Derby.

Ah, now here's where the fancharas get strange. Derby was an arrogant, haughty, elitist young mech at the Science Academy with his 'brother', Combine. Slight spoiler warning - don't read this yet if you haven't read, or are planning to read 'Meetings'. It'll spoil the ending. Right? Ready to carry on? Ok then. Derby's creator bodged the job - when the two were created something wasn't right in their cranial make-up. Throughout his short life so far Derby had been going silently doolally, so imperceptably that neither he nor anyone else noticed it. The same thing will happen to Combine in time, but Derby fell first - in spectacular fashion. He adopted the base principles of the Converter cult, but twisted them in his own mind until he became convinced that Decepticons - or those that he thought were Decepticons - had to suffer or be driven out to preserve the balance of the universe as we know it. However when he picked out a young seeker-model in the Academy, he didn't count on Starscream's tenacity, and the refusal of the young flier to lay down and die helped drive him over the edge. Even when he was vaguely sane, though, he was still a nasty piece of work, and intelligent enough to be spiteful and manipulative even at a cost to himself. Derby was a long-haul planner, but now he's a raving lunatic in an asylum somewhere. Not many people feel too sorry for him, though. I do still feel a bit guilty about it, but it doesn't exactly keep me awake at night either.

Info on the nasty, scheming scumbag. Er...I mean,stuff about Derby.

• His brother's Combine. They're actually not twins, just sparked at the same time. Derby relies on Combine for support, just being there, and Combine relies on Derby to deal with people and the random factors in life that Combine can't deal with. It's not healthy, I tell you...
• A Derby is a gun, or - if you pronounce it the right way, Dar-bie - a horse race.
• He wasn't named for ages, as I couldn't think what to call him. Thanks go out to Prof Wayzegoose for coming up with these and other suggestions I didn't like before striking gold ^_^

Done with the madness? Fair enough...

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