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smoothlikeMun Name: Maya
Journal:mayamali
Contact Info: Plurk: Mayalex; AIM: mayamayamali
Other Characters: Starscream (FoC), Randall Boggs, Veser Hatch
Name: Jazz
From: Transformers: Animated
Appearance:
Age: Pretty dang old. It can be assumed that he's older than 10 million years old.
Gender: Male.
Personality:
Jazz is an incredibly competent soldier, make no mistake about that. He's a skilled Cyber-Ninja (possibly even the best there is) as well as a member of the Cybertonian Elite Guard, capable of keeping his cool in almost any situation and being able to defuse most things with a swing of his nunchaku.
But while he is dangerous in hand-to-hand combat, he's also not one to pick a fight when confronted with anything not openly wearing a Decepticon symbol. He especially stands out among his fellow members of the Elite Guard as the only one actively willing to learn about Earth culture, and regards most of what he's learned so far with enthusiasm -- he sees most, if not all of it, in a positive light, and has even picked up on a good amount of the slang... Even if some of it is a bit outdated. Needless to say, other Cybertronians can easily pick him out just by his voice and the way he talks.
Although Jazz is very much loyal and reluctant to disobey any orders that come from higher-ups, he is a rather independent thinker and won't hesitate to question an order he finds dubious -- especially when they come from Sentinel Prime. He often serves as a voice of reason and peacemaker, and isn't afraid to tell anyone when they're being an idiot... Again, especially Sentinel. Jazz only respects others than he finds to be open-minded and has their heart in the right place. Needless to say, Sentinel Prime only has the barest amount of respect. In fact, Jazz openly admits that he only listens to about half of anything Sentinel says when asked how in the world he puts up with him.
Despite his laid-back attitude, he isn't completely unshakable, especially when it comes to dealing with Decepticons in a way he's not entirely familiar with... or with a new organic species when he's been misinformed about them before-hand, as Sari so helpfully helped demonstrate. When he does lose his cool, it usually isn't for very long, and he bounces back relatively easily -- after all, that's what's helped keep him alive for so long.
Backstory: Possible spoilers?
Nothing is provided about Jazz's history before coming to Earth with the rest of the Elite Guard. When Ultra Magnus ordered Jazz to deploy force field around the ship upon their arrival in order to keep the humans away, Jazz questioned it -- he wanted to get a closer look. However, he was immediately put off from this when Sentinel Prime told him that organics were dangerous and would spit acidic goo at him.
This came into play when Sari infiltrated the ship, which Jazz had been left in charge of while Optimus Prime took Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime to show where the battle that had destroyed the AllSpark, the reason the Elite Guard had come to Earth in the first place. He tried to calmly direct her out, but Sari picked up that he was afraid of her and used this to scare him.
Finally, Bulkhead and Bumblebee explained that humans were harmless and Sentinel Prime was a jerk, and Jazz quickly recovered from the blunder in time for word to come that a manufacturing plant was spitting out drones that had gone haywire, and Jazz, after warning Team Prime that he's not supposed to let them out of his sight, was convinced to come with them, which he agreed to. After all, he was itching to test out his stylish new alt mode.
Once they got to the plant (after Jazz expressed approval at the concept of traffic lights), he complimented Prowl's fighting abilities before showing off a bit himself until Optimus Prime could come and escort Sari into the plant to shut it down, revealing a shard of the AllSpark had been embedded in the control console of the assembly line.
Jazz was the one who noticed a spike in energy in the area and led the Autobots to a booby trap by Starscream meant for Megatron. Jazz had to pull Sentinel and Optimus Prime apart before their fighting could escalate, but was swiftly knocked unconscious by Starscream when he tried to apprehend the Decepticon. He recovered in time to escort the other Autobots in placing an arrested and apprehended Starscream on the Elite Guard ship.
Starscream managed to escape from the ship, but not before the Elite Guard managed to download some of his components. These were used to create the twins Jetfire and Jetstorm as part of something called "Project Safeguard". Jazz was rather wary of the entire process and the twins themselves, but he taught them the basics of hand-to-hand combat anyway. He managed to defeat them when head-to-head, but was defeated the second he turned his back. After this, his team was called by Rodimus to provide backup, but didn't arrive until after their assailants had left.
He came back to Earth in search of suspected Decepticon spy Wasp along with Sentinel Prime, and revealed that his way of coping with Sentinel... well, being Sentinel: he ignores half of everything Sentinel says. Once they caught Wasp, who had disguised himself as Bumblebee, Jazz learned from Optimus' team that the true spy was actually Longarm Prime, the head of Cybertronian Intelligence, and Wasp had been framed!
