Cherry Bomb

## Inspirations

### Music allusions

Cherry Bomb (The Runaways)Russian HardbassTNT (AC/DC)Season of the Witch (Donovan)Curse of the Baba Yaga (Emerson)

## Appearances

### Debut

Episode 7: Got Dynamite?

**Cherry Bomb**, real name **Tanya Nikola Tabakova**, is a Russian witch with explosive powers and is deemed a Baba Yaga class witch. She is a sadomasochistic type of person, thriving off of the pleasure of pain from others and herself. She is a current member of Horror Show.

## Appearance:

Cherry is a tall, ample chested Russian woman with pale skin, black, messy and spiked hair, red eyes and a pointed nose. She’s worn a few outfits but her current look is that of a black or white leather jacket, with a yellow tube top with white stripes and black straps, black shorts with yellow straps, yellow thigh highs, black adidas shoes, yellow gloves, and metal braces on her neck and wrists.

## Personality:

Shes a rather avaricious woman, with an appetite for pain. She’s merciless and seemingly apathetic, and rather haughty in personality. Despite her broken English at times she’s able to communicate rather well, and sometimes uses it in a sort of “damsel” act. She’s a sadomasochist, so she loves inflicting and receiving pain, something she gained a liking too after discovering her powers.

## History:

### Past:

Not much is known about her besides the fact she didn’t always have her powers, as stated by her they are a relatively new thing.

### Gunfighter Gauntlet:

Ben and Toma discover her in Ohio deep in witch territory, discovering her in a big chasm that was a mining site. At first they believed her a victim of the Baba Yaga they were looking for, only for her to give Ben a “thank you” gift in the form of a kiss and seemingly explode him. She reveals she destroyed this minions it’d in a testing of her powers, reveling in the joy it brought her.

She proves herself a worthy opponent, as her powers make her nigh unapproachable without protection. When Ben manages to lay a hit on her, it ends up only making her more excited, a bit too much. Toma manages to get the jump on her and tie her up, but is forced off when she blows another explosive kiss. It’s only when Ben activates his aura do her powers finally negate, and she’s unable to feel any pain or charge her attacks. The ranger then throws a chop into her shoulder, knocking her out with a pleased grin on her face.

Unfortunately, as Ben and Toma turn their backs for a moment to stars the looking for survivors, Barry comes in and steals her with the aid of Paradox.

## Abilities and Skills:

### Kinetic Energy Conversion:

Cherry is able to create powerful explosions by converting any kinetic energy she receives. Meaning, any punch, jab, or any impact made to her, her body absorbs and then triples the output from our from her body wherever she desires, usually through snaps of her fingers or kisses. This is indicated by how much more red her skin gets.

### Pain Absorption:

Because she is able to absorb any damage, she can in essence be a walking tank and take any punch to her. She finds great joy in it as well.

## Relationships:

### Ben Young:

Her relationship with Ben is more of cat and mouse. She finds his ability to regenerate and heal quickly a delight with how destructive she can be, although finds his gentlemanly nature at times both charming and also irritating. Its more of a one sided admiration as Ben is more dismissive of her and has Frankie.

### Barry:

Cherry constantly chases after the burly bandit, falling for his domineering and uncaring nature. She acts much more vulgar about what she wants around him and wants nothing more than to be treated like a rag doll by him. Barry, understandably, is frightened by this and finds her disgusting.

### Highway Jack:

Perhaps the only person not of afraid of her absolutely depraved tendencies, and she is utterly repulsed by his equally depraved desperation. Often times she mocks him or straight up tells him to kill himself (again) with rather colorful language.

## Trivia:

* Cherry is based off of gopnik culture, a sort of Vagabond culture and lite style of Slavic youth. Her color scheme is based off of gopnik Youtuber, Life of Boris,
* She is based off of the 49ers of the Wild West gold rushes in terms of outfit.
* Her full name’s first initials spell out TNT, in reference to dynamite and the AC/DC song.