Boss

* Normal
* Pre-Timeskip

• The Guardian of Earth (title)

• Dad/Daddy/Father (Ace and Grace)

• Honcho (Blair)

• Ace Shoryu (son)

• Rufus Nightingale (grandson)

• Ruler of the Eastern Land of Harmony

• Member of the Order

65 Years Old (Post-Timeskip)

> *"Heed my words, evil doers! We guardians will sacrifice our blood to protect the innocent and we will always fight for honour and justice! And as I am one with the earth, I shall never relent!"*
>
> - Boss

Guildmaster Boss Shoryu (pronouced "sure-you") is the guardian of earth, being the leader of the group even during the guardian era. He was also the ruler of the Eastern Land of Harmony before his death but if he were to ever come back, he would take over the role again due to the land's lack of a proper ruler. He is the husband of the goddess of the earth, Chikyū and is the proud father of Grace and Ace. He's the only guardian who's birthday isn't celebrated as a holiday but he was known for giving gifts to many children during Grace's birthday, since it's the day of giving. He specialises in using the power of the Earth alongside his companion, Otama, as a means for defending the innocent. Plus, he also uses a plethora of Earthbending attacks.

## **Appearance**

Boss is reasonably short but bulky for his age and he, coincidently, is the same height as her daughter in the post-timeskip era. He still retains his height in the post-timeskip era.

Being a elf, he has pale skin and pointed ears. He has long white hair due to his age and he has a beard. In the pre-timeskip era, he has blond hair that was much shorter. For both versions of himself, he has chest hair that is coloured the same colour as his hair and beard.

In the Guardian Era, he wore a green beanie with a brown arrow going across it in the middle, a green scarf with brown fur and long brown gloves; with the left one being much longer and fingerless. Attire kept for his older counterpart is his spikey shoulder pad on his left arm, a green cloak near his waist with a brown belt, brown trousers and green leather greaves.

In the post time-skip/Calamity War era, his beanie is replaced with a similar looking green helmet and he only wears a singular, much more shorter, brown glove on his left hand. Besides the replacements, he wears a leather strap around his torso that has a buckle that features the Guardian's logo and green gauntlets.

For his casual attire, he removes his strap, shoulder pad, helmet and gauntlet. With the strap being replaced with a brown polo shirt.

Boss is never seen without Otama, unless for certain situations outside of combat. He is usually all around Boss's right arm.

## **Personality**

Being the leader of the guardians, Boss is very honourable and proud. So honourable that he sometimes says long speeches towards his opponents about how he and/or the guardians, will defeat them. During the guardian era, he was more energetic like his future son but he mellowed down during his growth. Usually being the strong but silent type who usually gets grumpy depending on some situations, but he can be very jolly in more positive situations.

He tends to be overly protective. Seen with him protecting his daughter, despite her learning to defend herself, and obviously, to innocent civilians. Like his son, he knows he cannot defend everyone but he still tries to help people without them being majorly injured. Speaking of his son, he definitely got this trait from his father. However, Boss is more noticeable when it comes to this.

Despite being the most durable of the Guardians in terms of his massive defence, his weakness tends to being overwhelmed by those who are able to plow through his defences. That's really why he prefers to fight alongside his fellow guardians or, at least, allow Otama to do most of the offensive manoeuvres for him.

### **Otama**

Otama is with Boss a majority of the time, due to his powers being revolved around the Earth, making him act like soil to Otama.

* **Whip:** In combat, Otama's stem acts like a extendable thorny whip for Boss. Allowing him to do things such as pulling his opponents in, attacking from afar and being able to move himself around by whipping onto certain surfaces. Otama can also separate from Boss to do follow-up attacks but he won't be able to extend himself.
* **Shield:** Boss's go-to weapon that he uses to protect himself from harm. It's a shield Otama made for him that's mostly mossy, in fact it gets mossier the more damage it takes, making it weaker and more fragile. At one point, it will break apart, prompting Otama to make another one. Besides it being great for defence, what makes it useful is that it acts like a strong source for Earthbending. As Boss can do things such as causing it to become spikey, hurting his opponents if they make contact.
	+ **The True Shield of the Earth:** During ascension, Boss's shield becomes even more durable. In fact, while wielding this upgrade of his shield, he gains protective armor via energy shields that flow around him. Making him a mighty tank invulnerable to damage completely but it has it's limits. For one, it goes away for a couple of seconds and it can be broken completely if hit by multiple attacks at once. This is shared with the true blade; excluding the "going away when taken a few hits" flaw.
* **The True Blade of the Earth:** Only really usable during Boss's ascension. Since Otama turns into a massive entity that submerges from the ground, he gives Boss a blade as a replacement for his whip. This massive blade is made of pure earthly energy and with each swing, Boss causes huge AoE attacks. As previously mentioned, the sword goes away after a few seconds.

