Aren Sokolov ☆

he has three iterations now. they're multiplying

Main Verse [Beyond The Stars]

• moderately infested host
  • not purposefully infested; encountered the parasite through supernatural incident and taken in by the company through outside source
  • lost most of body mass, non-essential organs & left eye in initial infestation. now it leads to the Spiders Dimension. has balanced out and now sits at a level that is only pretty self-destructive. which is improvement, i guess?
  • shares a mind with his parasites. after larval development, the parasites pupate into the appearances of spiders. his parasites influence the behavior of arachnids in a certain radius. he can also implant his parasites into normal spiders to effectively "link" them to him -- think a weird spider hivemind
    • susceptible to normal mental filtering, so its not All Spider Radio All The Time, but more like a constant droning in the background.  Think if someone is having a conversation behind you and you may hear it while not rlly registering it, but you can choose when to listen in.
    • can telepathically communicate with them and share their senses (ex: seeing through their eyes), as well as exerting control over them
      • in addition to positives, also receives negative sensations -- pain. hunger. feels their deaths.
      • control is also partially subconscious. they react to his emotional states. if he's scared, they may become defensive; lonely, they may cluster around him
    • uses this to Constantly Spy On People; is a deeply anxious person who feels he needs to have that sense of security so that no one can ever hurt him again
    • spiders are nowhere near an effective means of attack but he gets creative w it. sometimes uses them to pickpocket
• 21 year old Persian-Ukrainian man-creature (he/him, they/them)
  • often comes off as creepy or unnerving but really he's just autistic as fuck. his special interests happen to be a little morbid. a bit of a wreck
  • morbid curiosity the person
    • unfortunately also intrusive thoughts the person
  • likes alien (the movie), creepy things, bugs, animorphs, mythology & folklore, punk and grunge, horror, grimdark (but very picky), misery sims like pathologic/fear & hunger, berserk, coffee
  • dislikes meat, about 80% of all clothing textures, things around his neck, reality TV, valentine's day, gossip & unnecessary judgement, sweet foods
    
  • transmasc nonbinary
    • ideal gender is spooky monster
  • aroace
  • dropped out of college because of the whole Worms Thing
  • has a goliath birdeater named Cupcake
    • all of his other spiders have names as well 👍 Arachne, Frontal Lobe, Quelagg, Tugarin and Zmeyevich are just a few
      
• Lives in the basement of an abandoned city building
  • siphoning power n water from a nearby building. they do Not know why their bills are so high lmao
  • is basically running a bizarre spider breeding operation out of his basement
    • occasionally goes on forums and tries to convince australians to catch dangerous spiders and mail them over
    • spiders only understand the metric system
  • please help him he has eaten next to nothing but ramen, maccy cheese, and the occasionally shoplifted foodstuff for Years. his meals look like 💨💨so that theirs can look like 🐛🐛
  • has a sketchy collection of weapons he's found in the gutters and in alleyways. could probably get framed for 50 different murders at this point

• youngest iteration, only 18 years
• also the weakest iteration bc Power Balancing
• WIP

Harborton

• only 20
• didn't even get gooped; literally manifested his powers through the power of Coping
  
• part time bio student at that university where those two supervillains got their degrees. great. also has a part time job, meaning he has no time ever. 
• a creature of the night. can typically be found on campus or walking between college, work, his apartment, and the nearby 7/11
  • would sooner die than enter a costco
• lives ""alone"" in a sketchy part of town. his apartment is full of building code violations but the rent is pretty cheap 👍
  • sees weird shit and violence so often that he doesn't really question it anymore. like yeah that's a villain hanging around outside of the 7/11. mind your own business and just keep walking
  • always carries around several knives. usually has one in his jacket, in his boot, and in his backpack
• still has the missing eye. tells people that he sold it to the mafia -- but probably lost it in some accident, I doubt incidental injuries are that rare in Harborton when you have literal supervillains running through the streets