Encore

"Yer own personal lead raincloud!"

ENCORE loves to go loud. Whether that's blasting out classic Progressive rock or modulating his engine note into a bone-shaking roar, he's happiest making noise. As an AC130U in alt-mode, he's extremely good at this, with a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon, and a 105mm artillery cannon. He can use these guns in his robot mode, though they don't hit as hard. ENCORE is a very large individual, standing level with Optimus Prime when in robot form, and in alt mode he's got a 130-foot wingspan. He modelled his robot mode on a Vietnam sergeant he saw in a movie. He's also a fan of Old Earth music, namely rock, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and Prog Rock.

History
Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History: Back on Cybertron, Encore was, like his "brother” Fanfare, a Suicide Jockey, providing fire support for the cargo hauler while he ran the dangerous runs, and a limited amount of cargo capacity. Where Fanfare was an ill-tempered shouty type, gradually growing frustrated by the lack of combat, Encore always found something to do with himself, something that usually got him in trouble. Manufacturing Energon Moonshine ("A Shine for Every Occasion") was one of his ways of keeping himself entertained, and blowing things up was another. Sometimes, they were kind of the same thing, which was always fun. When Optimus and his crew had departed, Encore got down to some serious brewing, distilling and mixing up his latest batch of Moonshine – something he’d promised would be able to clean a shuttle’s exhaust tubes as an added benefit.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately for those who like intoxicating energon, he went too far- while stirring the mixture and adding a few secret spices ("Just a little bit of battery acid for flavour...”), he let the liquid build up too many gaseous fumes.

When said highly volatile fumes reached the heat source, the results were predictable, if rather surprising for Encore-, damaging his body quite seriously. Perhaps luckily for him, this was at about the time of the energon crisis and, about two Earth years before Fanfare, Encore was put into stasis.

He’s now been taken out of the freezer and brought back to something resembling functional status. Upon sight of Fanfare’s C130F form, he decided he should look similar to his ‘brother’ and searched the archives. Finding an image of the AC130U, he settled upon it and brought it to a modernised form – though he’s kept the weapons pretty much as-is.

He also discovered classic rock at the same time, developing a love for Progressive rock, 12-bar, and NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). He lists his favourite bands as The Who, Status Quo, Iron Maiden and Motorhead.

MUX History:

Players
Encore was played by his creator.