Silly Streng
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Silly Streng | |
| Player: @Major James Ashe | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Unknown |
| Known Aliases: | The Croatoan Cut-up, The Madcap Marrow, The Pumpkin Prankster |
| Species: | Magic pumpkin |
| Age: | Confidential |
| Height: | Varies |
| Weight: | Varies |
| Eye Color: | Two big cutout triangles |
| Hair Color: | N/A |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Grown in the USA! |
| Occupation: | Hero, prankster, and professional finder of trouble |
| Place of Birth: | A pumpkin patch in Salamanca |
| Base of Operations: | Salamanca |
| Marital Status: | Single (and VERY available, ladies!) |
| Known Relatives: | Scattered throughout grocery stores nationwide |
| Known Powers | |
| Numerous magical abilities including fire generation/control, shapeshifting, flight, teleportation of self/others, and making self/others invisible | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Quick wit, charming personality, and never-say-die attitude | |
| Equipment | |
| Confidential | |
| No additional information available. | |
This article about a character is a stub -- a small, but growing, work in progress. If you're the creator of this character, why not consider expanding it?
Silly Streng is a sort of "happy accident" character that combines two concepts I'd been wanting to work with for a long time: a crazy jester/prankster character, and a character that used the pumpkin helmet from the Zombie Apocalypse event. His zany personality is largely inspired by classic cartoon characters -- particularly early-days Daffy Duck -- as is his shapeshifting ability (his "va-va-voom!" female form is an homage to Bugs Bunny's penchant for vamping it up).
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Background
Silly Streng remembers nothing of his life (if he had one) before the day he woke up in a pumpkin patch in Salamanca. He has several theories about how he may have come to be, the simplest being that he is in fact a magical pumpkin, animated by a spell gone awry. Alternately, he's suggested that he may have once been human, and was transformed into his current form by placing a cursed Jack o' Lantern over his head, or that he was wearing a normal Jack o' Lantern mask and was cursed by a Red Cap who mistook him for one of the Fir Bolg.
Powers
His magical abilities are numerous and varied in both their strength and nature:
- His primary means of offense is his generation of mystic flame, which he may use to blast and entrap his foes.
- He has modest powers of illusion, which he uses to render himself and his allies invisible.
- He can teleport across short distances, and can teleport a willing subject to his location from much farther away.
- His shapeshifting powers are truly fantasic: he can assume almost any form, ranging in size from an insect to a minivan. A beneficial side effect of his shapeshifting is that it is extremely difficult to do him any lasting harm, as his body tends to deform -- even to the point of being completely flattened -- then spring back to its regular shape.
- He can cast, somewhat haphazardly, a number of minor cantrips on his allies. These usually have beneficial effects ... usually.
- And of course, he can fly!
Personality
To say that Silly Streng's personality is mercurial would be an epic understatement. He is, in a word, nuts (though, as a friend once put it, "in the nicest possible way"). He has a myriad voices in his head, none of which know how to self-edit, so there's never any telling what may come out of his mouth at a particular moment. His attention span is often measured in milliseconds, and has been compared to that of a hummingbird on crack. In spite of these facts, there are a few constants in his behavior: he is very kind-hearted, even altruistic, and he is an unabashed admirer of the ladies.
Alternate Forms
As a shapeshifter, Silly Streng is able to give his assorted personalities physical manifestations. Some of his more commonly used forms are:
Streng!
Kid Squash
Sexy Streng
Agent Streng
