Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160225194034/@comment-27082610-20160229191350

So, I'm having issues with the background for my character with cybernetic arms. See, I'm trying to figure out how to excuse the arms without throwing some edgelord bullshit in for no reason.

Which is why I had to throw out the original reason for his arms being replaced, whcih basically involved some cultists shoving an electirc drill into his biceps before turning it on an wiggling around.

Striker put out the idea of birth defect + injury, but I can't find a defect that would affect just the arms in a way that could result in an injury that would require theraputic amputations. My fallback on this front (that I really don't want to use because it feels cheap and dumb as shit) is for him to have a dual upper congenital limb amputation, meaning that he would be born without his arms in the first place.

I also considered creating a really accute form of severe muscular dystrophy that affected just his arms. And then, when he was older, he would be put in a situation (possibly/probably a Grimm attack that made him pick up a powerful weapon out of desparation) that would cause to shatter the bones in a way that would render them impossible to repair. I threw this one out because I couldn't figure out a weapon that would injure his arms without also damaging other parts of his body severly.

Does anyone have an idea or two they could toss my way for this? Because like I said on the last thread, I'm kinda married to the whole cyber-arms bit.