Cranium

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• The Wizened Skeleton of the Jungle (title)

• Dude (Ace)

• Cub (Grace and Mari)

• Old Man / Old Timer (Tangerine & Stephanie)

• Maxine Williams (adopted daughter, deceased)

• Doctor

• Main Singer in Helga's Band

> *"My name.. and this spear.. and this power I possess. They are all given to me by the person I loved with all my heart. And I will continue her heritage, from now until forever!"*
>
> - Cranium

Doctor Horatio T. Williams, or better known as Sir Cranium or just Cranium, is the half-giant son of Paul and Isabelle Williams who was raised in the wilderness by monkeys when he was lost by his birth parents. He becomes the primary love interest for the former Guardian of Light, Grace, when he reunites with his family after he was found washed out on the beach by Ace. He would later become best friends with Ace and the two became a dynamic duo. He is mostly a cleric, healing his teammates using his holy magic that he learnt from his father. But when he does fight, he uses his trusty spear bestowed from Grace as a gift. He also uses the alterrarge that was passed over from Grace before her death.

## **Appearance**

Being a half-giant, Cranium is extremely tall but not as tall as his mother. His main noticeable feature is his jaw, something he got from his mother. Before his death, he had dark skin, long blonde dreadlock hair and he had a noticeably bulky build. When he was revived as a skeleton, he looks noticeably less bulky, having a very hunched back posture and he has no hair whatsoever. What did carry over is his unique eyes. For one, the pupils are yellow and one is noticeably bigger than the other, with his right pupil being a small circle and his left pupil being a bigger oval. This is likely a birth defect, since both Paul and Isabelle don't have this feature. Before death, he had a birth mark on his forehead, which was proof enough to show to Paul that he is his son.

His main attire is a yellow hood with black accents and rings to the sides, a yellow cape that drifts to his right side with a smaller shoulder pad with matching colours, a yellow chestplate in the shape of a star, black pants with a yellow belt, ancient gauntlets on his left arm and yellow knight greaves.

For his casual attire, he wears a yellow tank top, torn black jeans, a belt and yellow sneakers.

## **Personality**

Cranium was raised in the jungle by monkeys, as a result, he sometimes behaves like a ape like punching his chest repeatedly, running on all fours, having a wild fighting style and can climb on almost anything, notably his spear. He does have traits, mainly from his father. That being that he is a very comedic person and loves to tell a joke here and there. The only jokes he doesn't like is puns, since he views them as stupid and unfunny. He can also, for some reason, impersonate almost anything perfectly, which led to his role in Helga's band as the main singer.

Despite having a somewhat hostile appearance due to his size and the fact he is a skeleton, he is a soft-spoken, humble, and polite giant with a kind heart and gentle personality. Being very affectionate and loving towards his family and friends. Even towards beautiful flowers since he enjoys growing flowers and feasting his eyes on them at Botanical Gardens. He notably gave a bouquet of flower to Grace during their time together. Speaking of Grace, Cranium swore loyalty to her as her bodyguard, never leaving her side. This led to him being romantically involved with her. Even when she died, Cranium swore that he will never go out with anyone else. This amount of care resulted in him being a doctor of sorts and that led to him being good when it comes to medical things such as anatomy and how most bodies function.

Cranium is also shown plenty of times of being the word of advice. Always giving advice to his friends when needed and being very supportive. He is also good with advice when it came to DIY. As besides growing flowers, it is his main hobby of making different types of furniture.

### **Holy Healing Magic**

Being a cleric, Cranium can heal himself and his teammates. In fact he is extremely good at healing others in a pinch. He can even heal certain illnesses such as poisoning but not fatal illnesses such as the Grimdark Virus. He learnt to use this ability thanks to his father

### **Primal Instincts**

Being raised by monkeys certainly gave him a unique fighting style. Without his spear, he can do acrobatic attacks, can climb walls, jump from tree to tree and he sometimes runs like a monkey, which proved to be great for his running speed.

### **Holy Light Magic**

Like his healing, this is something taught by his father. He uses it to make a holy gate, which has many applications.

* **Holy Gate:** After staring forwards, he places a little yellow crystal that floats in the air, that appears in front of him that pulls opponents towards it like a magnet when near. This takes time to activate but it has different properties that Cranium can activate at will.
	+ **Holy Aura:** After laying down a gate, Cranium can manually attack the opponent while they're in its range by setting the gate off.
	+ **Crystallise:** The gate becomes a shield that protects him from harm briefly.
	+ **Homing Force:** The gate will become a homing projectile. It's somewhat slow though.
	+ **Gate Gatling:** Cranium moves the gate on top of him. It follows him for a couple of seconds until it fires off quick projectiles.
	+ **Holy Righteousness:** The gate becomes a timed offensive tool where it plants itself onto the ground. After a set amount of time, the gate will erupt a heavenly light that later rains down star projectiles. This move has massive vertical range when it erupts.
	+ **Holy Banish:** A attack that involves him surrounding his spear with holy aura. He then slams with it downwards and if he hits the ground, it causes a explosion attack. This will severely drain his mana but proves to be a powerful attack.