### **Earth's Power**

Being Chikyū's loyal husband, Boss uses the power of the Earth by his side and being a druid as a result. His body acts like a source for solar power, as when he goes near grass or flowers, they grow and bloom almost instantly. But that's if he is in battle mode. He can also sense footsteps around him if he focuses, which gives him a great advantage in battle. Plus he can heal himself by absorbing the ground. It's one of the many reasons he is referred to as the "Walking Earth's Core."

### **Earthbending**

Boss is a natural earthbender. In fact, he is amazing at it. Being able to create and manipulate anything revolving around the earth, such as rocks or the Terrain around him. He can also merge through things such as trees.

* **Power of the Earth's Core:** Boss increases his strength by becoming one with the earth. This is usually portrayed by a shining field around him that gives him a strong aura too. He mostly uses this to tank dangerous attacks.
* **Almighty Befall:** A rather powerful attack, as it is the same attack that Chikyū uses but on a weaker scale. He creates a massive structure in the shape of a planet. It will then crash down, causing massive damage.
* **Grand Order (Boss):** His most strongest attack. After a close assault that involves him throwing his opponent upwards, Boss puts his Chikyū shield to the ground and Otama plants himself into it. Then he grows into a massive dragon tree and attacks the opponent with a vicious bite attack that traps the opponent while they go even further up. Otama then lets go of the opponent as Boss merges from out of his mouth to deliver a devastating punch powered up by the power of the Earth. He then plummets himself and his opponent back down to the ground. After this amazing attack, Otama plants himself into the ground.
	+ **Ascension: Dragon Otama:** Boss's ascension that activates only after he uses his Grand Order. He is assisted by the Dragon Tree Otama, who is usually submerged from the ground when he attacks. While in this ascension, Boss cannot use his Chikyū Shield or Otama's whip properties. He depends on using a more durable shield and a blade while he also commands Otama to attack in certain situations, such as follow-up attacks. However, due to the limitations, the sword and shield will go away. Leading Boss to fight up close and personal by using hand-to-hand combat. When the ascension is over, Otama returns to normal and returns back to Boss's arm.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Not much is known about Boss's birth. All that is known is that he would be romantically involved with the Dragon goddess, Chikyū. The two would marry and have a child, leading to the birth of their daughter, Grace. After creating his guild, he would start a journey with his daughter and later, Gregory and Ragnaro, after the Grimdark starts stealing souls of many innocent people. One of these souls being Captain Archel Dagger, a wanted pirate criminal. Grace and the others would fight Archel after he was causing trouble. He gets overwhelmed but soon gets turned into a demonic slave by the Grimdark. Turning him into a gigantic turtle monster. The transformed Archel would go and kidnap Prince Tobirth Pastel. With the help of Lilith, Boss and the others go on a journey to save Tobirth after being assigned to do so by his father.

Boss notably does a couple of things during this journey. The first is being overly protective of his daughter, despite her constantly stating she can take care of herself after being inspired by Lilith. And the second is convincing Ragnaro to overcome his fears by going to certain outings, befriending him as a result despite his constant failures to overcome his fears. One of these outings resulted in him meeting Otama, who is Hallow's predecessor. Otama was attracted by Boss's energy, since he was given powers of the earth by his wife. When Boss would discover that Otama was pretty handy, he would team up with the little drakhoul and the two haven't been separated since.

When the team finally make it to Archel, he would overwhelm the team this time. He would attempt to finish Grace and Celeste off but Boss steps in to protect her. Showing off his new thorn whip and finishing Archel off, freeing his soul and returning his body back to normal. Grace thanks her father and says he can still protect her if she wishes, to which her father disagrees and says that she should carve her own path. With Prince Tobirth saved, the team head to the Pyramid of the Desert Winds, leaving Lilith behind.

