Art g'Rish

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

Art g'Rish is a Player Character from Arc 9 played by Josh.

## Description

Art is a Grung with red skin, and an Assassin Rogue. His full name is Arthur, but he gets mad when people call him that. He wears a basic black mantle and cloak, leather chest armour, and linen pants.

He is a criminal, and the founder and leader of the Arc 9 crime family. As such, he allows them a lot of leeway, is generous with sick days and other days off, and does his best to be a fair and progressive business leader, but is very results-oriented when it comes to finishing jobs. He mostly cares about getting paid from the jobs they do, and maybe have some fun while they are at it.

In Arc 9, he is 29 years old, which for a Grung is late middle aged, and has a family which consists of his wife Landra and his two children, his 2 year old daughter Lursa and his 1 year old son Jombo. He looks to retire from his job as a criminal in the next couple of years. His joints no longer move like they used to, and his fingers are not as sticky anymore. While his wife knows about his criminal business, he wants to hide it from his children.

As of Arc 9, he has recently quit cigarettes to be a better example for his children and have them grow up healthy, and is now smoking lavender. By the start of the arc it has been 3 weeks without him smoking his stress cigarette, and while Serenity keeps one for him just in case, she does not intend on giving it to him.

He lives in a duplex in Qto, with his crime family living in the lower level, and his wife and children living in the upper level together with him. A lot of the money he gains from his criminal business goes into paying off the mortgage, and he is often stressed about this and his bills.

Art's magic item is the Blessed Stick of Bonking.

## Backstory

As children, Art and his friends play a game of who can stare at the sun the longest. This damages his eyes badly enough to affect him up until adulthood.

Art has been in crime his whole life. Around 140 or 141 AE, he starts looking for people to form a more stable and fixed group of criminals, his crime family, and founds the Arc 9 party.

Around 145 AE, his daughter Lursa is born, and around 146 AE, his son Jombo is born. Both kids are raised in the pond behind the duplex while they are tadpoles.

## Character Arc

Very early on, Art shows his pragmatic side. Usually, he does not directly talk to his clients, he just gets the job from his contact Flapjack. He takes his client as they are, and does not think too much about their weirdness or fey aura, which becomes an issue when he realises that he made a binding deal with them. At first, he does not want it to be true, but slowly has to admit that his client most likely was a fey. While there is no physical copy of the contract, there is an visible indication of it to Lacewing, but not to the rest of the crime family.

In Lacewing's house, Art makes a point of not touching anything without knowing the price, and not giving them any way to trick him. Additionally, annoyed by the Spider's mannerisms, he flicks the ash from his lavender cigarettes on their things. As he learns about the rules of the Feywild, he introduces himself to the mermaid Calliope as "Rodger" to not give her his real name.

In the room below the tree, when asked for a secret, Art reveals that he has buried about 3000 gold pieces and various other objects near the crime duplex, and that they are well-protected. When Riot tells the group that they plan on leaving them after this job, Art is understanding, and later tells them that he has to see the party as his employees instead of family, because otherwise, if something were to happen, he would not be able to do what he does.

Sometimes hidden below this pragmatic to maybe even rough exterior, Art has a very caring side. He asks Juniper to not litter in nature, and shows a deep care for the donkeys, which drastically increases towards the end of the arc, possibly as a coping mechanism. Also, he tries his best to be a good father, and offers Juniper some tips, even though they are not necessarily always the best. Even though he has financial struggles, as long as the others still need money, too, he does not want them to give him any of theirs.

As Lee promises to grant each of them a wish, Art wishes for six donkeys tied to the back of the duplex, and a cool cowboy hat. He gets a black cowboy hat with a gold trim, and as they reappear in the Material Plane and get back to Qto, Landra awaits him, confused about the donkeys in the backyard, while he explains to her that he considers dropping crime and starting ranching instead, especially because most of the crime family is leaving or has left already, and only Serenity plans on staying longer. Within just a few days, though, Art builds a little memorial with a headstone for Julian, which says: "Julian Crimeboy - Sometimes those who burn the brightest shine forever. He's not dead, just the sun."

## Trivia

* As a Grung, he is a frogman, not a toad, and does not want to be associated with toads.
* It is implied that he often starts new DIY projects and then never finishes them.