Post by Hypnos on Apr 1, 2018 17:51:31 GMT
Player Alias: Kavac
Character Name: Hypnos
Allegiance: Decepticon
Appearance Description: Hypnos’s vulture-esque appearance commands both awe and terror in those that gaze upon it. Her primary colors are both red and gold, though she has adopted a great deal of black plating after taking her second alt-mode on Earth. Hypnos’ most distinguishing feature would be her singular blue eye, a result of her empurata treatment back on Cybertron. Apart from her eye, she is characterized by a set of backwards bending legs complete with a set of talons. She typically folds her rotors down against her back, although she is more than capable of removing them for use as weapons.
After landing on Earth, she was forced to take the form of an Mi-24 Hind:
Since taking the form of an Mi-35M, Hypnos has added a number of rotors, wings and missile pods to her form, typically wearing her primary rotors on her back, mimicking the shape of a cape. The addition of a pair of bird-like legs completes the ensemble, giving Hypnos the guise of a true aerial predator. At full height she stands at roughly 31 feet, tall enough to give any Autobot a second thought.
Personality: Hypnos can be described as a typical empurata victim: quiet and eerie. Through prolonged exposure to the elements while stasis-locked on Earth, portions of Hypnos’ mental restrictions, both old and new, have been corroded to varying degrees. Very rarely, her pre-procedure personality will manifest itself in odd and random ways, a side effect of human tampering. Hypnos has no way of controlling these outbursts, except by using recordings of her own voice to snap herself out of it.
While not as belligerent as most other Decepticons, Hypnos is incredibly passive aggressive and threatening, and has absolutely no problem making comments at her allies’ expense. Because of this she’s seldom been deployed alongside other Decepticons for her sake, and theirs.
Her partner's personality is often a strong contrast to her more detached nature. Playback is much more talkative and outgoing than his boss, and will spare no effort to inform those around him of this fact.
Strengths + Weaknesses:
-Eyesight - Hypnos’ most ‘glaring’ physical weakness would be her one eye. Disabling it would leave her effectively blind, and a much easier target.
-Mental Restrictions - Quite a few of Hypnos’ mental processes are locked to prevent her from becoming too ambitious without limiting the effectiveness of her power. In short, she has been made a tool for somebody else to use. Her most recent mental handicap states that she cannot use her power on any Cybertronian without prior authorization from a superior. Under certain circumstances, Hypnos’ minicon partner is allowed to temporarily lift her restrictions.
-Self-Hypnosis - Hypnos is not immune to her own power. Several specialized recordings of her voice exist in Megatron’s possession, either to incapacitate her, or to undo the effects of her hypnosis.
+Fuel Efficient - Spending decades on Earth without a reliable source of energon has forced Hypnos to adopt a much more energy-efficient nature. She can survive prolonged periods without needing to recharge or refuel, though not indefinitely. Her natural energon has been colored blue, rather than purple as well.
+Dauntless - Hypnos claims to be beyond fear and intimidation, which is often reflected in her tendency to take increasingly dangerous assignments. She refuses to buckle in the face of adversity, though isn’t foolhardy about it either.
+Multitasking - She is able to split her concentration dozens of times while still retaining coherence over each of them. Hypnos is extremely adept at managing several dozen data streams at once, and serves as an excellent adviser and dispatcher for Decepticon units on the ground.
Abilities:
Outlier: Neuro-Linguistic Programming - A stress-induced spark mutation rather than a natural ability, Hypnos possesses the power to forcefully reprogram the thought processes of sentient beings, with several limitations. Her ability is far from true mind control: the effect dissipates with time, and she is unable to influence point one-percenters. Aside from robotic targets, Hypnos is much more proficient at hypnotizing sentient organic beings, namely humans. Her voice’s effect can also be transferred remotely, such as through recordings; she is especially adept at hypnotizing herself, strangely. Hypnos’ effect relies on the target or targets being able to hear and understand her voice. This condition demands that hypnotic statements must be clearly worded, and in the target’s own language, lest the command be misinterpreted entirely. Polyglots are especially susceptible to Hypnos’ power.
Outside Agitator - While not nearly as powerful as some of the legendary Phase Sixers, Hypnos’ job as a Phase Two and Three specialist is no less important. Her primary function when on worlds ripe for colonization is the escalation of existing social, economic and international conflicts to world-ending levels. She is a master of disinformation and communications disruption, and has famously triggered the societal collapse of no less than twenty two organic-dominated worlds over her career, and in five instances was able to incite a mutually-destructive nuclear war.
