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knightofdarkness) wrote2012-10-16 10:00 am
knightofdarkness) wrote2012-10-16 10:00 am
GLYPHLESS APP FOR R/A
Player Information
*Name/Alias: Mindy
*Your Journal:artoni
*Contact Information: If you don't know how to contact me I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but being hard to talk to ain't one 8B
*Characters already in the game: Raf, Fortress Maximus
Character Information
*Character Name: Nemesis Prime - AKA Convoy Super Black. (AKA Nemvoy, but that's really only an OOC nickname.)
*Character Canon: Transformers; Alternity
*Age: Adult mentality. Technically Nemesis served a lifetime under Unicron (or close to it) after being cloned from /another/ lifetime - then he spent a good period of time with the dimension-hopping Alternity. So basially I have no idea how old he actually is, just what he presents himself as. F'ing robots. Suffice it to say Nemesis is well over nine hundred thousand years old and still in the - derp - 'prime' of life.
*Race: Cybertronian; Alternity-ascended
*Timeline/Pull Point: Post Arch-Nemesis, pre Alternation.
*History: Wiki link - please note both the Cybertron Comic and Alternity sections. Below is a setting I used on another app that will hopefully summarize it decently.
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This...is going to be tricky. Stay with me, folks, we're in for a bit of a ride.
Understand that the Transformers universe is a multiverse, first and foremost. In 99% of these 'verses (Universal Streams or just Streams), there are two gods; Primus and Unicron. The 1% is because in some canons they haven't been officially recognized but Hasbro currently (they seem to change their minds sometimes) says that they're in everything, so. Primus is the Creator of all Transformer (robots who Transform in to one mode to another. easy, huh?) life, whether directly or by the Allspark or by other means, suffice it to say his purview is Life, Light, Creation, and he is eternally opposed to and counterbalanced by the Chaos Bringer, Unicron. AKA the Dark God, AKA the Planet Eater. Unicron desires nothing more than the complete and total annihilation of everything, including the multiverse. Arguably, the omniverse as well, herein used to describe everything NOT related to Transformers.
As mentioned, Primus created Transformers as a life form. He did this to offer a last line of defense against Unicron, believing in his creations to stop Unicron's awesome and terrible power. Unfortunately, they kinda got off the track more than once, and in most Streams they're sort of at war with one another. Brutal war. Unicron likes this. Arguably, Unicron is the cause of this, and in fact seeded it in more than one dimension.
Now. To guide the Transformers species, Primus also created the 'Matrix of Leadership', and it is anathema to Unicron - the one thing that can banish and stop him. To safeguard this Matrix, a line of Matrix-chosen Primes exists in most Streams, and serve as the bearers and guides of Light.
Got it so far? Now, imagine Nemesis as a clone created from a Prime, tortured for millenia by Unicron, and remade in to a Dead Matrix (read; Unicron infected/aligned Matrix) totin' soldier for the Chaos Bringer. Imagine Nemesis doing loads of Bad Things in the name of Unicron, which is really more so that Unicron can eat everything and the miserable suffering that is Nemesis's existence can just end.
He almost killed Primus via said Dead Matrix, then was promptly locked up for nine hundred thousand years, presumably abandoned by Unicron. Now, enter the Alternity.
The Alternity are a race of highly-evolved Transformers who reached god-like levels of power, awareness, and understanding. They are not so much one as all; a combination of individuals made to be one, thus giving a meaning to the manifesto 'all are one'. Multiple Optimus Primes are a part of the Alternity Optimus Prime. They are different, they are the same. They exist here, they exist there, they are all at once.
It is very confusing.
The Alternity exist to combat Hytherion, the 'Beast of Time'. This is a multidimensional being which devours timespace itself, feasting upon the origin points of dimensions and thus also being called the 'Origin Eater' for this. They inducted Nemesis Prime within their ranks (specifically the Convoy Corps), healing his mind in the process via its link to the species. Nemesis was loyal to them for this, but because of his past, ended up being quite a bit more brutal than the other 'good guys'
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After Nemesis pretty much destroyed an Auto-Avatar (one of the many, if you will) of Megatron, he was suddenly on a space station known as Sacrosanct. We will get in to that in the AU section.
