Name, Title: City Speaker Windblade, Scout Bumblebee, The Clever Girls
Affiliation: Autobots, Humanity
Spark Type: Split-spark Solus (P.1% in combined form)
Alts: Scouting Drone and Electric Civilian Car
Weapons of Choice: Solas Hammer, Stun Gun
ID Number: ope1gl2004.1/2 & ope1gl2004.2/2
Covenant Notes (together):
The Strongarm Twins. Twins of different models are rare, especially when one's a flier and the other is a rather stocky car. If it wasn't for their oft-mentioned bond, you'd probably think they were just close friends; but unified head tilts and long-distance instant communication doesn't lie.
Covenant Notes (Windblade):
Solus' City Speaker. She recently took the position after a while of nothing and is doing quite well for someone her age. Sure, she's older than me, but it's not as if being bonded to a True Prime is the easiest thing in the world for something under 5000. Ath3na was leagues older and she still had trouble.
Rodimus didn't want her to take the role. After what happened to Bluestreak, I can't blame him. But Solus sure seems happier with someone to talk to; and Windblade frequents the Archives for new things to read to her Prime, so I won't complain.
She's nice. Doesn't treat me like the others do.
Covenant Notes (Bumblebee):
Big, gentle, and quiet. I'm not sure if his lack of vocalization is inherant or by damage and asking would be... rather rude. He manages to make up for it with mimicry, radio clips, and frankly adorable beeping.
He's been with humans the longest. Apparently, he knew the Adamant Hunter's original owner; and was quite close to said owner's king. He mourns them still. Must be hard to love things that live for so little time.
Chromia says he takes more after a Dinobot. Guess that's why they put him in charge of the minicon dinos.
Covenant Notes (Clever Girls):
The youngest group of Dinobot Minicons. They emerged a few hundred years ago and rarely leave their caretaker's side. A-C are similar models while D is unique.
A is the oldest and smallest. She's pretty cute, but her size lets her sneak into armor to bite veins. Her tail wags very easily.
B is the best behaved. She often takes up defense, being the second largest of the group. She's a great herder; the Turbo Leeches seem to trust her and do what she wants more than they do with the others.
C is... silly? She's the only one who isn't usually left alone. Apparently, she tried to eat a uranium rod and the cart it rolled in on. She reminds me of Skywarp.
D is the leader. She's the only one who can speak, even if it's only in the typical Primal Vernacular and broken English that the other Dinobots use. Even the former is too awkward for me to follow: she's better with English. You'd think that'd stop her from writing poetry but... no. No, it doesn't.
Secrets, Lies, and Other Stuff:
The Strongarm Twins stem from a little experiment by an increasingly depressed Optimus; he, a near clone of Primus, decided to try and take a tiny bit of his bondeds' sparks into himself and see what happened.
It was a rousing success. And, fearing the worst, he sent his children off with his bondeds to a colony world. He never saw them again. Death took him before the Praxus made it to the Sol System. And death took the other two as well, leaving the twins without.
Such weighs more on Bumblebee than his sister. Bee watches all he loves drift away, to death or to new obligations, and he fears loneliness dearly. Windblade, however, has learned the terror of sharing a soul with someone she barely knows.
Solus is nice. But they both know what happened to her last City Speaker.
Design Notes:
Windblade pulls heavily from the maiko (geiko-in-training) aesthetic. Her flower-studded crown is meant to resemble the floral hairpins oft worn by trainees.
Bumblebee probably looks like a raver. Crop tops and mesh bodysuits yo. He IS supposed to be an electric vwbug, but he might be... big for that.
Both are designed with some small cues toward eachother, mostly in the four-wings and optic/marking colour pallet.
The Clever Girls are velociraptors. You, uh, can see the allusion. D is based more loosely around Dinobot from BW while the rest are just little filler characters.
Associated Music:
^ Not an aesthetic song, just one Bee really likes. Windblade likes the bardish interpretation better.
An odd one. They joined the Praxus colony when the Junkers left just the other week ago. I'm not entirely sure why: they've shown no interest in the cause, nor a willingness to align in any direction. They just... follow people around, writing things down, recording processes, making these weird trinkets, etc.
I know that's technically what I do, sans inventing, but I think I'm a bit more polite about it. Instead of just... looming. And I really, really don't like how they're looking at the Covenant.
Secrets, Lies, and Other Things:
Second youngest of the Second Hand, Nightshade crawled out of the dust on a little asteroid orbiting Cybertron. There was no one else there. But the spoils of Epistemus filled that void: what they lacked for social activity they supplimented with pure knowledge.
When the Exodus began in full, they were picked up by a passing Junkion tradeship. From there they accompanied the Junkers in their travels, gathering the knowledge of the galaxy with a glee few understand. When the ship stopped by Earth, they popped off and joined the Praxus to further their studies.
Most find them a bit strange. Even the most social tribe of Cybertron can't make up for thousands of years of no contact. They're very friendly either way.
They're also the only Finger to be on pretty good terms with their prior. Epistemus is quite fond of the owlette: it designed them itself, after all.
Design Notes:
The only post-G1 character in the Second Hand.
Extremely birdlike, from their beaked face to the claws on their feet. Mildly unsettling, but very friendly. Like Starscream, they look to be wearing clothing.
As an adopted child of Junkion (and thus Quintus), they're permitted to wear the traditional facepaint. It's generally only brought out for special occasions.
Constantly making little trills and coos, but can't do so on command.
Considering the complete Prime history and their abuse of the Primal Voice, using it only to make your SIC take a freaking nap is about as tame as you're gonna get.
Yeah. That's about as simple as we're gonna get this mess of a pantheon.
Tiny notes: some deities have multiple roles, like Megatronus being Entropy and Love. The ones listed here are just the best known occupations they hold.
