Bully Maguire (RP)

### Cybernetics

Reinforced skeletal system (with steel plating) and cybernetic enhancements to joints and muscles. Cybernetic hands. Cortosis armorweave skin covering all the body except the head.

## Chronological and Political Information

### Affiliation(s)

Dafoe Corp (formerly)Vassals of the Coiled King

### Apprentices

None

Bully Maguire is a former hitman from the Corporate Sector who later became a Vassal of the Coiled King. He is highly skilled in assassination and spywork, a talented engineer and scientist, and a powerful warrior in both traditional combat and the Force.

Maguire lived a life of social isolation growing up in the Corporate Sector. He was consistently harassed in school for his nerdiness and scrawny form. Maguire was talented in physics and engineering, and he learned hand-to-hand combat and acrobatics in his free time. On his graduation day, Maguire and his class fell victim to an attack by a gang, and he was announced dead after presumably disintegrating in an explosion. However, he had been rescued and recruited by a private military company owned by the mysterious Osborn, and for 15 years he operated as a hitman, learning the powers of the Force and honing his combat and scientific skills.

On one mission though, Maguire learned a terrible secret from a former hitman who also worked for Osborn - and he was abandoned on Mandalore by Osborn's company as a result. For months, Maguire wandered Mandalore aimlessly, until he encountered the Dark Acolyte named Bob Ross. Bob, having heard of Maguire's fighting skills, recruited him to the mysterious organization called the Vassals of the Coiled King, and Maguire gladly joined. On Jakku, Maguire learned of the nature of his reality, such as the Void and Ectherid, and he began to prepare for any missions that he might do as part of the group.

## Biography

### Childhood

Peter Maguire-Parker was born in the Corporate Sector to a lower-class family, and he grew up with his aunt and uncle after his parents died. Though they struggled to pay for bills due to a low income, Maguire’s aunt and uncle made sure to send him to a good school, where he grew fascinated with science and engineering. The young Maguire excelled in school and was consistently at the top of his class, though he was ostracized for his nerdiness and scrawny physicality. Additionally, when he was 10 his uncle passed away after being shot by a random crook, leaving his aunt to care for him. Maguire’s poor aunt couldn't personally care for Maguire due to long hours at work however, leaving Maguire to mostly fend for himself.

As Maguire grew older, he practiced gymnastics and some forms of martial arts to defend himself from the people who harassed him practically daily, and he became an accomplished gymnast and fighter as a result. He also became increasingly interested in chemistry and physics, especially quantum mechanics, and his studies in those fields would land him several scholarships and the position of valedictorian. However, he lacked many social skills and remained an outcast, having only two “friends” from school (one of whom he secretly liked). Unknown to Maguire, his Force sensitivity was also emerging during this time period, as the young man occasionally found himself instinctively avoiding strikes before they were executed and lightly moving things with his hands despite not touching them. Though this troubled the boy, it was only a small distraction from the purgatory that was his everyday life.

Another individual, meanwhile, took interest in the young prodigy that was Maguire, deciding that he would be a favorable candidate for his secret project…

### Birth of the Bully

#### One Bad Day

It only took one day for Maguire’s entire life to change. On one sunny day, the day of Maguire’s high school graduation, a gang attacked the school auditorium demanding that the principal come with them. Realizing the gang could hurt his friends and aunt, both of whom were present with him, Maguire rushed to attack the gang members, using his acrobatic and martial art skills and scrawny nature to his advantage. With his best efforts, the young man was able to take down 4 of the armed gangsters before being overpowered. At this point though, the rest of the students and staff had begun to attack the gang as well, trying to push them away from the rest of the school. In a horrific turn of events however, the gang revealed their stash of grenades and an E-Web, brutally gunning down most of the people present - including Maguire’s aunt and the friend he had a crush on. The boy lost consciousness before he could start to cry.

#### As One Door Closes...

When Maguire awoke, he found himself in a room, with his wounds healed. Present with him were two men, who explained how Maguire had been in a coma for the past 4 months, saved from a potentially fatal blast during the gang’s attack. There was nothing they could do to save his aunt and friend. As for Maguire’s other friend, Franco, he was nowhere to be found. Additionally, Maguire’s hands had been blasted off and he was bleeding out, and his rescuers only barely saved him with an experimental surgery and the attachment of robotic hands. By the time he’d been saved however, he was announced dead by the investigators who went to the scene of the attack, who were unaware that he’d been pulled out. Few people bothered to look for his body.

