Arty

*"Ah yes, the repeating of fantasies hoping they one day become real*

*much like this rebellion you two lead."*

## **Description**

### Appearance

Arty is generally short for her age, only at 5'0 though slowly growing out of it. She has short, mid brown hair that has a weird poof thing at the front. Her skin is very pale, it can sometimes have a green/ yellow tint to it caused by opium and other sedating drugs.

She's usually seen wearing either a white or black shirt. The white shirt being accompanied by a waistcoat and black trousers whereas the black is simply accompanied by a belt and high waist beige trousers. When she's on an outing or rebellion movement she can be seen wearing a short black or pale navy cloak that reaches down mid-torso. She also constantly wears knee high leather hiking boots because that's maybe kind of sort of the only pair she owns.

The woman has many battle scars, as a result her left arm from shoulder to wrist is bandaged; Though it is usually unnoticeable due to the fact that her sleeve covers most of it. The entire right side of her face is covered with bandages from a third to fourth degree burn caused by Lord Cyrius. Before the burn her eye had been stabbed and removed by Howler. More often than not she has smaller, faded rash scars from opium symptoms.

### Personality

Arrogant, a pessimist at the start of the story yet slowly becomes simply a realist. She finds it hard to find the better in people especially after a rough first impression. She decides things on impulse more often than rationally; Though rare she can act rational.

She instantly dislikes anyone who isn't on her side of the war, even when said people try to one-eighty and join from the monarchy/loyalists to the rebellion. She hides her withdrawal symptoms as best as she can so she can go out on frontline without protests though sometimes the symptoms can get a bit out of hand.

Her source of self worth derives from thinking of herself as some sort of weapon. As the series drags on and her morals slightly change, her way of judging her own self worth stays the same, driving her into a mental crisis. It doesn't help that when she is in the "right" mind-set for this judgement, her physical state is so poor she can barely even pull a trigger.

### Extra Information

* Sexuality - Aromatic, Asexual
* Pronouns - she/her
* Ethnicity - Irish
* Languages spoken - Irish, English, A single word in french.

## **Abilities**

### Immunities

Though arguably not being useful at all, Arty has a abnormally strong alcohol immunity. The one consequence that comes with that however is the severity of the withdrawal she won't be able to shove aside forever. She's afraid to admit to others and herself that getting past withdrawal is the only way to get off alcohol, though after experiences with past withdrawals both from opium and smaller alcohol withdrawals she's terrified of what the next one will hold.

Her drug immunity is also concernedly powerful, drug immunity, opium being an exception.

### Sharpshooter

Her ability to aim and fire with such accuracy and speed can be scary sometimes. As each series progresses she becomes a little more hesitant, she's still as accurate, but has gotten so sick of shit that she simply shoots and hopes she at least hits them.

Unless forced, Arty almost never is without at least one gun, usually having two on her. Sometimes when she's forgetful enough she sleeps with both her guns in her pockets- when nightmares occur she has a tendency to subconsciously shoot. *Three have been injured due to this in the past 7 years oh jesus christ-.*

## **Backstory**

### **Weaknesses/ Phobias, etc.**

* The sight of a needle can but her in a state of fear paralysis for a moment if not at most 10 seconds.
* Her own recklessness blocks out any sort of rational thinking, becoming an easy picking in a tense battle
* She keeps most her problems to herself, cherry picking which ones were to overwhelming not to spill, ones that would be the death of her, or ones she thinks people can see it as a dark joke and nothing more. Most of the problems that stay locked away are her withdrawal symptoms, keeping them to herself until it's physically impossible. If it comes to the point where when she hallucinates, she either brushes off as a joke or simply stays quiet.
* Arty doesn't see "unfit to fight" as an excuse, if she had it her way she could be half dead on a med-bay bed- yet still would try and get up to finish the fight off- hating to admit defeat.
* Spiders.
* Similar to her reckless self, when she's in a fit of rage it's easy for her to get distracted.

## **Quotes**

**(To Howler & Worm)** *"I'm not looking for forgiveness, I couldn't care less about that. It's not like I'll receive it anyway."*

**(To Worm)** *"I've wanted to fucking try to be nice to you for once, Worm. But now I want to go all the way back to the reason I left"*

**(To Dacky)** "*You wouldn't dare kill me" she smiled. "Like you said... I don't think you want blood on your carpets"*

**(To Cyrius)** "*Here we don't go by fair game. Either you kill or you get killed. Simple as"*

**(To Yaeger)** *"This kingdom was shitty to begin with. Bitch payed no attention to the amount of slavery going on here. Crime rates are fucking high. He turned a blind eye on all of that too. I know from personal experience I used to be able to get away with shit with no consequences at all. Lives were lost and literally nothing was done to help. Plus most of us lived in poverty, the country is corrupt as fuck. Taxes are high. For fuck sake even most land lords who know the shit that’s going down still make people pay rent. There’s people starving on the streets.*
*There are tons of people here who I doubt have anywhere to turn to after this rebellion is done, including myself. I would live on the side of the street with nothing more than a whiskey bottle I managed to snag- using it to block out stomach cramps from the fucking pain I got from starving for the past week. Until I could barely steal up enough cash for a half decent house. So if you see all of this as fucking fun I swear to god I’ll shoot you here and now if I have to."*

## **Trivia**

* Despite Arty having no romantic plots, an unofficial spin off was made as a joke about Arty falling in love with a wine cellar.
* Thankfully, the word 'Arty' not only came from art, but was also short for artillery; So going with her running gag of being obsessed / good with guns, that was what her nickname/ alias meant instead. She officially became a completely independent character once her name "Ailbhe Moran" was given.
* Arty really needs a hug.
* She was originally meant to be a side-antagonist/ anti-protagonist. Though the roleplay went down and Arty went from being an antagonist, to an anti-hero, to a protagonist.
* I have 100 doodles of her all in half a sketchbook.

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