Peasant

"When the world is melting, some things are sweeter than love." When electricity is a commodity, ice cream is expensive. Fighting in the governmentally challenged hamlet of Rinkutown and going on missions for its morally-dubious leader is a sure-fire way to commandeer any of the good stuff that might otherwise make its way to the “goose-eaters” in the American Territories.
Despite hanging out with "riff-raff," Peasant is an honorable, generous man. He's so generous, in fact, that he's known to spend his fight winnings on lavish ice cream parties for everyone in Rinkutown and they love him for it.
Peasant holds out hope for his contemporaries. He knows the world is changed not by opinion but by example so he uses his station as the boss' lieutenant to inspire these otherwise despicable ne'er-do-wells. "They aren't so bad once you get to know 'em." Peasant says of the Rinkutown pirates.
== Fight History ==
===== GOLDEN AGE: SEASON 2 =====
ICE CREAM FOR NO ONE: FOOT 3 V. PEASANT
Peasant has gotten complacent. None of the new fighters since the bald guy with the big mouth even had him breaking a sweat. That's why he's taken completely off guard by this new guy, the one who looks a lot like the boss.
After the fight, Peasant talks to Gebu and is like: "That's your kid, right? He fights like you, but, not..."
Gebu doesn't answer right away and Peasant keeps quiet. He knows better than to ask follow up questions when the boss gets this way.
GOOSE-EATERS: TIGER ANT V. PEASANT
Peasant is an all-around nice guy; however, if there's one group of people he's got no love for, it's the "goose-eaters" of the American Territories. Thinking of those hypocrites sitting in the air-conditioned top floors of Alpine's central business district while people starve on the streets below is enough to make Peasant's blood boil. When an "investigator" from Alpine is apprehended poking around Rinkutown, Gebu asks Peasant to teach him a lesson. Peasant is thankful for the chance to put his recent loss behind him, gets his game face on and blows off some steam.
TRUE TEMPTATION: PEASANT V. FOOT 3
Peasant takes Gebu's kid out on a mission and they encounter a crew of struggling shippers. Foot, in his naivete, is hellbent on assisting the stranded travelers. Peasant, more experienced and wiser, knows that the seemingly more cruel option (abandoning the situation) is actually the safer, wiser one. They fight about it and Peasant beats Foot soundly this time. Just as Peasant feared, the shippers reveal themselves as coal syndicate and attack anyway, proving Peasant painfully right. Foot and Peasant turn back the attack but not after taking a casualty from their crew.
===== GOLDEN AGE: SEASON 3 =====
TORRID: PEASANT V. SUGAR
Peasant is still down about losing his friend in the recent skirmish with the coalers and his girlfriend wants to cheer him up. There's no easy way to describe Peasant and Sugar's relationship. Beyond typical passion and lovey-dovey stuff, they have a mutual understanding, a partnership and a healthy talent for argument. Sometimes when they reach an impasse, the only way to resolve it is to tenderly try to beat the hell out of each other.
*This fight includes flashback-style origin stories for both Peasant AND Sugar!*
MUSHY BANANAS: YUUKU V. PEASANT
For the first time in a while, a newcomer from the Preservation shows up looking for a fight. It's Peasant's day on duty and he enters the ring, careful not to give into the same false confidence that got him dropped by Foot a while back. Too bad for Peasant his opponent is Yuuku, the last practitioner of Rutt and a master at that. Even Sugar is impressed by Yuuku. She even offers some rare words of tenderness to him after gets sliced up while she's supergluing his wounds shut.
===== GOLDEN AGE: SEASON 4 =====
IPSO FACTO: RINKUTOWN V. THE PRESERVATION
Peasant was present during the Battle of Rinkutown and fought for his hometown.
===== GOLDEN AGE: SEASON 5 =====
Peasant is one of three confirmed survivors from the final attack on Tarbaby.
== Trivia ==
Peasant's character designation is SERIES 1, #36. He was created by Oakwood Comics in collaboration with Malcolm M. Peasant's life trajectory is kind of modeled after Alexander the Great. His fatal flaw is his excruciating attention to detail and his inability to leave a job "unfinished," which his girlfriend Sugar knows means: "completely perfect."
His story before his debut in Season 2 is largely unwritten; however, it is known that sometime in his childhood he drank tainted water and got really sick. He was treated to some ice cream during this time. This no-doubt plays a part in his ever-present desire to consume it.
Category:Fighters
Category:Golden Age