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Personality:
Pineveil is a gleeful sadist. He's seemingly light-hearted and open in a mischievous way, likes to tease and taunt, and makes no secret of his love for cruelty. He laughs retelling his crimes! Despite this he can be very coy, and lies very easily if he knows his conversation partner would disapprove of whatever he's done. He loves tormenting those who can't fight back because it lets him feel in control.

Lore:
Pineveil was built during the war to be a disposable asset, expected to die in his first battle. When he somehow survived, he feared being sent into similar battles until one would kill him, and as such searched for ways to make himself less disposable. He tried several things until he found a knack for locating others' weak points, which he leaned into whole-heartedly, allowing it to shape his personality and becoming a sadist.

Using this ability he successfully avoided his original purpose, so now he's just a regular - if low-ranked - Seeker.

Abilities/weaknesses:
His spark has a kind of glitch, so his spark signature is unclear and he's learned to adjust it to resemble another's. In other words, he's capable of mimicking other bots' signatures, though he can't do it very long without starting to hurt himself. He uses this almost exclusively for ambush purposes.
He has the usual Seeker moves and arm blasters, but his alt mode's aerial balance is a bit off due to his wing being repaired wrong. He likes getting up close and personal if he's outclassing his enemy.
He has a distinct affinity for picking up on someone's physical or mental weak points and will target them whenever he can. He could use this ability to help allies but that possibility has honestly not occured to him.
While he tries not to show it, he has weak points of his own. He's terrified of dying and hates feeling powerless and helpless more than anything, as it brings him back to when he was disposable. He also dreads the idea of losing his voice.

Other notes:
Raccoon gremlin vibes. SUCH huge raccoon gremlin vibes.
He doesn't want to hurt his allies. He may lightly bully them, but unless severely slighted won't ever turn his abilities against them. He doesn't make this clear enough, though, which has made him unpopular and distrusted.
At some point he got banned from the medbay, so when his wing was broken, he repaired it by himself and proceeded to permanently mess it up. Good job buddy.
While he does kill in battle, he doesn't tend to kill those he torments, as he wants them to remember and fear him.
He's the one who shot Windframe down on that one mission. Luckily, he wasn't able to follow up on it, since his squad was busy fighting Windframe's allies at the time.
He very badly wants to stay alive. No matter what's going on he prioritizes his own safety, and he fears any bot he knows none of his tactics will work on (Megatron, Shockwave). Paradoxically, this means he may lie to Megatron to avoid catching his ire, which really only digs him deeper.
Weirdly, he seems to enjoy painting. Not drawing, but painting on walls and people, especially with his fingers. There is some discussion about how and when he found this interest, but most agree his first 'paint' was probably some poor guy's energon.


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Windframe - Pineveil shot him down once but couldn't find him again to finish the job or bully him, has never quite forgiven him for that