Etrius vanRandr

Etrius vanRandr is a furry fan who lives in Atlanta,Georgia, USA.

Biography
In real life, Etrius is a PMC member by trade. He builds and sells computers as a hobby, and he drives a stock 2018 Toyota CHR.

In late October of 2020, he moved to Georgia, stating on Twitter that he 'never liked the cold or the people'. He was reassigned by his PMC after he was caught having consensual sex with his female supervisor.

Interests and hobbies
Etrius has stated in comments on Twitter that he builds personal computers as a hobby, plays video games, and likes to do outdoor activities such as hiking.

He has recently taken up gunsmithing and car modding and is working on a prototype sniper rifle, hoping to be involved in military trials.

Personality
Etrius has been shown to have very strong opinions and defends them vigorously. During civil discussions, he has shown to be quite intelligent and knowledgeable in a variety of subjects ranging from history, mathematics, philosophy, and science topics ranging from modern electronics to mechanics.

He self-describes as a "highly praised douchebag", often seeking conflict where none should exist in order to make a point. While he is skilled and knowledgable in many areas, his offensive personality pushes most people away. He tends to respect those who respect him first, and forms very strong friendships with people who have similarly toxic personalities.

Etrius will often berate others for almost anything, and shows extreme disdain for those whom he believes are of lesser intelligence or skill than he believes he has. He rarely admits to being wrong, even to the point of making himself seem like a fool.

Despite having a confrontational and opinionated personality, he donated money to St. Jude's Children's Hospital for years, although he stopped sometime in 2020 during a time that coincided with his change of location.

Sexuality
Etrius has stated on Twitter that he is "straight for humans, bi for furs."

Sexual interests
His LoversLab profile includes futa, heavier women, musclegut, size difference, facesitting, rimming, pegging, hermaphrodite on male, being the recipient in rape fantasy, tentacles, and lactation.

Illnesses and cognitive disorders
Etrius has Asperger syndrome, insomnia,  PTSD, oppositional defiant disorder, and permanent loss of genital sensitivity caused by wrongful prescription of medication that caused a severe hormone imbalance.

Fandom involvement
Etrius first joined the furry fandom in early 2009.

Fursona history
Etrius's first fursona was a black dragon named Ryard, influenced by a contest by loneantarcticwolf on DeviantArt to depict such a character. While Etrius did not participate in the contest, he was inspired to create his own character.

Sometime in 2010, after reading Guin Saga, Etrius scrapped his dragon fursona and created a new self-representative character that was a leopard. The 2006 Bethesda Softworks game Oblivion pushed this character design further, with the character's design leaning closer and closer towards a tiger, influenced by the game's sizable modding scene.

Over the course of the following years, Etrius took numerous inspirations from many different sources. His fursona's amnesia and "new beginning" backstory is inspired by how the player begins all of the Elder Scrolls games - in a prison or jail, with no prior history, given a new lease on life by circumstances outside of his control.

Fursona
Etrius has spent over 10 years working on his fursona and classifies him as a cybernetic tiger or chimera.

Character Description
Etrius's fursona is a cybernetic white tiger chimera approximately 7'7" (2.3 meters) tall, with cybernetic arms, green eyes, and long, flowing black hair. He is artificially built out of many different existing animals.

Origin
Etrius used to be a human serving in the US military. He had green eyes, short graying hair, and a short full beard, and was about 47 years of age. During a deployment to a Middle Eastern state, he was assigned to guard and hold control of a nuclear reactor. However, the nuclear reactor developed a malfunction which caused Etrius to develop brain cancer. He was discharged from service and promptly sent home.

However, a secret Soviet Union remnant faction was looking for test subjects to perform inhumane genetic experiments on, and Etrius happened to be the perfect target, as he was already terminally ill.

History
Etrius was supposed to be sent home to live his remaining days with his family, however, the convoy transporting him to the nearest airport was ambushed by special assassins. He was shot twice in the back with poison rubber bullets, paralyzing him and putting him into a coma.

Biology
After he was transported back to Russia, an exiled Soviet scientist began to disassemble his body while he was still alive, preserving his brain function while removing the cancerous cells. A new body was built using unknown methodology from many different animals; the heart of a horse, the lungs of a giraffe, the digestive tract of a Great White shark, and the eyes of an owl. Many other features of his body were replaced with synthetic organs, such as his skin.

