Scorpio Arachnibilt

### Killer Style

He's always sharply dressed, usually in Haunt Couture or Boois Vuitton. He loves vests and turtlenecks, and is rarely seen without some form of gold jewelry.

### Monster Quirk

Scorpio will sometimes use his own stinger to fix his hair if his hands are busy.

## Biography

### Personality

Scorpio is witty, sarcastic, and cutting, though secretly very sensitive. He has a hard outer shell, but certain things can wound him very deeply. He's never really had a personality outside of young, gay, and mean, because if he did it would make him vulnerable to bullying again. He puts himself above others and thinks he's better than them because it's better for him to isolate himself than to have others do it. He’s attracted to powerful people and uses that power to shield himself--he isn’t necessarily a follower, but he doesn’t consider himself a leader. Scorpio doesn’t like when people think they’re better than him, and considers himself an independent spirit. Scorpio doesn’t like censoring himself, and hates when others censor him. He always says what’s on his mind regardless of whether or not it will hurt another person. He’s not the best liar, but he does love coming up with sneaky plans and espionage, probably due to watching a large amount of older spy boovies as a child. Scorpio can be kind of selfish, but when he cares about someone, he’ll do anything for them. However, he always assumes those who are close to him don't care about him the way he does them, so he remains incredibly snarky and rude no matter who he's with under the assumption that they're eventually going to turn on him anyway.

### Appearance

Scorpio has red skin with the appearance of darker red scales, which make up his exoskeleton. He has two poison-tipped prongs on the top of his head, sharp mandibles at the corners of his mouth, and his fingers are naturally hard and sharp. He also has a large, prehensile tail, with a poison tip at the end. He has shiny blond hair that reaches the back of his neck.

### History

Scorpio knew he was gay from a very young age, and was always interested in things like singing, acting, baking (which he loved to do with his mother), debate, and writing. He was mocked for these feminine qualities as a child, especially at school, where he had very few friends. This turned him off from other people and by the time he got to middle school he was a very jaded boy. The mean popular ghouls who were equally jaded and cruel to their classmates that he felt drawn to, especially since their popularity shielded him from bullying, but he still faced it, including from these girls. To cope with this he developed a superiority complex, i.e. “no one likes me because no one is on my level”. In eighth grade, Scorpio his first boyfriend, a Frogboy named Bernardo. Bernardo was closeted to most people and their relationship was kept secret. He was very shy and nerdy, and was subsequently bullied a lot, especially by Scorpio’s friends. Due to this, Bernardo told Scorpio he wouldn’t be his boyfriend if he continued to treat him poorly and only care for him in private. At the time, Scorpio agreed to this, but in response to pressure from his popular friends he ended up bullying him anyway, eventually outing Bernardo as gay. In retaliation, Bernardo revealed they were dating, which brought them both down. After this, Scorpio was bullied, including cyberbullied, where they called to such an extent that his family moved to San Anboneio, sending him away to school in New Salem.

## Abilities

* **Venomous Sting:** Scorpio, his father and his siblings all have a poison-tipped prehensile tail with a venomous sting that can also squirt poison.
* **Physical Enhancements:** He has superhuman strength and durability due to his hard exoskeleton.
* **Agility:** Scorpio has the ability to wall-crawl.
* **Extra Limbs:** He also has retractable middle limbs with claws on the end.

## Relationships

### Family

He was born in Booston, Hexas, as the oldest of six, but he was always closest with his mother and her favorite child. His father is the Scorpion Man, and his mother is a wasp-woman. They come from a middle-class family and are conservative Scarepublicans who belong to the Zombie Church of Christ and are very devout religiously. Despite this, they are very kind people, and make caring for each other and those around them a fundamental part of their ideologies, more than anything else.

He always had very feminine interests, which he shared with his mother, making them extremely close. She ignored that he was gay, which she disagreed with due to her religious and political beliefs, but she couldn't apply those to him because she just loved him so much. Before he left for New Salem, Scorpio was outed online, which his mother assured him she didn’t believe, but he decided to come clean, which shocked her. She has refused to write him, though she still sends him Christmas cards.

He loves his dad, who was shockingly okay with the gay thing, and apparently knew the entire time because he drove him to his tap lessons. His dad still writes him, but he is never going to get over the loss of his relationship with his mom. He loves his siblings very dearly, and takes care of them.

### Friends

He’s had a lot of “friends” in middle school, who were mean, popular girls who wanted a GBF, and whose popularity he used to shield himself, but they didn’t actually care about him, and turned on him. He likes to pretend he didn’t care about them, either, but he did, and their betrayal deeply hurt him. He likes to pretend he’s slow to trust, but if someone shows him kindness, especially someone who doesn’t show it to a lot of other people, he’ll respond very quickly.

Throughout highschool, Scorpio has been surviving by befriending whatever screamoir ghoul is the HWIC (Head Witch In Charge) that year--the only isue being that during those summers, he was left friendless when they went off to crawllage. In his own senior year, he became fast friends with Cassandra Cabra, whom he was attracted to due to her sense of humor and blunt attitude, and by extension Cathie-Lou Lovecraft. Though Cassandra does on the surface appear to be very similar to the girls from middle school, he can tell that this time, under the surface, she’s just as lonely as he is.

### Romance

He hasn’t dated anyone since Bernardo, though he has had some hookups on [Monster High equivalent of Grindr tbd]. He is deeply lonely, and wants to be loved, which is why he ends up falling for Herman Culus.

### Enemies

Edgor Straussman, because the first time they met Edgor said “I think—” and Scorpio immediately interrupted him by saying “Oh, do you have a hunch?”

## Trivia

* He loves baking and one day wants to make the perfect soufflé.
* He's a diehard Icki Minaj fan, but his actual favorite musician is Skellvis, who his mother loves.
* Scorpio likes drawing, but he's incredibly insecure about it, and keeps it a big secret. He's not great, but he's not terrible at it, either.
* He was held back for one year in the 5th grade.
* Scorpio has not adopted his parents' political views, but does hold more sympathy for those who do than most people.
* If you can tell what characters from what show I based him off of you get a cookie. Here's a hint: you'll literally never guess.