Mimicry - What originally started off as a party trick has become one of Hypnos’ most developed skills. She is able to perfectly mimic any voice she hears, as well as any sound whatsoever.
Minicon Partner: Playback - In order to maximize her own efficiency, Hypnos has been paired with a minicon named Playback. Playback transforms into an ATV off-road vehicle, and is typically carried around inside Hypnos herself. He is a stark contrast to his boss’s cold and detached attitude, being very vocal and boisterous. Playback is able to act as both a transmitter and amplifier of Hypnos’ signal, and has received enough conditioning to render himself immune to its effects. His secondary purposes is to act directly as one of Megatron’s agents, mainly to keep watch on Hypnos and her power. Playback carries with him several recordings of her voice, specifically commands to undo her hypnotic effect, provided by Hypnos herself.
Weaponry:
Twin Quad-missile Pods - Hypnos’ Earth-mode is complemented by a set of two shoulder mounted missile pods, each containing a set of diamond-boron tipped warheads. Each missile has enough destructive power to demolish any fortification or obstruction in Hypnos’ path, and is one of her preferred methods of ending conversations.
Dark Energy Cannon - Hypnos’ arm transforms into her primary weapon, an exceptionally powerful beam projector. The projection of exotic particles from the beam neutralize the mass of the target, and eventually annihilates the target altogether.
Pulse Minigun - An advanced weapon placed at on Hypnos’ nose while in vehicle mode, and on her shoulder when in robot mode. Her pulse gun fires highly energetic projectiles capable of searing through enemy armor with ease. The weapon itself is outfitted with a targeting computer to assist with aiming, both automatic and manual.
Rotorblades - Hypnos’ rotors can be detached and used as both a defensive and offensive weapon, depending on the situation. They can be spun fast enough to shield her from enemy attacks, function as a massive buzzsaw, or simply be folded together to form a sword.
Defensive Upgrades - Hypnos has been outfitted with a number of distinct defensive upgrades, among them an ECM jammer capable of scrambling missile guidance systems and enemy radar, as well as an armor coating specifically designed to resist and reflect energy weapons.
History:
Wavelength of Harmonex was once an opera singer in the Iaconian Opera House, eventually finding her way into more than a few important social circles at the height of Cybertron’s golden age. Her influence at the peak of her career was so great that elements of the senate actually viewed her as a potential threat, what with her ability to pass through large volumes of data from the mouths of more than a few inebriated senators. She eventually learned the truth of the paradise she'd been living in, and had planned to reveal the existence of the Institute to the burgeoning Decepticon movement. In order to tie up what could potentially be a massive information leak, Wavelength was seized by members of the Primal Vanguard on a sedition charge.
During her interrogation, the senate’s fears were confirmed as Wavelength revealed to be privy to more than she should have, such as the true nature of the Institutes located below ground. Her immediate ‘punishment’ was empurata, though the stress of the procedure brought out her latent Outlier abilities. Her ‘ability’ was discovered in a post examination physical, and a vocal control chip was subsequently implanted within her.
With a restrained outlier with the ability to hypnotize others with vocal commands at their disposal, the Institute began making use of Wavelength, now under a new identity: Hypnos. With their control chip in place, Hypnos’ vocal components could be spoken through like a microphone, allowing a remote Institute operative to issue commands through her; she was rendered involuntarily mute as a side-effect.
Hypnos acted as an unofficial agent of the Institute, through her new identity’s official occupation was a police dispatcher in Rodion. She would be directed to observe the growing insurrectionist movements in Kaon and Tarn, all through covertly directing Cybertron’s police to the right places at the right times. The Institute’s surveillance continued right up until Megatron’s uprising, when the Decepticons stormed the Rodion Police Department. It was largely a massacre, only because Hypnos had let them in. She then joined the Decepticons without hesitation.
The newly-dubbed Decepticon went on to work under Soundwave, feeding the Autobots falsified troop locations, movements and numbers, all according to Megatron. Aside from her duties as a communications officer, Hypnos was now free to explore her ability to her spark’s content. Several of her first ‘tests’ included hypnotizing a retreating Decepticon force to continue fighting, talking two Autobot scouts into suicide, not before revealing the location of their basecamp, and most famously, talking a team of engineers and technicians into letting a fusion reactor go critical.
Her honeymoon with herself was short lived, as Megatron and the rest of Decepticon command worked to limit the threat of Hypnos turning her ability on her allies. The end result was a set of memetic commands placed into her brain module, forcing her to speak to people she identified as Decepticons in a vague, abstract sense. Without the ability to clearly give statements to initiate her hypnosis, she was effectively neutered in her power to usurp command. But, like the Institute before them, the Decepticons had evaluated a threat that would never come to pass.
