Barbs

"Oray"

**Barbs (バーブ, Bābu),** otherwise known as **"Oray" (あら, Ara)** is the chosen name of a user of the quirk Warforged, and attends Titan Rise High. A mysterious person with barely any recollection of what they once were, Barbs is under a constant identity crisis. Is he machine, or just a heavily mutated human? Is Barbs even his real name? How is he alive? With the way his quirk functions, is he even alive?!

These questions aside, Barbs' identity crisis does little to hinder his own performance in everyday life. More independent of gadgets due to his large size making it almost impossible for him to actually use them without crushing them into a powder, Barbs is an excellent craftsman with simpler, slightly archaic, weaponry and gadgets.

Now if he figured out how to walk into town without crushing a poor person under his foot, he'd be golden.

## Appearance

Barbs is one of the larger characters in the Blue Ghost Tales universe... with an emphasis on large. Standing at over 22 feet tall and his metal armor weighing him down at 1,098 lbs, it's very difficult to discern whether Barbs is human, alien, or neither. He's noted for being one of THE tallest characters in BGT.

Much of Barbs is defined by sharp, angular points and a slight sinister look, if the large crown is anything to go by and the rather sinister slanted eyes. He has elements of a mechanical being, yet these are more for decoration, and don't seem to have too much impact on him functioning, save for pistons. Striking those are really gonna make it hard to move.

The majority of Barbs's color scheme is white as a main color, blue as a secondary, yellow for accents, and red for decoration.

## Personality

A gentle soul by nature, Barbs isn't very trigger happy or as prone to solving problems by crushing them under his foot. Often, he'll let others take the wheel or think a little on how to solve the problem in a way that, y'know, won't result in shit detonating. Interestingly, however, Barbs has a knack for violence. Not violence as in brutish, over-the-top smashing, but quick and efficient, making short work of smaller opponents and even holding their own against larger foes. He's been noted for killing off the bots used in the Tournament frightfully easy.

Lacking a mouth, due to his quirk wiring it shut, Barbs flashes his eyes in morse code, and because of this uses as little words as possible, which can make communication difficult even to those who know morse code. In his language, .-- .... -.-- / ... .- -.-- / .-.. --- - / .-- --- .-. -.. / .-- .... . -. / ..-. . .-- / .-- --- .-. -.. / .-- --- .-. -.- ..--..

## Powers and Abilities

### Quirk Abilities

**Warforged** is the name of Barb's quirk. The user is a large mechanical being that doesn't require sleep, doesn't eat, doesn't drink, nor needs a recharge. Uniquely, Barb's seems to be unable to produce his own heat, unlike his brethren, and relies on ambient thermal energy to survive. However, in extremely cold temperatures, he will begin to draw off the body heat of others, with potentially lethal results. Due to a lack of basic human needs, or robotic needs, Barbs can keep going for a near infinite amount of time, and because of availability of materials, wounds are very easy to patch up. Barbs' skin is made up of an unknown material called Hostrum, noted for having excellent shear and tensile strength, outranking most natural defenses and even most man made ones. The material has a rather meager melting point, at 2050K. Rebuilding the Warforged user with it's exact components is difficult, as nobody knows the percentages of Hostrum.

Due to massive size, Barbs has difficulty in taking on smaller opponents, but is more comfortable with larger ones.

Barbs has appears to have the ability to manipulate ice, due to absorbing thermal energy in a particular direction. This absorption grants extra heat energy for the being, and thus shows itself to have great potential for fire fighting applications. In addition, Barbs can also expel great fires from his body. Running off his very life force, the flames of Barbs are incredibly difficult and stubborn, with their temperature raging at 1990K. As a result, he can set off forest fires. He is noted for having great control and skill over this part of his quirk.

However, Barbs is not without weakness; siphoning heat from the environment, and radiating it due to his large surface area, is a carefully balanced act. Should Barbs end up being cooled faster than he can absorb thermal energy, he will die. In addition, if Barbs absorbs too much heat, the stored amount may overwhelm his armor, melting it right off him.

## History

Barbs is implied to be a former member of a clan named Battleborn, composed of inherently violent and extremely anti-human Warforged quirk users. It is implied that he was the most powerful fighter in the rankings, judging by his innate fighting skill. However, he does not recognize his comrades at all, and seems to side mostly with humans. The only evidence he's ever been of the group is the people running and screaming that the Daemon Primaris has returned whenever he walks down a street. Maharu doesn't know about his supposed involvement with the group, nor do any of his close friends.

## Trivia

* Funnily enough, Barbs's blood type is the chemical formula of gasoline, despite not using it (or any blood) at all. This is a running gag concerning mechanical characters of the Author.
* A joke concerning Barbs is how his mother was able to give birth to him at all, concerning all the angles on Barbs's armor.
	+ Another joke concerning Barbs is that his chosen hero name has Ara as it's romanization. Considering Ara Ara is a phrase most closely associated with onee-san archetype characters, Barbs is sometimes called "Nee-San Barbie".
* Unlike humans, Barbs's reliance on heat for energy makes him an Ectotherm. Lacking metabolism to generate his own body heat
* Barbs doesn't have a last name. He forgot his own last name due to his quirk's function of suppressing memories in order to reduce heat consumption.
* Barbs is short for Barbatos, the name of the Gundam that provided the appearance for Barbs.
* Oray is the alternate name of Leraje, a Marquis demon in the Ars Goetia. He causes great battles and disputes, and makes gangrene wounds caused by arrows, and is depicted as an archer most of the time. Ironically, Barbs hasn't figured out how to make ranged weapons for his size and would rather avoid conflict.