Playlists

(Below are the dedicated playlists of songs associated with Arahk'ne. Each playlist corresponds to a specific event or the relationship a character has with Arahk'ne. The music chosen has been carefully selected by me over the years to best fit the situation or relationship. Playlists may update at any given time. If interested in reading and listening to playlist options at the same time, scroll through and open the links in a new tab. Some of the tracks are considered explicit.)

Arahk'ne's Playlists

Arahk'ne

Main Playlist

Arahk'ne

Photon's Gaming Playlist

Character Playlists

Loh'kar

Main Playlist

Blood Frenzy

Myx'ulas

Duo Playlists

Sinoatrial Host

Arahk'ne and Loh'kar

Arc/Event Playlists

Project: MARIGOLD + Athena Massacre

Arc Playlist

MARIGOLD: Night Terror

Arc Playlist

Elegy of War

Arc Playlist

Opalescent Valentine

Event Playlist

Arahk'ne

Player: @ph0toncann0n (Photon Cannon)

Biographical Data

Real Name:

Sonnet E. Baxter

Known Aliases:

Amethyst, Arahk'ne, Sinoatrial Hunter, (Bloody) Mary

Gender:

Female

Species:

Maruloix Hybrid (Syren+Araneoid)

Ethnicity:

Was caucasian when human

Place of Birth:

USA

Base of Operations:

The Abandoned Crystal Temple (located 120 miles northwest of Monster Island)

Relatives:

Unknown

Characteristics

Age:

25

Height:

6'1"

Weight:

85 lbs.

Eyes:

Black with hidden blue rings

Hair:

None

Complexion:

Snow-white with pale red stripes and sharp shapes

Physical Build:

Streamlined; appears anorexic

Physical Features:

Blood Coral growing on body, jawless maw, saber fangs, Amethyst embedded in spine, four extra arms, thorny tail

Status

Fame:

██	██	██	██	██	██	██	██	██

State

Alignment:

LG	LN	LE
NG	TN	NE
CG	CN	CE

Identity:

Deceased/Unknown

Years Active:

Unrelated

Citizenship:

Mariian, Guardian. Nohva'tusl, Guardian.

Occupation:

Assassin

Education:

Advanced private schooling

Marital Status:

Engaged to Loh'kar

Known Powers and Abilities

Spell casting
Super strength
Heightened senses/Greater metabolism

Equipment and Paraphernalia

Amethyst Crystal

Physical Attributes

Strength

Weapon

Durability

Armor

Speed

Reflexes

Resistance

Stamina

Dexterity

Agility

Combat

Regen

Non-Physical Attributes

Energy

Psionics

Telepathy

Willpower

Sorcery

Tech.

Intel.

Knowledge

Charisma

Bravery

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WARNING: The information on this page is considered MATURE. Some content may be considered unsettling, dark, or heavy for some readers. Please take care in what you involve yourself with, and do not hesitate to abandon something you don't trust.

Backstory

	Amethyst Crystal
	Item Data
Known Aliases:	Amethyst, Sinoatrial Hunter
Item Type:	Weapon
Creator:	Xi'on the Seer
Creation Date:	1982
Known Owners:	Arahk'ne
Item Speciality:	Mystical
Height:	2.5"
Weight:	8 ounces
	Unremovable; will inject fatal poison into any living thing that touches it (*Does not apply if assailant has a Crystal). Capable of changing Arahk'ne into a specified form via illusion.

The Beginning

Her mother was a mute artist, and her father was a deaf fictional author. Sonnet Elaine Baxter was born into a home structured around sheer artistry. This home offered her love and care, easels, occupied writing spaces, paintings on the walls, sculptures in the halls, and excessively-stocked shelves. Sylvia Baxter endearingly called her daughter "Snow White" for her Albinism, which gave Sonnet wispy white hair, very pale skin, and sky-blue eyes. Mason Baxter was hoping to inspire his young daughter to be a writer, but his efforts fell futile, as tiny Sonnet was more drawn to the image of her mother toiling away on a canvas, creating colorful images on a sheet of white.