While they were sleeping, the Grimdark kidnaps the members of the team, all except Gregory and Celeste. Grace, Boss and Ragnaro get taken to a jail cell. With no options left, Boss and the others put hope on Gregory to save them. Later on, he would meet with several other people who also helped Gregory in his journey. Knowing they are friends with Gregory, they started to become friends with these new members of the team one by one until Gregory finally saves them with the help of Chikyū. After saving the others, Gregory and the others eventually lead to them defeating the Grimdark, who was currently possessing the first ever hero of legend, Terios. When the Grimdark was released out of Terios, they would eventually possess Chikyū, who was with the team the entire fight. With the Grimdark now possessing his sworn enemy, Boss and the others would yet have to go back to square one, going on another journey to take on a more stronger Grimdark. They succeed and save Chikyū but this leads to the Grimdark to say they might have defeated him, but his hatred will return again one day. Chikyū would then use her magic to reform the Grimdark into a better person, as it is the only way to stop him. This resulted in the birth of Kako. After their victory, Chikyū would accept the guardians as the new protectors of earth. With her husband being titled the Guardian of Earth. After this, it's revealed that Chikyū is pregnant, leading Boss to be surprised and suddenly faint.

Since then, the Guardians disbanded to go do their own things for now. For Boss, he mostly stayed at home to be with her family. Especially after his newborn son, Ace, was born. Who showed signs of unusual abilities like randomly firing out flames from his arm, flinging himself around using air from his leg and would cause whirlpools while swimming. Clearly this is the result of the genes given by his mother. Apparently Ace was gifted, unlike his sister. During this time, Boss would develop a repetition for sending gifts to many children during Grace's birthday, as it is celebrated as the day of giving, some of them resulting in him being injured badly but with a smile on his face. But there was a day where Boss had to bring Otama back home to the Green Horned Forest. After a heartfelt goodbye, Boss and Otama would become separated after a long time.

After several years, the guardians all reunite after so long. Boss was happy to see them but he would get criticised about his longer hair. Despite this, the other guardians were happy to see him too. Later on, Boss and the guardians would eventually go to and successfully conquer the Tower of Despair after reports of powerful grimdark spawns still roaming despite the Grimdark's defeat. When they reached the top, the Guardians are met with a extremely strong spawn. Scarab, being who she is, rushes in without a plan and goes to attack the spawn with a drop kick but is interrupted by Grace getting in her way. And as a result, Grace is met with the spawn grabbing her legs and crushing them. Breaking them as a result. Boss was extremely shocked to see this and went on a rampage in hopes of defeating this spawn once and for all. When the spawn is finally defeated, peace was made but at the cost of Grace's legs being broken for the rest of her life. As a guildmaster, Boss would resume his duty after all of this. He would also take Grace to the hospital, due to her legs being forever broken. After gaining Boss's permission, Cranium offers to take care of Grace until she gets used to using her new wheelchair. Boss was extremely upset over his daughter's legs being broken but she says that she's fine. It took Boss a while to get over this but he eventually does so.

Few days pass and Boss is met with his daughter being infected by the Grimdark Virus. They help Grace and take her back to the guild and put her in a containment room so that she wouldn't spread the virus within her. The Guardians would then announce a war against Frewil and after Blair removes the virus from Grace, Ace asks his father to take part in the war; to which he and Grace decline his offer. This maddens Ace and he has a argument with the two of them. After the argument that ended on a dreadful note, Boss goes outside to take part in the war.

After leading the civilians to safety, Boss is met with Frewil face to face. He would fight him head on but despite being a brick wall to Frewil, he couldn't manage to attack back. This was until Otama appears to help him. The two would go all out on Frewil, even making use of their strongest attack, the Tree of the Mighty Dragon. However it wasn't enough and Frewil attacks Boss with a devastating attack that mortally injures him.

Boss falls down to the ground, fatally injured. Frewil laughs, thinking he is dead and walking after, right before Boss barely stands up yelling at Frewil. He tells Otama to get out of here before anything bad happens. Otama couldn't accept this and tried to stay but Boss keeps yelling at him to get to safety. Otama starts to cry as he gets off Boss. Still weakened from using all of his strength, being fatally injured and having a crippled leg from the attack, Boss attempts to attack Frewil with a punch but Frewil dodges it. And this repeats 4 times until Boss manages to punch Frewil's chest, but to no effect. He then punches again but Frewil dodges yet again and delivers a powerful kick onto Boss, plummeting him back down to the ground. Frewil laughs and states that he's used up all of his strength. He then finishes Boss off by stabbing his chest. Ace and Cranium are seen witnessing this and Frewil escapes.

