Arnko v1.0
Model credits: TDA (for the og base), Etheluu (for everything else)
Between working on commissions and still searching for a job irl, I have been developing a new oc :3c
Hello and let me introduce you all to Arnko. She exists in the Lethal Company universe, but more specifically in the Wesley's Moons au of my friends. They were also the inspiration and partially the reason I created this character.
Fun fact: when I was choosing a name for her, I wanted to go with a Polish name. Somehow I ended up on a site for medieval Polish names and the name "Arnko" immediately was my favorite out of them all. It was also a masculine name. I love my woman oc with a masc name.
She's very much tied to the WM lore so without knowing it at least in some capacity, it might not make sense what I'm going to be saying lol
The basic premise of her is that she is a seller in the gift shop on Galetry (the moon from wm that acts as Gordion) and the one who operates the little theatre upstairs. To also kind of tie in the in-game mechanics of the mod, by giving her specific items she will tell a story of a moon that item is related to and also give the coordinates to it. So for example: if one finds a videotape on which the scenery of Atlantica was recorded, Arnko will describe that moon and also give in return information on how to reach it. And it is a way to mimic the in-game mechanic of logging an item or watching the videotape to unlock moons.
And then her lore got a little deeper. I came up with an idea that the current Arnko (the one that sells stuff on Galetry) is not actually the original one, but just a clone. So the original not-a-clone Arnko was a researcher — and not just any researcher because she was a part of the first people that were sent to Cosmocos. The mission where Cunningham met the Celestial Brain? Yeah, my girl was also there. Not with Cunningham but just in general.
Original Arnko was a part of Harrington's team, which later fled to Utril when the whole thing with Cosmocos happened. Then on Utril it's where the duplication thingy was being invented and tested. In my mind, Arnko offered to be the first human to be cloned. And cloned she was, for the first time. The clone was the same as the original one, same looks, same mind, same memories.
Then long story short, military raided them, killed some of the people there and one of them was the original Arnko. The cloned Arnko then decided to flee so she wasn't captured with knowledge of the secret formula for cloning people the cancer free way. Now the clone became a walking memory storage for all the different things. She decided to keep on living so the research of original Arnko, Harrington and other people, wouldn't be lost to time, and instead alive in her memory.
Many years later, in the present day of this au, that Arnko is like a 10th clone. Although, it's not a perfect copy as with every new clone, her eye cracks a bit more.
Totally didn't just make the eye be cracked without a reason before coming up with an actual reason for it being that way