Traits

|| Extroverted || People-Oriented || Talkative || Friendly || Unintimidating || Passive || Energetic || Childish || Frivolous || Gullible || Naive || People-Pleasing || Affectionate || Impulsive || Insecure || Charismatic ||

Personality

From moment one, Accelerate comes across as an incredibly extroverted and charismatic individual, while his appearances have never caused him to stand out from a crowd, his personality is immediately noticeable. When he walks into a room, it’s instantly filled with his energy, within minutes of arrival he’s on a first name basis with everyone in the room. He greets people with enthusiasm and shows a genuine interest in each and every person he meets. His usually ever-present smile and laughter is infectious, Ace loves people and he loves to be around them, he gains energy by interacting with people and the more people he’s with, the more he lights up. Of course on the opposing side, this absolute enthusiasm and energy can be intimidating to those who aren’t as socially confident, and although Ace isn’t a naturally intimidating person, dealing with someone who has that kind of energy can be offputting to some people. Despite this, linked to his insecurity and fear of being alone (to be mentioned later), he has always made a conscious effort to learn how to deal with people who have a lesser self-esteem and knows how to tone it down in order to make people feel more at ease.

Despite all Ace’s charisma and extroversion, they do have a tendency to work against him also, he’s known for having an intense and almost boundless well of energy that makes him incredibly tiring for others to deal with for any amount of time. This is where Ace has a tendency to lose people as they become exhausted by him, and as a result have a shorter temper and less tolerance for his antics. Not only this, but his energy paired with his charisma and extroversion leaks into a childish nature, despite what he’s been through, he has a very immature manner, he loves to giggle, laugh and to play, shying away from responsibilities in which he could potentially disappoint people. This can be incredibly frustrating for people to deal with, especially where work is concerned or in any situation within which Ace is asked to take on a leadership role. Unofficially, he is capable of providing guidance and encouragement in a manner that is more mature, resembling better his age, however he actively avoids any official responsibilities or leadership. Despite his charismatic nature, Ace isn’t a particularly deep thinker, and despite occasional moments of clarity, Ace often has trouble articulating his deeper thoughts and feelings and as such, when asked to explain his intentions or why he thinks a certain way, sometimes he cannot correctly articulate himself which can give him trouble getting his point and intentions across, which in turn ends up with people frustrated with him and Ace ending up upset.

The silver mech also has quite a compassionate nature and a strong maternal instinct that leads him to want to take care of just about everyone he meets. He has an affectionate nature and has no trouble displaying his love whether it be romantic or platonic and has a tendency to commit his emotions on a dime. This leads to his naivete, his view of the world and of other people being fundamentally good. He believes there is always good in every person and they simply need the opportunity to show it, as such, he has an incredibly trusting nature and is very easy to take advantage of, whether it be Autobot or Decepticon, Ace always gives them a chance, and a second, and a third, even when it seems glaringly obvious, Ace always chooses to see the best in people, he’s gullible and is easy to lead on. This could very well stem from his insecure nature that even he himself doesn’t conciously know about. Ace has a deep set phobia of being alone and will panic when he thinks he has no way to contact others, this is what manifests in this extroverted and childish persona, a fear that if he doesn’t serve some value, people will leave him behind, namely he does this through being entertaining and caring towards others. He is very passive and people-pleasing, his submissive nature further allowing others to take advantage of him. He wants people to like him and to be okay with him, which leads to the doormat tendencies he displays. He tends to internalise things when others don’t like him, and will often go to great lengths to earn their approval. He’s quite sensitive (though albeit sometimes oblivious, things can hit him hard or fly right over his head), and it doesn’t take much to lead him to think he has done ‘something wrong’ and when he believes he has, he quickly becomes very upset and tries to atone for whatever it is, even if it, in reality, has nothing to do with him. This insecurity isn’t always obvious to people as they tend to be a little more concerned with Ace’s significant energy and tendency to spend it doing something that could well be considered reckless or daring. As long as it doesn't involve someone else getting hurt, Ace tends to be a little more optimistic about his chances of success when it comes to situations that others might consider dangerous. It’s not actively trying to find trouble, but looking for a way to entertain himself, and simply making one, or several judgement errors. Nonetheless Ace lives life to the fullest and also loves to the fullest, when he does something, he does it with all his body and spark, and that’s what the people closest to him love him for.

