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[angleofscience]

Player Information
*Name/Alias: Chibi
*Your Journal: sparklight
*Age: 27
*Email/Plurk/AIM/etc: AIM: Princess of Yuri, plurk: litenviol
*Characters already in the game: N/A

Character Information
*Character Name: Jetfire
*Character Canon: Transformers: Dreamwave Comics
*Age: Over 8 million, "adult" maturity-wise
*Race: Cybertronian
*Timeline/Pull Point: Vol 3, issue six (Atonement). Before Jetfire confronts Sunstorm up in the skies above Earth and his death via explosion, but after he's exited the cave in the sea floor.

*History: Before the war, Jetfire was a scientist at the Academy. However he and Starscream met there, they became friends - as close as siblings - and research partners, which caused him to take a long time in joining up with the Autobots. This suspicion was what caused Prowl not to either reveal to Jetfire he was checking out the new Decepticon mobile battle station with a group of Autobots, or, indeed, even bring Jetfire on that mission, even as Jetfire had been the one to submit the original report on it. Jetfire questioned the escalating conflicts between the various splintered factions (the Autobots and Decepticons had splintered in smaller factions earlier when Megatron and Optimus Prime disappeared in a transwarp accident), noting that there was some sort of *pattern* to these things, and that he just couldn't see it. This led him to contacting Shockwave, as they were both similarly scientifically-minded and could, as logic dictated, set their differences apart and pool their resources to attempt to find this pattern.

When Jetfire went to meet with Shockwave to correlate their data and attempt to find out what was going on, they were attacked by Bludgeon, Mindwipe and Bugly, who shot Shockwave down and got Jetfire under control with Mindwipe's hypnotic optics. As they moved Jetfire to a vehicle, there was a remark that they'd misjudged Grimlock (they had sent the recording of Shockwave and Jetfire deciding to meet to the HQ of the faction Grimlock was leading), who chose that moment to attack. Easily knocking the "Chaos Trinity" on their afts and then immediately attacking Jetfire to "execute him for treason", Jetfire was loath to attack the dynobot in return, but didn't have to do that, as the Fallen showed up, easily rendering both of them unconcious.
Jetfire woke up with himself, Grimlock, Blitzwing and Hot Spot strapped to some sort of device which was channeling energy from their spark cores to open the Seal of Primus at the Well of All Sparks. The Fallen called them the Angles of Dissolution, casualties in a "war of the gods". Jetfire was having trouble to *accept* all this, but had Grimlock leave with the other two, and stayed himself to attempt to stop what was going on. With the help of Bumblebee back at the Autobot base, who brought up a containment field at Jetfire's coordinates, the energy wearing away at the seal stopped... But technically it was too late, but what came *out* of the seal, contained within the containment field, attacked the Fallen and then withdrew, leaving Jetfire alone. The Autobots and Decepticons then sealed the Well of All Sparks up, with Jetfire claiming he'd been blinded and seen nothing.

Later (much, much later), when the Nemesis and Ark had left Cybertron and disappeared, Jetfire participated in Operation: Containment to find Prime/the Ark and hunt Decepticons in space, which later broke up into two teams when they had a disagreement over which part of their mission to fulfill when Paradron was under Decepticon attack. Jetfire and Omega Supreme thought it was more important to find Prime, while the others wanted to concentrate on hunting Decepticons. An undisclosed time later, with Jetfire and Omega having to enter suspended animation/stasis lock to conserve energy, their ship registered an energy signature Jetfire first thought was the Ark, but as they finally came close to the planet, the signature turned out to be more Decepticon-like. Then the ship was attacked from the outside, and since Omega wasn't out of stasis lock yet, Jetfire had to handle the attacker himself, tricking it to follow the escape capsule, which disabled the strange mech (with a similar Decepticon-like signature as the one that had come from the planet) with an EMP pulse. When on the way to find Omega and dragging the escape capsule with the mech in it behind him, Jetfire was surprised by an avalanche and buried... For well over two thousand years, until the Autobots and Decepticons picked up the Autobot signal from the escape capsule (as the planet Jetfire and Omega had arrived at was Earth), and presumably, either then or later, Starscream found a still-frozen Jetfire and put him on the Nemesis for when he might be needed...

