Regarding Avicebron's physical form:
tl;dr: I assume all his limbs are prosthetic and his face is kind of awful.
Long version: Sooooooo. We unfortunately never get to see anything of Avicebron under the ridiculous outfit he's wearing, so I have to make some assumptions about what's going on under all that bullshit.
It's never been explicitly clarified, but it's implied that his limbs are artificial. His legs, at least, are almost certainly artificial, with visible metal hip sockets, ending in weird pointy knives where his feet should be. (How does he walk with these, it is a mystery.) Though it's harder to tell whether his arms are similarly artificial or not, the fact that he can later level up and sprout an additional pair of identical arms suggests that they, too, are prosthetics. These artificial limbs are probably inspired by the legend of his death -- supposedly, he was murdered by a fellow poet who was jealous of his skill and buried under a fig tree, with some iterations of the legend stating that his body was dismembered for easier burial.
This probably won't be brought up very often, since he's not the type to show off anything like that, and since he can't easily be injured except by other Servants or supernatural forces. But it would probably be noticeable if physical contact ever happens (or if someone actually asks him, I guess). His hands have all the dexterity of regular human hands, but probably feel a little cold under his gauntlets and gloves; they connect to his body at the shoulder, with the connection partly hidden by the big metal loops. His legs have visible ball joints right at the pelvis, and are much more obviously artificial. All of his prosthetics have golemancy incorporated in them, so he can control them to a small extent even if they're taken off his body; he can pop them off and on at will. He also has a socket on his back where he can attach and detach his bonus arms.
On a different note, Avicebron is implied to look pretty gnarly under his mask and clothes. The real-life Solomon ibn Gabirol was stated to have been sickly and frail, and suffered from a debilitating skin disease (possibly lupus vulgaris) that contributed to his antisocial nature. Avicebron's face is never shown in canon, except a brief glimpse of the area around his eye -- he has gold eyes and dark skin marked by scars. Dialogue in F/GO definitely suggests his skin hasn't magically cleared up upon Servant-ification, so ... yeah.
He pretty much never takes his mask off; it helps that he has no need to eat or drink, and is generally a very private person. Even with close acquaintances, he'll probably be somewhat reluctant to ever let anyone look at his face or bare skin, but if it ever does come up by some miracle (or because of event shenanigans or something, dear god I want someone to snatch his mask off so he can be intensely uncomfortable), he'll probably look a little grotesque -- think Deadpool-lite.
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