I HAS A ROLLAR!!!

[mimi_sardinia]

Roller is home! He's cute little thing, though in robot form he's a bit... delicate. Not the way Magnus is delicate but more that he's got some quite small joints that are pretty loose (which is kinda nice for a new toy, but then again... well sometimes I wish Magnus's joints were as tight as Prime's).

I am not totally impressed by the story in the comic that came with him, but then I have my own story for Roller anyway (though the Bunny Farm confuses the issue a bit, with a recent post that came up for another origin for Roller that I, and my muse, like the idea of).

Anyway, I'll have to see later - when I have some good lighting - about getting pictures of him.

He needs a baggy to keep his kibble in (weapons, windshields, spare hands), but that's okay, just means one more dot of blu-tack in Prime's trailer. Though now I'm going to have to evict Stealthy and make him go live with his brothers.

Now I just have to try transforming him back into his buggy mode.

Comments

[agiftedmind.livejournal.com]

Comic with Rollar? 0.o Damnit, now i has to get that one.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

It has that he worked with, but was not very close to Orion Pax, and when the Decepticons attacked the docks, he was too scared to do anything. Later, the Matrix upgrades him and sends him to another timeline to help out there.

That however goes against any of my personal ideas, because there is no way Orion could not know Roller if Roller was his drone, or as the latest idea on the Bunny Farm proposed, Orion's parasitic twin.

[agiftedmind.livejournal.com]

Ohhh! yea, I like the Drone Idea. Its way better.

Parasitical twin? 0.o scary.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Oh, the parasitic twin idea isn't a bad one, the idea is that a spark splits but one of the resulting twins doesn't develop properly, and may even be missed when the larger twin spark is placed into a body. Some time later, the smaller twin spark starts causing problems for the bigger one at which time a check of the larger spark uncovers the smaller one, surviving by drawing power from it's larger twin.
Because the parasitic twin has not developed properly, it will never be able to survive as a normal mech, probably not even be fully sentient, so it gets put into a small body and due to the twin bond acts as it's larger twin's drone.

So, the idea I have on it is that some time in his early years, Orion has spark problems that turn out to be an improperly formed twin that has been drawing on his spark. The parasitic twin is removed and turned into Barrelroller, Orion's drone who later becomes Roller, Optimus Prime's drone.

[agiftedmind.livejournal.com]

:D I like that Idea. It fits as well. all the way back to the G1 Cartoon when Roller gets hurt, Prime gets hurt as well. XD