Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 21:08:14 GMT
Player Alias: Thundercat
Character Name: Nickel (IDW)
Allegiance: Decepticons (mainly DJD)
Appearance Description:
In her own words, Nickel is quite short, about roughly as tall as the minicons seen in the RID 2015 series, or slightly taller. But she is by far the smallest of the DJD, even compared to Vos who is likewise small. Although, she is far more bulkier than her fellow teammate, being more rounder in appearance save for her helm, which is reminiscent of a nurse's stereotypical appearance. On the sides of her more square shaped head she has two head antennae, and wheeled feet rather than regular pedes. On her arms she has two medical storage boxes and visible hooks on her sides where she can store some additional medical tools.
Nickel's primary colors consist of steel blue around mainly her head, shoulder armor, middle chest armor, three stripes from her sides to her chest, fingers, and lower legs and striped across her medical storage kits. This is outlined with sky blue on her face, across the chest, shoulders, and upper part of the protrusions on her back. This is complimented with pale silver on her lower legs, arms, bits on her chest and face, her neck, and lower part of the protrusions her back. She also has splashes of red on her lower legs, her jet pack, and the meter on her forehead.
Lastly, Nickel also is a rare sort who has three additional alternate forms: a cybertronian dune buggy, cybertronian submarine, and mini cybertronian recon jet.
Personality: Nickel may be small and cute, but she is a small bot full of sass and attitude. Nickel is the type of femme to tell someone what’s what, usually having a very stern and crass tone with just about anyone, especially those closest to her. She has a sharp tongue, offering sharp words and brutal honesty regardless of who one may be. In a nutshell, she has the brass to tell you when you’ve screwed up and isn’t above being harsh, crude and vulgar to get her point across. And often, a response will come with a pointed look or some quite obscene gestures that make even the likes of Tarn blush. In reality, this can come off as tough love or her own way of showing affection, if she hasn’t lost her temper by then or has someone in her bad books.
But, Nickel’s bed side manner isn’t all bad. She actually shows a great deal of compassion and care when it comes to her patients and those she is close to. Though a rarity among Decepticons, Nickel is just concerned for the health and safety of those under her care, especially when their lives may be in her hand. There is often a reason she is considered a motherly figure among the DJD. She may be stern and at times strict or dismissive in certain matters, but she for the most part is worrisome and always anxious when such missions as her adoptive “sons” go through. Part of this springing from some years ago of the loss of her home and someone very dear to her. This brings on her scorn and annoyance when anyone she gets close to neglects their health or proper care and will gladly put them in their place if they’ve messed up in her optics.
Still, Nickel is a determined and hard working small femme. She always goes to great lengths to ensure others are in working condition and that she is always making sure nothing is neglected. She is deeply loyal and protective of those around her, but harsh, brutal, and scornful of those she views as enemies. In such cases that someone presses her buttons, Nickel will unleash the fury of hell upon them and can be unrelenting in her wrath. Someone as big and bad as Megatron rarely scares her, especially when she has words that will be heard regardless, and she is more than willing to take necessary risks, even if it costs her her own safety and life. Even then, Nickel is often too stubborn to back down, and her out-spoken, vocal bravado is something to be admired.
Strengths:
Small Statute: With being a minicon, Nickel is smaller than many of her fellow Cybertronians, to the point she has even made a remark about being no bigger than an energon cube. This gives her some advantage in being able to reach into places others cannot, especially helping her in her job as a medic as she is more capable of getting into spots some of her larger medical counterparts cannot.
Medical Expertise: Prior to becoming part of the DJD and after, Nickel has extensive knowledge on Cybertronian anatomy and the skills to repair and maintain a Cybertronian's body. She is more than capable of repairing and giving maintenance to the likes of her fellow DJD members, some of which have gone through extensive upgrades to their own bodies. In times she is also in combat, Nickel does make use of this knowledge to wear down the enemy or get some advantage.
Adaptable: With being a quad-changer, and from her own experiences, Nickel has proven to be quite an adaptable little bot. She has proven herself capable of handling some of the toughest terrain, the rough seas, and conditions of the skies. She also has a fair bit of knowledge in different medical tools and equipment, being able to use them for proper purposes or utilizing as a weapon.