Which was when Starscream was attacked by his clone, Sunstorm. Jetfire fought the clone after Starscream defrosted him, using both engine nozzles/thrusters and the revolving guns mounted on his helmet, unaffected (at least for the moment) by Sunstorm's radioactive powers due to his upgraded armour which was made to stand interstellar travels, and thus radiation. Even after shooting the golden Seeker so as he *should* have died, the wounds were quickly closing, so Jetfire told Starscream to come with him if he wanted to survive. They then went to the Autobots, figuring out Sunstorm was a clone and also how to counterfeit Starscream's energy signature, so as to be able to lure Sunstorm away so he could be contained. The first attempt, with Bumblebee in a small attack ship failed when Sunstorm caused the ship to crash, but Jetfire went after the Seeker clone and fought him until Bumblebee managed to shoot the inhibitor they'd constructed onto Sunstorm. Sunstorm fled, and Jetfire's radiation-resistant armour was pretty much finished after that fight from taking abuse from Sunstorms powers, however. Jetfire called in their last 'ace' to fetch the now-contained Sunstorm; Omega Supreme. When Jetfire and the three minibots (Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Brawn) came back to the Orion, they found the whole Autobot crew disabled, Starscream having sabotaged the engines so he could flee.

When Jetfire, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper found Omega again, due to interference from Starscream, Sunstorm had been rid of the inhibitor and defeated the giant mech, but he just needed time to recuperate. Jetfire made ready to leave in chase of Starscream, but Bumblebee demanded he'd come with and Jetfire bowed to that. They found Starscream and Sunstorm in the ocean, Sunstorm holding away a wall of water to reveal a Cybertronian seal on the seafloor, which, despite Bumblebee's interference by shooting at the Seekers with some of Jetfire's guns, Starscream managed to open. Having no other recourse, they followed Starscream and Sunstorm down into the cavern beneath the seal, Starscream attacking on their way down/in. Bumblebee threw himself out of Jetfire's cockpit to give them more ability to fight, and Jetfire transformed back into robot mode and attacked Starscream like that, driving him into the bottom of the cavern.
Jetfire was momentarily thrown by Bumblebee's disappearance, but Sunstorm had him, holding him by his helm. Starscream chose this moment to attack, shooting Sunstorm with a null ray he'd modified to turn Sunstorm's regenerative powers against himself. He then also shot Jetfire with another (normal) null ray shot, leaving him briefly alone with Bumblebee before Sunstorm got up again, was shot down, and then kicked into the pit of energy that was at the bottom of the cave. Starscream didn't have time to gloat for long, as Sunstorm returned, now even more unhinged than earlier, and attacked Starscream. Jetfire had woken up by now, and swept the Seeker out of the way as Sunstorm's regenerative powers, along with whatever energy had been in the pit started to destabilize him.

Jetfire said Starscream owed him and then flew off after Sunstorm, clearly expecting him to save Bumblebee, noting to himself that he'd failed to be as open-minded about the situation as he considered himself to be (accepting the possibility that Sunstorm might be supernatural), and that, despite that he and Starscream had been fighting for so long, that didn't really matter now. Fighting Sunstorm in the skies over Earth, Jetfire noted the volatile reaction was getting worse, and decided to take Sunstorm as far up/away as they could get from the surface, to have him explode where he'd do no damage. What happens next is a very spectacular and probably fatal-to-Jetfire explosion, so he's being pulled before that moment, as he's flying off to face Sunstorm that last time.

