Bracer is my counterpart to Tempo. 

First off, he’s big. And by that, I mean he’s close to TFP Megatron’s height and somewhere between Bulkhead and Ratchet in build, more towards the heavy side. His plating is all rounded and smooth and nice to touch, and his helmet has this low point between his optics that makes him look a little bit like a pangolin. He has little horns a small distance above his optics, and they’re sensitive to touch and stroking. Big, wide, honest optics, constantly calm, sweet expression. A bit shy sometimes, but generally open, earnest, and very nice to be around.

He met Tempo just before the war, at a bar where someone had been yelling at Tempo for his lack of desire to have a too-large spike shoved into his valve. Bracer objected, shooed away the yelling mech, gently put himself between the aft and Tempo, and started casual conversation.

Eventually asked “so, if you don’t mind… if you don’t like being spiked, and you don’t like spiking, what do you like in berth?” 

Which caused Tempo, in probably his bravest act up to date, to squeak out “do you want to come and find out?” up at him. 

An excellent time was had. Because, guess what? Bracer has several kinks, and one of said kinks is thigh fucking. Which just happens to be Tempo’s favorite alternative to being spiked- having someone gently squeeze his thighs shut around their spike and grind against him, rub against his valve. Bonus points for being large enough to hold him in their servos and support him. And he liked at the time that Bracer was too large to try that whole “oh, just try the tip of my spike” nonsense, because Bracer’s spike is way too big to fit anywhere on Tempo without a massive amount of prep work. 

Thing is, Bracer never ended up COMMing Tempo after that. Tempo sulked for awhile, assuming he’d been rejected, but got over it.

Turned out Bracer had been ‘drafted’ into a project to help protect some of the smaller, less well-armored nobles. 

His alt mode is a rounded tank, almost spherical, that walks on four short, jointed legs instead of moving on treads. Those lil horns on his helm end up at the perfect height to poke people ahead of him if they’re too slow, and he’s very well-armored, so he was perfect for the program. 

Namely, being modded to add a cockpit in his alt that a small mech could ride in, and a set of controls in the cockpit to override some of his autonomy and force him to go in specific directions. Also an obnoxious horn. 

He eventually got out of that program (read: the people in charge of it and the utterly awful mech in his cockpit had been exploded), but he kept most of the mods. He immediately got a medic to shut down all the controls, but he kept the cockpit because it was good for protecting his small, lightly-armored friends, and he kept the horn because he kinda liked being able to startle afts with a tank-sized airhorn. 

He can fling people away if they land on him, either in alt mode or root mode, as much of his plating is supported on springs that let him toss offenders away. He also has two cannons somewhere in his frame, but he refuses to use those- he’s as close to a pacifist as he can manage in any given situation. 

He eventually finds Tempo again after the war, apologizes, explains, and proceeds to charm him all over again.