Often lost in an imaginative world, Sonnet was a very quiet girl, homeschooled and living on a strict set of boundaries and privileges. Both parents worked together to teach Sonnet English and basic sign language. Sonnet was given few "typical" toys to play with--she spent her time practicing the piano, or drawing, or finger-painting, or playing in the front yard. She rarely cried, and if she did, her mother told her to do so quietly, in order to not disturb the peace. She was ultimately excluded from a harsher reality--her home became a safe haven she rarely ventured out of, which her parents didn't seem to mind in all of their coddling. Unfortunately, because of this, she developed a poor set of social skills. She was too shy to uphold conversations, to the point that she was only able to speak to her parents; if she was forced to speak to a stranger, it would only bring averting gaze and her frustrated tears. In spite of their coddling, Sylvia and Mason did their best to encourage Sonnet to interact with people, in an attempt to put to ease her Selective Mutism. Despite their efforts, Sonnet readily refused to speak to strangers or family friends she had recently met, when the rare chance occurred. By the age of five, Sonnet was most often hidden away in a comfortable head space.

The Web's History

A few years before Sonnet's birth, a five-year-old girl by the name of Marigold Chase was found to be taking on strange mutations. The cause was never specified, but Marigold began to sprout extra limbs, form more optics, and have fits of minor illness, slowly mutating into some sort of arachnid metahuman. Her parents, devastated by their daughter's mutating, found themselves out of options after doctors told them that there was no reversing the effects--the mutation was entirely natural for Marigold. Jeremy Chase, Marigold's uncle and her father's brother, was a geneticist studying the process of cell mutation. Unbeknownst to most of his relatives, his methods of study were considered unethical, although successful. Marigold's mother demanded to her husband that they seek his brother's help, and void of all other options, Marigold was taken to Jeremy.

Jeremy claimed he could find a way to reverse the metahuman mutating. He gathered a team of trusted--and equally shady--scientists. Among the prominent team members were Misty Shore and the fraternal twins Sophia and Barry Smith. Receiving payment from Marigold's parents and gathering enough funds to spark the project, intense experiments and hardships befell Marigold, as she was left to the mercy of her dedicated uncle.

While keeping Marigold's parents at bay with sugarcoated lies and false updates on their daughter's condition, Jeremy studied the child under a new light. The information they had collected on Marigold indicated superhuman properties--something which, if developed into a blood-based serum, would make he and his team very rich. If they were able to create supersoldiers with the serum, then they would be able to not only bring in millions of dollars, but also take a huge step for the world of science. With this plan in mind, Jeremy Chase settled with the name Project: MARIGOLD and introduced himself as the founder of "The Web." Marigold was replaced with an icon dubbed as "Athena," with the intent to call her supersoldiers "Athena's Poisons."

Using blood samples drawn out of Marigold, The Web developed their Marigold Serum. It would supposedly provide the superpowers not unlike the powers Marigold was developing. However, the serum itself was heavily tweaked to allow other traits of specified arachnids to affect the host, as well.

The testing of a serum would take volunteers. The most prominent member to volunteer for Project: MARIGOLD was a middle-aged homeless man, known simply as "Vernon," who was unaware of a locked superhuman potential he, too, possessed. He met Marigold, and quickly befriended her during his time in the facility, establishing a grandfather-granddaughter relationship with her. This was sadly not something which would last. Vernon was administered the tweaked Marigold Serum and separated from sweet little Marigold, in order to be studied under surveillance.

In short, the Marigold Serum was unsuccessful with all volunteers--Only Vernon seemed to come closest to the desired results. The concoctions, though successful in administering superhuman abilities, also had major negative side effects, including monstrous mutations, mental and physical degradation, and even death in certain cases. The serum seemed to react on a person-by-person basis, which made it extremely difficult to perfect. Project: MARIGOLD only began to, more or less, "recreate" horrible versions of Marigold's mutations--mindless, murderous arachnid mutants of different subspecies.

