The Energon Pub

[Marcus Rush]

Name: Huffer

Allegiance: Autobot

Sub-group: Minibots

Function: Construction Engineer Chief Starship Engineer

Alt. mode: Semi Truck Cab with Tow Truck Capabilities

Weapons: Standard Issue Charged Phased Energy Pulse Rifle

Special Abilities: Advanced Tactile sensors. Can scan metal and other elements and immediately determine all properties of scanned target. From Tensile strength to weaknesses, Resistances to potential elasticity and from melting points to best molecular bonds to improve the substance, he can detect it all. He is a master of Mathematics, Geometry and construction

Height: 16 Feet 10 Inches Tall

Quote: "Molecular structure is the key to success."

Strength: 8
Intelligence: 9
Dexterity: 4
Speed: 5
Endurance: 7
Firepower: 4
Accuracy: 7
Courage: 8
Melee: 4
Tech Skill: 9.
Charisma: 3
Rank: 6

Profile: Cynicism, depression, irritability, anti social behavior, and a desire to simply be left in peace, if you believed these to be to be symptoms of eons of war taking its toll on even the most stout Autobot soldiers... Well in most cases that would be true, but not in the case of Huffer. Permanently embedded in a vision of life that is carefully shaded through a sludge covered windshield, Huffer is constantly depressed and overly vocal about his pessimism. While he has full confidence in the abilities of Optimus Prime to lead the Autobots to ultimate victory, he does not believe that he will ever live to see peace restored. He will complain about every plan that is offered, and doubly so if he is even involved, knowing deep in his processor that no matter what it will fail. Even if it succeeds, he plucks out the flaws and harps on them until others are as bitter as he is, or at least tries to.
There are reasons behind his constant dark and dour attitude. And though he was a bit of a depressing Autobot before the war, it was the abandonment of his beloved homeworld and the destruction of all that he helped build that took its final toll on him. Rather than discouraging such behavior, or at least leave him to his acid clouds, most everyone in the team to which he is assigned focuses on cheering him up. This activity helps in turn to cheer themselves during the dark and trying times of the war. Though even with all of the platitudes and empty promises, Huffer knows deep down that he will never be truly happy until he is standing once more on a free and rebuilt Cybertron.
As a construction engineer, Huffer has no equal. He will take the most sophisticated designs and immediately complain that they can’t be built as how the designer envisioned. He will then turn around and build whatever it was that he was asked to construct, build it bigger, better and more complete than what the design initially called for... just to prove his point. Like many of the Autobot engineers, he does not openly volunteer his abilities as he is sick of watching his majestic works destroyed by Decepticon warmongers.
Even though he is not the most charming Autobot to be around, and probably one of the least pleasant, there is no Autobot more reliable. He embodies the ideals that Optimus Prime tires to imbue into the movement. He will literally give up his last drop of energon if it meant saving a friend or at least saving a friendly acquaintance.

Abilities: Advanced tactile sensors. Can scan metal and other elements and immediately determine all properties of scanned target. From Tensile strength to weaknesses, Resistances to potential elasticity and from melting points to best molecular bonds to improve the substance, he can detect it all. He is a master of Mathematics, Geometry and construction. He is considered one of the strongest Autobots his size, second only to Brawn in that regard. Capable of hauling a vast array of trailers, tow equipment and other non standard issue devices, he is one of the more versatile vehicular forms.

Weaknesses: There are times where Huffer can be so depressed that he renders himself incapable of movement and requires a great deal of attention to bring himself back from the shadows.