Bowtruckle
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Bowtruckle | |
| Player: @Paradoxe | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Defender |
| Security Level: | 30 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | none |
| Known Aliases: | none |
| Species: | Magically Altered Sprite |
| Age: | several millenia |
| Height: | 5'8" |
| Weight: | 140 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | dark green |
| Hair Color: | bright green |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American Citizen |
| Occupation: | Artificer |
| Place of Birth: | Pre-Oranbegan Paragon City |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City, RI |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Last of his species. |
| Known Powers | |
| Trick Arrow, Archery | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Fitness, Superjump | |
| Equipment | |
| Pocket D VIP Pass, Jump Pack, Base Teleporter, Sands of Mu, Blackwand, various temp powers. | |
| Speaks in rhyme. All the time. | |
A sprite captured in Oranbegan times, trapped in stasis after the fall of that civilization, altered by millenia of magic, and released today, to find his entire species is extinct and he's grown almost 12 times taller. But, he doesn't let that get him down.
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Affiliations
Supergroup: The Legendary (Rank: Fable)
Personality
A trickster sprite in nature, Bowtruckle is generally always cheerful and up for a good joke. He talks in rhyme continually, which combined with his cheery attitude sometimes makes him hard to deal with and understand.
He's always moving, especially liking to jump around continually when nothing appears to be happening, a contrast from his combat behavior, where he tends to stand still to aid his accuracy and situational awareness.
Because of his tendency to irritate his fellows, Bowtruckle tends to work alone, cheerfully filling his supergroup channel with his successes and frustrations.
Powers
Bowtruckle is a bow-and-arrow oriented hero, using the skills taught to him by his people to create arrows with various debilitating and damaging effects.
Trick Arrow
Bowtruckle's signature ability his his Ice Arrow, which he cheerfully uses with great abandon on any enemy he can, reducing them to a frozen target for his follow-up attacks. He has also mastered the ability to fire an Acid Arrow, which reduces his opponents defenses and resistances further. When pressed, he has been known to use arrows that leave a mass of sticky Glue, slowing down his enemies, or even an Entangling Net to immobilize them. Recently, he has discovered the ability to fire an Oil Slick Arrow, which he ignites to debilitating effect, or as he gleefully calls it, 'burny slippy goodness.'
Archery
Bowtruckle also applies his skills to more directed purposes. He can fire arrows quickly, even sometimes multiple arrows at once if called for. His most devestating application of his artificing is an arrow with a large, flaming head, and another that explodes on contact. He has recently gained enough skill to fire a single regular arrow for great damage at long range.
Additional Powers
Due to his advanced knowledge of magical artifacts, Bowtruckle has a permanent supply of the Sands of Mu, which he only uses when forced. He has a Blackwand with infinite charges, which he cheerfully uses to supplement his other offensive skills.
Leaping
Having lost his wings in the same process that grew his body to such large size, Bowtruckle was somewhat relieved to find that his jumping ability also grew with his body size. Bowtruckle cannot jump nearly as far or as quickly as many individuals who share the ability, but unlike them, he has honed his skills to not suffer the suppression effects other do.
Fitness
The same process that enabled Bowtruckle to keep his proportional jumping ability also extended to his base physical abilities, giving him a somewhat higher base level of recovery and regeneration than the average hero.
Abilities
Bowtruckle is more clever than smart, and has an innate ability to create and manipulate magical items to great effect. While he primarily employs this ability in the creation of his arrows, he also has a profitable sideline creating small magical items for any who can pay his fees.
Surprisingly, Bowtruckle is an avid technophile, and while not having much skill at the use and manipulation of high technology, is well versed in the theory.
Weaknesses and Limitations
Bowtruckle, being several millenia out of his time, has difficulty with modern moral and social codes. He's also somewhat fragile, and can't take a beating as well as many other heroes, which combined with a somewhat single-minded drive in combat situations ends up gettting him in trouble. Without heavy use of temporary powers, the Sands of Mu, and the Blackwand, his offensive output can be limited.
Equipment
Bowtruckle has a Base Teleporter, a Jump Pack, a Pocket D VIP Pass, an Ouroboros Portal and a Police Radio.
He seems to collect temporary powers as much as he can, and it's uncertain what his inventory contains at any time.
Character History
Long ago, when the people of Oranbega ruled the Eatrh, a trickster sprite was captured by a particularly curious mage and trapped in a stasis field. The mage intended to study the sprite, and hopefully learn the secrets of its magical arrows. Fortunately for the sprite, the Oranbegan civilization fell before that could happen.
Unfortunately, the sprite remained trapped in the stasis field for thousands of years, where it was eventually discovered by a hero seeking to retrieve a soul crystal from the decrepit ruins, and saw the frozen sprite as an interesting souvenier statue.
As he was returning to MAGI, the hero was attacked by a Circle of Thorns retribution party, and in the scuffle, the sprite was struck by an unknown combination of magical energies, freeing it.
Now, trapped in a new time, his powers and body magnified through millenia of exposure of Oranbegan magic, the Bowtruckle is free to play his tricks once more!
Battlecries and Catchphrases
"Ho ho I say, hee hee! My tricky tricks - a sight to see!" "Calloo my friends, Callay! The Bowtruckle is here to play!"
Trivia
Being nonhuman, Bowtruckle is somewhat mystified by his strange attraction to various female members of his supergroup, and has no idea how to deal with it.