The two men continued and explained that they worked for a secretive company that had been looking to hire someone like him, and they’d explain further once Maguire was ready. Once the men offered their condolences and left, Maguire allowed himself to mourn the loss of the only people who cared about him, and he reflected on his life leading up to that point. He had no money to his name, and his supposed death meant that he no longer had any future to look forward to. As he reflected on the injustices done to him, Maguire’s confusion and pain slowly turned into malice and loathing, as he hated all the abuse he endured and all his achievements amounting to nothing in the end, all because people just didn’t care. But then, a thought occurred to him, and he thought back to the men’s offer. In front of him was an opportunity to make a new life for himself, though what it entailed he did not yet know. Still, the opportunity intrigued him, and it seemed he had little options anyway.

Maguire called for the men telling them he was ready to listen, and an old man walked in instead, dressed in sharp and professional clothing. The mysterious man introduced himself simply as Osborn, and he explained how he was the owner of a private company that specialized in providing advanced technology, and the services of their own operatives, to militaries and high-profile groups and people. Osborn, to put it simply, had been watching Maguire for a while now, and he wanted him to join his company as a hitman of sorts. He was even willing to let Maguire continue his studies and research, partially to aid the company of course. Maguire considered the strange man’s words, evaluating the opportunity. He’d never considered being an assassin, but the opportunity to continue his studies in physics and the like intrigued him greatly. Still: him, a killer? He didn’t imagine himself like that, even if he didn’t like people that much. But…

Handing him a set of sharp clothing and a brochure, Osborn shook Maguire’s hand as they walked out the room together, promising him a bright future…

### Rise of the Bully

#### A New Life

The next 15 years of Maguire’s life were best described as "eventful". Following his recruitment to Dafoe Corp, Maguire was given access to a company-sponsored training area and trainers who'd teach Maguire on everything related to assassinations, espionage, and deception, as well as further training on Maguire’s combat skills, such as weapon usage and melee. In between long periods of training, Maguire was also given missions on lower-risk targets to improve his work in the field. In particular, Maguire excelled in close combat and proved very versatile in combat scenarios due to his acrobatic background. As Maguire’s training progressed, he also learned the art of lightsaber and Echani sword combat, courtesy of a Force User paid by Osborn to train Maguire. Why Osborn wanted a Force User to train Maguire was unclear to the hitman-in-training at the time, but Osborn had secretly been suspecting Maguire’s Force sensitivity when he noted his above-average reaction times and his habit of dodging strikes and projectiles that he couldn’t possibly have seen coming. Osborn’s suspicions were proven right when, during a particularly grueling training session, Maguire exerted a strong Force push against his opponent, throwing them against the wall. Maguire, not knowing what to do about this strange power, went to the Force User for answers. Under the orders of Osborn, the Force User explained to Maguire the nature of his power, and so began his training in the strange and wondrous energy that was the Force.

#### The Best There Is At What He Does

By the time year 5 of Maguire’s tenure as a hitman came, he’d mastered the few abilities taught to him and greatly improved his skills with a lightsaber, increasing his overall efficiency in combat. Most notably, Maguire had honed his precognition and push/pull skills to a tee, to the point that he could sense attacks full seconds before they happened and use Force pushing/pulling during melee combat, like pulling an opponent’s head down to Maguire’s foot for a powerful kick. Over the years, Maguire was allowed to take on missions and assignments with increasing difficulty and length, successfully eliminating corrupt leaders and wiping out entire organizations with not a trace. When not going on assignment, he spent his time training, though now he had enough freedom courtesy of Osborn to continue his studies in physics, chemistry, and engineering. These studies proved more useful than anyone would think, as Maguire became adept at building customized weapons and equipment from whatever scraps of tech he found. As a reward for Maguire’s efforts, he was given a surgery that enhanced his skeletal structure through internal metal reinforcement and cybernetics, vastly improving his combat efficiency. Some time later, at Maguire’s own request, he had cortosis armourweave synthskin surgically grafted onto nearly all of his body, with the exception of his head due to the risk of adding armorweave onto parts of it; however, he later fashioned a mask made of armorweave to compensate.

