Butch

Minimalist art of Butch

Friends

Chili

Creativity

Big towns

Cold weather

Talking about his past

## Appearance

Butch is very tall and somewhat skinny. His outfit includes tall platform boots, a faded orange fur-collared long coat (Same style as Aliyah), an x-shaped harness, Loose black pants and wraps around his abdomen. Without his mask, he has dark brown undercut hair, short stubble with a mustache, and light tan skin.

## Personality

Butch is somewhat introverted but very kind and brave with his own team. WIth others, he is self-reserved, although he doesn't really want to be. He tries to make connections outside of his squad but often finds it hard to upkeep them. He doesn't really talk about his past with anybody. He will give anybody a fighting chance, and he heavily believes in respect/sportsmanship in battle.

## Gifts/Equipment

*Stage manipulation-* Ability to send anybody within eyesight to a "pocket dimension" that goes parallel to the current dimension. Most of the time, these dimensions are just plain white and very bright. Butch himself is nearly omnipotent here, and he can send multiple people into the dimension at a time (Although he usually sends just 2). Most of the time, he uses this power to have 2 specific people fight for their life.

*Anti-material rifle*-A heavy sniper rifle that Butch occasionally uses to damage walls to see people. It is heavily scratched and has a scrap of dark yellow cloth wrapped around the handle. The gun itself is modeled after the "Zastava M93/Black arrow" sniper rifle.

## Background

Butch doesn't know much about his early life since he had an emotionally manipulative caregiver. His birth parents sold him as a means for drug money when they found out that he had a gift when he was around 7 years old. He was adopted by Aliyah, for Butch to be used as a powerful sidekick. Aliyah emotionally abused Butch in an attempt to make him a type of servant at her will, hoping to eventually take the floating city, and eventually the wasteland country, by gradual force. They went on a campaign of carnage for about 5 years, until the siege of Sunpike.

### Seige of Sunpike (Connected story)

Sunpike was a dock/trading town on the northern shoreline of Aurub, known for a large triangular shadow that cooled off the town in the afternoon. It was somewhat developed as a town and was pretty safe in comparison with the rest of Aurub. Most visitors were there to buy from the bazaar, while most of the permanent residents were semi-wealthy merchants. The town was run by partially by an anonymous single leader, who was likely assassinated shortly before the siege. The town also allowed a vigilante justice system where gift users are heavily expected to contribute, which helped the town survive without a real government.

Without the town knowing, the anonymous mayor had been paying protection money to the scorchers, to help the town survive. Since he is presumed dead, and the scorchers didn't know that, they showed up at the bazaar and demanded payment. The townspeople didn't know anything about the scenario, and the situation escalated when Aliyah picked up a hostage and threatened to kill him if nobody was going to pay up or get the mayor.

There were only 4 gift users in town that day; a dust storm controller, a portal-using swordsman, Aasim, and his son Ethan, a teenage fire user. Aasim was getting his shop ready for opening, while the other gift users were wandering in the bazaar. The situation quickly escalated when Aliyah executed the hostage, sending the town into a panic. When the dust storm character started to summon, she got sent to **Butch's** dimension and was killed by Aliyah. The fight continued as many of the common people tried to fight **Butch** and Aliyah, and failed. People were getting caught in the crossfire in the duststorm confusion. More panic was caused when Ethan accidentally set fire to a few houses trying to hurt Aliyah.

While Aliyah was busy on her rampage, she didn't notice that Ethan had locked **Butch** in a headlock with a gun to his head. He demanded that **Butch** would put her and the portal swordsman into a fight favoring the latter. Butch really didn't want to, but he had to oblige to survive. **Butch** had to helplessly watch as Aliyah got her hands, face, and tongue cut up. He couldn't bear to watch it happen, so he gave Aliyah the upper hand again, and she easily won the battle. **Butch** told her what was happening before she was released, and she shot Ethan right after she was sent back to the real world.

Aasim saw this just as he was running out of his burning shop, face scarred with flame. He had just lost his wife and witnessed his son getting shot, and he was not in a good mental state. Nonetheless, he was unwillingly sent into **Butch's** dimension to fight Aliyah. He quickly outlined the ground and trapped Aliyah in a shard, making **Butch** think that his mom was just killed. As the dimension quickly faded away, **Butch** and Aasim gave each other the same grief-eyed look. Aasim wiped his tears and hastily ran to the residential part of town, preserving part of his house and 2 daughters in a reality shard, and running off into the barren landscape. The town did not survive the siege, and the remnants were quickly washed away in the shifting sands.

 After his mom died by, basically, his own action, he ran away. He went solo for a few years, before forming the wastelanders squad.

## Trivia

* Butch originally had a motorcycle that he rode around to be able to get more vision for his power, but this idea was lost over time.
* The cloth wrapped around his gun handle was originally used by Aliyah as a headband.
* He was inspired to learn guitar because of Javier.
* His orange fur-lined jacket is super cool and somewhat realistic, stop capping Emanuel Blackwell, please.
* His favorite food is chili.