MOC: Vapour

[Nightcruise]

Vapour is one of the main reasons why I love the little background story that HF has. Kind of allows me to take what's given and make it into my own thing and in Vapour's case, more so.

As the character really does not have alot of media focus, I took the character and made him into something different, a good guy.

Background of my version:

Vapour started out as a Jetcon soldier with his brother Rotor, though he wasn't really bad. Vapour was more insecure and was more of a push over by his older brother and other soldiers. When their leader Dark Matter (Von Nebula) became the first Terrorcon, they were upgraded as well. Even with more power, Vapour still hated being in this spot. While he didn't agree with the ideas, he didn't have any other options to find his real calling.

During one of the first missions of the new Cyberbot Unit, the Hazard Unit led by Stormer, they engaged this new upgraded foes of the Throwbots. During the battle, Stringer and Bulk manages to get into the engine room of the Terrorcon's ship. The two fought against Vapour and Rotor, expect Vapour didn't fight. Bulk and Stringer knocked out Rotor, but Stringer noticed something different about Vapour. The two talked before Rotor came back online, which Vapour let them escaped and pretended he was hit. Some weeks later Dark Matter attacked human colonies on Mars, he orders Vapour to kill human children. Vapour refused and Dark Matter threaten to kill him. He didn't back off and attacked Dark Matter when he tried to fire upon a human child. Dark Matter fired at him, but Stormer took the hit for him.

Since that moment, Vapour has been on the Throwbots and Cyberbots side. By late 2365, he was reformatted with a Cyberbot body and was a member of Stormer's Hazard Unit. By mid 2366, he was made commander of his own unit, the Gamma Unit. Though while now as a commander, he still wore his old Hazard Unit badge as a sign of pride. When Deviot's forces killed 149 government representives, Vapour and his unit went into action. They engaged a small Terrorcon unit and freed a government member from the allied planet Cybertron, Grimlock. When the battleship Matrix was destroyed in early 2367 through Furno's self sacrifice. Vapour let the displace Hazard Unit to stay on his ship, the battleship Axalon. For over a month the two units worked together on one orbital battleships, forming stronger bonds. When the Hazard Unit left for their new battleship, Vapour and his Gamma Unit continued to fight against Deviot's Terrorcon forces. During the final battle in the Galactic War, Vapour's ship and Stormer's new ship the Avenger led an armada of ships agaisnt invading Terrorcon forces.

When the war ended, Stormer, Bulk, and Stringer of the Hazard Unit retired. Vapour on the other side stayed active during peace time with the Gamma Unit. He even helped teach the new Hazard Unit commander, Evac on how to become a better leader. Fifty years later, he's still the commander of the unit and a iconic figure like Stormer. While the war is over, some Terrorcons still have hopes of restarting the old conflict once again. One group under Reaper's (Core Hunter) command freed Deviot and ended his fifty years of immobilization. With Deviot's return, Vapour is more than ever needed as his new Gamma Unit fight alongside the new Hazard Unit against Deviot and Reaper's Terrorcon Rebels.

Personality wise, Vapour starts out more insecure, but gains more confidence in himself after he joined Stormer's Hazard Unit. He quickly became friends with Stringer, Bulk, and Stormer. Over time he made relationships with the other members of the Hazard Unit. By the time he was commander of the Gamma Unit, Vapour was happier than he ever had been before and often had weekly talks with his old Hazard Unit buddies when he could. Even before the war started, Vapour was more into history and engineering. Stuff that he was discourge to do in his past. His historical knowledge became useful when the Hazard Unit was staranded on the planet Omicron. He immediately realized what he saw, massacred Maximals from the second member of Project X, the future Predacon Rampage. His engineering skills came into play many times during and after the war. He has invented several new weapons and vehicles for the Legotron Army.

Post War figure:

With Commander Evac:

With the surviving fouding core Hazard Unit members:

Galactic War figure:

[19acomst]

Amazing!! How do you get him jump-kicking?

[Dynamante]

Amazing!! How do you get him jump-kicking?

He put him on a transparent block and I really like that pose!

[19acomst]

whered you get the trans block? All Mine are old ant practically opaque

[Nightcruise]

Here's the trick I did. I used the lead refill holder for the mechanical pencils, removed the the stickers and placed two side by side under the foot, while having support on the other foot on Deviot.

Just took me about five minutes to get it all balance out just right and took the picture and then removed the support during edit.