*Personality: There's a few things that need to be kept in mind while describing Nemesis Prime. First off, one has to understand that he may be (a clone of) one of the most legendary figures in Transformers - Optimus Prime - that Optimus fell in his duty and was killed by Megazarak. That Optimus was then cloned through time and space by Unicron, tortured for thousand of years, and broken.
It's not so much the 'tortured and broken' part that needs to be noted as the fact that this was done by a god. Not just any god, but the Chaos Bringer Unicron, the antitheses of all life. The Big Bad Evil Guy Above The Big Bad Evil Guy. Unicron has no room for mercy, no justice, there is nothing good in him - anything that is is an illusion he uses to further his goals to end all.
Nemesis was past the point of broken. The wounds cut within him were deeper than ever possible by mortal hands and actions.
Now.
The Alternity healed him, but healing can leave scars. It's clear that Nemesis is somewhat of an irregular among them because of his brutality and ruthless methods. While he functions and thinks and is loyal to the cause, it doesn't take a genius to understand that he's still hurting in some way, shape, or form - as shown by his honest desire for revenge against Unicron.
This isn't an angst BAAAAAAAW IT STILL HURTS. This is an acceptance of pain, the knowledge that what he did, what has been done to him, what was can never be forgotten. This is picking yourself up after you didn't think so much as know there was nothing left, and continuing on anyway because dammit, there are things to be done only you can do.
And in Nemesis' case, that is fighting fire with fire.
While he does now care about collateral damage and won't go out of his way to hurt innocents (before, he'd blow up a planet to lure an opponent to him), he will absolutely not hold back in combat. He'll use underhanded tactics. He'll trick. He'll deceive. If he judges that he needs to shoot through someone to keep his foe from killing a thousand more, he'll do it. He will apologize once and then move on - because this is not about one or two.
This is about the entire multiverse, if not more. It is about stopping Hytherion before there is nothing to stop him from. Hell, if he needs to hold someone hostage and/or threaten to kill them in order to stop something from happening, he will do so gladly.
That said.
He's not an idiot. He'll consider the odds, consider the gain/loss, and will then act. Nemesis has become a 'prudently mastered warrior', and has a sense of honor that even Unicron couldn't break (though he could, and did, twist). Nemesis is willing to give others chances, but only one, and it can be a very small chance before he decides that it's simply not worth it.
Still, he remembers how the Alternity took a hopeless case like him and made something of it - and will not forget it. Ever. It's really because of that he fights so strongly for them, and for their goals, why he suppresses his urge for revenge against Unicron and focuses on the fight against Hytherion...because before he had nothing to die for and begged for death anyway. At this point, he has something to live for. It doesn't leave much time for recreation, and since he's cut off from that mission and also the rest of Alternity, he'll be at a loss for a bit as to what to do.
When a Protector unit called him 'Deity' - he instead told her to call him 'Knight of Darkness'. I'm taking this to mean that he knows he's not a god by any means - he doesn't want to have too much interaction with them at this point, thank you - and he also knows he's not your standard 'good guy'. He holds no illusions to what he is or what he does, and he doesn't try to justify them. He does them because he has to.
And, in a sense, so that no one else will have to. He's already dirtied his hands. Let him be the one who continues to do so, in the hopes of one day achieving some small piece of redemption. Honestly, though, he's not holding his breath for it - but can he do less?
*Powers/Abilities: oh god. oh dear god. The Alternity are a classic example of Japan doing their...thing, and just confusing the hell out of the rest of us.
CANONICALLY, the Alternity are capable of such feats as of creating a racetrack to travel through time and space, a mechanism that 'replicates all mechanical devices' (so they can make a coffee machine!?!? idk), a shield emitter that is 100% total and erases your presence even, a detector array to note changes in timespace, guns that can shoot you back in time, and oh god what. what is this. Just look at this, this, and this for examples of what Alternity Auto-Avatars possess and stare, because holy crap, Japan.
He doesn't have all of that, okay. Lots of it was chronically damaged when he arrived at Sacrosanct and never repaired. We're just going to start from scratch.
