth, Megatron upgraded Deathroll's powerful but primitive & inefficient Decepticon frame into that of a Predacon, a transmetal predacon no less! After his upgrade and being filled in on the unusual circumstances of the Beast Wars, particularly how it was a war being fought by soldiers from a future in which the decepticon lose the Great War and Cybertron, Deathroll embraces his new status as a Predacon elite in service to the new Megatron, who he views as his original Lord's rightful heir and his only hope of preventing a future in which his kind has been vanquished and "enslaved"...Not to mention save himself from being one of many lesser members of the first Megatron's crew who were left un-rescued even after the war had ended. As evidenced by his vehicular form, Deathroll was originally a miner before joining Megatron's Decepticon uprising, where he honed his combat skills in the gladiatorial pits of Kaon before moving on to become a communications officer. Due to his size and bulk, Deathroll is slow for the most part, possessing only average speed, but has learned to lie patiently and quietly in wait for his enemies to come to him, where he can then strike quick and suddenly before they can flee his grasp, using his strength & firepower to destroy his enemies.
Obviously very much still a draft XD
Weapons Concepts...I know I can only have four weapons plus a special ability so this is just me brainstorming ideas, sorry lol
1) Tyronium Drill: His drill attachment can pierce through even the hardest of materials and strongest of metals, can be used as a melee weapon in both vehicle and robot mode, turning his tail into a deadly melee weapon.
2) Twin Plasma Blasters/double barreled blaster: Mounted on his back in vehicle mode for ranged attacks and deterrence against flyers, can be used as individual blasters for each hand or a double barreled beam rifle in robot mode.
3) Wrist Grinders: Tank treads on robot mode's wrists can be used as melee weapons, to either block enemy attacks or grind into their hides
4) Sonic Disruptors: Can generate focused sonic attacks between his three fingered hands, manifested as either focused sonic beams or rapid firing sonic bullets, allowing him to cleanly punch or cut through enemy alloys, an offshoot of his faraday wave capabilities. Think the Ice Warriors from Doctor Who, or Gyaos from Gamera.
5) Tooth Torpedos: As an alligator Deathroll is at home on land or underwater, and thus is equipped with torpedo launching capabilities, namely in the form of shoulder mounted torpedoes formed from his beast modes teeth, inactive until fired and usable on land or sea.
6) Plasma Balls: In robot mode his mouth can open to fire concentrated bursts of superheated, explosive plasma (like Godzilla or Gamera)
7) Optic Beams: simple but effective, laser vision based weaponry like Dinobot or Terrorsaur
Special Ability: Faraday Wave Generation, only much more powerful than anything produced by a normal gator (maybe I should just upgrade it to actual shockwaves if that's more accurate). He can use his waves to disorient those in the water around him or even create mudslides and falling rocks, or stir up murky clouds in the water to disguise himself. I was also thinking it could even disrupt other bots' sonars who may be underwater trying to locate him...Unless as you said jamming like that won't work or whatever, I got the idea from Optimal Optimus (the player, not the toon lol).
Possible Specs
Strength: 10
Intelligence: 6 or 7
Speed: 5
Endurance: 10
Rank: Sub-Commander
Courage: 6
Firepower: 6 or 7
Skill: 6
or
9+8+7+7+7+6+6= 50
Strength: 9
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 6
Endurance: 8
Courage: 7
Firepower: 7
Skill: 6
or
10+7+7+7+7+6+6= 50
Strength: 7
Intelligence: 10
Speed: 6
Endurance: 7
Courage: 7
Firepower: 7
Skill: 6
or
10 + 8 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 6 + 5= 50
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 5
Endurance: 10
Courage: 7
Firepower: 7
Skill: 6
