Character Introductions and Plotting post!

[re_alignedmods]

Gooood evening everybody!

The official opening start time for Re/Alignment will be June 21st, 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. (For those across the globe, feel free to poke us in here for clarification on this.)

Since this is less than two days away, we're putting up this post for everyone to introduce their characters in, and maybe start plotting who will be waking up next to or on top of whom! Will there be fights breaking out over the choicest pieces of junk on the junk pile? Medics trying to remove the mysterious glyphs? Problems understanding Japanese/Cybertronian before communicators are given out?

Jump in and find out~

Comments

[docbot]

Well, guess I'll be the first one to hop in here?

I'm Toast, and I'll be playing Ratchet from TFP. I'm an absent-minded dental student and he's a cranky medic... who is only going to get crankier when he wakes up in RA.

And probably even more when he realizes that the only other allies he's got are an exquisitely fragile human child, and Wheeljack (who can only be described in phrases which require ****s). So there's that c:

[deusexraf]

/hides behind

[docbot]

/awkwardly cups hands over in a vain attempt at protection

... Ratchet is so totally building Raph a suit of armour

or a giant hamster ball

something to that effect >>

[clay_doll]

The whole deal of waking up (especially after dying) on the Junk Pile with all these other beings is going to be incredibly overwhelming for Annie. She has never seen a robot before in her life, let alone anything so huge that moves and talks. There will be screaming, likely attempts to run, and probably some falling and sliding down the side of the Junk Pile a ways.

I would love to have Annie either wake up on top of someone/somebot or trip on someone/somebot. Any characters that are nice to her and patient will be able to calm her down, and she'll then likely cling until the big bots on campus sort the mess out.

Fighting scenarios nearby...yeah, more screaming and running (maybe even away from the Junk Pile).

[deusexraf]

/will need to upload as an icon

THAT SAID

Raf is fine with a suit of armor.

NOT SO FINE WITH A HAMSTER BALL...

[sword_redemption]

Because I apparently hate Drift, he's coming in with Red Rust. He's not contagious, but, other robots can be free not to know that, since he sure thinks he's contagious.

Having been to Earth, though, ESPECIALLY JAPAN *cherry blossoms* (don't make me get that last page of his miniseries out), he likely can understand human speech.

Maybe you can have some fun. I need to go make HORRIBLE EYEBLEEDING ICONS for him for this.

[docbot]

XD I may have to do the same. We be that terrible pair who have matching icons (also did you ever play at cracktrans? because your name sounds familiar?)

But armor is harder to make! It needs articulation and stuff! What if the hamster ball were just a temporary measure ... >D

[deusexraf]

ACTUALLY YES I DID AND I WAS GOING TO SAY I WAS EXCITED WHEN I SAW YOU WERE APPING! Let us be once again awesome together, toast.

-and i think you're underestimating the fact that he might get nauseated.

[deusexraf]

Raf might be pinged by the screaming, if you'd like him to happen across her one way or another!

[clay_doll]

Would totally love it if he did! Seeing another human will help calm her down~

[wakizashi_straight]

This is Jayde, bringing in Noisy Boy from Real Steel.

This video is a fairly good summary of him, but he's basically a washed-up boxing robot built in Japan, that looks like and emulates samurai. He cannot speak in a proper voice himself (though he gears and hydraulics do whine) but he will be able to understand English upon first arrival. However he does have Japanese kanji across his chest (that translates to his name, more or less) and LED screens in his forearms that flash different kanji every few seconds (all of which are listed here) for any Japanese speakers!

For the curious, his combo-listing console is going to be wedged in between some sections of back plating, and the headset that controls him will be around his neck.

Mostly he will just be trying to figure things out, but if a fight breaks out he will very carefully avoid it; you are all using illegal fight moves and he doesn't want another decappuccino.

[4_toteachus]

The moment Four wakes up... he's going to hide from any machine and watch them from afar. He's not going to be inclined to "talk" (Did I mention that Four is a mute?) or interact with them for a little while, especially since his twin isn't around. Despite that, this little guy is going to be fascinated by EVERYTHING.

Where is he? Why are the stars so different? Who are these giants? Why are humans alive? Where is his family? Why do these giants have faces?

While robots will be met with distrust, humans will be met with excitement and enthusiasm, since they're an extinct species after all, and Four has only ever really read about them...

Oh and Four is able to understand most European languages.

[docbot]

alksjfd;lkjsadlfk oh my god thissssss is embarrassing because I was such a dip back then but also exciting because aaaaaaaa :D

Pfff humans. So many uncontrollable physiological reactions :|

(Ratchet is going to be such a strict bedtime enforcer XD He's read all the studies on circadian rhythms, Raf. There is no escaping mom!bot.)

[deusexraf]

I DON'T CARE GET IN MY GAME AND BE AWESOME WITH ME. >O!!!!!

Oh god you are the worst dad ever Ratchet. :C THERE'S A WHOLE NEW PLANET FOR HIM TO EXPLORE WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE HIM GO TO BED...

[organ_pharming]

Hello Drifto-chan~ >3

[deusexraf]

it's okay Annie he knows the robots can be scary but some of them are really awesome!

[wakizashi_straight]

Hey.

Hey Drift.

You look awfully Japanese which is the only thing that makes sense for Noisy Boy around here. Even if you're. Kind of rusty.

Would you like a much shorter purple robot quietly following you around?

[docbot]

Ah hi! After the thread we did on d_m, I'm really excited to see you here! I don't want to force Ratchet on Noisy, but I'd really enjoy it if they could get close and have all the awkward "BUT THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN FIGHTINGGG" interactions :D

[sword_redemption]

Drift isn't going to remember cutting off your hands, Pharma. There is manipulation (wow that's a bad pun) to be had thar.

[sword_redemption]

Giant fighting robros! :D

[docbot]

;alsjfdlsadjf W-WELL I CAN TRY!

Ratchet is the worst dad because, really, he's a mom. And BED TIME IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUNGLINGS. DON'T YOU WANT TO GROW BIG AND TALL LIKE BUMBLEB -- lol oh wait that's a lie because bumblebee is a midget

[organ_pharming]

Hey there! This is Pharma, the evil jet medic from IDW. His hobbies include, harvesting organs, drawing on stuff with a laser scalpel, and revealing his plans in the most dramatic way possible.

He will be coming in WITHOUT HANDS. :{ Because Drift is a mean butt face. He really wants those back.

He will also be coming in with THE DEADLY RED RUST VIRUS. It's not contagious but he sure thinks it is. He also sort of created it. Yep.

He doesn't understand Earth people speak since he's never been there.

[wakizashi_straight]

I WANT THAT TO HAPPEN SO MUCH Noisy is not going to understand Ratchet's point of view at all. "BUT I AM BUILT FOR FIGHTING I DON'T EVEN HAVE ACTUAL HANDSSSSSS."

At the very least, Ratchet vaguely resembles a WRB bot (though admittedly is over height regulations), so Noisy is bound to get curious at some point :D

[saeru]

/sudden realization that I'm apping a Japanese robot while you're playing Drift

/INSTANT WANT TO SMUSH THEM

[wakizashi_straight]

Japanese robros unite! \o