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Player Information
*Name/Alias : Katt
*Your Journal : Not used much, but katt
*Age: Old, 36
*Contact Information: AIM: katt30x, email: katt30x@gmail.com, plurk: Spectreselva
*Characters already in the game: N/A

Character Information
*Character Name: Bulkhead
*Character Canon: Transformers: Prime
*Age: Eons, early thirties human wise
*Race: Cybertronian
*Timeline/Pull Point: Post Predacons Rising + a year and ten months worth of CR from Re-Alignment

*History: Pre RA/Canon history: His TFWiki page

Re-alignment history: The first two months of Bulkhead's arrival in Haven were, to put it mildly, hell for him. While most refugees showed up able and fit, fate decided to be mean to him, and drop him in Haven whilehe was still recovering from injuries from the Tox-en incident. He could barely walk, much less do anything. The good things were he did have people from home there to help. Including Wheeljack, who took him in as his roommate. He was also relieved to see Miko and Cliffjumpoer there as well.

While he couldn't move much, he kept track of stuff over the network. The first painful blow for him since arriving came a couple weeks later, when Wheeljack was killed in the assault against Overlord. Add to the fact that at the time he didn't know people could be brought back to life here, made it pretty painful. While he was dealing with that, early November brought another blow in the form of Arcee(who'd recently arrived), Cliffjumper and Ratchet all disappearing for the first time from Haven.

*Personality:

Canon personality: At first glance, Bulkhead can come off as intimidating, given his massive size and incredible strength. But once you get to know him, you find it's the opposite. Despite being a powerful warrior, he's really the very definition of a gentle giant, most of the time. He has a gentle soul and a spark of gold as big as he is, if not bigger.

Let's start with his emotional control. Or almost lack there of. The rest of team, maybe minus Bumblebee, is all pretty good at controlling, and even hiding, their emotions. Bulkhead pretty much wears his on his shoulders. He's the most openly emotional of all the bots. He's the one most often looking sad, or even smiling. This isn't to say that he can't control them, he's just not very good at it. During battle is when he's best at controlling them. He’s able to push most of them aside, and focus on the battle like any other warrior. Barring something drastic happening during the fighting, Most of these instances? Involve the teams human partners, and especially his own. Miko.

Speaking of Miko, Let's focus on his relationship with this girl for a second. Bulkhead has endless amounts of patience. He really does. He must be the most patient bot in the whole wide universe. Why? He puts up with Miko on a daily basis; seriously, she probably drives the whole rest of the team, including the other two humans, up a wall with her antics sometimes. Bulkhead? Just pretty much brushes it off and ignores it. He's the first of the team to let a human in close to his spark. They started out partners, and pretty much skyrocketed to a parent/child relationship.

A part of this is that he has a fear of hurting those smaller and weaker than him. I mean he apologized to fish, while running to his death with a bomb strapped to his chest. But Miko's helped him overcome that fear some. He even goes offroading with her. He's become incredibly loyal to her, just like he has with his team. If not a little more than the team.

To the point that he'd give his life if it meant they would survive. He has a near crippling self-sacrificing side to him, which once he's in it? He can hard to get out of. I mentioned the fish; well that is one big example of this. He was running to get away from Optimus, and Wheeljack. He was running for the water to dampen the explosion. It didn't matter if he was killed by the bomb, as long as they survived. He'd even do this for Miko, though it would break his spark knowing how much it would hurt her.

But fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, on the flip side of this He's incredibly resilient. He survives pretty much everything thrown at him. Besides the bomb on his chest? He's survived being hit by an exploding ground bridge, being eaten by scraplets, having his mind nearly wiped by Synthetic energon, nearly been crushed by a collapsing mine, and worse of all. He survived a very severe exposure to Tox-en, and a shot in the back on top of it.This is something that probably would have killed any other member of the team, short of Optimus. And this is just stuff we've seen in canon.

Who knows what else he's survived that we haven't seen. It's backed by a stubborn will to survive. As Wheeljack said of him: He's too stubborn not to wake up. He's a fighter both inside and out. But it has a downside too. You don't survive that many near death experiences without realizing that you are an emotional liability. Anybody that gets close to him runs a serious risk of being hurt emotionally. This can affect him in relationships too. He only becomes more than just friends, even intimate with. He sticks with those he knows can take the pressure of someone like him.

Despite this, he welcomes others close. One of his closest and best friends is Wheeljack (Who he always calls Jackie). Every time the guy shows up, Bulkhead is like a little kid on Christmas morning, enthusiastically and excitedly greeting him. This was even after he'd not seen the guy for centuries. The two of them have a long history together, going back to even before the war probably. Even today he'd run off and follow the guy, even when it goes against team regulations. Despite the danger he knows he's going into. Like when they went after Dreadwing.

But Bulkhead also welcomes others closer. He likes having people close to him. He especially loves to give hugs. Get him excited enough and he'll pick you right up off the ground in a bear hug. If you want somebody to be there to comfort you, or tell your problems too, or even just need a hug. Bulkhead is your bot. He cares a lot for those he's close to, and wants to help. Though more than likely, he’s often pushed away. But it doesn't stop him from trying. He’ll give you a touch to the shoulder or arm, or even wrapping an arm around your shoulder. He gives silent support, and leaves it to you to accept or deny. Given the right circumstances, he'll even take someone under his wing, and show them the ropes. This makes him a great bot with kids and younger Cybertronians alike. Like the time he took on a sort of mentoring role for young Smokescreen.

