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Character Name: Drift
Fandom: Transformers IDW
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auramatic
OU, AU, or OC? OU
If canon, canon point: Post-More Than Meets The Eye #16, after his exile
PB: n/a
Superhero Name: he's just gonna use his name because all Transformers names sound like bad superheroes anyway and he is being True 2 Himself
Setting Background: n/a
History: the TF wiki is terrifyingly thorough
Personality: On the surface, Drift appears pretty chipper and cheerful; at first glance, he's basically a giant sword-toting hippie who's super into his (relatively) newly-discovered spirituality, and that is basically his go-to solution for everything. Drift subscribes to Spectralism, a mystic and highly spiritual Cybertronian religion, and he is like, really into auras.
He's given to the regular snarky quip, but he's pretty friendly in general, and tends to exhibit a positive, never-say-die attitude all the time, to the point where his relentless optimism honestly gets on other people's nerves. He seems about as carefree and going-with-the-flow as a guy who carries no less than three swords at all times can possibly be.
Here's the thing, though: Drift is the biggest goddamn faker in the world. He has a complicated and ugly history; he started out as a homeless junkie on the streets of pre-war Cybertron, where his addiction to circuit boosters nearly killed him. And before he defected and became an Autobot, he was the Decepticon known as Deadlock, one of the most notoriously vicious warriors in their ranks, because it turns out if there's one thing he's SUPER GOOD AT, it's killing people. What a winning talent. He was hand-picked by Megatron himself to join the Decepticon ranks, and Megatron was the one to give him the name Deadlock.
Under the smiling face, Drift is actually hugely insecure -- not just about his own self-worth, but especially how other people perceive him. He's keenly aware that he's not very well-liked or trusted by most Autobots because of his history as a Decepticon (and the fact that if you put him in a room full of Autobots, every one of them probably had a friend who got hella murdered by Deadlock). As much as he acts like he doesn't care, Drift cares so much. He is basically in a massive identity crisis all the time -- when he left the Decepticons, he left his identity as Deadlock the killer behind, and he's been trying on different hats ever since. For a while he played the part of the lone wandering warrior, only out to do good in order to make up for his past sins (read: robot ronin); recently, he's taken up the mantle of spirituality after a near-death experience gave him a vision, in part because he hopes this will help him become more likable -- but way, way more than that, because he thinks that if he plays the part for long enough, it'll become who he really is. So in a way, Drift's spirituality is a sham -- he is not the mindful and enlightened bot he claims to be, but on a much deeper and more private level, he subscribes very much to "fake it till you make it".
That isn't to say Spectralism isn't important to him -- all of these ideas are incredibly important to him, and he's never chosen his identities lightly. His spirituality isn't important to him because it's something he really believes in hisheart spark, but because he wants desperately to be the kind of person who does. He really thinks that if he can make his faith real for himself, it'll redeem him from his past -- but deep down, he also doesn't entirely believe he deserves that absolution.
Would he openly admit any of this? Haha over his dead body
Also he really loves swords. Like, a lot. He thinks they are super cool and that they also make him look super cool.
His exile from the Lost Light has altered his attitude a little, though. He deliberately took the fall for a massive fucking disaster that was not entirely his fault so that Rodimus (or anyone else) wouldn't be implicated -- in fact, he insisted on it, because according to his vision, Rodimus was too important to risk losing, and let's be real, he was not super popular on the ship, and with his past, he made an easy scapegoat. So he let his best friend denounce him publicly, strip him of his Autobot brand, and send him packing in a shuttle. Considering said disaster resulted in more than just a little loss of life, Drift is feeling extra shitty about himself; he feels responsible, even though he was just one of several who had a hand in it, and it's making him question how far he's really come since he decided to be a force of good in the universe. He's kind of back to lone warrior status, doing good deeds wherever he can, because if he can't be an Autobot, he has to be something. And with his convictions shaken, he's only clinging harder to his spiritual front -- he might not actually believe in his own unrelenting optimism, but he has to try.
Canon Powers: he is a giant robot that transforms into a sweet sports car and he is remarkably hard to kill
OK BUT TO BE SPECIFIC:
Drift is about average size and build for a Cybertronian, standing at around 20 feet. He's been a warrior for long enough that his frame is pretty much optimized for combat, and while he's formidable in battle, it isn't necessarily due to super strength, but rather speed and precision. He is definitely strong enough to pick up other robots (or cars) around his size and give 'em a good throw, though. Drift is pretty fast, and nimble too. He does so many unnecessary backflips.
