Archer Atticus

Back from the dead and better than ever !!

## Life and Career

   Archer Atticus -- better known as 'Archie' -- was a young and eccentric evolutionary zoologist, decently known for his studies pre-aberration. He was well discussed amongst his colleagues, both positively and negatively, for his exceptional fieldwork paired with his frivolous personality.

Archer originally began his studies in astronomy, having chased after a dream of becoming an astronaut ever since he was a child. During these studies, an interest in the concept of extra-terrestrial life sparked within him, particularly the evolutionary implications of such a subject. He began to gradually drift away from astronomy as a whole, as his interests now lay with evolution and the speculation around its outcomes. He still retained a fondness for the vastness of space however, and often included it as a subject matter in his future studies when possible.

After his graduation from Olivarch university in Fallespont at age 22, he was offered a position in the zoological department at B.A.I.T. *(Biological Advance Institute of Terrian)*, a large biology-focused laboratory located in Iacon, a neighboring city to Fallespont. Graciously accepting the offer, he would work there for the remaining 7 years of his life.

During his university studies, Archer met his partner Maximus, who he would later go on to marry. Maximus, an at the time to-be entomologist, further drove his love and interest towards the evolutionary history of the lifeforms on Terrian, helping his eventual decision to study evolutionary zoology specifically. The two frequently referenced each other's works, worked alongside each other in studies and experiments, and would often be seen joined by the hip in the workplaces of B.A.I.T.

## The Offer

*(A brief summary of the events that occurred in ECLIPSE)*

For a month or so in the year of 1993, Archer began receiving relentless job offers for a position on an Interdimensional Experiment lead by Talbot Grimes and Cambire Sheldrake; his specialty in both evolutionary zoology and astronomy wanted for the potential study of interdimensional wildlife.

Archer declined every offer, expressing his discontent with the subject matter of the experiment; he did not want to fuck around with interdimensionality, even if the one-of-a-kind opportunity to possibly study interdimensional life was tantalisingly on the table.

This proved a good move in the long run, as this experiment, shockingly, lead to the Aberration Event. While Archer had the privilege of not being obliterated immediately unlike the citizens of Fallespont, he was arguably subjected to something much worse.

Iacon, the city in which the B.A.I.T. laboratory resided, neighboured Fallespont -- meaning it received an immediate and intense onset of Aberrant Radiation. The wing of B.A.I.T. that Archer's office was in was swiftly overtaken by a blue-black mold -- sculk. After a near-death encounter with a Warden when he went looking for Maximus in the sculk-ridden hallways of B.A.I.T., he had no choice but to retreat back to his office and figure out a gameplan from there.

## Do Not Go Gently

*(A continuation of the events that occurred in ECLIPSE)*

After two weeks of surviving in the sculk-ridden wing, Archer's body finally began to succumb to the effects Aberration.

Archer's gameplan did not involve death, but he worked with the hand he was dealt with nonetheless.

Very specifically using silk moths as his subjects due to his husband's affinity for them, he attempted to transfer his consciousness into one of them, with four additional ones as backups in case it did not work on the intended specimen. However, due to his method of carrying this out being created on short notice, not under his field of expertise, *and* as he was delirious from fatigue, the experiment did not pan out as intended. Though, it did not entirely fail either.

Instead of being transferred into just one of the moths, his consciousness was fragmented and split between all five specimens. Additionally, he intended to wake up in this new body immediately after death -- these moths instead awakened on 1/11/2092, 99 years after Archer's death.

Due to the fragmentation of his mind and the near-century long stagnation of it, these moths retained no definitive memories of who they once were and why they came to be. Having no names to call themselves, they looked to their surroundings, settling on a time-worn astronomy poster plastered on Archer's office wall, describing the planets Jupiter and Saturn and their major moons. Naming themselves after said moons, the 5 moths would come to be known as Io, Callisto, Rhea, Ganymede, and Titan.

## Absolute Magnitude

*See Jupiter's page for the continuation of Archer's story.*

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