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Praveen Satvinder, codename ‘Perceptor’!

This lad was tricky because I didn’t have a proper existing design from 2007 (outside of some generic stand-in sketches) to work off so it was basically building him from ground up.

Initially the strongest image I had in mind for him was Owen Burnett from Gargoyles, however I figured I wanted someone who definitely didn’t look like they belonged on a battlefield or had any business winning a fistfight (and Owen could kick everyone’s ass without breaking a sweat) so we’ve got this small, unassuming weedy beanpole of a man next to a crowd of, by my standards, pretty fucking jacked fighters. He looks like easy pickings, until he takes out someone’s eye out from 4000 yards away and while he definitely can’t best anyone in a fistfight, he’s not above some pretty solid sniper rifle-fu if you get too close to shoot.

There isn’t actually a whole lot on IDW Perceptor’s background I can feasibly work off, but from what I do know, basically Praveen here was among the upperclass since the society he was in went by the way Intellectuals then Management then Administrative, then Manual. Not that he engaged in any active act of oppression, he was about as polite and unthreatening as they came, but he was very sheltered with most of his life revolving around lab work while lower-caste assistants would help him out with fieldwork. He started getting his hands dirty when the war began because it became more dangerous for his assistants to head out and he figured, even in having no self-preservation skills whatsoever, that it wasn’t right to risk them for what was ostensibly his research and so he began following Prime’s team during their excursions to collect samples, make observations, etc.

The other shoe dropped when he was almost killed during an excursion gone wrong had it not been for Drift saving his life, and he decided to take up the sniper’s rifle under the tutelage of Kupendra Pereira (Kup) because the fact remains that he can’t fight hand to hand combat, not like the rest of them could, but practiced fingers and the sharpest eyes on the team were an asset that could save their lives and his in the future and he figured that ‘never stop learning’ extended to the battlefield as well.

Description

Praveen Satvinder, codename ‘Perceptor’!

This lad was tricky because I didn’t have a proper existing design from 2007 (outside of some generic stand-in sketches) to work off so it was basically building him from ground up.

Initially the strongest image I had in mind for him was Owen Burnett from Gargoyles, however I figured I wanted someone who definitely didn’t look like they belonged on a battlefield or had any business winning a fistfight (and Owen could kick everyone’s ass without breaking a sweat) so we’ve got this small, unassuming weedy beanpole of a man next to a crowd of, by my standards, pretty fucking jacked fighters. He looks like easy pickings, until he takes out someone’s eye out from 4000 yards away and while he definitely can’t best anyone in a fistfight, he’s not above some pretty solid sniper rifle-fu if you get too close to shoot.

There isn’t actually a whole lot on IDW Perceptor’s background I can feasibly work off, but from what I do know, basically Praveen here was among the upperclass since the society he was in went by the way Intellectuals then Management then Administrative, then Manual. Not that he engaged in any active act of oppression, he was about as polite and unthreatening as they came, but he was very sheltered with most of his life revolving around lab work while lower-caste assistants would help him out with fieldwork. He started getting his hands dirty when the war began because it became more dangerous for his assistants to head out and he figured, even in having no self-preservation skills whatsoever, that it wasn’t right to risk them for what was ostensibly his research and so he began following Prime’s team during their excursions to collect samples, make observations, etc.

The other shoe dropped when he was almost killed during an excursion gone wrong had it not been for Drift saving his life, and he decided to take up the sniper’s rifle under the tutelage of Kupendra Pereira (Kup) because the fact remains that he can’t fight hand to hand combat, not like the rest of them could, but practiced fingers and the sharpest eyes on the team were an asset that could save their lives and his in the future and he figured that ‘never stop learning’ extended to the battlefield as well.