### Plight of the Bully

#### Sins of the Father

On one of Maguire’s final assignments, he was sent by Osborn himself to take out a rogue mercenary who previously worked for him. Maguire, expecting it to be easy, accepted the assignment and tracked down the mercenary on a planet in the Outer Rim, where the two began to fight after negotiations broke down. To Maguire’s surprise, the masked merc put up a bigger fight than anticipated, and it took hours before the merc was finally taken down. However, the merc’s surgically grafted mask shattered during the fight, revealing his face - Franco, Maguire’s friend who went missing in the attack on the high school 15 years ago. With his last words, Franco revealed that he had undergone most of Maguire’s own augmentations on the order of Osborn, but he was cast out after he learned of Osborn’s true intentions and nature. As it turns out, Osborn’s assignments had been given with strategic purpose, all done to further his goal of taking over all of the Corporate Sector under his company. Furthermore, he gave one vital piece of information before he let out his last breath - Franco was the son of Osborn.

#### Exile

When Maguire returned from the mission, he was summoned by Osborn to his office, where he explained that he had seen everything that went down in the mission through a body cam on Maguire’s clothing. Osborn strangely seemed like he had been expecting Maguire to find out about his true intentions (though he certainly didn’t want him to). When asked by Maguire why he had experimented on his own son, Osborn simply explained to him how he had seen the potential within both Franco and Maguire to be the best operatives in his company, and Franco simply went snooping where he didn’t belong. He expressed regret over allowing Maguire to take that mission as well, seeing as how he’d now need to kill Maguire for discovering his plan. It was then that he revealed his own bodily augmentations and a specially designed combat glider, and the two superhumans clashed inside the office. Osborn’s old age, however, proved to be an impediment to his combat effectiveness, and Maguire quickly got the upper hand in the battle. Once the smoke cleared, Osborn lay against the wall, impaled by a spike from his glider. Before succumbing to his wounds, Osborn ordered for the Force User to capture and kill Maguire, which they begrudgingly did so. After a month of hunting, the Force User eventually did capture Maguire, but they chose not to kill their best student in an act of mercy and instead abandon them on a nearby planet, which in this case was Mandalore. Leaving Maguire unconscious in the desert with his ship, the Force User returned to the company HQ and reported the hitman as dead. To the galaxy, Peter Maguire was truly no more.

#### Not-So-Friendly Neighborhood

For two months, Maguire wandered around Mandalore in a depressed state, knowing his life as he knew it was basically over. The man soon found himself drowning his sorrows in alcohol at local pubs and fighting lowlifes to keep his fighting skills intact. On one particularly bad week, Maguire spent several days drinking and trashing several bars and pubs to get a kick out of it, utterly bored out of his mind and drunk enough to only cause major injuries to anyone he fought. However, word of his rampage spread through the city he was in, attracting the attention of the individual known as Bob Ross, who was recruiting people for the Vassals of the Coiled King. Bob met Maguire in a bar, where he drunkenly asked if there was something he could do for him. Bob explained his desire to recruit Maguire for the Vassals, having heard of his combat prowess. Drunk enough to knock out a normal person, Maguire demanded a monetary payment in exchange for his services, without knowing what his starting pay would be or whether he’d be paid in the first place. Instead, Bob convinced Maguire to fight him, and he’d pay him if he won. The two began their fight, with Bob immediately taking Maguire by surprise by using Shadowstrike. In his drunken state, Maguire only performed minor acrobatics and used more brute strength than normal, but he also devised a crude plan using the amount of beer on the floor and beer that splashed onto Bob. After being cornered and blinded by the Dark Acolyte, Maguire took out his broken holocommunicator and fiddled with it, exposing frayed wires. He nonchalantly tossed the comm wires-first onto the beer puddle that Bob stood on, theoretically causing electricity to surge into the man, but Bob dodged the attack before it could hit him. Still, Bob was impressed, and he gave Maguire his contact information and told him to await further instruction. Days later, Maguire was called by the Vassals to go to Jakku after picking up some other Vassal recruits on Mandalore.

### The Bully Reborn

#### Of Snakes and Voids

Upon arriving, Maguire met with Bly, second-in-command of the Vassals, and he explained to Maguire about the team’s purpose (though Maguire deduced most of it based on the cryptic information Bly gave). Upon hearing about Ectherid’s plan to reset reality, Maguire laughed it off, refusing to believe that there existed entities as powerful as him. To prove him wrong, Bly summoned Ectherid himself in a vision alongside Maguire, and the Devourer told Bly (in front of the startled Maguire) to keep an eye on the former hitman. Maguire’s shock, however, was slowly replaced with curiosity as his academic mind raced with the possibilities of a multiverse. After apologizing to Bly and briefly giving his own vague explanation of his life, Maguire settled into his makeshift room and began drawing up new designs for tech he’d build and an interpretation of what he experienced with Ectherid. Afterwards, he went around the base, meeting several Vassals and getting to know them better, though he almost immediately formed a rivalry with the Vassal named Sam purely out of a desire to have someone to mess with. Still, perhaps this third attempt at life would finally be worth it.

