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PERSONALITY

A trepidatious programmer plagued with anxiety and a heightened fear of water, Crytum could be considered the textbook definition of a nerd. The man holds a rather impressive occupation as a Corporate engineer. With his brains, active imagination, and his passion for technology, he can make anything given the time. Security measures, bombs, robots, tracking people down, etc. Crytum can and will find a way to do all of those, so long as you have enough loops and he has enough time. He loves doing it even if it keeps him up almost every day, and having it as his job that pays well enough is a nice bonus.

Beyond those skills of his, Crytum has a strong fascination with Repitonian media, specifically on the animation side of things. While he's a consistent consumer of anime, he has a particular fondness for ones that are more independent and underground. The ones that aren't automated in its production and tell more nontraditional stories and themes are the ones that catch his eye the most, the stories that come from troll passion. Crytum also has a love for video games and those who can play them really well when he doesn't have the time or urge to play them himself.

Crytum also has a huge heart and compassion, a trait of which makes him quite magnetic of others, including those that people wouldn't exactly expect to be friends of his. He tries often to see the good in people and concern for those struggling or less fortunate comes easy for him because of his understanding. While he does appreciate the payment his job as an engineer provides, to Crytum, he's more drawn to the joy from generosity those close to him feels when he makes them something with his skills. None of this is to mean that he's compliant however.

Due to a traumatic past involving an abusive ex-moirail of his, it took Crytum a while to get back on his feet and try to stay on them. He has some difficulty even now allowing himself to express himself but thanks to moving to Stronghold 21 for his job, transitioning, and close relationships like The Boys (Glomer, Bytcon, and Endari) and others, he's able to recover and believe in himself, even if took a while. Crytum has a more hard-boiled approach to pale romance on Repiton due to this, frustrated with the insistence that he look for a new one in order to deal with his problems, and even more frustrated towards the services in place to help those like him, or rather not help as the case may be. He isn't quite sure if he even feels pale attraction because of his own trauma or if it's because of how held high the soulmate system is and believing himself to conform to it.