Icarus - OC info sheet

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Age
29 years
Species
wyfex, enhanced variant
Gender
none
Pronouns
he/him
What is a wyfex? - quick summary

An enhanced wyfex is a sentient, bipedal creature, with an intelligence comparable to a human - their intellect, personality, and appearance varying greatly between individuals.

A wyfex doesn't possess eyes, but a glass screen, consisting approximately at least a third of their whole cranium. While bionic from assembly, any organic parts inside the body rarely stay as such, as they are gradually replaced with tech for longevity, and personalization.

By nature, an enhanced wyfex is a machine with a computer brain - but calling one such is one of the most guaranteed ways to get your teeth kicked in. Forced to be outcasts by the norms of the society of their birth, none take name calling lightly.

Abilities & Debuffs

Shardstorm
high risk high uptime no cooldown wits & strategy active

Consisting of GLASS MANIPULATION, Shardstorm is an active ability* with high risk. It wears its wielder down in continuous use, and can lead to serious trouble quite quickly, if not regulated properly.

It has high uptime, and no cooldown. The ability can be countered with wits and strategy, by disturbing and taunting its user - or by removing any and all glass sources from his surroundings.

As a Vessel of Ultimate Destruction for a self-proclaimed god, Icarus wields power so unstable and explosive, that it should've taken his own life long ago.

With a flick of a wrist, he's able to break, hurl, gather, move, spin, and who knows what else, glass effortlessly on a whim. He creates hurricanes of shimmering blades, molds beasts of humongous sizes to be his allies, sets skyscrapers ablaze, brings down aircraft like dying birds - and everything with just shards of molten sand.

Icarus can't will glass into being from thin air, or make it from sand himself. He needs a source to break or pull from, and as his glass manipulation powers are such a big part of his identity, lacking those abilities can make him desperate and unpredictable - the opposite of his regular bursts of ire. While not defenseless, he is significantly more manageable without any glass sources around.

Crackglaze
moderate risk low uptime low cooldown direct force active

Consisting of ARMOR AND SHIELDS, Crackglaze is an active ability* with moderate risk. It can be used quite reliably in quick succession, but it can still be harmful to the wielder's physique in prolonged use.

It has low uptime, and low cooldown. The ability can be countered with direct hits, by breaking the obstacles the ability creates.

One of the few, rare reasons Icarus might remove his mask, is to forge an armor for protection. The pale mask is placed on the chest, where a porcelain-like, glazed material spreads from, and covers nearly his whole body. The armor is fragile and brittle, and almost any kind of hit creates a crack onto its surface. This leaves an intricate map of cracks and breaks behind - a sort of kintsugi effect. When the armor reaches its limit, it shatters, and enters cooldown. The cooldown of the armor is longer than the one on shields alone, and can prolong the cooldown period into the territory of a moderate cooldown if managed improperly.

The same ability can be used to form shields of broken glass and shards of glazed porcelain wherever necessary. Such might be able to take a blast from a shotgun, but more often than not, they are one-time use. When a shield breaks, it enters cooldown, or extends the current cooldown of the ability.

The glass and porcelain Crackglaze creates can't be used as a glass source by Icarus.

Hardframe
passive

Consisting of NATURAL STRENGTH, Hardframe is a passive ability**. It doesn't drain the user, as it constantly lingers, and it combos seamlessly with other abilities.

See: Strength (statistic)

Brittle Silica
debuff

Consisting of POOR OR NONEXISTENT HEALING, Brittle Silica is a permanent debuff***. It's always present, and can be exploited by opponents.

Cursed by corporate greed, the skin of a wyfex is one of the poorest organic materials around, when it comes to healing capabilities. While new, its attributes are completely acceptable - but it degrades quickly, and loses most, if not all, of its ability to heal wounds and scratches.

While Icarus doesn't bleed in the conventional manner, he suffers from inflicted damage just like anyone else would. He's used to being untouchable - be on your guard.

Rage Therapy
debuff

Consisting of HOT TEMPER, Rage Therapy is a permanent debuff***. It's always present, and can be exploited by opponents.

See: Skill (statistic)

Leafless Fall
debuff

Consisting of LACKLUSTER BALANCE, Leafless Fall is a permanent debuff***. It's always present, and can be exploited by opponents.

