// Headcanon/Backstory time:
There’s a lot of stuff in Black Shadow’s past that I sort of kinda allude to in RP but have never flat out said that I think I’m just going to put out there now.
As I’ve said before Black Shadow is a crossformer, which means he has his outer robot form (the one you see) and an inner minibot form. Unlike Minimus Ambus and the Magnus Armor his outer form isn’t just armor- it’s very much alive, both the inner and outer robots are powered by one spark.
Crossformers are thus pretty rare. So rare and intriguing in fact that early on in his life Black Shadow was kidnapped and illegally experimented against his will so that the secrets of such a transformer could be unlocked. From here stems his fear of medical equipment.
He does not remember the encounter however. (the fear remains subconsciously tho)
Sometime during the experimentation his inner robot separated from his outer robot triggering thoughts and memories to be transformed from the outer to the inner, improperly. The inner bot is only supposed to separate from the outer should the outer robot become unable to sustain life. Since was not the case and the inner robot was forced out the memory transfer was incomplete.
He escaped his captors, leaving his outer body behind, with little to no memories of his own.
It is at this point that he is taken in by the dance troupe he’s spoken of before. They take him in like one of their own for a while and he learns a lot of moves that eventually lead him to be quite…
graceful? flexible? Something along those lines.
The troupe eventually breaks up due to lack of funds and no sooner does it than he is confronted once more by those who experimented on him in the past. They wrangle the minibot up and bring him back to where he was first experimented on, his body still intact if heavily modded.
The body won’t work without a mind and it won’t accept anyone but Black Shadow. Rather roughly his inner robot is forced back into the outer and the seems connect. Half-formed and distorted memories flow into eachother as the memory transfer puts his mind back into the outer robot. Black Shadow is filled with panic, fear, and a need to survive. He rather quickly overpowers them and escapes once more, fleeing for his life.
He lays low for a while, barely scraping by with what money he has, he’s not bothered by that particular group that harassed him for so long again tho. Cash gets so tight that he finds himself getting in league with one of the many gangs in Rodion. He gets a decent amount of money out of it and all he has to do is be ‘the muscle’ so to speak. Extortion. Drug Deals. Murders. It’s all the same.
It is within this gang that he meets a certain plucky young bot named Blue Bacchus. After finding out their shared quality of being crossformers Black Shadow rather quickly takes him under his wing as was done to him so long ago by the dance troupe. The two shared a great kinship and referred to one another as brothers. Blue Bacchus looked up to Black Shadow and Black Shadow looked out for Blue Bacchus. Black Shadow promised him that one day they’d both have enough money that neither of them would have to be in a gang anymore and they could live on their own far away from Rodion and the Dead End.
However this plan would have to wait as soon the war started up. Both chose to be Decepticons but soon were separated. He hasn’t seen him since nor knows if he is alive. He supposes if he was he would have come found him by now…
Black Shadow would later meet another young blue mech who would remind him of his 'younger brother’ if only by color at first. A mech named Overlord. Something about him drew him to want to be brotherly and even at first attempt to take him under his wing when they both were made Warriors Elite. Overlord is far more stubborn and less affectionate than Blue Bacchus but that doesn’t stop Black Shadow from trying to make some sort of connection there.
His time spent in tight knit group after tight knit group lead Black Shadow to a need to be a part of a team, to be needed, and to make connections and friendships. When he became a phase-sixer this was made difficult given that most feared him and wanted nothing to do with it. Thus he connected with those he could and that included Overlord.
Since the end of the war and his falling out with the cons Black Shadow’s become literally rich. He has shanix up the wazoo. Even though it started out as just a need for money to live admittedly it’s become a love for money over time. He hopes to one day reunite with Blue Bacchus tho and maybe retire to some paradise planet where he can live in a castle, get a conjunx endura, and have lots of sparklings.
[WOOPS THAT GOT RLY LONG. I hope I worded everything in a semi coherent way hahaha…..these are ideas I’ve had for a while that i’ve just never written down, some of them aren’t really complete but I tried to make his backstory as decent as possible for the moment…]
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