Rhapsody
Former commander of the Maximals, she's been with the team since the begining. Created by Catfish
Name: Rhapsody
Faction: Maximal
Status: Functional
Affiliation: Maximal Military
Type: Beast Warrior
Beast Mode: Song bird
Gender: Female
Size: Small
Height: 6 feet
Appearance:
Beast mode: Rhapsody is shaped like a dove but midnight blue and she has a long plumed tail of silver and green feathers. Her chest is a soft green down and her talons silver. Her wings are blue and trimmed with green. She looks tropical though doesn’t seem to match any earthen species of songbird. Her beast mode is probably particular to Endport.
Robot mode: Rhapsody is beautiful, in a delicate sort of way. She is colored a combination midnight blue and silver. The colors are equally dispersed over her body and curl gracefully into each other. The pattern reminds people vaguely of a starlet night sky. Her face is silver and smooth, with softly glowing emerald eyes. Her gaze is steady and speaks of competence, patience, and the ability to kick butt when strictly required. She has a small mouth and high cheekbones, and a gracefully pointed chin.
Large feathered wings sprout from her back, giving her a somewhat angelic appearance. They are blue trimmed green as in beast mode. Her tail feathers sprout from the back of her head giving her a large green and silver pony tail that bobs up and down as she walks. She has a slender, but by no means weak, build. Her arms taper at the elbows such that it looks like she’s wearing very long, silver gloves.
Rhapsody has a subtle sort of charisma that draws people to her and makes them listen to what she has to say. It’s a quiet feeling of understanding and authority that permeates the air around her. She can look at you in a way that leaves no doubt you’re being listened to and a well-placed smile can send morale skyrocketing. She has a drop dead beautiful voice, pure silver. An echo of a melody runs through her words whenever she speaks.
Personality:
Rhapsody is a strong willed woman, it would be a gross mistake to assume weakness from her delicate appearance. She's polite, kind and fairly slow to anger, but when she does get angry LOOK OUT! She’s endlessly practical and keeps her head when under fire and in other, more stressful situations such as dinner parties. Under pressure she turns utterly calm and cool, slipping out into a detached, third person perspective that makes it easy for her to make quick decisions.
Rhapsody has a quiet charisma, a sort of subtle charm that forces respect if not compliance. She’s the kind of person who slides easily into the role of leader, but can work outside of it too. She’s easy to talk to and pleasant to listen to. She has firm opinions about command and ethics. She possesses an extremely open mind and is always willing to listen to complaints or objections. She knows how to pick her battles, when to bend and when to be stubborn, a skill very few on this board have mastered. She’s a born diplomat and far too good at hiding her true feelings. One could almost call it repression. She’s a good judge of people and spotter of lies. She has a healthy amount of respect for everyone, including her enemies.
She likes to be punctual; she likes efficiency and the feeling of getting something done correctly. She’s a workaholic and tends to bring her job everywhere. She finds it absolutely necessary to be useful in some way. She drags datapads with her wherever she goes, even on nights out with Wraith, and work in free moments. She has a lot of trouble relaxing completely. Recent events have done nothing to improve this.
Singing is Rhapsody’s outlet. It’s how she expresses herself and gets rid of tension. She loves doing it and is VERY good. She enjoys performing, but hasn’t had the chance to do that lately. She still practices to keep her voice in shape. Rhapsody prefers diplomacy to fighting, an uncommon sentiment.
Rhapsody admires idealism, perhaps envies it a bit. She used to be an idealist, but believes she lost the level of innocence needed a long time ago. That loss left a hole inside her and she’s been experimenting with different ways to fill it. She believes dreamers are an important part of society. They are the ones who actually believe it can be better. She wishes she was still one of them.
Recently, Rhapsody underwent horrendous mistreatment at the hands of Grapple. She was raped, beaten, and finally released back to the Maximals. Rhapsody is currently an emotional mess, still recovering from her ordeal in imperfect conditions. She is harboring a deep and intense desire for vengeance and is dealing with her pain by diving into her work and responsibilities. Her rape also left her with an aversion to being touched, for any reason, she instinctively responds by forcing the person away. The harder the touch the more extreme and violent the reaction will be.
Statistics
Strength: 4
Speed: 8
Skill: 8
Aim: 8
Intelligence: 9
Discipline: 10
Stamina: 5
Firepower: 6
Luck: 5
Weapons:
Feather Gun: A gun that seems to be carved out of a huge pearl. The metal is a soft “mother of pearl” color striped with black coral, it feels a bit like cold marble. Whatever the color it’s shaped like a normal rifle, and shoots out short volleys of blue and black feathers. These are sharp and made of metal. Being hit by an entire volley is quite painful.
The feathers are infused with a unique drug. It slows down a transformer’s neural net, the more hits a Pred takes, the dumber he gets. Eventually the bot will have trouble even moving and will simply sit down in the middle of combat unable to think of anything else to do. The effect doesn’t last very long unless Rhapsody continually applies the drug. The weapon is stored in a compartment below the wrist shields.
Wrist Shields: Latched around Rhapsody’s wrists are bright green wristwatch like devices. They look like metal flower buds. When she activates them by tapping the center the buds expand into large silver flowers. The flowers extend and spread out until they’re almost flat. When they finish expanding they’re about a foot and a half wide. She uses them to deflect attacks. Melee weapons just bounce off, bullets are deflected, and lasers are redirected to another random location. Rhapsody’s very quick and adept at using them.
Disposable Swords: Rhapsody has four long tail plumes, two blue and two silver. They are located on the back of her head and detach on a mental command to become swords. The fibers tense, blend together, and become very sharp. She knows how to use them, but the blades are of low quality and break or bend easily. So she has replacements. If any one is lost her tail regenerates a feather in beast mode.
History:
Rhapsody works for the Maximal Military and has for most of her life. She flips between being a field agent and being one of the high ups in intelligence. Her past is locked away in secret file drawers but it’s said she was a professional singer before she enlisted. Unfortunately, bots have little appreciation for music in times of war.
While working on another planet Predacons attacked. There was mass panic, but Rhapsody and a few other bots managed to calm the masses and form a functioning resistance that held out until reinforcements came. After the dust settled she was practically drafted into the Military.
A few years ago Rhapsody operated as the commander of a small Maximal Resistance group, fighting against an unlawful Predacon blockade of the planet Gaiana. Though branded an outlaw for her actions, she brought her case to a remarkably disinterested Maximal Council. Rhapsody saw this case to a successful conclusion, but only with some unexpected aid from the Predacon General Blacklight. Though she has not been very active of late, Rhapsody remains a productive member of the Maximal military. The final word on her relationship with former Resistance member Wraith has yet to be said.
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