Bugsy Pugsler

## Background

**Bugsy Pugsler** is a snooty Banzai Vice Principal in the criminal organization known as the Banzai Blasters, who was paired with Arnold Markdown to raid the small backwoods town of Redwood Run.

## General Information

**Name:** Bugsy Pugsler

**Origin:** Epithet Erased

**Sex:** Male

**Age:** Unknown

**Classification:** Inscribed, Epithet User, Banzai Blaster Vice Principal

**Species:** Human

**Occupation:** None

**Status:** **Alive**

**Alignment:** **Neutral Evil** (Is a snooty Banzai Vice Principal in the criminal organization who attacks his own workers for his own gain)

## Codex Statistics

**Tier:** At least **9-C**

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Attack Potency:** At least **Peak Human level** (Should be above Banzai Blaster minions who could harm Giovanni Potage)

**Durability:** At least **Peak Human level** (Bullets in the verse only deal minor impact damage, Bugsy himself tanked several dozens of bullets hitting him at once)

**Striking Strength:** At least **Peak Human Class**

**Lifting Strength:** **Regular Human**

**Travel Speed:** **Regular Human**

**Combat Speed:** **Supersonic**

**Reaction Speed:** **Supersonic** (Can react to Percy who can dance around bullets caught and ate soup shout out of a shotgun)

**Stamina:** **Above Average** (His stamina stat is 4)

**Range:** **Standard Melee**, **Several Meters** depending on the material he consumed, **Hundreds of Meters** with Banzai Blaster pea shooter

**Intelligence:** **Average** (Has a creativity stat of one and has shown mostly average intelligence)

## Powers and Abilities

* Innate Abilities
* Arsene Amulet

**Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Weapon Mastery** (Has a standard issue Banzai Blaster pea shooter), **Accelerated Development** (Continuous use of one's epithet will cause it to grow stronger), **Aura** (All epithet users have an aura around them), **Consumption** (Type 1; Bugsy is able to eat nearly anything. After he eats something, his belly inflates and his bellybutton pokes out. He can press his bellybutton inward to spit out a random attack at his opponents. Can eat screws and drink from pinecones to regain stamina and health), **Ice Manipulation** (He can belch up an ice shard to freeze his enemy.), Limited **Attack Reflection** (Via the nature of his ability he can eat attacks and spit them back out essentially reflecting them) **Regeneration** (High-Low. Characters regenerate after winning a battle. Giovannia could regenerate back his broken bones. Possibly Mid-Godly. Molly Blyndeff has an ability named "Hushabye" which dumbs down the opponent to nothing. She later got attacked by bears and when asked if she could erase the bears, she states that they would just come back after the fight. Since everyone instantly regenerates right after a fight in verse, the characters themselves should be able to come back from existence erasure), **Immortality** (Type 6; Mera's bones breaking were viewed as -1 damage this doesn't only apply to **Mera** as she broke Sylvie's ribs. It is stated by word of god that everyone in Epithet Erased functions under JRPG mechanics so even attacks that are greatly above them and should kill them can't, for example being shot in the head will not kill them, they are even described as "extremely hard to kill"), **Restoration** (After battles characters injuries, statuses, etcetera are normally undone, including acts such as de-aging a character, being reverted).

High **Resistance** to **Pain** (Characters in Epithet Erased are extremely hard to kill and can survive shots to the head along with taking attacks that break their bones without showing much harm from it), **Age Manipulation** (After a battle is over, affects such as **Zora Salazar'**s ability to de-age a character, were reverted)
**Power Absorption** & **Power Nullification** (The Arsene Amulet can steal ones epithet), **Power Bestowal** (Can give one an epithet)

## Standard Equipment

* **Standard Issue Banzai Blaster pea shooter:** A pear shooter used by Banzai Blasters.

* **Arsene Amulet (Episodes 5-6):** The Arsene Amulet is an ancient necklace that was imbued with the power for its user to steal epithets from others. It grants the user with the Epithet: Copycat. This is the epithet the amulet was imbued with, giving the amulet the ability to steal epithets from their users.

## Notable Techniques

* **Bellybutton:** Bugsy is able to eat nearly anything (so long as it isn't too hot). After he eats something, his belly inflates and his bellybutton pokes out. He can press his bellybutton inward to spit out a random attack at his opponents. Bugsy claims that the quality of his food determines the quality of his attack.
	+ **Ice Blast:** He can belch up an ice shard to freeze his enemy.
	+ **Rubber Duckies:** He can cough up a bunch of rubber ducks, which do no damage.

## Other

**Weaknesses:** If what he consumes is too hot he'll spit it back out without being able to use his ability, Bugsy claims that the quality of his food determines the quality of his attack. For example, eating crayons will only allow him to shoot out things like rubber ducks, which do no damage.

## Battle Records

* Victories
* Losses
* Inconclusive

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