See: Agility (statistic)

* An active ability is an ability that needs to be consciously activated, or triggered. It requires a certain amount of resources to be used.
** A passive ability is an ability that is always active, and doesn't require extra resources to be used.
*** A debuff is an effect that makes the character weaker; a negative status effect; a weakness.

Stats

Strength
8/10

Even outside commanding shards of glass on a whim, Icarus' hardware frame has developed into a force to be reckoned with.

Despite his slender appearance and light weight, his synthetic fibers of muscle are able to output massive forces, and cause extensive damage.

Agility
3/10

The wyfex might seem graceful within his own hurricane of glass blades, but such is only a distorted view, skewed by the factor of fear - which is what Icarus plays into.

Icarus' glass manipulation abilities are his bread and butter, and they effortlessly aid his regular movement - but strip him of his crystal crown, and he is just as nimble as your average Joe.


Speed
8/10

Massively aided by his well-developed hardware through his maturation process, one shouldn't assume the wyfex to be sluggish.

Accelerating from one to a hundred in a blink of an eye, facing Icarus requires fast reflexes, and a keen eye - but it's a different thing, if the wyfex himself is able to keep up with his own momentum.

See: Agility (statistic)

Tactics
1/10

Icarus runs with pure fumes of his own rage and ire, and it's usually his greatest pitfall. While his intelligence can be measured to be higher than average, it's a house cards, threatened by an approaching flame.

Icarus habitually scouts ahead and takes precautions, but in the heat of the moment, those things fly out of the window within a single blink. Unstable but very much predictable, it often doesn't take much to make him boil over, and do something extremely stupid.


Magic
9/10

If one asks Icarus, his abilities are not magic based - period. Want a clarification? Sod off.

The wyfex's capability to control anything made from molten and molded sand is near flawless - but it falls short when combined with his other attributes. While beautifully dangerous and erratic, it isn't an impenetrable wall - look for cracks.

Even a flower can force its way through concrete.

See: Tactics (statistic) and Skill (statistic)

Skill
3/10

There isn't much thought needed to mold something given by an Entity to your own liking. As such godlike power latches onto a wyfex's main chipsets, the gaps between acquiring, learning, and using the newfound abilities are minimal.

Any mind, no matter how shattered and unstable, can control their new gift or curse within hours from receiving it - but it's susceptible to that very mind's whims and quirks.

With Icarus' poor anger management, tactical manipulation of his mood makes him less accurate, slower to react, more explosive, and outright reckless - bring a shard proof umbrella.


Total stats
32

Avoid these

aka uncomfortable with

  1. dismemberment
  2. extremely large/heavy injuries
    Slicing and dicing this character is a-ok - but difficult injuries that would send almost anyone into an open casket I'd like to avoid (see: next point).
  3. anything that certainly alters the character's appearance permanently
    I have my own, strict canons. I don't want an event or outcome that can be considered canon interfering with them.
  4. sexual 18+ content


Ask me if you're unsure! Everything can be discussed.

Bio

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Content warning: abandonment, abuse, bullying, child death, kidnapping, politics, violence

Being one of the experimental specimens of his species, Icarus grew in an orphanage. Such places, however, never housed many of his own kind, as wyfexes usually do not grow into their final forms like fully biological creatures do. While he was lucky to find another young wyfex to play and spend time with, that lad was the only other wyfex in the institute's care. As Koios habitually ran off to play with his kukuri, Icarus spent his time to obtrude into the games of the other children. He didn't understand why they didn't like him. He did everything he could to please them, even resulting to thieving and other things that got him into trouble more times than he was able to count. They used his eagerness to please, but never accepted him - if he refused, they would either abandon him or beat him up. He was called "faceless" amongst other hurtful things - but his need for acceptance never diminished, nor did he quit trying.

Despite its open arms for children of every shape, size, form, and origin, the orphanage was a target for ruthless, continuous attacks. The City of Calm was notorious for its advertised openness, but zero tolerance for nonhumans in practice. It was a secret to the public, how much capital was needed to uphold all measures to keep the orphanage building secure - for them, it seemed like they tried to keep the poor children in, no matter the cost.