Other

Phobia: Being Alone (Only occurs when he's physically unable to get back to people)

Lesser Fears: Horror // Paranormal // Someone else getting hurt // People disliking him // Clowns

Pre-War

This young bot was forged, a little spark in the midst of a hotspot on Stanix. Just like all the others, Ace was placed on his own in order to get used to the new sights, sounds while the processing began. He and the batch of new cybertronians he was born with together learned how to reveal their alt-mods and were assigned a name, designation, Accelerate of Stanix. It was then time to be assigned to a caste by the functionists, Ace's alt-mode was a fast cybertronian vehicle, a military grade bearly, moreso a messenger or a support unit due to his small and light frame. Thus he was placed in the milita caste, despite the fact that Accelerate displayed an immediate aversion for conflict and was considered by those who knew him to be all together an ill-fit for a warrior lifestyle. But the functionists word was law, and Ace's function best served military. From there, the new cybertronians were given a brief class as to how the world works, going on a tour of the city and learning the basics. During this time, there was an incident in which Accelerate became distracted and wandered away from his group. His absence went unnoticed and he was soon left behind. Lost and confused, the new mech began to panic, his fear building and getting worse.

He was eventually found and returned to his group, but the fear of being alone had already been set deep. Things went smoothly after this, Accelerate finished basic classes and began basic training, learning only what was required of him to do his job. He found a group of friends (Flashset, Firstlight, Gunner and Kinetic) and got along well with one of his mentors (Tracker) who gave him the nickname Ace. The silver mech would often be dodging trouble with his friends, doing things like sneaking out, then into parties of the high casts, sneaking into the 6-Lasars Theme Park, some of those things were indeed severely punished offences, but Ace and his friends were young, and very lucky not to have gotten into any trouble Tracker couldn't get them out of. To Ace it was an idyllic lifestyle for the most part, he didn't excel in his warrior training but instead maintained an average, good for support but didn't particularly stand out. Later on he met his first partner, Civility whom he met at a club where he drunkenly poured energon all over her, they dated for some time before they both realised they weren't compatible and parted as friends.

During this time Ace found out about the pits though finding an escaped gladiator and ex waste-disposal bot (Synergy), through a series of friends and a few less than legal means which Ace more or less stumbled his way through, he managed to get Synergy a fake ID which kept him away from the pits. While he continued to make an effort to meet up with Synergy, Ace was quickly distracted by a new lover, Riften whom Ace very quickly adored, however Riften was only with Ace because the silver mech was gullible, naive and could be used to gather information about the milita to inform the Decepticon movement which at this time was still developing in ways unknown by the public, and by Ace. After Riften had gathered the information he needed, he left Ace with some cruel and twisted words, leaving Ace afraid to enter relationships in the future, believing he was the cause of Riften's seemingly sudden hatred.

Ace managed to get himself back on track and continue on with his training and the support of his friends, when it all broke down. Accelerate was out visiting Synergy, when a rogue group of Decepticons made themselves known, their first act as a unit to bomb Fort Scyk, the same place Ace trained. The young mech could only watch in horror as those closest to him were killed, believing they all perished in the attack.

During The War

Devastated by the belief that many of those he'd grown with had been killed, he went to stay with a friend as cybertron began to see the Decepticons rise for the first time, a meeting with the council being the beginning of chaos as the Autobots also became known. For the most part, Ace was even further horrified by the fighting that broke out afterwards. He had followed the rising disascent through the romours and talk amonst the people he knew, he had listened to the writings of Megatron and while had had always agreed with the miner that each should be free to choose their own path, he couldn't forget the renegade group that had killed those he loved. He decided to join neither side, never wishing to take part, in fighting. Despite his training, cybertron had been in a stagnent age for so long that Ace was naive to the reality of war. He still attempted to help others, however, finding groups of unaffiliated bots and helping them to get away from the fighting. He joined a group of neutrals and began to train them in what he knew so that they could defend themselves if needed. Though he didn't take the lead, he did what he could to help as many bots as he came across, constantly going out on small missions to 'rescue' unaffiliated bots trapped or caught in the fighting and to bring them back to the little safe haven he'd helped create.

