Voidwalkers

Phaeton (the reader)

This is you - a parallel-universe version of you, probably. Phaeton's gender, junk and pronouns in-universe are whatever yours are, unless you'd rather they had something else.

Before the apocalypse, you were known as [your name]. You would find yourself one of the few human survivors (apparently immune to skibidification). To escape the pain of having lost nearly everything and everyone, you discarded your old name and reinvented yourself as Havoc, who had always been a wasteland survivor. You later discarded the name 'Havoc' when you joined the Alliance, wanting to shed that feral and brutal persona and become a civilised and gentle human again. You went nameless for a while (being the sole human in the Alliance, at least in your sector, meant there was no-one to confuse you with anyway).

Later, you met the TV-unit Cygnus, who summoned you to perform repairs on Titan TV, thanks to your organic ability to no-sell magnetic fields that would incapacitate TV engineers. You and Cygnus became friends, as did you and the Titan, and you ended up acquiring a permanent (though part-time) position on the Titan's engineering team.

You live in the base in Sector Antlia-Four (built upon a human military installation), inhabited mostly by cameras. You have a hydroponic setup in a disused hangar just outside the base, where you grow your own food, supplemented by fishing and hunting.

For your continued services to the TV Faction, you were granted the rank of 'auxiliary', a role that is otherwise held only by Imperators.

You later acquired a new name at Cygnus's encouragement: you chose Phaeton from mythology9 to pair with Cygnus's name.

Confirmed details/facts about Phaeton:

• Has hair of some description (mentioned in multiple fics).
• Is forklift-certified (mentioned in The Unnamed Feeling).
• Knows at least one programming language (mentioned in The Unnamed Feeling).

1. ^ Formed from the atomic numbers of hydrogen (1), oxygen (8) and molybdenum (42). The abbreviations of these elements are H, O, and Mo, spelling 'Homo', the human genus. Acquired in We can love one another, I've been told that it's okay
2. ^ Based on the fate of the mythical Phaeton. Revealed in Capacitors, cathodes and cuddles
3. ^ Used exclusively by Polycephaly, after Phaeton explained that the function of human hair is similar to a bird's display crest, in Titan TV's Test Flight. Polycephaly also uses the same name for Cygnus, referring to Phaeton and Cygnus collectively as 'Little Budgies'.
4. ^ Used post-apocalypse and before joining the Alliance. Deprecated by the time of the 'Phaeton's arc' series.
5. ^ Used before the Skibidi Apocalypse. Deprecated by the time of the 'Havoc's arc' series.
6. ^ Sector Antlia-Four is wherever you live in real life.
7. ^ Rank granted in You knew this was coming, didn't you?
8. ^ Rank granted in The Unnamed Feeling (unofficially), We can love one another, I've been told that it's okay (officially).
9. ^ Acquired in We can love one another, I've been told that it's okay. See Wikipedia entry for constellation Cygnus.