A/N: Sup, thought I was dead didn't you? Truth be told, winter term was hell, and I'm currently under a metric ton of work and stress in preparation for finals.

Currently the story is in a place which is probably the same place the next next Team Fortress update is in right now: DEVELOPMENT HELL. (Yes, the next next update, not the NEXT one. It's hinted to come out soon with Heavy stuff).

The reason it's in HELL is because I have literally no way to get the story from where it is now to where I want it to be. Another partial reason is because I am simply too busy to actively work on it.

In the MEANTIME, I will be posting biographies of the various characters that have appeared in the story so far. These are more detailed than what I have been writing at the end of each chapter, and will serve as a better guide to each character.

I will be occupied for the next week or so, so I may not be able to respond to P.M or reviews as quickly. Patience...

Cheers,

-The Doctor


Arachne "The Spider"

One of the few robotic members of the Alliance and also one of the deadliest, Arachne serves as the Alliance's lead engineer and weapon inventor. Before this, she was an average teenage girl living a normal life in a normal city-suburban area, an only child living with a single mother. She was somewhat smart, not nerd smart, but somewhere around there, and had a small circle of friends.

However that all changed when she was kidnapped and found herself a test subject to a lunatic scientist. Her consciousness was cybernetically transferred into a large robotic spider and brainwashed. She was now a prisoner trapped inside her own mind and a foreign body.

An unknown amount of time had passed before the Alliance conducted a raid on the scientist's laboratory. He got away, but not before losing a significant amount of data and experiments in the process. Arachne, along with two other robots she "worked with", were captured and brought back to the Alliance's base as prisoners. She was set to be destroyed along with the other robots for their crimes, which included but not limited to: capital murder, multiple coups, and genocide. However, she and her robot friends were able to break free from her prison and was able to convince the Alliance that she and her colleagues were in an altered state of mind and thus not exactly responsible for their wrongdoings. The sentence was partially lifted in which they were spared, but had to work for the Alliance.

Despite being "freed" Arachne had little to go back on. She was stuck inside a robot and had no identity, her real name was lost to time and she doubted her mother would remember her. She eventually bonded with the two other robots, and the three developed a sibling bond between them.

Arachne's unusually high intelligence stems from the scientist playing with her mind. Whatever he did, he managed to alter her mind into a supercomputer. This allows her not only to understand complex blueprints and devices, but also makes her a brilliant tactician. Her intelligence quickly made her a valuable asset to the Alliance.

Though her intelligence may be her strong point, she's no slouch in attacking. She was built for stealthy assassinations as well as for full on frontal attacks. The robotic spider body Arachne is housed in is around the size of a large dog, a German Shepard to be exact. The silver-colored casing is made from an unknown metal that is both lightweight and strong, allowing her to easily maneuver while also tanking large amounts of damage. She's equipped with three laser guns, all housed in her abdomen. The two smaller ones extend out from it and a larger cannon-like one which requires the abdomen to open up. She can also bite and inject venom into the target as well, as well as travers surfaces like a spider and shoot webs.

The type of robot Arachne would be called is a "Constructor", basically a robot which can make other robots. At first, she could only construct small robot spiders, which served as scouts and distractions for her, but her construct abilities soon allowed her to create weapons and other devices.

The most interesting part has yet to come though, as detailed in The Rift, Arachne gains the ability to revert back to a human. The exact circumstances of why this happened is unknown. Arachne is able to turn into herself before she became a robot, but with some noticeable changes. Her hair is now colored silver, like what her body was, and her eyes are now blood red, similar to her optics. Another addition is her sharpened canines, which she can use for intimidation.

As a human, she loses her ability to construct objects, but she is still capable of summoning her spider minions. These minions, usually the size of a hand, are now similar to her size when she's a robot. Her laser guns can now be summoned as two laser pistols and she retains her venom with the help of two knives.

Arachne's personality, according to her, is somewhat similar to what she was before she was turned into a robot: quiet, self-centered, asocial. However, she has occasional outbursts of anger and frustration, but this side of her is rarely seen. It is speculated that this is her brainwashed self trying to regain control. Besides this, she also is shown to have a motherly side to her, possibly from being the "mother" to her spider drones.