Bes Bandagehead
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-- Bes Bandagehead
A redhead doll with an overabundant love towards icepickers and bandages. He was an art project that got abandoned alongside an unfinished project that is supposed to be his sister. At one point in his life, he is "gifted" with a human-like awareness by a being called "The Godmother", much to his dislike.
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BackstoryCan a machine desire? At most, it is believed that they can only simulate what seems like "desire". Yet, some outlier exist through unconventional means. Bes is one of them.
After his creator "disappeared" out of the blue 5 years after his creation, he is left to fend for himself and an unfinished model of what is supposed to be his sister. Years pass by as his body began to degrade from lack of care and so is his sister, left unattended other than with him in the gradually rotting house. He goes on to keep himself working just by so, as he is told to do within his internal protocols, keeping everything enough to keep himself and the house running, until one day he somehow dreamed. He first dreamed of his initial creation and the subsequent loneliness that comes within the confines of his existence. Then of his sister, repeating endlessly throughout his sleeping state that just newly exist. From that recurring dream, comes a desire to bring his sister to life.
His dream is then noticed by a mischievous deity, unnamed and unbound by time and space. Finding interest in his existence, she branches out to his world and shares a strand of her near-infinite being to the dreaming doll, giving him "a breath of life"; a new kind of awareness that he previously did not have. The Godmother, as the deity refers to herself, in his newfound realization, has gifted him with the conscience and heart closer to a human. This is proves catastrophic for his internal making, as the human senses and mind that he now has are limited and entrapped to his frames of metal and fabric.
At first he feels like he should be angry, tempted to claw out of his inhuman body to sate the uneasiness of the numb feeling that encapsulates his new mind. Yet, he cannot bring himself to feel so, and only a new desire blooms within him, that is to become as human as he can and fulfill all that he wishes for without help from The Godmother. As long as he could.
PersonalityIn average, Bes comes of as very calm and kind, even slightly timid towards new situations and strangers as his social life is pretty limited. While commonly skeptical at first, he easily warms up towards people who try to be kind towards him or does him a favor, regardless of the motives. He tend to get really excited whenever anyone wants to listen to him about his interests, and this usually end up with him putting out really long rambles to the listener.
However easy it is for him to get close to people, it is also as easy for him to feel threatened and provoked by the opposite. His kind and timid personality falters rather quickly when he perceives something to be of potential danger towards himself. His anxious and impulsive line of thinking sometimes cause him to attack first before thinking more about the possible consequences that can happen. If he ends up harming someone badly, after regaining clarity, most of the time he would always try to make up for any harm he cause if he can find a way to. If not, he will just run away from the problem.
Internally, he has a considerably naive worldview and sometimes lack the sensitivity towards experiences he cannot understand or have not experienced yet. This sometimes make him come off as insensitive or even unnerving in the way he presents his thoughts. He also has a hard time considering things that are not "clear-cut" and might need further explanation to understand it. Though this might make him appear dense, he is by no mean stupid. As long as he understands what he should do, he is surprisingly adaptable and will use the most of everything for his advantage as long as the right idea comes to mind.
It is also something to note that while he is usually lax towards losing, he can be a pretty sore loser in high stakes situation or when he really wants to win something. A lot of his personality and tendencies, especially the more neurotic ones, is a result of The Godmother's influence over his life. |
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Abilities
Piercing left hand
Unlike most of his body that is covered by a layering of fabric, his left hand is skeletal-like with lanky fingers. People tend to assume that it is dangerous because of it's sharp-looking ends, but the biggest problem lies in the fact that the ends of his left fingers are pretty blunt. While he does use it to pierce, it is not a clean-cut pierce as he needs to put more force into it to actually pierce something, causing an unclean and forced cut.
This move is sometimes paired with using his icepicker as a mock weapon, as he leads on the other party into believing that he is going to attack them with the icepicker, before attacking them with his left hand.
Glass-Bottle Hit! (and Many More Item Switches)
He hits his opponent with his glass bottle or anything else he has previously stored in his suit. That's it.
Note that he is unintentionally a hard-hitter as he does not have a good measure of his own strength a lot of times.
The Green Suit with 20-Space
It was a gift from the Godmother for his 17th birthday. The inner pockets of this suit have a pretty interesting hammerspace quality. Each one of his pockets can contain an item that should be impossible to be kept in a suit by size and weight (such as shoes and tall bottles), though it is not known for now the size limit of an item one space can hold. The biggest item Bes had brought in his pocket is probably the red chair he uses in his room.
Small items (like candies or jewelries) can be put together into one pocket though limited to only 10 items per pocket.
Numbness
Being a doll, he cannot feel pain or any kind of tactile sensation. While he rather hates being unable to feel anything, he uses this to his advantage a lot of times. He would consciously rip out a part of his own body as means to take his opponent off guard when he is cornered. However, the biggest drawback of his numbness is that sometimes he would not realize if something has somehow latched onto him or try to harm him implicitly until it hits his internal machinery.
Self-mending
He is able to mend himself, having the protocol and his own blueprint laid out inside his memory. Even if he is unable to retrieve or collect a part of his body, he is usually resourceful enough in finding substitutes that he can use for the time being.
"Brain Explosion"
A "last resort" move. In short, it's a move that is done by taking off the "anti brain explosion" nail out of his head.
In the first place, the nail in his head acts as a corrector for a faulty part in his motor control circuit. Taking off the nail results in a faster and more agile movement for a few moment, before his circuit hypothetically overheats and explode, causing his so-called "brain explosion". While he can survive a "brain explosion", it is notably the closest feeling to death he can feel, so he would rather not like to feel it.
Another drawback from this ability is that his body is not made to handle the speed he would go into without the nail implemented, that even before he overheats, he might already mess up his articulations first. It is an ability with more disadvantages than advantages for him.
Strengths
As how he is, he is surprisingly adaptable in odd situations. He tend to have an esoteric line of thinking in situations, and so he commonly ends up with ridiculously stupid, yet working strategies when facing a problem. He also will not stop when he wants something, at least not until he comes to the point where he has to use his "Brain Explosion" or if he feels it's no longer worth it.
Weaknesses
As said before, he is considerably naive and impulsive in the grand scheme of things. He easily gets provoked when he feels threatened and might end up making decisions that are obviously stupid and disadvantaging towards himself. The same goes for the opposite, as he is also easily persuaded and tricked by anyone that he finds "safe" enough. In short, he is pretty gullible.
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Trivia
- He has a collection of various icepickers in his drawer.
- Nobody knows why he has a preference towards chocolate syrup even though he cannot even taste it. He only notes that he finds it "smooth in feeling" for some reasons.
- He likes listening to jazz music while also having an irrational hatred towards most electro swing music.
- His dislike towards houselizards comes from the fact that it is awfully common for them to somehow get stuck inside his main control panel and get fried inside.
- His scleras used to be more pale and white in color, but they gradually yellow as they are made from cheap plastic.
- He has a soft and jovial voice, though it glitches from time to time. This is because his voicebox just got damaged pretty recently.
- As much as he dislikes The Godmother, he still somehow sees her as a "mother figure" as she did help him adapt with his new awareness and come around from time to time to check out on him. They have an odd mother-child relationship.
- A pretty prominent influence The Godmother had on him is on the way he thinks. He tend to monologue in a "poetic" way when lost in thought. He would feel embarrassed if anyone ever caught him doing these bouts of monologues out loud, even though he usually does them only internally
- He nicknames his sister model "Melody" as she did not have a name yet when his creator disappears.
- His outer layer of body is made out of wool-cotton blend fabric.
- His internals are waterproof with a 50 meters water depth limit.