This is where he met young Puck and Pan, two bots freshly constructed cold to be used in the coming battles when the transport unit had been attacked and they'd been scattered, they were thought to have been defecting and were then attacked by their own, then further by the Autobots. Ace found them both and brought them back to the others, earning the trust of the two young mechs who grew particularly attatched to him and he to them as he trained them personally. One day, coming back from a mission, he found the safe haven bombed, and once more believed everyone had been killed, finding the bodies of many more he'd come to care about. Just as devastated, Ace wandered for some time before he was found by a small group of Autobots. After speaking to their leader (Radon), they finally convinced Ace to join them, telling him they only wanted to bring an end to the fighting. Ace stayed with this group for some time, fighting with them until they decided to follow Optimus and Megatron to Earth, though also decided to operate in secret, the leader not wishing to be known by Optimus. There on Earth, Ace's team primarily battled against Necromancer, a Decepticon who'd split from Megatron's lead some time back. It was here he met the young human, Nyx and the two became good friends. The war waged on, the last portion of it Ace spent on Earth fighting there, though he had more than enough troubles come his way personally.

The team here continued to battle, seeking only to bring about peace and defend a portion of energy stolen from the Allspark. Ace was twice captured by Solitaire, an interrogator under the leadership of Necromancer, but the little femme had her own agenda and would often take whatever bots she could for her twisted little games. Ace was saved, however, and after some time and care, he began to recover from the trauma he endured there. It wasn't long later that the war was finally announced to be over and Ace partied like there was no tomorrow, discarding his badge immediatley in the hopes that all would be one once again.

Post-War

Radon and Necromancer established a mutual peace and most of Ace's team returned to Cybertron to begin to rebuild. Ace chose to remain behind as not to leave the human he'd grown so fond of. It wasn't long after this that a new threat began to arise, strange messages and bots carrying a deadly illness. Nyx called together all the bots still on Earth that they'd met through the war in order to figure out what happened. It was at this time that Ace met Flower. The big mech had been taken over by a Terrorcon infection and was wandering aimlessly. After getting the T-Con under control, finding out that the unique way in which Flower was infected caused him to remain in control of the Terrorcon. Now speaking to the normal Flower, Ace quickly found the big Decepticon didn't seem happy, and true to Ace's nature, he wanted to try and help. So he began to follow the big bot around, talking to him, interacting with him despite getting very little in return from the deeply depressed mech. After, however, Ace was captured by the engineers of the virus, Flower went to get him back and both of them were very badly damaged as a result. But they got out alive and the resulting traumas helped Flower open up to Ace and accept him as a friend.

Ace since helped Flower back from rock-bottom and slowly helped the former interrogator recover and the two, for quite some time, were very good friends, hanging out together most days. In turn, Flower eventually developed a crush and after some time of flirting with a completely oblivious Ace, the silver mech finally realised what they both felt for each other and overcame his fear of relationships. The two began dating. Ace and the other still faced the threat of Solitaire who never went back to Cybertron, but stayed and continued to find more victims to torture, and have run-in's with Ace and those he was close to. After quite some time, Flower asked Ace to spark bond and become his Conjunx Endura, to which Ace gladly accepted.

Ace and Flower lived together in their large base known as Atlantis along with Nyx and the others there, they did leave Earth to return to cybertron after some time, however the discrimination Flower faced and the drastic difference from what Ace knew caused the two to feel uncomfortable there and they returned to live on Earth. Sometime later, Ace was once more visiting cybertron in order to stock up on supplies when he met a group of neutrals he'd saved before the war, welcomed by them, it helped Ace feel more at ease on cybertron and after some time, his friends offered him a business proposal, for him to work with them to open a bar and club on Cybertron as a way for the war weary bots to let loose and gain back a bit of life. Thrilled for the opportunity to perform, Ace began singing at the club as well as help out behind the bar as his new form of work before later returning to his base on Earth.

• Ace has the unique ability to mimic any sound or voice, this is one of the things he's known for
• Ace gets cold easily, because of his lanky build, he gets cold easily and has a hard time retaining heat
• He's a lightweight and gets drunk off almost nothing, luckily he burns through it just as fast
• Ace has been trained at the milita academy, despite this, his fighting style is exclusively this or this.
• He cannot transform when his door wings are detached
• The spot between his wings is sensitive to both pleasure and pain
• He has no shame when it comes to making people smile, he'll trip over, wear a pink tutu or throw himself in the mud if it means he'll make someone happy
• To become Ace's friend, all you have to do is pretty much look at him, he makes friends very easily
• He cannot transform when his door wings are detached
• After any vigorous excersise, wisps of steam often come from his vents, they also do this when he's frightened or caught in a lie