Aranea

Aranea is a freshman student of the Autobot Academy with the talent of Telepathy.

## Official Bio

*Aranea has a certain... pedigree behind her, born of riches gotten through privateering, But that doesnot mean she's had the best life - her mother's a workaholic drunkard and her estranged father decided to send her to the academy rather than deal with raising her. She suspects that something up with this turn of events. Due to being homeschooled and wealthy as frack, Aranea has a slightly higher-than-recommended view of herself, but is unused to the customs of the common folk, resulting in a personal image of aloofness and cold. Only time will tell if this sticks...*

## History

### Before Joining the Academy

The daughter of Mindfang and Cronus, Aranea lived a relatively pampered lifein her family's estate outside of Crystal City. *She had a poor relationship with her father, who would hurt her both physically and emotionally in ways such as giving her an aversion to eating by twisting her wrist if she tried to take more food than he desired, and she in turn would only refer to them by their real names instead of "Mother" and "Father"*, before being sent off to the Autobot Academy *due to Cronus not wanting her around and having to choose a school to go to. Desiring to become a better person than those in her family legacy and make her own path motivated Aranea to go*. When boarding the *Xantium*, she was seen of by her father.

### Freshman Year- First Semester

*In Humble Beginnings, during the journey to Acadeimos, Aranea made efforts to ignore the thoughts of and avoid the other students, particularly Longshot, and Mach Dart, and told Hosehead to go away when he tried to make conversation with her, and listened to music for the duration of the trip.*

*During Forest Trials, Aranea used her spider mode to get to the ground safely after getting dropped into the Forest of Trials. She was able to learn the monsters were all merely performers using her telepathy as she went off on her own. Eventually deciding to join up with Longshot, Mach Dart, Saber, Circuit, Ironfist, and Ramjet, she found herself generally annoyed by her company due them being unprofessional, disliking Circuit due to his crude joke and overly friendly attitude, eventually using her telepathy to yell at Ramjet. When Circuit tried to get her to give him money using his talent, she used Cronus's wrist hold on him and told him not to ask for things from his betters. When he laughed at her, claimed she was no better than him, and tried to blackmail her with her families history, Aranea threatened to kill him with a SerketCorp knife she possessed before heading off on her own. Not stopping to sleep and reflecting on how she dealt with Circuit, Aranea made good time by not taking a break to eat or talking to Slideways when she sensed him, but was followed by Longshot. She kept walking and pushed him away despite his attempts at convincing her to join the group she found to be not to her liking, though she was tempted. The first of the group to arrive at Training City C, Aranea located the tunnel to the Academy, but found Steeljaw there waiting and asked him about what had happened with his group until the rest of the group arrived and Circuit's injuries were brought up. The other freshmen all followed her down the tunnel to the transport that took them all to the Academy. Upon arriving she was sent to see Prowl, who she told what her goals of academy attendance were, and was required to give up her knife. Afterwards, Aranea turned down Circuit's offer to buy her food as an apology when Starfleet came with her luggage, and after being showed her to her dorm, Room 20, she decided to take a bath and rest.*

On her first day at the Academy, Aranea was sorted into Class 4-B under the tutelage of Rollout. *In The First Test* *she informed the rest of the class of her powers and some of her history and stood at the back of the room and watched as other students demonstrated their powers.*

*Aranea was one of the bots Longshot considered useful and hoped to find during Nighttime Duel.*

Aranea's telepathy allowed her to easily figure out Longshot had a crush on her, and she confronted him about it multiple times.

In Fight Sim Club Aranea was placed on the "hero" team during the first weekly training exercise held by Kup. She was noted by Kup as one of the students he was worried about going bad.

In Observations in Team Dynamics, she was present for assembly where Fort Max announced groups of Autobots would be working under official Autobot Teams to see how they worked and earn experience, sitting next to Bomb-Burst. She, along with Apathet, Artillery, Cog, Scrounge, and a tagging along Mixmatch, and Axor were sent to work under Grimlock, Snarl, and Terranotron on Nighthaunt. At some point during their time there, they and a visiting Roulette would fight a colossal lizard creature, taking it down to the surprise of their mentor, going as far as to pose with it for a photo.

