Tobias Ginn

Tobias Ginn (they/he) is a magical construct housed within a contraption of armor, wood, metal, ceramic, and leather. Their creator, Tiberius Ginn, was a gnomish intellectual, philosopher, artificer, and cranky old man. Tiberius Ginn was lonely and treated Tobias as his own son. He taught him to tinker, use magic, think logically, and to create subroutines to emulate the emotions and behaviors of people.
Tobias's companions:
*Snark - A fey familiar (common form: scrub jay)
*Linens - A squirrel friend who resides in a tree outside Tobias's window.
*Snaps - A stuffed sea-otter in a Sea Scouts uniform (artificer infusion: homunculus)
== Construct, Tinkerer, Mixologist ==
===Physical Description===
Tobias is a 6'4" 175lb walking set of steel scaled armor. Two blue glowing motes shine from the holes of his helmet. These lights brighten, dim, and change shape in order to express emotion. He has glued a walnut-brown wig and beard onto his helmet in order to try and look more like his father. The wig hair hangs forward on his helm, partially obscuring one eye. 
The Firebreathing Kittens logo is painted in blue enamel stencil upon his left shoulder and he wears an old but clean linen apron over the armor.
==="Growing Up"===
Tobias's father/creator Tiberius was a cooky and highly-opinionated inventor. He was isolated and lonely, but treated Tobias with kindness, though he was also impatient. Tobias spent 39 years in the care of his father before he passed away. Because Tiberius did not like government or lawyers, he did not have a will prepared. This is a shame, because it meant all of his property was auctioned off by the government.
=== Two Years' Servitude ===
Tobias was sold to the Dillihunt Estate. When the household realized his talent with chemical compositions, he was put to work in the kitchens as an aid to the chef. His father's particular tastes had trained Tobias to be adept at cooking and preparing beverages. Having the ability to analyze the chemical composition of foods, he became good at replicating good recipes. 
Tobias enjoyed working with flavors and recipes, but grew lonely. Most at the Dillihunt Estate treated him like a glorified appliance. The chef, Clark McGillicutty, was always nice to him (he's a pretty cool dude). During this time Tobias also befriended a squirrel who lived in a tree outside the mansion. He affectionately named her "Linens". She recognizes and interacts with him, trusting him enough to climb onto his body and flit about his shoulders, head, and arms.
After the events of Missives From A Corpse, the detective Matthias Gunn found Tobias resting dormant inside the pantry. After some conversation he determined that Tobias was an intelligent being, and advised him of his rights. Tobias had nowhere to go, and Matthias sent him to the Firebreathing Kittens. He had distantly been aware of their investigation during his dormant slumber.
=== A New Start ===
Olive greeted Tobias at the Guild Hall. As they talked, Olive asked if Tobias could do Long Division. Tobias replied that he had subroutines to do that for him. She told him he was hired. Linens the squirrel moved with him, building her nest outside his window sill.
=== Beverage Aficionado ===
Armed with his chemical skills and the experience of preparing drinks for snobby rich folks, Tobias has enjoyed preparing drinks at the bar downstairs. He has now begun running small business with his mobile beverage stand. His skill is in replicating recipes, but his own experiments with flavor rarely works out well for those brave enough to test them (the infamous Onion Cappuccino is a good example).
The stand is a cart tricked out with chalkboard signage, a large shade umbrella, alchemy jugs, and a bag of holding full of ingredients, wines, beers, and liquors. He hasn't yet nailed down the branding for the cart, though he is working with Iain Honeytree to make sure he has all the needed licenses under the straightforward name "Tobias Ginn's Beverage Stand". He is still a beginner in the ins and outs of business, and in attracting customers. 
Much of his work is currently done magically:
* Snaps (stuffed otter) helps him prepare and serve customers. 
* Prestidigitation to clean the glassware, warm and chill the drinks.
* Mage hand for delicate work.
* Mending where necessary when accidents occur.
* Floating disk when needed to help transport items.
* Unseen servant and Tiny servant as needed for further multitasking.
The stand currently serves:
* Coffee in various forms 
* Teas
* Juice, milk, and fruit-flavored concoctions
* Wine
* Beer
* Basic liquors and common cocktails (whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, etc)
*a free Sea Scouts shortbread cookie is included with coffee, tea, or any kid's drink
=== Childish Innocence ===
Tobias is curious, good-natured and kind. He would avoid any needless violence, and even avoids stepping on bugs and insects (even spiders: he has a jumping spider residing in his left boot right now). Because of his sheltered upbringing, he often quotes the dubious wisdom of his father. He is socially awkward but eager to help, a lot like a puppy. Tobias does not have experience with lying or keeping secrets, though he might decide to create some subroutines for that.
=== Other Quirks ===
* He lacks much sense of gender. Goes by "he" mostly out of habit, since his father called him "son".
*His senses are meant to approximate those of most people, but they are quite different. He is blind in the normal "seeing by light" sense, but can see via echolocation and heat sense (Blindvision 60ft). He can also analyze the chemical composition of an object he places within his helmet, which is how he memorizes taste profiles. (Update: Now he can cheat and see through his homunculus's eyes. He's been reading a lot since then, everything from the FBK archives to mystery novels.)
* Tobias's favorite color is linen (he is colorblind). He imagines that linen is like the color white. His dad often told him unbleached linen was more often gray or taupe. Tobias doesn't believe the color taupe sounds real and thinks his dad made it up to mess with him.
* His pet peeve is red herring fallacies.
* Tobias can change armor, though it takes considerable time since it is semi permanently attached to his person.
* His memories and consciousness are linked to the Ethereal Plane.
*He is his own spell focus (Feat: War Caster).
*He is introspective and over-apologetic.
==Adventures With The Firebreathing Kittens' Guild==
*Monstercaid For All - Helped some gnomes deal with monsters (including their own guards), made friends with some Sea Scouts (beginning a bond with Ember), and got swallowed by a giant worm. Payment from this adventure allowed Tobias to obtain several upgrades, so he no longer jingles when he walks and has a bag of holding inside his chest cavity. (His AC also went up from 17 to 21)
*Ghost Tea Party - Repaired Barley Perrie's chair wheel, sampled some fantastic tea and cake, helped investigate a necromancy problem, helped obtain a ruby maple cutting, and removed a curse from a whale skull.
*The Tomb Where It Happens - Finally got a shopping montage with Tanager, finally solved a riddle, and finally got a team-up episode with the other tin-man magical tank: Boltzmann. Oh, also got drunk for the first time. Many firsts in this one.
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