Alter

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**Alter** is a notable artist in The Ink Tank Discord Server community. He quite frequently interacts with the members of the server in its various chats. But he usually hangs out in the VIP (Channel) but sometimes appears in other chats like the Ben 10 chat.

## Appearance

**Alter** is a cyborg with reality-bending abilities. He usually wears a red hoodie, with his left sleeve being tarred off revealing his cybernetic arm, also on the left hand he has the R² projector. He's 80% robotic and the rest of the 20% is human including the head, the right arm, most of the right chest area, and from the belly to the crotch. He has long hair that is positioned like a Mohawk. He wears blue pants, boots, and a helmet with them being covered in red glowing lines.

### Other Appearances

his current appearance is mostly remodeled version of his old suit, with him having blackish cyan and golden helmet that resembles “Darth Vader's” helmet from the “Star Wars” franchise, he also has a tattoo on the left side of his helmet. His neck is segmented with pipes. He wears a shirt with different colored stripes on it. He has red glowing bits and long tilted hair. The rest of the body is mostly unknown, but it is hypothetically similar to his original appearance with new plating and new clothes.

Alters original appearance was a shocked “Pikachu” meme from the “Pokémon” franchise.

His next appearance was a “cute” “Bumblebee” drawing from the “Transformers franchise”.

he also for a while had “L. Lawliet” from the anime “death note” as his profile picture.

once he had his human self’s face slapped on the character “Jim Hawkins” from the movie “Treasure Planet” with the text “hey” on it for unknown purposes (lost to time).

Also, he had the appearance of Evangelion Unit-01 (Rebuild)[1] in its Pseudo-Evolution state, with its classic purple and green colors turned into purple and red and a giant halo appearing on its head. It also had its left arm replaced with one made out of A.T. Field.

another appearance he had was of the famous actor Tom Holland.

One time he had the appearance of “Gustavo Fring” from “Breaking Bad”.

he also had a massive eye with a noise filter and numbers written on it as his profile picture (lost to time).

Another appearance is him as a human wearing a blue hoodie, and his name “Alter” is written on the chest. This particular appearance has two versions one as an emoji and the second as another interpretation of his classic profile picture.

There’s another human version of him, with a haircut, orange eyes, and a white and black jacket with a hood.

His 2021 “spooktober” appearance is his old original suit, with the left side of his helmet being broken off revealing a skull with an eyeball exposed. He also seems to be affected by the Dark Energon+Synthetic Energon virus, which is a reference to "Transformers Prime".

His 2022 “spooktober” appearance is also his old original suit, but with him in his blue hoodie. He has a big mouth with spiky teeth, purple glowing lines, and eyes instead of red. Also, his plating is reddish purple and golden instead of classic silver and brownish black.

he also has an alternate counterpart named "Retla”, which is just him but with negative colors that one of the server members role-played.

there is also Batman Fortnite, who looks like Alter with yellow lights instead of red and wearing a Batman suit. Though it is unknown if this is Alter or not.

Another appearance for him is the version where he is without his helmet. Revealing his human face with fleshy bits on his face. The fleshy bits in the design are a reference to the anime "Attack on Titan".

once he also randomly became “Ghost Rider” “Spider-Man” with the name “Omega” instead of “Alter”.

And finally, he once had his actual real-life human self as his profile picture, with him renaming himself with his actual name.

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## Personality

**Alter** is generally a chill person, although he most of the time prefers to talk with jokes and mostly does this in the VIP (Channel). He sometimes will go to the Ben 10 Channel to tell everyone that he “hates” them (although this is of course a joke). He also likes to troll new Extranet members, just because he thinks it’s funny. He isn’t as active as he used to be back in 2021 and 2022, but he still interacts with the members. He likes picking up random lines and repeating them like: “what da hell bru”, “boy what the hell boy”, “that’s comfortable coffee”, “Batman Fortnite”, “yup yup”, and “lel”.

if you ask him to explain something to you it is most likely that he will make many spelling mistakes. This is due to him trying to explain something quickly, so he doesn’t pay attention to his autocorrect, which well corrects his messages to complete nonsense, like typing “to” instead of “two” or typing “sole” instead of “soul”.

he rarely asks people for drawing suggestions if he’s bored and has nothing to do, that he may or may not draw and complete.

Usually, him liking you is depend on how much he has seen you in the community and if he’s used to you.

