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angleofscience) wrote2012-05-01 12:14 pm
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name: Chibi
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series: Transformers: Dreamwave Comics
name: Jetfire
age: Around eight million years old.
sex: O
race: Cybertronian
weight: 7300lb (downsized from original weight of around 29.200lb)
height: 8' (downsized from original ~34')
canon point: Vol 3, issue 6, "Atonement"; right before he flies into Sunstorm to move him as far away from the Earth's surface when he explodes.
previous cr: None
history: Here and/or;
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 was in a mission to find Prime/the Ark and hunt Decepticons in space, which later broke up into two teams. Jetfire and Omega Supreme thought it was more important to find Prime, while the others wanted to concentrate on hunting Decepticons. A time after they broke up, 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 attacked 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 a few million/hundred 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 afterburners and the revolving guns mounted on his helmet, unaffected (at least temporarily) by Sunstorm's radioactive powers due to his upgraded armour which was made to stand interstellar travels. 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. 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).
abilities/powers: Jetfire can fly in his root robot mode as well as his altmode, which is a cybertronian (read, non-existent/alien) fighter jet larger than your average such (at normal 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.
With the right equipment/skill, he could be hacked and thus controlled (happened in-canon, even), and a great amount of electricity would render him either unconcious/deactivated, injured or even lead to death, depending on the strength.
He can, however, spend time underwater regardless of need to breathe (which he doesn't) and water seems to have no ill-effect in general. And being a robot, he can take quite a bit of physical abuse depending on the strength of the attacker, but a strong enough hit/thrust and a sharp enough weapon can pierce his armour. Cutting off/interrupting electric flow (but you'd need something strong to do this) will of course temporary shut him down.
While cold/ice/snow affects him as much as any other member of his species, Jetfire has more of a mental weakness/issues with cold, snow and ice, since he's been frozen in it for a good long while.
first person sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/187058.html?thread=4089266#cmt4089266
third person sample: Looking from locked door to sulking - but quiet - Starscream, Jetfire decided to take the silence given and try to work things out. The locked door was presumably to keep Starscream contained, and he was in here as an extra measure of security. Supposedly.
It was hard to suppress the static sigh that wanted to escape; he'd really thought he was done with either implied or outright accusations of being a traitor or a Decepticon sympathizer. On the other hand he could understand them; they'd been in stasis lock for four million years and then stuck on Earth while he'd been continuing to fight for the Autobots on Cybertron before being chosen for Operation: Containment. Patience. He'd deal with this if it got brought up more substantially later.
sitting down in one of the available chairs while Starscream paced and started to rant, Jetfire crossed his arms and followed Starscream's back and forth across the floor. How long had it taken Starscream to thaw him? How long had he been (by necessity or otherwise) kept in that CR chamber? On the one hand, time didn't seem like it mattered much at the moment; he'd been in stasis in the ice for long enough a period in a CR chamber, which had been repairing him shouldn't, didn't, really matter. On the other... On the other, he might have been kept tucked away until Starscream found some use for him, but Jetfire wasn't sure if there was any use in being suspicious about that point. He'd had ice inside of him, ice which would have to be slowly melted for the damage to be repaired, and then the rest of the ice could be melted.
The largest, most looming point in all of this? Starscream had done it. For whatever reason, in whatever way, Starscream had been the one to find him and bring him to a CR chamber to repair him. The last time he'd seen the Seeker... Another aborted static sigh and no matter the reason Starscream had done it, Jetfire was grateful. And, as had been shown when they'd gotten to the Orion to get the Autobots' help, his trust - however foolish, and not as tenouous as it should be - in Starscream hadn't been misplaced.
"If anyone's going to kill you, it will be me!"
