Airachnid

**Airachnid** (エアラクニッド, *Earakunido*) is a Decepticon torture expert, assassin, and alien collector. Airachnid is one of a cruel, cold-sparked, murderous demeanor and she won't hesitate to finish off her prey, where it also served her well with the Decepticons a long time ago during the Great War on Cybertron. After she left Cybertron in the Great Exodus, however, she decided to went and gone solo. These days, she started visiting other planets, and spends her time engaging in her new hobby: collecting "endangered species" — parts of the dominant and endangered species she encountered,... well, mostly the heads. Now, if a species *isn't* endangered? She absolutely makes *sure* of that they will be, and she'll make sure it's a very slow, painful process, which she keeps in specimen jars on her ship.

Very less trustworthy than even Starscream, she is even more than willing to kill her own men or leave her commanding officers behind if it means getting what she wants. She has quite a vicious, bitter history with Arcee, the pains and traumas she had inflicted on her from the said Autobot's torture to the brutal execution of one of her partners, and both will stop at nothing to kill each other. She also has the ability to control Insecticons.

"*For a Spiderbot, Airachnid, Your're definitely **insane**.*"
"*\*Sadistically insane laugh\* And so they say!*"

—Starscream and Airachnid.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor:* Gina Torres (English), Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese), Marina Thovez (Italian), Heide Domanowski (German), Ella Pyhältö (Finnish), Denise Reis (Portuguese), So-yeong Lee (Korean) Erica Edwards (Latin American Spanish), Julia Martínez (Spain-Spanish)
Conditioned to battle and hardship by her years spent hunting rare creatures across the depths of space, Airachnid is a primed and powerful warrior. She has returned to the service of Megatron after her long absence, determined to prove herself as a leader - no matter who she has to destroy to do it.

### Robot Mode

Airachnid appears like a spider, with long spider like limbs on her back. Airachnid wears a built in skirt that exposes her midriff (belly), like Arcee has. Airachnid also appears to have purple eyes with a compound look and her primary color is dark purple.

### Vehicle Mode

She transforms into a Cybertronian Helicopter that can convert itself to a jet, when arriving to Earth, she adapts the vehicle mode of a black helicopter, which she scanned from one of Agent Fowler's helicopter.

## Personality

A sadist in the purest sense of the word, Airachnid takes sick and twisted pleasure and enjoyment out of inflicting pain upon others; whether it's physical, mental, or emotional. Having studied and practiced the arts of torture to horrifying degrees, she is able to measure one's strength of will by how much they resist the agony she inflicts upon them. She can use others' weaknesses against them. A 'con of sport, Airachnid enjoys hunting (mostly sentient beings), as well as collecting endangered species (and if they're not endangered, she'll make it so). She likes to toy with her victims, prolonging their suffering for as long as possible. A vengeful and conspiring woman, Airachnid will always settle scores, as she tried to against three mere childeren when she attempted to kill their mother in front of them. Making them watch while she takes their family apart "the sweetest revenge [she] can possibly devise", as retaliation for their father destroying her ship.

An opportunist, she acts on anything that would benefit herself, such as when she tried to steal the polarity gauntlet, and thought that delivering the Immobilizer would allow her to worm into Megatron's favor. She has no problems backstabbing her fellow 'Cons, as she tried to take command in Megatron's absence and didn't think anything of abandoning Starscream.

## Relationships

### Friends and Allies

* Decepticons
* Insectisons

### Neutral

* Megatron
* Starscream
* M.E.C.H.
	+ Cylas

### Enemies

* Autobots
* Team Prime
	+ Optimus Prime
	+ Bumblebee
	+ Bulkhead
	+ Ratchet
	+ Arcee
* Teen Titans
	+ Robin
	+ Starfire
	+ Raven
	+ Cyborg
	+ Beast Boy
* Unicron

## Weapons and Abilities

Airachnid is a torture expert, and can measure one's strength of will by how much they resist the pain and agony she inflicts upon them in interrogations.

She is armed with a plethora of weapons: Blasters built into her hands, which also fire webbing; acidic poison secreted from her finger claws; six extra spider-like appendages that can be used as claws or blades; and she has the ability to command Insecticons by emitting a specific frequency, an almost buzz/hum sound.

She is considered to be of a unique kind of Transformer called Triple-Changers: her robot-mode, vehicle-mode (stealth copter), and a spider-like "beast mode". However, she is also known to have a kind of "drill-mode", in which she uses her arachnoid legs to spin and dig down below the ground.

Due to her interaction with the Energon-hungry Terracon C.Y.L.A.S., she now has the ability to drain other Transformers of energon.

## History

During the great war for Cybertron, Airachnid managed to capture Arcee and her partner Tailgate. Quickly realizing that Arcee would resist the physical torture she used, Airachnid decided to employ a simpler threat: Tell her the attack coordinates of an impeding attack, or Tailgate dies. Arcee insisted she didn't know the coordinates, but Airachnid didn't believe her and killed Tailgate. Moments later, Jazz and Cliffjumper burst into the holding room, killing the two Vehicons and rescuing Arcee. Airachnid, however, escaped.

Following the Great Exodus, Airachnid concluded that the war was over, meaning she needed a new way to spend her time.