Post by Starclaw on Jan 21, 2012 15:03:39 GMT -8
THE PLAYER
Main Account: SeekerWing
Other Characters: Firefly, Perceptor, Thundercracker, Kokoro, Alexis Young------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE YOU?
Name: Starclaw
Nicknames: Kitty, Star
Age: Over half as old as Firefly, not by much.
Gender: Femme
Route: Straight
Alignment: Firefly
Status: Symbiot, Espionage
Stats
Strength: 3
Intelligence: 6
Courage: 9
Firepower: 3
Speed: 8
Rank: 2
Endurance: 5
Skill: 6------------------------------------------------------------------------------THE DETAILSStarclaw is a creature built for grace and flexibility, silence and intelligence, a hunter. Being akin the the earth 'cat', Starclaw has a sleek design, albeit a forced sturdy design due to her functionality as essentially an all-terrain land bot.
Her paws are of a careful design, several small hydraulic levers controlling the double jointed toes, the levers carefully covered by interlocking and shifting plates, a rubber-like padding filling in the interior of it, covering the bottom of each toe and the central base of her foot, the rubber like material flexible and easy to manipulate, good to protect the inner workings from earth environments and the absorb sound from jumps and falls, helping her keep her cover in hidden situations and hunting situations.
Her front legs have three primary joints in them - the ankle joint, the shoulder joint, and what could be considered a knee joint. The ankle joint is above and only slightly behind the base of the paw, with a metal round above it that reaches smoothly up to the 'knee' joint. there is a gap allowance for the difference made at the motion of the foot itself and the fixed plate, with some mobile plates on something akin to a sliding rack attached to the front and back of the joint, a mini-joint attaching the plates to the joint that allows a shift in the facing of the plates. The front plates will rotate forward and slide up as the paw folds up toward her leg, and opposite as the paw slides back down, whereas the backside acts likewise. These are relatively flush with the exterior surface, and cover up a series of springs that are high tension and allow a slight bounce as she jumps from high surfaces. The back legs and paws are very similar up to this point, but instead of springs, they contain extra strength hydraulic pumps that allow a significant amount of extra force as the feline form jumps or pounces.
Moving up to the next joint, it has a very similar outside design as the first, but the backside of the plate reaches up and hooks around the joint, delving to the interior of the next plate ever so slightly with a gap between the contact point and the edge, to allow the joint of the next layer of flex plates. Up to this point, both legs are the same, although this point on the back is much shorter than on the front.
Up to the shoulder joint on the front leg is a series of much thicker springs, these holding the flexible energon lines inside of them, a spring-joint plate surrounding the spring which allows flexibility in motion without exposing too much of the interior. The rear leg has one more joint, the connection from joint to joint similar to the first, wheras the hip is almost directly the top of the leg for this. With the strong hydraulics necessary for the rear legs to function properly, the hips on either side leave a relatively narrow area between them, almost entirely dedicated the the leg joint's functionality, the tail coming out of the strip of hip that's left, dedicated as an instrument of balance and a whip-like weapon.
This delves into the frame that is her body, the layer of slithering plates designed in a sliding joint fashion similar to the connection in the legs. The chest and hips of the feline form are the widest part, the connection a slender, flexible round, gradually widening on each edge to connect the body fluidly, the sliding plates shifting just as fluidly. Her neck plates are designed similarly to this, leading to her narrow wedge shaped head. Her jaw holds a very rounded portion that forms the side of her head, a few sliding plates connecting to her chin and sliding into her neck. A couple of sliding plates connect part of her jaw to the upper portion of her head, forming a feline cheek, but can also slide back as her jaw opens wider to reveal a glittering pair of fangs, upper and lower. Her ears are proportionally larger, plates designed to funnel sound into her audio receptors. Her optics are a sharp pointed almond shape, an icy, wintry blue, and the plates above her mouth wedge together to form a delicate nose, the scent receptors sensitive, although her optics and audio receptors are her greatest of the traditional five senses.
She is primarily a shiny silver in coloring, but her teeth and claws are much glassier, much more shiny, almost shimmery and non existent in comparison to the rest. Her optics are a very bright, white-blue in coloring.------------------------------------------------------------------------------YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH
Likes:
- An intelligent conversation
- An interesting challenge
- A nice place to rest
- Time with Firefly and the Trine
- A chance to fly with her master
Dislikes:
- People and bots assuming she's unintelligent
- Not having anything to do
- Being punished for finding something to do
- Being pestered while she's resting
- Getting beat down in a fight
Personality: Starclaw is a cat, and a cat is a cat. It is hard to define the personality of a cat, but whatever untouchable aspect that does define that personality is Starclaw. She is mysterious, energetic at times and sleepy at others, dozing off often but hyper any other time. She is dedicated, and yet behaves in an uncaring, flippant manner at any other time.
