Nexus Blacksmith

The **Nexus Blacksmith** is a character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, being The City of Nexus' mysterious blacksmith who resides and works within the tallest skyscraper. He is very threatening in appearance, but is not an evil person and will be willing to do blacksmithing work for anyone with the guts to approach him.

## Appearance

Since the Nexus Blacksmith is always seen wearing a huge black cloak all over his body, it is impossible to tell what his actual body looks like and whether he is even human or instead some other species. His head is always veiled by a large, dark steel helmet that has two horns and a top piece, both of which are tipped with a bit of glowing lava, but the helmet still leaves a pair of glowing orange eyes exposed. On his body he wears two dark steel shoulder plates and dark steel gloves on his hands, both of which also dripping the lava he always works with, and there are glowing pockets of lava which can be seen on his body and gloves. Near the bottom of his cape are two small steel plates which assist him with movement, and they are covered in shimmers and cracks of lava similar to the other pieces of metal he wears.

## Background

Any and all details about the origins of the Nexus Blacksmith remain a complete and utter mystery: whenever anybody questions him about his past he has nothing to say to them in response. He seems to have just been in Nexus for as long as anyone can remember, doing tinkering jobs for those who ask him, though he hasn't been around since the very early days of the city. Due to how experienced his works are, it is clear that he has been blacksmithing for a very long time and wields a great deal of experience in it, also showing compassion through simple but noticeable ways like carving little signatures or smiley faces into his works.

When The Devourer was looking for some of the world's most powerful metals so he could use them to create a powerful robot, he organised a secret meeting with the Blacksmith on the outskirts of the city, being possibly the first time he ever left his forgery for anything. The Blacksmith have him the metal, but the Devourer double crossed him and knocked him out without giving any pay. The metal proved to not be of much use anyway, since the Frying Pan Lady that the Devourer made using it was later destroyed by his arch enemies and their friends. The Blacksmith was approached by Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. after the three of them noticed that their weapons and the Amulet of Souls were starting to become more unstable, but Turtle Man and DaPhantom were very reluctant to approach the Blacksmith for they heard many terrifying things about him. When they visited Nexus' tallest skyscraper and took the weirdly operating elevator all the way up to him, the three found themselves surprised by how terrifying he looked contrasting with his incredibly high-pitched voice. They first brought their weapons to him which he was easily able to repair, but after they showed him the Amulet of Souls he was having trouble even identifying what it was made of and how to repair it so he needed a while longer. After this, he informed the trio that he could repair it but would need them to go out and collect some things for him such as Dark Obsidian from Llama in Yoshi Resort, Stellar Steel which the trio had to steal from the Devourer's Lair whilst he was asleep and some shards of Yoshium. After they brought these resources back to his forgery, he was able to make the Amulet more stable and gave it back to them; they paid him a lot before leaving and used their newly reforged weapons to defeat Roger.

During the Soul War, the Evil King's ghost had released a huge soul impulse that sent all of the heroes flying to Nexus. The king zipped over there and fired a ghostly blast which hit the Blacksmith's skyscraper, causing it to come crumbling down and be destroyed. The Blacksmith himself was knocked out and left under the debris of his beloved refinery, until he managed to escape later on but was left saddened by the destruction of the place where he had spent a lifetime working and living in.

## Personality and Relationships

The Nexus Blacksmith does not have any known family members or friends at all, which can be seen not only through how everyone is terrified of him but how he almost never leaves his skyscraper for any sort of occasions. He doesn't seem to mind this at all though, being pretty happy to stay indoors and work on his smithing all the time until he finally manages to achieve perfection. A perfectionist he most certainly is, always making sure his crafts he does for himself or other people are as flawless and to the best standard as they possibly can be, and his works always do seem to stay together well. For some reason he always laughs manically, like when being shown jobs to do or having finished his blacksmithing, but he claims this isn't a sign of him being evil and he just laughs like that. This does seem to be true, as despite his appearance and evil laughing he has never acted rude or evil towards anyone and is always happy to do whatever work that they might neded it to, not picking favourites and doing every job to the best of his ability. However, most people are terrified to even approach him and stutter to say his name, which the Blacksmith has definitely picked up on but doesn't seem to care about.

He speaks with a very high-pitched voice, which really contrasts his intimidating physical appearance.

## Abilities

The Nexus Blacksmith's dark steel armour, of which he forged himself, gives him very tough protection against most common forms of damage should they come his way, though they usually do not since he never gets involved in any action or fighting. Despite not being a fighter he carries around some hand-crafted dark steel weapons like a molten hammer and knife, which he can and will use to defend himself should it ever be necessary. His real skills are shown not through his combat experience, but rather his blacksmithing work which is always done very well and with a lot of passion. He is able to mend and forge pretty much anything that a person can think of asking him, thanks to his years of expertise and seemingly endless supply of some of the world's most powerful resources and metals. There have been some occasions where he has not been able to repair things without the help of those who have come to him to find resources, like when the trio brought the Amulet of Souls forth to him.

## Appearances

* S7E7 - Frying Pan Lady
* S8E10 - The Blacksmith
* S8E15 - Soul War

## Trivia

* He was originally planned to have died on two different occasions: once after the Devourer had double crossed him so he could steal the metal and a second time when his skyscraper came crumbling down during the Soul War. But both times the show creators decided that they wanted to keep him around, so instead he was knocked out on the occasions.

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