Trickdiamond is a Cybertronian black-market trader who joined Megaempress’s Four Guards while maintaining ties to Swindle and the Quintessons. She transforms into a sports car, controls earth through the Quake Shield, and forms Megatronia’s left leg. (More Transformers Characters in Profile)
Trickdiamond was a Decepticon black-market trader with connections to Swindle and the Quintessons. Megaempress recruited her as the final member of the Four Guards after the other guards encountered her during a mission. Although Trickdiamond’s loyalty was questioned because she placed profit above allegiance, she joined Megaempress, Moonheart, Lunaclub, and Flowspade in forming Megatronia.
Trickdiamond supplied Megaempress’s group through her criminal contacts and fought beside the Four Guards when they confronted Shockwave’s forces. She controlled earth, carried the Quake Shield, and formed Megatronia’s left leg during combination.
Appearance:
Trickdiamond has metallic yellow, gunmetal gray, black, silver, and white metal plating across her entire body and a tall, broad-shouldered mechanical frame with a thick torso, narrow waist, broad hips, and heavily constructed limbs. She has a smooth white metallic face with black lips, glowing red visor-like optics, and a gold crown-shaped crest rising from the forehead. Dark gray helmet plating surrounds her head, with large cylindrical ear assemblies mounted on both sides.
Her body is composed entirely of interlocking mechanical components connected by exposed hinges, rotary joints, pistons, vents, recessed seams, and layered structural panels. The chest consists of broad angular gunmetal plates accented with yellow sections and multiple glowing orange vent grilles. A circular mechanical port is inset into the upper chest, while the abdomen narrows into stacked segmented plating with a large rectangular orange vent positioned at the center. Paint wear, scratches, chipped edges, and exposed bare metal appear across many surfaces.
Large rounded shoulder assemblies extend outward from the upper torso, each bearing a red diamond-shaped emblem on the outer face and topped by tall vertical fin-like panels. Thick segmented upper arms connect to broad rectangular forearms built from layered mechanical housings. Her articulated metallic hands have long yellow finger armor covering each segmented digit and pointed metallic fingertips. The hips transition into wide yellow thigh assemblies with angular panel lines and exposed mechanical joints around the knees. Large black wheels are integrated into the outer sides of both lower legs, while the shins combine yellow, silver, and gunmetal structural panels with layered vents and recessed mechanical details. Her feet are large integrated mechanical structures with thick angular soles, reinforced toe housings, and exposed mechanical sections around the ankles.
Personality:
Trickdiamond is self-serving, opportunistic, and primarily motivated by profit. She uses her business contacts to secure valuable goods and information, while her willingness to change sides makes the other Four Guards question whether she can be trusted. Despite this suspicion, she remains fearless in combat and continues serving Megaempress when doing so benefits her interests.
Megaempress is Trickdiamond’s commander and recruited her into the Four Guards, though their relationship lacks the personal devotion shown by the other members. Moonheart openly distrusts Trickdiamond because of her mercenary behavior, while Lunaclub and Flowspade fight alongside her as fellow components of Megatronia. Swindle is her business associate, and she also maintains trading connections with the Quintessons.
Trickdiamond controls earth and uses the Quake Shield to generate earthquakes. She can combine with Megaempress and the other Four Guards to form Megatronia, normally serving as the combiner’s left leg, though she can form other compatible combiner limbs.
Her Quake Shield can also become part of Megatronia’s combined weapon. Trickdiamond transforms into a Cybertronian sports car.
The spark is the core of Transformer life, an electrically charged mass of positrons formed from the supernatural substance known as Rarified Energon. Sparks come in a wide range of colors—while most are some shade of blue, green, yellow, orange, white, and red sparks have all been observed. While their appearances may vary, every spark functions as a combined heart and soul for an individual Cybertronian: like a heart, a Spark "pulses" at a certain frequency to animate a mechanical bodyframe; like a soul, a spark is generally accepted to contain some part of a Transformer's immaterial being, which persists after death by transcending into the afterlife. Indeed, most Cybertronian religions hold that each spark contains an infinitesimally small portion of Primus's divine essence. To protect their sparks, which usually can't survive outside of a compatible body for very long, most Cybertronians possess a specialized "spark chamber" somewhere in their body.
Most forms of Cybertronian reproduction involves the creation of a new spark—in many realities, supernatural artifacts such as the Vector Sigma supercomputer or the AllSpark can generate sparks at will, which can be implanted into a suitable receptacle to create a new Transformer. These newborn sparks contain the hard-coded design schematics that act as a Transformer's "genetic code", which dictates a Transformer's appearance and sometimes even their alternate modes. Sparks can be safely stored in stasis pods, "frozen" within photonic crystals, or even transplanted from one body to another with no ill effects, but they are susceptible to weapons fire and exotic forms of radiation. When a Transformer's body can no longer support its spark, it is "extinguished" and the Transformer is considered dead. As long as the spark is intact, however, it is possible to repair a Transformer, re-implant its spark, and effectively bring them back from the dead.
