And I'm done. Hope you weren't planning on using vehicons.
Name: Breakout (formerly Rec)
Gender: Male
Height: Transformer average, because scale in the franchise is all kinds of messed up. Think smaller than Optimus, larger than Arcee.
Alliance: Decepticon
Character theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PUkQNzZU0IDisguise Type: A stylish Earth car resembling a Cadillac Ciel, it's a sleek vehicle mode, very fast and agile, though there's more than a few more combat-oriented ones. Though Breakout has had modifications done to allow access to his weaponry in vehicle form, his vehicle mode shines because of its ability to drive over almost any surface including bodies of water and at almost any angle, such as up buildings.
Appearance: Perhaps it rings a bell?. His body is actually a bit bulkier and more sturdily built than that of a regular vehicon and has normal, five fingered hands instead of those claws.
Holographic Human: None, will produce a random person if necessary.
Weapons:-Shuriken pistols x2: Rather than the standard vehicon low-yield energy blaster, which required the entirety of the arm from the elbow down to transform into the weapon, Breakout carries a pair of pistols which launch small but tremendously sharp bladed discs at high velocities. Designed for mid to short range combat, these are effective, energy-efficient weapons with a decent rate of fire and little recoil. More importantly, they produce very little noise and no bright flashes of light or sudden temperature spikes, though they do require scrap metal to be processed into ammunition from time to time. Can be produced from his vehicle mode's hood.
-Diffraction-sword x2: Breakout can produce this pair of handy melee weapons from his forearms. Aside from functioning as perfectly serviceable swords (if not as powerful as energo or thermal ones), these little things also bend light around them, allowing Breakout to play tricks on the enemy's optics. At any given time they might see the blades as being longer or shorter than they actually are, see them coming from the wrong angle or plain see multiple attacks where there's only one. These are unusable in vehicle mode.
-Grappling Claws: Breakout's hands hold a couple of surprises. The tips of his digits can rearrange themselves into sharp claws, though they're more of a last resort or surprise weapon rather than anything he'd like to wade into battle with, and he can also fire the tips of his clawed fingers as wire-guided projectiles. Available in vehicle mode, 5 claws can be produced from each side of the car, propping up from its underside.
-Optic beam: Another surprise weapon, though one Breakout is less fond of. If you ever produce a beam of energy meant to kill things from your eyes, even if they're specifically designed to do so, you'll understand why. It's just unpleasant. Available in vehicle mode as beams fired from the headlights, which is much less unpleasant.
-Smoke emitters: Placed on the legs, these emit thick discharges of smoke which can quickly fill up a room, greatly hindering vision and blocking other spectrums such as infrared, ultraviolet or radio waves. Breakout himself is obviously unaffected by these. Available in vehicle mode and fired from the back.
-Active camouflage: Breakout can bend light around him, rendering himself invisible to the naked eye and most sensors for short periods of time. Can be used in vehicle mode.
Personality:Breakout is quite agreeable for a Decepticon, complete willingness to murder others and slight immorality notwithstanding. An okay guy who enjoys socializing with others despite the typical lone wolf attitude associated with stealth specialists (spies, assasins, saboteurs), he believes that the Decepticon movement will bring about a brighter future for Cybertron even if he'd rather not have to wage a war for it and is more prone towards helping his fellows out than the average decepticon. Some might call him a wuss, he just believes that you don't need to be a snarling animal to be a proper follower of Megatron. As the last cybertronian to use a vehicon frame he's rather proud of his abilities and his rise from mere cannon fodder to respected soldier.
Background:On the early days of the war, after the Decepticons' rise to prominence, the masterminds behind the movement had a great idea: COMBINERS! Slightly less important but still implemented: the Vehicon Project. Many decepticon supporters were originally small, menial workers with bodies completely unsuited to combat, which was unacceptable. The Decepticons created a cheap but more combat-geared mass produced body type called Vehicon and urged many of their weaker followers to transfer their sparks into one in order to become more effective soldiers.
The program's success was arguable. While it was certainly more effective than simply issuing guns and some armor to data receptacles and laser pointers the vehicons soon became infamous for their high mortality rate and inferior build when compared to the more expensive but better made battle bodies employed by both sides, quickly being pegged as cannon fodder to be freely used and disposed of as needed. As the war dragged on, the majority died off and the few who survived sought to distance themselves from their status as expendables, acquiring different bodies as soon as they could, which eventually lead to the vehicons' extinction.
Breakout, once known as Rec, was one of the few who survived the long years as a vehicon. Originally a recording device employed in hidden camera journalism, he showed promise as a stealth operative early on and eventually distinguished himself in that field across his career. Like all others, he underwent multiple modifications to increase his combat abilities and survival chances but, unlike everyone else, he decided to retain the same general vehicon bodytype he started the war with, having grown attached to the form he spent most of the war in.
When the Vehicon Program was finally discontinued and the bodytype retired, Breakout remained the final example of what had once been the Decepticons' long-suffering shock troops, the last sample of a group of millions who willingly traded in their bodies and identities to better serve Megatron's cause and fight for the future of Cybertron. Decepticons forever!
