Arcjec Voorat

Arcjec Voorat
XDXD And in case you're agonizing over it in the back of your head for whatever reason... Yes, I missed you too. XDXD
Introduction First Appearance
Title	Bard of Breath
Age	8 Repitonian Solar Sweeps
Gender Identity	He/They (Masc Nonbinary)
Status	Alive
Screen Name	animatedHumorist
Typing Style	Proper syntax and punctuation. Prefixes and suffixes each message with "XDXD". Tends to be verbose.
Strife Specibi	Scythekind
Fetch Modus	Replica
Relations	The Forgiven - Ancestor Taz Poemme - Matesprit crush Laivan Ferroo - Moirail crush Ellsee Raines - Siblings
Planet	Land of Mirage and Monochrome
Music	Curtain Call ♫ A New World ♫ Six By Six ♫ Clamor ♫ Final Bow ♫ Terran Wanderer ♫ Code Red and Existential Dread ♫ Day After Day ♫ Nostalgia ♫ Secure ♫ Trial By Fire ♫ One Step Forward ♫ Good Old Hornless Jerryatric ♫ Twelve By Twelve ♫ Arcjec's Theme ♫ Show's Over ♫ Anywhere Can Be Paradise ♫ I'm Right Here ♫ Courage ♫ Calm Before The Storm ♫ Last Yulepassing ♫ Still Here ♫ Phantazein ♫ A Story About Being Free ♫ Friends Forever ♫ End Scene ♫ BONUS: Arcalicious ♫ Signal To Noise ♫ Could I Be A Hero Too? (Arcjec Voorat Vs. The End Of The World) ♫
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Chatlogs Arcjec: Answer Troll. Taz: Greet Arcjec in the nicest way possible. Arcjec: Answer Taz. Arcjec: Open Memo. ======> Ellsee: Ask precious friend for reassurance. ======> ======> Arcjec: Answer Ellsee. Arcjec: Read messages from Taz. Arcjec: Resume talk with colorful snake. Ellsee: Open memo. ======> Dream!Laivan: Greet your friend. ======> Arcjec: Open new memo. Sova: Continue reading. Bard: Serve Mage. Ellsee: Come up with some convenient lies! ======> ======> ======> Sova: Disregard that. Lurk in the new memo instead. ======> ======> ======> Calder: Answer old friend.

Arcjec Voorat, also known by his Skorpe handle animatedHumorist, is one of the main characters in the webcomic Vast Error. His associated alchemic sigil is Magnesium, however it is heavily modified from its original form. Arcjec's symbol is the only featured character symbol that is not close to an exact replica of its real alchemical counterpart. He has messy, medium-length hair, and his horns are blocky cones with a pointed, curling protrusion at the apex of each one.

His blood has been notably referred to as 'corn syrup' by the cast, and appears to be a 'mixture' of normal Repitonian bronze blood and lime blood. This blood type and Arcjec's unique sigil were passed down to him by his Ancestor, whose blood was modified after his attempted suicide by hanging and subsequent revival by The Vivifier during The Renaissance.

He was the first troll introduced and the first troll to enter the game.

Biography

Six Sweeps

Arcjec wasn't always like how he is currently. Prior to his difficult relationship with Taz, he was apparently much more outgoing and enthusiastic, if somewhat naive. He used to be interested in comic books and superheroes as well as drawing, 2D animation and scrapbooking, evidenced by the posters on his wall, drawing tablet and the book on top of his refridgerator.

He also seemed to be very interested in (now outdated) SBVRPRPG tournaments, which allowed him to be a little more knowledgable in how The Game should function.

Pre-game

The first thing Arcjec is seen doing on the night of The Game, is replying to a message from Ellsee, who worries that she is needy and unlikable. He offers the insecure troll an attempt at advice, but accidentally turns the conversation around to being about him. Ellsee, amused but touched at him trying to be help despite being very poorly equiped to do so, decides that she will finally introduce herself to him and explain their deeper connection. She goes to his hive and tries to get his attention from his respiteblocks window by throwing a rock at it. The sight of a strange troll trying to get his attention immediately terrifies Arcjec and he turns away in shock and freaks out before being invited to play a game of Anthropormuncipality by Laivan with him and Murrit. Arcjec refuses and tells Laivan to try and remember him fondly if he gets killed.

He then tries to get a better look at the now long gone mysterious troll outside his hive, but ends up falling out his second floor window, into the mud and passing out. Arcjec proceeds to have a cryptic dream where he is standing in a shapeless void colored in static noise. In this dream he briefly sees White Noise, before he abruptly awakens on the floor of his room with his lusus now awake and watching over him. He is surrounded by the many crumpled up drawings of strange symbols he makes in his sleep; something that has been a regular occurrence for Arcjec for much of his life. He sees that this time has been no exception, this most recent paper having The Game's symbol crudely drawn on it along with the phrase: 'It's the only way.'

