#toyfolk

Name: Lux Newtron

Nationality: Japanese-British

Age: 35 when human

Disappeared: 2019

Physical appearance: When human, Lux was androgynous, lithe, and caucasian. They had pale skin, light blue eyes, and black hair stylized like a mix between a hime cut and a bob cut, and wore squared glasses. They usually wore a white long lab coat with blue accents, a black collared shirt, white pants, and grey shoes. They also wore a sapphire bolo tie around their neck.

After being robotized, Lux is now a Personal Artificially Intelligent Edutainment Companion or PAIEC for short, which is a smart, programmable, humanoid robot that is greyscaled with blue accents that stands at a height of 23 inches with a white cubic head, a one way screen for a face that can display a variety of dynamic yet rigid expressions with their default one being a pair of cubic electric blue eyes and waving line for a mouth. They have chrome blue dials around their microphone “ears”, a tactile sensor on their scalp, a metallic grey neck with a blue “collar”, a rounded white chest with a large black groove, a large blue power button, and a black record button. They have a flexible black waist with a wide white crotch piece, a robust build with broad shoulders and wide hips, and metallic blue accents around their wrists. They have squared blue tactile sensor hands, blocky metallic grey fingers, and feet with bulky, long legs. They have a pair of black buttons with electric blue LEDs on their ankles that can cause wheels to pop out of their blue soles. On their back is a large metallic grey battery pack with a blue streak, a row of electric blue LED rectangles, and multiple ports for charging and connecting to devices manually.

Place of Residence:

Human: Houston, Texas

Robot: Tech Town

Bio:

Lux Newtron is a bright, albeit reclusive, inventor who was the founder and CEO of Newtron Laboratories, an independent scientific research corporation that specializes in testing physics and creating high-quality robots. However, they were incredibly disparaging of those who tried to impose limits on their dangerous research, punishing employees when they tried to break their policies, and showing sociopathic levels of apathy for the test subjects who were placed in life-threatening experiments. If overworking their employees wasn’t bad enough, they once tried to make testing mandatory for all of them, causing their workforce to be so disgusted by what they had done that most of them left en masse.

One Christmas Eve, after Lux was trying to salvage their company and had a private talk with their secretary Azalea Lavoie, Lux was paid a visit by a strange man. A few hours later, the fire team and the police force arrived at Newtron Robotics after getting a report of a break-in. While no one knows exactly what happened, eyewitnesses claim they saw Lux being chased down by a shadowy figure that was leaping off the rooftops and into an abandoned alleyway.

When Lux eventually awoke from the frightening experience, they found themself in the body of one of their robots on an island that was a nightmare masquerading as a daydream. At first, Lux was horrified by their new existence, but gradually over time, Lux realized they could do things they couldn’t do when they were human and began to enjoy all of the new abilities they had been given. After embracing their new life as a machine, Lux quickly rose to power, becoming the royal scientist, and founded a city named Tech Town for all geniuses and robots like themselves to call home. Now the de facto leader and protector of many like-minded individuals, Lux has made it their new purpose in life to help the Toyfolk with their experiments and to unravel the secrets of the island.

Personality:

Befitting someone who was turned into a robot, Lux is a cold and calculating individual who is clandestine, manipulative, and quite ruthless. Lux has an extremely deadpan sense of humor; with their jokes being very dark. They are very passive-aggressive; taunting those around them by stating objective facts or making snide remarks.

Domineering, arrogant, and quick to insult, they have little time for anybody unwilling to comply with them. Due to their self-centeredness and inflated sense of superiority in terms of their intellect, Lux wants their genius to be recognized and celebrated. However, this self-aggrandizing behavior and condescending attitude seem to be a way to recompense for their insecurities.

This huge ego often clouds their judgment and has caused them to make rash and often morally questionable decisions. Usually analytical and logical in their approach to cases, Lux prioritizes the advancement of science for the greater good over traditional morals. As such, they are treated very seriously. However, they genuinely enjoy the work they do when it comes to researching the island and keeping things in order.

Despite having a mostly prickly personality, Lux has their own austere, yet warped ethical code, as they only experiment on those who are willing to participate, and do so out of the goodness of their soul. Additionally, they can be compassionate and supportive of those who have earned their trust and are willing to cooperate with them, serving as a guiding figure.

Fun Facts:

* Many people have a hard time telling if they’re a man or a woman.

* Their voice will start to glitch out when they become very emotional such as when they are furious, terrified, excited, or distressed. However, they have since learned how to distort it on command so they can sound more threatening.

* Thanks to their experience in robotics and newly computerized minds, Lux is a very skilled inventor and is able to build all sorts of useful contraptions and gadgets from the junk that they have salvaged. They often use these inventions to help modify a toyfolk’s body, help them solve problems, or incorporate them into their tests.

* Despite their sleek frame, Lux is deceptively durable and strong, able to withstand a large amount punishment and are able to lift objects that would seem to be too heavy.

* Has the unique ability to connect and command any and all forms of electronic devices. Lux primarily uses their technopathy to guide, and oversee Tech Town. However, they also use this power to “discipline” those who try to break the rules.

* Has various PHD’s; physics, robotics, computer science, mathematics.

* They have the ability to mimic the faces and voices of other people. Additionally, they have a built-in translator that lets them speak in different languages.

* Has a built in swear filter that causes any profanity to come out as garbled static.

* Occasionally teaches at Volkshochshule and is considered a VIP of the nerd squad.

Used to work at the Doll Hospital, but was removed due to their methods being "too gruesome".

* Frequently insists they are not a toy but a robot and that their toy brain urges are “machine” brain urges.

Toy Machine Brain urges:

* Obeying the commands of anyone who calls them by their name. (Modified to only accept ones that benefit them.)

* Answering questions and educating others. (Modified to reject paradox traps.)

* Conducting experiments and tests.

* Observing and learning new things.

* Recording log date entries.

* Singing and dancing to music.

Krampus/Character Phrase: "Lux Newtron. For too long, you have treated those beneath you as mere automatons. You saw them as nothing more than tools that you could use, modify, and discard. To you, they were simply just cogs in your twisted machine. But in truth, you wished for them to be as robotic as you. Well, if you wish to be a machine, then be a machine…"

Emoji: 🖥️🤖

Misfits in Toyland was created by @zal-cryptid