Finchphobia - Phobia

Overview
Phobia is the most melancholic, cynical, nihilistic spider. He refuses to acknowledge his curse - despite the fact his phantom side causes him intense insomnia. They get frightened easily, and suck at picking up conversation queues. They know little about collectivist culture - the very idea of helping people seems completely alien to them. They are self centred - not by choice - but because they haven’t known anything different.

Backstory
Phobia was raised by cave spiders, barely ever seeing the surface in their early years, eating rotten flesh and whatever they could find. As they grew up, they realised the cave settlement which he had grown up it in was originally the home/lair of a coven of witches, which their ancestors destroyed, killing a few of the witches in the process. As a result, Phobia was born with his curse. They were stripped of half of their arachnid genes - physically unable to sleep and scales which they are desperate to hide. They were hated by most of the arachnids he grew up around due to this curse, but have only recently learnt that their blueness came from another species, having assumed it was just a deformity. When Phobia finally went against the wishes of their family and left the caves it grew up in, it found out that their life wasn’t the norm. That other children saw the outside world, got to make friends of other species. And Phobia was scared, which earned him the nickname after a short lived romance with an enderian (not a character here) after Phobia would jump at every teleportation. They now live alone, inspecting the others from a distance, scared to make his presence known to the communities and be seen for who he truly is.