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Sheller's dumb characters & builds

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Howdy ho, reader.

I've been playing BASH for a good year now and for some reason only recently got the idea to do a big-* index of all the heroes, villains, and etceteras that have sprung to life during all this time the bros and I have spent playing this wonderful game.

This thread's gonna be where I post new builds or ideas I have for supers. I'll try to avoid posting the ones that were ripped from others statistics-wise, like the Iron Man and Superman ripoffs I got from the core rulebook.

I really wish I could put spoiler tags on this so navigation would be easier, but posting a lot is fine by me as well.

NOTE: ANY AND ALL characters found here are pretty much guaranteed to go up on the Grand Metro page at Obsidian Portal. Click this fat chunk of words to visit the wiki.
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First up: THE PHAAANTOM LIIIIIMMMBBB

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Quick Description: Phantom Limb is a misunderstood vigilante who's had enough run-ins with the law to make Bonnie & Clyde blush. He has two mysterious "ghost arms" that shoot out of his body to protect him and get things he wants that are within reach. He's a public nuisance because his arms keep stealing things he passively wants whenever they can. He's a shady contact to most other supers but means well in the end.

Inspirations: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, primarily.

Real Name: Beau Daniels
(Former) Occupation: retail clerk
Prison sentence: 3 years
Time spent incarcerated: 2 days

Power Rank: 30 Pts (12 Stats, 18 Powers)

Brawn: 1
Agility: 2
Mind: 3

Soak: x3
Defense: x7
Mental Defense: x3

POWERS:

Ghost Arms: Extra Limbs 2 (+2 dice bonus when *) 2pts
Force Fist Barrage: Special Attack 4 (H2H, Mind-based) 4pts
Auto-Repellant: Deflect 3 LINKED with Armor 2 (+3 Defense, +2 Soak, doubles counterattack) LINKED with Danger Sense (+2 Defense, 1/2 penalty effects) 7pts
Surface-Grasping/Jumping: Super-Jumping & Clinging MULTI-POWER (Limitation: Tiring) 1pt
Hornet Jabs: Attack Weak Point (x2 DMG when roll beaten by 20+) 2pts
Disarm Expert: (+2 dice bonus to deliberate disarmings) 2pts

SKILLS:
Stealth/Theft & Hiding & Shadowing, Escapology/Improvisation, x2 Athletics/Throwing
Streetwise/Crime & Shortcuts, Deception/Disguise & Lying & Manipulation, Commerce/Bargaining

Advantages: Quick-Thinking, Never Surrender, Jack-of-All-Trades
Disadvantages: On the Run, Public ID, Involuntary Powers
Weakness: None.

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BIO:

Beau Daniels always felt he had some guardian angel preventing him from harm, helping him achieve things he wanted and avoiding obstacles in his path. He always figured it was luck until he learned that having crazy translucent energy arms shoot out of your body at random, visceral intervals isn’t a normal thing that everybody deals with.

He’s a smart, strong-willed individual who’s picked up all kinds of crooked skills learning in the streets. Lacking the seriousness needed to succeed, he borderline-passed high school and barely managed to get a job as a cashier in an electronics retail store his uncle owns. That ended when a lot more than the usual margin of goods was turning up stolen.

Despite his Arms’ natural instinct to protect him, they also serve him in ways he sometimes can’t help. If the Arms are able to get a hold of something that he wants nearby, they’ll more than likely swipe the item up and hide it on his person without any second thoughts.

Thanks to his Arms’ klepto tendencies, he’s had to learn to be good at hiding things he might’ve accidentally stolen to avoid trouble, but the trouble eventually caught up to him.

He was taken to court by his own uncle after having stolen a top-of-the-line television, and sentenced to a few years in prison. Through stupid chance, though, he was lucky enough to be stuck in holding the same day a major supervillain plotted a jailbreak for a few of his friends, and Beau got off scot-free.

Unfortunately, the TV reporters grouped him with the villains as a major criminal on the run, and Daniels was never able to go back to his old life of trying to hide his mixed blessing; now he’s an easily-recognizable menace to society. Despite doing all the good he can with his arms, even the Union can’t get him much help legally, and anybody he works with busting heads makes sure to keep him under wraps from the authority fallout that always proceeds.

Often, he’ll find the idea of wearing a costume unnecessary since everyone knows who he is already.
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