## History

### Pre-Discord

#### Alter avatar

**Alter** is a universal matter which is too unstable for any universe to hold, he can only exist outside of existence so he uses the omega suit, which keeps his body stable by using three stabilizers on his chest. Once he was a human, but during some unknown event, he was dropped into the multiversal vortex where all universes connect to one point, during the event, he literally shattered in the multiversal vortex and disappeared. It took his body years to rebuild itself. Appearing in different universes as a ghost. Eventually, when his shattered form was built, he was trapped outside of existence for years but was saved by a crew of people on an expedition ship that traveled from dimension to dimension, by going through the outside of existence. One of them, Unicronus, build an omega body for Alter, which helped him not only stabilize his body but control his powers. Eventually, using his powers, he found a dimension that he likes to stay in.

### Discord

#### 2020

**Alter** joined The Ink Tank Discord Server in late 2020. according to him, the only reason why he joined the server originally was that he wanted to post a meme. he created the discord account and joined the server for this very reason, however, due to some issues, he didn’t bother to proceed with his original goal.

at the end of 2020, after he started to be more active on discord, he decided to be more active in the Ink Tank community. In the server, he started posting the only thing he was good at, which is art. he was mostly ignored when he first joined, due to being new, but because he was decent at replicating the Ben 10 omniverse art style, some people took a notice of him.

### 2021

during his earlier times as a member, he would be as he would describe it “cringe”. he would be very illogical and naive, saying stuff that didn’t make sense or was very laughable (because it was very stupid). sometimes he got into an argument, purely because of miss-communication, which was the reason of (as mentioned) him being very naive, and he’s bad grammar at the time (which he still hasn’t improved mostly ;D) and his poor autocorrect (which still haunts him) didn’t help. Some people still managed to befriend him though, like Your Local Splixson.

##### The Star Tank Wars

during The Star Tank Wars, he was one of the warriors who joined the Kuro Order, against the Galactic Fropier. during the event, he went against Chicken. Alter got an early critical hit and was whittling down Chicken’s health. Alter was sitting at a comfy enough 14 points, while Chicken was at 2. In an act of desperation that summoned the dark side itself, Chicken pulled a natural 20 roll. She slashed at Alter, dealing a combined total of 16 damage; completely annihilating Alter and making one of the most amazing comebacks in Tank History. After the end of the battle, Alter was rewarded with the Shithead role.

Alter believe that he got more well-known around the server after he created his Alter avatar. during this time, he would usually mostly hang out in the art channel, where he would post his art, comment on others and talk about other art discussions. Though sometimes he would go way off topic and would talk about stuff that wasn’t even related to art, people sometimes commented on this fact, but he would reply to those comments with “only place people listen to me is the art chat”.

after some time, in the middle of 2021, he got to level 30. Through this, he achieved the VIP (Role) which granted him access to the VIP (Channel). at first, he wasn’t interested with the channel, it was just another thing he got from being part of the community, and mostly still talked in the Art channel, though this slowly turned the other way around.

after some time, the VIP (Channel) became his favorite channel to talk in, since he started to enjoy more casual and random topics that would pop up in the channel. Another thing was that he became friends with other members of this channel, people like The Heat, Beta, RedManta, etc. however, in late 2021 he had a burnout from drawing. At this time he switched over to another profile picture, which was his human self, drawn in Ben 10 Omniverse style, symbolizing the fact that he was just a normal guy, doing nothing, while his alter ego Alter, was the guy who did the hard work.

during the middle of the year 2021, his personality changed, from being illogical and naive, to hotheaded and naive, but he still stayed cool. At this time he also developed a new personality quirk, to be trolly. if he got a chance to be trolly or troll someone, he would absolutely do it. according to him, this weird behavior mostly came from the fact that he was tired of people knowing him only as the “artist guy”, which he liked, but he also wanted people to have look at how he was as a person, and the art was a cool thing he could do, though the fact that this was a very odd way to accomplish his goal, can not be ignored.

##### Meme of The Month

in the middle of 2021, Alter participated in the monthly server challenge named MoTM, short for “Meme Of the Month”, where the people with the VIP (Role) and above participate with the memes that they made, to win extra XP that will help them to level up. He won the challenge along with Beta and the price was split between them. Later he participated in the challenge again and won the challenge yet gain. After he won he didn’t take the price, instead he split the price in two and gave it to Beta and The Rath, because they helped him win his MoTM, by doing sound designs for his meme. At this point, he only won MoTM two times.

