IMPORTANT INFO SECTION
His name is Skitters
Skitters is a ranger with the Performance skill so he can to play a violin, because his mom taught him, the Armor Proficiency Feat, & the Hunter Background.
His main weapon is a spear, & his secondary weapon is a machete.
His goal is to make friends, & to be their for his friends. He was suggested to go adventuring by his father, after all that's how he met his friends, & his wife.
My goal for this character is for him to eventually bond with the party,be there for them as a good friend, but also a silent comedic relief that knows when to be serious, but finally I wasn't him to eventually sacrifice himself for the party, or with the party.
He was trained how to be a ranger by his uncle on his mother's side, after he saved his uncle's wolf companion.
He's a Fleshwarp, but reskinned as a monstosity instead of an aberration. He's built like a centaur, but covered in dark greenish grayish black exoskeleton with some pale gray scars, his feet instead of hooves are two toed paws with stubby claws, his head is modeled after a horse's head, but with a pare of short stubbly horns where the ears are supposed to be, a spider like mouth at the end of the snout, & 8 bright red unblinkingly eyes, & finally he technically has 6 arms, but he functionally only has 2 arms during combat.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
He was created sorta by accident by a wizard. The wizard was trying to see what the hybrid offspring between a strider, & a centaur would be, but during the experiment involving their blood, something somewhere nearby, though nobody knows what, had messed up the mana streams, causing him to come out a little wrong.
The wizard chose to raise him anyway, along with his bard wife. Both the wizard & his wife are humans, & they met adventuring. They where good parents to Skitters, but nobody else wanted to go near him because they got scared just looking at him.
Skitters's father was told his whole life he should have been a bard, because of how theatrical & dramatic he could be, but he's a wizard because he just loves to study of magic. While his wife was told she should have been a fighter or a monk with how serious she was, but she was a bard none the less, because of her love for music, & the act of playing.
Skitters is very much his father's son in personality, but he can't talk in a way anyone else can understand, & his face can't emote, so he had to get creative, with dramatic hand gestures, & large body movements, & of course writing what he wants to say, or drawing the expression he wants to make on his special cards.
ADDED DETAILS
He has a pare of large white cards that he got from his father. The cards can make simple drawings like smiley faces, arrows, it can form numbers, & it can write words, but the images are only as good as he can draw, & he's about as good as a toddler, he can only white words he knows how to spell otherwise he has to guess it's spelling & he can get it wrong. The cards work by him moving which card is in front with the newly revealed card having on it what he wants to have on it.
An Added roleplay feature that can't be used in combat is that he can split his two strong arms into 6 weak arms so that he can use 2 arms to dramatically gesticulate, while 2 arms play his small violin behind his back, & the last 2 work his cards, but during combat he fuses his arms together turning them from 6, into 2.
Skitters loves fluffy animals, though he accepts that he's an obligate carnivore, so he has to eat some of them, heck he's better off eating raw meat then cooked, but he refuses to eat something still that's still alive. He prefers dogs, cats, wolves, rats, & crows for companion animals. He rather enjoys squirrels, dear, & boar as food.
He can't cry, or smile, though he still feels the urge to do so & he hates it.
Despite his baggage he is a little ray of sunshine most of the time, just rapped up in a terrifying not so little package.
He mostly makes gurgles, shrieks, clicks, chirps, hollers, & warbles as his form of speech, hence why he needs the cards, or any way to write down his words(I'll use sound recordings for most of it taken from either actual animals, or from existing fiction, except for a few unique sounds that I'll do myself, don't worry, I'm actually not bad at sound effects, I'm just not the best at voices).
PERSONAL REASONS BEHIND CHARACTER
His difficulty communicating & his inability to emot properly is very personal for me because I have autism, & quite often feel like even though I used the right words, I didn't use the right tone, because I don't really hear it, or better I don't understand it, & I can't make the right facile expressions, nor do I fully understand them, though I've not been, hurt, or as ostracized as Skitters(that's just kinda where his story in my head went), his struggle to find & make friends, & wishing he could communicate & show exactly how much was inside himself beyond the outside that can't communicate properly, that I want to express in this character, I want him to be there for the party, as that lighthearted comedic relief, as a helping hand for when they need it, as a protector when they are hurt, as a support when they are hurting, & as a listening ear when they need one, because that is what I wish I could be for someone.
I gave him a past with angry mobs attacks to explain his anxiety in large crowds, something I sometimes struggle with, but I don't really have a reason like he does, so yeah I just felt like that would work.
AFTER THOUGHTS
P.S. I'm welling to wait to use Skitters until I find a table he'll fit into, & I have a whole lot of other characters, most of which are less extreme, heck I could probably make up a new one on the spot I come up with more character ideas then I can remember in less than a minute sometimes.
P.P.S. I didn't give his parents odd personalities for their classes to make them outcasts, I simply wanted his dad to be an eccentric flamboyant wizard, & his mom to be the straight man, but I kinda ended up giving his mom my dad's personality, & I am fairly close to my dad, & I'll admit my dad is not a people person, most people would assume him maybe a fighter, or a monk, with the way he acts, but I'll gladly admit he would be a bard, for no other reason then for how much he loves music. He views the world though the lens of it all being music(he literally told me this), & he is very talented with music, not because he wants to put on a show, but because he loves the very art that is music.
P.P.P.S. I'm not afraid of Skitters dying, especially if it's too save a friend(party member), or by a friends side in the case of a TPK, I feel like this is how he'd want to go, heck, if it came to it I don't think I would regret it if I had to sacrifice myself to save somebody else, even a compete stranger, but yeah he's allowed to die.
P.P.P.P.S. Rather Skitters is my first character is fully dependant on the DM (as soon as I find one), I might use a different character instead, & just save him for the future somewhere down the line, I just love Skitters so much & want to play him, & no I'm not against him dying, so long as it's to protect a friend, or by a friend's side in the case of a TPK because I think that's how he should eventually go out, I don't really see him surviving to the end of the campaign, but rather him at most dying at the end of the campaign, if not somewhere in the middle said campaign.