Solarflare
The borderline pyromaniac with the spirit of a warrior and lots of girl problems. Created by Deep Metal
Name: Solarflare
Faction: Maximal
Affiliation: Crimson Flames-Commander
Function: Small Group Infiltration Commander
Type: Transmetal 2
Beast Mode: Yellow Finch
Size: 7 feet (medium)
Rank: Squad leader
Transformer Sex: Male
Quote: "I swear I have seen a lot of stuff in my life, but that.. was….. AWSOME!"
Theme Song: Opposite of H20 by Drag-on
Fighting Ability:
Strength: 6
Skill: 7
Speed: 8
Aim: 7
Discipline: 6
Stamina: 8
Intelligence: 7
Fire Power: 8
Luck: 6
Physical Description:
Beast Mode:
Since Solarflare went TM2 he has changed a great deal since Endport. His beast mode is mostly feathers instead metal like his Transmetal form. The only part left on him now that isn't feathers is his peak which is a Shiny gold metal like material and his feet which are the same. The bird stands about 5 feet tall as looks chubby like most small birds. He is all yellow except for black patches over his eyes and some detailing on his rear feathers and the tips of his wings. His wing span is almost as long as he is tall. His beast mode is well designed for smooth and quiet flying.
Robot Mode:
Like his Beast mode Solarflare is a lot more natural looking now in his robot form. He also is taller now topping out at a rough 7feet. His coloring his similar to his beast mode in that he is mostly yellow except for black patches on his face, chestplate and legs. He keeps a brown belt around his waist that keeps his twin repeater pistols. The belt is slightly lopsided and his right gun hangs lower then his right. On his wrist he has two small compartments that store explosives and are accessed by a button on his forearm. He has another brown leather belt around his shoulder that goes around his back and holds a MK-5. His overall appearance is more smooth then his former mode and isn't as jagged. His optics burn a soft yellow that is almost sad looking.
Personality
Solarflare was with the Maximals through the entire resistance and has become more of a hardened solider since the beginning. His expression is a little colder and he is a little harder then before. His overall attitude has changed a lot over the year of the resistance and the two since. He still remains great friends and speaks highly of fellow resistance members, he doesn't respect Newbies anymore and can't stand to be baby-sitting. Other than that he is still as warm and thoughtful as he was to the ones he still knows. He does tend to give females the cold shoulder and doesn't like to get in serious relationships after two incidents he experienced during the resistance. In battle now he is even calmer and calculated. He can formulate battle strategies quickly and pull himself out of tight spots. He has developed the skill of commanding small groups but can't deal with more then 4 or 5. Solarflare does tend to get a bit emotional sometimes in battles that have meaning to him and tend to lose it. His teammates aren't sure if this is a good or bad thing. He tends to eliminate any enemies around him but still remains very angry and violent for a time afterwards.
He still enjoys going out and grabbing a drink with his team. He does tend to stay away from females as he still waits for "her" to return. But he will have a good time and party. He wants to open a weapon shop up again like he had before once he is done with the military or an armed courier business. He has a lot of hopes and dreams for the future and none include the military. He serves only if has his own reasons.
Weapons/Equipment/Abilities:
Weapons:
Repeater Pistols:
Solarflare's trusty sidearm that he never leaves behind. The two guns are both yellow and black but have different color patterns. Both guns operate like automatic handguns as he squeezes the trigger several rounds are fired. Although its fire rate isn't as impressive as normal automatic weapons it still gets the job done. Both do light damage to all bots and fire about 5 shots a second. Both guns are powered by laser packs and can fire 50 times before 5-second recharge. The two guns are trusty and never jam, Solarflare's primary weapon.
MK-5:
Classic Terran engineering with a fast rate of fire and high damage rating. This gun is also yellow black and is a new addition to his arsenal. The MK-5 is an auto fire rifle that can be set to semi as well. It has a laserspot mounted on the top of the gun and a flashlight on the bottom. Solarflare's primary weapon that he uses when he is leading a team or when running an infiltration mission. The gun carries a 50 shot clip packed with hollow point shells. The bullets cause major damage to small bots and can severely injure after prolonged fire. Solarflare's weapon of choice when he needs to hit a little harder.
Explosives
A level 3 explosive that has a blast radius of 12 feet. The two explosives pack a big punch and are good for taking down doors or eliminating a room of enemies. The Explosives are made from a small amount of chemical explosives and have a 6-second delay. The explosives have a safety so Solarflare cannot detonate one when he is the range of it. The explosives will put anything with 5 feet in stasis lock or worse. Solarflare carries 2.
