Arthur

Arthur at Maky's Place

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> “As much as I wanted us to never have to worry about conflict, it seems that that was... that maybe I was dreaming too hard I guess.”
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> - Arthur, TenaCouncil Election Speech

**Arthur** is the founder of TenaCity. He appeared along with many others from the Glitchcraft SMP through unclear means.

## Appearance

Arthur is a young teenaged male with dark hair and blue eyes. He wears a faded blue hoodie, a bright blue shirt with a yellow star, black jeans, and blue sneakers.

## Personality

Arthur seeks to please everyone. However, since that is impossible, he comes off as indecisive. While he can be stubborn with his ideals, he will quite likely listen to anyone that isn't hostile towards him or he can feel genuine sympathy for.

He will often make his decisions on emotion over logic which many, even those that are close to him, see as a weakness.

## Unique Items

* **Excalibur:** Arthur's sword which is made from an experimental metal from the Nether deemed "Netherrite." Enchanted with Sharpness V, Fire Aspect II, Knockback II, Unbreaking III, and Mending.
* **Fork:** A trident gifted to Arthur on his 18th birthday from Gamer, which he refers to as "fork." Enchanted with Impaling V, Mending, Riptide III, and Unbreaking III.
* **Void Sent:** A netherite axe given to Arthur by Doodles right before she committed suicide. Enchanted with Mending, Sharpness X, Unbreaking III and Wither II.

## History

### **Season 1**

#### The Nether Journal

Dark shows Arthur a journal written by Shae about the Nether. Although intrigued, hearing Shae's and Maky's concerns worried Arthur, for he would be walking into a war that no one was ready for. Homes were not even completed. But Dark seemed determined to go through with it. No amount of negotiation was effective.

#### The Portal Intervention

Hating the idea of killing Dark, Arthur had suggested a plan to the world to try and stop the portal from opening. Pretending to agree with the portal opening, they would let him place all the blocks necessary. Then, they would stop him from lighting it. With the materials in their hands, they would be able to have a better negotiation with Dark. However, this plan did not work. Dark had ender-pearled away with EXTRA materials and opened the portal anyway.

#### TenaCouncil Election

The citizens of TenaCity were angry at Arthur. Due to familiar nightmares of a man killing him when he was ruler, he had been insisting that a government wasn't necessary. But the lack of organization had caused Dark to be able to beat them on their own land. Terrified of the responsibility, he had come up with a Council system. This system wouldn't provide the weakness of a single easy-to-kill leader. And while he'd still be involved, the system was designed to where his power was minimalized and responsibility would not fall on him.

#### The Cathedral/The Citadel

After the stranger's emergence from the portal, warning everyone to close all portals, Veri's Citadel becomes a huge concern. Arthur immediately plans a diplomacy in which they will negotiate closing the portal with Veri at "the Cathedral." DeadShots did not like Veri's ideals and does not trust that such a mission would be safe. He insisted that there should be a backup plan in which Veri attacks. The council gives the go ahead for DeadShots to demolish the portals himself if such an action were to come to pass.

The negotiation did not go well, as Veri was seemingly disgusted about things they discovered about Maky. Her presence caused tensions to escalate and soon, Veri did attack the council with an army of reanimated corpses. Arthur gave the go ahead to DeadShots. But upon coming back to see what he had done, it appeared that DeadShots had blown up the entire Citadel, and killed Veri in the process.

#### The Gamertalis Festival

Despite all of the tensions recently, Arthur decides to attend Gamer's celebration. Upon listening to Gamer's speech, Arthur begins to think more and more about his actions towards Dark at the portal, now seeking to make amends. Soon, Sayoru arrived and questioned why Gamer had a portal open (which supposedly DeadShots had gone to negotiate the closing of), which also left Arthur quite confused.

Dark soon intervened, having been invisible the whole time, claiming he knew that Sayoru was not who he claimed to be, exposing him to the world as a murderer and liar. When Sayoru began to run, everyone began to chase after him. Believing that Sayoru was a friend, Doodles got in the way while he was able to escape with Twinned. DeadShots took the initiative to throw Doodles in prison, which Arthur considered to be a bit too extreme, but he had no say in the matter.