#### A Vassal's Life For Me

While waiting for the Vassals’ first mission, Maguire mainly exercised and studied, even building a makeshift stun glove out of spare parts. Still, he longed for the thrill of going on an assignment, and so he asked Bly if there was anything he could do. Bly answered by assigning Maguire to go to Brentaal IV to check on Sam, who had “turned off his comm”. Maguire did so and was surprised to learn that Sam was training the 501st stationed there in exchange for ship repairs, and he informed Bly of this and was told to stay there a little longer to see if he could recruit any clones to their side. However, Bly would later inform Ectherid that the men were getting restless and request a mission to give them, and Ectherid in turn told Bly of his desire to capture one of the 3 Void beings currently on Prageb, instructing the clone to use NotHawk’s Void signature to draw one of them in. After ending his conversation with Ectherid, Bly began contacting certain Vassals members to go to Kriselist and await further instruction. One such Vassal was Maguire, who had to get past Sam to reach his ship and leave Brentaal IV for Kriselist.

## Personality and Traits

Maguire was, at first, a timid and physically weak boy, with few social skills and a high intellect; constantly bullied in and out of school. Over time, he grew more confident as he improved his acrobatic and fighting skills, but he also nurtured a distaste towards people in general, seeing them as cruel and selfish. He did maintain a love for science, such as physics, engineering and chemistry, to the point that he was offered full rides to his favorite universities.

Following his recruitment into Dafoe Corp (and his subsequent firing), Maguire became distant and more serious, and his apathy towards sentients increased over the years as his assassination jobs continued. He tends to see the worst in people, though he doesn't express it. He also enjoys breaking down his opponents psychologically before breaking them physically, as shown by his proficiency in Dun Moch and general enjoyment of taunting others, revealing a certain cockiness within him. His skills in the sciences improved as well, and he can build nearly anything he imagines with the right materials. Though he appears heartless, Maguire still shows respect towards those who have gained his own, such as most Vassal members and a few employees from Dafoe Corp. He also enjoys listening to music (specifically jazz music), and he's a talented dancer, having practiced occasionally during his free time in Dafoe Corp. Sometimes, he helps himself to his favorite foods and snacks: pizza, hotdogs and sandwiches, and nuts.

## Powers and Abilities (WIP)

#### Melee

Maguire excels in close combat, having developed his own fighting style from a mix of wrestling, capoeira, and MMA. This means he is equally capable of fighting multiple opponents off as he is fighting one. He is also a master acrobat and very agile and light on his feet. Combined with his enhanced speed from his augmentations, this makes him very hard to hit and harder to block against. Maguire's augmented physical strength also means he hits like a truck; a full-force punch is enough to knock down a wall. Typically, Maguire's fighting style revolves around analyzing his opponent and detecting their strengths and weaknesses, before striking fast and hard to take them down quickly, efficiently, and without a mess. This combination of Maguire's close-combat abilities is best shown with his lightsaber skills in Ataru and Echani swordplay, where Maguire uses his speed and agility to his advantage.

#### Hitman Skills

As a hitman, Maguire is highly proficient in weapons that involve sneaky tactics and stealth takedowns. He is masterful in knife combat and mostly anything that involves throwing, and he's excellent with a blaster pistol or sniper rifle (blasters are not in his forté however). He is also proficient in stealth and making traps to ensnare his opponents, he and is capable of surviving and healing himself in harsh conditions. On the mental side of things, Maguire is a master of stealth, espionage, and deception; as is required for most hitmen and assassins. However, he is also quite capable of resisting most mental attacks and is a skilled slicer.

#### Force Abilities

While Maguire has a strong connection with the Force, his training didn't involve a variety of abilities like typical Force users; instead, he only really trained in certain abilities that he either was already familiar with or that aid him in his work. For an unexplained reason, Maguire has had a strong precognition since childhood, and his work at Dafoe Corp allowed him to train in this more than ever before. He is also a master of abilities that improve his own body, like Force Body and Enhance Attribute. When it comes to his hitman abilities, Maguire makes great work of Force Sight and Force Stealth to navigate around his enemies and/or sneak up on them for surprise attacks. With the exception of Force push/pull, of which he is a master, Maguire has no offensive Force abilities, preferring instead to use his melee and weapon skills.