Talk:Floodlight

From her original app
Floodlight is a brainiac and a bit of a geek. She’s very good at what she does, but a like a lot of geeks she’s a little awkward and insecure outside her area of expertise. She’s very meek and shy, and naively believes that if she continues to work hard and do her part in the bowels of the intelligence division, making her superiors look good, that she’ll eventually be promoted, recognized, and rewarded for her efforts. The fact that she’s not really cut our for leadership or higher position, or the fact that as long as she does good work where she is, there’s no reason to promote her, hasn’t really occurred to her.

She’s not terribly self-reflective; for a Decepticon, she’s remarkably innocent. Her intelligence data could potentially lead to the deaths of dozens of Autobots and/or hundred of innocents, but she only thinks of the enemy and collateral damage as abstractions – just more data points to process. She’s seen precious little combat, and has only seen its carnage and effects from a distance or through the filter of media. She’s not really evil, nor is she particularly good – she hasn’t been tested, and so she hasn’t thought much about her personal philosophy or that of the Decepticons. She swallows Decepticon propaganda whole, without reflection or deep thought on the subject – for someone terribly smart, she knows little of ethics or morality. However, she isn’t cold or distant – in her own geeky, introverted way, she’s pleasant to her co-workers and practically submissive to her bosses.

She considers herself patriotic – she has a large Decepticon symbol on her chest and wings, and if she were an American human she’d have a Chinese-made US plastic flag in her window and Support Our Troops magnets on the back of her minivan. She has little field experience and actually detests going outside into the Earthen environment. At first I’d play her as one of the faceless support personnel of the Decepticon Empire, and develop her from there based on her experiences.