Mr. Bones

— "And If We Work Together"

Mr. Bones is the old and 'current' name of an assassin working for an unknown organization. He is well known in Britain's criminal underground by this alias, and it is the one he prefers, but within the organization walls, he is referred to as 'Phantom' for his incompetence in eliminating them.

## Personality

Mr. Bones appears to be a very confident and self-assured individual who hates being shown up or overshadowed by others.

Bones has an intense fear of his freedom being taken away from him, as he has always been somewhat of a 'free spirit' who does whatever he pleases. The idea of being arrested or his identity being compromised scares him intensely, and he will do anything to avoid it.

Ever since he inherited the name 'Phantom' from... Phantom, he has become anxious behind closed doors, feeling as though it's his fate to eventually end up like them. He actively and desperately fights against it.

He clings onto his past successes by only calling himself 'Mr. Bones', in hopes that it'll stifle the thoughts of being incompetent and doomed.

## History

### London

Mr. Bones is known in London as the mastermind behind a string of gem thefts that left Scotland Yard officials puzzled and without a proper lead to grab. His heist was so successful, in fact, that his name never entered the public eye.

### Organization

Mr. Bones was recruited by the organization after his massive success in London. Although he stayed as a thief for a while, he eventually leaned into becoming an assassin for reasons unknown. He was trained by the organization for an unknown duration of time, and during his time there, he was forced to abandon his old name and life in exchange for his new, anonymous, and wholly dehumanized one.

During this time, Bones was stripped of his identity and referred to as just 'Assassin', but he continued to call himself by his preferred persona name in spite of this. He found general success in his new role, up until he was tasked with sniping Phantom, where he failed spectacularly.

Ghoul blackmailed him with the event, and agreed to ensure that the higher-ups were convinced that he did not fail on purpose (because he failed to shoot a person who was standing still). Afterwards, he was forced to cooperate with Ghoul on their future plans for Phantom and their situation.

### Back in Business

During Classified Turnabout, Mr. Bones infiltrated and participated in the espionage of a State government compound with Ghoul to ensure that Phantom would not be killed by another organization member. He was disguised as a security guard for an unknown length of time, but he was fully accepted as a legitimate one. After Phantom's assault, he stuck around the facility as a precaution. While this almost got him caught, he managed to slip under the radar.

Due to his worry of 'being the new Phantom', and to remove the memories their situation— because he was made to watch over his own worst nightmare happening to another person— he developed an addiction to memory removal dust he asked for from Banshee.

During an assassination contract he was meant to enact on Moe the Clown, Bones grew distrustful of his own skill as an assassin and contracted Shelly de Killer to take up the mantle for him. However, due to the organization monitoring Bones, he could not leave Berry Big Times until the assassination was done.

Bones' growing addiction made him become more hapless with leaving his memory-removing dust around. This caused Valant Gramarye to find it and confront him about it, as the dust is an explicitly illicit drug. In his fear, Bones attacked Valant and threw the dust on him, then implanted false memories of Valant being the owner of it. This later lead to Valant accidentally memory-wiping Shelly, forcing Bones to take up the sniper rifle again.

After his (seemingly) successful snipe on Moe, Bones busied himself with trying to clean up all the evidence of him ever even being employed at the Berry Big Times. However, due to police interference, he found this a lot harder than it should've been and was forced to stay around the crime scene until he was eventually spotted as the culprit in Moe's assassination.

## Trivia

* Mr. Bones' name was chosen as a reference to Mr. Bones' wild ride.
* The idea for Mr. Bones to be Phantom's sniper was thought of because of umbrella guns existing in real life and the fact that we'd wanted to figure out who would be responsible for the shot.
* Bone's number was A215145.

## Gallery

The original concept art.The first ever picture of Mr. Bones drawn by Snail.Mr. Bones being shown as a parallel to Phantom.A Mr. Bones Vtuber model created by Killer (@clocki99)