Sideswipe

* Robot Mode
* Car Mode

Lana Loud (partner)

Rodimus (commanding officer)

Springer

Jazz

Skids

Arcee

Smokescreen

Mirage

Wheeljack

The Loud Family

Starscream

Sideswipe is a main character in Transformers Loud. The younger brother of Red Alert and Sunstreaker's younger twin, Able to transform into a red sports car, he acts as the team mechanic of Team Rodimus thanks to his time acting as his brother's main repair guy during their time on the track. He also acts as Lana Loud's partner/guardian.

## Personality

Sideswipe is a young, immature 'Bot with plenty of learning to do, mainly in the way how doesn't always think before he leaps. He's hot-headed, eager for a fight (though mostly for the sport of it as a way to test his mettle), and is almost always the one to charge in head-first. Although he means well, sometimes he tries too hard and things don't turn out the way he intended. And while he's not too shabby at hammering out a chunk in his teammates' armor or patching up a faulty piece of computer tech, he doesn't have about the wider span of theoretical physics and "all that scrap"; and besides, he usually prefers to break things more so than fix them.

Still, he's not 'Con-level battle-hungry. He does care greatly for the rest of his teammates, especially his new partner Lana and Streaks of course (even with all the years of giving him lots of grief behind them), and as more time has passed, him rushing into things is more so out of a responsibility to protect his loved ones. he's still surprisingly effective from quick repairs on the battlefield to reattaching entire limbs in the med-bay. So while he is a little rough around the edges, Sideswipe will put his all into it where it counts.

## History

### Civilian Life

Like his brothers, Sideswipe was brought online and "raised" in the city of Nyon, and was close friends with several of the guys there, particularly Rodimus, Jazz, Smokescreen & the others. He paired up with Streaks on the race ways of Velocitron, where they became a very popular duo on the track.

## Abilities & Equipment

* Transformation
* Split Spark

As twins, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe have what's called a split spark, a phenomenon in which the Spark meant to create one Cybertronian splits and creates two, complete with identical circuitry. With this, essentially what one feels the other feels, and what one thinks the other thinks (well, to an extent at least). This acts as a homing beacon of sorts at times, as whenever the two are separated, one can hone in on the other whenever they feel a sting of pain.

* Laser Rifle
* Shoulder Cannon
* Repair/Techinical Skills

While he is still young, Sideswipe is quite talented in the use of tools, able to patch up both 'Bots and the tech they use; although he isn't very good at understanding any greater theoretical physics that sometimes comes with the territory (that's Jackie's department)

* Jet Boosters

The roof on Sideswipe's back extends outward and a pair of thrusters lower, allowing him to ascend into the air and fly long distances.

* Hydrofoils

Like the rest of his team, Sideswipe has a set of Hydrofoils that swap out for his wheels in alt mode to move across water.

## Relationships

### Sunstreaker

Thanks to their split Spark, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker have possibly the closest bond out of most 'Bots on Team Rodimus. Of course like human siblings they get into their petty little fights and poke fun at each other now and again, their relationship is so close they considered the other to be their other half.

### Lana Loud

Si' and Lana got along rather quickly due to being the rowdier of their respective twin-pairings, their shared love for racing, and of course bonding over their skills with a wrench & the like. He even helped her get over her fear of heights.

### Red Alert

Si and Red have a very turbulant sort of sibling relationship. With their incredibly different outlooks on life, naturally Si can't stand Red's way of living by rules and regulations just as much as his brother doesn't care for his punk-rebellious attitude.

### Inferno

Sideswipe and Inferno are good friends, both bonding over their use of blunt force against enemy forces and for having to deal with Red's rules & regulations.

## Notes

Sideswipe's depiction in this series takes a lot of inspiration from one of his "more downplayed" incarnations, his appearance in Armada, mainly as a way to play up his and Streaks' brotherly dynamic a little more. Heck, the idea of making him Team Rodimus' chief mechanic is ostensibly meant to be a spin on how his Armada self was a talented code breaker, though is mainly an attempt to help him better connect him to Lana a bit better than their "rough" attitudes; though to offset this, he's made to only really know the bare basics of working on computer tech and how to keep his "bros" running, with various points in the story showing him struggling with more severe injuries. It's also partially inspired by how Dark of the Moon Roadbuster was described in ancillary media as something of a tinkerer/engineer while acting as a fighter in the movie universe's version of the Wreckers.

* This is also one of the few times where he and Red are brothers - the only other times this occurring (as far as this author is aware) being in the Japanese G1 continuity.

Rather than a separate piece, this series takes Sideswipe's "iconic" jetpack and makes it into a feature of his body that expands from his back panel.

Si's red paintjob is meant to be a bit darker, as a way to help symbolize how he likes to get down 'n dirty in this series.