Durable/Strength: Despite her size, Nickel has thick armor and is fairly durable despite everything. She is more than capable of taking some punishment, allowing her to tend to her teammates in the field. Her strength is also considerable, being able to put a few dings in someone's armor, especially if she gets some momentum going and is capable of lifting a fair bit of weight.
Sassy, biting Remarks/Nonverbal communication: Small as she may be and not all too intimidating like her other fellow DJD or Decepticons, Nickel isn't to be taken lightly. She has words that, if possible, could easily kill a bot and proves herself being more than capable of putting a bot in their place. She is also quite skilled in the art of nonverbal communication, using expression, body language, and gestures (especially hand gestures) to get her point across.
Weaknesses:
Small Size: Unfortunately, Nickel still faces some issues from her size. For one, she is easily more susceptible to taking damage or being overpowered than a normal size Cybertronian. She also has limits to exactly what she can do and where she can go, even often having to rely on her larger counterparts for support and protection.
Not quite for Combat: Nickel is and always has been a medic and maintenance bot first and foremost. And before the destruction of her home, she had no need for combat concerns. But after joining the DJD, Nickle has some basic combat and weapons training, just in case she would need to in dire or desperate situations. Still, this is very basic and leaves her capable of being taken out by more skilled fighters.
Slowness: For a femme, Nickel is certainly on the larger side. Even though her smaller size does make her a bit more maneuverable and quicker than some, she is still slower than some of her fellow minis and larger Cybertronians.
Durability Limits: Despite her armor being capable of taking a fair bit of punishment, she does have her limits and tries to avoid heavy combat or heavy artillery which could easily tear through her armor or wear her down. The durability is largely for concern in getting in and around the field of one of her fellow Decepticons is down, namely her fellow DJD members. And her strength has limits, being limited to lifting smaller Cybertronians such as minibots or someone of Arcee’s or Vos’ size.
Temper: Nickel’s bed side manner isn’t always the greatest and she does have a compassionate side, but Nickel does have a temper. There are just some things that will set her off almost immediately and she will not hesitate to turn her wrath on the ones that cause it. And it has been known to draw out her ire enough she will jump into action without concern for her own safety.
Abilities:
Quad-Changer: Nickel is a rare Cybertronian that has more than one or two forms. She goes beyond a triple changer in having four forms: robot, dune buggy, miniature air plane, and mini-sub. This makes her adaptable to land, sea, and air, but much prefers her land or aerial forms.
Medical Tool Storage: Like any good medic, Nickel has a plethora of tools at her disposal to help with repairs. She has several areas in which to store these items, namely the medical kits on her forearms, hooks on her sides for hanging hand-held items, and her jet pack which also acts as a backpack for her larger tools. Located on her helm is a meter that detects ambient radiation levels.
Older model Communicator Phone: Though not an ability per se, Nickel has a hand-held communicator reminiscent of an Earth brick phone she stores on her person. This was given to her by Tarn as a gift and something she deeply cherishes and does not use often. The phone itself is capable of short- to long-range communication, but only reaches so far.
Weaponry:
Mini Energon Pistols: Since joining the Decepticons, Nickel has taken two miniature sized energon pistols as her weapons of choice if she ever has to defend herself or is required to go into combat. Though not often, she sees these as necessary for such emergencies, the ammo within being switched to have acid pellets and incendiary bullets to cause some damage to the armor and make an enemy think twice.
Medical Tools: Though primarily for medical purposes, Nickel has a time or two had to use her medical tools as weapons, especially such things as her scalpels, drills, and other sharper objects. Although, she will also use whatever else may be on hand.
Lethal Recording: Nickel can use the communicator phone for a surprisingly lethal recording: that of Tarn's voice. By playing back the message of "If you're listening to this, my commiserations...you're about to die. I don't know who you are, and I don't need to, what's important-what matters-is that you tried to hurt my friend", the recording can immobilize an opponent and slowly trigger a similar effect to Tarn's Outlier/Point One Percentor abilities as if he were there in person.
