Moose Knuckles/3.0

Moose Knuckles is a character role-played by zaxx386.
==Background==
Moose Knuckles is from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. He used to work in a high stress business position where he was working hard in the rat race to earn a living. The stress finally got to him after his favourite tie got stuck in the photocopier and he had to cut it off to escape. He got home that night and realized the only way to survive the rat race was to start into hard drugs. He was afraid of hard drugs so he opted instead to snort the nearest thing he could find, Chee-toe Dust. 
He snorted this Chee-toe dust and blew his cluckin' mind. Following this mind opening event he put on his mask (a toque with face holes and makeup) and has never removed it since. It is his identity, his true face, and part of what he considers his clown religion.
==The Mime Wars ==
Moose end of 3.0
 
Moose spent his final days in Los Santos preparing for an all clowns vs BBMC bat war. He purchased every bat he could find and called the BBMC to declare war. The BBMC backed out in fear with Edbert admitting "we could not beat the clowns in a bat war". This revealed that BBMC yellow was the colour they should have on their patch. Riding high off this war victory, Moose received his draft notice along with the other clowns to fight mimes in the next mime/clown war. 
 
Moose has always believed the stories of a mime/clown war to be tricks and lies from Scruffy and Stumbles. Openly mocking their vetern status. Moose was certain that this draft was a continuation of lies. When confronted with further evidence he dove into conspiracy theories. Going so far as to pack his bags with swimwear and booze for the flight to the "Frontline Bar and Grill" where the clowns were going to party and drink without fear of gang bangers or the BGB.
 
While saying goodbye to his wife, Camel Toe he was stabbed by a mime. Moose recovered but still assumed it was all a prank setup by Chatty and Kirk. He was certain the party would start as soon as they landed. It wasn't until they were on the plane flying away that he realized the truth... THE WAR IS REAL! He had a panic attack as he was leaving the city behind, Moose is not built for war. Moose left Los Santos afraid and unsure of his future.
 
 
Moose at war
 
Moose survived boot camp with a LOT of chee toe dust. After boot camp Moose volunteered to be a wartime journalist. Documenting every shoe squeak, hammer hit, and demasking. During this time Moose accidently killed 30 mimes when he found a grenade on the ground. Thinking it was garbage someone left behind he pulled the pin to use as a toothpick (chee toe dust gets everywhere) and tossed it over his shoulder. He got a fright from the explosion and was celebrated for stopping an invading Mime contigent. Moose doesn't really understand what happened. Moose never picked up a gun during the fight, continuing to use the pen instead. The carnage of war left him with CTSD (Clown Traumatic Stress Disorder), the effects of which he is suffering as he returns to Los Santos. The worst incident was seeing Pico loose limbs in an explosion and hauling his bloody body away. The nightmares haunt him still.
 
Because the mimes discovered the location of Camel Toe when Moose was saying goodbye, they knew they could use her for information. Helping them win the war, the mimes abducted camel toe to use her fortune telling skills to guide their war efforts. Though they unplugged her and left her in the damp mime hideout. Cammel Toe caught a case of the termites and died in the Mime-CU (ICU). They sent Moose a photo of Camel Toe rotted away and dead.
 