Nemesis Prime is/will be a lone Auto-Avatar. He will not have the connection to the true Alternity, and thus not be able to rely on the higher knowledgebase. He still has a sorta-evolution in terms of mind because it's what 'healed' him in the first place, but it's not like he's a walking wikipedia for dimensions.
Moving on.
He will not be able to move through time but he will be able to create 'closed-time' loops. Essentially, in an area - everything loops for a given amount of time (usually as long as he's focusing). However, he can exclude a single thing from looping, and obviously the surroundings don't loop. Let's apply this to how he did it in canon.
Megatron was shot at, and dodged. However, the time-loop immediately made that shot happen again, this time hitting him. Timeloop made it happen again - more shots hitting him. And again. And again, until there was nothing left of him. From his perspective, even, the world seemed to repeat except for Nemesis himself, who was quite willing to explain how much Megatron had just screwed up royally boy you is toast now.
It seems to be a very dirty way of fighting among the Alternity. Nemesis also doesn't seem to care that much. There's a few limits on it, though, with chronic damage lingering; a loop will only repeat for a few cycles before automatically breaking. Second, and perhaps the most crippling is that Nemesis can not run this ability again and again; he must rest a period of time before reactivating the drives. If he happens to miss his target, and immediately breaks the loop...it doesn't matter. His systems still need the rest time. In Sacrosanct, it was abuot 24 hours.
Nemesis can also detect changes in time-space and calculate where they are. Someone moves from the future to the present, he knows where they are. From the past to the present, he knows where they are. Someone moves from the future to the past and changes something, avoiding the present entirely? He knows where that change is, but would have to see it for himself to possibly understand what happened. This will have the side effect of making him Aware of the Lambda...but there was a similar Rift in Sacrosanct, and it became basically white noise to him. He was able to tune it out. I imagine it'll be similar, here.
He possesses his blasters, but their ability to shoot in the past/present/future/other dimensions is retarded; think maybe five seconds forward/back. In terms of other dimensions; he can hit beings that are ethereal, astral, not of 'this plane', ect. I'd like to say that these blasters on any setting but 'normal' (read; standard shooty shooty) will require an adjustment and take up a bit more power. He can't just keep up an endless stream; they need to recharge, presumably off his own stored energy, and he needs to recharge/refuel as well.
Speaking of which, he's a robot. He's a highly-advanced robot, but he still is a robot. That shield that was mentioned? Is noneexistant. He can get hurt. He'll need to be repaired, or rely on his self-repair systems more likely, because Alternium doesn't quite exist here and if he wants to stay up to touch his self-repair will have to work on energy to repair/restore what's there. To be fair, Alternium is also very durable, and won't break easily.
As a robot, he's also a Transformer. He transforms in to a black Nissan GT-R, and can switch between this and his more humanoid form at will (assuming nothing's broken). As a Nissan, he can do everything the car can do (uh, drive, play music, ect?) only better.
By better I mean I imagine he has a more comfortable interior. Also possibly drives faster/with more control, seeing as he is the car.
*Power Enhancements: I'd honestly like Nemesis to basically mutate back to Mammoth form, AKA what he was like as a Herald. Essentially his /spark/ remembers what it was like, and that's what's twisting - it's still Unicronian, in some way, shape, or form, and /that/ is pulled to the forefront.
So basically, given time, it's going to start with an unwelcome altmode change. From Nissan to Mammoth of Kill Everything. Also one that's surprisingly stealthy, with a coating that veils him from most sensors and you don't really understand how quiet he is when he's in that form okay he's a freaking elephant ninja holy crap. Anyway, other than that? Hellish armor that doesn't care about physical /or/ electronic/energy attacks.
Given more time/stimulus, his systems will also change. He'll still have some control over shifting timespace, though it'll be a lot harder to access as things progress. In its wake - his weaponry's direct /power/ will be enhanced. Sorry, you thought you have nice armor? You /had/ nice armor. There's holes in it now. Nemesis will also lose that kind of sensitivity to timespace, too, but quite a few more weapons will /form/ on him - lasers on his hips, a pair of kamas forming in nooks of the armor, machine guns in his arms along with those lasers...
