Name: Tandem
Gender: Female, Very Female
Aliases: Gemini, Dream Grrrl (self-named), That-Royal-Pain-In-The-Skidplate(Ursus-named)
Faction: Maximal
Allegiance: Maximals

Type: Multiform
Beast Form: A vixen and a domestic house cat
Function: Combat Specialist, wearing down Ursus' resistance
Height: 8' (10')
Size: Medium (Large)

Theme Song: "Higher" - Creed
Quote: "Ted~dy! Where are you, darling? Come on, sweetness, and I'll scratch behind your ears!"

Physical Description:

To begin with, Tandem's unique situation must be pointed out. She is a singular intelligence occupying two individual bodies.

-Beast Mode(s): Other than the fact that both forms are as large as great danes, Tandem's two bodies in beast mode are unalike. The vixen is silver-furred and green-eyed, with golden-hued teeth and claws. There is very little overt tech in this form, just minimal gold-hue armor plate along the leg joints and at the shoulders and hips. The cat is gold-furred and blue-eyed, with silver teeth and claws. The tech is slightly more overt silver armor, in the same areas as the other body.

-Robot Mode(s): Tandem's two bodies' transformation colors are a flash of white and gold light. Both resulting forms are classic anthropomorphs of their respective beast modes, with rather eye-popping figures and full heads of hair. The armor has spread to cover a lot more than before, but even then their gender is painfully obvious. Their feet are boot-shaped, and tech up to the knees. Their arms appear gauntleted to the elbow. Coloration of tech and organic same as beast mode forms.

-Tandem Extreme: By focusing her power, Tandem can combine her two bodies into one form. Although she gains no physical stat increases for this, her firepower takes a dramatic jump upwards. However, she cannot maintain this form for long before she must separate and rest. Tandem's extreme form can be described as 'angelic.' Beautiful, with white and gold armor from her shoulders to her feet, and a pair of crimson wings, the individual feathers appearing webbed by circuitry. Long black hair frames a silver oval of a face, with blue-green eyes and aristocratic features.

Strength: 8
Speed: 10
Skill: 8
Stamina: 8
Intelligence: 8
Firepower: 8
Discipline: 6
Aim: 7

Abilities:
-Binary Combat: Tandem's strength and stamina are actually a representation of her combat style. Alone, her individual bodies would each have half those numbers. Together (and they are always together), her two bodies tag-team an opponent. Strikes from one are set-ups for an attack from the other, and vice-versa. Two physical opponents divide up an enemy's concentration and his or her attacks. The end result is as if Tandem's enemy were battling a stronger, more durable opponent.
-Dervish: This is Tandem's combat style in her extreme form. It involves a spinning, rolling, and sweeping nature of attack wherein each move is designed to flow into the next without a loss of power or speed. Once you start, you can't stop until either the enemy falls or you do.

Weapons:
-Bio-Hatchets: Tandem's vixen body has two hand-held technorganic hatchets which 'grow' out from her palms. These are slashing weapons, but they do not appreciably extend her reach, meaning she has to be practically on top of an opponent to deal damage with them. However she can throw them with reasonable accuracy, whereupon they fall apart and she has to 'grow' a new hatchet. Slashing damage is medium, throwing damage is light. In extreme form the hatchets are larger and more ornate, and also does a little more damage
-Felis Daggers: These are Tandem's cat body answer to her vixen body's bio-hatchets.
-Pop: This is a little light that can be generated by either of Tandem's bodies that, well, explodes. It has no real damaging power, but generates enough force to turn an opponent's physical attack. It can also serve as a distractant, providing an opening for Tandem to initiate the unusual combos that mark her unique binary combat fighting style. In extreme form these pops are larger and more distracting, but otherwise no different. Tandem is remarkably facile with her pops in combat, and also seems to enjoy using them to play practical jokes.

Powers:
-Foxfire: Despite the name, either body can generate this effect, but not both at once. With this ability Tandem can 'summon' spheres of dripping green flame and project them at her enemies. The spheres act like napalm, burning at high temperatures and clinging to what it impacts. They do a lot of damage to what they hit, but since they are only about a foot in diameter they don't cover much area. In extreme form they're even more damaging and Tandem can make them much, much larger, but she 'falls apart' even faster if she does.
-Healing Touch: Tandem also has the power to heal damage done to other technorganics, but not to herself. Both bodies can use this ability and at the same time if she chooses. However, it requires a lot of concentration on her part so she cannot 'combat heal.'

Equipment:
-Romance novels: Tandem's addicted to them, unshakably positive that they depict actual relationships, and stubbornly certain that buried within them is the key to making her irresistable to a certain someone.

Personality: Tandem's personality lies on a track between level-headed combat specialist and giggling moonstruck lunatic. Apparently that track is determined by her proximity to, and length of time spent around, Ursus. Although it is undoubtedly ridiculous (Ursus practically coined the term 'brute image,' even if that isn't the way he acts.), Tandem is in that kind of dew-eyed, unequivocal emotional attachment that most people thought could only exist in bad plays by Shakespeare wannabes. This of course annoys the hell out of the object of her impassioned ardor, but not to worry. He'll come around eventually, he just doesn't know it yet.

Outside of her fixation, one can actually hold intelligent conversation with her (wonder of wonders), and her outgoing personality ensures everyone looks the other way in her ongoing campaign to "win my teddy bear" or, Primus help him, actively assist.

History: Tandem's history is rather short and uncomplicated. She was also caught up in Megatron's virus on the original Cybertron/reality that Ursus and a few of the others came from. However, it was there that things went wrong. Tandem already had a cat-vixen fuzor beast mode when the virus hit, so she already had a headstart over most of the others. Drawn like the other survivors to the Oracle, she was reformatted. Instead of becoming a technorganic fuzor, though, for some unknown reason her mixed DNA separated and formed two individual bodies. At first, Tandem suffered from extreme disorientation due to the total amount of input from all five senses coming from two bodies. As a result, the Oracle kept Tandem within the quasi-universe within it in order to protect her. As time went by, the Maximals defeated Megatron and reformatted Cybertron, then were drawn off into an alternate reality, then another, then lost that Cybertron to the Darke Virus and escaped to Earth. By now Tandem had grown used to her unique perspective and desired to follow. While the Matrix, which extended to all realities, had the power to send her, it needed an anchor for her to track on her way to the right reality. It found one in the person of one Dreamwalker, who was experiencing another one of his hibernation phases. The Matrix was pleased, for a Dreamwalker was perfect for this job. Tandem was more than pleased, for she liked the color of his mind (and his extravagant musculature). So it was for this reason that Ursus was forcibly awakened to find a pair of giggling idiots who somehow were one person practically dropped in his lap.



Created By: Darkpitt