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[wreckandrotors]

Player Information
*Name/Alias: HK
*Your Journal: hellkitty 
*Age: OLDER YET
*Contact Information: AIM: hellkittyclaws or ceruleancat on Plurk
*Characters already in the game: IDW Drift, IDW Whirl


Character Information
*Character Name: Springer
*Character Canon: Transformers G1
*Age: Middling. He’s not as young/wild as Hot Rod, but he’s no Optimus or Kup.
*Race: Cybertronian
*Timeline/Pull Point: End of Dweller in the Depths: they are attempting to install a new power core and stumble across Decepticons fighting off the Trans-Organics (aka Lame Quintesson revenge plot number 453), including the massive tentacle-worm Dweller that turns Wreck-Gar into a sort of vampire, and turns Springer, too, into one, until Perceptor saves the day by doing a science where they all hold hands then they jettison the power core and Dweller into space (because Perceptor apparently always builds these sorts of doomsday switches in his sciences) where it finds its Twu Wub, the Quintesson ship.  This summary is more coherent than the episode.

*History: He’s got better things to do tonight than recite the whole wiki entry
NONETHELESS: important moments:

(TFTM) Springer is there during the attack on Autobot City in 2005, though he's not present when Optimus dies.  He is also in the party that ends on the planet Junk that is getting assaulted by Junkions until Hot Rod and the others from Quintessa arrive and befriend the Junkions with the universal greeting and then participates in the assault on Unicron.

(Five Faces of Darkness) Highlights! Springer douses the sabotaged torch at the obviously-Fauxlympic Games, ditching Rodimus to try to hunt down the kidnappers who have snatched Kup, Ultra Magnus and Spike.  Arcee accompanies him and they get snatched up by a Skuxxoid Rockeroid spacecraft, interrogating (sorta) the mercenary who tries to convince them the Decepticons are behind the whole thing.  He pilots the Rockeroid to Chaar in time to rescue Rodimus and Grimlock from being beaten to death by starving Decepticons. Rodimus tries to pass the Matrix onto him, but uh, no thanks. Springer refuses. Rodimus has a spiritual moment that informs him it's the Quintessons behind the whole thing, not the 'cons at all. He helps rescue the kidnappees from Quintessa, just before the evil Quints blow it up on them, but the rescue is a bit Not As Planned (not that Springer is much into planning) and they end up literally stuck on Goo. Springer gets sucked into the sweeping machine and disassembled, until Wreck-Gar uses his Mad Junkion Skills to repair Springer. So, yeah, that was fun.

And right after that, he learns NEVER to put ideas in Rodimus's head, sparking the idiot to short circuit himself to take another mystical woo woo trip (slightly less painfully animated) into the Matrix to learn the history of Transformers. And then they all go and rescue Cybertron from the evil Quintessons. Again. 

(Dark Awakening). So. The Quintessons have a plot. *surprise!!!* They've rigged up Optimus's body in the mausoleum, to be a semi-zombie that will lead all the Autobots into a trap. And just waited. And waited. And waited for the right moment, for, say a bunch of Autobots to be chased there. Evil!Optimus reports that Rodimus, Arcee, Kup, and Spike and Daniel have been killed and Springer vows revenge...especially  for Arcee. The trick is revealed, and all is returned to normal, including Rodimus with the Matrix again and Optimus boldly rides the ship into the trap saving them all and then....not really dying again.

(Fight or Flee) Springer joins Rodimus and the others to help Sandstorm try to free Paradron--the beautiful paradise planet founded by refugees from the  fourth great war (sort of like Wing's new Crystal City) from the clutches of the Decepticons. Apparently 'free' here means 'blow it to bits and admire the destruction'. Springer does his thing and watches with the others while it is destroyed.  

(Nightmare Planet) Springer is among the group hijacked by the Quintessons--AGAIN--and subject to their latest Ebil Plot: to harness young Daniel's imagination to conjure up horrible monsters to defeat Transformers. Of course the Power of Human Imagination proves too great for the Quintessons to restrain (lol) and it all goes wrong, but in the interim, Springer acts like a completely brainless, I mean, chivalric knight, proving that he has an irresistible weakness for the color pink.

(Dweller in the Depths)  Oh look yet another Evil Quintesson Plot. This time to unleash the hideous Trans Organics, especially the Dweller, a giant tentacle worm that likes to collect energy. It gets Wreck-Gar, graying him out and stowing him in its backpack (for doubtless nefarious purposes) and Springer rushes at him determined to rescue the Junkion, only to be attacked by Zombie/Vampire Wreck-Gar, becoming a zompire himself, and going "Grarrrr" a lot until Perceptor sciences the zompire out of him.  That is probably the most he talks in any episode.

*Personality:

What do you do when you're in a massive, powerful frame? You can angst about your size like Trailbreaker, or you can be like Springer and embrace it. Springer's a rare Autobot triple changer, but he doesn't let it go to his head. Not that he's humble, or anything, it's just not a big deal to him.  He'd rather be doing things than any of this thinking and feeling stuff.