I know this is a decently big change, but he /is/ a (former) Herald, and while I don't expect him to fully return to that here (he'll more likely choose outright death, possibly being An Hero against a certain crazyjet that is also being apped for this event). I would also like to play this change as slow but unstoppable over the month, VS a final week craziness; that'll only be if/when his mind goes. The week before that will be when the alt and everything else starts (though it'd be funny to me for certain parts - helm shape, some fuzz - to appear beforehand)
*Inventory: Aside from himself? Nothing physical. He does, however, have the entire library of Linkin Park downloaded to his hard drive. Don't hate. (There's also a holomatter projector, but he doesn't use it much unless interacting with smaller life forms.)
If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: Nemesis Prime is coming from a CRAU standpoint, after playing in Singularity - a game that takes place on a planet-spanning space station called Sacrosanct. And during his time, there, interacting with others in a 'peace' atmosphere...Nemesis (or Convoy, as he insisted in going by, reasoning that A) his true name could cause them undue concern or B) they didn't /know/ who Nemesis Prime was and what that signified, therefore they should only know him as a member of the Alternity, Convoy [Super Black]) slowly calmed, some. It wasn't as though he ever lowered his guard, or his hope of getting out and back to the Alternity, but...getting pulled through dimensions /to/ Sacrosanct severed much of his link with said Alternity. Instead of having that constant presence to stabilize him, he had to learn how to rely on others, again. And did, more than he could admit to himself - especially with a select few, who became surrogate Protectors (units meant to support the primary Alternity) in the absence of anything else. He trusted them, he relied on them...and in a sense, this is where he was most 'Prime'.
Nemesis didn't want any leadership, and refused to take it (overtly) - he took orders, he took direction, but in a way, he was /still/ a commander. A part of him that either the Alternity had given him, or that he'd never lost at all, risen to the forefront. It helped suppress the feelings that he'd been abandoned purposefully, and left to rot alone, or worse. Because through everything, Nemesis /never/ forgot his past with Unicron, and /never/ allowed himself to hope there would be anything else when he died. Either way, he would go back to Unicron and become /his/, once more...there simply wasn't any other option. To the Allspark? He was a clone, literal Pitspawn. Why would Primus take him? If he wasn't a clone, if he was /real/...he had still failed, all that time ago, and Primus would never forgive him for what he'd done.
Nemesis has gotten used to living with hopelessness, and basically telling it to fuck off he still has work to do he's not submitting to despair.
That /did/ destabilize a bit when there was an incident with Dark Energon, and he had a shard of it lodged in his chest; it essentially reverted him back to his Herald mindset. During which time he tried to destroy the entire station, and everyone on it. Through the power of a Matrix he was purged of it, but it wasn't quite enough to bring him 'back', so to speak. Hypatia - Sacrosanct's AI - sort of helped that along by essentially torturing him through sensory deprivation, which was as bad as it was /good/. As Nemesis had been partially broken through such a thing, it put him so deep in a blank state that the mech he trusted most of all others on the station, Barricade, was able to bring /him/ back out. Not that he wasn't still somewhat scarred from the event, but...
He worked through his guilt. Slowly. He had to.
That basically covers the major points. He had a quiet relationship with a mech-turned-human named Skyfire - almost father to son, with Skyfire actually making him honest-to-Primus /laugh/ once in an age - a close, protective standpoint over some younger children on the station, but...only ever felt comfortable enough taking so much charge in how the station ran itself. If it was peaceful...fine. If it wasn't...well, he was happy to lend a hand (or gun) against those who would disturb such peace.
Writing Samples
*First Person Sample: [Convoy looks somewhat...surly today, but considering that's seemingly his default...]
So we have a time limit on our...sentience...and nobody knows what it is. [beat] Normally I would make a comment about making the best of this time, but I find myself agreeing with those who are impatient. I find it difficult, at best, to believe that the Firstforged creations of Primus are powerless in this regard. And that there is nothing that can be done.
[he narrows his optics, manner just shy of accusatory before it fades, slowly. and then;]
Barricade, we...should talk.
Final Notes: Arguably Nemesis is an OCC, at least with his Alternity canon; however, I'm leaning on the CRAU canon to show the development/allow him in w/o issue, at least for the Glyphless event. As always, I will cede to the judgement of the other mods.
