Arcturus Porter I (Shining Bonds)

Arcturus Porter I (Japanese: *Portuaa Arata*) is one of the secondary characters featured in Shining Bonds a la Mode. He was the co-leader of the Star-Eternal Guardians and also the Emperor of Galar. Today, he is a scavenger and a merchant who lives in a cave located at the eastern side of Galar.

He is the ancestor of all Porters.

## Bio

### **Appearance**

Arcturus has neck-length electric-blue hair with a light cyan cap. He has electric-blue eyes and wears a dark blue dojo robe with silver sleeves and a yellow belt, as well as gold shoes.

In the present day, he still wears his said outfit, but with a short black cloak and damaged GDI standard infantry armor set. He also wears a multi-purpose goggles and a respirator that can be found on every GDI stealth trooper.

### **Personality**

#### In the past

During his childhood, Arcturus was proud and mischievous, yet gentle. Despite already aspiring to be a "true gentleman", he lacked manners and mostly behaved like a normal child. His creator having died before he could remember her, and his fellow boys ostracizing him because of his status left Arcturus somewhat lonely. While at first, Arcturus didn't have his future strength of will. However, he did have the kindness and courage to immediately jump to Victoria's rescue. First and foremost, Arcturus strives to become his definition of a "true gentleman" as he carries his Porter name with pride, never betraying the code of conduct he has set for himself and will treat any fellow human with respect unless they prove evil.

Arcturus also possesses a fierce inner strength and the drive to face and overcome conflict, which Ksendras calls an "explosive power". That drive, fueled by his affection for his friends and loved ones, enabled him to overcome the direst situations.

As a gentleman, Arcturus is also kind and positive. He has a mindset where he tries to imagine the consequences his actions would have on other people, even if they appear to be enemies. He is gentle and sympathetic, feeling pain even as he vanquishes a zombified person. Despite his skill in fighting, he will never seriously harm a person without a valid reason. His courteous nature as well as his mental fortitude and ability to withstand fear and pain is the main reason Kiara decides to aid him on his journey. Arcturus has always had an impulse to save others during his life.

Yet Arcturus can feel righteous fury at the evilness of his foes and will conduct justice by vanquishing them. He admitted that his reason for fighting Ksendras is not just for the safety of the Multiverse, but also to avenge his loved ones that the Angels of the Apocalypse had killed. Moreover, he does not pity truly despicable individuals he is not familiar with. Sometimes, though, he can be stubborn as well as impulsive and reckless.

#### Present Day

From thousands and thousands of years to today, Arcturus is now a cynical, disagreeable individual whose primary concern was gaining enough money to preserve himself and his family's life (example: he sometimes gives Jim some money for him to take care of his wife and daughter). Arcturus's loyal side is still present, he demonstrated his bravery and loyalty then soon after, Arcturus became loyal to GDI. Aside from his seemingly self-centered ways, he, like his descendant Jim, was very loyal to his friends, and a good man despite being considerably short-tempered and inactive than he once was, having lost most of his responsibility, gentleness, nobility, and kindness. Arcturus is otherwise nice to his descendants, the Daisies and their friends. His penchant for befriending people and Pokemon is still present, notably with the appearance of his new Pokemon Clark the Slaking (who accompanied him as a co-pilot), and his tendency to approach the locals first and communicate with them, overall being the one to deal business with them.

Arcturus's goofy side is present, and he is somewhat frequent failures at blending with the local culture and his struggle at battling is a constant source of humor. Moreover, his boastful nature leads him to occasional goofs, such as pretending to know how to use an electric stove only to ridicule himself, not knowing that he did end up destroying an electric kitchen stove once.

Arcturus is also improved all over the years as he learns about new things in the Multiverse, which is why he can use most technologies, controlling vehicles/aircraft and using weapons. Although, some of the technologies that he may don't know how to use and led him to frustration, cases like being ended up destroying an electric kitchen stove once because not only he got frustrated, he also finds it way too difficult for him to use.

Arcturus's new and current wife, Mary, described him as someone who had no patience for speeches or memorials and was allergic to politics, ideologies and suspicious of causes. However, according to Mary, he also hated bullies and could never stand down when confronted with them, and when he took on a difficult mission, he was never interested in knowing the odds of success. As Mary recognized, Arcturus's first instinct was always to run when things got hard, but that he never ran far and always came back and stepped up again, knowing that there was a time to run and a time to make a stand.

### **Relationships**

* Jim Porter: Jim greatly respects him as he is his ancestor, though in a formal way and not in the ridiculous, comical way that Nicole worships Elizabeth as a saint. Like Victoria, Arcturus doesn't always approve of Jim's actions, such as pull out a gun in an inappropriate time. Despite Jim greatly respects him, they sometimes fight each other (or in some cases, a gunfight) when something's gone wrong.

### **Etymology**

The name Arcturus is come from a red giant star in the Northern Hemisphere of Earth's sky and the brightest star in the constellation Boötes (the herdsman). Arcturus is also among the brightest stars that can be seen from Earth. Astronomers say Arcturus will end up as a white dwarf at the end of its life.

## Magical Abilities

Arcturus is a Fighting Elemental; as a result, he can deliver magically superpowered kicks and punches. He has greatly enhanced strength, but as a result, does not have as much speed or agility. He is also a very skilled swordsfighter.

## Trivia

* He was originally planned to be named "Portuua Akihito" as his Japanese name, but Nintendo felt that would be disprespectful to the former emperor of Japan.
* It is revealed that he is the only SBALM character that is racist, though he only racist to Slavs.
* As a gag, Pudding will often pretend to make her Arcturus Poter I and Victoria Daisy dolls kiss each other, much to the disgust of Nanette and Jim. Arcturus however, triggered when he sees Pudding tries to make fun of him.
* Arcturus is Divinity's successor in JEMA.
* As payback for Event Horizon's obsession with illogical Daisy-Porter ships, Arcturus will often ship "DarknessShipping" (Event Horizon and Black Hat), "BrainShipping" (Demencia and Black Hat), and "RoboTeenShipping" (Event Horizon and Necrosis). However, he drops the last one after Necrosis becomes a human since she is no longer a robot and shipping a hero with a villain is weird.
	+ The name he coined for the last ship is also a reference to the show *My Life as a Teenage Robot.*

* Arcturus is a huge fan of *Saturday Night Live*, a show he got hooked on after discovering TVs and electronic devices.

## Gallery

The concept of Arcturus how he looks like today by KarlWarrior47 in DeviantArt.His GDI Kodiak-Class battlecruiser/command ship which he used it as a merchant ship.His Titan Mk. I main battle walker.