selftrained: i need something i can imitate (and i need a mantra)
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE 2015
  • Ve/ver pronouns.
  • Weird snake that turns into a train.
  • Specifically, a subset of Serpentronic called a Pythcon, and was caste as a "shuttle train" -- an underground worker shuttling supplies and things, primarily for miners -- before getting accepted onto Crystal City's Science Council.
  • Ve was accepted onto the Science Council partially for brilliance, and partially as a sop to the caste protests, back when they weren't 100% sure how they wanted to respond to those yet.
  • Specializes in medical science; the Council was not 100% aware of the specifics of what ve wanted to do.
  • Totally worked with cool aliens to get those hands made and cybergrafted on. Or, rather, the first version of ver harness was designed by ver and made by the aliens ve worked with; ve is on version 2.0 now, which ve made verself.
  • Does not like ver body and would rather have a different one, it's so damn bulky and inconvenient :(
  • BOY, THE POLICE SURE DO TAKE A "YOU'LL ALL BE SORRY FOR KICKING ME OUT!" SERIOUSLY AS A CRIMINAL THREAT HUH???
  • The equivalent of college-aged before being locked in a gd stasis pod for ~200 years. (About 25-ish.)
  • Didn't particularly want to kill the Science Council members before but SEE THE LAST TWO POINTS.
  • Doesn't immediately realize ~200 years have passed and said Council and nearly everyone died in the war, though, Primus.
  • Was angry and desperate and elated during ver canon episode, and did not expect these apparent police-bots to listen to ver or value ver life at all. Willing to admit that ve crossed a line, though, and now doesn't expect lenience specifically because of that.
  • Would have joined the Decepticons eventually but never formally had a chance to; ver Decepticon symbol is, like many others on the Alchemor, ver prisoner brand.

POST-CANON VERSE (RBA-VERSE?)
  • Has a new frame now! Accomplished with protoforms and cloning rather than bodyjacking.
  • Same color scheme as before, mainly sorta subdued yellow with darker orange and white accents. White face, black eyebrows and antennae.
  • All sharp teeth. Long spindly fingers, too. Ve likes those.
  • Same eyes as before, solid yellow but with the sliiight slit "pupils."
  • Yellow biolights, mostly, maybe with a few blue ones (up at neck like Ultra Magnus's? and Decepticon badge?). Biolights are actually kinda modeled after Shockwave's, maybe not in design but how unnecessarily many there are/placement inspiration.
  • Ve has connectors on ver sides to add an extra set of arms that ve can put on and take off at will. Ve's thinking of adding more. :)
  • Ve can also attach an orange visor over ver eyes(/face?) for science work.
  • Ver new alt is a Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE!
selftrained: and i'm all cut with slivers (and i smash apart the russian dolls)
Sideswipe: "Bumblebee, come in! Strongarm, is this your idea of payback?"
Vertebreak: "Oh, this is not payback, I assure you."
Sideswipe: [gasp] "Not good, not good! HELP!"
Vertebreak: "No one will hear you! These walls, they're very thick."
Sideswipe: [struggling] "Who-- Who are you?!" [gasps]
Vertebreak: "No one. Compared to you. I watched you and your friends enter the tunnels. They'd all make excellent specimens, but you. You're agile, quick, stealthy. Everything an Autobot should strive to be."
Sideswipe: "Uh... Thanks. Hey, how about you untie me, and I shake your hand... things."
Vertebreak: [startled for a moment, then wild, angry laughter]
Sideswipe: [also laughs, very nervously] "It's not that funny."
Vertebreak: [continued laughter]

Bumblebee: "Who are you?! Where's Sideswipe?!"
Vertebreak: "Right here. Well-- most of him, anyway."
Bumblebee: "What did you do to him?"
Vertebreak: "Your Autobot's speed, his agility. They're amazing. This test run is going splendidly!"
Bumblebee: "Where is he?! Tell me!" [shouts as he takes a wild swing]
Vertebreak: [dodges and laughs] "Oh, I did tell you! And the remainder of Sideswipe is resting comfortably. All his attributes-- they're mine now!" [flips Bumblebee and laughs] "And with the help of your friend's abilities, those fools on Cybertron will regret ever crossing me! Not that they'll recognize me in this body of course. I'll take them completely by surprise!"
Bumblebee: "I'll never let you reach Cybertron."
Vertebreak: "Strong words for a bot on his back."
Bumblebee: [cries out as Vertebreak twists his arm]
Strongarm: [over comms] "Lieutenant! No sign of the fugitive or Sideswipe."
Bumblebee: "Strongarm! Get--" [grunts as Vertebreak slams ver foot down on his comm]
Vertebreak: [laugh] "Oh, you may not be challenge enough to demonstrate what my new body is truly capable of, but your friends might be. I know they heard you cry out, and that's fine. I want them all waiting for me." [wild laughter]

Vertebreak: "You have no chance, Autobot. In this form, I'm practically unstoppable!"
Grimlock: "You don't mind if I test that, do ya?!"
Vertebreak: "Oh, on the contrary. I'd love it!"

Vertebreak: [slamming Strongarm into the wall] "Boring!"

Vertebreak: [quiet grunt as ve pushes verself to ver feet; soft surprised voice] "What?"
Autobots: [transform back and get into battle-ready postures]
Vertebreak: "Huh, thank you for the save, Autobots."
Bumblebee: "Four against one, Vertebreak."
Sideswipe: "Well, three and a half."
Bumblebee: "Do you really wanna take us all on again?"
Vertebreak: "Oh, you may have caught me off guard for a moment. But now I can put this form through some new paces: Weapons training!"

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