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[dragoness_e]

Writing meme, ganked from beckyh2112

1. Pick one of my characters, any one (even if you're only familiar with a vague description instead of a name).
2. I will tell you the origin of his/her name.
3. I will tell you random facts surrounding his/her creation.
4. I will give you a random fact of his/her backstory.
5. I will give you a random fact of his/her forestory.
6. You may ask me up to ten questions about the character
7. I will give you one TMI fact. (And if you don't want that, please specify.)

Forestory, in this instance, is either measured from the latest chronological fanfic I've written them in, or, if they haven't appeared in a fanfic, from the starting point of the canon they come from.


Transformers

• Duskwing - ghost Seeker. He's a bit slow on the uptake.
  
• Cartwheel - Decepticon maintenance mech and bartender
  
• Hammerbolt - big blue Decepticon tank. Friend of Casque and Red Axle.
  
• Casque - brown Decepticon transport.
  
• Red Axle - red Decepticon armored car.
  
• Cadence - green Decepticon Seeker and poet.
  

DBZ

• Sinhika Manohara - Rakshasa princess who would be a Mary Sue if she wasn't surrounded by Super-Saiyans. Daughter of Vibishana the Good, Demon-King of the Rakshasas.
  
• Prince Khara - Sinhika's traditionalist brother. Son of Vibishana.
  
• Princess Kadru - Naga princess and daughter of Vasuki, King of the Nagas.
  
• Mogris - Runequest heroine resulting from the fusion of Modguhd and Griselda.
  
• Sean "Virtual Black" Nixon - gothboi, hacker, artist with sorcerous talents.
  
• Voron - gothboi, would-be sorceror, seduced by evil. (Ran at it with arms open).
  
• Kale - unfortunate Saiyan commander.
  
• Negi - one-eyed Saiyan warrior.
  
• Chishan - Elite Saiyan warrior. Nappa's third son.
  
• Apio - Elite Saiyan warrior. Nappa's fourth son.
  
• Col - Elite Saiyan warrior. Nappa's second son.
  
• Diive - Elite Saiyan warrior. Nappa's first-born son.
  
• Deputy - Chaos demon. A particularly intelligent spin-off of Cacodemon.
  
• Scout - Chaos demon. A small, fast, flying spin-off of Deputy.
  
• Enforcer - Chaos demon. A large, tough spin-off of Deputy.
  
• Gutclaw & Redjack - Broo (Chaos demons). Villains of "In Past Regrets".
  
• Melchior - gay gothboi, pacifist, witch.
  
• Pomona - gothgirl, good friend of Melchior and Sean Nixon.
  
• Kinoko - Saiyan. Bardock's wife and Goku's mother.
  
• Naranja - psycho Saiyan warrior female. "Last surviving adult female Saiyan". Obsessed with Bardock. Villain of "Deceiver's Legacy".
  
• Zana - young Saiyan girl; one of the last survivors of the Jinkousei colony.
  
• Perejil - young Saiyan boy; killed by Naranja, becomes a ghost haunting Goten.
  
• Lina - Senior assistant to Capsule Corp Security Chief.
  
• Maureen "Nezumi" O'Neill - Senior assistant to Capsule Corp Security Chief.
  
• Colonel Jerome Sebastian Dark - leader of the Dark Ribbon Army. Villain of "Yamucha's Student".
  
• Saisei - Yamucha's student.
  
• Various other characters who have bit parts.
  

Comments

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Cartwheel.

Are we ever going to hear one of his older relatives say, "One more thing..."?

[dragoness-e.livejournal.com]

Cartwheel - he's a mini-sized Decepticon like Rumble or Frenzy. His alt-mode is a wheeled maintenance cart, hence "cartwheel". He's gray and red.

In the story "Dead Mech Escape (http://dragoness-e.livejournal.com/19140.html)", I needed a bit character to provide a bit of comic relief and perspective on all the shooting and explosions going in the shuttle hangar. Cartwheel came into the story as a maintenance tech who was taking a nap (in alt mode) in the nice, quiet shuttle hangar where nobody bothers him. Unfortunately for his nap, Octane needed a fast shuttle off Charr that day...

I needed a bartender for the story "Dead and Drunk (http://dragoness-e.livejournal.com/21329.html)", and I'd already decided that pre-Unicron, Cartwheel had been part of the same unit Hammerbolt and Casque were assigned to. I decided that Cartwheel moonlighted as a bartender, and was thus tending bar where his friends hung out. So Cartwheel got to be a bartender with ghosts in his bar (http://dragoness-e.livejournal.com/21664.html).

Don't really have any forestory planned for him. He'll just keep tending bar and fixing things wherever Decepticons are, whenever I need a bartender to tell a story. Perhaps someday he'll even be willing to repair mechs, rather than dumb vehicles, again.

Are we ever going to hear one of his older relatives say, "One more thing..."?

Probably not, alas. Almost all his kith and kin went 'kablooie' when Unicron took a swipe at Cybertron... except for those who'd already been killed in the war.

The last bit isn't really TMI, just personal: Cartwheel used to be a repair tech/medic for Hammerbolt's unit. He was also very good friends with Hammerbolt, Casque and Red Axle, and was devastated when they were killed in an Autobot ambush. He hasn't allowed himself to get that close to anyone since, and had his records hacked altered to keep him from being assigned as a repair tech on living mechs again. (He doesn't want to get to like the people he works with/on).