Dave Riley
David Riley Albright is the son of Gavin Albright and Penelope Grant at an undisclosed future time. The most commonly encountered iteration of him is from the Lillifuture, where he grows up to be a temperamental cyborg who is a member of the ISPD division of the IDPD. A low-ranking private within the time police, he is often seen in the early 21st century under the guise of Dave Riley, a seemingly happy-go-lucky intern often sent on runs to buy donuts from underrated shops that closed down in the Lillifuture.
Because there are several alternate versions of him (including the one fated to be born in the original timeline), this article focuses largely on his Lillifuture persona unless noted.
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Appearance
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Much like his father, he is a tall, lean man of Alto Marean and Orange Islander descent, about 1.83 meters tall. He has light brown hair and pale skin and could easily pass as a northerly [East Asian], [Caucasian], or just anemic. He has unnatural-looking metallic gray eyes and a pair of sophisticated cybernetic arms. In the 2010s, he comes off as a nebbish person with obvious disabilities and an affable personality. He has a slim, athletic muscular frame; because he overclocks his cybernetics, the remains of his natural musculature had been either augmented or trained to cope.
Often, he wears an open buttondown over a T-shirt, a choice indicative of an interest in history. He is capable of blending into early 21st Century crowds as a double amputee wearing weird contact lenses, but is known to make people feel uneasy from time to time. In his native time, he usually wears long-sleeved hooded sweatshirts and gloves to hide his cybernetic parts.
He use a cough-activated vocal device replacing his larynx to speak human languages, configured in most cases to speak in a register that would've resembled his natural voice had his larynx been intact. Its default state is a mechanical-sounding reverberating voice that sounds more like a computer.
Configuration
Dave was rebuilt as a cyborg early in life after succumbing to an engineered pokerus at a young age. Although enough of his body remains organic, a significant portion of his biomass has been replaced or augmented with machinery.
Some of his body parts were replaced after their organic counterparts succumbed to the pokerus:
- Heart
- Lower arms and hands
- Corneas
- Left optic nerve
- Right lower leg
- Segments of the spinal cord
- Left kidney and ureter
- Bladder
- Larynx
- Several major arteries
A few other organs were augmented either to restore damaged function, cope with a preexisting condition, or keep up with overclocked aesthetics.
- Augmented Lungs (extra capacity)
- Both upper arms (necessary to maintain finger dexterity)
- Brain stem (control of auxiliary cybernetics )
- Pharynx (necessary to maintain the voice box)
- Pancreas (diabetes control; needs major upgrade)
- Pectoral muscles (necessary to maintain arm movement)
- Several major arteries and veins
- Right thigh muscles (necessary for walking)
- Left leg (made necessary to accommodate symmetry with the right leg RE: overclocking)
- Retinas (overclocking)
His hair, skin, and unaffected organs that did not need to augmented are left mostly unaltered. His gallbladder and appendix have also been removed.
Despite his enhanced physical capabilities brought on by overclocked cybernetics, he has rather limited stealth capabilities because of the loud whirring his heart makes when doing so. He has added a few scanners in his hands that let him interface with technology.
Biography
He was born in Unova to Shutter Albright and his unnamed wife some time in the 2020s. As a child, he was one of the many victims of an engineered pokérus that claimed thousands of lives; the cure to contain the virus having come too late, his parents were left with little recourse but to have his organs replaced with bionic parts. The amount of cybernetic organs he received was such that he spent much of his childhood taunted for being "less human." He eventually grew to see the mechanical parts as extensions of himself and began to slowly but surely upgrade and overclock them, often requiring additional anchors to his body. He moved to Orre, where he took up his collegiate studies at Phenac City University. He eventually filed for an internship with the IDPD and became a private for one of its divisions. He has not intention of overstaying among the time cops and hopes to move on to mecha piloting.
His current residential address is in Phenac City, Orre.
Personality
On the surface, Dave seems to be generally cheerful and upbeat about life (especially given that he had his lease renewed multiple times) and showcases a sense of naivete typical of interns. He tends to blend in with Early 21st Century crowds (in no small part due to his extensive knowledge of history) and, unlike some of his family members, is confident that weirdness filters are rather powerful things that can handwave literally anything extraordinary or frightening in front of people. He often relies on using out-of-context truths to add a plausible veneer to his undercover work. He is very persistent in his desire to please people he considers his superior, which is evident in his work as an errant grunt, where he's willing to jump around to look for rare toys and donut shops. The one exception appears to be his father, who he does not get along with.
Deep down, he has a tangle of interpersonal issues that emerge from receiving cybernetic parts at a young age. He still feels a lingering sense of dehumanization from the cybernetic parts that replaced his organs and appendages and, due to childhood bullying, he is easily set off by disparaging remarks about cyborgs. He enjoys cold weather and baggy clothes specifically because it helps hide his mechanical parts.
This general frustration tends to bubble out when pursued or faced with excessively probing questions, and he quickly becomes petulant, aggressive, and rude. Those who eventually see through his milquetoast façade tend to see him as whiny and immature.
The presence of overclocked cybernetics have sometimes made him overestimate his physical abilities, as he was willing to take on another, more powerful cyborg with nary a care for his personal safety.
The two pokémon he is closest to are Jonathan (nicknamed Jon), the Rotomdex, and PC, the eccentric Beheeyem that moved into his apartment one day and never left. They frequently walk beside him and converse with him regularly, with the former using a speech function to imitate human speech.
In the Cyfuture
Dave is the wayward, layabout playboy son of the dictator of the Orange Islands and is constantly manipulated by his rotom Jon, who often appears as a hologram.
In yet another future
A more well-adjusted Dave (going mostly by his middle name, Riley) lived with fewer personal hangups, having survived the childhood illness unscathed; he would later receive a prosthetic leg for an injury sustained later in life. He enjoys better relations with his father and was held in high enough esteem by Tommy Petersen to be handpicked as the successor to the mantle of Arachna-Guy. His civilian identity currently works as an intern for PEFE.
Trivia
- He has Type 1 diabetes and included an insulin pump attachment to his pancreas to compensate.
- Scout was once his father's pokémon; a lifelong friend, she eventually became part of his roster later in his life
- He and his father have had a strained relationship due to his work with the IDPD and the Interpol Authority, who his father believes is responsible for flagrant abuses of power.
- He has a fondness for the popular culture of the 2000s and is inordinately fond of early Simple Plan albums.
- With the exception of Scout, Dave's Pokémon follow a science fiction/technology theme:
- PC is drawn both from the abbreviation for personal computer and a snide reference to the film Mac and Me
- Darlene is taken from a scrap robot used as a visual gag from the series Megas XLR
- Joycon refers to the joycon controllers used in the Nintendo Switch
- Jonathan/Jon refers to both Johnny Five, an android main character from the Short Circuit film series and (secondarily) Prince Jonathan, close friend and brother-in-law of the young King David in the Bible.
- Dave himself gets his name from David, the android main character of the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. In-universe, he gets his middle name/pseudonymous surname from his great-grandfather, Raleigh Grant.
Dave's Pokémon
The Lillifuture
The Cyfuture
As Arachna-Guy 2.0