His bones were made out of tungsten carbide, and his arms were replaced with carbon fiber and titanium prosthetics, plated with titanium nitride. His skin is synthetic and is extremely dense, and his fur is also very thick. There are piezoelectric generators attached directly to his heart valves which produce electricity, and supercapacitors placed in hollow sections of his bones which store electricity, for the purpose of powering his cybernetics.

His new body now resembles a white tiger in a human shape, with digitigrade feet. The striped pattern changes slowly over time. He has humanoid hair growing from his head, which he allows to grow quite long. A single patch grows as pure white.

His memory was completely erased, although some fragments were left due to selective amnesia. His combat training and skills from military service remain, as does his knowledge of foreign languages.

Personality
As a human, Etrius was a very outgoing and strong-willed person, willing to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. He was a strong advocate for intellectualism. After his capture and reconfiguration, he is rather reserved, mostly from knowing how humans react to seeing him. He is quiet and keeps to himself, but is always ready to spring into action and take charge when necessary. His personality resembles the strong and silent type, only showing his true strength when pushed to his limit.

He typically hides his emotions to the point of stressing himself out over a lack of expression. He will withhold information if it serves little to no benefit being public and is very selective in how he interacts with others.

He holds his anger well, often resorting to a physical expression such as working out or sparring when it becomes too much to hold in.

Strengths and abilities
Etrius' strongest ability is his resilience and persistence. He is incredibly difficult to kill due to his feline agility and his augmented body. His dense skin is resistant to small arms, and his strong digitigrade legs allow him to run in excess of 65KPH (40MPH) and jump as high as 10 feet.

His arms are actually part of his skeleton rather than being true prosthetics, so they are incredibly difficult to remove without causing serious injury. He has a large heart and extremely efficient lungs, as well as having excellent eyesight, especially in the dark.

Etrius' combat training as a US Marine makes him exceptionally skilled not only during the battle but he is a master of mixed unit tactics as well, able to outmaneuver an opponent with relative ease.

His reflexes are second to none, having been able to dodge slower-moving subsonic projectiles on more than one occasion.

Equipment and weapons
Etrius requires very little to function efficiently, often wearing little to no armor in favor of mobility. He also carries little in the way of weapons, once again in favor of mobility.

Armor
When necessary, Etrius will wear a handmade plate carrier with three plates in the front and in the rear, comprised of a layered epoxied titanium carbide plate, a ballistic ceramic plate, and an aramid-UHMWPE hybrid plate.

Weapons
Etrius' primary weapon is a prototype plasma sword, shaped like a German Zweihander, wherein the blade itself is replaced with a shaped plasma energy beam. Where a fuller would normally be, is where the electronics and emitter are housed. An unknown power source is housed in the handle. The origin of this weapon is also unknown, as Etrius found it while escaping the now-destroyed lab he was created in. Later, Etrius discovered that the sword's "battery" is recharged every time he kills something with the sword.

His second weapon is a custom modern-forged red, black, and silver fully automatic .50-calibre Browning M1911 with a 20-round double-stack magazine. It is about 150% larger than the standard M1911 due to the calibre and Etrius's large hands being unable to effectively use human-sized firearms. It has an extended 10-inch (254mm) barrel and an underbarrel picatinny rail for accessories such as an IRLP, IRI, flashlight, or UGL.

This weapon was gifted to him by another synthetic anthro.

His cybernetic arms have retractable claws for hand-to-hand combat and can easily piece concrete and bullet-resistant glass, and are more than capable of ripping through steel.

Weaknesses and faults
Because he wears little to no armor, he is vulnerable to shrapnel and bullets despite his thick and dense skin.

Due to an improper memory wipe at the hands of his creator, he suffers from minor short-term memory loss, and he tends to hyperfocus on tasks. Sometimes he will suddenly blackout and continue to carry on a task, and later have no memory of doing so. These blackouts occur more frequently when he is sexually aroused.

His body also requires much more food due to having to power cybernetic arms as well. Despite this, his body is 100% efficient at processing food and drinks, so there is no need for him to use the bathroom at any point in time.

Etrius's bodily fluids are entirely black, which means he's easy to track if he's injured. His blood is a strange mix of very dark organic oil and blood cells.