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Description
Heavily inspired by Final Fantasy 14 Hellhound and War for Cybertron games. :>

Height: approx. 9 meters.

One member of captain Hexaray's squadron during the later part of the war. Joined the Decepticons in support of the cause like many he knew back then did. His old job was a secretary in a metal industry company, interviewing new people for the jobs, managing data sets and to keep them up to date, keeping things organized between different teams, and assisting with material purchases. Wheelset wasn't treated that well by those who had a more 'important job', thus had to take tasks that weren't part of his job description like updating their energon-ratio storages and serving those to other officer bots, and his boss.

The Decepticon recruiters decided that Wheelset's attention to detail and management skills were worth exploring further. With proper training, and just going with the flow of where others would decided he'd go, he eventually got the hang of fighting and actually liked being able to defend himself more properly. The need to prove a point that he was as much worth than any of the bots at his former job resulted in vigorous training to become better at what he already was good at. Now it was just combined with fighting, and thanks to the hovercar alt, Wheelset was taught to use those parts of him for his advantage. When he learned to do that, he became a lot faster and others around the training couldn't keep up with him.

The teachers discussed the future plans with a bot like that, and that maybe less direct fighting was something worth testing. Wheelset found himself taking private lessons from a bot who didn't even share their name, and slowly it dawned to him that what he was being taught was to be a spy, a scout, someone who'd do the shady business in the shadows, and go for a quick kill. He took the new role seriously and eventually was ready to take on more dangerous missions, eventually making many a bot disappear or be found dead without a trace of the culprit. Occasionally would cross paths with Jazz, but those never became conflicts, as one of the teacher's rules were: "When you see Jazz you run away, escape, drop the mission."

Originally had just two modes, but due to circumstances and feeling inferior compared to other spies like Ravage, decided it was worth the sacrifice of his 'dignity' to take a beast-mode rather than a vehicle. Things just didn't go as planned, and him scanning a Predacon for alt-mode resulted in him gaining third mode rather than swapping the vehicle to a beast. The transformation sure was painful as hell, and Wheelset thought he'd just die right there and then. Conflicted with emotions ranging from anger towards himself for simply failing such a 'simple' task, he questioned the higher powers what he had done to deserve such an undignified end after surviving the war for millions of years.

Alas, Mortilus didn't want to drag him down to the Pit yet, and Wheelset's frame finally settled with the third mode. Of course it required being forced to drink a lot of energon to give his body enough energy to deal with the ordeal.

Survives the war, and has hard time to adjust to 'normal civilization and living' again, swapping from job to job, nothing feeling right. Maybe one day he'll find something that fits.

Hello wall of text

Transformers © Hasbro
Wheelset © pika aka me!
tools used: original sketch with ballpoint pen on paper, clean version with Clip Studio Paint Pro 2, Wacom Intuos 3

Description
Heavily inspired by Final Fantasy 14 Hellhound and War for Cybertron games. :>

Height: approx. 9 meters.

One member of captain Hexaray's squadron during the later part of the war. Joined the Decepticons in support of the cause like many he knew back then did. His old job was a secretary in a metal industry company, interviewing new people for the jobs, managing data sets and to keep them up to date, keeping things organized between different teams, and assisting with material purchases. Wheelset wasn't treated that well by those who had a more 'important job', thus had to take tasks that weren't part of his job description like updating their energon-ratio storages and serving those to other officer bots, and his boss.

The Decepticon recruiters decided that Wheelset's attention to detail and management skills were worth exploring further. With proper training, and just going with the flow of where others would decided he'd go, he eventually got the hang of fighting and actually liked being able to defend himself more properly. The need to prove a point that he was as much worth than any of the bots at his former job resulted in vigorous training to become better at what he already was good at. Now it was just combined with fighting, and thanks to the hovercar alt, Wheelset was taught to use those parts of him for his advantage. When he learned to do that, he became a lot faster and others around the training couldn't keep up with him.

The teachers discussed the future plans with a bot like that, and that maybe less direct fighting was something worth testing. Wheelset found himself taking private lessons from a bot who didn't even share their name, and slowly it dawned to him that what he was being taught was to be a spy, a scout, someone who'd do the shady business in the shadows, and go for a quick kill. He took the new role seriously and eventually was ready to take on more dangerous missions, eventually making many a bot disappear or be found dead without a trace of the culprit. Occasionally would cross paths with Jazz, but those never became conflicts, as one of the teacher's rules were: "When you see Jazz you run away, escape, drop the mission."

Originally had just two modes, but due to circumstances and feeling inferior compared to other spies like Ravage, decided it was worth the sacrifice of his 'dignity' to take a beast-mode rather than a vehicle. Things just didn't go as planned, and him scanning a Predacon for alt-mode resulted in him gaining third mode rather than swapping the vehicle to a beast. The transformation sure was painful as hell, and Wheelset thought he'd just die right there and then. Conflicted with emotions ranging from anger towards himself for simply failing such a 'simple' task, he questioned the higher powers what he had done to deserve such an undignified end after surviving the war for millions of years.

Alas, Mortilus didn't want to drag him down to the Pit yet, and Wheelset's frame finally settled with the third mode. Of course it required being forced to drink a lot of energon to give his body enough energy to deal with the ordeal.

Survives the war, and has hard time to adjust to 'normal civilization and living' again, swapping from job to job, nothing feeling right. Maybe one day he'll find something that fits.

Hello wall of text

Transformers © Hasbro
Wheelset © pika aka me!
tools used: original sketch with ballpoint pen on paper, clean version with Clip Studio Paint Pro 2, Wacom Intuos 3