After a ‘test’ was performed at Hypnos’ insistence, her limiter phrases were removed on the grounds that they were impacting her performance in turning Autobots, which was evidently true from her recent performances. In place of a few invasive subconscious restrictions, Hypnos was partnered with a minicon named Playback, who had been trained in secret to resist her hypnosis. Despite a few misgivings about their partnership at first, involving Playback referring to Hypnos as a one-eyed witch, and Hypnos herself calling Playback fat, they eventually worked out a stable partnership.
When the time came to leave Cybertron during the Exodus, Hypnos was reassigned under Megatron and Shockwave’s new Infiltration protocols; her and Playback were now classified as Phase 2 and 3 specialists. They left their home, traveling to various organic-dominated worlds targeted for colonization in order to speed up the process of their untimely demise. As far as efficiency went, the only Infiltrators with a higher planetary destruction index were the Phase Sixers themselves. Hypnos and Playback were able to topple several civilizations with mass disinformation and hypnosis without ever needing to have Decepticon boots on the ground.
Earth was next up on their list, already primed for nuclear destruction in the year 1979. Unexpectedly, Hypnos and Playback were shot down upon entering low orbit, crashing down near the town of Vorontsovska, in the middle of the Soviet Union. Playback managed to flee the scene, but Hypnos’ inert body was confiscated by members of GRU. She was experimented on extensively, with the Soviets quickly learning that she had both the ability to hypnotize human beings, and to learn entire languages in seconds.
She was forced in and out of stasis lock for the duration of her stay in the USSR, giving the Soviets mountains of technical data on just how her ability worked, in the hopes of reverse engineering it. While in stasis, she was made to scan the form of an Mi-24 Hind A, and was then used to carry out extensive testing of her powers in Afghanistan, as part of the Soviet-Afghan war.
Hypnos was shot down for a second time due to her operator being unfamiliar with her ECM capabilities, and was subsequently returned back to the Soviet Union in several dozen pieces. She was rebuilt in time, albeit slowly, and by the time she was mostly operational again, the USSR had broken up. Hypnos was left partially repaired in stasis, locked in an abandoned vehicle depot frozen in the middle of the Siberian winter, forgotten for twenty seven years.
Character Name: Hypnos
Allegiance: Decepticon
Appearance Description: Hypnos’s vulture-esque appearance commands both awe and terror in those that gaze upon it. Her primary colors are both red and gold, though she has adopted a great deal of black plating after taking her second alt-mode on Earth. Hypnos’ most distinguishing feature would be her singular blue eye, a result of her empurata treatment back on Cybertron. Apart from her eye, she is characterized by a set of backwards bending legs complete with a set of talons. She typically folds her rotors down against her back, although she is more than capable of removing them for use as weapons.
After landing on Earth, she was forced to take the form of an Mi-24 Hind:
Since taking the form of an Mi-35M, Hypnos has added a number of rotors, wings and missile pods to her form, typically wearing her primary rotors on her back, mimicking the shape of a cape. The addition of a pair of bird-like legs completes the ensemble, giving Hypnos the guise of a true aerial predator. At full height she stands at roughly 31 feet, tall enough to give any Autobot a second thought.
Personality: Hypnos can be described as a typical empurata victim: quiet and eerie. Through prolonged exposure to the elements while stasis-locked on Earth, portions of Hypnos’ mental restrictions, both old and new, have been corroded to varying degrees. Very rarely, her pre-procedure personality will manifest itself in odd and random ways, a side effect of human tampering. Hypnos has no way of controlling these outbursts, except by using recordings of her own voice to snap herself out of it.
While not as belligerent as most other Decepticons, Hypnos is incredibly passive aggressive and threatening, and has absolutely no problem making comments at her allies’ expense. Because of this she’s seldom been deployed alongside other Decepticons for her sake, and theirs.
Her partner's personality is often a strong contrast to her more detached nature. Playback is much more talkative and outgoing than his boss, and will spare no effort to inform those around him of this fact.
Strengths + Weaknesses:
-Eyesight - Hypnos’ most ‘glaring’ physical weakness would be her one eye. Disabling it would leave her effectively blind, and a much easier target.
-Mental Restrictions - Quite a few of Hypnos’ mental processes are locked to prevent her from becoming too ambitious without limiting the effectiveness of her power. In short, she has been made a tool for somebody else to use. Her most recent mental handicap states that she cannot use her power on any Cybertronian without prior authorization from a superior. Under certain circumstances, Hypnos’ minicon partner is allowed to temporarily lift her restrictions.
