SEBASTIAN

TRIVIA

• Sebastian, evidently, originates from Pressure. The truth is, though, I simply do not give a fuck. Welcome to my twisted fucking mind!
• At this point, morphing into more of a derivative OC than anything; if this is really ever a hot-button issue at some point, I'll just fully detach him and Painter.
• No, he will never look "normal" again, sorry. For every ex machina already in play in Ninth Wave there's no Innovation Inc. Ex Machina as cited by the Urbanshade wiki. I think that's a copout, and kind of lame, to be honest. Way too "happy fantasy" ending for me, to have him go back to being "human" again. There are things you can't come back from and besides he already is human; because being human at its core isn't defined by what you look like, or even what's been done to you.
• Importantly, on that note - still considers himself human.
• Used to be - largely as a child - a pretty devout Catholic. He's not sure what he believes now, if he even believes in anything.
• Indulged in some cannibalistic tendencies as well, thanks to the lack of food on-site, though he doesn’t like talking about this very much. He had a much harder time getting into the groove of doing it than W.M., that’s for sure.
• Absolutely a mama's boy, zero question about this.
• Actually has quite the large family, even more so in terms of extended family; he has at least one older sister, one younger sister, and two younger brothers. His father was in the picture at some unspecified time, but isn't really anymore. As for his mother… well, she's actually alive. He kind of assumes that she's dead, he doesn't really know this for sure; he figures the stress of his whole thing had a hand in her untimely demise and he goes into escaping with the idea central in his mind that she's not around anymore and thus disappointed her.
• Better at getting around than he used to be, but certainly not the most elegant thing in the world; he's pretty good at getting around by climbing, but on land - flat land, in particular - locomoting is a pain in the ass, given how he has to drag himself around to do anything. Graceful in the water, though... that is, if he could figure out how swimming with a body like his is supposed to fucking work.
• Perhaps ironically, has never been good at swimming and in fact used to be terrified of water especially when he was younger.
• He had a girlfriend at the time of his arrest and conviction, however, their relationship never went further than this. He certainly didn't feel ready for marriage at 19 even before everything happened; as for her, though she mourned the loss of the pretty-decent thing they had going over twelve years post-supposed-execution she eventually moved on and settled down with someone else.
• Hugely touch-starved - for a kind touch, obviously - but also touch-repulsed; haphephobia for days, for a great many very obvious reasons. Terrified of trusting people, too. Terrified of a lot of things he won't admit to anyone under any sort of normal circumstances.
• Expendables have absolutely done as much stupid shit as you can imagine to him; flashing him with lights, getting a little too handsy. None of them made it; if they didn't lose their lives to him, they surely lost it to someone else, and often with prejudice.
• The "ring" he wears is actually a bracelet he got from his mother, at some point in the past when he was much younger; for obvious reasons it's much too small to wear around his wrist now, so he's repurposed it. It holds a great deal of emotional, sentimental value for him, to the point that actively thinking about it kind of hurts.
• Honestly? A very sentimental kind of person. Used to be a bit of a crybaby, to use the more pejorative term, but it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. He won't readily admit to cloying sentimentality, though, unless he gets riled up enough; he's a lot rougher around the edges than he used to be for obvious reasons.
• He dislikes sleep to the point that he often refuses to sleep willingly, working himself to the point of exhaustion and outright passing out before he can even begin to rest and even still being a light sleeper anyway (unless he's particularly tired). Sleep reminds him of a lot of things, chief among them the experiments and surgeries he was put through, though the general dog-eat-dog nature of the post-lockdown site only adds to this; to be that vulnerable for any period of time in general unnerves him greatly.
• Developed a bit of a bad self-harming habit, starting with scratching at his third arm as well as trying to scratch out the tattoo on his shoulder that his superiors so kindly decided to bestow upon him - in his eyes, his reasons include the ideas the pain gives him control over what's hurting him and that it helps ground him in the realm of the physical sometimes.
• He's really quite good at engineering! He's neither an engineer nor a technician officially, given he didn't even finish his two-year associate's program. He likes it, or maybe he did - at least, more so before the geniuses at Urbanshade decided that putting him to work for however many years as prison slave labor was the best use of his passion.
• …He still likes Marlow. There's just a whole bunch of messed up shit between them that makes that more awkward, now. Shockingly, the fish-horse-man bit is pretty low on the list of concerns.