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....:: SIDERAKER ::... — Description
Recently was on Transformers binge and it took be back to my old hobby: desigining transformers characters. The Recent IDW comic continuity made me think of a Ex-Ascenticon/Decepticon deserter that was with the movement from day 1. Her disenchantment with the Autobots made her join the Ascenticons and later on she became a part of Decepticon Guard.

Soon, her faith in Megatron and his promises crumbled. She felt she was too far gone and didn't have any other place to go. She refused to become a hypocrite and join the autobots in their struggles, after all, she rebelled against them in the first place. Instead, when she could, she deserted the decepticons on Earth. She carries her scratched emblem as a symbol of her shame.

Riddled with guilt, she's very much suicidal by the time when the Cybertron War is in it's throes on Earth (more of the G1 covert one) and she found herself wrecked with guilt.

On the night she decided that it was her last, she bonded with a similarily depressed and suicidal human with whom she sat down on a bridge and gazed at the stars in their magnificence. She told him of the worlds she saw, of her home planet and it's moons, and he told her that one day he would love to see it.

After that they became reluctant friends and decided they would try to survive a little bit longer, becoming support buddies. She would often crash at his place and thanks to her small frame (a point of complex back on Cybertron) they could spend time together and watch tv shows together or go on nature trips. In the human she found what she never got from her fellow bots: friendship and interdependence.

Likes:
- Soap Operas and Space Operas
- Wargames and war related materials. (she's still a warrior, it's a guilty pleasure for her).
- Being praised but never undeserved.
- getting a wax job and visits to carwashes.
- Listening to therapy sessions (even joins a telephone one undercover)

- Human Weaponry

- Earth derived energon (g1 style from different fuels. Gives it distinct tastes)

- Earth Cultures.

Dislikes:
- Being called short.
- Bullying weaker people.
- Nationalism.
- Autobots.
- Decepticons.

- Killing.

- Being alone.

NOTES:
* Her special ability is to transform her fender armguard into an energetic rake which can be both sharpened to cut the toughest armor or hardened to create a very tough surface (can be used as a blunt object). She can sustain it for a short time and multiple uses cause over exhaustion and can lead to stasis lock. While this ability is active the edges of her forearm fender glow purple and leave purple shadow afterimages.

* Part of why she is so small is her genetic trait which doesn't allow her to use any size shifting techniques. Designwise I wanted her to be smaller to not be much bigger than her alt mode which is a generic racing motorcycle and for her being able to sit on a couch and move around a human-sized flat with relative ease. I also wanted for her to be able to properly hug her friend.

Her size made her into an infiltrator during her days in the Decepticon Guard and later on during the Great War of Cybertron.

* Her charterouse color caused many bots to confuse her with a Constructicon. While she admires their early works as feats of architectural and engineering genius, she became tired with multiple bots calling her a Constructicon Cheerleader.

* She has a sidecar that she can mount and use. When transformed the sidecar forms additional weapons and armor (not in the concept art). She most often uses it when she doesn't have the strength to argue with her human friend (he usually is weary of riding her when they go somewhere together prefering to ride in a side car or to take his own bicycle). She finds it ugly.