Jazz and Prowl, suspicious of Sentinel Prime's arrest on several Decepticon agents, exposed that Sentinel had hired Lockdown, a bounty hunter, to catch them for him. Shortly after this, the Elite Guard was ordered to retreat from Earth, an idea Jazz wasn't too keen on. On the trip back, Sentinel Prime was temporarily promoted, and the new power quickly went to his head. He ordered Jazz to pilot them through an unstable ion storm, which reactivated Swindle, who had been apprehended by Lockdown. Swindle freed the other Decepticons, and the Elite Guard was defeated. Fortunately, Sentinel actually did something smart and sent a distress signal to Optimus instead of Cybertron, and Optimus helped calm the situation, although Lugnut and Swindle escaped.
Jazz soon joined the Earthbound Autobots, having had enough of Sentinel's ego, and started teaching Prowl lessons he hadn't gotten to learn, since the former never finished his training as a Cyber-Ninja, and helped protect the human civilians when three Lugnut Supremes dropped down onto the city. He teamed up with Prowl to try and take two of them down, but they both retreated when their efforts turned out to be in vain. The two of them decided to reconstruct the AllSpark, but it wasn't enough to protect the entire city -- until Prowl sacrificed himself and donated his own spark, to Jazz's protest.
And thus, it was Jazz's sad job to present his comrade's fallen body to Optimus' team once they proved victorious, and helped carry his casket when they returned to Cybertron to be regarded as heroes... and this is when he's pulled into the city.
Moral Standing: As a whole, he's Lawful Good -- focused on upholding peace and protecting civilians from danger... although he may disregard an order if he finds an extremely probably cause to do so.
Dreams: Defeating the Decepticons and finally seeing this war end.
Fears: He doesn't have a whole lot, honestly. Perhaps he's a little uneasy when it comes to facing Decepticons, and for good reason.
Extra: He comes in with a pair of nunchaku, and his alt mode is a pretty sweet car of indeterminable make. As a Cybertronian, he stands at a (very much guesstimated) height of about 18 feet.
Character Location: Robohobo! He doesn't come with one of his own.
Samples: Meeting Sari
Jazz Joins Optimus
Writing Sample: Chatting with Rewind and a Dear Mun post
Journal:
mayamali Contact Info: Plurk: Mayalex; AIM: mayamayamali
Other Characters: Starscream (FoC), Randall Boggs, Veser Hatch
Name: Jazz
From: Transformers: Animated
Appearance:
Age: Pretty dang old. It can be assumed that he's older than 10 million years old.
Gender: Male.
Personality:
Jazz is an incredibly competent soldier, make no mistake about that. He's a skilled Cyber-Ninja (possibly even the best there is) as well as a member of the Cybertonian Elite Guard, capable of keeping his cool in almost any situation and being able to defuse most things with a swing of his nunchaku.
But while he is dangerous in hand-to-hand combat, he's also not one to pick a fight when confronted with anything not openly wearing a Decepticon symbol. He especially stands out among his fellow members of the Elite Guard as the only one actively willing to learn about Earth culture, and regards most of what he's learned so far with enthusiasm -- he sees most, if not all of it, in a positive light, and has even picked up on a good amount of the slang... Even if some of it is a bit outdated. Needless to say, other Cybertronians can easily pick him out just by his voice and the way he talks.
Although Jazz is very much loyal and reluctant to disobey any orders that come from higher-ups, he is a rather independent thinker and won't hesitate to question an order he finds dubious -- especially when they come from Sentinel Prime. He often serves as a voice of reason and peacemaker, and isn't afraid to tell anyone when they're being an idiot... Again, especially Sentinel. Jazz only respects others than he finds to be open-minded and has their heart in the right place. Needless to say, Sentinel Prime only has the barest amount of respect. In fact, Jazz openly admits that he only listens to about half of anything Sentinel says when asked how in the world he puts up with him.
Despite his laid-back attitude, he isn't completely unshakable, especially when it comes to dealing with Decepticons in a way he's not entirely familiar with... or with a new organic species when he's been misinformed about them before-hand, as Sari so helpfully helped demonstrate. When he does lose his cool, it usually isn't for very long, and he bounces back relatively easily -- after all, that's what's helped keep him alive for so long.
Backstory: Possible spoilers?
Nothing is provided about Jazz's history before coming to Earth with the rest of the Elite Guard. When Ultra Magnus ordered Jazz to deploy force field around the ship upon their arrival in order to keep the humans away, Jazz questioned it -- he wanted to get a closer look. However, he was immediately put off from this when Sentinel Prime told him that organics were dangerous and would spit acidic goo at him.