### **Spear**

A spear made as a gift from Grace on his birthday. The spear has two ends, both are really sharp. Cranium himself learnt how to use this effectively in combat. Besides using it like a normal spear, Cranium can do things such as sticking it onto the ground to latch and climb onto it like a monkey and do the following attacks. The spear can also extend it's length way too much in order for Cranium to catch his opponents off-guard and to pull him towards his opponent to then allow him to grab onto his opponent into a headbutt attack.

* **Kick:** Cranium drop kicks forwards while pulling the spear out of the ground.
* **Catapult:** Cranium pulls the spear back and it rebounds back to neutral position, causing Cranium to catapult off it.
* **Stab:** Cranium jumps forwards with the spears and stabs it onto the ground again. He can then do a combination of the previous two options to do a kick that launches him far.

### **Ascension: Alterrarge**

Also known as the "Dragon's Perfect Form", the alterrarge was given to Cranium by Grace before her death. However it is only half of it, shown when Cranium's right eye glows when it is active. Cranium can do many things with it. For one, it gives him the strong divine power to see into the past and future, which is activated when he touches something or someone. So for example, he can touch a destroyed boulder and he can get a vision of how it was destroyed in the past or if he touches a person, he can predict their fate in the future. However, it's somewhat limited now due to being split in half. Because of this, Cranium can change the future by warning people or by predicting his opponent's attacks. Besides all that, it allows Cranium to use his Holy Magic at a much stronger rate. However, due to him not having ANY dragon blood within him, his version is considered the weakest of the bunch.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Cranium, or as what he was called at the time, Horatio, was born in the Pure Jungle. He was given birth by Paul and Isabelle Williams. However, he became lost in the jungle due to a attack, that caused the death of his mother. Paul tried to find Horatio but he was nowhere to be found and was presumed dead after months of trying to find him. The baby was found by 3 monkeys and these monkeys would raise Horatio as their own for a long time as a protector of the pure jungle.

When Horatio reached the age of 20, he would go through the biggest change in his life. One day, he tried to save critters from a waterfall but ended up falling down while successfully saving the critters. He would go unconscious and be swept up on the beach and would be found by Ace, who was currently training on the beach. Ace would take him to Blair to help the giant recover.

When he wakes up, Horatio sees Blair with a knife and goes wild. Attacking and destroying the room he is in. Ace and even Paul come in to see him rampaging in the room. Paul says he will take care of this, since he has experiences with a giant due to literally marrying one. It works and Paul goes to check his temperature by putting his hand on Horatio's forehead. When he does, he is extremely shocked. He couldn't believe what he saw.. the birthmark on Horatio's forehead was immediately recognised by Paul. The man started to cry as he is finally reunited with his son, who was presumed dead. Paul tells his son that he is Horatio, leading to the half-giant to say his first words "Horatio".

After that, Paul would teach his son to speak and even teach him manners. Something he learns very well. It was like he became a new man. During this time, Horatio would become great friends with Ace and eventually meet his sister, Grace. Horatio immediately fell for her and proved multiple times that he is very loyal towards her by defending her from evil threats, winning her affection and making him the loyal bodyguard of her for the rest of time after he was assigned as a knight on his 21st birthday. He would later be given the name "Sir Cranium" as a reference to his birthmark on his forehead. With Cranium being the name he is referred to for the remainder of time, with the exceptions being his father and Grace calling him by his real name. On his birthday, he was given a spear by Grace and he would use this spear for the rest of his life; never letting go of it.

After the events of the Guardians going to the Tower of Despair, Boss suddenly barges in and asks Cranium for help. Grace broke her legs during Guardian raid at the Tower of Despair. Cranium is shocked to see his girlfriend injured this badly. Since then, he took care of her until she got used to using a wheelchair given by him.

Besides being the bodyguard of Grace, he was also part of a duo team with Ace and this results in Cranium and him becoming close to the point of being best friends. During one mission, Ace and Cranium were assigned to the pure jungle, Cranium's former home. The mission involved saving monkeys from environmental problems. Upon arrival, Ace and Cranium went to save the monkeys, 3 of them being the very same monkeys that raised Cranium. The monkeys were happy to see Cranium again and offered to show him and Ace something. That led to them discovering a tree house, which was formerly the monkey's home and would later become Cranium's home.

