Patchwork

Patchwork is a "Warforged" barbarian the **Selesnya** guild. It is one of the eight PCs in the EGTD10 Campaign.

**Warning:** this character bio contains themes of **body horror**.

## Biographical information

### Aliases

Patch
[Redacted]

### Weapons

Armblade (shortsword)
Natural weapons

## Physical description

### Other Features

Skeletal Left Arm
Sword Right Arm
Robotic Legs
Visible glowing heart
Mask/Livingleaf shawl
Constantly shifting face

## History

### Before

Patchwork was a human at some point, but over the course of many years has taken on so many modifications as to appear unrecognizable and has lost its memory of who that person was.

### The Scrapbook

Patchwork keeps a scrapbook of its personal history and things it needs to keep track of. It writes in the book often and does not allow others to read it.

### Gruul

Patchwork was in **Gruul** before moving to Selesnya for unknown reasons. Despite changing guilds, Patchwork still appears to feel generally positive about the group.

### Selesnya

Patchwork now works in Selesnya under a Dryad named **Dicentra.** Patchwork is reluctant to speak to her for longer than strictly necessary.

## Personality

Patchwork is easygoing and curious, to the point of joining an adventuring party for no monetary benefit on a whim. It tries to make a good first impression wherever it can, while also taking joy in how that can be an unnerving experience for some. It's always willing to do someone a favour, but prioritizes the people who treat it with kindness over larger overarching ideals. Patchwork thrives on internal dissonance, and as such doesn't make judgments on people based off of guild. Well, most guilds.

Make no mistake, it is still a barbarian. Patchwork views nature, art, and well-executed violence with equal amounts of admiration and respect. Patchwork is the author of its own form, and the fastest way to earn its respect is to be spooky right back. It values self-realization and nonconformity over all else.

In Patchwork's head there is a little droplet on a leaf like the Pokemon Ruby intro. It remains neutral, even jovial, in high stakes combat, and saves its annoyance for social situations where it believes it is being made a fool of or when defending a friend. It enjoys being self-sufficient, and does not accept money under any circumstances.

### Fears

Patchwork is not easily phased, but the closest it's been to outright fear so far was its disproportionate reaction to being offered a 500 coin reward.

With how much it values autonomy, getting its mind taken over would likely be a terrifying experience.

## Appearance

Patchwork is not visibly distinguishable as any known race of District 10. It has a skeleton arm, a sword arm, robot legs, a glowing lichen heart that's visible through three holes in its chest, a leafy shawl growing small yellow flowers that covers most of its head, and a simple bone mask with mismatched eyes.

Patchwork is tall, strong, and bulky, hitting 6'4. It has slate grey skin and a luminescent radium green eyelight set inside the mask's larger eye.

Its main outfit is yellow-trimmed green Selesnyan robes, cut to expose its heart and hide its blade under one very long sleeve with a patch sewn on it where the blade wore a hole.

### True Face

Beneath the mask is Patchwork's True Face. Due to the constant bodily adaptations made by the Mutation Heart, this face is constantly undergoing very slow shapeshifting. As such, Patchwork is constantly reworking its own face into new and fascinating shapes, and makes an effort to bring a new one to every battle. It removes the mask when raging and on special occasions.

## Abilities, Tools, and Weapons

Patchwork primarily uses the Armblade, but has access to the class features of the Barbarian Path Of The Beast, including a tail, jaw, and claw transformation. Only the jaw transformation has been seen so far.

## Relationships

### The Party

**NOTE:** As the most recent member of the party, Patchwork's relationships to the party are very fluid and subject to change.

**Judas:** Patchwork hasn't interacted much with Judas, and as such only really has its preconceptions about him and his actions as a Boros commander. In few words, Slightly Negative

**Theo:** As one of the two people Patchwork met first, and one that was curious about Patchwork's form (which it is always excited to talk about) Patchwork is generally positive.

 **Fysika:** As the other person Patchwork met first, Fysika's... whole deal is a lot of what sparked Patch's curiosity in the first place. Patchwork sees a lot of drive and self-determination in him that it wants to help blossom. Patchwork feels very positive towards Fysika.

**Arc:** Fellow mask-wearer and member of the Isopod crew, Patchwork thinks he's cool overall, but doesn't respect people who hide who they are.

**Helaena:** Patchwork thinks Helena's awesome but is worried that it made a bad first impression. Generally cautious around Simic about ending up on the wrong end of a microscope, but so far so good.

**Smokey:** Isopod crew member, part of Gruul, and has memory loss? Patchwork felt welcomed by Smokey immediately and feels positive towards him.

**Rycin:** Patchwork feels like it could be better friends with Rycin but hasn't really gotten the chance yet. Wants to know why they're rock.

### NPCs

**Dicentra:** The Dryad in charge.

**Elm:** Patchwork has like, looked at him? I think?

## Quotes

* "I'm here for a good time!"
* "Listen to my heartbeat."
* "You can't have my legs."
* "All good beauty has terror, and all good terror has beauty. You can't have one without the other."
* "Wait, wrong hand,"

## Trivia

* Patchwork's concept was thought up in its entirety in the duration of a single subway ride,
* The Scrapbook is a real physical book, and should anybody steal it in character they get to read it.
* Voiceclaim is Bill Wurtz.