Basic Character Info
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Arthur grew up in The City, many years after The Age of Superheroes began when offworlder Superion crashed in Tunguska, causing the infamous Blast. From a young age, he idolized the City's protectors, the Flag Five: five particularly justice-minded members of the hero league AEGIS, constantly locked in battle against villainy. No villain was more horrible than The Terror: a short and concentrated walking source of evil. One sunny summer afternoon, Arthur was having ice cream with his father when the Flag Five's jet crashed in the park across the street, all of them blinded by The Terror. Arthur's father was killed as a result of the crash, along with the Flag Five, and The Terror mocked him mercilessly for it. The media was on hand, and henceforth Arthur became known as "The Kid From The Photo".
He spent the resulting years in lots of counseling for PTSD, and even after Superion seemed to have defeated The Terror, he believed he was still alive, and started collecting evidence. His mother and his sister, Dot, worried constantly about him, even going so far as to have him briefly committed. At the start of the series, Arthur has himself mostly put together, able to hold down an accounting job at Fishladder & Sons, and keeping his continued tracking of The Terror a secret from his family - including his new stepfather, Walter.
That tracking leads him to a warehouse heist, where super-powered weaponry and goods are being held, and The Terror's former right-hand-woman, Miss Lint, is in charge. On that fateful night, his path crossed with The Tick, and Arthur's life hasn't been the same since. A super-suit from the heist imprinted on him, and he reluctantly learned how to use it against Lint and her cronies, uncovering the truth about The Terror in the process and saving the city from a convoluted plot. He also was recruited into the AEGIS he revered as a child, and briefly got to live his dream of being one of the new Flag Five until a mole from the inside threatened to ruin everything. Again, Arthur and The Tick saved the day.
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.
Arthur grew up in The City, many years after The Age of Superheroes began when offworlder Superion crashed in Tunguska, causing the infamous Blast. From a young age, he idolized the City's protectors, the Flag Five: five particularly justice-minded members of the hero league AEGIS, constantly locked in battle against villainy. No villain was more horrible than The Terror: a short and concentrated walking source of evil. One sunny summer afternoon, Arthur was having ice cream with his father when the Flag Five's jet crashed in the park across the street, all of them blinded by The Terror. Arthur's father was killed as a result of the crash, along with the Flag Five, and The Terror mocked him mercilessly for it. The media was on hand, and henceforth Arthur became known as "The Kid From The Photo".
He spent the resulting years in lots of counseling for PTSD, and even after Superion seemed to have defeated The Terror, he believed he was still alive, and started collecting evidence. His mother and his sister, Dot, worried constantly about him, even going so far as to have him briefly committed. At the start of the series, Arthur has himself mostly put together, able to hold down an accounting job at Fishladder & Sons, and keeping his continued tracking of The Terror a secret from his family - including his new stepfather, Walter.
That tracking leads him to a warehouse heist, where super-powered weaponry and goods are being held, and The Terror's former right-hand-woman, Miss Lint, is in charge. On that fateful night, his path crossed with The Tick, and Arthur's life hasn't been the same since. A super-suit from the heist imprinted on him, and he reluctantly learned how to use it against Lint and her cronies, uncovering the truth about The Terror in the process and saving the city from a convoluted plot. He also was recruited into the AEGIS he revered as a child, and briefly got to live his dream of being one of the new Flag Five until a mole from the inside threatened to ruin everything. Again, Arthur and The Tick saved the day.
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.