Marigold's personal study took a dark turn. Bodily mutilations and other horrors caused Marigold to begin falling apart. In realizing their amputations and chemical therapies were not reversing the mutating cells, Chase became even more hard-pressed to not let their months of effort go to waste. Marigold was a cash cow to him, and he was dedicated to the serum itself over his niece. This hardheaded attitude and apathetic nature drove the project too far, and Marigold passed due to neglect and physical trauma. Upon his discovery, Vernon snapped, and Chase bore witness to the true nature of the Araneoids he had created. Several of his team members were torn apart by their Phoneutria nigriventer Poison, "The Wanderer," Vernon himself.

Vernon took a couple elephant tranquilizers to go down. Jeremy made the executive decision to use anything left of Marigold that they could, and study the behavior of one superhuman's blood mixed with another. Using samples drawn from their Phoneutria nigriventer Poison, a secondary version of the Serum was produced. Once Marigold's body was returned to her parents, the funeral came and went, and grievances and threats passed, Jeremy was ready to tackle his ambitions.

Misty's Mistake

Sylvia Baxter was familiar with Misty Shore, as they had been college roommates. A dynamic duo, although the two butted heads on the practicality of science and the formless ways of art, their friendship had outlasted college. In the years after college, Shore was a strict albeit sociable woman, and when allowed, she would visit the Baxter household when off work. Mason was against smoking and alcohol in the home, and neither parent wanted it near their child, so cigarette breaks had to be taken outside. Misty attempted to interact with Sonnet ever since she was a baby, and with the years of exposure, she was able to draw out small conversations with the girl by the time Sonnet was five.

Misty was deeply involved with The Web. She was the head scientist of Project: MARIGOLD, second only to the founder, Jeremy Chase, whom she had been recently engaged to. Misty knew how to separate her immoral work from her time with Sylvia, though The Web had a habit of infecting the lives of those around it. Misty never disclosed information about her workplace to Sylvia's family in detail--All the Baxter family knew was that Misty was in a high position within her company, and that they were working on a confidential study.

The art profession can often result in poverty. Sylvia and Mason got a taste of this during a financial crisis. When the threat of losing their house came up, Misty became very concerned for her friend's family's well-being. She took on the obligation to draw funds from The Web's vault and provide it to the Baxter family. So long as they would agree to pay it back in due time, Misty saw no issue. Of course, Jeremy wasn't pleased, which caused the beginning of his and Misty's disputes. Jeremy let Misty get away with it, but on the grounds that she would let the Baxter family know they needed to pay some compensation in addition to the lost funds.

Sylvia was compliant to the change of agreement, but it gave Mason pause. He was unwilling to give more money than what was agreed upon, especially given their recent financial struggles. Misty highly advised he conform, which only caused Mason to resist even more. Sylvia did not get in his way when he opted to withhold repaying The web, demanding that the terms be changed back to the way they were.

Warning after warning, Misty urged the Baxter family to pay up, but soon she found that Sylvia was agreeing with Mason. Crestfallen, Misty began to realize the mistake she had made. When the final demands were not met, Misty was rendered powerless. She carried the intent to try talking Jeremy into changing the terms, but she would never receive that chance.

One late evening, a team of hired mercs invaded the Baxter home. Misty was informed by Chase that such a team had been dispatched, and that he wanted her to stay out of it. Naturally, she refused. Rushing to the scene, Misty found Sylvia's and Mason's body, but not Sonnet's. Grieving, she became hellbent to find Sonnet before the mercs could, not wanting the guilt of her best friend's child's murder on her shoulders. It was understood that the mercs had no intention of killing the child, though they had no idea what to do with her. Misty took it upon herself to retrieve Sonnet, who was sound asleep in her bedroom. She took Sonnet back to her apartment, distancing herself as far as possible from the scene. Shortly after the incident, the agents apprehended the money, and tossed the bodies of the parents into a lake in the deep forest which surrounded their city. This lake had been cut off from the main river, resulting in a swarm of sea lamprey, which had become trapped after traveling upstream to spawn. There, the bodies of Sonnet's parents were reduced to bones and buried in the muck.