Meanwhile on Prospit, Laivan visits Arcjec's dream self, delivering a Prospitian newspaper as he's done hundreds of times before, and wishing Arcjec that wake up soon. Laivan wonders if, had Arcjec had woken up on Prospit sooner, he might have been a little happier, and gives a reasurring pap to the sleeping dreamself. The dreamself glitches out momentarily, and briefly reverts to his younger, happier former self. Laivan is freaked out by this.

During Arcjec's nap, Murrit sends out a mass-memo to all the trolls (except Ellsee) pertaining to The Game and the events surrounding it. Additionally, after the flower pod in the Frog Temple opens, The Game is suddenly installed on all the troll's main computers.

Shortly after waking up, Arcjec finds himself accosted by Taz, who had been unceremoniously thrust into the game alongside Arcjec (and had apparently been coerced into speaking to Arcjec by Murrit, to her immense displeasure). Taz uses the game's cursor to drag Arcjec to his desk and look at his computer. The former friends bicker for some time before Taz forces Arcjec to look at the reality of the situation -- literally.

After a very forced and impacting peek at the scene you've come to realize that this game isn't a joke.

When Arcjec dismisses Murrit's memo as an elaborate prank done by the sea-dweller, Taz retaliates by forcing him to look out his window and look at the meteor hurtling towards his hive. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Arcjec agrees to work with Taz, despite her constant antagonism and berating of Arcjec. The two reach an uneasy truce (although mutually agree to avoid each other once everything is said and done) and begin working to unravel the secrets of The Game. Arcjec realizes that there are symbols he has been writing in his sleep since he was young are connected to the game. After a few spats, he begins inputting the symbols into the game window, while Taz inputs a set of codes she received from Murrit's memo.

This allows Taz access to a set of objects to place outside of Arcjecs hive. Proceeding there, Taz places a series of pillars and an archway around Arcjec's hive, and a mysterious chest in Arcjec's respitteblock. Arcjec opens the chest, which unleashes a powerful gust of wind which send him hurtling out of his room and destroying the wall in the process. The wind blows Arcjec right in front of the archway, which is activated into some sort of portal. Taz uses the game cursor to pull Arcjec into the portal. After his entry, the pillars around Arcjec's hive divert the oncoming meteor away from his hive into Skaia, preventing its complete destruction.

During the game

Arcjec awakes on a gray platform inscribed with the Breath symbol, floating in an blank, stark white void. The powerful winds seen during Arcjec's entry appears once again, and in a powerful convergence of wind, it transforms before Arcjec into the denizen of Breath, Zehanpuryu. Arcjec -- terrified and bewildered after the mayhem that lead up to his entrance into the game -- laughs hysterically at the sight of his denizen, which the denizen imitates awkwardly.

One of the only times Arcjec has smiled.

After some back and forth between the two and after Arcjec calms down slightly, Zehanpuryu introduces Arcjec to the game and its purpose, pledging himself as Arcjec's guide. Stating that Arcjec is the Bard of Breath, he beckons the Bard to find him again when he is stronger. He inserts himself within the Breath plaform and changes the blank planet around them into the newly formed Land of Mirage and Monochrome.

As Arcjec looks around his new surroundings, he is approached by one of the planet's consorts: a bright, vibrant snake (both in personality and in appearance) who tells Arcjec to use the terminal that just appeared next to the denizen platform. The terminal allows Arcjec to access his game UI and Skorpe, and he finds that he is being messaged by Taz and Ellsee. Wishing to avoid Taz, he only answers Ellsee, who had just seen a meteor hurtling towards his hive only to disappear and instead found discovered his damaged -- but otherwise intact -- hive. The two quickly catch up before Ellsee is forced to admit that she knows more than she's previously let on and that she's been near Arcjec's hive. When Arcjec mentions the codes he used for the game, Ellsee mentions she's seen them in a book that she has had her whole life and is now finally realizing that they have been a fixture in her life as well. After telling Ellsee to meet up with him when things are less hectic, Arcjec signs off and reads Taz's messages, who very harshly urges Arcjec to update her so she knows that Arcjec is still alive.

After decidedly not responding to Taz, Arcjec speaks with the multicolored snake consort again, who he accidentally names "Guy". Guy tells Arcjec to prepare a weapon, as he is bound to face monsters on his journey. Arcjec equips his scythe before taking his first steps on his journey on LOMAM. Meanwhile, Ellsee creates her own memo in regards to the game and her own knowledge of it; Arcjec is included in it along with all the other trolls. Having just left the terminal, Arcjec does not respond to the memo.

