Bumblebee

Character Information:

• Name: Bumblebee
• Other Names: B-127 (Original name), Bee, Goldwheels
• Birthday: 10,000 Years Ago
• Race: Cybertronian
• Faction: Autobots
• Rank: Guardian & Scout
• Height: 16 feet

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Physical Appearance:

• Bumblebee is a 16.6-foot tall Cybertronian who can transform into vehicles as disguises called alt modes. His current vehicle is a yellow 1977 off-road Chevy Camaro with black racing stripes, and he previously was a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle. Fully mechanical, yellow body plating, Two car lights on chest, two car wheels on the back of his shoulder. Smooth and sleek helmet with a rounded top. Has big, expressive blue eyes and two ears on the top of his head that react to his emotions. Has a battle mask he can activate at any time. The battle mask covers the top of his face and has a sharp V line. Bumblebee also a mouthguard, an Autobot symbol on his forehead, and two door wings behind his back. His build is broad-chested with long legs, and he has arm cannons as weapons, but he's not allowed to transform in public.

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Personality:

• Bumblebee has a brave, loving, and occasionally careless personality at the same time. He is also obedient to his leader and father figure Optimus Prime. Bumblebee is very intelligent and curious about humans, especially with their devices or technology. He loves watching shows and listening to music, finding it entertaining. He wants to learn more constantly. Bumblebee has a need for speed, wanting to drive fast when in his car form, regardless of human law. He's very empathetic towards human emotion, hating to see others upset. Despite not being able to speak, Bumblebee is very expressive with his eyes and the ears on top of his head.

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Speech:

• Bumblebee's voicebox was damaged by Blitzwing seven years ago so Bumblebee communicates through beeping, whirring or sometimes using audio clips from popular media on his radio. He is completely mute and can't speak with his real voice. He speaks through a series of beeping noises, but only Cybertronians understand him. He often uses expressive gestures and body language to communicate while also making beeping noises.

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Abilities:

• Longevity: Being a cybertronian, Bumblebee can live for millenias without showing signs of age.
• Stinger: Bumblebee possessed two different stinger weapons. One was the Stinger Sword, a small sword that came out of his wrist. The other was the Stinger Blaster, a blaster that his right arm could transform into. Upon his arrival on Earth, Bumblebee used his Stinger Sword to damage Blitzwing's jet engines, stripping him of his flight. When he was impaled by the Sector Seven harpoon guns, Bumblebee used the sword to cut the ropes of the harpoons to free himself. The sword was broken off during his fight with Shatter, who impaled him in the shoulder with it. She nearly used it to deliver the killer blow before Bumblebee use his stinger blaster to cause a flood that resulted in Shatter getting crushed to death by a cargo ship.

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Background:

• A scout under the command of Optimus Prime, B-127 was part of the final battle for Cybertron — a battle that ended with the Autobot position overrun by the Decepticons and necessitating a full-scale Autobot evacuation of Cybertron. As part of this evacuation, Prime tasked him with a reconnaissance mission to the distant planet of Earth—its location hidden from the Decepticons—in the hopes that the scout could establish a base for the Autobots to regroup and strike back. Launched off-planet aboard an escape pod, B-127 crash-landed in California in the year 1987, having the bad fortune to land in the woods where Sector Seven agent Jack Burns had been conducting a training exercise.
• Trying to flee the hostile humans, B-127 quickly scanned a jeep alternate mode to make his escape and fled through the woods until he was cornered outside of an abandoned mineshaft. Despite his best intentions to assure the humans of his good intentions, the Autobot scout found himself attacked by the Decepticon Blitzwing. Believing that B-127 knew the whereabouts of Optimus Prime and his forces, the Decepticon grappled with the little Autobot in an attempt to get him to speak; when his foe retorted that he would never disclose Prime's location, Blitzwing "made it official" by ripping out B-127's voice box and grievously injuring him by hurling him off a cliff. Before the Decepticon could execute him, B-127 emerged triumphant by jamming one of Blitzwing's missiles into the Decepticon's superstructure, blowing Blitzwing to smithereens.
• His voice box damaged, his memory cells offline, and his body failing, the critically wounded B-127 was able to limp to a nearby riverbank, and before entering stasis he was able to scan a new disguise: a Volkswagen Beetle. It was in this form that B-127 remained for some time while he recovered, and at some point the derelict car found its way to a run-down salvage yard in Brighton Falls, where it was sheered and left to rust.
• In August of that year, B-127's derelict form caught the attention of Charlie Watson, and while trying to start the car she triggered the Autobot's radio, broadcasting a signal that inadvertently reached the Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick on Saturn. Several days later, on her eighteenth birthday, yard owner Hank allowed Charlie the car as a birthday present if she could get it to start. After fixing the engine, Charlie drove her new car home, and while repairing the car her investigations inadvertently revealed B-127, still wounded, mute, and amnesiac from his battle on Earth. Inspired by the buzzing noises of his broken voice box, Charlie named him "Bumblebee."
• With his memories restored and his body healed, Bumblebee drove Charlie to the Golden Gate Bridge to say his goodbyes so that he could reunite with the other Autobots and continue his mission on Earth. After thanking his human friend for helping him find his voice, Bumblebee scanned a passing Camaro and drove off, meeting up with Optimus Prime on the bridge and driving away. In the woods that night, Prime commended the scout for his bravery as the pair watched more Autobots arrive on Earth.