Moose lost his sanity and his wife in the mime/clown wars. A broken clown he refuses to wear the mask, has no chee toe dust, and spends his days in a cloudy haze wandering the streets and sewers searching for meaning and fighting off the demons of war.
==Fears==
* Birds - His #1 fear is birds. Moose has been known to run away crying on their sight.
* Bondi Boys MC Blue - After meeting the BBMC for the first time and thinking it was funny to talk back to them, he learned the pain of a gun shot wound and now fears the BBMC blue.
* Mimes - because they are gross
==Early Days==
Moose met the clowns on his first day in the city. He was introduced to Happy D'Klown by Angus Oblong II. Moose then met Jagger Gerardy and the remaining clowns at the Funhouse where he was promptly beaten and his face was shoved into some pee on the carpet. A proper clown greeting. 
After that encounter Moose set about finding his way in the city and establishing his new life. He got a job at RHL as a delivery driver and it was there he met his wife Camel Toe. Moose started a news business called F.A.K.E. News where he focuses his journalism on the corruption in the Unified Police Department/3.0, and information he finds in the city that he thinks is interesting. 
Moose began life in Los Santos as a law abiding citizen, until he was assaulted by Randy Wrangler at the Alta street apartments for wearing a mask. Wrangler used his tazer to shoot Moose in his little moose knuckle and stole and destroyed his mask. After this encounter Moose began to dip his toes into the criminal aspects of the city, having been jaded by this encounter.
Moose wore a cast for a week as a result of the injuries sustained by the tazer and brought forward a lawsuit against Wrangler. After a lengthy court battly, Moose was awarded $200 for the replacement of his destroyed mask and Wrangler was forced to read the full mask mandate to the open court. Following the court case Moose was arrested and fined $1000 for refusing to remove his mask yet again.
==Marriage==
After meeting Camel Toe at the RHL, Moose courted her for several months until it was suggested by Waylin Grey to propose. Moose worked up the courage and proposed with Camel Toe accepting. Waylin designed custom Chee-toe rings for the couple and officiated the wedding. It was a small wedding with only a few clowns in attendance. Chatterbox walked Moose down the aisle and gave him away to Camel Toe. 
Camel Toe is a Nazar Speaks fortune telling machine that is inanimate. Moose Knuckles hears her speak to him and he interprets this as her speaking a language that only he can understand. Unfortunately, she is a simple machine that lacks any real sentience, though Moose will never admit to this as he is happy with his beautiful wife who works 24/7 to earn a quarter per fortune. As Camel Toe often tells Moose, "Just insert a little bit".
==Clown-Tern==
After several months of building his business and contact list, he was invited to become a Clown-Tern by the Clowncil. This made him a small part of the Clown Family. His Clown-ager was Stumbles Fumbles who was tasked with training and evaluating Moose as a clown. 
During this time Moose ramped up his criminal activities and enjoyment of violence. In attempts to impress the clowns, he stabbed both Dan Faily and Jack Ripley (separate occasions), was arrested for a long list of crimes, and built his criminal reputation within the police force.
==Clown==
After many months of training, Moose was contacted by the clowns and informed that Chatterbox was in mortal danger at the hands of some gang bangers. Moose was to acquire a gun and shoot the gang bangers as they pulled up in a black SUV while shouting "FOR CHATTY!". Moose did as was requested, though he quickly learned that it was actually the clowns in the SUV and Moose had opened fire upon his friends and family. 
Moose was then informed that he had been tricked and it was a test to see if Moose would reveal any clown secrets to anyone else, while testing his commitment to the family. Moose had successfully passed the test and was then welcomed in as a full member of the Clowns.
==The Purple Shadow==
As Moose began his criminal journey he found the need to go in clown-nito (disguise) for his safety. In doing so he found a purple mask which upon wearing helped him to change his voice and operate under the identity of The Purple Shadow. 
Unbeknownst to the other clowns, this mask was possessed by a demon and the more time Moose spent wearing the mask the more the demon assumed power and control over the body of Moose Knuckles.
During a civil war within the clown family, Moose was shot by Happy D'Klown and watched as his friends Lily Night-Sky, and Pete Griffin joined happy. Moose felt broken and betrayed so he put the mask on and gave in to the power of the demon. The demon revealed to the clowns that Moose had one week of life remaining before the demon would consume Moose's soul and permanently take over the body for himself.
The Purple shadow maintained a list of Impure people who had betrayed or wronged Moose. It was his task to make them suffer for their sins against Moose. The list started with the stabbing and ocean dumping of Lily Night-Sky and continued with the stabbing and removal of an arm of Pete Griffin. The Purple Shadow was captured and locked in prison for his crimes leaving him with no resources to continue his purging of the impure. He was forced to make a deal with the only person who wanted to hurt the clowns as much as the demon, that was Happy D'Klown. 
The Purple shadow then shot Stumbles in the head and continued to hunt for clowns he deemed impure with the plan of betraying Happy as soon as possible. Unfortunately for The Purple Shadow, the one he deemed pure enough to resist him was Seven Fulmen who worked tirelessly to capture the demon and along with Stumbles they burned the mask, returned Moose's mask, and forced him to snort Chee-toe dust to blow his cluckin' mind back to the normal Moose state. The demon was removed, forever?
==A Mask / Hat==
Moose woke up one day at the F.A.K.E. News offices and found a note left on the computer with a clue of where to find treasure. This sent Moose on a journey around the city where he followed multiple clues to ultimately be led back to the new home of his wife located at Boom Boom's. It was there he found a present from Camel Toe in the form of the gift of a personalized clown mask. Moose immediately put it on and snorted chee-toe dust, making a stain on the front. The mask is a traditional clown mask that is pulled over his normal toque covered face. The mask has moose antlers on it and gives him the proper look of a clown.
==Quotes==
* "Watch out for birds!"
* "They'll cluck your eyes out!"
* "Cluck off!!" (Moose changed from the clown curse of Yuck to Cluck as birds are horrible)
* "Oh hiiiiii!"
== Trivia ==
* Murdered Joel Miller with a Hammer while under the influence of "The Purple Shadow"