Type: Multiform Technoorganic
Beast Mode: Beast Plant
Alternate Mode: Mound & Grass
Function: Field Biologist & Political Advisor

Height: 9'
Size: Medium

Theme Song: "There is Hope" - The Crystal Method
Quote: "I'm itchy. No, no, no... I meant... No, I'm not scratchy either... I meant that if you touch me like this... NOT IN THAT WAY... Get your mind out of the gutter... There is a clear fluid on me that I secrete that.... Not that type of fluid... I said get your mind out of the gutter... The fluid causes rashes and rash-like pain... Ah, darnit see what you did to yourself... Touching me before I explained... STOP LAUGHING... I am surrounded by friggen idiots."

Physical Description:
-Beast Mode: The overall torso shape of the Beast Plant Mode is similar to a tiger or a lion; that goes for the shape of the legs. The shape of the four feet are similar to a meat eating carnivores like T-Rex, Allosaurus, and Carnosaurus; the feet are large, built for maneuverability, built for strength, built to cope with most terrains, and have the three large claw look. There is a tail that seems almost rodent or opossum like which half way down the tail splits into two ends. The mode's neck is similar in shape of the tail before it splits except that the neck is not as long and is almost twice as thick. The neck leads to a strange head. The head is shaped like the fly catching part of a Venus Fly trap; the prongs normally found on Venus Fly Traps though are shaped like extremely long shark teeth on this head and like sharks there are multiple rows of teeth ready to fill in for lost ones. In the head, there is a huge mandible, thick, forked tongue; on the head, there are two rows of three spider like eyes. The entire mode looks like it is made of tree bark. On the mode, there is metallic green striping and patches of what looks like moss and algae that form a spot pattern similar to the spot pattern on Dalmatians. In additional, scattered all over the mode there are what look like metallic green pebbles.

To transform into this mode from robot mode, Cren gets himself into a position where his primary arms are down on the ground and his minor arms are wrapped. Vine-like tentacles grow all around his body and tightly wrap around him and making the body shaped like it is in the Beast Plant mode. The parts and outer layer of the Beast Plant mode not present grow from the vine-like tentacles that have tightly wound around. All of this is accompanied by a brilliant yellowish green light.
To transform into this mode from mound & grass mode, the grass square patch of grass around the central mound retracts around the mound. The mound takes the shape of the Beast Plant mode as what was left of the square patch of grass is absorbed into the Beast Plant mode's form.

-Alternate Mode: In this mode, Cren appears as a 9' x 9' square patch of grass with a mound in the center. The mound looks sort of like a boulder covered in moss and algae. If one was to look closely at the grass, it looks as if metallic green pebbles were scattered all throughout the grass. Depending on if Cren wills them to grow, there may be vine-like tentacles at any point of the form.
To transform into this mode, Cren balls himself into a mass on the ground from either his Beast Plant or Robot mode. His "skin" spreads out around him to form a 9' x 9' square while what seems to be grass grows.

-Robot Mode: This is a rather weird robot mode; I guess I'll start from the bottom and work my way up. First note is that the robot mode is humanoid, typical of robot mode. The two feet of the mode look as if made out of tree bark. The shape of the feet are similar to a meat eating carnivores like T-Rex, Allosaurus, and Carnosaurus; the feet are large, built for maneuverability, built for strength, built to cope with most terrains, and have the three large claw look.

The shins of the mode seem like a collection of metallic green shocks from vehicles wrapped with armoring and wiring. The shins lead to where humans would have calve muscles; the mode has calve muscle shaped bulk that seems to be made of moss and algae. That leads to the knees that have metallic green mechanical joint construction. That leads to the thigh regions which are shaped like human thigh regions, but they look like they are made out of tree bark. This appearance of being made of and covered by tree bark continues into the humanoid pelvic region which does have a bulge in the appropriate place. Above the pelvic region is a strange abdominal region. There is strange metallic green mechanical system that looks primarily made out of shocks from vehicles with a bit of armored wiring through out; this type of abdominal system allows for upper body movement around 210 degrees either way sideways. The pectoral region above the abdominal region is slightly shaped like a humanoid pectoral region; however, the region is extremely bulked up. The robot mode has no head, unusual for Cybertronians, rather the robot mode has a protrusion sticking out where a head should be. The protrusion is shaped like the front part of an anvil; the protrusion could split in half opening up to let a folded computer screen come out being held by metallic green bar mechanisms. The backing of the screen is a metallic green while the actual face of the screen is black. This becomes a way for Cren to express a face; a neon green simple three dimensional interpretation of an adult human face forms from a digitalized grid on the computer screen.