#### Maky's Exile

As retaliation for being thrown in prison, Doodles was quick to tell DeadShots about the hidden portal that Maky had built under her house. While the council began to discuss this rule breakage, Ultra soon entered with Maky's missing journal, filled with information that Maky had been withholding about Sayoru. With the evidence stacked against her, Maky was soon believed to be a traitor. Arthur was the only one who had the context for her innocence. And so he easily lost the vote to exile her.

In extreme guilt for running from responsibility and creating the council that did all this wrong, Arthur visited Maky's exile quite often. Often enough that Maky got mad at him for caring about her more than himself.

#### Prison Break

While the rest of the council was out on a mission, Arthur was left with the task of guarding TenaCity. Soon, Dark showed up, attempting to break Doodles out of prison. Arthur fought Dark but was killed. He woke up in his bed immediately after, traumatized by the extreme pain that was never meant to be a possible experience. However, with tenacity he returned to the prison to confront Dark once again, standing in their way as they tried to escape with Doodles.

Dark took the confrontation as an opportunity to speak his mind, tapping into the guilt building up in Arthur. All of this empowered Arthur to realize that while his decisions didn't matter in the council, they mattered in this moment. While he couldn't order an official release for Doodles, he could step out of the way and pretend it never happened.

Mart, seeing this go down, took the opportunity to blackmail Arthur with this information. Threatening to tell the council what he did if he didn't do what he said.

#### The Birthday Party

Arthur and DeadShots share a birthday, so Maky was allowed to return from exile for one day in order to plan a party. The Council almost revoked the exile because of the great turnout. However, when Maky left to get the cake, the meetinghouse blew up, with redstone leading to Maky's secret room. Ninth claiming he had proof Maky did it.

This time, not even Arthur knew for certain if it was Maky or not. And while he still voted to try and revoke her exile anyway, he was once again outvoted.

#### Mart's Attack

The Council more torn apart than ever, Mart was finally ready to initiate his plan. He instructed Arthur to evacuate everyone by leading them away from the city. Mart did not want anyone to die, just for the city to be destroyed. Arthur, hating himself more and more for creating the council, began to accept that if they couldn't stop Mart in the end, then maybe it's for the best.

By the time the information was brought out of Arthur and they headed back, the city was filled with TNT. That's when Maky showed up, enacting a plan they made with Ninth and attacking Mart. Arthur helped the two chase Mart as he fled to his base. When the base began to self-destruct, Maky ran back inside to help a distressed Mart, getting killed in the process, all according to Mart's plan.

#### DeadShots Insanity

DeadShots and Mystic had recently gone on a mission to find Sayoru's castle, but when they returned, DeadShots seemed off. Arthur eventually went into Plague Guard, previously TenaCity Guard, reading a bunch of entries explaining how DeadShots had been feeling about Arthur's opposment. Finally he reached a room where he found DeadShots, scribbles everywhere on the walls. Although he insisted he was okay, he was not okay. Arthur thought that maybe this was the perfect time to read a note from Mystic to try and comfort him. But the pain in Mystic's words only made DeadShots feel worse. Attacking Arthur.

Eventually, Arthur brought everyone he could to DeadShots to try and help him. DeadShots had gone full crazy and began attacking everyone. When Arthur got close to death, he made it known that he knew what it felt like to die, which stopped DeadShots. They had a common pain and for once someone understood. They calmed down and talked. DeadShots finally revealing that Mystic had been killed by Sayoru.

#### Mystic-Maky Funeral

Arthur and many others had died before, and they came back. But for whatever reason, Mystic nor Maky had ever returned. After a long week of denial, Arthur finally accepted that they were both gone and started preparing a funeral. A grave was built for both Mystic and Maky. And so, Arthur finally brought out the flower that Maky had turned into after she died. Suddenly, Corrupted Mart had returned and stole the flower. Although attacked, he eventually got away with it.