*Name/Alias: Mindy
*Your Journal:
artoni*Contact Information: If you don't know how to contact me I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but being hard to talk to ain't one 8B
*Characters already in the game: Raf, Fortress Maximus
Character Information
*Character Name: Nemesis Prime - AKA Convoy Super Black. (AKA Nemvoy, but that's really only an OOC nickname.)
*Character Canon: Transformers; Alternity
*Age: Adult mentality. Technically Nemesis served a lifetime under Unicron (or close to it) after being cloned from /another/ lifetime - then he spent a good period of time with the dimension-hopping Alternity. So basially I have no idea how old he actually is, just what he presents himself as. F'ing robots. Suffice it to say Nemesis is well over nine hundred thousand years old and still in the - derp - 'prime' of life.
*Race: Cybertronian; Alternity-ascended
*Timeline/Pull Point: Post Arch-Nemesis, pre Alternation.
*History: Wiki link - please note both the Cybertron Comic and Alternity sections. Below is a setting I used on another app that will hopefully summarize it decently.
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This...is going to be tricky. Stay with me, folks, we're in for a bit of a ride.
Understand that the Transformers universe is a multiverse, first and foremost. In 99% of these 'verses (Universal Streams or just Streams), there are two gods; Primus and Unicron. The 1% is because in some canons they haven't been officially recognized but Hasbro currently (they seem to change their minds sometimes) says that they're in everything, so. Primus is the Creator of all Transformer (robots who Transform in to one mode to another. easy, huh?) life, whether directly or by the Allspark or by other means, suffice it to say his purview is Life, Light, Creation, and he is eternally opposed to and counterbalanced by the Chaos Bringer, Unicron. AKA the Dark God, AKA the Planet Eater. Unicron desires nothing more than the complete and total annihilation of everything, including the multiverse. Arguably, the omniverse as well, herein used to describe everything NOT related to Transformers.
As mentioned, Primus created Transformers as a life form. He did this to offer a last line of defense against Unicron, believing in his creations to stop Unicron's awesome and terrible power. Unfortunately, they kinda got off the track more than once, and in most Streams they're sort of at war with one another. Brutal war. Unicron likes this. Arguably, Unicron is the cause of this, and in fact seeded it in more than one dimension.
Now. To guide the Transformers species, Primus also created the 'Matrix of Leadership', and it is anathema to Unicron - the one thing that can banish and stop him. To safeguard this Matrix, a line of Matrix-chosen Primes exists in most Streams, and serve as the bearers and guides of Light.
Got it so far? Now, imagine Nemesis as a clone created from a Prime, tortured for millenia by Unicron, and remade in to a Dead Matrix (read; Unicron infected/aligned Matrix) totin' soldier for the Chaos Bringer. Imagine Nemesis doing loads of Bad Things in the name of Unicron, which is really more so that Unicron can eat everything and the miserable suffering that is Nemesis's existence can just end.
He almost killed Primus via said Dead Matrix, then was promptly locked up for nine hundred thousand years, presumably abandoned by Unicron. Now, enter the Alternity.
The Alternity are a race of highly-evolved Transformers who reached god-like levels of power, awareness, and understanding. They are not so much one as all; a combination of individuals made to be one, thus giving a meaning to the manifesto 'all are one'. Multiple Optimus Primes are a part of the Alternity Optimus Prime. They are different, they are the same. They exist here, they exist there, they are all at once.
It is very confusing.
The Alternity exist to combat Hytherion, the 'Beast of Time'. This is a multidimensional being which devours timespace itself, feasting upon the origin points of dimensions and thus also being called the 'Origin Eater' for this. They inducted Nemesis Prime within their ranks (specifically the Convoy Corps), healing his mind in the process via its link to the species. Nemesis was loyal to them for this, but because of his past, ended up being quite a bit more brutal than the other 'good guys'
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After Nemesis pretty much destroyed an Auto-Avatar (one of the many, if you will) of Megatron, he was suddenly on a space station known as Sacrosanct. We will get in to that in the AU section.
