Expo!

> "Over time it gets far, far easier to take lives. But, well when you've gone that far... Well by that time you're already gone." - Expo!
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## Expo!

* Normal
* Battle
* As Felix

## Background

Expo! was born in poverty with an abusive father and a distant mother. He stole to survive on the streets most of his childhood, his main source of entertainment being sitting outside an antique shop with a old TVs, watching shows with and about phantom thieves and secret agents. He aspired to be one as he grew up, learning how to steal better as the years went on. His best ruse was always pretending to be weaker than he actually was to lower people's guard.

Expo! eventually killed his father as a young teenager, before running away to become a phantom thief. As he got older, he slowly began to lose himself in his work, taking more and more killing jobs, eventually erasing any paper trail that he ever existed in the first place.

After years of having become more synonymous with an assassin rather than a phantom thief, he awoke his stand, Paid In Exposure. Soon after, he formed his team of assassins and killers, ExposureToBattle, using favors and debts he had accumulated over the years to get his team together whenever a particularly good job showed up.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

Expo! has mastered the art of making himself look like a buffoon. He can make himself seem worse at any task he wishes

Expo! can also hit someone in the back of the head and knock them out instantly. He can also act out any part he has researched enough.

### Gadgets

Expo! has an assortment of gadgets to use, all themed after stage magicians.

**Wands** - Expo! has three kinds of magic wands that each pop out into a different flower. One is a daisy, one is a rose, and one is a tulip. The daisy is a grenade, the rose is a smoke bomb, and the tulip is a flash bang. Once activated, each will beep for a few seconds before detonating (Expo! can turn it off using a series of clicks on the wand's base).

**Deck of Cards** - Expo!'s deck of cards is a storage for a multitude of odorless and tasteless poisons and antidotes. Only he knows what cards contain which substance, though he says there is a method and order to how they're organized.

**Balloon Animals** - Expo! has a pack of balloons he can blow up and tie into balloon animals. After tying the balloon shut, about 10 seconds pass and a knife springs out at whoever is holding it. He refuses to tell anyone how he accomplishes this.

**Mouth Coil** - Expo! has mouth coils hidden across his person. They act identical to normal mouth coils, though gripping them with any kind of hard force will cause them to harden and cut rather than act as cloth.

**Hand Buzzer** - Expo! has a hand buzzer. It's a normal hand buzzer. He tells people after he's used it on them something will happen to them to frighten them, but in reality it's just a normal hand buzzer.

**Rabbit** - Expo! can pull a fake rabbit out of his hat. Whenever anyone points out how the rabbit is fake, it tases them.

### Paid in Exposure

Paid in Exposure gives Expo! the ability to appear like he is ten feet away from where he actually is. This however is a farce of his actual ability, the ability of illusion. He can cause any illusion he wishes around him, the main use of this being espionage by disguising as someone else.

Paid in Exposure can also disguise as any stand Expo! has studied enough, and create a weaker version of their ability.

## Trivia

* Expo!'s name must always have the exclamation point included to be spelt right.
* Expo!'s favorite food is funnel cake.
* Expo!'s original name, Smith Flat, was purged when he deleted his old identity, the only person who knew was his biggest fan, Lupin, who in turn had told Felix.
* Expo! is distantly related to the original user of Dream On.
* While Paid in Exposure is the cause of every illusion, Westley has left it purposefully vague as to whether or not Expo! replicating a person's skills is an extension of Paid in Exposure's ability or if it is part of Expo!'s own expertise in acting out roles he has researched.
* The name "Expo!" was created by Westley on accident. He had started to write "Exposure" on his hat, and then after writing "Expo" put an exclamation point after it on a whim, then liked how it sounded.
* Expo!'s backstory is slightly based on the origin story of The Reaper from Assassination Classroom.
* Early in the planning of Severed Strings, Expo!'s stand was Bones. It's ability would have allowed him to control any bones within his range, similar to the stand Metalica. He would punch people and then twist their bones into knots inside of them. The fight would have taken place in a grave yard where he flung bones at people from around different graves. This was changed before Strings Started in favor of Expo!'s current abilities.