Faust

themes: tchaikovsky's nutcracker suite and other russian waltzes
his particular brand of art nouveau is inspired by absinthe as an artistic property
motifs: art nouveau and the aquatic world, absinthe and iridescence, heavy rubber gear
🙞 - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - 🙜
🙤 "faust", an amphibious robot, is a wetworker and scholar of poison tasked with maintaining and interpreting the hinterlands he lives on
🙥 an indistinct incident has left him with a miniature black hole for a head. he's built into an ornate frosted frame of glass, but his body is jet black.
🙦 the world as perceived by faust — his vision being powered as it is by LiDAR — is one seeped in blue-greens and scattering out into nothingness.
🙧 he has a frog's neck (his croaks sound like sonar pings) which may be drawn over with the collar of his coat. his voice synth is similarly unflattering.
🙞 - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - · - 🙜
faust is a shadow-faced glowing-eyed "black mage" type i like using in games with character customization (like minecraft); hence the "all-terrain" idea
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."