#except perhaps the fact he's lowkey crushing on optimus. idk how that's gonna turn out but i think it'd be funny to complicate more things
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the-starry-seas · 1 year ago
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babe wake up, new Transformers OC just dropped
His name is Stormbrake. Or it used to be. He was an Autobot lieutenant, and his escape pod was damaged in escaping Cybertron. When it crash-landed on Earth, a bunch of his internal systems went a little haywire from the jolt. He replicated the nearest car (a grey 2000 Honda Accord) for a disguise and drove as far as he could (about two blocks) before his systems shut themselves down.
The Decepticons found him first, years later. They planned to strip him for parts, hoping they might even get his Spark. Instead, just after they started dismantling him, they accidentally tripped an alarm and he came back to life. Guns came out immediately on both sides.
Stormbrake had no idea what was going on, but he did recognise that part of his shoulder was being held by someone he didn't know, and it made him just a little wary of who was taking him apart. He asked who they were, which was a bit of surprise to them, since there was no reason for him to not recognise their Decepticon insignias.
Their leader Geartrap was a quick thinker. He said, "Don't worry, brother, you're safe again."
In the pause that followed, Geartrap told a story: he was the leader of peacekeepers hunting murderous rebels, who ambushed and killed two of them in cold blood. His shoulder had been blasted apart in the attack, but they'd been kind enough to bring the pieces with them.
He had no reason to disbelieve any of this. He came back to life without any of his memory cells intact and was a complete blank slate. He trusted the bots who told him they'd brought him back to life, because he had no reason not to, and fully believed that he was a good guy who would keep the galaxy safe.
With him fooled, the Decepticons immediately set about fully brainwashing him. His name was Doomstrike. He had the Autobot logo because he was getting ready for an undercover mission. He couldn't remember anything because the Autobots used a special weapon on him. Unfortunate that he didn't feel right in his body, but they were only able to choose once, so he was stuck with it.
He thought he'd been ambushed and murdered by a group of rebels who were in the process of creating a planet-destroying weapon, so he was eager to continue his undercover mission. They lied to him that if he was killed again, they'd be able to bring him back again.
So he went on a suicide mission to kill Optimus Prime, which went about exactly as you'd think it would, considering he had no combat experience or tactics.
The Autobots then had to un-brainwash the poor guy, which was twice as hard as it usually would have been because Stormbrake had an unimaginable amount of trust issues. And to everyone's surprise, he wanted nothing to do with getting revenge on the Decepticons. He wanted to stay as far away from them as possible, for as long as he could.
This presented something of a problem, considering the Decepticons were actively hunting them for sport and also considered Stormbrake to be a traitor. He'll be fine, eventually, probably- but in the meantime he's got a lot of things to worry about and a lot of enemies wanting to take off his head.
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