Misty knew about Sonnet's upbringing and Selective Mutism. It was too difficult for Sonnet to live among complete strangers. As penance for the deaths she had inadvertently caused, she elected to take care of Sonnet, herself. When Sonnet woke the next morning, many questions and crying ensued, but after a few hours of Misty trying and failing to be a decent parental figure, something clicked. Misty got Sonnet to calm down, feeding her simple white lies about how her parents "had to take a trip and said that Sonnet could stay with her for a while."

Shore tried her best to provide for Sonnet. Unable to leave her with a babysitter, she was forced to bring the child to work. These days, The Web had begun accepting younger volunteers for the Marigold Serum, under the theory that the Serum was more likely to take to a younger host. As a result, Chase looked to foster homes, orphans, and more of the homeless. He researched an education program; one which would both bring in money and subjects. He hired Rebecca Orchid, a child psychologist, to the team, though he kept her oblivious and separate from The Web's ploys. Rebecca received a scholarship from the city, which would allow her to study the psychological effects an alternative schooling method would have on a child without certain parental reinforcement present. It was the perfect disguise for Chase to use.

Sonnet was kept safe in Misty's office, excluded from the Araneoid horrors of The Web's facility. Sonnet was taken home at night to sleep on the couch in Misty's apartment. Noticing Misty's efforts, although oblivious to the ties she had with Sonnet, the rest of the team--including their newest member, Rebecca--pitched in, growing fond of the adorable child. They helped where they could to look after Sonnet, even opting to babysit for Misty or let Sonnet have sleepovers at their homes. Rebecca even helped Sonnet with her social skills and used material from the program to educate her. Of course, Jeremy ignored the child altogether, even insisting Misty find a way to get rid of her.

All the while, Sonnet was confused, and not at all sure what had become of her parents. This was not where she was meant to be. Still, Misty took her in like her own daughter, and each scientist involved brought something important and helpful to the table.

Project: MARIGOLD: Part I

!!WARNING!! DATABASE IS BEING REWRITTEN. Information beyond this point has not yet been updated to match info found above!

The Web found that the Marigold Serum was still not producing the desired results. While it was gradually improving, they still could not perfect it. Jeremy Chase came up with the concept that it may have called for minds which were still under development, to give the serum more room to settle in. At first, The Web took in homeless young adults, gradually making their way back to voluntary teenagers, and still nothing was coming of it. Soon they developed an institute for orphaned and abandoned children who could volunteer to undergo the experiments and receive food, clothing, and shelter on the campus as compensation. Rebecca Orchid oversaw the children, but unlike the other scientists, was in the dark about much of the goings-on behind the curtains. Misty spotted an opportunity and moved Sonnet in with the children, easing up her burden and giving Sonnet a chance to interact with the "big kids." Sonnet was safe from the experiments, but not from socializing.

Sonnet spent her days locked away with children of the ages 7-15. The younger the child was, the more difficult it was to simply use the serum on them. The laboratory served as a double-jointed function, where the first sector was the housing for the children, and the second sector was used for the corrupted supersoldier research. For being so sweet, insecure, and bizarre in appearance, Sonnet attracted the attention of many children initially, but when she would refuse to speak to them or exclude herself from play, the children gave up trying to interact with her.

Meeting Aaron and Leon

Leon Jou at 10 yrs.

Briefly after Sonnet was brought in, an entire wave of orphans were dropped off at the institution under Rebecca's wing. Their "gang" leader was a ten-year-old named Leon Jou, an ornery troublemaker of a mixed Hispanic-Korean race. With him was his partner-in-crime, a more level-headed boy of eleven who served as the intelligence of the group and was named Aaron Lister. With them both was a gaggle of children of various skins, ages, and both sexes. Aaron was the first of them to grow friendly towards Sonnet, and despite her resistance to him initially, he managed to get her name out of her after a few weeks. Sonnet clung to this newfound security, and began to follow Aaron about wherever he went. He became known as a big brother to her. Leon was against Aaron taking Sonnet under his wing, but Aaron refused to listen and let Sonnet tag along with the two of them wherever they went. Leon often tormented Sonnet until she grew upset, or pulled more creative pranks on the child until brotherly Aaron stepped in the way.

