illustrations i did for a character i played in a streamed cypher system game, CT. His cypher descriptor was "Perceptive Adept that Moves like a Cat."

CT is actually a species of alien that are considered a fully sentient AI/robotic species. many don't even look human, but CT was one of the few that would roam the known galaxy as an information gatherer so he opted to take on a form that would blend in a little easier. He also had a super-power that involved sight, and while it's a little hard to explain, i think this tumblr post would be the closest to how he perceived the world. he spoke with a very stunted but proper english cadence that i liked.

secret character creation lore is that "CT" doesn't stand for anything, it's actually a shortening of "Circuit" but made to sound more "human". even deeper than that, i designed him as a non-catboy catboy, so "CT" is also a shortening of "Cat" lol

original character with the name "Magician" (any pronouns). they are not based on the tarot card at all, their original name was "Catalyst" but i wanted to repurpose them for a game i was making but then never finished it and then the design remained but i still really liked it. they're just a weird timeless? being. dunno.

played a bit of Cyberpunk RED for a thing, ended up making a clown netrunner character with the call sign "Smirks".

that game is likely not gonna continue so i feel fine sharing "spoiler" stuff about their backstory: their whole motivation was trying to find out the secrets to digital immortality that they were convinced were performed on their parents, leading them down the path to become a netrunner in the time of RED. half the time they lived as a weird hacking clown with an unsettling personality that took any job and work with anyone that would help further their goals and then the other half of the time live as the failson of their remaining corpo-aligned family in night city and dealt with their depression through doing hobby work with puppets and clockwork.

i think Cyberpunk's lore is really interesting overall, and i'd be interested to maybe play a game of it again now that i know how to do it, but it's an incredibly number crunchy roleplay game and probably not my favorite style of combat. though gotta say, netrunning as a way of gamifying navigating a cyberspace is pretty cool. more games should do stuff like netrunning.

The Architect that reacquainted Felix with despair.