Otto

Chrome Laser Head Dragonmade Attach to the head of a frickin' Granite Thresher (or ill-tempered mutated Pale Smallmouth) and you might just take over the world. 52 Blackened Warninghorn Trinkets A hollowed out horn, commonly blown to alert a clan of approaching danger. 85 Ominous-Looking Letter Trinkets A mysterious piece of torn parchment. The only characters you can see are [SBF AJOYA], but there must be other pieces with more. (3 of 7) 500

Otto There's a cold war coming, on the radio, I heard. One of Cog and Jarvis' four children. Otto is one of the quieter members of Acadia, although that doesn't mean he's reclusive - often he's one of the first to greet newcomers, and he's more than happy to show people around. Whenever he's home he can be found helping with whatever chores need doing, and he's a common sight in the kitchen and the farms in particular. By his own admission, Acadia and its people mean the world to him. Despite being robotic, Otto comes across as rather... unassuming. Forgettable, even. It helps that he's not the only robot here, but still - one would think that he'd stick more in people's minds. Even Jarvis tends to be less overlooked, and they're rarely physically present. This is by design. When Otto's not home, he works for the Runner Network - dragons who are Marked for exaltation, but refuse the call. Being robotic gives him quite a few perks in this department, and you'll find no better spy in the Stormlands. And if a few self-aware robots happen to disappear from servitude at the same time, well... just a coincidence, surely.

Character Notes
♫ Life in Technicolor II
• Pronouns: he/they. When on a job he's perfectly fine with being called any pronoun, including it/its. Otto considers himself genderfluid, in contrast to the equally uncaring Cog, who considers such identifiers useless organic nonsense.
• Otto is a very quiet and observant sort. Compared to his parents and siblings this is unusual, as he lacks their dry sarcasm and more take-charge personalities. Not to say that he isn't capable of it - he just tends to be more of an earnest, laid-back, go-with-the-flow type.
• It takes a lot to earn Otto's trust, but once you manage it you've got a loyal friend for life. He also starts to get pretty chatty with people he trusts and has a tendency to ramble on and on about things he finds interesting.
• Otto's personality appears to have been derived from the façade that Cog puts out, except in Otto's case it's genuine. Both he and Cog find this hilarious.

• Otto is unusually skilled at moving himself quickly between bodies and/or servers; experience has only made him even faster. It's this ability that makes him ridiculously good at what he does - hard to catch someone who can jump bodies in a way that even other robots have trouble with. • His original body was built by Cog and Jarvis, and rarely leaves Acadia. Instead it's left parked in a closet whenever his mind's moved elsewhere. This body also bears the Shadowbinder's Mark, showing Her favor. Otto doesn't actually worship her, and was quite surprised when he returned home one day to a glowing symbol hovering above his forehead. He's rather grateful that the Mark seems to be firmly connected to his Acadian body rather than following his mind around. To be fair, the Mark coming with him would ruin the reason he likely got it in the first place. • Otto is well-known on the Stormland circuit of the Runner Network, where he goes by Malpense. He generally communicates only by text; on the rare occasion where he has to make an appearance in-person, he pretends to be his own liaison in the form of a "hacked" robot. Most of the Network is unaware that Malpense is a robot, though there are certainly some who suspect it. • Acadia's leadership is usually aware of what Otto's up to, and Jarvis will occasionally send a fragment of themself to assist on particularly tricky missions. The rest of Acadia's population knows that Otto is doing something with the Network - all of Acadia is, after all - but they deliberately make no effort to learn details.

OOC Notes
• HIVE fandragon! (HIVEmind, for real this time lmao. But that's an awkward name for a dragon, sooo... Otto Malpense it is :eyes:)
• Otto considers his closest friend to be Ultron, of all people. Ultron is weirdly tolerant of its sibling yammering nonstop into their private comm channel, and occasionally even moves surfaceward when it knows Otto's due to return home.
• Chase offered Otto what little training she could, though it wasn't really very much on account of their bodies being vastly different. He's also not much of an assassin, and finds harming people distasteful. Which isn't to say he's not capable of it - he just avoids it whenever possible. Mostly he's succeeded; his kill count's still in the single digits, and each and every one was in defense of Acadia itself.

• why are the emblems so badly placed on noc m staff pls

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Body 1:



Body 2:
A freight hauler, ubiquitous in the Stormland. Some big breed, with default Lightning-y colors.
Accent: Electrician's Night
Skin: Thundervolt


Body 3:
Some kind of small spycam type deal. Fae, Spiral, Noc, etc.
Accent: Electric Assassin
Accent: Workshop Monitor



....consider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGfStltLbc
(the devil went down to georgia, except johnny is a robot and it's in the shifting expanse)