Starscream always had issues enough to fill the very ship the Decepticons had pursued the Ark and the Autobots with. Either way, there were more things to attempt to work out than issues with mistrust, Starscream's behaviour and possible motives; Sunstorm. FRowning, Jetfire crossed his arms, following Starscream's agitated pacing with his optics and logging what the Seeker was talking about, but not actively listening as he brought up what data he did have on Sunstorm to see if he could form some sort of preliminary analysis.
case no: You're free to randomize.
name: Chibi
are you over 18?: Yes.
personal dw:
sparklightAIM Princess of Yuri
characters in abax: Skywarp
in character information.
series: Transformers: Dreamwave Comics
name: Jetfire
age: Around eight million years old.
sex: O
race: Cybertronian
weight: 7300lb (downsized from original weight of around 29.200lb)
height: 8' (downsized from original ~34')
canon point: Vol 3, issue 6, "Atonement"; right before he flies into Sunstorm to move him as far away from the Earth's surface when he explodes.
previous cr: None
history: Here and/or;
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 was in a mission to find Prime/the Ark and hunt Decepticons in space, which later broke up into two teams. Jetfire and Omega Supreme thought it was more important to find Prime, while the others wanted to concentrate on hunting Decepticons. A time after they broke up, 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 attacked 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 a few million/hundred 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 afterburners and the revolving guns mounted on his helmet, unaffected (at least temporarily) by Sunstorm's radioactive powers due to his upgraded armour which was made to stand interstellar travels. 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. 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).
abilities/powers: Jetfire can fly in his root robot mode as well as his altmode, which is a cybertronian (read, non-existent/alien) fighter jet larger than your average such (at normal 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.
With the right equipment/skill, he could be hacked and thus controlled (happened in-canon, even), and a great amount of electricity would render him either unconcious/deactivated, injured or even lead to death, depending on the strength.
He can, however, spend time underwater regardless of need to breathe (which he doesn't) and water seems to have no ill-effect in general. And being a robot, he can take quite a bit of physical abuse depending on the strength of the attacker, but a strong enough hit/thrust and a sharp enough weapon can pierce his armour. Cutting off/interrupting electric flow (but you'd need something strong to do this) will of course temporary shut him down.
While cold/ice/snow affects him as much as any other member of his species, Jetfire has more of a mental weakness/issues with cold, snow and ice, since he's been frozen in it for a good long while.
first person sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/187058.html?thread=4089266#cmt4089266
third person sample: Looking from locked door to sulking - but quiet - Starscream, Jetfire decided to take the silence given and try to work things out. The locked door was presumably to keep Starscream contained, and he was in here as an extra measure of security. Supposedly.
It was hard to suppress the static sigh that wanted to escape; he'd really thought he was done with either implied or outright accusations of being a traitor or a Decepticon sympathizer. On the other hand he could understand them; they'd been in stasis lock for four million years and then stuck on Earth while he'd been continuing to fight for the Autobots on Cybertron before being chosen for Operation: Containment. Patience. He'd deal with this if it got brought up more substantially later.
sitting down in one of the available chairs while Starscream paced and started to rant, Jetfire crossed his arms and followed Starscream's back and forth across the floor. How long had it taken Starscream to thaw him? How long had he been (by necessity or otherwise) kept in that CR chamber? On the one hand, time didn't seem like it mattered much at the moment; he'd been in stasis in the ice for long enough a period in a CR chamber, which had been repairing him shouldn't, didn't, really matter. On the other... On the other, he might have been kept tucked away until Starscream found some use for him, but Jetfire wasn't sure if there was any use in being suspicious about that point. He'd had ice inside of him, ice which would have to be slowly melted for the damage to be repaired, and then the rest of the ice could be melted.
The largest, most looming point in all of this? Starscream had done it. For whatever reason, in whatever way, Starscream had been the one to find him and bring him to a CR chamber to repair him. The last time he'd seen the Seeker... Another aborted static sigh and no matter the reason Starscream had done it, Jetfire was grateful. And, as had been shown when they'd gotten to the Orion to get the Autobots' help, his trust - however foolish, and not as tenouous as it should be - in Starscream hadn't been misplaced.
"If anyone's going to kill you, it will be me!"
Starscream always had issues enough to fill the very ship the Decepticons had pursued the Ark and the Autobots with. Either way, there were more things to attempt to work out than issues with mistrust, Starscream's behaviour and possible motives; Sunstorm. FRowning, Jetfire crossed his arms, following Starscream's agitated pacing with his optics and logging what the Seeker was talking about, but not actively listening as he brought up what data he did have on Sunstorm to see if he could form some sort of preliminary analysis.
case no: You're free to randomize.