During the events of the Calamity War as of the 5th of November, Cranium was worried about Grace's health when the Grimdark Virus was infecting her; offering to use his healing magic to cure her but as confirmed by Blair, it wouldn't work as it's a fatal illness. Cranium would witness Blair remove half of Grace's soul that was corrupted from the virus. He was thankful that Grace turned out okay after this but shocked when Frewil comes in to steal the soul that was removed. The giant offered to take part in the Calamity war but was dismissed by Boss and Grace, he understood but Ace didn't, leading to his heated argument with his sister and father. Ace angrily walks off with Cranium to the treehouse in the pure jungle.

Ace asks Cranium if he could stay here for now since he couldn't be asked with his family right now. Cranium, being the word of advice, tells Ace that he shouldn't be this mad towards his family because he will regret it afterwards. Ace willingly takes the advice and decides to go out and apologise. Cranium says that he's crazy because everyone is supposed to stay at home for lockdown during the Calamity War. Obviously, Ace still storms off and Cranium goes after him.

After Ace and Cranium witness the death of Boss and take his body back to the guild, they both storm out to pursuit Frewil. Upon arriving to the mythical mines, which is where Frewil is located, Grace yells at his brother for arriving here; still angry over the argument they had. Grace was in the middle of fighting her evil counterpart, Mari and is killed by her when she stabs her in the stomach. Cranium rages and goes to lash out at Mari but she dodges and runs away. Cranium was about to go after her but is stopped by Ace, who is next to Grace, who is slowly dying. After Ace apologises to her for everything, Cranium holds onto her and starts to cry. Grace smiles and says that it's ok and that Cranium needs to stay strong. He says that he can't get strong without her. Grace then says that she will be with him forever. This led to Grace giving Cranium the half of her alterrarge that wasn't corrupted. Before Grace dies, she moves Cranium's hair to see his eyes; he is seen having a glowing right eye, confirming that he now has the alterrarge. She says that she had plans of marrying Cranium but due to what's happened, this will likely never happen. Grace says she loves Cranium and dies in his arms, which led to Cranium crying even harder and embracing her body with a hug. Ace stands up and says that he should take the body away while he deals with Frewil and Mari, Cranium does so and evacuates out of the mines.

Cranium is found by his father, who was worried on where he went. Paul was shocked to see Grace's body. He gives the body to Paul and says that he has to go back for Ace but Paul says that it's too dangerous. Cranium yells at his father and says that he has to do this, otherwise Ace will die. He kisses Grace's lips and runs off. Paul was upset but says to himself that he takes a lot after his mother, letting him go. Craniun arrives and witnesses Frewil being sealed away in a gem by Gregory. Cranium takes the gem and senses Frewil's dark presence in this gem. He takes the gem back to the Guild, that of which ends the calamity war entirely.

After a long rest, Cranium would attend Grace and Boss's funeral. He would stand up to the podium and talk about his story with Grace, with how he was always willing to protect her but he couldn't due to her fight with Mari. He also says that she had plans of marrying him but that would never come to be. He tries to hold back his crying and says that he will always love Grace no matter what. He is then escorted off the podium by his father. After the funeral, Cranium sadly walks back to his home in the treehouse and wouldn't go out for months due to being severely depressed.

That was until he was visited by the three children, Eon and Olivia. Who were looking for him as a means to get training from him. They likely came to him due to having Grace's alterrarge. He states that it's too dangerous for kids to be fighting; especially when they lack any fighting skill. Eon says that if Ace can do it then surely they can too. Cranium, despite being in a very depressed mood, thinks that he should at least try to train them; as he sees endless potential deep within them when they show their abilities to turn into crystallised fists. During training, Cranium would get over his mourning over Grace and became more positive while realising Grace is still with him.

One day during a mission and alongside Team Crystal, Cranium discovers a prophecy written on the wall depicting a green warrior fighting a gigantic looking ape. Cranium uses his alterrarge to learn about this prophecy; only to learn that Olivia will bare a child with a familiar ability given to them. After this, Cranium is attacked by unknown creatures, which are revealed to be zombies. The zombies would fatally injure Cranium, making him fall to the ground. Before he could be eaten alive, Team Crystal attacks them to save him from this. Eon goes to Cranium and he tells the team that the man behind this was a man with blond hair and a moustache, who should be somewhere in the jungle. He got this information when using his alterrarge on a zombie. Cranium says to the hunters that they are the reason why he became more positive after the death of Grace and thanks them greatly, he then dies peacefully. Team Crystal rush to find the man Cranium was talking about.