In late 2021, he joined the Ink Tank Patreon, which gave him access to the Patreon Supporter role and also unlocked the Patreon Tier 1 Channel.

also in late 2021, he left the server (which he did again multiple times) and promised to come after 3 months. the reason for this was that he had another burnout and some personal issues. After he left the server, he still wanted to do something for the server members while he was gone, so he could gift members with presents when he came back, so he started “The Covenant Of Ink Tank” story. The name and the art for the story were inspired by the “Transformers Prime” lore book dubbed “Covenant Of Primus”. The story involved people from the ink tank server in an imaginary world, where the server was a real place and they all lived there. he needed art for the characters so he collaborated with his friend RedManta, to help him design avatars for server members that he would draw since RedManta was experienced with drawing profile pictures for people before. At this time hadn’t developed the full story, but had the important events and a faded outline in his head. Also during this time he started sending cryptic messages to one of the members, Beta. he assumed that Beta would solve them, and well he did. in the meanwhile he started sending more cryptic messages to other members like MattexEdits, The Rath, and The Heat. Members tried to put the puzzle pieces together to understand what he was trying to tell, though sometimes the messages were way too annoying to solve. On the server, people started saying this was an ARG, but it was never Alter’s original attention, but it slowly did evolve into one. Something funny about this story that happened is that it would predict some future events that would actually happen later, like The Heat leaving the server. After leaving for nearly 2 months he couldn’t wait anymore, Alter came back to the server and gifted people whom he managed to draw profile pictures of, with their avatar drawings, however, in the end, the story of “Covenant Of The Ink Tank” would never be resolved.

during the period that he rejoined the server, he developed the catchphrase “Batman Fortnite” with spoiler marks. He developed this catchphrase because this line was stuck in his head. He would say this line many many times, he even made an alternate version of his avatar wearing the Batman suit, calling it “the true Batman Fortnite”. However, he would use this line very randomly with no context given, because he just liked saying it. People started assuming this was some weird joke by him and as a joke, it was clearly very unfunny, but according to him it was never supposed to be a joke, since it was a random no context line that he liked saying, similar to other lines he would pick up and started saying randomly such as “what da hell bru” or “that’s comfortable coffee”. Though It was still causing some issues since sometimes it would be like spam, Alter would repeat it multiple times or sometimes other people would join him too, so because it might have been qualified as spam, he needed to drop the line, so he did, but sometimes he and other server members will use it randomly as a reference.

#### 2022

In early 2022, he committed in his opinion the biggest and funniest troll of all time. He created a fake Classic Ben 10 Pop-up trivia screenshot (which are believed to be lost) from the episode “Ken 10”, claiming that one of Ben Tennyson’s transformation dubbed Atomix’s (which is unknown species from an unknown planet) species name was ”Traction”. He posted the screenshot on Reddit and then posted the link on The Ink Tank Discord Server, and the Ben 10 Wiki Fandom Server. It got picked up pretty quickly, fans got really hyped about this whole situation since one of the biggest mysteries from the Ben 10 franchise was solved however, Alter saw that after he posted the screenshot link on the Ben 10 Wiki Fandom Server, one of the wiki mods immediately updated the wiki page for Atomix, even though they started debating if the screenshot was real or not, after updating the wiki. they saw that it had some grammar issues, which according to Alter was left in as a clue because he didn’t want it to become official. Also, the font wasn’t exactly right, and the name “Traction” was odd, which stated by Alter was supposed to be “Tracieon”, but his autocorrect messed it up, which he didn’t notice. After he looked up the Atomix wiki and saw that the fake screenshot that he made became official, he came out and said that it was fake because he didn’t expect the wiki mods to put it on the wiki so quickly. This got him banned on the Ben 10 Wiki Fandom Server, but later that very day they let him back in because they were impressed and also Alter explained his situation to them.