Equipment:
Welding kit:
I small but powerful micro torch that can cut through most metals used for infiltration
Skills:
Scouting
Martial Arts
History
Stealth
Commanding
Infiltration
Transmetal II Power:
Flame Aura-At least that's the name Solarflare has given it. The Flame aura is something that Solarflare can generate around his body. When activated superheated energy that appear as flames form around him and can be projected in different directions in a complete 15 foot sphere. Fire can be concentrated to a 30-foot pillar in a straight direction. The energy itself and melt down most metals and if he is direct contact with a bot, can melt him into a pile of bubbling parts. This power is very dangerous though. Solarflare has special armor to keep himself from melting but after about 15 minutes he too with begin to melt. He needs to cool down for a few minutes between using. Also sometimes the flames will just appear in points of extreme tension. He is still trying to learn how to control his ability but will soon have it mastered.
History:
Solarflare began his career as an arms merchant on Cybertron. He ran small weapons shop and also dealt a little on the illegal side of weaponry. He was never a major player or anything like that but it paid the bills. After a long while in the business Solarflare began to extend a service and opened another weapons shop on Cybertron and began to make more money. One day Solarflare heard of a new kind of weapon being manufactured in the farther rim worlds of Cybertron's influence. He was put into stasis for the trip like many trips he had been on before and placed in a transport pod. But that's when everything changed. Somehow his pod ended up a ship full of Maximals that were involved in some kind of conflict. Solarflare is still unsure of what happened but he does know that he woke up and found the group. Soon after he landed on the small rim world of Giana.
Once there the Maximals discovered the planet was under Predacon control. Solarflare didn't know places like this still existed do to the agreement the two factions had. The planet however was a complete Predacon dictatorship. So once there the Maximals began a bid for the planets freedom and Solarflare began a bid to get home. Once the battles for Endport began the Maximals were involved in a great deal of battles for the freedom of the planet. A few notables include a raid on a science center, a horrific space battle in which the Maximals single handily took out a large Predacon blockade around the Planet. The Maximals also assassinated the Predacon commander on the planet during a bid to escape the planet. During the battles though the team was betrayed by their own government and were noted as anarchist mostly because if a great deal of treachery from the Triped council. After even a prison break the Maximals manage to escape the planet seeing as they were not making any headway. The group headed back to Cybertron and took their argument all the way to the Maximal Council of Elders. After a bitter trial the truth came out and Cidicon, the mastermind of the Endport blockade and other schemes, was found guilty.
Once he fell in with the "Resistance" he met many Maximals just like him but a few stood out. The first was the resistance Commander Rhapsody. The beautiful songbird that didn't appear to be a commander. Rhapsody went on to eventually free Endport and expose a huge Predacon conspiracy. Another bunch was Corvus, Slam and Spyder, these three were the first people he met of the resistance and his best friends during most of the ordeal. However the trio got lost in the shuffle of one of the final battles and their whereabouts are still unknown. On Endport he also met a young femme named Nocturna. The two became best of friends always watched each other's back. The two became closer and closer but their true feelings were never expressed. One day however the Maximals were attempting to re-enter Endport after fleeing earlier. During a battle with a Predacon assault force Nocturna was fatally injured and then and only then did her true feelings come out. Solarflare watched as the bat bot died in his arms and told him how she felt. Solarflare was grief stricken for several days by the loss as was Corvus.
Solarflare found the strength to carry on and did so vowing to always help the resistance. However that would soon be challenged. A little later on he met a courier that had joined the resistance by default named Switchblade. The two became friends and watched out for each other in tough situations. Much to Solarflare's own dismay however he began to fall in love with the courier. He tried to fight his emotions because he didn't want to fall in love with someone he could lose again. The more he tried however the more he loved her and began to protect and stick by her while she was none the wiser. Switchblade had been on her own for a long time and had closed herself off from a lot of feelings. The two grew as friends but when Solarflare finally told her it was far from planned. The badger shut herself off from Solarflare temporally confused by his emotion and her own. The two came to terms however and parted as friends, switchblade promising to return one day. Solarflare waits for that day.
After the resistance Solarflare stayed in the military for reasons unknown. After being decorated for his service to the Maximals he was given a small Unit called the Crimson Flames. Solarflare led the small team of mostly fire-associated team to many successful missions on Black ops and secret Operations. After about a year in service Solarflare was offered a Transmetal upgrade and took it. Now Solarflare still commands his unit but would drop anything for two things, The resistance and Switchblade. He has only seen switchblade twice in the past two years. Once without her noticing and once were all they managed was a simple "hello." Before they were both separated by business.
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