Being a Wrecker is still a large part of who Bulkhead is, what he does, and how he does things. Evidently you can take the Wrecker out of the Wrecker squad, but you can't take the squad out of the Wrecker. He takes things day by day and rarely looks too far ahead into the future. Why should he when he might die tomorrow, or even today. He also tends to look at the bigger picture for stuff, even if he might miss the important parts of what needs to be done and why. Like during the hunt for the Omega keys, he was all for letting the cons keep the keys and revive Cybertron. They could take back the planet from the cons later, after it was revived. That is until Optimus corrected him about the political side of it.

Being an ex-Wrecker, it can take a lot to gain his respect. As a Wrecker, he didn't deal a lot with leaders, except for the ones that handed out their missions. They were a black-ops type military group, who took on what amounted to suicide missions. Missions no other commander, or soldier, would dare to take on. They played by their own rules and did it their way. It didn't matter how the job was done, it just got done. But it came at a grave cost, as many Wreckers never came back from these missions. Despite this, the squad meant everything to Bulkhead. But he gave that up to follow Optimus Prime. He shifted his loyalty to the Prime and his team, and started sticking with them, even at the worst of times. He can be very loyal and dedicated, especially to those he's close to. Not just because they're a member of the team.

He originally joined the Wreckers because, like most of the other members, he wanted to help the Autobot cause in the war, and at the time the Wrecker squad seemed to be the only option open to him. As you can imagine, working in a group like the Wreckers doesn't exactly leave one with a lot of self-worth. Knowing that every time you went out on the field to fight, there was a very real chance that you wouldn't be coming back. This topped with him having been brought up in the lower castes of Cybertron's cruel caste society, has left him not feeling too highly of himself.

He can also be fiercely protective of those close to him. Underneath his gentle nature, he hides a really hot temper, and it only takes the right buttons being pushed to set it off. Fortunately, he only points this anger at Decepticons and usually with good reason. It's most often seen whenever Miko is so much as threatened by a con, like Breakdown or Starscream. But it counts toward other members of his team, family, too. Like the time he 'killed' Starscream (it was actually a clone of Starscream) over the guy threatening to kill him and mentioning killing Cliffjumper.

He also has a really low tolerance for jerks and bullies. Human or Cybertronian. These guys will often get his temper rolling. To the point that he'll be quick to write them off as being worth it to save. Believing that they're getting what they deserved and had coming to them. Why should he save them, if all they're going to do is just be a jerk to him again, and keep doing what they've always done. Once he's in this mindset about someone, it can be hard to convince him otherwise. He's even stood up against Optimus, his leader, about this at least once. Like when Breakdown was captured by MECH, it took Miko saying he would never have another chance at him, to get him to go rescue him. And another time when Fowler was captured by Decepticons, it took Jack pointing out that Fowler knew where the base was and would probably give into them easily.

He also tends to not trust jerks and bullies easily. Especially if they're cons, or in terms MECH, humans, that have done wrong against him or the team before. He twice protested the idea of Starscream being as reformed as he claimed, and that he shouldn't be allowed in the team. And while there may be good points given, like giving Starscream a chance to prove himself. He'll go along with it, but it's with a lot of reluctance. Pretty much, once you lose his trust, it can be hard to get it back.

On top of this, he's also not very smart. He knows he's not smart too, and sometimes jokes about it himself. His lack of smarts, though, depends more on the subject matter. A lot of stuff like politics, and medical care (aside from maybe very basic field repair) pretty much just goes over his head. But he does know some stuff, most of which comes from experience. Like how to fight, what Tox-en can do to him and other Cybertronians. He also knows some basics of how to work Cybertronian tech, though it's nothing too advanced. It can be assumed he probably knows how to fly a ship and possibly how to navigate through space.

One thing he really knows well, though, is construction. His job before the war was as a construction worker. He knows pretty much every aspect of what goes into the job. From making up blue prints, and organizing supplies, to the constructing of the building or road or whatever is needed itself. Including a building’s weight bearing capabilities, height, and other such factors that go into it. He also more than likely knows how to build spaceships, since he was in the Wreckers and it could be assumed they built their own ships. Despite this, he apparently never had a ship of his own.

He's also a bit of an explosives expert, since I'm pretty sure he builds his own grenades. But on the flip side of this in a strange twist, given his building abilities, he's a little clumsy. He has a penchant for breaking things. Especially when he's angry or frustrated. Or in some cases if he just wants to show how strong he is, or even just by pure accident. Fortunately, all of the stuff he does break are usually inanimate objects.

In terms of human things, despite having lived on earth for probably over three years. He doesn't know a whole lot about human culture, sayings and how they do things. It probably didn't help that until the kids joined, their only real contact with humans was in the form of Agent Fowler and the military. And that was evidently only when there was a problem. Because of it, he can be a little slow and reluctant to make friends with humans, and to let them close to him. Even though it's gotten better throughout the show, he's been shown to be more than willing to not think of the human lives that are put in danger too. Especially when it comes to when they're fighting cons.

Post RA personality:

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*Inventory : Just himself and his built in weaponry
*Starting Polarity Solian Polarity, became an Initiate in December 2013


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