Within a couple of months, Sonnet was able to grow content once more. With the special attention from Misty, Rebecca, and the other scientists, and the friendship of Aaron, Sonnet became right at home, and was able to thrive in her childhood glory once again.

The Fall Begins

A new order was issued by The Web about three months later. The Web was ready to test the Marigold Serum among the older children. A few of the braver souls took the first step and crossed over to the second sector of the laboratory, but were mysteriously never seen or heard from again. The scientists insisted that they were doing well in the line of work, but among the wiser children, there was dismayed conversation. Soon the scientists began to push for children to step up. The world began to grow darker and darker around Sonnet, as in-fighting between Misty and her fiance ended in a break-up, which turned Misty to be a more spiteful spirit. She and the others began to visit Sonnet much and much less. Soon, children were being forced into the experiments, and after a few more months had passed, the children officially knew that they were no longer orphans in housing, but slaves in housing.

Unfortunately, Aaron was one of the children chosen to be an experiment. Sonnet was unable to understand that it wasn't Aaron's choice, so Aaron gave up trying to explain the situation, and instead turned to Leon. He asked in his final wish that Leon look over Sonnet and make sure that she stay safe, before bidding farewell to his best friend. The next morning, when Sonnet woke up, Aaron was gone. Sonnet was confused by all of the people she enjoyed disappearing around her, and lonely, tried to cling to Leon for security. But Leon was stubborn, and continuously refused to be a friendly face. Sonnet tried and tried again until she began to treat him the same way. Amused by this, Leon turned it into a game. Soon, the two grew mutual. The change in Sonnet's childish behavior allowed Leon to grow friendly toward her and live up to Aaron's wish. Leon managed to grow a little closer to Sonnet, and Sonnet founded herself a childhood crush. Leon ignored the extra attention and simply carried on with his duty.

Project MARIGOLD: Part II

Misty's life began to fall downhill. Unable to bear the blame on her own shoulders, she began to direct her spite onto others. Flogged by the responsibility of taking care of her friend's own child--the friend she had caused the death of--she could no longer bear it. She brought The Web to the conclusion that they needed someone as close as possible to Marigold's age group for the serum to adapt in the best possible way. Without realizing it, she had just volunteered Sonnet for that cause. Swallowing the irony, she ventured out to retrieve Sonnet.

Leon did all in his power to keep Sonnet safe, but when the time came, Sonnet was torn out of his arms and carried away by the Web's squad of scientists. Panicked, Leon ran to Rebecca to cry for help, but by the time Rebecca had arrived in the laboratory, it was too late. Against their own morale, and too familiar with the child they had chosen, each and every scientist turned Sonnet's world inside-out through excruciating experiments. Despite any anesthetics, Sonnet still went through great suffering, and because her body was so fragile she suffered more than any other. Still, the serum reacted better to her than it had the others. But it was not enough. Sonnet began to mutate into one of the failed experiments, dubbed Athena's Poisons, or by the general term, Araneoids. Crippled beyond human repair, Sonnet's heart fell into critical condition, and eventually stopped. Rebecca managed to force the scientists to halt the process and revived Sonnet by a stroke of luck, as though death had denied the child. Sonnet's brief face of death was too much to bear, and so the experiments remained at a halt. Sonnet was kept under medical attention and surveillance.

After losing his two best friends to the greed and hatred he had been exposed to all his life, Leon made amends to free the other children and Sonnet and Aaron from captivity.

