Brad

Brad is a Kirby OC made by Scratch user kirbyfan767, also known as Nix on many other platforms. He is the first of such Kirby OCs made by her.

### Family

Alyssa Bates, Baxter Bates, Ben Bates, Kaira Bates [see Familial Ties]

### Friends

Mike, Cherry, Experim, Marina, others [see Friends]

### Favorite Copy Ability

ESP [Although Brad himself isn't one to use copy abilities]

### Powers/ Abilities

Starfury sword, alternate universe Infinity Gauntlet, Dark because he's a stand

### note:

this is semi-unfinished, lol, expect to find notes around this page stating unfinished content

## Familial Ties

Brad's full name is Bradford Graphene Bates. Out of preference and for the sake of simplicity, he simply likes Brad and doesn't usually answer to other names...mainly out of motivation.

Brad has an older brother, younger sister, two cousins, and a deceased pair of parents, Ben and Kaira. [Though the latter's souls are kept in stasis by Experim as of current events.]

## Appearance

Brad's 'skin' coloration is similar to that of the original Kirby, with a light pink complexion. His cheeks are light blue, and both his eyes and his feet are a lime green, as well as a star tattoo inked on his torso. Finally, he also wears a purple jacket. [He also has a certain variant of an Infinity Gauntlet--see Powers for more info.]

## Personality

Brad's a relatively chill individual, and usually isn't serious in any way. This, though, will change dependent on matters regarding his most trusted friends, his own life, or his ideals.

His lack of seriousness is heavily connected to his lazy demeanor, and if he's not doing anything particularly 'important' to him, one will commonly find Brad sleeping or playing Super Smash Brothers. Ultimate on his Switch.

## Powers

Brad himself doesn't have too many abilities, besides being extremely skilled at riding a Warp Star, but he does have four external weapons that make up his arsenal:

1. He wields a Starfury sword.
2. Dark, after being transformed into a Stand for Brad, functions in a similar nature to Star Platinum, although his ability slows time down to a millionth of its standard speed, SEVERELY increasing Brad's relative speed.
3. He has a stack of working Uno Reverse cards.
4. He wears a variant of an Infinity Gauntlet in his right hand--the stones are as follows:
	1. Creation Stone -- Allows Brad to summon orange-tinted objects into existence.
	2. Light Stone -- Allows control of smaller beings of lawful good alignment, as well as pure energy.
	3. Dark Stone -- like the Light Stone but chaotic evil alignment.
	4. TeleStone -- Allows Brad to have telekinesis. [He passively controls his jacket sleeves this way.]
	5. Digital Stone -- Allows Brad to traverse through the planes...and allows him to break the fourth wall.
	6. [REDACTED] / what Brad calls 'The Goo Stone' -- Highly unstable, but allows for control of Planar Energy.

## Trivia

* Brad's first appearance was in Lunar's 'Add Yourself Doing this Dance!' remix chain. It can be found here.
* Brad's tattoo was allegedly inked due to him receiving a title of 'KING OF WARP STARS' at a young age, though if such a statement is true is yet to be confirmed.
* Brad apparently got his jacket from Nix's 'Undertale' phase, but Brad will get angry if you connect him to Sans.
	+ He still likes the jacket as a jacket, however, and as such continues to wear it.
* Brad hates Tiktok with a burning passion.
* Brad's memeclone is Breid [page soon]. He used to play Uno with him, but recent events prevented the two from playing cards together.
* [insert more trivia here still wip]

## Friends

* Cherry: He knows Cherry from his earlier days, but due to Lunar's lack of activity on Scratch along with Nix's own hiatus in 2020-2021, he doesn't know that she still exists. He certainly wouldn't mind a reunion, though.
* Mike: He's had a few chats with him but besides a casual exchange of Uno Reverse Cards the two haven't done much.
* Experim: A much closer friend, Experim is a mad-scientist stickperson type character. Also Brad was a common guinea pig for them in the old days, the two occasionally work on experiments together and overall hang out.

## Lore

Born to Ben and Kaira Bates, Brad was a typical middle child. He took in Alyssa [page soon lo] and was a serious big-brother figure to her, especially after Baxter left to find the three's missing parents.

As such, Brad was a significant figure in taking care of Alyssa, though best friend Experim also helped out with this. As the two grew up...a lot happened.

* Brad worked with Experim to create a Meta-Knight-inspired battle suit for Alyssa, both out of her preference for the character and for her then-existent Criplys condition.
* Corruptus [one of seven N1X sector Overseers], enlightened by Brad's advancement in power and realm of OC scope, creates Dark Brad, and the two clash repeatedly.
* Darius also pops into existence, although at this time he works with villains such as the Legacy [i think] OC Shadow L Kirby as well as Dark Cherry. It was mainly 1v1s between the dark magician and Brad that occurred, though.

In general, Brad, over the years, has a decently adventurous life, until things reach a complex turn.

Before MAGNUS's Timeline Reset, Brad, in the Baxter's Back story arc, had noticed Baxter finally returned home from his Journey. The souls of Ben and Kaira were in posession of Memon at the time. In so, the two, as well as Alyssa, make their way out to find Memon, but accidentally warp to Ron's battle in Bob's Onslaught. Alyssa is captured by Bella [context wip], and as the trio go off to save her...

MAGNUS's Reset occurs, forcibly ending the arc and immediately starting the HDRT Tourney story arc.

After Brad was thrown off his host position in the tournament by Darius, he was held captive for most of the remaining arc by a magic arm, finally escaping to warn Nix and the others of Darius’ tomfoolery.

For the time being, Brad is just relaxing. Having noticed Cherry is back on Scratch, he plans to catch up with her, but besides that he had nothing else planned.

## Gallery

*Main Article: Brad/Gallery*

Brad's first appearance. [aka Brad V1]Brad's V4 Sprite, made in Piskel, August 2021 to March 2022Brad's fifth sprite, made in collaboration with Scratch user kkkaaa2-0. Used April to December 14, 2022.