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PLAYER NAME: Pocky
JOURNAL:pockythoughts
“pockythoughts”IM: AIM - TehPockySquirrel
E-MAIL: pockysquirrel at yahoo dot com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Sentinel Prime
FANDOM: Transformers: Animated
CHRONOLOGY: For character development of great justice, this is a post-“Predacons Rising” Sentinel.
BACKGROUND: Sentinel trained at the Autobot Academy and was a classmate and friend of Elita-1 and Optimus, also sharing a friendly rivalry with the latter. A known maverick and rule-breaker in his youth, he often relied on Optimus to pull his aft out of the proverbial fire when his plans backfired. True to form, when Sentinel heard about an abandoned spaceship stocked with valuable energon cubes and marooned on an organic planet, he got it in his head to go there and claim the ‘energon-y goodness’ for himself. Despite Optimus’s misgivings, Sentinel dragged both him and Elita along for the adventure. And it turned out to be more adventure than any of them had bargained for when they were attacked by a pack of hostile and dangerous spider-creatures. Adding insult to injury, their skirmish with the spiders triggered the unstable energon to explode. As the three of them were trying to escape the impending blast, Elita fell back into the doomed ship and Optimus elected to save Sentinel rather than risk going back for her. By the time they were away from the ship and able to pull together some sort of a rescue effort, Elita’s energy signature was gone, meaning that she had, presumably, been killed. Devastated by Elita’s death, Sentinel blamed the entire fiasco on Optimus. Facing disciplinary action from their superiors at the Academy, Sentinel stuck to his story that Optimus was to blame, beginning a long-running campaign to ruin his former friend’s reputation. The specifics are unknown, but he ultimately had a hand in Optimus’s expulsion from the Elite Guard. After graduating from the Academy, Sentinel was assigned a position as drill instructor at an Autobot training camp. He generally enjoyed his work. After all, it gave him free license to yell, berate, and boss everyone around. But he could have lived without the part that involved being randomly abused and humiliated by the wacky antics of his bumbling recruits. Although he was promoted out of his instructing job and ended up working directly under the command of Ultra Magnus, he was later ordered by Magnus himself to personally manage the training of experimental flying Autobot twins Jetfire and Jetstorm. His first response was to complain about having effectively been demoted. Sentinel and Optimus crossed paths again when the latter stumbled across the legendary Allspark and subsequently disappeared with it on Earth. Sentinel accompanied Ultra Magnus and Jazz to the planet - which, to his dismay, was populated by disgusting little organic life-forms - to recover the artifact, only to find that it had been blown apart and the fragments scattered. He proceeded to spend the rest of his visit mercilessly browbeating Optimus and his team for botching the management of something so incredibly important. But karma can be quite a nasty thing, and struck back with a vengeance in the form of a series of humiliating dings to his ego that included being told by Magnus that he could stand to learn a few things from Optimus, having his head removed and his body hijacked by the criminal Headmaster, and generally being proven wrong time and time again. By the time the Elite Guard completed their work and returned to Cybertron, Sentinel was more than fed up with Earth and everyone on it. Unfortunately for Sentinel, he was ordered back to Earth shortly thereafter, in pursuit of the escaped convict Wasp. His escalating feud with Optimus made apprehending Wasp a more difficult task than it had to be, as they spent more time arguing with one another and less actually doing their jobs. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Sentinel also made contact with the bounty hunter Lockdown and struck a deal with the devil: parts from Sentinel’s own ship in exchange for the capture of Decepticon fugitives still running loose on Earth. True to form, Sentinel kept this arrangement a secret and tried to take all the credit for the captures. Unsurprisingly, he was found out, and the situation fell apart when Lockdown double-crossed him. Once the dust had settled, a thoroughly annoyed Optimus agreed not to inform Sentinel’s superiors of his actions, but wouldn’t let him take credit for the captures either. The worst of Sentinel’s second trip to Earth was yet to come. When Wasp was abducted by the rogue Dinobots, Sentinel pursued him to their island despite Optimus warning him against it. There he encountered Blackarachnia, the mutated, half-organic shade of his old friend, Elita-1. Shocked and appalled by what she had become, he called her an abomination and told her straight-out that she would have been better off dead. Blackarachnia poisoned him, and he once again had to be rescued by Optimus. Emotionally shaken by the experience, Sentinel was actually receptive when Optimus offered his apologies for not telling him about Elita’s true fate, and for leaving her in the first place. Sentinel admitted that going to that planet had been a mistake, and finally made peace with his old friend. Hatchet buried at last, Sentinel again left Earth, this time to assume temporary leadership of the Autobots from a wounded Ultra Magnus.