Aftermath

When Sonnet had recovered enough, she was escorted to a quarantine to avoid disease and build up a better Araneoid immune system. Inside of the quarantine, the researchers--including Misty--continued to study her, slowly degenerating the concept of Sonnet once being a little girl they all enjoyed and turning her into their pet project. Initially Misty took care of Sonnet begrudgingly, and when Sonnet, desperate, tried to open up to the woman who had betrayed her, she was denied affection. Sonnet's need was the last straw, and Misty turned violent. Day after day, Misty became physically, emotionally, and verbally violent towards Sonnet, exposing Sonnet to a life she had never initially known: the dark side of the world. This and previous traumatic experiences from the experiments began to wear on Sonnet's five-year-old mind. Combined with this was the serum, which was trying to drown out the last of Sonnet's humanity and break her sanity, in order to expose her to pure instinct. One last punch meant one last straw, and her psyche snapped. Sonnet's flight-or-fight response, now impaired by the serum, clicked automatically to "fight" one day, and before Misty knew it, Sonnet was biting her. Fearful and enraged of the changes she was seeing her friend's daughter go through, she shacked and muzzled Sonnet and left her to darkness.

Sonnet crawled inside of her mind; empty on the outside and hiding on the inside. Her fervent imaginary world grew as dark as the room around her, and joy in the world was found with the image of Sonnet repeatedly harming herself to find an end to the madness and pain and unfamiliar illnesses brought on by the serum. Sonnet's mind seemed to evade her, and human thought fled her body. Project MARIGOLD's last stand had failed. It was over. Sonnet became more animal than human, and grieved when alone for brighter times in her life. Her instinct felt her body collapsing under the strength of the harness, and horrifically, suicidal thoughts dwelt around the corners of a five-year-old little girl's mind. Sonnet began to mutate further, and soon she no longer felt the pain in her empty sorrow. There was simply nothing left.

Suicide vs. The Amethyst

Freedom rolled around the corner. Leon showed up at Sonnet's cage what seemed to be weeks later and managed to hack the system to get inside. The rest of the orphans had gone rebellious against The Web and were shutting down the lab's security to escape--led by Rebecca and Leon. Araneoid-turned children were set free, and a surprising, full-blown Araneoid Aaron helped Leon to break Sonnet out of her harness. However, by then the boys were too late, and Sonnet was no longer mentally responsive. Initially, Leon was terrified of the changes Sonnet had gone through, but Rebecca begged him to give her a chance, as she believed there was still a light inside of Sonnet.

Misty made it a personal job to show up to Sonnet's cell with the rest of Sonnet's familiar squad following. Aaron and Rebecca posed a distraction while Leon escaped with Sonnet, and carried off, Sonnet watched as Aaron was shot through the skull by Barry Smith. The final thing Sonnet needed to completely lose her mind was to literally hear Aaron's heart stop, to see the blood, and be witness to cold-blooded death. However, Aaron's sacrifice was not in vain. Leon escaped with Sonnet, following the river into the woods for cover. Afraid of her own insanity, Sonnet came out of her head to beg Leon for security, and she received it. Leon led Sonnet through the woods to try and escape The Web, but they found themselves at a dead end. It was the body of water where the lamprey were trapped. But something else was there, as well, and it was calling her.

The Amethyst was located at the bottom of the lake beneath the skeletons of her own parents. The Amethyst itself emitted an ill-inducing aura, and this combined with Sonnet's state of mind fully pulled her under its parasitic influence. Sonnet's longing for an end became too great. Sonnet fled from Leon and flung herself at the lake, despite his screaming in protest, and was immediately engulfed by the lamprey and dragged under. Sonnet blacked out and remained in a mysterious coma. Against her own will, death did not accept her. Leon went missing, having fled from the scene.

The Athena Massacre

Cold Cases

[WARNING: Violent details under this section]

The following reports of the Athena Massacre were accessed through the city security's database. Files have gone cold as of 11/20/1993.

Misty Shore

Sex: Female
Species: Human
D.o.B.: 05/03/1964
Race: White/Caucasian
Marital status: Engaged
Occupation: Scientist for "The Web" recruitment date 07/28/1986
D.o.D.: 03/14/1993, approx. 1:23 am
Cause of fatality: Creature homicide