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Player
Player Name: Drake
Other Characters (if any): N/A
Character
Character Name: First Aid
Character Age: 22
Canon: Transformers (G1, aka the 80s cartoon)
Canon Point: After the end of season 3.
CRAU (if any): N/A
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History: First Aid and his fellow Protectobots were built by the Autobots sometime in 1985, and immediately put to work providing disaster relief to the human civilians caught in the crossfire of the Autobot-Decepticon war. As an ambulance, First Aid's specialities were evacuation services and emergency medical care, although as a member of a combiner team he also provided the left arm of the gargantuan robotic warrior Defensor, who was a natural strategic counter to the Decepticon combiner Bruticus and his contributing team, the Combaticons.
In 1986, the Protectobots evacuated a human city that had fallen under the attack of a ravenous Insecticon horde, and when the Combaticons later plotted to hurl the Earth into the sun (it was the 80s, just roll with it) they protected humanity while more senior Autobots took fight to Cybertron. First Aid was seen carrying human families into meat lockers and other cold locations, while his teammates put out fires (again, it was the 80s).
In 2005, Autobot Chief Medical Officer Ratchet was killed in the opening salvos of the Battle of Autobot City, and First Aid became the Autobots' ranking physician. He and the rest of his team began to travel extensively off-world, first to Cybertron in order to attend their homeworld's first peace conference (although they also found time to throw a surprise party for their human friend Daniel!) and then to other worlds. On Cybertron First Aid treated the injured Autobot general Ultra Magnus, until Magnus ordered to him to focus on the diplomatic shuttle instead. The Protectobots also participated in battles on the planet Eurythma, helping foil the Decepticons in their attempt to kidnap the psychic alien songstress Allegra, and the Planet of Junk, where First Aid patched up the injured combiner Superion.
However, Earth always remained their true homeworld. First Aid was deeply troubled when the Dutch government asked the Autobots for assistance putting down French rebels (the 80s...) and his emotional turmoil eventually lead to him quitting the Autobots altogether when he later failed to stop the Combaticon Swindle's attempt to steal the cityformer Metroplex's transformation cog. First Aid only came out of his self-imposed exile when the t-cog was recovered, and his team leader Hot Spot reminded him that he alone had the expertise needed to reinstall it. Although Metroplex had already come under attack by the Decepticon cityformer Trypticon, First Aid bravely entered Metroplex's body despite the danger and reinstalled the t-cog, leading the Autobots to victory over their enemies.
When human scientist Jessica Morgan was injured while trying to help the Autobots recover the body of Optimus Prime, First Aid personally escorted her to a human hospital, and later attempted to treat her paralysis by fitting her with a robotic exoskeleton, only to be chased from the room by Jessica's robot-hating father. Mark Morgan later unleashed the Hate Plague on both the Autobots and the Decepticons, and even First Aid was driven into a frenzy of violence by its effects -- but First Aid's previous care for Jessica allowed her to continue her contributions to the effort to recover and then resurrect Optimus Prime, who was able to use the Matrix of Leadership to destroy the Hate Plague for good and cure all of its victims.
Personality: First Aid is a gentle and compassionate healer, who works hard to protect humanity and keep his fellow Autobots in top fighting shape without any regard for his own safety. Whether it's braving a horde of robotic cannibals to evacuate a human city, entering a jammed cityformer to do repairs in the middle of a pitched battle, or carrying an injured teammate through laser fire, his patients are always First Aid's top priority.
However, his first-hand knowledge of battlefield injuries has also given him a deep distaste for warfare and fighting of all kinds, and by 2005 he had deliberately chosen to embrace pacifistic beliefs. These convictions arguably held him back when he caught Swindle red-handed in his attempt to steal Metroplex's t-cog ("Then you'll die for your beliefs!" the Decepticon mocked him, before attempting to shoot him dead) and triggered a crisis of confidence in his place in the Autobots. First Aid became convinced that he was a burden to his faction and exiled himself to a junkyard, where he helped its robotic custodian NUL-A repair some refrigerators. First Aid was only brought out of his runk by Hot Spot's arrival and the announcement that the Autobots needed him desperately -- not as a warrior, but as a healer.
Later on he made no attempts to argue with the viciously robophobic Mark Morgan, even after the furious human accused First Aid and the other Protectobots of attempting to turn Jessica into another robot like themselves. First Aid hoped that in time his and the Autobots' actions would change Morgan's mind -- and indeed, when the Matrix unleashed its accumulated wisdom to destroy the Hate Plague, it also cured the hatred in Mark Morgan's heart. He and Jessica were reconciled, and he offered heart-felt apologies to Optimus Prime.
Initial Game Plan: As a medical professional, First Aid is both adaptable and deeply concerned by the state of things in Pumpkin Hollow. The mayor referred him to Dr. Winterbottom and her staff (and he's already met Chris Freeman on the TDM), and he's very eager to join her team and begin helping however he can. Once his altmode's been sorted out, he can help evacuate people from dangerous areas (if he'd been around during the fires last month, for instance, he'd have ferried children and the injured away from the affected areas and set up a triage zone, freeing up more space for the firefighters to do their work), and his smaller size means he's even more capable of treating human injuries than he was before. At the same time he will hopefully also be making some new friends, to give him an even greater stake in the community; personally this is always my favorite part of roleplaying games, and I'm excited to see how people respond to him.
RP Interests: Friendship with a potential for romance and/or a side of drama over First Aid's pacifism. Exploration and light fact-finding. I'm no good at puzzles, but I like poking around game-settings and learning new details about the world-building, and I always share the information I learn with my fellow players unless told otherwise by the mods.
Preferred Job: Doctor/emergency responder, of course!
NSFW-friendly?: Yes, with the caveat that First Aid doesn't have genitals (nothing against sticky in fanfic, that's just not a place I feel like visiting in this game). He may take on a stone (metal?) top role with a romantic partner, if anyone feels brave enough to woo the giant alien robot.