This came into play when Sari infiltrated the ship, which Jazz had been left in charge of while Optimus Prime took Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime to show where the battle that had destroyed the AllSpark, the reason the Elite Guard had come to Earth in the first place. He tried to calmly direct her out, but Sari picked up that he was afraid of her and used this to scare him.
Finally, Bulkhead and Bumblebee explained that humans were harmless and Sentinel Prime was a jerk, and Jazz quickly recovered from the blunder in time for word to come that a manufacturing plant was spitting out drones that had gone haywire, and Jazz, after warning Team Prime that he's not supposed to let them out of his sight, was convinced to come with them, which he agreed to. After all, he was itching to test out his stylish new alt mode.
Once they got to the plant (after Jazz expressed approval at the concept of traffic lights), he complimented Prowl's fighting abilities before showing off a bit himself until Optimus Prime could come and escort Sari into the plant to shut it down, revealing a shard of the AllSpark had been embedded in the control console of the assembly line.
Jazz was the one who noticed a spike in energy in the area and led the Autobots to a booby trap by Starscream meant for Megatron. Jazz had to pull Sentinel and Optimus Prime apart before their fighting could escalate, but was swiftly knocked unconscious by Starscream when he tried to apprehend the Decepticon. He recovered in time to escort the other Autobots in placing an arrested and apprehended Starscream on the Elite Guard ship.
Starscream managed to escape from the ship, but not before the Elite Guard managed to download some of his components. These were used to create the twins Jetfire and Jetstorm as part of something called "Project Safeguard". Jazz was rather wary of the entire process and the twins themselves, but he taught them the basics of hand-to-hand combat anyway. He managed to defeat them when head-to-head, but was defeated the second he turned his back. After this, his team was called by Rodimus to provide backup, but didn't arrive until after their assailants had left.
He came back to Earth in search of suspected Decepticon spy Wasp along with Sentinel Prime, and revealed that his way of coping with Sentinel... well, being Sentinel: he ignores half of everything Sentinel says. Once they caught Wasp, who had disguised himself as Bumblebee, Jazz learned from Optimus' team that the true spy was actually Longarm Prime, the head of Cybertronian Intelligence, and Wasp had been framed!
Jazz and Prowl, suspicious of Sentinel Prime's arrest on several Decepticon agents, exposed that Sentinel had hired Lockdown, a bounty hunter, to catch them for him. Shortly after this, the Elite Guard was ordered to retreat from Earth, an idea Jazz wasn't too keen on. On the trip back, Sentinel Prime was temporarily promoted, and the new power quickly went to his head. He ordered Jazz to pilot them through an unstable ion storm, which reactivated Swindle, who had been apprehended by Lockdown. Swindle freed the other Decepticons, and the Elite Guard was defeated. Fortunately, Sentinel actually did something smart and sent a distress signal to Optimus instead of Cybertron, and Optimus helped calm the situation, although Lugnut and Swindle escaped.
Jazz soon joined the Earthbound Autobots, having had enough of Sentinel's ego, and started teaching Prowl lessons he hadn't gotten to learn, since the former never finished his training as a Cyber-Ninja, and helped protect the human civilians when three Lugnut Supremes dropped down onto the city. He teamed up with Prowl to try and take two of them down, but they both retreated when their efforts turned out to be in vain. The two of them decided to reconstruct the AllSpark, but it wasn't enough to protect the entire city -- until Prowl sacrificed himself and donated his own spark, to Jazz's protest.
And thus, it was Jazz's sad job to present his comrade's fallen body to Optimus' team once they proved victorious, and helped carry his casket when they returned to Cybertron to be regarded as heroes... and this is when he's pulled into the city.
Moral Standing: As a whole, he's Lawful Good -- focused on upholding peace and protecting civilians from danger... although he may disregard an order if he finds an extremely probably cause to do so.
Dreams: Defeating the Decepticons and finally seeing this war end.
Fears: He doesn't have a whole lot, honestly. Perhaps he's a little uneasy when it comes to facing Decepticons, and for good reason.
Extra: He comes in with a pair of nunchaku, and his alt mode is a pretty sweet car of indeterminable make. As a Cybertronian, he stands at a (very much guesstimated) height of about 18 feet.
Character Location: Robohobo! He doesn't come with one of his own.
Samples: Meeting Sari
Jazz Joins Optimus
Writing Sample: Chatting with Rewind and a Dear Mun post
