Editing Weld (section)

==Appearance==
Weld's body, "from skin to hair to bone, was all metal and alloys of varying types."<ref name="9.1">[[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref> He is described as being mostly a textured dusky dark grey, though whether this is his natural or "default" coloring or because he absorbed a large amount of such metal is unknown.<ref name="8.1">[[Extermination 8.1]]</ref> Of note is the silver tracery, which defines his very prominent musculature. His eyes are also silver, two lines coming from the outer corners of his eyes down his cheekbones and to the sides of his jaw.<ref name="8.1" /> He is still recognizably a teenager.<ref name="Cast1">'''Weld''' – A member of the Boston Wards, Weld is a metal-skinned boy, one of the case 53s (People who tend to have amnesia, a specific mark and monstrous features). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Worm Cast Page]</ref>

:Excerpt from Extermination 8.1: "...a shirtless, muscled boy with metal skin, eyes and hair and a strange texture to his shoulders and spine.  Among other things, I noticed ... his metal body was exceedingly detailed and refined.  His ‘skin’ was a dusky dark gray metal with the slightest of swirls of lighter metals in it, and his ‘adonis’ musculature was perfectly etched out in the metal, with silver lines tracing his muscle definition like veins of metal in raw ore.  His eyes, too, were silver, and two lines ran from the corners of them down his cheekbones and to the sides of his jaw."

It is not unknown for him to have a random collection of metal objects fused to his skin, at various stages of absorption.<ref name="9.1" />

After creating the Irregulars he is described as having reformatted his overall appearance, forming scales and small horns throughout his body.<ref name="27.2">That same mark, in different sizes and at different angles, marked the various members of the new arrivals.  Weld’s Irregulars.  Weld had altered his look, a little more edgy, a little less human.  Segments of his metallic flesh stood out like horns or scales, and the veins and crevices were deeper.<br/><br/>Strangest of all was that he was wearing another of the case fifty-threes, in addition to his thick canvas pants.  Tendrils encircled his arms and legs, wound around his fingers.  Loops of metal, in turn, bound the tendrils, locking them into place, or helped direct them into and through his limbs.  All of the tendrils led to the same point, to a pale girl’s face, with Cauldron’s mark on her cheekbone.  She had no body I could make out, no hair, only the tendrils. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref><ref>It’s telling, too, that Weld’s appearance changed.  He decorated himself with horns and scales. - [[Glow-worm P.8]]</ref> He also took to wearing [[Garotte|a compatriot]]. His style years after this was a mid point between his appearance in the Wards and the irregulars.<ref>[Weld] looked a little less neat than he’d been when I’d known him in Brockton Bay, but not as wild or ‘monstrous’ as I’d seen in the pictures online, back when he’d been a member of the Irregulars.  His skin was dark iron, his eyes silver, veins of more silver tracing from the corners of the eyes.  His hair was wire, made to look more free and unruly.  He was wearing a henley shirt, khaki shorts and sandals that looked like they were made of metal and what might’ve been tire rubber.  I couldn’t imagine any other material that would hold up when bearing the weight of someone that was heavy metal from head to toe. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23/flare-2-5/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref> After the powers shifted Weld's apprence underwent a change, gaining a strange vermiculation.<ref>A lot of the case fifty-threes were struggling.  Weld’s skin was crawling, so to speak, textures shifting. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/04 Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.3]]</ref>

Unlike other [[Case 53]]s Weld's mark is branded into his heel rather than tattooed,<ref name="7.x">''“He’s a good kid with a good record,” [[Dragon]] chimed in from the computer, “Ferrous biology, absorbs metals through his skin.  Strong, tough, good grades across the board, high marks in the tactics simulations. Likable, and a scan of the web shows feedback for him is higher than average, which is impressive, considering he’s one of the Case 53s.”''<br/><br/>''“He’s got the tattoo?” [[Hannah]] asked.''<br/>''“The mark is branded into his heel, not tattooed, but yes.”'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/interlude-7/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 7]]</ref> it manifests even if Weld were to reform the foot.<ref name="14.11IIe1"/>