Some more drawings of this fine lad: https://www.weasyl.com/~incoherrant/submissions/1360813/keloid-ref
Top two are from '18, bottom two and sketch are from last month.

I'm leaning towards removing the plating and wires from his shoulders; I never did think up a good answer to what they're even there for (aside from handwavey SCIENCE nonsense about a power regulation system)... He just looked better with something on his shoulders in his original iteration (a City of Heroes brute).