*Personality: Jetfire's a patient mech. He's not just slow to anger (and any expressions of such temper is usually subdued until further provocation, or if whatever provoked him was serious enough), but also has a high threshold for behaviour most wouldn't put up with. Things like verbal antagonism, teasing, physical cries for attention... Or even outright physically harmful, condesceding or otherwise "mean" behaviours, but there are conditions here; firstly, he tolerates more of this towards himself than towards others, and secondly; Starscream. His patience serves him well not just dealing with Starscream, but his preferred pursuits, which is several flavours of science. He'll go through his theories, hypotheses, facts and results as slowly as needed and if it takes time to get any of the reuslts/observation, the time it takes is the time it takes. Jetfire doesn't do short-cuts when it comes to science. This can make him slow to change tack in analysis of a problem, however.

Jetfire prefers a rational, logical take on things; anything that seems to be non-rational, supernatural, etc, shouldn't be taken as such... except if there's repeatable proof that no other conclusion can be taken. "The only basis for analysis is a repeatable phenomenon." This wasn't always so; earlier in life, Jetfire wouldn't have accepted even a shade of something not being based in natural laws and physical, observable reality. He was also an atheist. Due to certain events, however, Jetfire has had to reevaluate this position, and has come to his current understanding of something being capable of being 'supernatural' if it can consistently portray as such, though he can be slow to accept that conclusion. He's also become an agnostic instead of outright atheist.
He has an at times dry, but mostly rather terrible and punny sense of humour, often using it (possibly partly seriously even) during rather serious situations. Jetfire is also not the most amazingly social person ever, and tends to speak in a rather dry fashion, often tripping into 'scientific asides' which tend to make him long-winded if he's given the chance. Not to say he can't tease those he's (somehow) become close to, it's just not something that'll come up with anybody, and he can be prone to answer jokes and such things very straight.

Jetfire prefers to work in consensus with others; he can (and will) take charge if it seems to be needed, but the situation needs to be rather spectacular for that to happen (or he feels responsible for it) to override his generally group-oriented leading or even outright more 'submissive' (as in accepting decisions and actions from someone making them) personality. He's loyal to those he considers friends (maybe too loyal for too long), even when said friend/s take decisions he doesn't personally agree with.
Jetfire is further not a warrior, soldier, and definitely no murderer, but he can fight and does so competently and innovatively (using his thrusters, or revolving guns mounted on his helmet) when needed. Overall, though, Jetfire is a scientist before he's a warrior, and would prefer to be able to dedicate himself to his scientific pursuits.

When it comes to Starscream (because Starscream totally needs his own section here), Jetfire both knows and accepts Starscream's less-than-moral behaviour, his attitude and his goals. To a certain degree. He doesn't agree with them, but that's beside the point; Jetfire liked and was loyal enough to Starscream he was torn when the Decepticons finally rose and Starscream joined them. He even (as alluded to by several characters during War Within) joined the Decepticons for a while, partly out of seeing the "logic" of Decepticon philosophy, what it might be able to do for him and his chosen path in science, and partly due to Starscream. This also caused him to be slow about leaving the Decepticons when he started to realize they didn't really mesh well at all with his own morals and ethics. His past has caused him to be mistrusted among the Autobots when he finally went to join them, and this mistrust has lingered even into the present day, at least among the Autobots who crashed on Earth.
Jetfire and Starscream were, and are (at least Jetfire considers Starscream still such) friends, close enough others might have called them "brothers". Both were obviously upset at the "betrayal" as final faction lines were drawn, but, at least for Jetfire, this division, compared to their friendship, ends up not mattering in the end. Still, he trusts Starscream (doing nothing when they approach the Autobots after Starscream has defrosted him to fight against Sunstorm and Starscream shoots at Bumblebee), but can also make Starscream stop and do something "selfless" when needed (with no more than a look as he doesn't actually ask Starscream verbally to rescue Bumblebee).