*Personality: There's a few things that need to be kept in mind while describing Nemesis Prime. First off, one has to understand that he may be (a clone of) one of the most legendary figures in Transformers - Optimus Prime - that Optimus fell in his duty and was killed by Megazarak. That Optimus was then cloned through time and space by Unicron, tortured for thousand of years, and broken.
It's not so much the 'tortured and broken' part that needs to be noted as the fact that this was done by a god. Not just any god, but the Chaos Bringer Unicron, the antitheses of all life. The Big Bad Evil Guy Above The Big Bad Evil Guy. Unicron has no room for mercy, no justice, there is nothing good in him - anything that is is an illusion he uses to further his goals to end all.
Nemesis was past the point of broken. The wounds cut within him were deeper than ever possible by mortal hands and actions.
Now.
The Alternity healed him, but healing can leave scars. It's clear that Nemesis is somewhat of an irregular among them because of his brutality and ruthless methods. While he functions and thinks and is loyal to the cause, it doesn't take a genius to understand that he's still hurting in some way, shape, or form - as shown by his honest desire for revenge against Unicron.
This isn't an angst BAAAAAAAW IT STILL HURTS. This is an acceptance of pain, the knowledge that what he did, what has been done to him, what was can never be forgotten. This is picking yourself up after you didn't think so much as know there was nothing left, and continuing on anyway because dammit, there are things to be done only you can do.
And in Nemesis' case, that is fighting fire with fire.
While he does now care about collateral damage and won't go out of his way to hurt innocents (before, he'd blow up a planet to lure an opponent to him), he will absolutely not hold back in combat. He'll use underhanded tactics. He'll trick. He'll deceive. If he judges that he needs to shoot through someone to keep his foe from killing a thousand more, he'll do it. He will apologize once and then move on - because this is not about one or two.
This is about the entire multiverse, if not more. It is about stopping Hytherion before there is nothing to stop him from. Hell, if he needs to hold someone hostage and/or threaten to kill them in order to stop something from happening, he will do so gladly.
That said.
He's not an idiot. He'll consider the odds, consider the gain/loss, and will then act. Nemesis has become a 'prudently mastered warrior', and has a sense of honor that even Unicron couldn't break (though he could, and did, twist). Nemesis is willing to give others chances, but only one, and it can be a very small chance before he decides that it's simply not worth it.
Still, he remembers how the Alternity took a hopeless case like him and made something of it - and will not forget it. Ever. It's really because of that he fights so strongly for them, and for their goals, why he suppresses his urge for revenge against Unicron and focuses on the fight against Hytherion...because before he had nothing to die for and begged for death anyway. At this point, he has something to live for. It doesn't leave much time for recreation, and since he's cut off from that mission and also the rest of Alternity, he'll be at a loss for a bit as to what to do.
When a Protector unit called him 'Deity' - he instead told her to call him 'Knight of Darkness'. I'm taking this to mean that he knows he's not a god by any means - he doesn't want to have too much interaction with them at this point, thank you - and he also knows he's not your standard 'good guy'. He holds no illusions to what he is or what he does, and he doesn't try to justify them. He does them because he has to.
And, in a sense, so that no one else will have to. He's already dirtied his hands. Let him be the one who continues to do so, in the hopes of one day achieving some small piece of redemption. Honestly, though, he's not holding his breath for it - but can he do less?
*Powers/Abilities: oh god. oh dear god. The Alternity are a classic example of Japan doing their...thing, and just confusing the hell out of the rest of us.
CANONICALLY, the Alternity are capable of such feats as of creating a racetrack to travel through time and space, a mechanism that 'replicates all mechanical devices' (so they can make a coffee machine!?!? idk), a shield emitter that is 100% total and erases your presence even, a detector array to note changes in timespace, guns that can shoot you back in time, and oh god what. what is this. Just look at this, this, and this for examples of what Alternity Auto-Avatars possess and stare, because holy crap, Japan.
He doesn't have all of that, okay. Lots of it was chronically damaged when he arrived at Sacrosanct and never repaired. We're just going to start from scratch.