Cybertronians are also really fucking hard to kill and live for millions of years. Drift has had limbs ripped off, run a sword through himself, gotten nearly crushed to death, and nearly fried himself from the inside out on robot drugs. He's come close to death a few times, but he can take a pretty rough beating.
The three key parts of Cybertronian anatomy are the spark, the brain module, and the transformation cog. The spark is the heart and the center of energy for a Cybertronian, and if it or a Cybertronian's brain module is irreparably damaged, they'll die, but it takes a lot. The transformation cog is what allows Cybertronians to shift into their vehicle modes -- in Drift's case, a very shiny and fast sports car. Like the rest of him, his alt mode is built for speed.
Game powers: PRETTY MUCH JUST KEEPING HIM AS-IS since Being Cybertronian counts as one big honkin power.
Abilities: Drift is preternaturally good at violence, a thing he kind of hates about himself, but if you give this guy two guns he will clear an entire room and then some. He also received some pretty thorough training in more martial arts and swordplay from hissensei mentor Wing when he first left the Decepticons, and he's an adept swordsman. Dual wielding all the way, bro. As a Cybertronian, he can plug into computer systems and the like, but hacking and such is not his specialty.
Setting: A chance to save not just his world, but countless others, from a massive cataclysm? COUNT DRIFT THE FUCK IN. He's been wandering and lost, and a cause to latch onto is exactly what he needs right now -- the more heroic and just, the better. He wants so badly to be a hero, not because he wants the attention, but because he wants people to believe he's not a shit person, because if other people believe it then maybe it's true!
These days, Drift is pretty good at not killing people indiscriminately. He is fairly used to lethal combat, but in theory he is all about killing fewer people.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: Drift has learned enough about the Coluans since his arrival to know about their prejudice against inorganics. It's...a familiar enough attitude, sadly enough -- it's not like the Cybertronians are that popular with anyone in their universe, not after that four-million-year-long civil war -- but at least on Earth, the Cybertronians had actually done something (a lot of things) to earn the mistrust of humans. But he's used to mistrust, too, although he's rarely stepped up to defend himself. That kind of defensiveness -- it makes people think guilty so easily, and Drift would rather let his actions speak for themselves.
It's pretty evident that that's not really going to work out in this case.
He steps forward to answer, one hand laid over his chest plate in an earnest gesture. "I know you have no real reason to trust me," he says, carefully sidestepping around the whole robot racist issue. "I'm a stranger to this world, and as far as I'm aware, the first of my kind here. I can tell you that I'm no stranger to war and strife, that I've come face-to-face with what I thought was the impossible time and again, but those might mean nothing to you. Maybe there's no way to determine if I'm really worthy or not. But...my home is under threat, just the same as yours. I have to try. I can't condemn an entire universe by my own inaction, just because I was worried I wasn't good enough."
Network Sample:
[ this feels a little weird, somehow. drift doesn't know what kind of person he'll be after all this -- if he survives it -- after all, he seems to change all the time. but maybe this is a good thing. maybe this can serve as a reminder, if things ever get off track...if he ever loses sight of his cause again, the way he did with overlord. ]
Hey, Drift. It's me. Er...you. Same thing. If you're seeing this, it means I survived -- that we won -- but...well, you'll probably remember recording this. But I hope you watch it again if we win, just in case -- in case anything's changed.
The situation here seems like it's really in a bad way, but it kind of reminds me of the Lost Light. I'm glad I have something to do here. Something to fight for. And I'm doing good. That was what I swore I'd do, Autobot or no. And I think fighting against something that threatens all of existence...I don't think you get many better opportunities to do good than that.
[ does he deserve that opportunity? fuck, he doesn't know. probably not a great time to start questioning it. ]
I have to believe that Primus guided me here. I have to believe I'm here for a reason. And if I survive this -- if I am watching this again -- I'd like to send a message back to the Lost Light. To Rodimus. I think maybe…
[ maybe it'd mean he could go back home? no -- it wouldn't change anything. but it would mean something. ]
I think maybe he'd appreciate a good story about all this.