Despite the tireless efforts to keep the place a safe haven for nonhuman children, a group of ill willed rogues got through. In the cover of the night, they organized an all out assault, killing as many of the staff and children as they could - not even differentiating humans from the "freaks" in the darkness. Some they took as hostage, to torture and have fun with later - they had no intention of letting anyone they captured live.

While Icarus was rescued from his captors eventually, he suffered permanent damage to his body and mind. Most notable of these was his worsened eyesight, which was the result of his now scratched and cracked face screen. While replacing it was possible, the procedure's cost and difficulty effectively denied the treatment that was needed from the young wyfex. Having no place to go, as the orphanage was unusable, decommissioned under a petition, and finally demolished, Icarus found himself on the streets.

On the outskirts of the city, close to the Slumme, the young wyfex found an old, blind man. His face was riddled with scars, every one of them larger and more gruesome than the one before it. Icarus, being as naive as they come, couldn't understand the man's bitterness towards the people of the city. The wyfex stayed with him, growing older as the days went by - the only strange thing for the veteran about the boy that he didn't seem to eat. Then, the man said something Icarus carries with him to this day:

"Show them a face they can mirror," his raspy voice scratched in the wyfex's ears, "only then you may find acceptance."

Taking it literally, Icarus constructed himself a mask - a mask that made it possible for him to show emotions though its eyeholes. Training his already damaged face screen to focus on those points only, he was able to portray multiple human-like emotions through them.

But it didn't make him a human. Trying once again to find acceptance from the people of the city, he was beaten up, and his vision made another notch worse. Infuriated, he returned to the scarred man, and in a fit of fury, killed him. Minutes felt like years as time passed, and the wyfex started to realize what he had done. There was a way to fix this, right?

"No", a voice replied.

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For the first time in his life, Icarus despised the people around him. He wanted to rise, and show thugs like the ones who attacked the orphanage, that such behavior wasn't acceptable - but it was a childish dream. They were all the same. They would never accept him. His fingertips tingled as his urge to get rid of every single human that opposed him only strengthened. He wouldn't be able to break them all - but he sure as hell would try.

Now, on top of the universal warrant, Icarus is on the run from a mercenary of his own kind - Arcus. Even though the hotheaded chain gunner has made it very clear that she will not go after this particular target, she is almost habitually seen tracking him. Unfortunately for her, the payout for Icarus' capture is too high for her to miss - but that payout comes with exceptionally high risk, and lethality.

TL;DR+

Icarus is a hard shell with a tough inside, even his extremely sparse inner circle unsuccessful in exposing his very core. He takes no shit, acts before asking, and can often only be held back by his mate, Karmen.

His grudge against humanity or very humanlike creatures is immeasurable, and his thirst for such blood unquenchable.

While some cases in the books of violence are outside his questionable morals, they are few and far between. He's used to leading the pack with an iron fist of fear, reported casualties appearing almost daily.

Not killing a stranger in the middle of a fight might just be his biggest dilemma yet.

For the original, unedited bio,
see the original character submission.
For more works of this character,
see their Toyhou.se, and gallery folders for art and literature.

ADDITIONAL NOTES & SPECIALS

Cracks on a Vessel

Icarus doesn't bleed - not within its dictionary definition, at least.

Anything running through the veins of a wyfex, required to function in the first place, is referred to as the crux. Normally, this liquid pitch black, and oil-like. In Icarus' case, it's not black, or even liquid.

His equivalent of the crux is a strange gas, that's bright green in color, shifting through teal before dispersing. It leaves a visible trail in its wake, as if yearning to be seen by all. It's impossible for Icarus to bleed to death, but rapid loss of the crux still makes him queasy.

Any new, or old, open wounds glow in bright greenish yellow, except in the case of tattoos. The inked silicone skin on Icarus' forearms and back doesn't glow, and they don't emit any gas - normally. If they do, however, start to glow and smoke, it is the body's last warning to do something, or it will collapse.

When talking about the deep slashes on Icarus' shoulders, the crux may mirror his emotions. Its outflow speed might change, or more, or less, of it could puff out than normal. Any other wounds don't reflect their bearer this way.

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