Personality and Traits

Arcjec is largely defined by his depressive personality. Due to a severe lack of motivation, he largely spends his time in his room sitting at his computer and drinking soda. Arcjec has been known to go as far to perform mundane tasks in his imagination while failing to perform them in reality. Arcjec has a generally sardonic attitude towards most things in his life and his life in general, and has little tolerance towards anything bothersome to him. He seems to be a little obsessed with how things work in "real life" and generally sees things from a rather bleak black and white perspective.

This stunted emotional mindset masks a residual attachment Arcjec still has to his old life that can be seen in his many conversations with his friends, in which he paradoxically claims to be apathetic while also appearing heavily invested in the conversations, as evidenced by the amount of effort put into his responses. His general demeanor is, ironically, pointedly the opposite of what his typing quirk and screen name would imply, which can be inferred to be a result of Arcjec losing interest in the personality that he had facilitated when he was younger.

He has love of Mountain Dew: Code Red that borders on addiction. This, along with his hatred of Lunchables, might be some sort of coping mechanism for his past which he simultaneously embraces and rejects in a painful, vindictive loop.

Relationships

Taz

Arcjec and Taz's first time talking in two sweeps. It goes as well as it can.

Arcjec and Taz have had a difficult relationship since the comic started. Stemming from their largely difficult past and assumedly unrealized romantic entanglements. There are many indications that their relationship was at one point abusive or unrequited; mutually or otherwise -- though neither of these points have been directly confirmed. After some kind of relationship-ending incident, Arcjec has since vehemently avoided any interaction with Taz for over two sweeps while Taz has since desperately tried to reach out to Arcjec. The resulting fallout has evidently deeply affected Arcjec, with Arcjec having displayed a drastic change in personality and demeanor. Meanwhile Taz appears to felt abandoned or betrayed by Arcjec.

When the two are forced to interact with one another during the events of the game, the two are constantly at each other's throats, barely being able to stay civil with one another, even for the sake of their mutual survival. Despite this, even though it is very slight, they did have a couple moments of levity and have been shown to complete their goals as a team rather efficiently all things considered.

Ellsee Raines

Not much is known about Arcjec and Ellsee's relationship, though Ellsee does seem to value him a great deal. One of her goals being to finally meet him and introduce herself personally, though she is never able to bolster up the courage to actually do it. Even when being at his hive already.

Ellsee appears to care for Arcjec and worries for his wellbeing, even dropping all of her fear to run back to him in order to try and rescue him once she notices the meteor heading towards his hive. Despite this, Arcjec doesn't appear to know much about Ellsee at all. Though he does seem to have an easier time speaking to her than the other trolls in his chat fodder. When Ellsee asks if she was likable, Arcjec does actually try to give her advice (albeit poorly).

It is known that Ellsee and Arcjec's ancestors had some sort of connection to each other, but it is not known how relevant their relationship is to Ellsee and Arcjec specifically.

Laivan Ferroo

Despite Arcjec's generally unfriendly demeanor, Arcjec and Laivan appear to have a mutually pleasant friendship, at least by Arcjec's standards. There are hints that there may be be some sort of deeper connection between the two however, given how Laivan acts towards Arcjec on Prospit and the fact that Arcjec's jeans match Laivan's blood color.

Murrit Turkin

Arcjec does not appear to be a big fan of Murrit. After reading through his memo he believes that the game is a prank set up by him and the others to make fun of him and later notes after collecting his personal game codes that he is a "slam jockey with more jolted RGB wires than common decency". And when telling Zehanpuryu about what he believes should have happened post-entry he admits that Murrit is a "friend" and that he is "actually much worse at explaining things than you or this game."

furbishFacilitated

Arcjec has mentioned FF once during a conversation with Taz as they were working towards his entry. He seems to know enough about her to guage what her interests are, but otherwise there is no information on their relationship.

Trivia

• His trolltag 'animatedHumorist' is an ironic holdover from his past active interest in comic books and cartoons. 'Animated' refers to the way in which characters in this medium are portrayed, and 'Humorist' in how cartoons are often comedic in nature.
• Arcjec is often compared to Karkat Vantas, due to their similarly cantankerous demeanors, penchant for tirades (although Karkat is clearly the more long-winded of the two), and their roles as "the first troll" in their respective comics. This has become a bit of a running joke between fans of the comic, who often ironically ship the two together. This was brought to a head for April Fools Day 2017 when there was a short four page comic dedicated to the subject.
• Arcjec's archetype is simply "main character" but is also paired with "self insert". It has been noted that he was at one point a true self-insert of Austin in the very early stages of development in 2011. However he claims that they do not "really share any similarities at this point, except for soda consumption".
• Arcjec has a habit of typing out loud, or rather, speaking whatever he happens to be typing.
• Arcjec's initials are AV, which are the same initials as Austin.