Cranium would be buried outside of his home when Paul finds his body in the jungle. Many years pass and all of a sudden during a thunderstorm in the jungle, Cranium raises from the dead. This is likely because of Kyin using his necromancer powers, who was at the jungle to find Mari with Monkey AC130. He would resist Kyin's control thanks to the alterrarge and he would later run into Kyin, Monkey AC130 and Mari. He goes to fight Mari and they fight for a while and Mari injures Cranium and knocks him to the ground. Monkey AC130 says they have to get going, revealing that Frewil has returned. So Mari lets Cranium go, prompting Cranium to go to the Aranea Draco kingdom to report on Frewil's return. He was wounded badly and when he arrived, he faints to the ground.

Cranium wakes up to find himself in a hospital. He then sees his father next to him. He was happy to see his son again, despite his new skeleton appearance. Next to Cranium is Ace, who was unconscious after he was thawed out of his ice made by Frewil. The giant would look after Ace until he wakes up while also confirming that Frewil has returned to his father, who of which says this to King Ander, making everyone now aware Frewil has returned. Ace would wake up and Cranium becomes excited to see his best friend again.

After learning what has happened for the last few years by King Ander, Cranium would become a warrior with the honour of defeating Frewil once more. During this time, he would get a job as a doctor and would be the main singer in Helga's Band.

## **Relationships**

### **Isabelle Williams**

Cranium never got to see his mother much. Only when he was born. It's implied that Cranium got his whole thing of being attracted to a short person from her.

### **Paul Williams**

Cranium has a very caring relationship towards his father. Paul would teach Cranium to become what he is now and even teach his holy light magic. When Cranium came back as a skeleton, Paul at first was weirded out by this but he was still his son and is willing to support him.

### **The 3 Monkeys**

Cranium was raised for literally 20 years by these monkeys. It's a reason why Cranium acts like a monkey at times and why he learnt monkey abilities such as climbing. The monkeys would later give Cranium their treehouse when he returns back after going through the waterfall incident.

### **Ace Shoryu**

Ace is Cranium's best friend and partner. They have a very strong bond together and they act like they are brothers. They both call each other "dude" every time and get competitive with each other on occasion. When Grace dies in Cranium's arms, Ace points out that he would make a great brother-in-law since Grace was planning to marry Cranium. These were the last words he said to his BFF before he gets frozen for years. After the time skip 40 years later, Ace at first gets weirded out that Cranium is now a elderly skeleton but they still act the same as they were 40 years ago. Cranium also happily lets Ace move in with him at his house in the jungle; which shows that he trusts his best friend.

### **Grace**

Grace is Cranium's girlfriend, plus he is her bodyguard. Cranium fell for Grace immediately when they first met and Grace wouldn't fall for him until he saves her from evil threats. She's the reason why he became a knight, why he later gets his spear and would later been known as Sir Cranium; a name that Cranium still uses to this day that many people always refer to him as. Grace had plans of marrying Cranium but tragedy struck, resulting in Grace dying by Mari. Grace would pass her half of the alterrarge over to him and like with his name and spear, he uses this power to continue his lover's heritage.

### **Team Crystal**

At first, Cranium didn't think much of the team. They first met after the orphanage incident. He became their mentor after the Calamity War. They are also the ones that notably witnessed Cranium's death during a attack from Kyin with his zombies. Without the hunters, Cranium wouldn't get over his depression over Grace's death and this would make Cranium remember what Grace said to him, with how she will always be with her; even after death.

### **Teapot**

Due to being Ace’s partner, Teapot is acquainted to Cranium. They first met when Teapot arrives at Cranum’s treehouse in the jungle. At first she was scared of him. Due to being a skeleton of a giant. But Cranium, like with many others, eventually acts like a grandfather to Teapot. He’s usually the one to give her nice advice in life and she is easily entertained by his jokes to the point where she can’t stop laughing.

### **Helga Terrifang, Tangerine Gonzalo and Stephanie Pastel**

Cranium first met his fellow band members when they were getting members for the band. They noted that Cranium's ability to impersonate anything is noteworthy for a role of being the main singer. As for how he feels for them separately, he thinks Helga is quote "rad" and thinks Tangerine and Stephanie are a bit hard to understand but he is perfectly alright with them.

### **Mari**

Cranium despises Mari for killing Grace but somewhat feels bad fighting her, knowing she is still that half of Grace that became corrupted. However, he doesn't see her as Grace at all when she starts showing her psychopathic tendencies, always declining her when she calls him by his real name or "cub". The latter being a nickname Grace called him.

