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Scorponok 2/4
Scorponok is a minion. Since he had been protoformed, he’d been in the lower denomination of Predacon society, and that, to be honest, was the way he liked it. It was simple, clean, and he knew exactly where he belonged. The job of ‘master/leader/boss’ is currently held by Megatron, and Scorponok is slavishly loyal to him. Anyone who dares to imply that Megatron might not be the best leader to due to an attack from him, as if he let that go, then what use would he be?
Most of the time, he represses his own thoughts on Megatron, if they don’t’ fit what he thinks of as fitting how he should be thinking about Megatron. These days, without Dinobot there to shield him from the full brunt of Megatron’s anger, these thoughts are coming far more often then he likes, and he finds himself spending more and more time repressing and redirecting his thoughts and anger at Megatron. He spends time with Inferno as a sort of penitence tool- if he thinks poorly of one of Megatron’s plans, or is tempted to snark back at him, then he spends time with the ant in order to get his mind back in the proper mindset.
That said, he doesn’t bow down to everyone. He has a backbone, he just only shows it when Megatron isn’t there. He’s inclined to snarl and snark at his teammates, and he delights in shooting the Maximals, not just because he knows it brings him scant favor in Megatron’s eyes. He’s a low level sadist, and he delights in seeing his enemies cower before him. Unfortunately, he’s also a coward, and isn’t all that good at fighting. He has drones that he’s programmed, his Cyberbees, and he dotes over them, always trying to upgrade them- all in the plan to be more worthy of Megatron’s favor, of course. The problem is, he’s more than a little inept at programming AIs, and his nanotoxins don’t always do what he plans. Most of the time, they backfire on him, which just makes him all the more determined to do better next time. As such, he’s a workaholic, and he tends to forget to recharge and fuel up, which just adds to his inability at times, not that he ever connects the dots.
He’s insecure about his position as 2IC and it shows. He is always trying to push his will on his teammates, and in response, they react with distain, as the only reason he got the rank was because he was the only loyal one of Megatron’s minions. He hates the thought of anyone betraying Megatron, and has been known to attack his own teammates at the implication that they were disloyal.
Scorponok 4/4
Another of my drones was broken today. Not all that different from any other fight- but this time it was shot down by fragging Terrorsaur! He claims it looked suspicious, but it was a fragging cyberbee! None of the animals on the primus damned world looks like this, and he can’t even claim that he thought it was a Maximal, as none of them fly, other than Primal.
And a cyberbee and a monkey in a jetpack look nothing alike.
He has to be doing this on purpose. He just wants to get my job, get that power. I won’t let him, the defective glitch. I had been planning on overhauling this one anyway.
Scorponok out.
Third Person:
Scorponok’s optic band was on, his attention evidently riveted on the fight before him, but in truth he wasn’t seeing the fight in the slightest. He had learned this trick stellar cycles ago, how to seemingly be seeing whatever’s in front of you, but blocking the signal from his optic band before it hits his processor. It shamed him, to have to fall so low as to be using this trick, but it was better than the alternative, better than seeing the sheer damage Megatron was dealing out on his second in command.
Unable to pay attention to the fight in front of him, he turned his remaining senses on the bots next to him. Terrorsaur to his left, he was the only one who bothered to use that particular scented polish. Beyond Terrorsaur was most likely Waspinator, the Terrorsaur’s trinemate. He could hear faint buzzing, as if the glitched mech was talking to himself lowly. On his other side was, by process of elimination, Jigsaw, the only medic that had remained with them this long. Jigsaw had been in the command room for his latest status report on the health of their troops when the fight had broken out. From the slight movements in the air, the medic was flinching slightly with each blow. This must be his first time, seeing this sight. Dimly, Scorponok hoped that this wouldn’t be what ended up driving him off, although the CR chambers would repair the damage just as well as a medic would, they used more energy, and took far longer.
A particularly loud crash and crunch signified the end of the fight, and Scorponok reactivated the flow of information. Dinobot laid next to the wall, looking like he was trying to gather the energy to sit up, to get himself to the CRs. He looked no worse than he usually did, and, in fact, looked somewhat better than he usually did after these sessions, Megatron must have been feeling lenient. Jigsaw hesitated next to Scorponok, looking between Dinobot and Megatron, and then started to move slowly towards Dinobot. Megatron didn’t seem to notice, and Scorponok turned away from the scene entirely, turning his attention back to the machine he had been fixing.
Such was life in Megatron’s base, and Dinobot had been asking for it with that comment, anyway.
Scorponok 3/4 Out of order for... some reason.
Scorponok’s alt is that of a scorpion. As such, his exterior texture varies between that of smooth metal and pseodochitin.
His Cyberbee is hosted in one of the hookup links in either of his claws, while the other one hosts his missiles. These are interchangeable.
He has been able to shoot a toxin from his tail, although, as it was only the once, it evidently is a difficult feat, and most likely uses up much of his fuel, as well as the neurotoxin being slow to accumulate.
His opticband is yellow, except when it isn’t. When it isn’t. it has been either red or purple. It is unclear as to why it changes, although red seems to be the color for when he uses infrared vision.
His Predacon insignia is on the circular bit of decoration on his chest.
When he’s under a lot of stress, he falls into third person. This level of stress is fairly well defined as ‘being trapped in a half collapsed ship without protection against a cannibal who would love nothing more than to eat him’.
When he does remember to refuel, he claims to prefer energon, but he secretly enjoys the hunt for live prey, and he has nothing against using his fuel converter to eat the meat he catches. In fact, he takes no small amount of joy in taking out his buried anger on something that can’t fight back.
* Protoformed: When a mech is ‘protoformed’ it means that a blank protoform, a non-sentient or sapient robot is implanted with a spark** and the files needed for the job they were protoformed to do. In this case, he had the basic knowledge files as well as basic maintenance files, such as how to clean and repair the grounds and machines in the particular factory. There are other methods of creating a Cybertronian, such as ‘sparking’ one, but this is the most common method, as this one creates a fully grown mech, rather than one that needs to grow mentally and emotionally, as sparking would.
**Spark: The ‘soul’ of the Cybertronians. Resides in the spark chamber in the middle of the Cybertronian chest, takes the form of a glowing ball of energy.
Additional Links:
Picspam of Scorponok photos (”http://technokalissues.livejournal.com/1697.html”)
Animation of a Spark (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Spark.gif”)
Beast Wars Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Wars_%28cartoon%29”)
Predacon Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28BW%29”)
Scorponok Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_%28BW%29”) - This page addresses all of the medias that Scorponok appears in, while I’m only using the cartoon. As thus, some of the characterizations mentioned there may not be accurate.
Units of time as used by the Beast Wars continuity (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Units_of_time/Continuity#Beast_Wars_.26_Beast_Machines_cartoon”)
A description of the type of manipulation used by Megatron on his subordinants (”http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html”)
Video of Megatron clips, showing his charisma and god complex (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWWXw5SMIP0”)
Clip of Scorponok being… wibbly, I suppose. (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9lTo7ahSs”)
More clips of Scorponok (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVyRiMyL_0&NR=1”)
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