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Basic Character Info
Apr. 23rd, 2019 10:28 amHistory
( Spoilers for the pilot of the Amazon Prime version of The Tick inside. )
In brief: at the time of his arrival in game (after both seasons), Arthur has made a lot of progress in healing the wounds of his past, and made a tentative peace with his destiny as a hero: he's eager to help, ready to serve, but still pretty sure it's probably going to hurt him a lot, if not kill him.
Personality
Arthur's Trope List includes things like "Adaptational Badass", "Adorkable", and "Hypercompetent Sidekick" with very good reason. He is used to the rampant crime and heroism in The City: it's culture, and people have the same opinions and behaviors around it as The Kardashians, professional athletes, or boy bands. Since he's discovering that a normal life isn't actually what he wanted - just what other people made him THINK he wanted - he's beginning to embrace the ambition he had as a child, and guided very strongly by his morals and his sense of what's right. Unlike The Tick, however, Arthur also has an unfailing sense of practicality, and grounds that compass in reality. He knows when things require a plan, and can usually come up with a damn good one given the right resources and enough time to think. The Tick admits that he's the brawn, and Arthur is the "everything else".
He's still a really nervous guy, though, and with good reason. While most heroes are genetically altered Categories, with super powers of one sort or another, the only things that make Arthur heroic are his heart and his moth suit... which has its limits. It may be bulletproof and loaded with gadgets, but inside it, he's still a very squishy human being... and there's a reason one of his battle cries is "not in the face".
Though he's found his footing as a hero, outside of the suit, Arthur's still mediocre at best when it comes to social circumstances. He can manage small talk and carry a conversation, but he'd rather be elsewhere: either alone, reading - he has a substantial library in his apartment - or hanging out with the Tick, keeping the city safe. When his life isn't full of justice and chaos, he prefers solitude and calm, and anything that ripples the surface of that calm had better be worth his time. He gets irritable about that pretty easily. If one manages to make friends with Arthur and be patient enough to guide him past the awkward phase of conversation, he's loyal to a fault, though.
( Spoilers for the pilot of the Amazon Prime version of The Tick inside. )
In brief: at the time of his arrival in game (after both seasons), Arthur has made a lot of progress in healing the wounds of his past, and made a tentative peace with his destiny as a hero: he's eager to help, ready to serve, but still pretty sure it's probably going to hurt him a lot, if not kill him.
Personality
Arthur's Trope List includes things like "Adaptational Badass", "Adorkable", and "Hypercompetent Sidekick" with very good reason. He is used to the rampant crime and heroism in The City: it's culture, and people have the same opinions and behaviors around it as The Kardashians, professional athletes, or boy bands. Since he's discovering that a normal life isn't actually what he wanted - just what other people made him THINK he wanted - he's beginning to embrace the ambition he had as a child, and guided very strongly by his morals and his sense of what's right. Unlike The Tick, however, Arthur also has an unfailing sense of practicality, and grounds that compass in reality. He knows when things require a plan, and can usually come up with a damn good one given the right resources and enough time to think. The Tick admits that he's the brawn, and Arthur is the "everything else".
He's still a really nervous guy, though, and with good reason. While most heroes are genetically altered Categories, with super powers of one sort or another, the only things that make Arthur heroic are his heart and his moth suit... which has its limits. It may be bulletproof and loaded with gadgets, but inside it, he's still a very squishy human being... and there's a reason one of his battle cries is "not in the face".
Though he's found his footing as a hero, outside of the suit, Arthur's still mediocre at best when it comes to social circumstances. He can manage small talk and carry a conversation, but he'd rather be elsewhere: either alone, reading - he has a substantial library in his apartment - or hanging out with the Tick, keeping the city safe. When his life isn't full of justice and chaos, he prefers solitude and calm, and anything that ripples the surface of that calm had better be worth his time. He gets irritable about that pretty easily. If one manages to make friends with Arthur and be patient enough to guide him past the awkward phase of conversation, he's loyal to a fault, though.
