App (The Box): Starscream || Transformers Prime

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Character Information

Character Name: Starscream

Canon: Transformers Prime

Canon Point: Post "Rock Bottom" (S1/Ep 19)

Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive!

History: His wiki article is actually a pretty expansive!

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(WFC)#Prime_comic

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(WFC)#Prime_cartoon

Personality: The most defining characteristics of Starscream include a ridiculously insatiable ambition and an ego even larger than the known universe. He's shrewd, and unexpectedly adept at reading and manipulating people (knowing where and when to assert his authority and brown nose relentlessly depending on the situation).

His boundless ego and confidence mask something of a rather fragile self esteem; vanity is his worst vice and he does not respond well to not being taken seriously or the notion that he's not as good as he thinks he is. He is prone to flying off the handle when harassed regarding his authority as second in command, or regarding his constant attempts at trying to reach above his position. The canon examples of this are numerous: at one point in the intro mini series, when another character cheekily suggests that he’d like to speak with a superior, Starscream responds by essentially throwing a miniature tantrum, asserting that he is the one calling the shots in that scenario. He displays a similar reaction whenever he is referred to as “Commander” instead of “Lord” during the brief amount of time in which he was actually in charge of the Decepticons while Megatron was unable to command.

In his own twisted little mind, everything is Starscream's by right; he was accustomed to great privilege back on Cybertron (he tends to fling his former status as an air commander back on Cybertron around in particular, at one point using that tactic to try and get Airachnid to respect him. Unsurprisingly this doesn’t really have the intended effect), so he automatically considers most other beings beneath him; usually a firm display of force is the only thing direct enough to make him reconsider this position. When that does happen, he switches channels between authoritative and simpering with ridiculous ease, since at the core he is actually a gigantic coward. As soon as Starscream has calculated that a plan is going south, he is almost always the first to jump ship in an attempt to save his own skin.

There is no person his inherent sycophancy comes into play with more than Megatron, his liege and master. Once upon a time Starscream respected the old bot, but years and years of war have changed things and Starscream now sees him as unhinged and unfit to rule. It is his constant, unyielding goal to seize power from Megatron, but so far all he’s proven is that he lacks the subtlety and foresight to actually pull it off, being particularly inept at hiding his true intentions and often prone to panicking when the slightest thing goes awry. More often than not his power grabs leave him wounded and begging for mercy.

In summary, the number one most pathetic thing this robot is that he has the combat skill and the mental capacity to be an effective and truly frightening foe…… but this is completely overshadowed by the worst personality imaginable.

Items on your character at canon point: Not much. He generally comes equipped with missiles on his arms, and everything else is just naturally built into his anatomy.

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

Being a LARGE ALIEN ROBOT, he has a few notable physical abilities. Like most of his kind, he can transform:

Jet mode: Missile launchers, wing mounted guns, flight and speed.

Robot mode:

• Melee combat capability (he’s actually fairly adept hand to hand)

• ridiculously sharp talons that he’s fond of plunging into other people’s chest cavities with

• null ray blasters

• energon weapons

• wrist mounted rocket launchers

• robot strength…? (This one is circumstantial, he’s definitely strong enough to overpower your average organic but certain supernatural entities and other robots would more than likely give him some trouble)

Strengths: Sucking up to people to get what he wants, lying (to an extent, as long as he’s keeping his cool), being extremely melodramatic and playing people’s perceptions of himself for the purpose of deceit and backstabbing.

Weaknesses: Cowardice is a big one. He’s also prone to panicking really easily, which isn’t exactly a helpful trait to have when you’re trying to play criminal mastermind. Easily goaded when it comes to matters that are damaging to his exceptionally fragile ego (which really, anything that falls under the category of questioning his authority will do the trick).

Samples

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Prose Log Sample:

 

You would think that maybe just once, they could pull off a mission without running into any obstacles. But no, every single time, without fail, something would inevitably get in the way. This time it was sentient plants, of all things.

For his part, Starscream was doing a fair bit of fancy flying. He was completely in his element , rolling and weaving through the writhing mass with admirable agility (if there was one thing he excelled at it was avoidance). Unfortunately, his weapons weren't making much of a dent on the vegetation, the vines being too quick and numerous to risk wasting a null missile on. They were going to need to attack the source of this if they were going to make any progress.

He started to voice this observation to Megatron as he did a particularly spectacular roll and then blasted directly upwards, only to find that he could not locate him.... Starscream skimmed the hideously wriggling jungle below and caught sight of Megatron just in time to see him snagged and pulled under.

For a moment, he was utterly thrilled. He couldn't have asked for a better outcome to this little field trip, to be frank. One hard bank back in the direction that they had come from and he could return as a somber heir to the position of power that he had always dreamt of, had always deserved.

But it was too easy, he realized with disgust. Not even just in regards to his own lofty ambitions of taking down the old warlord himself, but from a logical standpoint. No matter how dire things looked, Megatron would find his way out of there (Starscream had seen him escape from far worse, after all), and when he did, he would let Starscream have it. Besides which, there was a part of him that still respected Megatron too much to simply let him be ripped apart by plants of all things, he supposed.

No, it was safer to assist, he conceded, and with an exasperated yell he streaked downwards, fury overriding self-preservation. Firearms weren't going to cut it-- but he did have something in his arsenal that would. He transformed and landed hard on top of Megatron's ensnared jet mode (he smirked a little bit at that), his claws unfurled as he began to slash violently at the attacking plants.