Arthur and the others sat down at Arthur Tower, this day of mourning now made even worse. When suddenly Maky approached them.

#### Steel Hallow Expedition

After taking a week to respawn, Maky was back, and allowed to return from exile because of her heroic efforts against Mart. She and many TenaCity members began on a expedition to try and find Steel Hallow. They went to many cities under Steel Hallow's rule that were now abandoned and in ruins.

One night at one of the cities, Corrupted Mart had returned and kidnapped Maky, leaving a compass to the next city. Expecting the worse, Arthur, DeadShots, Ninth, and Ultra all went after them. After some difficult trials, they were able to save Maky and she led them to a series of tunnels. One of them holding the Steel Hallow flag. Sure enough, the tunnel took them to Steel Hallow.

#### The Nether Finale

United against a common threat and using the coords that Mystic had died for, the people of the world set out to Sayoru's Castle. While raiding supplies, they read books that revealed Sayoru was actually being controlled by the Wither King. Sayoru was nowhere to be found, but there was a recently opened portal. Everyone rushed back to TenaCity but it was too late. While they were raiding Sayoru's world, Sayoru was raiding their world. TenaCity was now infested with a new type of corruption, Withering.

Everyone took refuge in Steel Hallow where DeadShots began to formulate a plan. However, the people did not like the idea of DeadShots making the plan, as it was possible they'd be fighting a Withered Twinned as well, and DeadShots has a history of ruthless actions. Arthur, who was under the illusion that all tensions had been resolved due to the newfound unity, tried to tell everyone that we've moved past all of that. But they all insisted nothing was solved, resulting in all of Arthur's overwhelming guilt flow back to him. As everyone argued against Arthur and TenaCity, he promised that if we all stuck together and won this war, he would take the opportunity of being able to re-found TenaCity, and he would rewrite the government, take more responsibility, and make sure nothing bad will ever happen again. While no one trusted Arthur's word, Dark stepped in claiming that he did. Ending the season-long feud between them.

After a series of events, the Wither King was finally defeated. While the Corruption and Withering was still infesting the city, TenaCity was reestablished by Arthur, and they'd figure out how to get rid of it one step at a time.

### **Season 2**

#### The Unity Festival

With the Nether War over, Withering retreated, and Void sealed, a celebration was in order. Beforehand, a grave was made to mourn for Doodles' recent suicide. Everyone paid their respects as guests for the festival fully arrived. When it began, Arthur gave the opening speech, speaking of how he won't be hiding behind the council anymore, and finally steps up with a responsible role, implementing a new council system, and officially reinstating the other council members.

Within this festival, Arthur reveals Project Legion which was a secret robotics project achieved with the help of DeadShots, a Mystic Monument, and the new Council building.

Azakana arrived afterwards to "judge" everyone. His *other side* claimed Arthur is still weak and is lucky people were there to protect him *this time*, completely confusing Arthur.

As Arthur decided to head up to his new office, a man was waiting for him there who had been lurking in the back throughout the entire festival, introducing himself as "Akasuka." He provided Arthur with 2 bottles of his top booze and wanted to discuss the opening of a hotel and casino. To which Arthur gladly encouraged, as he has always wanted TenaCity to become a city that would thrive for people everywhere.

## Trivia

* Ever since Day 1, Arthur has had recurring nightmares of a "Paperbag Man" killing him and stealing TenaCity. This is what resulted in Arthur's initial decision to have no government in TenaCity. It is also the reason he will never write a government where he is the sole leader, as he sees it as a weakness.
	+ This same fear of knowing the consequences behind certain choices is what resulted in Arthur overcoming his reluctance to take on a responsible role in TenaCity's leadership. He knows very well what will happen if he lets others have power over him.
* Arthur's dreams of building a city already had a name, as if it was already an established city in the past, but it wasn't.
* Arthur has a high amount of sympathy and will likely move on from problems if the person shows no hostility. This results in a lot of tensions bothering Arthur going completely unresolved.