*Powers/Abilities: As a cybertronian, Jetfire can change into a vehicle; in his case a fighter jet of alien/cybertronian (if Earth-like) design, larger than your average jet due to his size. He also possesses several boosters to aid his speed (one set above/on top of his wings, which is the largest, the other on his lower legs), which means he can nearly reach mach four at full booster thrust and at high altitude. His more "normal" speed is around 2.5-2.7 mach. At his usual size he'd be less maneuverable than a flying cybertronian of, say, Starscream's size. Jetfire also possesses variable-sweep wings, which means he can move them up or down and thus slightly change his flight capabilities.
He's got access to radio/wireless communication on particular bands/to other Cybertronians, as well as scanners for his surroundings and internal diagnostics. In altmode, his double-barreled particle cannon serves as two separate particle cannon turrets, and he also has access to heat-seeking proton missiles.
Jetfire's highly intelligent and a scientist, possibly having specialized in aerodynamics and societal patterns (or something similar, as he deduces some sort of pattern from the (incomplete) knowledge of the escalation of the war during the "dark ages" in the war on Cybertron), later having picked up weapons technology and engineering (possibly also frame engineering).
He's also one of four "angles of dissolution", but what this means beyond being a spark unique in some way and being capable of (with those other four) opening the Seal of Primus is unknown.

*Inventory: A large, double-barreled particle rifle/cannon, his helmet (which has a pair of two guns mounted on the sides, resembling antennae), two arm-mounted housings for one pair of guns each and a dismantled furby.

*Starting Polarity: Probably Liege Maximo, with an emphasis on the exploration, science and discovery, and being willing to try nearly everything (at least once) if it can get results... within reason, as he does have morals and ethics. Otherwise, if that doesn't fit, where you might see him suiting.

If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: Before the Lambda got him, Jetfire spent around eight months along with Starscream in a place called Holloway's Keep, where the "Lord" of the Keep claimed everything had been destroyed, but he was generously hosting them at his keep until he could redress the issue.
Jetfire didn't believe that at all, and spent most of the time trying to find the "hidden machinery" - both literally and metaphorically - that must be there, as, for example, the "sky" was either not a sky at all since one hit a solid but invisible "ceiling" after a while, or there was a forcefield of some sort limiting the available airspace. He was, also, for the duration at the Keep, only ten feet, which was a source of both bafflement and annoyance.

There was evidence the Keep was neither as safe nor as pleasant as first could be thought for being a place they'd been "rescued" to; breaking the rules led to nothing less but torture for the "perpetrators" and Halloween festivities brought pumpkins who resembled both themselves and others they knew, and if their own pumpkin was destroyed, during night of Halloween, their heads were placed as the heads on scarecrow bodies... Jetfire escaped this, and simply tried to help others who were afflicted with it.
He also had his (and, by extent, anyone inorganic) status as "living" and being a "person" questioned by someone who claimed to be a goddess... and later, realized that the long period in ice had left him with some... issues... when winter came. He got more used to it as winter wore on, however, but it might not be perfectly dealt with. What he also had to deal with, however, was Starscream... and things weren't exactly *uncomplicated* even when taking away the faction differences and the lack of a war, with Jetfire and Starscream having an argument right around when Jetfire was also coming to terms with the flashbacks to the ice. Not that Starscream stopped talking to him even if he said he would, but then, Starscream's as he is, and Jetfire... doesn't excatly let something simple as "I'm not talking to you" and an argument discourage him.

Things may have continued in the same fashion of their new/old relationship unless two occurences in a relatively short span of time hadn't brought them closer (specifically, being turned human for about a day or so, and a brief influx of individuals who disappeared a day later), tipping them over from their "usual" relationship into something slightly... deeper and arguably even more complicated than usual (in simple terms, they got together). SOme time later, an argument between Ironhide and Starscream led to Jetfire interfering and the two Autobots getting into a fight where Things were said about allegiances, Starscream and how to deal with both which led to a break between them which left Jetfire in a situation similar to one which has followed him since joining the Autobots; being considered, or suspected of as being a traitor.

