Ironfist

Player Information

*Name/Alias: HK

*Your Journal: hellkitty

*Age:  I have jeans older than 16 years. 

*Contact Information:PM? Plurk?

*Characters already in the game: Drift, Hinata

Character Information
*Character Name: Ironfist
*Character Canon:Transformers IDW
*Age: 4 million?
*Race: Cybertronian
*Timeline/Pull Point: End of LSOTW, with Aequitas’s files downloaded into his brain, after having set Overlord on fire WITH HIS MIIIIIIND

*History: Wreck and Rule!

*Personality:
Ironfist is not a simple mech. He admires heroism and glory and feels a deep need to contribute, which he does by designing weapons. At the same time, he’s aware and not entirely comfortable, with the destructive capability of his inventions. Notably Gideon’s Glue, which was so horrible that he destroyed it himself.

He is a little lonely/starved for friends: he befriends Skyfall, and probably ignores many signs of the other’s betrayals. Even when he realizes Skyfall was behind the theft of the Gideon’s Glue, he doesn’t denounce him, only gets him removed from Kimia. Even when he realizes that Skyfall's behind his 'accident', he protects the other mech, until he's dead.

Ironfist had major hero worship for the Wreckers—like First Aid, but in a larger order of magnitude. There’s a real part of Ironfist that wants to have those adventures, not just read about them and the best he can do is to put his intellectual power to bear on the targets of his admiration: the Wreckers. He hits Central Command with a few thousand requests for information and constructs/reconstitutes those documents into heroic tales that he really, honestly believes are true….

…until he gets into the Wreckers. It’s worth it to him to join the team, even knowing he’s going to die—he’s dying anyway. But he finds that he’s not as tough as he thinks he is: when he’s faced with the reality of combat, he breaks down. Because, in his mind, dying should be heroic, for a reason, for something that matters, and not, as Topspin berates him to happen in “stupid pointless ways.” For a mech who knows he’s dying, that rattles him. His life is running out: his death is the only, last thing he has to make himself count.

His idealism takes another, crushing blow when he has Aequitas downloaded into him and realizes the truth—dark and ugly—of the Wreckers he’d spent so much time worshiping and holding up as heroes. It’s a sign of how much he’s changed that he votes to detonate the deterrence chips, even though it would kill his idol, Impactor.

He’s always had a conscience: after creating Gideon’s Glue, he realized it was too dangerous, and suppressed it himself. But up until the ‘accident’ with the cerebro-shell, he’s consoled himself with the fact that his best use of his abilities is to help the Autobot cause through his inventions, no matter how brutal. Now, with Aequitas’s files in his system, he begins to see that he, too, should be judged for what he did. Because his hands are cleaner than Impactor’s it doesn’t mean he’s less culpable.

In short, Ironfist is a crushed idealist, whose last hope is that he doesn't embarrass himself.

*Powers/Abilities:

Ironfist is a genius inventor. He’s created Optimus’s rifle, and countless other weapons. It’s one of the paradoxes of his personality—a childlike wonder, and at the same time an inventive genius that rivals, if not surpasses, Brainstorm’s. He would have the ability to recreate any of his previous projects.

Additionally, Ironfist has Aequitas’s files in his head. So, he has a new awareness and perspective on guilt and responsibility, and he may know the misdeeds of some Autobots, particularly the Wreckers who had to testify at Impactor’s trial.

This is neither a power, nor an ability but it is a Thing and I'm not sure where to put it, but he has blackout seizures in moments of emotional intensity.


*Inventory:

He has the deterrence-chip gun, a knife (we saw him carving the table with it earlier) and Aequitas’s information. Also his encyclopedic knowledge of canon up to this point. He’s a nerd.

If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: During the event he refused attempts to get the cerebroshell removed, because he's come to believe, because of Aequitas, that it's what he deserves, because his weapons, his inventions, have killed so many mechs. It's poetic justice. However, when he found himself blacking out, and when he woke up realizing he'd killed two acolytes in his lab, he waited, terrified, until Liege came to put him down, before he could hurt anyone else.

He'll remember all of this, and being back, will be determined to make this a second chance, but will likely freak out if he blacks out again.

Writing Samples
*First Person Sample:
[The video comes on, to two slightly widened blue optics. He’s scared, disoriented, and clutching an extremely large gun.]

Springer? Perceptor? …Verity? [There’s a hesitation before the last name. He looks around: he doesn’t want to see her in this place.]

What happened? Where’s Overlord? I-is—are we still on Garrus-9? [Because the Badlands look like they could be part of that horrific terrain.]

[He looks down at the rifle in his hands, and his voice drops. ] Maybe this is another symptom. Maybe this is…maybe it’s getting worse.

[A rattling cycle of air.]

…I’m not ready.

*Third Person Sample:

He's been here before. Ironfist sits up, to the smell of rust and wet rubber, under a sky that shouldn't be familiar, but was.  He'd spent most of his service--too much and not enough--in Kimia, under the artificial lights of a mobile research station. But the twilight seemed familiar, even the spatter of stars, and that strange glow, like a wound.

The Lambda.

The name came to him, unbidden, like the trivia he'd always stored away, random but immediate access, infallible.

He'd never been here before, but he had, and as he sat up, he looked down at his hands, he had flashes of other things--memories of fire and pain and asking to be killed before he killed anyone else.

Oh. Oh no. 

The blue hands shook, as though overburdened with the memories of this past he couldn't fit into his life. 

Hallucinating. Maybe he was hallucinating, right?  

It's a bad day when that's the better option, isn't it.

Final Notes:  Since we have a bunch of IDW people now, I think it might be smart to put up a permissions post? A geek like Ironfist would likely have large bits of the Autopedia memorized, which borders on a weird kind of in-canon fourth-walling, but we can always imagine that the cerebroshell took out or damaged the memories of anything anyone doesn't want known up to Ironfist's canon death.