History:
Nickel is a Decepticon hailing from the colony world of Prion, having come from the hotspot started here back in the ancient days of Cybertron’s explorations. Not much is known about Nickel’s life here, or she chooses not to recall everything due to the pain and grief for the loss of her home. All that is known is that Nickel lived and served as a medic here, and life was peaceful. And it can be hinted that she often acted as a mobile or field medic in cases of emergencies. Also, she was at the time romantically involved with another Prion femme, Penny, whom she had planned to become Conjunx Endura with until that fateful day on Prion.
This all changed when an unknown organic alien race, prejudice against mechanical organisms such as the Transformers, attacked her home without warning just for the sake of taking sick glee in tearing the peaceful colony asunder. Unable to fight back such numbers, the colony of Prion was decimated and the SOS was sent out far too late to have any aide. Hours after, the Decepticon Justice Division chanced upon the destruction, searching its wreckage to figure out what happened before Nickel’s weak call for help made it clear someone had been fortunate enough to survive the brutal assault on her home. It was that day Nickel was saved from going offline from her wounds, given a new lease on life after she was repaired and nursed back to health.
While she recovered, Nickel got a chance to know the crew that had saved her, sharing stories of her home with them and inquiring about what they were doing, especially about their curious looking insignias. It was Tarn who told her of Megatron’s grand vision and the ideals by which the Decepticons followed, for the most part. Due to the brutality the organic aliens had shown to her kind, especially the destruction of Prion and the loss of the love of her life at the time, Nickel found such ideals appealing and after she recovered officially joined the Decepticon Justice Division as their medic and something of a surrogate mother figure.
Since coming to join their crew, Nickel has established herself as not only someone with a lot of bite and not to be messed with, but also something of a positive influence to her newly adopted family. She is the one who has been keeping the DJD in line of sorts, most specifically for their hygiene and maintenance concerns. And with their recent joining of the Nemesis on Earth, Nickel is having to keep her seething hatred of organic life in check, distracting herself in getting to know the real driving force of the Decepticons at last.
Roleplay/Writing Sample: See Silentsky
Character Name: Nickel (IDW)
Allegiance: Decepticons (mainly DJD)
Appearance Description:
In her own words, Nickel is quite short, about roughly as tall as the minicons seen in the RID 2015 series, or slightly taller. But she is by far the smallest of the DJD, even compared to Vos who is likewise small. Although, she is far more bulkier than her fellow teammate, being more rounder in appearance save for her helm, which is reminiscent of a nurse's stereotypical appearance. On the sides of her more square shaped head she has two head antennae, and wheeled feet rather than regular pedes. On her arms she has two medical storage boxes and visible hooks on her sides where she can store some additional medical tools.
Nickel's primary colors consist of steel blue around mainly her head, shoulder armor, middle chest armor, three stripes from her sides to her chest, fingers, and lower legs and striped across her medical storage kits. This is outlined with sky blue on her face, across the chest, shoulders, and upper part of the protrusions on her back. This is complimented with pale silver on her lower legs, arms, bits on her chest and face, her neck, and lower part of the protrusions her back. She also has splashes of red on her lower legs, her jet pack, and the meter on her forehead.
Lastly, Nickel also is a rare sort who has three additional alternate forms: a cybertronian dune buggy, cybertronian submarine, and mini cybertronian recon jet.
Personality: Nickel may be small and cute, but she is a small bot full of sass and attitude. Nickel is the type of femme to tell someone what’s what, usually having a very stern and crass tone with just about anyone, especially those closest to her. She has a sharp tongue, offering sharp words and brutal honesty regardless of who one may be. In a nutshell, she has the brass to tell you when you’ve screwed up and isn’t above being harsh, crude and vulgar to get her point across. And often, a response will come with a pointed look or some quite obscene gestures that make even the likes of Tarn blush. In reality, this can come off as tough love or her own way of showing affection, if she hasn’t lost her temper by then or has someone in her bad books.