Nemesis Prime is/will be a lone Auto-Avatar. He will not have the connection to the true Alternity, and thus not be able to rely on the higher knowledgebase. He still has a sorta-evolution in terms of mind because it's what 'healed' him in the first place, but it's not like he's a walking wikipedia for dimensions.
Moving on.
He will not be able to move through time but he will be able to create 'closed-time' loops. Essentially, in an area - everything loops for a given amount of time (usually as long as he's focusing). However, he can exclude a single thing from looping, and obviously the surroundings don't loop. Let's apply this to how he did it in canon.
Megatron was shot at, and dodged. However, the time-loop immediately made that shot happen again, this time hitting him. Timeloop made it happen again - more shots hitting him. And again. And again, until there was nothing left of him. From his perspective, even, the world seemed to repeat except for Nemesis himself, who was quite willing to explain how much Megatron had just screwed up royally boy you is toast now.
It seems to be a very dirty way of fighting among the Alternity. Nemesis also doesn't seem to care that much. There's a few limits on it, though, with chronic damage lingering; a loop will only repeat for a few cycles before automatically breaking. Second, and perhaps the most crippling is that Nemesis can not run this ability again and again; he must rest a period of time before reactivating the drives. If he happens to miss his target, and immediately breaks the loop...it doesn't matter. His systems still need the rest time. In Sacrosanct, it was abuot 24 hours.
Nemesis can also detect changes in time-space and calculate where they are. Someone moves from the future to the present, he knows where they are. From the past to the present, he knows where they are. Someone moves from the future to the past and changes something, avoiding the present entirely? He knows where that change is, but would have to see it for himself to possibly understand what happened. This will have the side effect of making him Aware of the Lambda...but there was a similar Rift in Sacrosanct, and it became basically white noise to him. He was able to tune it out. I imagine it'll be similar, here.
He possesses his blasters, but their ability to shoot in the past/present/future/other dimensions is retarded; think maybe five seconds forward/back. In terms of other dimensions; he can hit beings that are ethereal, astral, not of 'this plane', ect. I'd like to say that these blasters on any setting but 'normal' (read; standard shooty shooty) will require an adjustment and take up a bit more power. He can't just keep up an endless stream; they need to recharge, presumably off his own stored energy, and he needs to recharge/refuel as well.
Speaking of which, he's a robot. He's a highly-advanced robot, but he still is a robot. That shield that was mentioned? Is noneexistant. He can get hurt. He'll need to be repaired, or rely on his self-repair systems more likely, because Alternium doesn't quite exist here and if he wants to stay up to touch his self-repair will have to work on energy to repair/restore what's there. To be fair, Alternium is also very durable, and won't break easily.
As a robot, he's also a Transformer. He transforms in to a black Nissan GT-R, and can switch between this and his more humanoid form at will (assuming nothing's broken). As a Nissan, he can do everything the car can do (uh, drive, play music, ect?) only better.
By better I mean I imagine he has a more comfortable interior. Also possibly drives faster/with more control, seeing as he is the car.
*Power Enhancements: I'd honestly like Nemesis to basically mutate back to Mammoth form, AKA what he was like as a Herald. Essentially his /spark/ remembers what it was like, and that's what's twisting - it's still Unicronian, in some way, shape, or form, and /that/ is pulled to the forefront.
So basically, given time, it's going to start with an unwelcome altmode change. From Nissan to Mammoth of Kill Everything. Also one that's surprisingly stealthy, with a coating that veils him from most sensors and you don't really understand how quiet he is when he's in that form okay he's a freaking elephant ninja holy crap. Anyway, other than that? Hellish armor that doesn't care about physical /or/ electronic/energy attacks.
Given more time/stimulus, his systems will also change. He'll still have some control over shifting timespace, though it'll be a lot harder to access as things progress. In its wake - his weaponry's direct /power/ will be enhanced. Sorry, you thought you have nice armor? You /had/ nice armor. There's holes in it now. Nemesis will also lose that kind of sensitivity to timespace, too, but quite a few more weapons will /form/ on him - lasers on his hips, a pair of kamas forming in nooks of the armor, machine guns in his arms along with those lasers...
