#aquaspeeders

[churino]

Design for Aquafend

He used to be a prolific gold medal winning athlete, but after a string of losses, he joined the aquaspeeders to find a new meaning in life, really taking to the teachings of tlalakan more than his teammates. but now, on earth with competitive bots around, he feels that spirituality that resonated so easily with him comes into conflict with his natural competitive spirit

Aquafend is the aquaspeeder's full time infiltrator and part time heartbreaker, he likes to play with people's emotions and dive behind enemy lines, thats not to say he doesn't value his relationships, he's just been blinded by an unearned sense of fame from being the gifted kid. Long ago, he used to be a racer from velocitron but felt the waters calling to him more than the roads and made a switch. At first, he was successful, but eventually, he hit the glass celling that velocitron only had eyes for racing cars, frustrated by the unfairness of the situation his performance began to suffer and looking for a way out of the whole planet he was looking on the extranet for any autobot team that would take him, where he met the aquaspeeders.

Because their relationship with each other isn't deeply personal, the aquaspeeders keep it professional. But aquafend likes to push it sometimes. He's something of a flirt, and speedstream has never outright turned him down (unlike many other bots in his life). but she is his boss and has been pushing him aside in favor of work. That work is saving the world, mind you, but the effect is the same on him. He feels more than a little neglected sometimes, but he knows he's playing a dangerous game as after his first commitment, changing carrers ended in failure. he's become afraid of commitment as a whole.

At first, he doubted dispensor's ability to turn the tide but hung out with them anyway as an excuse to tell a new person about the aquaspeeders' escapades so he could paint himself as some big hero, but as the Apocalypse on earth continues that image of himself begins to crack but tired of running away, he commits to it, seeing dispensor as the only one that can safe the world and pushes them towards reaching their full potential, after the pepsi incident is over, aquafend's new committed charisma is able to bridge the gap between the aquaspeeders and the stormtroopers allowing them to become permanent allies, as they've discovered a very important reason to say on earth.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, I have a burning question for your wise wisdom. Why aren't there more Aquatic Cybertronians? Coming to a world with so much water, I'd have thought many would pick something like a Battleship or Submarine

Dear Aquatic Analyst,

While there are a fair number of hydrobots, seacons, aquacons, waterbots, aquaspeeders, oceanbots, stormtroopers, bayformers and sea-kers, it is true that there are far less than you might expect.

In part, I feel this is due to the Decepticons’ preference for stealing energy and resources from humanity, rather than extracting it themselves. As most of humanity lives on the surface, they take alternate modes more suited to raiding human cities. Likewise, the Autobots take alt-modes suited to defending humans. As such, even bots travelling from Cybertron with boat, hovercraft, or submarine modes tend to trade their fins for wheels when coming to Earth.

[churino]

Design for Speedstream

The no nonsense, humorless, and to the point leader of the aquaspeeders, Speedstream, has fully dedicated herself to her role. she can't help but be overly protective of her team. As they run low on resources, she'd rather put herself at risk if it's to avoid others getting hurt

The aquaspeeders are an elite team of autobot boats from Tlalakan, a mystical planet of vast oceans and jungles. The people of tlalakan fear the robots but have uncovered secrets of the nature of the universe that the autobot aquaspeeders and the decepticon stormtroopers hope to harness, much like on earth they fight a secret war on the planet, and their time there has taught them some of the tlalakan's secrets, namely, hydrokinesis. using h2O as a medium, they can communicate telepathically with each other and travel at insane speeds, not just thanks to their motors but their collective powers. They came to earth immediately upon feeling a disturbance on the water of the planet that began long ago, but due to traveling at sub light speeds, they've only arrived now.

better late than never. In these times of pepsi carnage, only the heroes isolated by water are free from the wrath of the pepsimen, speedstream finds herself becoming ever more simple minded as she is tasked with saving this foreign world with the minimal resources she has at hand, becoming quite risk adverse.

technically speaking she is the active leader of the autobots on the planet right now as optimus is out of the picture, but more and more complications arise as their old enemies the stormtroopers arrive on earth to continue their fued from Tlalakan, wasting a long time to convince them to join forces to fight the greater evil. It certainly didn't help matters that the stormtroopers had non combatant autobot prisoners with them as a bargaining chip. The crew of the science vessel, the xantium, even with the troopers on their side they had no way of escorting the scientists off the planet, meaning they had another set of mouths to feed and protect. The only silver lining that the more mechanically inclined stormtroopers and the autobot scientists could work on a cure together.

Which only makes the previously formidable stormtroopers into effectively dead weight as they're too busy working on a cure to fight the horde. Needless to say. Speedstream takes a lot of cold showers. She's very stressed.