Kix

Official image of Kix, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Kix is a Player Character of Arc 6 and played by Abbey. They are level 5.

## Description

Kix is a Warforged Battlesmith Artificer and another SK Warforged originally named SK-69 ("Skixty-Nine"), from which his nickname Kix comes.

Their appearance is giant and lanky, but tough looking, and when they have their legs connected, he is about 7'6" tall. That is not always the case, though. His upper and lower body are separate entities, and technically two separate robots. Mechanically, the legs are their steel defender. Upper and lower body are connected via a big Old Orbula orb that makes up the lower half of her torso. The legs can walk around on their own, and the upper body, Kix, can roll on the orb. For flying on an Eirden, it is safer to have the legs attached, though.

Usually, Kix wears a vest with a corset, and an ornate sash that is affixed to their right shoulder with a shoulder pad, and that looks as if it came from a well-decorated pirate or soldier. They also wear puffy pants that end right over their boots.

Smelted to his head is something that at first glance looks like a slightly askew kind of crown. It is actually a Headband of Intellect, since the dragons that built her had planned for her to be an Artificer, and when her Intelligence wasn't as good as they had hoped it to be, they helped out with that.

They carry some weavers tools with them, and really just want to make nice outfits for everyone. Their spells and magic abilities are also usually flavoured with weaver's tools or clothes. Additionally, he also has a Rope of Climbing, a crossbow with Repeating Shot that is strapped across his back, an Alchemy Jug, and a pocket watch on a chain connected to a spring mechanism that makes it go back into place when it was pulled out.

Kix's voice box got damaged at some point, resulting in her having a very squaky voice that she got made fun of for sometimes by other people.

She has a kind of "display screen" on her chassis where she can make symbols and images appear thanks to her Magical Tinkering feat. Additionally, there is a panel that, when opened, shows a lead box with instructions of what to do should they die.

In Arc 6, Kix is about 970 years old, an age he could only reach because as an Artificer he can "heal" and modify himself. She does not have all of their memories in her head, but instead keeps them saved on hard drives stored and protected in their body. He could remember these things if he decided to connect the hard drives and download the information again, but that could take a few days to do. Still, they keep some hard drives with memories they want to keep or that feel even just mildly important. They are aware that they have exceeded their expected life span by a lot.

Due to their age and experience, Kix often thinks that she knows more than everyone else.

Kix has an excellent memory for maps and geography, making him the navigator for the crew. Additionally, their skills in many different artisan crafts, and especially the fact that they provide the crew with pretty outfits, make them a great crewmember.

## Backstory

Kix was built by a group of dragons, like the other SK Warforged. They try to find a way to contact the Elemental Plane of Earth to allow these dragons to go back there, so that they have the option to return to their natural habitat.

For some time, Kix, being partially made out of an orb, worked as a mascot for Orbula, which they used to their advantage for the attention; during this time, they also visited Winster. She left when the games got repetitive and boring.

At some point during their research, Kix hit a dead end, and decided to go to the country of Malum to look there for more information. Before they could do so, they met Aezrelle, who begged them to be allowed to join them. They let her, and became a bit of a father figure for her while they, Aezrelle, Chip Lovejoy, and Aezrelle's daughter Diamond lived in Malum. There, they worked together to find out more about the different planes.

After a night out with some friends, he got dared to pretend to be a mannequin in a shop window, and was stolen by pirates because of her cool clothes while she was in stand-by mode. As he revealed that he was actually alive and realised the mistake, he just decided to go with it and become a pirate, too. They got tossed around from crew to crew, though, and rarely taken serious as a living being with emotions, due to their robot nature and their squeaky voice.

At some point, Kix got recognised by the Eirden Airyc, who had met her before. He, in turn, could not remember Airyc, because the memories were stored on a different hard drive, but he still decided to take Airyc, after their former crew retired, and they became a new crew, which was later joined by the others of the Arc 6 party.

## Character Arc

When Kipp dies in Kix's arms, they are sad and angry at Remeny, but get right to work to secure the safety of everyone else. Even as they are still falling, Kix lets go of Kipp to be able to help Lottie, and as soon as they are at least partially rested again, they start sewing cloaks for their crewmates. When he doesn't manage to finish cloaks for all of them before they have to move, he decides to be the one to wear a blanket instead.

While exploring Mount Ornament, Kix is hit with a memory of her time in Malum, when she was working with Aezrelle and Chip Lovejoy to find out more about other planes, about where she comes from, and how to reunite with her family. They miss the purpose they felt back then, being able to put their energy into something that was important for them, and also their friends. The memory changes into a collage of memories of pirate crews that did not respect him and made fun of him for his squeaky voice, only using them as the "funny robot" that could to so many different tasks at once. This memory is part of the reason she wants to go back to Malum for some time should she be able to get out of the Upnorth.

Over the course of the arc, Kix values the safety of their party members more than anything else, and is even willing to openly lie multiple times to Remeny in order to make sure that safety is secured. He trusts her, but not enough to be blinded by that trust and oversee her mistakes and sometimes irresponsible decisions.

As Remeny accuses Beryl of mutiny and attacks her, Kix tries to separate them from another to keep them safe. They tell Remeny to her face that if they have to kill her to prove their love for her, they will do so.

As the party tries to get through the storm around Glaceria, Kix is not able to repair their Headband of Intellect, which was deactivated by the antimagic field. As he tries to get to Salas to heal them, they are put unconscious, and shortly after deactivated, by the weather effects. Their consciousness pops out of existence for an unknown amount of time, until the next thing they percieve is being in a miraculous lab, surrounded by cases filled with dials and lights, and screens and displays they don't understand. A human is there, tapping on some buttons, and then greets them, telling them that it took a lot of time to get them back, and that great things can be achieved with their hard drives.

## Trivia

* Gus gave Abbey the range of level 4-6 to choose from, and they chose level 5.
* Abbey wrote six pages of information and backstory on Kix and Aezrelle (the info from this backstory document has been added to this page with permission).
* Kix tries to collect some information on the Elemental Planes, and hopes to be able to get there eventually.
	+ For the most part, they are not working very actively on that, though.
	+ Additionally, they are also interested in the Ethereal Plane.
* Kix likes being by the sea.
* Without the Headband of Intellect, Kix has a -1 to Intelligence.

## Fan Addition

* Playlist made by Abbey: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7uDcTDSGVMhiTewRIl40WU?si=fb84E1zqS7Ox2T1LFW5oJg