Seemingly frivolous and lazy, Manticon-4 is a bit more complex than that. While his casual manner may not be a complete deception, there is also a sharp intelligence at work within his core processor, one that led to him abandoning the Predacon faction very quickly - after all, the universe is more interesting without some petty tyrant stamping every other planet into food courts and parking lots.
A fundamental flaw in his T-cog makes transforming between his robot and beast modes a painful process. However, that doesn’t seem to slow down Manticon-4 by much - as he might say, ‘it’s just encouragement to play smarter, not harder’.
Alt-form - praying mantis. Head designed and colors picked by a friend of mine who is a proper TF head compared to my narrower focus area of the Beast Era.
Kludged together a tech spec card for him - with some of Manticon-4's own ‘additions’ to it - the bulk of it comes from Manterror’s card (just like Manticon’s body design) with a few others donating small bits of text (Insecticon for the rest of the name, Snapper on the function, etc.). The damaged text section is just his bio from above so you’re not missing anything important.
I actually did all of this work back in 2022 but forgot to post it anywhere other than my tumblr. Fixing that mistake now.
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