Slightly unsettled by that, nothing got better when all the residents of the Keep were treated to memories of the future... of their own futures, no matter what point. Jetfire's dream merely showed the end of his fighting with Sunstorm, the explosion... and then ice-cold and a sense of dread, along with three simple words; "I got out." Not that Jetfire fully believed that it was about the future, but others had dreams they complained about the day after and cybertronians do further not dream, so something odd had obviously happened. Nothing else much happened, except for Jetfire dicussing a plan to not make an entry in the journal they were all supplied with for over a month (the immediate "punishment" for this being the tattoo they all had somewhere on their bodies spreading with letters), to see what might happen... And an excursion to one of the towers on the grounds with two other residents.

The difference to Jetfire before he landed in the Keep and after lies in a few things; the reluctant acceptance of such things like "magic" (and a somewhat strengthening of his acceptance of the supernatural being a possibility), because even while the Keep might not necessarily be magical, there were certainly individuals present where normal science didn't apply to their abilities. The development/changing of his relationship with Starscream, his awareness of his problems with ice/cold and what... might be the future waiting him when(ever) he actually gets back to his proper dimension.
(For Holloways Keep, being a journal-based RP, most of the relevant information can be found in Jetfire or Starscream's journals.)

Writing Samples
*First Person Sample: [Jetfire's expression as it appears on the feed is only slightly pinched. There might have been a frown there just earlier, but if so, it's been smoothed out by now.]

I've already looked in my own immediate surroundings and in a few other relevant places, so before I widen my search; has anyone else here seen Starscream?

[A pause, and then the image splits in two to show Jetfire still on one side and on the other an image of the more sturdy/simple design of a Seeker in white, red and blue with an obvious Earth fighter jet as an alt mode, an F-15 if you'd know it.]

This is the one I'm looking for, and if we have more than one present that look like he does... Ask him about Sunstorm. If the reaction is... mmm, slightly more intense than seemingly warranted it might be the one I want. Either tell him Jetfire's looking for him, or point me in the correct direction, if you would.

I know he can be difficult, but I would appreciate an answer if you do have one.

[There's another pause, and briefly, a tightening of Jetfire's expression, a re-emergence of the frown he'd been hiding. Jetfire opens his mouth, but apparently decides to not say whatever it was, and the feed ends to a shake of his helm.]

*Third Person Sample: Cybertron, this Cybertron, was strangely... quiet. He'd not realized what the difference was between this and the Cybertron he called his own until he'd left the occupied areas, their "haven". But hovering over a trench deep enough the bottom couldn't be seen, and which he knew was slightly wider from what it'd been several cycles ago, the silence couldn't be ignored. It was... If he was superstitious, beliveing, he'd say there was something... missing. He knew what others would say, but taking such a statement without any more evidence than the words of - apparently - the first thirteen of their species made in this reality and an unspecified lack, a silence from the planet itself?

Jetfire wasn't religious. But dismissing the faint sense of lack, of silence, as an uneasiness regarding how young and unformed this Cybertron was? Well, he could, but that would be as unfounded as taking the lack as being Primus' non-presence in the core of Cybertron without anything else but the word of those admittedly more powerful than any of them who didn't belong here but had been brought.

Slowly descending down the trench, tracing support beams and swirls of metal as he passed, it was nearly oppresively silent despite the roar of his engines and the rush of air across his plating. It wasn't even that whatever machinery deep inside wasn't working yet, because out here he could recognize this silence being present in the Haven as well.

Jetfire wasn't a believer, but he knew he'd seen, felt something that had rushed with enough power against the Fallen back at the Well of All Sparks to white out everything else but that... presence. He could admit that much. A presence which had been overwhelming, and while suddenly dampened when the Seal of Primus had been... strangely... recreated had still been there. He couldn't say if that presence would be, could be, should be the same here, now or later, but nonetheless it was... not present.

With a frown and the noise of very mundane engines and thrusters on full burn echoing down the trench as he tore up towards the sliver of dark, star-studded sky visible far above, Jetfire wasn't sure what he thought about this silence, this maybe lack. But he could at least admit that something was lacking... Lacking a particular presence, whatever it was.

It was a long time ago that he'd been an atheist, after all.

Final Notes: N/A