But, Nickel’s bed side manner isn’t all bad. She actually shows a great deal of compassion and care when it comes to her patients and those she is close to. Though a rarity among Decepticons, Nickel is just concerned for the health and safety of those under her care, especially when their lives may be in her hand. There is often a reason she is considered a motherly figure among the DJD. She may be stern and at times strict or dismissive in certain matters, but she for the most part is worrisome and always anxious when such missions as her adoptive “sons” go through. Part of this springing from some years ago of the loss of her home and someone very dear to her. This brings on her scorn and annoyance when anyone she gets close to neglects their health or proper care and will gladly put them in their place if they’ve messed up in her optics.
Still, Nickel is a determined and hard working small femme. She always goes to great lengths to ensure others are in working condition and that she is always making sure nothing is neglected. She is deeply loyal and protective of those around her, but harsh, brutal, and scornful of those she views as enemies. In such cases that someone presses her buttons, Nickel will unleash the fury of hell upon them and can be unrelenting in her wrath. Someone as big and bad as Megatron rarely scares her, especially when she has words that will be heard regardless, and she is more than willing to take necessary risks, even if it costs her her own safety and life. Even then, Nickel is often too stubborn to back down, and her out-spoken, vocal bravado is something to be admired.
Strengths:
Small Statute: With being a minicon, Nickel is smaller than many of her fellow Cybertronians, to the point she has even made a remark about being no bigger than an energon cube. This gives her some advantage in being able to reach into places others cannot, especially helping her in her job as a medic as she is more capable of getting into spots some of her larger medical counterparts cannot.
Medical Expertise: Prior to becoming part of the DJD and after, Nickel has extensive knowledge on Cybertronian anatomy and the skills to repair and maintain a Cybertronian's body. She is more than capable of repairing and giving maintenance to the likes of her fellow DJD members, some of which have gone through extensive upgrades to their own bodies. In times she is also in combat, Nickel does make use of this knowledge to wear down the enemy or get some advantage.
Adaptable: With being a quad-changer, and from her own experiences, Nickel has proven to be quite an adaptable little bot. She has proven herself capable of handling some of the toughest terrain, the rough seas, and conditions of the skies. She also has a fair bit of knowledge in different medical tools and equipment, being able to use them for proper purposes or utilizing as a weapon.
Durable/Strength: Despite her size, Nickel has thick armor and is fairly durable despite everything. She is more than capable of taking some punishment, allowing her to tend to her teammates in the field. Her strength is also considerable, being able to put a few dings in someone's armor, especially if she gets some momentum going and is capable of lifting a fair bit of weight.
Sassy, biting Remarks/Nonverbal communication: Small as she may be and not all too intimidating like her other fellow DJD or Decepticons, Nickel isn't to be taken lightly. She has words that, if possible, could easily kill a bot and proves herself being more than capable of putting a bot in their place. She is also quite skilled in the art of nonverbal communication, using expression, body language, and gestures (especially hand gestures) to get her point across.
Weaknesses:
Small Size: Unfortunately, Nickel still faces some issues from her size. For one, she is easily more susceptible to taking damage or being overpowered than a normal size Cybertronian. She also has limits to exactly what she can do and where she can go, even often having to rely on her larger counterparts for support and protection.
Not quite for Combat: Nickel is and always has been a medic and maintenance bot first and foremost. And before the destruction of her home, she had no need for combat concerns. But after joining the DJD, Nickle has some basic combat and weapons training, just in case she would need to in dire or desperate situations. Still, this is very basic and leaves her capable of being taken out by more skilled fighters.
Slowness: For a femme, Nickel is certainly on the larger side. Even though her smaller size does make her a bit more maneuverable and quicker than some, she is still slower than some of her fellow minis and larger Cybertronians.
Durability Limits: Despite her armor being capable of taking a fair bit of punishment, she does have her limits and tries to avoid heavy combat or heavy artillery which could easily tear through her armor or wear her down. The durability is largely for concern in getting in and around the field of one of her fellow Decepticons is down, namely her fellow DJD members. And her strength has limits, being limited to lifting smaller Cybertronians such as minibots or someone of Arcee’s or Vos’ size.