-Self-Hypnosis - Hypnos is not immune to her own power. Several specialized recordings of her voice exist in Megatron’s possession, either to incapacitate her, or to undo the effects of her hypnosis.
+Fuel Efficient - Spending decades on Earth without a reliable source of energon has forced Hypnos to adopt a much more energy-efficient nature. She can survive prolonged periods without needing to recharge or refuel, though not indefinitely. Her natural energon has been colored blue, rather than purple as well.
+Dauntless - Hypnos claims to be beyond fear and intimidation, which is often reflected in her tendency to take increasingly dangerous assignments. She refuses to buckle in the face of adversity, though isn’t foolhardy about it either.
+Multitasking - She is able to split her concentration dozens of times while still retaining coherence over each of them. Hypnos is extremely adept at managing several dozen data streams at once, and serves as an excellent adviser and dispatcher for Decepticon units on the ground.
Abilities:
Outlier: Neuro-Linguistic Programming - A stress-induced spark mutation rather than a natural ability, Hypnos possesses the power to forcefully reprogram the thought processes of sentient beings, with several limitations. Her ability is far from true mind control: the effect dissipates with time, and she is unable to influence point one-percenters. Aside from robotic targets, Hypnos is much more proficient at hypnotizing sentient organic beings, namely humans. Her voice’s effect can also be transferred remotely, such as through recordings; she is especially adept at hypnotizing herself, strangely. Hypnos’ effect relies on the target or targets being able to hear and understand her voice. This condition demands that hypnotic statements must be clearly worded, and in the target’s own language, lest the command be misinterpreted entirely. Polyglots are especially susceptible to Hypnos’ power.
Outside Agitator - While not nearly as powerful as some of the legendary Phase Sixers, Hypnos’ job as a Phase Two and Three specialist is no less important. Her primary function when on worlds ripe for colonization is the escalation of existing social, economic and international conflicts to world-ending levels. She is a master of disinformation and communications disruption, and has famously triggered the societal collapse of no less than twenty two organic-dominated worlds over her career, and in five instances was able to incite a mutually-destructive nuclear war.
Mimicry - What originally started off as a party trick has become one of Hypnos’ most developed skills. She is able to perfectly mimic any voice she hears, as well as any sound whatsoever.
Minicon Partner: Playback - In order to maximize her own efficiency, Hypnos has been paired with a minicon named Playback. Playback transforms into an ATV off-road vehicle, and is typically carried around inside Hypnos herself. He is a stark contrast to his boss’s cold and detached attitude, being very vocal and boisterous. Playback is able to act as both a transmitter and amplifier of Hypnos’ signal, and has received enough conditioning to render himself immune to its effects. His secondary purposes is to act directly as one of Megatron’s agents, mainly to keep watch on Hypnos and her power. Playback carries with him several recordings of her voice, specifically commands to undo her hypnotic effect, provided by Hypnos herself.
Weaponry:
Twin Quad-missile Pods - Hypnos’ Earth-mode is complemented by a set of two shoulder mounted missile pods, each containing a set of diamond-boron tipped warheads. Each missile has enough destructive power to demolish any fortification or obstruction in Hypnos’ path, and is one of her preferred methods of ending conversations.
Dark Energy Cannon - Hypnos’ arm transforms into her primary weapon, an exceptionally powerful beam projector. The projection of exotic particles from the beam neutralize the mass of the target, and eventually annihilates the target altogether.
Pulse Minigun - An advanced weapon placed at on Hypnos’ nose while in vehicle mode, and on her shoulder when in robot mode. Her pulse gun fires highly energetic projectiles capable of searing through enemy armor with ease. The weapon itself is outfitted with a targeting computer to assist with aiming, both automatic and manual.
Rotorblades - Hypnos’ rotors can be detached and used as both a defensive and offensive weapon, depending on the situation. They can be spun fast enough to shield her from enemy attacks, function as a massive buzzsaw, or simply be folded together to form a sword.
Defensive Upgrades - Hypnos has been outfitted with a number of distinct defensive upgrades, among them an ECM jammer capable of scrambling missile guidance systems and enemy radar, as well as an armor coating specifically designed to resist and reflect energy weapons.