PERSONALITY: Sentinel is, in a word, a jerk. Tactless, self-absorbed and unflaggingly arrogant, he has a talent for irritating pretty much everyone he comes in contact with. He is reckless and impulsive, acting first and considering the consequences later, if at all. If something should go wrong, even if it’s his own fault (and it usually is), he will immediately find someone else to point the finger at because he is effectively incapable of admitting that he was wrong. Although he prefers not to be contradicted when singing his own praises, he does enjoy a good argument. As long as he ends up winning it. If he does find himself completely and utterly checkmated, he is capable of humbling himself enough to accept some responsibility for his actions, and even offer an apology. But you can tell he hates having to do it. Believe it or not, Sentinel does have some good qualities. They just tend to be completely overshadowed by the fact that he is a jerk. He’s brave (with a few notable exceptions, see below), and idealistically devoted to the notion of being part of the ‘great Autobot machine’. He enjoys being part of a team, though his demanding nature doesn’t make him particularly good at it. If he mellowed out a bit, he would actually make a pretty good leader. Sentinel harbors a great deal of unresolved post-traumatic stress relating to the incident with the spiders and the loss of Elita-1 that has over time evolved into a full-fledged phobia of all things organic. Rather than admit fear, he prefers to complain that organic life is dirty and disgusting. Clearly, being human is going to have him freaking out for a good long time. Quite possibly the only thing that scares Sentinel more than organics is being wrong. A complete slave to the needs of his massive and easily bruised ego, he expends an amazing amount of effort on trying to make himself look good, usually by trying to make others look bad. Deep down, he’s known all along that Elita wouldn’t have ‘died’ if he had listened to Optimus about not going to that planet. But it would be entirely too painful to admit that to himself, and a lot easier to channel all his angst and anger into blaming Optimus for leaving her behind. And he is the type to hold a grudge for entirely too long. Following the events of “Predacons Rising”, he did actually admit his own fault in what happened to Elita (though it was only after Optimus had apologized first) and showed some willingness to let go of the past enough to make peace with his old friend. But newfound maturity aside, he’s still a jerk.
CLASS: Hero. Bad-tempered and often morally questionable, but still a hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Sentinel
ALTER EGO: Sentinel feels that taking on a human identity is demeaning and stupid, and will only consent to do it if it somehow becomes absolutely necessary. He will be joining the police department and undermining Optimus’s authority.
POWER: Sentinel possesses super-strength and is able to withstand more physical punishment than the average human. (Which is useful, considering how much physical punishment he tends to get.) He retains the ability to call up his energy lance and shield from subspace.
JOURNAL:pockythoughts
“pockythoughts”IM: AIM - TehPockySquirrel
E-MAIL: pockysquirrel at yahoo dot com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Sentinel Prime
FANDOM: Transformers: Animated
CHRONOLOGY: For character development of great justice, this is a post-“Predacons Rising” Sentinel.
BACKGROUND: Sentinel trained at the Autobot Academy and was a classmate and friend of Elita-1 and Optimus, also sharing a friendly rivalry with the latter. A known maverick and rule-breaker in his youth, he often relied on Optimus to pull his aft out of the proverbial fire when his plans backfired. True to form, when Sentinel heard about an abandoned spaceship stocked with valuable energon cubes and marooned on an organic planet, he got it in his head to go there and claim the ‘energon-y goodness’ for himself. Despite Optimus’s misgivings, Sentinel dragged both him and Elita along for the adventure. And it turned out to be more adventure than any of them had bargained for when they were attacked by a pack of hostile and dangerous spider-creatures. Adding insult to injury, their skirmish with the spiders triggered the unstable energon to explode. As the three of them were trying to escape the impending blast, Elita fell back into the doomed ship and Optimus elected to save Sentinel rather than risk going back for her. By the time they were away from the ship and able to pull together some sort of a rescue effort, Elita’s energy signature was gone, meaning that she had, presumably, been killed. Devastated by Elita’s death, Sentinel blamed the entire fiasco on Optimus. Facing disciplinary action from their superiors at the Academy, Sentinel stuck to his story that Optimus was to blame, beginning a long-running campaign to ruin his former friend’s reputation. The specifics are unknown, but he ultimately had a hand in Optimus’s expulsion from the Elite Guard. After graduating from the Academy, Sentinel was assigned a position as drill instructor at an Autobot training camp. He generally enjoyed his work. After all, it gave him free license to yell, berate, and boss everyone around. But he could have lived without the part that involved being randomly abused and humiliated by the wacky antics of his bumbling recruits. Although he was promoted out of his instructing job and ended up working directly under the command of Ultra Magnus, he was later ordered by Magnus himself to personally manage the training of experimental flying Autobot twins Jetfire and Jetstorm. His first response was to complain about having effectively been demoted. Sentinel and Optimus crossed paths again when the latter stumbled across the legendary Allspark and subsequently disappeared with it on Earth. Sentinel