Temper: Nickel’s bed side manner isn’t always the greatest and she does have a compassionate side, but Nickel does have a temper. There are just some things that will set her off almost immediately and she will not hesitate to turn her wrath on the ones that cause it. And it has been known to draw out her ire enough she will jump into action without concern for her own safety.
Abilities:
Quad-Changer: Nickel is a rare Cybertronian that has more than one or two forms. She goes beyond a triple changer in having four forms: robot, dune buggy, miniature air plane, and mini-sub. This makes her adaptable to land, sea, and air, but much prefers her land or aerial forms.
Medical Tool Storage: Like any good medic, Nickel has a plethora of tools at her disposal to help with repairs. She has several areas in which to store these items, namely the medical kits on her forearms, hooks on her sides for hanging hand-held items, and her jet pack which also acts as a backpack for her larger tools. Located on her helm is a meter that detects ambient radiation levels.
Older model Communicator Phone: Though not an ability per se, Nickel has a hand-held communicator reminiscent of an Earth brick phone she stores on her person. This was given to her by Tarn as a gift and something she deeply cherishes and does not use often. The phone itself is capable of short- to long-range communication, but only reaches so far.
Weaponry:
Mini Energon Pistols: Since joining the Decepticons, Nickel has taken two miniature sized energon pistols as her weapons of choice if she ever has to defend herself or is required to go into combat. Though not often, she sees these as necessary for such emergencies, the ammo within being switched to have acid pellets and incendiary bullets to cause some damage to the armor and make an enemy think twice.
Medical Tools: Though primarily for medical purposes, Nickel has a time or two had to use her medical tools as weapons, especially such things as her scalpels, drills, and other sharper objects. Although, she will also use whatever else may be on hand.
Lethal Recording: Nickel can use the communicator phone for a surprisingly lethal recording: that of Tarn's voice. By playing back the message of "If you're listening to this, my commiserations...you're about to die. I don't know who you are, and I don't need to, what's important-what matters-is that you tried to hurt my friend", the recording can immobilize an opponent and slowly trigger a similar effect to Tarn's Outlier/Point One Percentor abilities as if he were there in person.
History:
Nickel is a Decepticon hailing from the colony world of Prion, having come from the hotspot started here back in the ancient days of Cybertron’s explorations. Not much is known about Nickel’s life here, or she chooses not to recall everything due to the pain and grief for the loss of her home. All that is known is that Nickel lived and served as a medic here, and life was peaceful. And it can be hinted that she often acted as a mobile or field medic in cases of emergencies. Also, she was at the time romantically involved with another Prion femme, Penny, whom she had planned to become Conjunx Endura with until that fateful day on Prion.
This all changed when an unknown organic alien race, prejudice against mechanical organisms such as the Transformers, attacked her home without warning just for the sake of taking sick glee in tearing the peaceful colony asunder. Unable to fight back such numbers, the colony of Prion was decimated and the SOS was sent out far too late to have any aide. Hours after, the Decepticon Justice Division chanced upon the destruction, searching its wreckage to figure out what happened before Nickel’s weak call for help made it clear someone had been fortunate enough to survive the brutal assault on her home. It was that day Nickel was saved from going offline from her wounds, given a new lease on life after she was repaired and nursed back to health.
While she recovered, Nickel got a chance to know the crew that had saved her, sharing stories of her home with them and inquiring about what they were doing, especially about their curious looking insignias. It was Tarn who told her of Megatron’s grand vision and the ideals by which the Decepticons followed, for the most part. Due to the brutality the organic aliens had shown to her kind, especially the destruction of Prion and the loss of the love of her life at the time, Nickel found such ideals appealing and after she recovered officially joined the Decepticon Justice Division as their medic and something of a surrogate mother figure.
Since coming to join their crew, Nickel has established herself as not only someone with a lot of bite and not to be messed with, but also something of a positive influence to her newly adopted family. She is the one who has been keeping the DJD in line of sorts, most specifically for their hygiene and maintenance concerns. And with their recent joining of the Nemesis on Earth, Nickel is having to keep her seething hatred of organic life in check, distracting herself in getting to know the real driving force of the Decepticons at last.
Roleplay/Writing Sample: See Silentsky