No, I didn't forget the arms. The robot mode has two primary arms with two minor arms that wrap, in a circle, around the armpit and upper arm-shoulder region. The primary right arm has a basic construction that looks like a metallic green bulkier version of the cyborg endoskeletons of the killer cyborgs from the Terminator movies. The primary right arm has muscle shaped bulky masses around where main arm muscle regions on humans would be; the bulky masses look like they are made of weaving of tree bark, moss, and algae. The primary left arm is just like the primary right arm except for around the forearm and hand region. Where the forearm of primary left arm region should be, there is a long, metallic green block with mechanisms all over it, and it ends with what looks like a metallic green spiked bowling ball. On top of the block forearm, there is a metallic green small version of a rotating machine gun. The minor right arm is shaped exactly like a smaller version of the primary right arm except for the hand; the hand of the minor right arm is shaped like a cylinder with three finger like prongs and an open center. The minor left arm is shaped exactly like the minor right arm except for the hand and wrist; the hand of the minor left arm is shaped like the end of the large, bulky pliers with a wrist mechanism that allows it to rotate continuously. In additional, scattered all over the mode there are what look like metallic green pebbles.

Personality: Cren was raised in very hard conditions and worked hard to be able to live a better life. Cren takes very little for granted. Cren works hard and believes others should. Cren is not a guy you would party with; he focuses on duty and discipline. Cren is intelligent, but he is intelligent from studying and working hard rather than inherited genius. Cren is older than most Maximals around considering he was born an Autobot; that age provides, in itself, an amazing amount of experience in countless situations. Cren even acts like an old man; he could wander off into an old story of his. As a result from tragic experiences at the hands of Megatron, Cren is still a bit cold inside, but he will do everything in his power to prevent another Megatron from taking over things.
Cren has leadership potential and is an excellent advisor; however, he does not like the spotlight. He is happy just advising and stepping back to let someone else lead.

Specialties:
Cren is an expert in overall biology; however, he specializes in the fields of botany, cellular biology, microbiology, & pathology/virology/parasitology [those 3 are linked]. His strongest field of biology would be botany.
Cren is an old geezer from the perspective of a lot of Maximals, that age brings with it an incredible amount of experience. Cren, as a result of this experience, gives excellent sound advice especially in political situations.

Strength: 10
Speed: 5
Skill: 6
Discipline: 10
Stamina: 6
Intelligence: 10
Aim: 10
Firepower: 6

Abilities:
-Photon Reception: At any point of Cren's body, Cren can absorb photons from light striking him. This is used as a method of getting energy rather than consuming energon; however, he can still consume energon. If Cren uses this ability to full extent and all over his body, it makes it appear as the air around him suddenly darkened a bit. Cren would only be using this ability to full extent if he needed to regenerate a severe wound or missing limb.
-Seed Touch: (Robot Mode) At the tips of Cren's fingers, he can secrete super-accelerative goo. When Cren takes some of the metallic green pebble seeds all over his body and applies enough goo to coat the seeds, the seeds grow at a very fast rate into technoorganic tentacles. The goo acts as a catalyst trigger to super-accelerate the metabolic rate of seeds. The tentacles are pretty weak; medium strength bots can tear through them. The tentacles do keep any bot a bay for a little... well with bots 9-10 strength, it probably would only be a matter of seconds. The tentacles have a nasty habit of getting into gears of techno bots; they do not cause any bad damage, but they do make it harder to move and would bring an 8-10 speed techno bot down to normal to low speed.

Weaponry:
-Poison Skin: (All Modes) At any point on Cren's body, Cren can secret a clear fluid that acts sort of like poison ivy does on humans. It will cause itching, rash-like pains on technological bots that have pain receptors by influencing their pain receptors. It will actually cause rashes on technoorganic and partially organic bots.
-Hammer Hand: (Robot Mode) On the end of the long block like forearm of Cren's primary left arm, there is a metallic green spiked bowling ball shaped end. The end can be thrusted forward by two thick metallic green bars with amazing strength. The end remains attached to the bars, and the bars remain attached to the long block like forearm. It is not projectile. It is used like a hammer almost, for pounding. It is made of a superdense, primarily tech technoorganic material thats comparable to transmetal but quite a bit weaker.
-Chain Gun: (Robot Mode) The small version of a chain gun on Cren's primary left arm fires metallic green bullets. Each bullet is made of a superdense, primarily tech technoorganic material thats comparable to transmetal but quite a bit weaker. The bullets cause very small open gashes on medium armors. These gashes are annoying and extremely painful, but they are not life threatening. Enough gashes in say a particular part of a limb like a forearm would render the part useless and immobile until healed or regrown. The rate of fire is around 700 rounds a minute, approx. the cyclic rate of a Thompson Submachine Gun aka a Tommy Gun. Whenever it is fired, the arm of which the chain gun is on flinches backward at first.

Powers:
-Regeneration: (All Modes) Like plants, with enough light, soil/metal/minerals, and water, Cren can regenerate parts of his body. Unlike plants, Cren has a much faster, technoorganic, metabolism assisted by a spark that allows his regeneration to be incredibly faster than a plant's. It does take a bit out of Cren to regenerate whole limbs and two days worth of time; it takes about another day for Cren to even entirely adjusted to the new limb after it has been fully regrown.
*In a technoorganic enviroment, it may be up to a day shorter since he doesn't have to process the soil/metal/minerals materials as much.

