Webber

Appearance

Webber is about four and a half feet tall, covered in bristly black fur, and shaped mostly like a human child except for the four spider legs sticking out of the sides of his head around where his ears would otherwise be. He has eight eyes, two of which are about the same size and placement as a human's, with two small accessory eyes on the side of each of those and two more in between his main eyes. (They are not compound eyes exactly, but they lack visible irises or scleras. They're more similar to jumping spider eyes.) His mouth is full of huge fangs, two of which stick out even when it's closed.

Fashion

For a while after their transformation Webber didn't even bother to wear clothes, as can be seen in their icons, and other times they only wear half an outfit. Their fur is thick enough to cover everything. When they do wear clothes they prefer loose ones and don't really care about the difference between girls' and boys' clothes.

Demeanor & Attitude

Webber is cheerful, friendly, eager to help, and loves his fellow spiders. The human came from a loving household but wanted more attention from his father, and acting out to get it is how he ended up eaten by the spider. While the process of becoming a half-human half-spider monstrosity was awful, Webber doesn't have a problem with what he is now, if anything he thinks it's an improvement; he just wishes people wouldn't be mean to him about it.

Voice

Very... buzzy-sounding. In-game he's voiced by a musical instrument like everyone else, and the closest we have to a confirmation of what instrument it is is that once on stream a viewer compared it to a synthesizer falling down a flight of stairs and the developer hosting the stream agreed. I personally think it sounds like an electric guitar being played incredibly badly. It's pretty harsh on the ears. He does sound discernibly childlike underneath all of that, however.

Magic & Telepathy

Webber was originally two beings, a spider from the Constant and a human boy from Earth who got swallowed alive by the spider. Physically they're completely fused together, but mentally they're still partially separate and sometimes have different opinions. This is why they say "we", "us" and "ours" instead of "I", "me", and "mine"; if Webber says something in the singular it's just one of them speaking, more often the boy but sometimes the spider. On a telepathic level they blur into each other with no clear seam, but some thoughts and desires are clearly from either the spider half or the human half.
The spider is used to telepathic communication, because it's what spider queens use to communicate with their brood.

If they die in a game of Don't Starve Together when local soul-eating monster Wortox is nearby, they turn into a single still-fused ghost but release two souls. Webber's player remains in control of the ghost, so it's presumably the seat of Webber's consciousness and volition; the souls either dissipate or end up in Wortox's inventory.
(Wortox is no help regarding what the difference is between a ghost and a soul, since he talks about ghosts like they're the same thing; player ghosts are invulnerable, but there are NPC ghosts that can take damage and they drop souls of the type Wortox collects when they... uh... die. Discorporate? Double-die?)
For many metaphysical purposes Webber is effectively one person, but for some, they're more like two glued together.

After being chased out of the boy's home by his horrified parents, Webber made a deal with Maxwell, who made a vague promise to help them. His help consisted of sending them to the Constant, where they died, possibly due to biological incompatibilities or possibly due to freezing to death or being stomped on by a Deerclops, it's not revealed in canon. They persisted as a skull with spider legs sticking out of it for an unknown length of time until one of the other survivors found the skull and decided to give it a burial, which brought Webber back to life. They've died and come back to life more times since then, but never as thoroughly or for as long as that first time.

They're fully alive now, but users of life or death magic may be able to pick up on the fact that this wasn't always the case. Webber also has some experience using magic items, but minimal innate magic.

Medical Information

Webber is a bit of a medical nightmare. Being brought back to life smoothed out any actual problems that might otherwise have resulted from combining the bodies of a human and a dog-sized spider, at least. He has both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton, and under the skin his flesh and blood are much more purple-tinted than normal for a human because that's the color of spider guts; when he bleeds it's noticeably dark pink instead of red. He can digest a wider variety of food than a human, but doesn't require a special diet. Basic first aid works fine on him and he's susceptible to the same status effects as the human characters such as poisoning, hayfever, and Fire Nettle burns, but what's going on with his organs broadly remains a mystery. It can also be difficult to tell whether he even has fingers under all that fluff, although, for the record, he does.

He/him, they/them

☆ Backtagging: Yeah!

☆ Threadhopping: As long as it's not against the community rules!

☆ Canon-puncturing/fourthwalling: Ask first!

☆ Avoid/warn: Child abuse and dental gore (warn first)

☆ Hugs? Yeah!

☆ Fighting? He doesn't particularly enjoy fighting but he's capable of holding his own. He can whip out a weapon from hammerspace at a moment's notice, and he's more likely to do that than claw and bite like an animal.

☆ Injuring? I'd rather not get too gruesome or too incapacitating, but you can certainly rough him up.

☆ Death? Temporary death is fine, but he doesn't really do permadeath.

☆ Telepathy? Sure, go ahead and read Webber's mind.

☆ IC triggers? He's sensitive about the prospect of being eaten or swallowed, as well as the prospect of something he eats surviving and growing inside him. He's also afraid of being squished as if he were a smaller spider and gets nervous when he sees someone nearby pick up a heavy book or a shoe or roll up a newspaper.

☆ Magnus Archives fear associations? Flesh, Corruption, hints of Lonely.
Background noise of Dark, Desolation, End, Hunt, and Spiral. Surprisingly little Web considering that he's a spider-person.

☆ Nothing sexually suggestive for obvious reasons.

☆ He's pretty good at keeping out of trouble on his own; don't worry about your character having to go out of their way to keep him safe if I tag you with him, or about keeping the thread going if your character doesn't want to talk to kids.

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