accompanied Ultra Magnus and Jazz to the planet - which, to his dismay, was populated by disgusting little organic life-forms - to recover the artifact, only to find that it had been blown apart and the fragments scattered. He proceeded to spend the rest of his visit mercilessly browbeating Optimus and his team for botching the management of something so incredibly important. But karma can be quite a nasty thing, and struck back with a vengeance in the form of a series of humiliating dings to his ego that included being told by Magnus that he could stand to learn a few things from Optimus, having his head removed and his body hijacked by the criminal Headmaster, and generally being proven wrong time and time again. By the time the Elite Guard completed their work and returned to Cybertron, Sentinel was more than fed up with Earth and everyone on it. Unfortunately for Sentinel, he was ordered back to Earth shortly thereafter, in pursuit of the escaped convict Wasp. His escalating feud with Optimus made apprehending Wasp a more difficult task than it had to be, as they spent more time arguing with one another and less actually doing their jobs. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Sentinel also made contact with the bounty hunter Lockdown and struck a deal with the devil: parts from Sentinel’s own ship in exchange for the capture of Decepticon fugitives still running loose on Earth. True to form, Sentinel kept this arrangement a secret and tried to take all the credit for the captures. Unsurprisingly, he was found out, and the situation fell apart when Lockdown double-crossed him. Once the dust had settled, a thoroughly annoyed Optimus agreed not to inform Sentinel’s superiors of his actions, but wouldn’t let him take credit for the captures either. The worst of Sentinel’s second trip to Earth was yet to come. When Wasp was abducted by the rogue Dinobots, Sentinel pursued him to their island despite Optimus warning him against it. There he encountered Blackarachnia, the mutated, half-organic shade of his old friend, Elita-1. Shocked and appalled by what she had become, he called her an abomination and told her straight-out that she would have been better off dead. Blackarachnia poisoned him, and he once again had to be rescued by Optimus. Emotionally shaken by the experience, Sentinel was actually receptive when Optimus offered his apologies for not telling him about Elita’s true fate, and for leaving her in the first place. Sentinel admitted that going to that planet had been a mistake, and finally made peace with his old friend. Hatchet buried at last, Sentinel again left Earth, this time to assume temporary leadership of the Autobots from a wounded Ultra Magnus.
PERSONALITY: Sentinel is, in a word, a jerk. Tactless, self-absorbed and unflaggingly arrogant, he has a talent for irritating pretty much everyone he comes in contact with. He is reckless and impulsive, acting first and considering the consequences later, if at all. If something should go wrong, even if it’s his own fault (and it usually is), he will immediately find someone else to point the finger at because he is effectively incapable of admitting that he was wrong. Although he prefers not to be contradicted when singing his own praises, he does enjoy a good argument. As long as he ends up winning it. If he does find himself completely and utterly checkmated, he is capable of humbling himself enough to accept some responsibility for his actions, and even offer an apology. But you can tell he hates having to do it. Believe it or not, Sentinel does have some good qualities. They just tend to be completely overshadowed by the fact that he is a jerk. He’s brave (with a few notable exceptions, see below), and idealistically devoted to the notion of being part of the ‘great Autobot machine’. He enjoys being part of a team, though his demanding nature doesn’t make him particularly good at it. If he mellowed out a bit, he would actually make a pretty good leader. Sentinel harbors a great deal of unresolved post-traumatic stress relating to the incident with the spiders and the loss of Elita-1 that has over time evolved into a full-fledged phobia of all things organic. Rather than admit fear, he prefers to complain that organic life is dirty and disgusting. Clearly, being human is going to have him freaking out for a good long time. Quite possibly the only thing that scares Sentinel more than organics is being wrong. A complete slave to the needs of his massive and easily bruised ego, he expends an amazing amount of effort on trying to make himself look good, usually by trying to make others look bad. Deep down, he’s known all along that Elita wouldn’t have ‘died’ if he had listened to Optimus about not going to that planet. But it would be entirely too painful to admit that to himself, and a lot easier to channel all his angst and anger into blaming Optimus for leaving her behind. And he is the type to hold a grudge for entirely too long. Following the events of “Predacons Rising”, he did actually admit his own fault in what happened to Elita (though it was only after Optimus had apologized first) and showed some willingness to let go of the past enough to make peace with his old friend. But newfound maturity aside, he’s still a jerk.
CLASS: Hero. Bad-tempered and often morally questionable, but still a hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Sentinel
ALTER EGO: Sentinel feels that taking on a human identity is demeaning and stupid, and will only consent to do it if it somehow becomes absolutely necessary. He will be joining the police department and undermining Optimus’s authority.
POWER: Sentinel possesses super-strength and is able to withstand more physical punishment than the average human. (Which is useful, considering how much physical punishment he tends to get.) He retains the ability to call up his energy lance and shield from subspace.