Equipment:
-Laser Hand: (Robot Mode) The opening of the cylindrical hand on Cren's minor right arm can fire a industrial type basic laser that is used for precision cutting; it can also be switched to a lesser power to be used to target things. The laser is used primarily for cutting samples to be collected.
-Specimen Bin: (Robot Mode) Cren's specimen bin is a technoorganic bucket shaped container that has an airtight lid. The specimen bin has ten chambers that have enough space to fit a small human child's fist. The specimen bin is meant to collect samples, and it is stored in subspace.

History: Cren was born to an Autobot, Revron, and a former Decepticon, Naurice, both working in the Autobot working caste. Autobots and Decepticons were still the dominant factions at time of Cren's birth, but the Biological Movement already was working its way into the higher ranks of the Autobot and Decepticon governments. Cren grew up in poor conditions. His parents had a two floor apartment in at the bottom of an aged city building at the outskirts of Cybertron City. He was the thirteenth of seventeen children living with parents, grandparents, and one great grandfather. All of those in his family who were old enough worked in hard labor. Cren was neglected, poorly fed energon, and only felt comfortable around his great grandfather, Byrus. Byrus told Cren long stories about grand days fighting the Decepticons and how he was a general. Cren was inspired by these stories.

Cren worked diligently in school and put out the utmost effort so he could go to a good institute of learning. Cren received a number of scholarships, but he almost did not have enough money to go to the Primus Institute in Autobot City on Earth. Byrus, Cren's great grandfather, had been saving money for countless solar cycles for an emergency; that money, Byrus gave to Cren to go to the Primus Institute. Byrus was proud that someone in his family would escape the cycle of labor.
Cren studied in all fields of biology that could. Cren had six majors of study and four minors. Some days, Cren had classes morning through night. When he actually had free time, he mostly studied. For over sixteen solar cycles, Cren attended the Primus Institute. Cren emerged a doctor in several fields of study. He was considered one of highest experts on Cybertron in biology and the top expert of botany on both Earth and Cybertron. With the Biological Movement in action, his skills were in need. Cren was quickly rushed into careers within the Autobot government. While he had a career within the government, Cren decided he wanted to teach as well. Cren became a professor at the Cybertronian Institute in Cybertron City. Cren taught only the advanced classes of botany and microbiology there, but he influenced the entire biology department. Most of the programs in biology there were redesigned by Cren.

Cren's career in the Autobot government was more noticed; there, he designed the first type of DNA sequencer that would be later employed in stasis pods and in Maximals. With a strong following in the peoples behind the Biological Movement, Cren was elected into the Autobot High Council due to his solid background in biology. Cren spent many solar cycles teaching in the Cybertronian Institute and representing in the Autobot High Council. Eventually, the Autobots and Decepticons faded away due to the Biological Movement. The Maximals and Predacons emerged as the dominant factions. As with most Cybertronians, Cren had himself rebuilt into a Maximal. The Autobot High Council became the Maximal Council of Elders. In the Maximal Council of Elders, Cren was the advisor to the chairman. Cren spent many solar cycles there while still teaching until around the time Megatron released a virus across Cybertron. Cren could partially be held responsible for the virus that was released across Cybertron. Cren designed the basic form of the virus. Cren was creating the virus for the Maximal government to be used against the Tri-Predacus Council threat. Megatron repeatedly broke into Cren's labs; Megatron altered the virus Cren designed to do his own will. Megatron needed a test subject to try his finished product, so he chose the next person to enter the labs. That person was Cren. Cren was put into stasis lock. Using stolen spark experimentation equipment from a nearby government lab, Megatron extracted and contained Cren's spark. Cren became Megatron's first victim.

From then on, every spark experiment Megatron performed was tested using Cren's spark first. Cren's spark was mutilated, powered, drained, twisted, altered, and played with to satisfy Megatron's curiosity. Cren's spark was even used to test prototype Vehicon and Tricon bodies in time. Of course, that ended when the Neobiotics came. Cren thought of them as saviors for taking him away from Megatron's tortures. He was not free from being contained, but he was no longer in pain. Cren was happy to exist this way until a Tricon disturbed the place on the Neobiotic where he was being stored. The Tricon explained that he needed help to stop a new horrible Tricon leader. Cren refused to help the Tricon since he knew the Tricon had the potential to become another Megatron. Later on, Cren realized that the new Tricon leader could be far worse than Megatron; he did not want to be the one that allowed that to happen. Cren left the place where he was being contained on the Neobiotic ship; this was possible since the Tricon before had weakened the storage place. Using technoorganic matter from the Neobiotic ship, moss, algae, and grass tracked in by the boots of shoulders, Cren's spark formed a body.

Created By: Zevais