Assassin (Fate/Mythos - Dinobot Slash)

*"Dinobot Slash is faster and smarter than all other Dinobots. Me show you why."* - Slash.

**Assassin** (アサシン, *Asashin*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Slash**, the newest and youngest of the Dinobots. She is an elite tracker and sneaky hunter who always finds her target, always chasing them until they are caught, proving very useful for the Autobots in their ongoing battle against the Decepticons, even doing occasional secret missions for them. Slash transforms into a robotic approximation of a Velociraptor. Her beast mode jaw can open and close, and a Power Master in Spark mode can fit inside the compartment on her beast mode back once it is opened. While still very powerful as a Dinobot, Slash sacrifices some of that strength to gain greater speed and intelligence, making her unpredictable opponent to those expecting her to fight like the rest.

While at first glance, she would seem a poor fit with the loud and boisterous members of the Dinobots, Grimlock sought out the smaller Dinobot due to her abilities to supplement and cover for the Team's lack of skill. Still, despite being aloof, Slash is all too happy to help out her commander and allies. As a relatively new member of the Dinobots, Slash doesn't work with other Dinobots that often, instead preferring to work alone likely due to her job as a silent tracker. When on her own, she would rarely communicates with the others until what she is doing is done. Nonetheless, she is still a very apprenticed member of the group with the others treating as a little sister.

Though the sixth member of the Dinobots, Slash does not form any part of the Dinobot combiner Volcanicus due to Grimlock not wishing to anything bad to happen to Slash if something went wrong with the combination. When paired with a Power Master, she tends to use her newfound power to further hone her tracking abilities.

#### History

Due to the differences of the Dinobots' origins within the many universes of Primax cluster, Slash has two separate origins depending on which universe she is from. These two origins are the Cybertron Origins, where the Dinobots were created on Cybertron, and the Earth Origins, where the Dinobots were created on Earth.

##### Earth Origins

Slash was originally meant to be created with the Dinobots Snarl and Swoop, but didn't create her after hearing that Optimus was captured by Grimlock and the other two when they were tricked by Megatron so their creators instead worked on finishing the other two. After the battle between the Dinobots and the Constructicons, Wheeljack found the plans of Slash's creation in his workplace while he was cleaning up.

With permission of Optimus himself, the creation of Slash began as the other Dinobots observed the construction of their newest fellow Dinobot.

### Personality

While definitely the smartest of the Dinobots, Slash is still quite slow in understanding complicated words and ideas. In fact, she possess Grimlock's simple-minded thinking in that she would rather act first instead of thinking of a plan. Though unlike the other Dinobots, she is far more willing to listen to orders, especially to those she likes such as Elita One and Hot Rod. She is also more willing to work with non-Dinobot Autobots such as with Power Masters. As with the other Dinobots, she hates when those with strength abused those weaker than them which only heightens her disdain with Decepticons due to their cruel actions towards the humans and young Autobots. Slash is also quite a determinator as when she chases down her target, she will always never gives up until she catches them. In fact, Slash will continue chasing her target until there will be nowhere to run.

She possess valiant warrior mentality, unwilling to run from a fight even at a disadvantage such as the time where she fought the Predacons alone when they attacked Dinobot Island which resulted in her getting captured by them and having the rest of the Dinobots come rescue her. With her warrior mentality, she stands one of the most brutish of the Female Autobots and is usually indifferent towards to softer girly things. Even so, when she isn't with her group, she would usually be near the Female Autobots especially those who also have a warrior mentality such as Elita One. She also really hates bullies.

### Relationships

#### Grimlock

Second only to Slag, Slash is the most loyal to Grimlock among the Dinobots with her treating him as a great leader and comrade. Even more, she treats him as an older sibling figure which is very much reciprocated by him, being very protective over her due to being the youngest. In fact, this protectiveness has resulted in him getting aggressive with those "flirting" to Slash which some Autobots learned the hard way.

Due to being near Grimlock the most and so learning from him, she gain her personality traits from him, such as his valiant warrior mentality, his simple-minded thinking (to act first rather than think of a plan) and his disdain to those who would abuse their strength on those weaker.

#### Kup

Like with the rest of the Dinobots, Slash really enjoys Kup's stories and would listen to them even in random times. Even without those stories, Slash still really enjoys Kup's presence as he is not as strict with her as with the other Dinobots.

## Abilities

Even as the youngest Dinobot, Slash is still a grade above most normal bots with her capable of simply tearing about Decepticon mooks with her bare hands. She is also very durable as she can endure direct shots from the Combaticons while other Autobots can be taken down with similar shots. She was also able to hurl bots high up in the air with a single throw. She also stands as the fastest of Dinobots, able to catch up with sport cars with ease and even once catch Blurr off guard with her speed (even though he is far faster than her).

### Notable Skills and Techniques

* **Presence Concealment** (D+ Rank):
* **Independent Action** (B+ Rank):
* **Energy Share** (C Rank):
* **Green Fire Breath** (B+ Rank):
* **Dinobot Physiology** (A Rank):
* **Master Tracker** (A+ Rank):

### Other Skills

* **Flight**: Like with the other Dinobots, Slash is able to gain flight even in the emptiness of space which helps her battles with the Decepticons. As with her ground speed, Slash is also the fastest of the Dinobots in the air.

## Quotes

* *"Elite tracker always finds her target."* - A bio about Slash.
* *"Slash can talk normally, me just enjoys talking like this."* - Slash.
* *"Slash tear puny Decepticons into pieces."* - Slash.
* *"Decepticons break too easily, not fun smashing them."* - Slash.
* *"Slash is superior to puny Predacons, Slash will crush them like bugs."* - Slash to the Predacons.
* *"Slash not understand what friend Perceptor is talking about."* - Slash showing her slow understanding.
* *"Slash stands by leader Grimlock to the end!"* - Slash to Grimlock about her loyalties.
* *"Slash believes friend Arcee is being a little too paranoid. Please calm down."* - Slash to Arcee.
* *"Miss Elita!"* - Slash's affectionate name for Elita One.
* *"Autobots friends are in trouble, me Slash will help them."* - Slash.

## Gallery

*Slash's Beast Mode**Slash with the other Dinobots*
## Trivia

* While not related to any of the Dinobots, they all treat her as a little sister due to her age and inexperience.
	+ A warning known among the Autobots is to never belittle or mock Slash in front of them if they don't want to be pummeled by the other Dinobots.
	+ Another is never "flirt" with Slash, whatever flirting means to the Dinobots.
	+ They also do not like the idea that they tend to forget she even exists. Just because they don't mention her that much, that doesn't mean they don't care for her greatly.
* Due to her large size and occasional recklessness, Slash is likely the worst Assassin in the Throne of Heroes.
	+ Ironically enough, Slash may actually be tougher than some Berserkers.

## References

* https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slash\_(POTP)
* https://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/819/transformers-forged-to-fight-character-suggestion-thread/p97