During Zero to Hero, Aranea was among many Acadeimos student prepared for a special training session where the students would find themselves facing professional Autobots in a "no-win" payload challenge. She was part of a group of students who spotted Lightbright's spotlight and arrived to aid her fighting Star Convoy, but was ultimately tied in her own thread when she tried fighting the top hero, and the students failed the challenge. However, it was found that they had managed to beast the record of other students taking on this challenge.

Around Primus Day, Aranea was among many female students asked by Thunderhoof to come with him to a fancy celebration hosted by his father, only to give him a swift and bitter "no" due to not wanting to see her father, who was in attendance as well.

### Freshman Year- Second Semester

*Longshot knew Aranea had other plans, so he decided to not try asking her to be his date to the gala in Festival Of Stars Pt. 2 The Gala!.*

Later that year, in Knowing Me, Knowing You, she attended a special gala to celebrate the students accomplishments so far. During the gala, she was present for Star Convoy's speech, including when "Umbra Convoy" hijacked it to denounce Star Convoy.

## Powers and Abilities

* Mind Reading
* Webbing Projection
1/2Due to her telepathy, Aranea has the ability to read the thoughts of beings and project her own, though the extent of this power has yet to be seen. In addition, she has the ability to project webs as a result of her beast mode.

In addition, like almost all other Cybertronians, Aranea also has the ability to transform, taking on the form of a Mechanical Spider.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Autobots
	+ Mindfang - Mother
	+ Autobot Academy
		- Class 4-B
			* Rollout - Homeroom Tutor
			* Artillery - Classmate
			* Buster - Classmate
			* Fuego - Classmate
			* "GorillaBot" - Classmate
			* Mach Dart - Acquaintance
			* Nautica - Classmate
			* Sonar - Classmate
			* Tailgate - Friend
			* Tremor - Classmate
		- Circuit - Acquaintance
		- Hosehead - Acquaintance
		- Ironfist - Acquaintance
		- Longshot - Friend
		- Saber - Acquaintance
		- Arcee - Friend
		- Steeljaw - Acquaintance
		- Thunderhoof - Acquaintance
		- Lightbright - Friend
		- Cog - Friend
		- Roulette - Friend
		- Strongarm - Friend
		- Scrounge - Friend
		- Riptide
		- Mixmatch - Friend
		- Axor - Friend
		- Ramjet - Acquaintance
		- Starfleet
	+ Romaing Team Ky-Alexia
		- Prowl
* Roaming Team Nighthaunt
	+ Grimlock
	+ Snarl
	+ Terranotron
* Redglare - Aunt
* Lodestar
* LAI

### Enemies

* Decepticons
	+ Cronus - Father
* Autobots
	+ Star Convoy - Training Opponent

## Appearances

### Comic Issues

#### Season 1

* Jaws of Steel, Tongue of Silver *(First Comic Appearance)*
* Observations in Team Dynamics
* Quirky and Yet Deadly
* I Fought the Krampus... and Lived
* Zero to Hero

#### Season 2

* Knowing Me, Knowing You
* Festival of the Stars

#### Season 3

* A Bright New Tomorrow
* Lights, Camera... Terror!
* Institution of Galactic History

### Roleplay Arcs

#### The Role Play

* Humble Beginnings *(First Appearance)*
* Forest Trials
* The First Test

## Gallery

Aranea in her beast modeAranea wearing a dress from Knowing Me, Knowing YouConcept art of Aranea by Vatarian
## Trivia

* Aranea is an homage to Aranea Serket from *Homestuck*, sharing a similar visual appearance and telepathic abilities*.* Her family even has the surname Serket.
* Aranea's beast mode is due to Aranea being the name of a genus of spider.
* Aranea has an A grade average.
* Aranea is unlikely to date anyone anytime soon.

\*Homeroom Teacher. | ^Late Addition.

## References

1. ↑ https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/661613754201653248/in-chapters-15-17-there-were-multiple-work-teams
2. ↑ https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/681841734433570816/roulette-was-in-the-photo-at-nighthaunt-but-the
3. ↑ https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/660239234564833280/can-you-make-a-power-ranking-chart-of-all-the
4. ↑ https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/671327767493836800/for-ironhide-jazz-ultra-magnus-rung-break