History:
Wavelength of Harmonex was once an opera singer in the Iaconian Opera House, eventually finding her way into more than a few important social circles at the height of Cybertron’s golden age. Her influence at the peak of her career was so great that elements of the senate actually viewed her as a potential threat, what with her ability to pass through large volumes of data from the mouths of more than a few inebriated senators. She eventually learned the truth of the paradise she'd been living in, and had planned to reveal the existence of the Institute to the burgeoning Decepticon movement. In order to tie up what could potentially be a massive information leak, Wavelength was seized by members of the Primal Vanguard on a sedition charge.
During her interrogation, the senate’s fears were confirmed as Wavelength revealed to be privy to more than she should have, such as the true nature of the Institutes located below ground. Her immediate ‘punishment’ was empurata, though the stress of the procedure brought out her latent Outlier abilities. Her ‘ability’ was discovered in a post examination physical, and a vocal control chip was subsequently implanted within her.
With a restrained outlier with the ability to hypnotize others with vocal commands at their disposal, the Institute began making use of Wavelength, now under a new identity: Hypnos. With their control chip in place, Hypnos’ vocal components could be spoken through like a microphone, allowing a remote Institute operative to issue commands through her; she was rendered involuntarily mute as a side-effect.
Hypnos acted as an unofficial agent of the Institute, through her new identity’s official occupation was a police dispatcher in Rodion. She would be directed to observe the growing insurrectionist movements in Kaon and Tarn, all through covertly directing Cybertron’s police to the right places at the right times. The Institute’s surveillance continued right up until Megatron’s uprising, when the Decepticons stormed the Rodion Police Department. It was largely a massacre, only because Hypnos had let them in. She then joined the Decepticons without hesitation.
The newly-dubbed Decepticon went on to work under Soundwave, feeding the Autobots falsified troop locations, movements and numbers, all according to Megatron. Aside from her duties as a communications officer, Hypnos was now free to explore her ability to her spark’s content. Several of her first ‘tests’ included hypnotizing a retreating Decepticon force to continue fighting, talking two Autobot scouts into suicide, not before revealing the location of their basecamp, and most famously, talking a team of engineers and technicians into letting a fusion reactor go critical.
Her honeymoon with herself was short lived, as Megatron and the rest of Decepticon command worked to limit the threat of Hypnos turning her ability on her allies. The end result was a set of memetic commands placed into her brain module, forcing her to speak to people she identified as Decepticons in a vague, abstract sense. Without the ability to clearly give statements to initiate her hypnosis, she was effectively neutered in her power to usurp command. But, like the Institute before them, the Decepticons had evaluated a threat that would never come to pass.
After a ‘test’ was performed at Hypnos’ insistence, her limiter phrases were removed on the grounds that they were impacting her performance in turning Autobots, which was evidently true from her recent performances. In place of a few invasive subconscious restrictions, Hypnos was partnered with a minicon named Playback, who had been trained in secret to resist her hypnosis. Despite a few misgivings about their partnership at first, involving Playback referring to Hypnos as a one-eyed witch, and Hypnos herself calling Playback fat, they eventually worked out a stable partnership.
When the time came to leave Cybertron during the Exodus, Hypnos was reassigned under Megatron and Shockwave’s new Infiltration protocols; her and Playback were now classified as Phase 2 and 3 specialists. They left their home, traveling to various organic-dominated worlds targeted for colonization in order to speed up the process of their untimely demise. As far as efficiency went, the only Infiltrators with a higher planetary destruction index were the Phase Sixers themselves. Hypnos and Playback were able to topple several civilizations with mass disinformation and hypnosis without ever needing to have Decepticon boots on the ground.
Earth was next up on their list, already primed for nuclear destruction in the year 1979. Unexpectedly, Hypnos and Playback were shot down upon entering low orbit, crashing down near the town of Vorontsovska, in the middle of the Soviet Union. Playback managed to flee the scene, but Hypnos’ inert body was confiscated by members of GRU. She was experimented on extensively, with the Soviets quickly learning that she had both the ability to hypnotize human beings, and to learn entire languages in seconds.
She was forced in and out of stasis lock for the duration of her stay in the USSR, giving the Soviets mountains of technical data on just how her ability worked, in the hopes of reverse engineering it. While in stasis, she was made to scan the form of an Mi-24 Hind A, and was then used to carry out extensive testing of her powers in Afghanistan, as part of the Soviet-Afghan war.
Hypnos was shot down for a second time due to her operator being unfamiliar with her ECM capabilities, and was subsequently returned back to the Soviet Union in several dozen pieces. She was rebuilt in time, albeit slowly, and by the time she was mostly operational again, the USSR had broken up. Hypnos was left partially repaired in stasis, locked in an abandoned vehicle depot frozen in the middle of the Siberian winter, forgotten for twenty seven years.