Fullbright

"Nobody deserves to suffer because we were all too busy being orderly to actually watch out for anyone!"

## Real-World Info

### Portrayed By

TEMPESTORM WORKS

Fullbright is an autobot explorer who transforms into a cybertronian take on a Toyota FJ cruiser. She often wrestles with searchlight- the name given to her original cold, logical programming.

# Personality And Abilities

Fullbright is more than a name- willingly chosen, it's an outlook on life defined by a goal to always seek good in the world and in those she encounters across the path of exploration. Truly a seeker of new experiences by heart, this also leads her to a willingness to take risks- to discover, to care, to be there for those she doesn't know, and to sacrifice even her own spark for all those she cares about. Above all, Fullbright only seeks to make the world a brighter place.

This habit Fullbright has made of trying to protect others is assisted by two major abilities. First of all, the Shine Spark- a strength built from overtuned highbeams granted even further power. Primarily, this is used to stun those who try to hurt her friends by temporarily blinding them, often giving a chance to counterattack if necessary. If she does incur enough damage to get knocked unconscious, latent programing in her systems will activate to finish her objective and get Fullbright to safety- going by the name Searchlight, it is something Fullbright has not gained control over, only showing up either in a crisis or to talk with her usual self.

Fullbright has also shown an immense ability for modification- able to easily have entire alt modes removed without the usual highly specific surgeries and following modifications to programming- though the limits of this nature haven't been explored.

### Weaponry

While Fullbright does not carry any weaponry by default and often avoids carrying any on her person, when she is required for combat, her weapon of choice is a hammer of some description. Originally, this was the "borrowing" of The Forge Of Solus Prime, though it was broken in a battle with Megatron. Nowadays, she utilizes a customized assortment of thrust-assisted hammers that enable her practice with manipulating the weight of larger opponents against them in combat to transfer into a weapon. Her most recent iteration was the 100-Shot Hammer, a variation on this type of hammer that utilized the technology of a traditional firearm to enhance impacts with explosive bursts of energy- risking the recoil damaging her in the process.

# Story

## Before the Nexus

Originally only a mass-produced drone, Fullbright was first known as Searchlight. Built post-war to track escapees and recapture convicts many times larger than her, the cold shell of a helicopter was only given a spark to make decisions about how to best handle the situation of the prison she was built for. This would eventually lead to Searchlight growing a conscience, one unable of standing her built occupation's brutal workplace- eventually, searchlight would be pushed to a breaking point and flee this past life. Fully abandoning that past, Fullbright would adopt her current name and alternate mode- though a glitch caused by the stress would cause the searchlights she was originally named for to take the place where highbeams would normally sit. The new name, now, was a promise- to truly be Fully bright, not letting any others endure what she had.

Now reborn, Fullbright would find a new path forward in life learning about all she had been isolated from in her previous existence. She would pick up the habit of traveling as far as she could, talking for the sake of developing her own voice and keeping a notebook to always have a record of her adventures. Any new experience meant learning, meant growing, meant giving the whole world that reforged optimism and love for life. This path of seeking new opportunities would lead her to the Lunchbox, an exploration vessel she would come to eventually inherit as its crew constantly cycled out. With Fullbright at the helm, countless relics of cybertronian history would be found that might otherwise have never been seen again- until one fateful day, when uncovering a mysterious portal that she would be pushed through by one of the crew's members...

## Ground Zero

Fullbright would find herself in a completely unfamiliar grassy field, from which she would meet transformers of design styles completely different to her own. What Fullbright and all the new faces alongside her- Arcee, Shockwave, Longhaul, Megatron, Optimus, etc.- would come to realize is that wherever they had ended up was a world unfamiliar to them all, a multiversal dumping ground for autobots, decepticons, and other bots of all stripes to wind up in. From this Ground Zero, Fullbright would leverage her neutral affiliation to encourage them all into working together- especially when the massive Trypticon appeared, willing to give up his body as their home for all the others of this place. She would form a ragtag exploration team with Arcee and Longhaul to recover the materials required for trypticon to be fully functional once again as The Nemesis, and with some roadblocks along the way (including an encounter with Grimlock and TF Animated's Megatron), the crew would be successful in gathering what was neccesary.

Unfortunately, this brief peace wouldn't last- it could never last as long as these badges were pulled from the same continuity. Paranoia about what the Aligned Continuity's Megatron would do would start to seep into the corners of their mind, and as violent foes would begin to rear their heads against the combined crew of autobots and decepticons, other power-hungry tyrants who sought to take it all for themselves. This tension, alongside the realization Megatron was acting outside the knowledge of the others, would bring it all to a boiling point- forcing Arcee to pull the switch on a detonator to destroy their home, leaving only scraps.

Fullbright could only watch as the home she worked to build was destroyed for the first time.

## The FIrst Signs Of Fate

Fleeing the nemesis alongside many of the wounded autobot forces into an energon mine within the Sea Of Rust, Fullbright would quickly become a major player in the efforts to stabilize their crew, helping the aligned continuity's Ratchet with the wounded. Among them, the same universe's Optimus Prime- who appeared to be on the last percent of whatever energy lay within, thanks to a battle with Megatron. Their only hope for his repair is The Forge Of Solus Prime, a legendary artifact capable of many great feats of creation and granting life. Fullbright, accompanied by arcee, would struggle greatly to acquire it thanks to the presence of Killbison (from *Transformers Victory*) and yet another megatron (from the aligned continuity, but at the time of the Fall Of Cybertron video game), but would enventually get it out of its' resting place thanks to leverage provided by an enemy attack slamming into her. The favor would be repaid a hundred times over as she translated grappling experience into her use of a weapon nearly as big as herself, sending the decepticon pursuers fleeing. Without any more time to waste, brights delivers the forge to the hand of the dying Optimus, praying for its holy power to restore their leader. Just then, as the matrix reveals itself- ready to be passed onto another autobot destined for primehood- it glows for Fullbright. Leadership will have to come later for her, though, as The Forge does its magic and Optimus' color returns to him. Eventually, the autobots would find a new home in the massive Rust Tower- a second chance at once again having a true home.