Alright, so the handsome arm man came as a result of an RP hehe. My partner and I were sorta setting up one of his characters to be in a relationship with one of mine, and I realized that I didn't really know which of my characters would work best? So at first I was settled on one I already had, and I thought we could start there and move on. However... As the RP went on, I went so far out of character for the one I was thinking of that I decided I needed a new kiddo altogether. Thus, I started writing notes for this charming flirt of a guy. I... Don't know exactly how he got the backstory and tech and stuff. I know I realized he needed more to his personality, and the ideas just started coming on a whim, I guess? Through visualizing some art ideas for him, I knew I wanted him to have holograms of some sort, like screens. Then that idea graduated to arms and other things. The revenge thing I think just came from the fact that I was listening to "Revenge, and a Little More" by Unlike Pluto at the time, so I just went with it haha.
I think getting a solid design for him was the hardest part! At first I was wanting to do reds instead of blues, BUT I liked the idea of him having blue holograms. I was also unsure of how I wanted his hair to go. I had been thinking of doing the longer, slicked-back hair and had visualized it a lot, but I kept second-guessing. In the end, I'm VERY glad I chose to go for it, it matches his look perfectly! And the blues I finally decided upon after doing some hue swaps when I wasn't happy with the red. I remember his shoes specifically in the initial drawing I had of him inspired his final design, basically all of his colors stemmed from the color palette of his shoes with a blue hue swap haha.