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Name: Aaron Harding | Ironhide
Age: 50
Appearance: He is built like a brick house. Or a linebacker, whichever you find more descriptive. He's somewhere around 6'3", and a couple hundred pounds of muscle, and prosthetics. Those are mostly limited to damage repair -- like a replacement hip, some ribs, and part of the right side of his face. He has short, dark hair, and blue eyes in a heavily-lined face. He also carries a lot of scars, minor and major, with the most noticeable ones being on said right side of his face, and a large, circular scar on his chest. The scar on his face is about the size of three fingers, starting at his chin, climbing up to his eyebrow, and then tapering off to the right. The blow damaged the eye on that side, and while it's been repaired by various doctors, it remains less responsive than the other, with poorer vision, especially in low light.


Occupation: Security guard for a generic business complex

Full Application: Here!

Echoes Received:
1st Echo -- So one day, he was out in the park, doing as much of a workout as possible -- a light jog or something. And about tripped over an angry chihuahua suddenly charging out into his path. Okay, more like actually tripped, because he landed face-first on the pavement. Fortunately, there was an odd guy in a bright yellow track suit there to help! Not that a few scrapes were anything a hardened soldier had to worry about, but all the same, the gravel had to be cleaned out and whatnot -- which was precisely what the other guy did.

And BAM. Cue bizarre flash of knowing this person, amidst the bantering and borderline bickering. He'd never seen him before in his life, but, for some reason, he couldn't help but feel as if he'd met him before. Not just deja-vu, complete and utter surety. He knew his name, for one thing, the name Ratchet. It was the kind of feeling you get when you run into someone you've known for a long time, but haven't seen in years. Like an old childhood friend. An immediate feeling of ease and familiarity. That, and the whole, odd number thing.

2nd Echo --
The tattoos covering his original form. They include sigils and symbols in Cybertronian. The tattoos run across his knuckles, across his "cheekbones", around his "ears", and in a circle on either shoulder. The facial tattoos can be seen here. The last tattoo... is the Autobot symbol. On his lower back. He won't know what they mean, only that they're extremely embarrassing.

3rd Echo --
The memory of Optimus Prime. Not in full. Only that he served a commander by that name. That he was possibly the most important thing on the planet, the most vital part of the cause. That he would do anything for him. The loyalty to him. Basically the feelings and name associated with Optimus but no images or specific events.

4th Echo --
Seeing Ratchet's physical echo (the arm) in this thread, after the buzzing intensifies, triggering the memory of: "I WAS A ROBOT." Yep. Seeing Ratchet's arm triggers the memory flash of his old body. He'll remember being huge and made of metal and guns.

5th Echo -- 
The Heavy Iron - it's a cannon. A collapsible cannon usually stored on his back, in his other form, though smaller sized, for a human body.  This also includes his memory will be everything pertaining to the weapon, its care and use. And where it came from. Its name, etc

6th Echo --
Alien-farmhouse-attack gets him his robot body. With the scars and broken bits and old man pains that come with it. No extra weapons, car mode, or gains in height. He's a 6' some odd robot soldier.

7th Echo --
Seeing Ratchet's robot form. gets him about 20 extra feet in height. He'll be bounced back to 25' tall, but only for so long as the fighting lasts. A couple hours or so. So it's temporary, overall.

8th Echo --
Fighting Wise Snake alongside his old BFF gets him transforming between human and robot forms. He'll be able to go between looking like a normal person, and his robot body. No truck yet, so no go-kart sized topkick rides, sadly. But he'll be able to pass as a human again once he figures out how in the world to control the transformations.

9th Echo --
Stomping on a toothpick monster gave him back... an accent. His vaguely British, incredibly precise and formal way of speaking. He'll go from talking like a normal person to talking more like this.

10th Echo --
Seeing the crazy car in the plot log grants a Tier 2: Ability --> transforming his robot body into a car. More specifically, his truck altmode. It won't be as huge as it normally is, more like the size of an average pickup, instead of a giant battleship of a truck. But other than that, the rest of the truck operates as normal.

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To be updated as needed.