## **Trivia**

* Cranium is named after the upper portion of the skull. Nowadays it could relate to his skeleton nature but he was given this name due to his birthmark being on his forehead. It should be noted he was given this name before his real name was created.
	+ Horatio was a name given by one of Con Air's friends, mainly as a joke. However the name does have a meaning in Latin origins. Meaning "Time Keeper", which could relate to his ability to see into the past and the future via his alterrarge.
	+ His middle name, Topaz, is in reference to his birthstone.
* Cranium was made purely because Con Air wanted to make a skeleton character. He would later be featured in Wowlife mostly as a side character until he became more important to the lore later on. He originally stood more upright; showing that he was originally younger looking. His outfit looks like a lot like Alex’s, his spear looked different and apparently he wielded a gun.
* His likes consists of:
	+ Bananas (though he cannot eat any anymore due to being a skeleton)
	+ Grace
	+ Nature
	+ Flowers
	+ His home in the jungle
	+ Climbing trees
	+ DIY
	+ Peace
	+ Singing
	+ Healing the Innocent
* His dislikes consists of:
	+ Being called a old man
	+ His spear being damaged
	+ Foresights that foresee a bad event.
* Cranium’s personality was inspired by Con Air's late granddad. Obviously, there’s him being old but his humour derived from his grandad since he enjoyed a good joke and apparently had a fondness over DIY, like Cranium.
* He has a couple of inspirations. As stated, he was designed and created because Con Air wanted to make a skeleton character. The notable characters he was inspired by is Papyrus from Undertale, Sir Daniel from the PlayStation Classic MediEvil & the Hero’s Spirit/Shade from the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. He also resembles a bit of Skeletor from He-Man, notably because he's a skeleton with a hood.
* Cranium has appeared in a couple of games Con Air has played. Two that notably inspired what he would be like in Wowlife. The first is Soulcalibur VI as one of Con AIr's custom characters. His soul is Kilik. This is what inspired what Cranium would look like in terms of the clothing he wears for his normal attire.
	+ Next is probably the most influential appearance that changed him forever in Wowlife. That being his appearance in the 3DS game, Tomodachi Life. In the example image, he is seen with his family. With the upwards picture being when he was a baby and down being when he is fully grown. In terms of how it influenced his appearance in Wowlife, there's a lot. These influences proved to be a great change for him; making Con Air love Cranium more as a character.
		- 1. It's where he got his real name "Horatio Williams" from. As mentioned before, the name Horatio was a joke name given by Con Air's friends which coincidentally had a meaning.
		- 2. It is where it was decided that he should be the hybrid son of Paul and Isabelle Williams. As Paul himself is a important character to Con Air due to his legacy. In Tomodachi Life, Cranium's mother was instead Isabelle from the game series, Animal Crossing, who of which his actual mother in Wowlife is named after. That might sound weird that Paul went out with a anthropomorphic dog, but keep in mind that every character in Tomodachi Life is a Mii, which are usually portrayed as humans.
		- 3. It's where he somewhat got his appearance before he died. The only difference is that his long hair covers his eyes and he has that recognisable jaw.
* The way he uses the alterrarge to see into the past and the future by simply touching something is based on the Dimensional Scream from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky.
* Should be noted that the fact he had dark skin and is associated with the colour yellow refers to him taking reference to the Black Lives Matter social movement.
	+ Originally Cranium wasn't depicted as black. As seen above in his appearance in Tomadachi Life. Him being retconned into a black person started in Con Air's playthrough of Sims 2. It became his preferred "before death" appearance mostly because of his short ties to the black lives matter movement. So it became canon in Wowlife.
* Cranium is one of the few major characters that were influenced by the Necro Event caused by Kyin. The others being Archel, Grim Susie and several of the dead flamekeepers.
	+ He's also the only one who came back as a skeleton instead of a zombie or a ghost.
* One of Cranium’s pupils being bigger than the other was originally a error in one of his redesign traditional pieces. This became a staple in his design ever since.
* He is undoubtedly the biggest character out of all the three known teams. Being 3 feet bigger than Nano and Helga. Being 1 foot and 1 inch taller than the Grimdark Brotherhood's largest member, Monkey AC130. And 1 foot taller than the Guardian's largest member, Diesel.
	+ But this is if you exclude their alternate forms or ascension. Since Choconyx becomes much larger than him in her Hot Choconyx Ascension, Melancholy Frewil is beyond larger than everyone and Diesel's Giga Volcano Ascension is the biggest ascension form ever.

## **Gallery**

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