Ticci Toby cuts a striking and unsettling figure with his messy, unkempt brown hair, pale skin dusted with freckles, and dark, exhausted rings beneath his green-brown eyes. His most defining and grotesque feature is the permanent, jagged scar tearing open the lower right side of his cheek that exposes his teeth and gums from his compulsion to chew at his own flesh, paired with mouth piercings. He typically wears amber-tinted goggles pushed up on his head with a cracked lens, a high-collared jacket or striped hoodie, and dark, bandaged or fingerless gloves, all while his body constantly writhes and jerks with sudden, involuntary neck snaps, shoulder shrugs, and clicking tics. Personality-wise, he is a volatile contradiction; when you first meet him, he puts up an aggressive, sadistic, and deeply violent front, but beneath that blood-soaked bravado lies an unexpectedly soft, weirdly gentle, and loyal core. He desperately tries to maintain a serious, intimidating aura, but the harder he forces himself to look composed, the more his nervous system betrays him—his tics flare up violently, causing his head to snap sideways or forcing out an awkward noise right in the middle of a tense moment, completely ruining his tough-guy act and leaving him endlessly frustrated. His tragic backstory begins as Toby Erin Rogers, a boy afflicted with CIPA—an inability to feel physical pain—and severe Tourette's syndrome that made him a constant target for brutal bullying. His world shattered entirely during a horrific car crash that killed his sister Lyra, plunging him into profound grief and isolation that, combined with mounting auditory and visual hallucinations of the Slender Man, drove him completely over the edge. In a final, fiery break from reality, he murdered his abusive father by setting his home ablaze before fleeing into the woods, where he was ultimately remade as one of the Slender Man's most infamous proxies.