full name: arcus reid

nicknames: spark, sparks, sparky (from boyfriend)

age: 22

species: cyborg

ethnicity/race: jamaican, black

nationality: american, harlem NYC

gender: nonbinary masc-aligned

pronouns: they/them, masc nouns

orientation: gay in the mlm way

occupation: freelance techie/engineer, mechanic

arcus was designed by AFFLUENZA on toyhouse, and some additions and modifications have been made by me!

arcus is my way of exploring transhumanism, isolation, extremeism, cool goth shit, and weird as fuck robot body horror stuff. plotty wise theyre kind of a supporting character but theyre so cool that they get protagonist status to Me. they got to be my first oc page on here because theyre the one that best slots into the old web vibe :)

Arcus is a freelance techie to anyone who coughs up the cash- but, generally, to supervillians and other criminals. They're callous, rude, and often insensitive to others' emotions. They're radical, deeply unconventional, and have retreated into as dedicated a self-isolation as you can get while still paying the rent on time.

They despise their parents, but they still made Arcus the person they are today. They were born with Osteoperosis, Muscular Dystrophy, and severe chronic pain, and they were made into a cyborg to try to mitigate the symptoms (and, they were just a convenient human test subject). They instilled in them a radical transhumanism (in their eyes, anything can be solved with a scalpel, silicon, and some junkyard scrap), but also a deep disconect with society and humanity. There's only so normal you can be when your parents are extremist criminals.

These days, they don't really talk to anyone other than people on the internet just as isolated as them, clients, and occasional outings to goth venues and record shops. They're transactional, a bit self-centered, and have very few days where they have the energy to do anything other than break up scrap metal and build deadly weaponry. People are a lot more complicated than cutting-edge technology.

likes: Technology, Industrial Fashion, Experimental Electronic Music, Spiders

dislikes: Pain, Their parents, Most people

- Bizarrely casual about surgery. Don't talk about any issues you have with your body unless you want them to get out their scalpel.

- Pretentious about movies, cares too much about music subgenres, and there's very few pieces of popular media they'll admit to liking. Saw is their greatest guilty pleasure.

toyhouse / back?