Additional info: Drift will be showing up with his three (3) swords! One of which is the Great Sword. The other two are just regular swords. He wears all of these at once, because he doesn't know how to fuckin tone it down a notch. Like all Cybertronians, he needs to regularly refuel his systems with energon.
Player Name: madi
Plurk Handle:
Player Status: new
Other characters: n/a
Character Name: Drift
Fandom: Transformers IDW
Character Journal:
auramaticOU, AU, or OC? OU
If canon, canon point: Post-More Than Meets The Eye #16, after his exile
PB: n/a
Superhero Name: he's just gonna use his name because all Transformers names sound like bad superheroes anyway and he is being True 2 Himself
Setting Background: n/a
History: the TF wiki is terrifyingly thorough
Personality: On the surface, Drift appears pretty chipper and cheerful; at first glance, he's basically a giant sword-toting hippie who's super into his (relatively) newly-discovered spirituality, and that is basically his go-to solution for everything. Drift subscribes to Spectralism, a mystic and highly spiritual Cybertronian religion, and he is like, really into auras.
He's given to the regular snarky quip, but he's pretty friendly in general, and tends to exhibit a positive, never-say-die attitude all the time, to the point where his relentless optimism honestly gets on other people's nerves. He seems about as carefree and going-with-the-flow as a guy who carries no less than three swords at all times can possibly be.
Here's the thing, though: Drift is the biggest goddamn faker in the world. He has a complicated and ugly history; he started out as a homeless junkie on the streets of pre-war Cybertron, where his addiction to circuit boosters nearly killed him. And before he defected and became an Autobot, he was the Decepticon known as Deadlock, one of the most notoriously vicious warriors in their ranks, because it turns out if there's one thing he's SUPER GOOD AT, it's killing people. What a winning talent. He was hand-picked by Megatron himself to join the Decepticon ranks, and Megatron was the one to give him the name Deadlock.
Under the smiling face, Drift is actually hugely insecure -- not just about his own self-worth, but especially how other people perceive him. He's keenly aware that he's not very well-liked or trusted by most Autobots because of his history as a Decepticon (and the fact that if you put him in a room full of Autobots, every one of them probably had a friend who got hella murdered by Deadlock). As much as he acts like he doesn't care, Drift cares so much. He is basically in a massive identity crisis all the time -- when he left the Decepticons, he left his identity as Deadlock the killer behind, and he's been trying on different hats ever since. For a while he played the part of the lone wandering warrior, only out to do good in order to make up for his past sins (read: robot ronin); recently, he's taken up the mantle of spirituality after a near-death experience gave him a vision, in part because he hopes this will help him become more likable -- but way, way more than that, because he thinks that if he plays the part for long enough, it'll become who he really is. So in a way, Drift's spirituality is a sham -- he is not the mindful and enlightened bot he claims to be, but on a much deeper and more private level, he subscribes very much to "fake it till you make it".
That isn't to say Spectralism isn't important to him -- all of these ideas are incredibly important to him, and he's never chosen his identities lightly. His spirituality isn't important to him because it's something he really believes in his
Would he openly admit any of this? Haha over his dead body
Also he really loves swords. Like, a lot. He thinks they are super cool and that they also make him look super cool.
His exile from the Lost Light has altered his attitude a little, though. He deliberately took the fall for a massive fucking disaster that was not entirely his fault so that Rodimus (or anyone else) wouldn't be implicated -- in fact, he insisted on it, because according to his vision, Rodimus was too important to risk losing, and let's be real, he was not super popular on the ship, and with his past, he made an easy scapegoat. So he let his best friend denounce him publicly, strip him of his Autobot brand, and send him packing in a shuttle. Considering said disaster resulted in more than just a little loss of life, Drift is feeling extra shitty about himself; he feels responsible, even though he was just one of several who had a hand in it, and it's making him question how far he's really come since he decided to be a force of good in the universe. He's kind of back to lone warrior status, doing good deeds wherever he can, because if he can't be an Autobot, he has to be something. And with his convictions shaken, he's only clinging harder to his spiritual front -- he might not actually believe in his own unrelenting optimism, but he has to try.
Canon Powers: he is a giant robot that transforms into a sweet sports car and he is remarkably hard to kill
OK BUT TO BE SPECIFIC:
Drift is about average size and build for a Cybertronian, standing at around 20 feet. He's been a warrior for long enough that his frame is pretty much optimized for combat, and while he's formidable in battle, it isn't necessarily due to super strength, but rather speed and precision. He is definitely strong enough to pick up other robots (or cars) around his size and give 'em a good throw, though. Drift is pretty fast, and nimble too. He does so many unnecessary backflips.
