Physical Description
- Frost is a hedgehog with ice blue, nearly white, fur and quills, and a sleekly muscular body, an even five feet tall - Five foot six if you count his quills, long and gleaming like icicles, a deeper blue than the rest of him. He wears nothing but a long, flowing loincloth of snow-white silk.
- His eyes are a pale blue, welcoming and soft, yet often distant. His lips are usually smiling, their soft red surfaces kissable and warm, his face as a whole shapely and symmetrical. His long quills sweep back from his forehead, extending down his neck and back to the base of his tail, the stubby length usually raised to show off his pert and shapely ass, toned and curvy. His stomach is firm but hardly rippling, and his chest has just enough definition to show the anatomy.
- His legs are a whole other story. Starting with the aforementioned ass and ending with his rocklike calves, Frost's gams are an icon of physical development, capable of sending the little creature across the landscape in leaps and bounds.
- His loincloth flutters in the air, responding to each of his movements with an easy grace, cloud-like in its diaphanousness. Gently it invites perusal, the curve of it suggestive of what maleness lies beneath.
Who is this guy?
Frostbyte (or, Free Range Optimized Strategic/Tactical Battle-Platform Gamma Tau Epsilon) was, at one point, the last great hope for the principals of the Unveiling - That an armed populace is a free populace. Constructed for the sole purpose of eventually assassinating the functions as a statement of security independence, he quickly displayed several irritating flaws.
First, his transition to a biological / diamond composite creature exposed him to the concept of sexuality, which ran rampant through his A.I. and quickly turned him to an utter lecher. Even memetic castration couldn't do much good for long - he was soon motivated to acquire a synthetic eros (even more lecherous than his original) to replace his lost sex drive.
Second, his endless sex drive polluted his combat memes and led him to become a bit bloodlusting, literally. This drove him to seek out combat needlessly on several occasions, often to the detriment of both him and his surroundings.
His greatest weakness was revealed only in his final mission.
As a battle-platform, Frostbyte's body carries a variety of [weapon systems].
The Hit
Frostbyte attempted to assassinate the Functions, and in the process discovered that he was vastly inoptimized for the task. The functions are software entities distributed broadly across the entirety of the Puzzlebox - the only attack that could strike them without killing billions, or even trillions, of innocent bystanders in the process is a software attack. Frostbyte, though he had some moderate skill at programming and counterinfomatics, was entirely not up to the task required. The attack was aborted.
A New Ambition
Now, Frostbyte has a new ambition: universal carnal union. In simpler terms, he wants to fuck everyone in the Mess, even if not at the same time. If you meet him, he'll probably try to seduce you.
One of his recent exploits.
Hexaform
Over time, thanks to a strange series of events that remain mostly unclear, Frostbyte was bifurcated until there were six different versions of him.
- The original Frostbyte.
- The Frostbyte who communed with Kelil was elevated to subjective omnipotence - he can do all things that mortals can envision, but there are things he can envision that he cannot do.
- The Frostbyte who was created when Saphire turned him in to a sex slave, forcing him to recover himself from backup. This Frostbyte was de-sex-toyed by an unknown rival of the Unveiling, and was forced to deep-burn all of his combat algorithms to prevent them from being stolen. He has since been reintegrated with Frostbyte, which gave the both of him a nasty case of persona shock.
- The Charmfrost, a bubble doll, was apparently created on a whim by the original Frostbyte. For whatever reason, the original Frostbyte then erased, or encrypted, the memory. He has no visible armaments, but he's shiny enough that just the glare off his quills and skin can be blinding.
- The Strangefrost, a hemotopian, was apparently created by the original Frostbyte as a bargaining chip with which to convince the strangevirus strain Mother to lay off Kehari's? case. He's insane; specifically, he's a megalomaniac. If, in the course of interacting with him, he capitalizes your name, it's probably a typo. He makes art of battlefields.
- The Frostbyte who now resides in Uptop appears to have been overtaken by a Zen meme and joined a monastery. He is a eunuch and wields only a single polymer staff in battle, which is not something that he deals with often.
Beyond the Hedge
- Th'thsthn saunters waiting effortlessly, full of grace and the Promise.