After the event mentioned above, things went pretty normal for him, just casual everyday talk however, one of the mods at the time The Heat, announced that he would be stepping down as a mod and would leave at the start of May. This time was really bad for the server since The Heat was loved by everyone. After The Heat left the server, Alter announced that he would be leaving the server again since he was thinking he could be more productive after leaving the server, and he wanted to experience the real world a bit more, so he left the server on his birthday June 22, 2022, but he still wanted to do something for the members before he left, so he decided to do his face reveal. He did a face reveal in the Patreon chat a few days before he left and in VIP (Channel) on the day he was leaving however, the face reveal had him wearing a mask because he wanted to do a full 100% face reveal sometime later if he came back.

during the time that he left the server, he was as he expected very productive, posting new art on his social media almost every day, but after some time something weird started going on with his Discord account. He started DMing people some odd stuff and spammed links. He said that he was not able to use his Discord account, because he wasn’t able to log in. Then people figured out that his account was hacked. After some time, he got his account back and decided to rejoin the server again.

during the period that he left the server, he befriended one of the server members through DMs that he used to talk to Scyro Rainbow Kick and a Punch the Drakopod. After he came back they became very associated with each other because they used to do a lot of things together, like when they switched their name and profile pictures. This well it is highly unlikely that members believed it, was still confusing for some people because it might have been possible that Scyro Rainbow Kick and a Punch the Drakopod would have become a Patreon, it was odd that Alter had achieved level 100 in such a short amount of time, and Agent Hellbent even commented on this stating that he should have gotten to level 100 before Alter, although this was most likely a joke. During this day, Alter was trying to do power scaling just like Scyro Rainbow Kick and a Punch the Drakopod, and he poorly power-scaled hypothetical Ultimate Four Arms. He determined that Ultimate Four Arms was able to survive the explosion of the Big Bang. After a while, though some members found out about their doing.

during the time that he came back, he did a full face reveal in the server’s Voice Chat, with the camera on, and let the members see him, while he was talking to them in Voice Chat, and through regular chat like VIP (Channel).

After a while, he got obsessed with the Evangelion franchise, and from this point on he would make various daily jokes related to Evangelion. At the end of 2022 in November he got access to the nitro for the second time, and for half of the month, he renamed himself “Evangelion Unit 01( バーサクレッドモード)” and had Unit-01’s Pseudo-Evolution as his Profile Picture. He demeaned to be just referred to as “01” in this period. Another thing to note is that during this time, he would act very rudely. After some time he switched over to “Gustavo Fring” from “Breaking Bad”, after this he started acting more seriously. Throughout the month, he would do this with various other people, and characters, including his real self.

For a while, things (again) went pretty normally, But after some time for violating some of the rules Alter got himself muted 2 times in 3 weeks, and he now stands on his final mute, which will get him banned, for a year, so he tries to play it cool and less naive.

#### 2023

As of 2023, Alter at this time remains one of the notable members of The Ink Tank Discord Server, known for his art and character.

## **Trivia**

* Alters, name comes from "Alternative universe/realities".
* According to him "Originally I wanted to join ink tank to post just a meme, then I was like I need a name… but I need something about ben 10, and cool… (and I came up with the name in 5 seconds i was like) one of the coolest things about Ben 10 is alternate universes, hmmm... alternate universes, alternate, Alter".
* His friends and other members regularly refer to him as “Altuh”, due to his name “Alter” being like the character from “Breaking Bad” “Walter White” without the “W”, and to play on one of the notable memes in the fan base “Waltuh. put your dick away, Waltuh”.
* His avatar’s old appearance originally supposed to be server emoji, that was representing him, that he made for his friend’s server, but he liked the design too much so he picked it as his defining avatar.
* Alters old suits helmet is modeled after "Thrust" from "Transformers Beast Machines"
* It was very common to see people mistakenly think that Alter old suit helmet was based on "Darth Vader’s” helmet.
* Originally, his old suit design was supposed to be the "Omega” upgrade, and there was supposed to be the “Alpha" upgrade as well as the "Alpha Omega" upgrade, but the idea was scrapped due to the "Omega" design being too good.
* Alter isn't the only one with an ”Omega” suit.
* He used to say the line “Batman Fortnite” with the spoiler marks.
* One of the synonyms for his name Alter is "unsex".
* He has a terrible autocorrector.
* The “Spooktober” Alter color scheme is based on the “Thrust" from "Transformers Beast Machines", the color scheme of a character his helmet was modeled after.
* Originally he’s “Omega” upgrade, had his name Alter on the chest and the word "Omega' written on the pocket, with the same glowing texture as the rest of his body, also his hoodie was more like a jacket but this was later changed.
* His new golden suit is called the “Omega 2.0+1.0”.
* His new golden suit’s helmet is modeled after "Darth Vader".
* Alter is obsessed with the Evangelion franchise.

 Joined in 2019
 Joined in 2021