Starclaw is often described as being two different people, but in reality, she is dedicated only to Firefly. Others will see her around her master and will see one cat, whilst seeing an entirely different one most any other time. When she is with Firefly, or on a task for her, she is entirely dedicated to that task. She is energetic until the completion of that task, and yet cool, collected, and nearly seemingly emotionally stunted.
Any other time, Starclaw is a creature of emotion, often seemingly depressed, although she is a very sarcastic creature. She will respond to nobody's orders unless it suits her to do so, and she will acts as she wishes. If she wants to chase an earth dog, she will. If she wants to sleep on some bots chest, she will. She doesn't particularly care about what other people think, unless she knows that it would hurt her master to hurt the other bot in any way shape or form. She is, truly, a wild creature of her own whims and graces.
Strengths: Starclaw is a very sneaky, agile best with some very sharp weaponry and a keen mind. She believes in the element of surprise and usually gets it, knowing how to dampen her feline signal and essentially stalk her prey, waiting for the opportune moment to strike, when her prey is alone, and quickly decapitate.
Weaknesses: Starclaw isn't one for a prolonged fight, and can be relatively quickly disabled if she can't surprise an enemy properly. She prefers to run if this is the situation, though she will try to put up a fight for as long as she can - which risks further injury on her part, merely for being stubborn.------------------------------------------------------------------------------THE SKELETONS IN YOUR CLOSET
Family: Firefly (Symbiotic Partner), Firefly's family (Adoptive family, no real relation outside of Firefly), Creators unknown
History: Starclaw's creators were brought to Paradron by a pair of refugees from Cybertron. Upon Starclaw's birth, she was, like many earth pets, given away to a family living in the city of Seekers.
This family was well meaning, but in the energon shortage that overtook Paradron at this point in Paradronian history, they were unable to care for the Cybercat, and she was forced to find her own way. She left, and found life alone hard. When the seekers of the city found a way to run a lasting supply of self purifying energon, a public fountain built into the main building, Starclaw was already desperate, lost and dying. She tried to make her way to the central building, but it was at this time that she gave up.
She was found shortly after by Firefly, who took her in, and, when she was healthy once again, accepted her as a symbiot. Then, eventually, came the fateful day that Firefly fled Paradron. Starclaw went after shortly later, unsure that she was capable of surviving the trip alone, but fully aware that she wouldn't survive if the symbiotic bond was strained by the trip.
It wasn't long before she landed on earth, find her master and her role on the organic planet. After all, humans were fun to mess with.------------------------------------------------------------------------------IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY?
Weaponry: Starclaw has matching sets of sharp, glittering fangs and claws, specifically designed to dig straight through metal - and particularly handy for digging into the energon lines of her opponents, to at least deal some nice damage if she doesn't manage to disable them appropriately. Along with this are four rows all the way around her tail of sharp spikes, good for a handful of uses - including digging into and ripping armor, often dragging weaker armor off of their form.
Extra: Starclaw has a series of fibers through her armor, which, when activated, absorb all light around them, forming a deep shadow for her surface and around her, making her hard to visually pinpoint. By absorbing the light, this system can also create an alternate sight. Because the fibers don't reach into her claws, teeth, or optics, she sometimes has to offline her optics - making this alternate function necessary when her other senses aren't enough to rely on. However, when she wants, she can create mass paranoia in the subjects of her hunt, her eyes and teeth shining when the rest of her is nearly impossible to visually track, almost like the Cheshire cat.------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT MEShe hit the ground hard, but managed not to make a sound as her hydraulic presses absorbed the fall, before silently refilling, the silvery form slowly fading into a black shadow, ducking into a darkened ally, at the same time as her prey walked into view - just enough that the human could see the shadowy form duck around the corner, but not see what it was. The organic creature was already spooked, and messing with her was fun - first the top of the building, now the alley way.
As the human walked by, Starclaw's piercing blue eyes looked at the organic, a low purr emanating as she bared her fangs, the shining optics and teeth the only sign that she was there, before they vanished, her optics offlining, her jaws clamped together. She twitched her tail in anticipation, preparing to jump as hard as she could to the top of the next building, depending on the carbon life-forms next motion.
This was fun, and she could appreciate it - even if it was a little bit cruel.
