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Character Information
Character Name: Airachnid
Canon: Transformers Prime
Canon Point: Mid-Thirst, pre-terrorcon
History:

In a several-million-year civil war on Cybertron, Airachnid's particular skill set and penchant for being cruel, devious, and ruthless led her to fight on the Decepticon side, against the Autobots. It seems to generally have gone well for her. However, eventually the war tore apart the planet itself, and a mass exodus from Cybertron began, as both sides fled into space. Airachnid took this opportunity to strike out on her own, pursue her own hobbies and interests: namely, collecting trophies from endangered sentient species across the universe. And if a species wasn't endangered — well, she'd just fix that little detail before moving on.

Eventually she landed on Earth, where the first mech she encountered was an old favorite of hers, Arcee, an Autobot. ("Old favorite" in this case meaning, of course, Airachnid has previously tortured her and killed one of her partners in front of her.) This is the first of many clashes between them, and Airachnid escapes to hide in the wilderness. She manages to stay freelance for a while longer, until a Decepticon catches her (inadvertently, to be fair—they'd been magnetically stuck together) and returns to the Decepticon warship with her. The leader of the Decepticons, Megatron, accepts her grudging but gracious return to service.

Airachnid's second stint with the Decepticons begins, and is mostly comprised of her obeying orders like a good soldier in the light, while sneaking about in the dark to satisfy her own private goals. She's never truly loyal to them, but she's smarter than to ever openly defy them. But one can't hide their treachery from Megatron forever, and eventually he sends her and two other of his officers out on a pseudo mission — really, just a place to have her killed by the other two. She catches wise to this plan and murders one of the officers before making her escape, and once again Airachnid is out on her own, as she prefers. This lasts until, during battle with Arcee, she's caught up in a stasis pod and rendered immobile and unconscious.

Airachnid sits around in the Autobots' storage containers for a while, until their base is blown up. Then she sits around in the Decepticons' storage units instead, because apparently everyone is better off while Airachnid is in stasis. But eventually there's a vampire-zombie-robot incident aboard the Decepticon warship, as you do, and the corpse of the officer she'd murdered frees her from the pod, intending to drain her of energon. She instead kills him (again), retakes control of her insecticon army that had served Megatron while she was in stasis, and goes on a Decepticon-murdering spree. Unfortunately before it can really kick off, the communications officer teleports her and her army across the universe, onto one of Cybertron's moons. There, having been made a vampire-zombie-robot herself during that first encounter, she bides her time as she drains the energon from her minions.

Personality:

Airachnid's first interest is Airachnid. She has honed her battle skills to a very fine point not for the Decepticon cause, or anything silly like that, but to better get her what she wants. And she will get what she wants, in any underhanded, doublecrossing way necessary. If arranging a fight with Arcee takes going behind Megatron's back to confer with the human group that had recently captured and tortured a Decepticon officer, well, just show her the door. She'll deal with absolutely anyone if it means getting what she wants, and she shows none of the scorn of humans that many Decepticons employ.

But even with her strong sense of getting what she wants, Airachnid is governed by nothing but herself. Some have obsessions, she has interests. She travels the universe to collect trophies (namely, the heads of endangered sentient species), but when her ship containing them all gets blown up, there are no overblown moments of rage of drawn out scenes of promised revenge. Oh, certainly, she will kill the human who had done it, but because he's Arcee's new partner, and that's just what she does to Arcee's partners. But it's nothing personal, darling. She knows perfectly well how to put irritations behind her and move on with the bigger picture.

And speaking of the bigger picture, like any properly self-serving Deception, Airachnid knows exactly when to cut and run. She recognizes when she's taken on an enemy too large for her, and if yielding isn't an option, there's no shame in cutting and running. She could have Arcee and Arcee's human partner helpless at her fingertips, but if reinforcements show up to turn the tables, well... a spider is very good at waiting. She escapes, she bides her time, and she'll try again.

Items on your character at canon point: none

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

-Airachnid can transform into a helicopter, any helicopter she’s able to scan. She can also shift between humanoid and spider-butt, while having her 6 extra limbs carry her around in either form.
-She can control insecticons, which are a monstrous semi-sentient insect species native to Cybertron. (Kinda not useful here, but I thought I’d mention it.)
-She manufactures a sticky substance that can be shot from her hands, and tie up her enemies or just plaster them down for a while. Can also be used to support herself, pull people closer to her, or hang creepily from ceilings. It’s strong enough to hold down the beefiest of Transformers.
-She has blasters in her hands, and her spider legs are strong and sharp enough to be used as blades.
-She can tunnel quickly underground using her legs and spider butt.
-While she’s stronger than your average organic, she’s one of the physically weakest Transformers.

This only applies if I canon update her to being a vampire, but I’ll include it in case that ever happens:
-Aannnndd she’s a vampire that drinks energon, whose only advantage seems to be that she can now take great amounts of damage (up to even having the head destroyed) without dying. Usually this also means that even a scratch from her would transform someone else into a similar vampire zombie thing, but for ease of her not changing every single potential castmate, I’d like to either disable that bit or make it much harder to spread the infection.
-This comes with the weakness of needing energon constantly and burning through her natural reserves really fast.

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Now, this is frustrating. One moment she had had that strange, warped version of Breakdown before her, ready for a second extinguishing, and the next moment… here. Of course she’d had a few issues upon first arriving, but nothing she couldn’t handle. She’s a very capable mech. Her spindly legs had carried her easily out of the mess of the swamp, and more importantly, out of sight of the panicky humans swarming the area.

She’s currently crouched in the branches above the lot of it, a frown pulled over her lips, while one long finger taps thoughtfully at her chin. She can’t explain this, but she doubts any of the humans below have any answers for her either. But there has to be someone here than can explain this… Pink, gently compounded eyes dim as she considers the matter, and she makes a low noise at the back of her throat.

She’s not likely to solve this mystery, so, for now, she puts it aside. There are other ways to spend her time, now that she’s free of any sticky situations from home.

A thin stream of white, sticky webbing lowers Airachnid slowly through the tangled web of branches (appropriate, she thinks), as she chooses a target. A young human, female, struggling a ways away from the others. Yellow… what is it, hair? Yes, hair. Airachnid appreciates that touch, it reminds her of the yellow touches on her helm. And this, it reminds her of some vapid little rhyme she’d caught on human media, perhaps a radio wave…

Little miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey; along came a spider who sat down beside her…

Airachnid gives a fangy grin as she drops low enough.

“Hello, there.”