Spike Witwicky (GW)

"Never give up on the ones you love." Of all the Witwickys, Spike took his mother's murder at the hands of enemy G.I. Joe agents the hardest. When his father stepped down from G.I. Joe, Sparkplug initially devoted the majority of his time to his sons. Buster proved to be far more resilient than his brother and was eventually recruited by top engineering schools for his computer hacking abilities. Spike tested high in reading comprehension and writing, but would routinely "shut down" for days or sometimes weeks. As a teenager, still haunted by his mother's death, Spike fell into a deep depression. With all other options exhausted, Sparkplug eventually admitted his son to a psychiatric hospital.

While Spike was admitted, news about massive alien ship discovery began to circulate. Sparkplug was one of the first responders to these new alien visitors, known as Transformers. While Sparkplug began recruiting the Autobots found in that great space ship, the elder Witwicky asked Spike to assist him. Spike soon thrived in his new role as he began to teach the Autobots about Earth. As Spike became more and more comfortable in his role, his deep depression began to fade as he began to accept that a future could be brighter than today.

Favorite Albums

 * Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
 * Depeche Mode - Violator
 * The Haxan Cloak - Excavation 
 * Joy Division - Closer
 * The Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
 * Beck - Sea Change
 * Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
 * Portishead - Dummy
 * Radiohead - Kid A

Favorite Movies

 * The Sweet Hereafter 
 * The Ice Storm
 * Children of Men
 * Leaving Las Vegas



Logs

 * Seven Year Stay - Spike's crippling depression as a teenager reaches a breaking point in the Witwicky household as his father finally decides to commit his son to a psychiatric hospital. Seven years later, Sparkplug takes a risk and takes Spike out of the hospital that he hasn't left since he was 16 to help on a new assignment in the Ark.