(open, 2/5) DTA

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OC info (you can change if you win the character!): Name: Externus ('outsider' in latin) Nickname: Ex Pronouns: xe/xem and they/them, leans towards masculine (doesn't use he/him) Personality: Playful and chaotic but intimidating. Romantic orientation: bi (leans heavily towards masc) Sexual orientation: demisexual Genre: Science-fiction (space travel, warp capablility, modding/gene-manipulation, strange aliens, etc) - Very disorganized, often forgetting important information or leaving rooms in disarray. - Not so much a 'big boi with soft heart', but certainly protective of xyr belongings and close friends. - Love language of physical touch, so enjoys hugs, nuzzling and general physical contact. This can be a little overwhelming for more introverted/touch-sensitive folks, but they'll certainly stop if told to or if the person-they're-touching looks uncomfortable. - Bit of a hoarding problem, usually with tech gadgets and little odds and ends. Mostly not overly protective of it until it gets threatened (eg by someone saying they should throw all the unused tech-bits away), at which point xe can become semi-aggressive in protecting their stuff. - Can be very scary if required and sometimes even accidentally - Xe can purr, roar, growl and whimper but also make more mechanical sounds like beeping, whirring or buzzing. They can record any noise or conversation within a radius and even record visual/sensory information as well. - They have databases on everyone they've personally met, but this data is seriously disorganized and they might forget all except the most trivial and random of details (eg: will forget your name, personality and appearance but not that you had a blue optical implant or liked fish) unless they've branded you important enough to them that they specifically mark the database on your info. Height: Tall (roughly the size of a human-and-a-half if standing on hind legs, tips-of-ears come up to the average human's shoulder-level when on all fours) Extra details: - Usually quadrupedal, but can go bipedal - Tail-slime is drippy, neck and leg slime is flowy. - Horns and leg-brace-things are metal, not stripey. - Pupil is a ! - Semi-cyborg (body, head and ears are organic but metallic bits and slime are not) - They do not require food or water, powering xyrself by kinetic energy harvested when xe moves. Sometimes eats magnetic materials out of habit. - Xe blushes purple, their pupils turn to heart-shapes when very flustered/flirty. - The darker circles in their slime are bubbles and can be inconsistent when drawing - They may still angst about their turned-out-to-be-a-police-officer boyfriend, partially because they marked his database and forgot how to unmark it. Backstory: After being born on and subsequently escaping a heavily-guarded prison asteroid, xe fled to a neutral border colony. Xe got illegal mods (the slime and cyborg parts, including having about 89% of their brain turned into a high-power computer) and became something of a wanderer, travelling the galaxy as a scavenger and thief in search of something to do, while still outrunning law enforcement at every turn. Xe's made a few friends here and there, even had a boyfriend at one point - but he turned out to be an undercover police officer, so that caused some problems in their relationship - but overall xe spent most of their time bouncing between place to place in solitude. They picked up the name Externus after a local used it on them for a few months. Xe later learnt it meant 'outsider', and xe thought it suited xyr fine. On another adventure close to the [Earth/plot] sector, Externus' ship was badly damaged and they were being pursued by local authorities. Being out of options, they activated xyr warp core and hurtled into the nearest planet and crashed heavily into an uninhabited island a little ways off the coast of [plot-place]. They managed to heal and repair what they could of xyr ship, but they still needed a warp core. Xe managed to stowaway on a nearby fishing vessel before hitch-hiking their way into [plot-place], where they eventually meet [protagonist/s, antagonist/s and/or friend-group].