Keywords to keep in mind with Springer: confident, laid back, easy-going, and tough. He's normally the first to volunteer, but unlike Drift it's not because he thinks boo hoo I'm not good at anything else, it's because, hey this is the BEST thing to be good at and he enjoys being good at things. The fear of actually dying never crosses his mind, except as a sort of 'wow that'd kind of put a cramp in my swag' way.  Thus, in canon, he dies, at least twice, and is revived. He is simply too cool to stay dead. (Unlike Roddy, because Roddy would feel that not even death would dampen the sheer amount of swag he's got going on.) 

Cheap shot on Rodimus there aside, he actually likes the Autobot leader, seeing him as a younger, slightly more reckless version of himself. But while Rodimus is still young, Springer's a bit older and has learned, you know, consequences.  It's one reason he prefers to work alone, though we see him plenty of times in canon working in teams (Dark Awakening, Dweller in the Depths etc).  His concern for Rodimus shows in his usual manner when he calls Rodimus a 'moron' for short circuiting himself in order to have his groovy trip into the Matrix. Despite that, he's loyal and a good friend.

He doesn't seem to struggle with the change from war to peacetime, eager to make himself useful. We don't really see him ever getting angry (not counting a little combat-hooah).  If he fears anything, it's his friends being harmed.

He apparently has a thing for the color pink, and is clearly portrayed as heterosexual in canon with a touch of gallant-style chivalry.

*Powers/Abilities:
Springer is a Cybertronian, so, he’s large and tough. However, he’s an Autobot , so he doesn’t bristle with onboard weaponry in his alt mode--he has two energon lasers and that's about it. He’s bigger than most Autobots—almost as tall as Perceptor, who is roughly the same size as Optimus Prime. His alt is larger than the usual ‘carbot’ too, placing him probably in the high twenties in height in his robot mode. In canon, he is several times shown in copter mode carrying a LOT of weight, such as a power core, or three other Autobots (including Grimlock!) so we can probably add that he's able to lift a lot of weight and has a winch for raising/lowering payloads. 

Springer’s a triple changer, as well, having a helicopter mode and a heavy armored car. Obviously, he can fly as a helicopter and bash through things in his other alt. In his robot mode he has jump jets in his legs that boost his vertical jump…for no apparent reason. His rotors join to form a sword (oh lordy what is with me and robots with swords?) that if you go by the TFU info (which I don’t mind if you nix) is a light saber that can cut through concrete. (I swear to god I’m: not making this up!) . He, uh also has a laser pistol that creates wind tunnels. WTF G1, Just….wtf

He also has the ability to carry two humans in his chassis compartment (seen in canon in Only Human). 


*Inventory:
See above: stupid wind tunnel laser pistol (sorta optional if you want him to lose his gun) and light saber rotor sword (which is less optional as he needs those to fly, but if you want to drop the ‘lightsaberness’ I am more than cool with that) .

*Starting Polarity: I have no preference!

If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: N/A

Writing Samples
*First Person Sample:

[The video pops on. It’s Springer. This is his requisite ‘not dead’ announcement, and as usual, he's grinning. ]

Well, that was fun. And by fun, I mean we all lived through it, at least.  [He has a pretty strange metric of fun, okay?  Hanging out with Rodimus will do that to you.]  There was that one time on Goo…well, Kup’d tell the story better.  [Mostly because Springer was sort of juuuuuust slightly disassembled for most of it.]

Kind of wish Kup was here, ‘cause I bet he’d have some story to tell us, about the time he saddled up and rode one of those things. [Eh, can’t have everything, right?]

Anyway, the important thing is we’re all all right.

Anyone need any help on cleanup?

[Private to Arcee.]  You all right, sweetcircuits?

*Third Person Sample:

Sometimes, a mech just needed a drink.  High grade, engex, whatever this stuff was called. It was good in all the right ways—tasted like a punch in the throat, burning its way straight to Springer’s neural cortex. Springer wasn't a mech who did angst, and in general he avoided introspection. Life was for living, not thinking about living.

Besides, there was plenty of time for that stuff when he got old.

Still, sometimes, he just needed a night like this, something to let the rotors spin down.

He looked around the small bar, idly, letting the engex do its work. Springer considered himself sort of a connoisseur of dive bars, if that was even possible (Ultra Magnus would quibble on the words), and this place was distinctly lacking in seediness. Like Cybertron back home, everything still new and stiff and unfamiliar, still smelling of paint and construction, full of promise and potential but lacking in the build of character that only comes with time and use.

And you know, there was a sort of sweet spot, between that potential and experience, when you knew enough to know what you were doing, but you weren’t hung up by it, petrified into this thing of history and responsibility. Where you had the power and skill and energy, and a little tiny fragment of caring about something bigger than yourself.

Rodimus was on one end of that, and Ultra Magnus on the other.  And Springer? Right in the sweet spot.

Wow, Springer thought, giving the small vial a curious look,  What the frag was in this stuff?

Final Notes: Basically, he's Jason Statham with a helicopter mode.
There are no Wreckers in Cartoon G1, so he's not their leader
He's apparently capable of carrying the Matrix.
It's ALWAYS a Quintesson plot except that one time it was Cobra Commander