Basics

Hotspur

Personality

At just a glance, Hotspur seems to be a charismatic, effeminate, and sarcastic bot. He makes a lot of jokes and acts fairly light hearted for decepticon, however spending more then 5 minutes in a conversation with him will make anyone quickly realize why he has such a dreadful reputation. He is deeply narcissistic and psychotic, seeming to show no signs of empathy. He is incredibly brutal and aggressive, with most people accurately describing him as severely sadistic. He can snap at the drop of a pen, and those episodes can range from a hollow, lifeless glare, to an early grave. He is manipulative, sociopathic, and uses others only for his own gain. Once someone has lost their use to him, he drops them like they never meant anything to begin with.

Appearance

Time on Cybertron

When Hotspur was made by Primus he looked quite different to the way he does now, he was a lot heavier set, and was given a job as a construction worker among the lower classes. In a stroke of luck, he was able to mostly avoid the Southern parts of Cybertron by doing his contruction and repairs in the North instead. This doesn't mean his working condistions were easy, but all he had known in his life was work so it didn't quite bother him. He would occasionally encounter higher or middle class citizens of Cybertron who seemed to only encourage him in thinking that his way of living was just how his life was meant to go. At the time he felt like he was nothing special, another nameless bot who was lucky siply to work someplace where his life and parts weren't at risk. However, this changed the day he met a high class government official named Chromeray.

Chromeray said he admired Hotspur's strength, resiliance, and build. He offered an "under the radar deal", proposing that Hotspur would become his own personal gladiator, and in exchange Hotspur could live with him a lead a fufilling, healty, and enriched life. Hotspur was persuaded by all of those things, but the true point that brought him to agree was the promise Chromeray gave to him; to give him a name. It was then at his agreement that he was dubbed Hotspur, and began his life as a gladiator. Chromeray made a lot of modifications to Hotspur in order to either make him stronger or more visually appealing, and this is when Hotspur came to posses his now iconic red color. However, Chromeray placed an extreme weight on Hotspur appearence, whihcalso caused him to develop a complex about it. He fought valiantly, but found himself more miserable than he had been before. Chromeray pulled a lot of strings to make as much money as he could off of Hotspur, and a lot of the time the matches he fought were preplanned, although Hotspur knew nothing of this. Constantly being beaten and battered, and threatened by Chromeray if he tried to not participate in a match.

There was one fateful match that really turned Hotspur's opinion of Chromeray for the worse, he discovered Chromeray was goign to pin him into a fight with the undefeated champion Megatronus with the intent of betting against Hotspur and getting him killed in the process. Hotspur was able to escape the inevitable death that would've been that match, but it came at a cost. To "prevent him from talking back any more", Chromeray removed Hotspur's lower jaw which severely inhibited the capabilites of his voicebox. He looked and felt revolting, he was performing worse in fights for awhile, barely scraping by in fact. The turning point for this is when a gladiator he was fighting insulted his missing jaw, calling his ugly, disgusting, and a failed attempt to look high class. He lashed out in a way that was never seen from him before, tearing his opponent apart limb from limb in a horrificly violent and animalistic way. This would eb the frist of his appearence induced meltdowns, something that follows him for the rest of his life.

When Megatron took over the gladitorial arena matches were less brutal and betting began to slow in lew of the actual care for the gladiators' health. Chromeray was slowly festering a disinterest in Hotspur as he wasn't making him as much money. However, in light of the brewing war Hotspur happened across an autobot medic. He hadn't been particularly aligned to either side (though would have been ascenticon leaning), but the autobot offered to fix his jaw and give him proper rights if he joined and fought for them. While it couldn've been another dumb mistake, Hotspur simply desparetly wanted to escapre Chromeray's clutches and so he joined them.

Hotspur fought alongside the autobots for the whole time the war was on cybertron although at many points felt he was fighting either on the wrong side or for a war that was ultimately useless when it accomplished the opposite of what both sides wanted. He stayed complacent for the sake of simplicity, but a dsitate began to slowly brew inside of him the longer he spent on the side of the autobots. By the time cybertron was being destroyed and bots were evacuating in masses, Hotspur jumed onto a ship with a few of his friends and went into stasis for a very long time. Eventually, the ship landed on earth, which would awaken him and take him to the next chapters of his life where he would truly become the sadistic monster he is now known to be.

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