Cybertronians are also really fucking hard to kill and live for millions of years. Drift has had limbs ripped off, run a sword through himself, gotten nearly crushed to death, and nearly fried himself from the inside out on robot drugs. He's come close to death a few times, but he can take a pretty rough beating.
The three key parts of Cybertronian anatomy are the spark, the brain module, and the transformation cog. The spark is the heart and the center of energy for a Cybertronian, and if it or a Cybertronian's brain module is irreparably damaged, they'll die, but it takes a lot. The transformation cog is what allows Cybertronians to shift into their vehicle modes -- in Drift's case, a very shiny and fast sports car. Like the rest of him, his alt mode is built for speed.
Game powers: PRETTY MUCH JUST KEEPING HIM AS-IS since Being Cybertronian counts as one big honkin power.
Abilities: Drift is preternaturally good at violence, a thing he kind of hates about himself, but if you give this guy two guns he will clear an entire room and then some. He also received some pretty thorough training in more martial arts and swordplay from his
Setting: A chance to save not just his world, but countless others, from a massive cataclysm? COUNT DRIFT THE FUCK IN. He's been wandering and lost, and a cause to latch onto is exactly what he needs right now -- the more heroic and just, the better. He wants so badly to be a hero, not because he wants the attention, but because he wants people to believe he's not a shit person, because if other people believe it then maybe it's true!
These days, Drift is pretty good at not killing people indiscriminately. He is fairly used to lethal combat, but in theory he is all about killing fewer people.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: Drift has learned enough about the Coluans since his arrival to know about their prejudice against inorganics. It's...a familiar enough attitude, sadly enough -- it's not like the Cybertronians are that popular with anyone in their universe, not after that four-million-year-long civil war -- but at least on Earth, the Cybertronians had actually done something (a lot of things) to earn the mistrust of humans. But he's used to mistrust, too, although he's rarely stepped up to defend himself. That kind of defensiveness -- it makes people think guilty so easily, and Drift would rather let his actions speak for themselves.
It's pretty evident that that's not really going to work out in this case.
He steps forward to answer, one hand laid over his chest plate in an earnest gesture. "I know you have no real reason to trust me," he says, carefully sidestepping around the whole robot racist issue. "I'm a stranger to this world, and as far as I'm aware, the first of my kind here. I can tell you that I'm no stranger to war and strife, that I've come face-to-face with what I thought was the impossible time and again, but those might mean nothing to you. Maybe there's no way to determine if I'm really worthy or not. But...my home is under threat, just the same as yours. I have to try. I can't condemn an entire universe by my own inaction, just because I was worried I wasn't good enough."
Network Sample:
[ this feels a little weird, somehow. drift doesn't know what kind of person he'll be after all this -- if he survives it -- after all, he seems to change all the time. but maybe this is a good thing. maybe this can serve as a reminder, if things ever get off track...if he ever loses sight of his cause again, the way he did with overlord. ]
Hey, Drift. It's me. Er...you. Same thing. If you're seeing this, it means I survived -- that we won -- but...well, you'll probably remember recording this. But I hope you watch it again if we win, just in case -- in case anything's changed.
The situation here seems like it's really in a bad way, but it kind of reminds me of the Lost Light. I'm glad I have something to do here. Something to fight for. And I'm doing good. That was what I swore I'd do, Autobot or no. And I think fighting against something that threatens all of existence...I don't think you get many better opportunities to do good than that.
[ does he deserve that opportunity? fuck, he doesn't know. probably not a great time to start questioning it. ]
I have to believe that Primus guided me here. I have to believe I'm here for a reason. And if I survive this -- if I am watching this again -- I'd like to send a message back to the Lost Light. To Rodimus. I think maybe…
[ maybe it'd mean he could go back home? no -- it wouldn't change anything. but it would mean something. ]
I think maybe he'd appreciate a good story about all this.
Additional info: Drift will be showing up with his three (3) swords! One of which is the Great Sword. The other two are just regular swords. He wears all of these at once, because he doesn't know how to fuckin tone it down a notch. Like all Cybertronians, he needs to regularly refuel his systems with energon.