I know this is a decently big change, but he /is/ a (former) Herald, and while I don't expect him to fully return to that here (he'll more likely choose outright death, possibly being An Hero against a certain crazyjet that is also being apped for this event). I would also like to play this change as slow but unstoppable over the month, VS a final week craziness; that'll only be if/when his mind goes. The week before that will be when the alt and everything else starts (though it'd be funny to me for certain parts - helm shape, some fuzz - to appear beforehand)
*Inventory: Aside from himself? Nothing physical. He does, however, have the entire library of Linkin Park downloaded to his hard drive. Don't hate. (There's also a holomatter projector, but he doesn't use it much unless interacting with smaller life forms.)
If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: Nemesis Prime is coming from a CRAU standpoint, after playing in Singularity - a game that takes place on a planet-spanning space station called Sacrosanct. And during his time, there, interacting with others in a 'peace' atmosphere...Nemesis (or Convoy, as he insisted in going by, reasoning that A) his true name could cause them undue concern or B) they didn't /know/ who Nemesis Prime was and what that signified, therefore they should only know him as a member of the Alternity, Convoy [Super Black]) slowly calmed, some. It wasn't as though he ever lowered his guard, or his hope of getting out and back to the Alternity, but...getting pulled through dimensions /to/ Sacrosanct severed much of his link with said Alternity. Instead of having that constant presence to stabilize him, he had to learn how to rely on others, again. And did, more than he could admit to himself - especially with a select few, who became surrogate Protectors (units meant to support the primary Alternity) in the absence of anything else. He trusted them, he relied on them...and in a sense, this is where he was most 'Prime'.
Nemesis didn't want any leadership, and refused to take it (overtly) - he took orders, he took direction, but in a way, he was /still/ a commander. A part of him that either the Alternity had given him, or that he'd never lost at all, risen to the forefront. It helped suppress the feelings that he'd been abandoned purposefully, and left to rot alone, or worse. Because through everything, Nemesis /never/ forgot his past with Unicron, and /never/ allowed himself to hope there would be anything else when he died. Either way, he would go back to Unicron and become /his/, once more...there simply wasn't any other option. To the Allspark? He was a clone, literal Pitspawn. Why would Primus take him? If he wasn't a clone, if he was /real/...he had still failed, all that time ago, and Primus would never forgive him for what he'd done.
Nemesis has gotten used to living with hopelessness, and basically telling it to fuck off he still has work to do he's not submitting to despair.
That /did/ destabilize a bit when there was an incident with Dark Energon, and he had a shard of it lodged in his chest; it essentially reverted him back to his Herald mindset. During which time he tried to destroy the entire station, and everyone on it. Through the power of a Matrix he was purged of it, but it wasn't quite enough to bring him 'back', so to speak. Hypatia - Sacrosanct's AI - sort of helped that along by essentially torturing him through sensory deprivation, which was as bad as it was /good/. As Nemesis had been partially broken through such a thing, it put him so deep in a blank state that the mech he trusted most of all others on the station, Barricade, was able to bring /him/ back out. Not that he wasn't still somewhat scarred from the event, but...
He worked through his guilt. Slowly. He had to.
That basically covers the major points. He had a quiet relationship with a mech-turned-human named Skyfire - almost father to son, with Skyfire actually making him honest-to-Primus /laugh/ once in an age - a close, protective standpoint over some younger children on the station, but...only ever felt comfortable enough taking so much charge in how the station ran itself. If it was peaceful...fine. If it wasn't...well, he was happy to lend a hand (or gun) against those who would disturb such peace.
Writing Samples
*First Person Sample: [Convoy looks somewhat...surly today, but considering that's seemingly his default...]
So we have a time limit on our...sentience...and nobody knows what it is. [beat] Normally I would make a comment about making the best of this time, but I find myself agreeing with those who are impatient. I find it difficult, at best, to believe that the Firstforged creations of Primus are powerless in this regard. And that there is nothing that can be done.
[he narrows his optics, manner just shy of accusatory before it fades, slowly. and then;]
Barricade, we...should talk.
Final Notes: Arguably Nemesis is an OCC, at least with his Alternity canon; however, I'm leaning on the CRAU canon to show the development/allow him in w/o issue, at least for the Glyphless event. As always, I will cede to the judgement of the other mods.