My far future cryptid persona! He's an alien that is colloquially known across the multiverse as Crafters. They're beings of pure energy and thought but at some point during their cultural evolution they gained the ability to synthesize and gather around themselves using base materials, bodies or forms that they could shape to their liking. Each group, called a creche, have their own sort of aesthetic preferences, ideals and quirks they share so creches are often identified by their artistic or design similarities and motifs. Zee was born into the creche that would be the ones that were responsible for the Hopkinsville Kentucky alien sighting in the 50s.

Zee wasn't always the being made of metal, graphite and alloy that you see here. He was naturally born as a female redcap named Splinter. She was a successful bounty hunter across Faerie but had a growing interest in learning the discipline of the Gremlins (in my setting, Gremlins are not a type of fae or goblin but instead a profession like a hacker). She gets her conundrum cusp implants, befriends one of these Crafters and eventually gets converted into one herself (becoming himself).

His augments allow him to become a walking, sentient data repository. The prongs on his tail have multiple configurations, making it both a multitool and also allow him to interface with many different forms of outlets and sockets. His spine and tail are heavily armored and have densely-packed wiring and circuitry within, allowing him to access whatever information he's downloading or uploading freely. He has five data ports: Three vertical ones on his spine and two making up the base of his tail.

While I call the accents on his limbs and shoulders "plating", it's actually opposite where what you see that's a dark graphite is what makes up his skeleton and flesh (hence why it's the same color as his teeth for example). He decided to do this to lend a sort of armored stability to his joints and key areas (and for aesthetics)