everyone please give a warm welcome to ellis arkwright, the family doctor!! :-)
(backstory doodles and rambling and that one prime asset oc template under the cut lol)
i’m still ironing out some of the kinks and finer details, but i’ve been really enjoying working on ellis lately :) here’s a couple of fun details i couldn’t adequately include on the sheet, content warning for mention of suicide
his best friend (thomas, here pictured both alive and dead) was killed in a gas attack, which is why ellis has such a strong hatred for the pusher. if a pusher were to spawn in one of his trials and he crossed paths with them, ellis would actively chase them out of the trial and into the nearest EIG. pushers might also have reduced spawn rates on his maps but tbd on that
he also REALLY hates the kress twins for the aforementioned gas trauma reasons. also he just thinks they’re really fucking irritating
his father committed suicide via gunshot to the head when ellis was 7. on multiple occasions, he found his mother staring at a photo of the incident taken by police, and ellis stole it from her so it would stop making her sad. he slept with it under his pillow for years and even brought it to the front with him
he developed a fascination with surgery—particularly cosmetic surgery—after his first major war-related injury, when he was badly cut open by some shrapnel and had to be stitched back up. he considered going to school to become a doctor after he was discharged, but realized pretty quickly that it would be extremely hard for him to get a job in any hospital given the severity of his facial injuries
immigrated to the US in his early 20s (yes, through ellis island, he thinks it’s funny too) and decided to stay in nyc. got involved in an underground fighting ring as a medic of sorts, which turned into doing cheap medical procedures for the poor people in his neighborhood, which turned into free surgeries and people going missing and it was all sort of a mess but he was having fun and people really liked him
he finds coyle fascinating but also really hates cops. coyle thinks the two of them are friends and ellis thinks he sucks and should stop smoking so much
in terms of in-game ability, a hit from ellis causes the reagent to lose access to one of their inventory slots, including whatever is in that slot at the time. the effect stacks and doesn’t affect rigs, and it can only be removed by using one of the first aid stations positioned around the map (which removes all instances of the effect at the same time, so even if you get hit twice, you only need to fix yourself up once to restore both slots)