Ace tries to wake his father up and that when Boss wakes up to see his son during his dying breath. Ace starts crying, apologising for his previous actions and says that he can't die now, to which Boss says to his son that he can be a hero and gives him a very important quote that he will remember to the rest of time. The quote being "Remember, your greatest strengths are also your greatest responsibilities. If you can do something, don’t disregard it. If doing good is within your reach, you should and always do it." Boss then finally says that he loves Ace and dies peacefully in his arms. Ending Boss's story as a result.

## **Relationships**

### **Chikyū**

Chikyū is Boss's loving wife. He was aware that she is a goddess who protects the multiverse and he was given the powers of the earth from her. He wished he could stay with her longer but she had to go back to the Godly Realm to look over the multiverse.

### **The Guardians**

Boss is the leader of the Guardians. As a result, he sees every member as people to look after. Especially when one of the members is his daughter. Boss was very overly protective of Grace but he would later learn that she can defend herself, especially with Celeste by her side. Although she was less special than her brother, Boss loves her daughter and is willing to stay by her side as a father and as a guardian. When Grace broke her legs, his need for overprotecting her came back but she states that she's fine. Especially when Cranium helps her on the matter.

### **Otama**

Boss first met Otama when he was at a outing with Ragnaro. He would become aware that he is Hallow's predecessor and Otama would become his companion, never leaving his side until the two had to separate. It's implied that if Boss came back somehow, Otama would immediately return back to him.

### **Ace Shoryu**

Like with her daughter, Boss was overly protective of his son too. The only real difference is that Ace would disobey his father in multiple occasions. Boss was aware Ace is the more special offspring, due to his genes given by his mother. In fact, it was the reason why Chikyū left to return to the Godly realm. He would teach his son to use his more natural ability to earthbend but he was still worried about him being this chosen one according to Chikyū. Despite this, when he dies, Boss decided to put all of his hope towards his son and this proved to effect Ace greatly, making him more responsible.

## **Trivia**

* In his inception, Boss was originally named "Big Boss", after the Metal Gear Solid character of the same name. It became shortened to Boss and it mostly refers to him being the leader of the guardians.
	+ His last name, Shoryu, translates to “Rising Dragon” in Japanese kanji.
* Like the other guardians, Boss is based after a Pokémon affiliated with the original Team Tazmily project. For him, believe it or not, he's inspired by two Pokémon. That being Chesnaught and Aegislash. Though the latter Pokemon is because of his connection with Otama. As previously stated, he was named after Con Air's Chesnaught, named "Big Boss", from his save data of Pokémon X. Like with many others, he does appear in the main casting of the Team Tazmily animation video but he was factually in the end credits. Apparently, he was supposed to be the leader of the team, like his current incarnation. Boss would later be made for a very major Dungeons and Dragons session and has been THE most memorable character Con Air has created for DND. He was a firbolg druid who would shapeshift into different animals. Those being a wolf, sabre tooth tiger, a frog and a fish man. As well as anything else that didn't revolve around combat. He wouldn't be able to shapeshift into animals anymore when he was made for Wowlife, mainly because Frewil became the shapeshifter main character. He also used a thorn whip, very much like his current incarnation. He also originally had blue skin, this was changed when he was made for Wowlife.
* His likes consists of:
	+ Spider Roll Sushi
	+ Cookies
	+ Milk
	+ His family
	+ Protecting the innocent
	+ Chess
	+ Giving Presents
	+ Nature
* His dislikes consists of:
	+ Evil
	+ Naughty Children
	+ Too much paperwork
* Boss wasn't Ace and Grace's father in the original concept for Wowlife. Instead it was a separate character named Raiokami. He would of been Wowlife's depiction of Zeus, being a thunder god. Plus he used a hammer. Funnily enough, Boss is featured in his attire. Near his knees and left shoulder. He went unused due to Boss having a much bigger role as the new father of Ace and Grace and overall just being a much more fun character for Con Air to draw.
* He is the only guardian who's birthday isn't really celebrated and isn't a reference to a holiday. Instead, he serves as a reference to Santa Claus. Giving gifts to many good children on Grace's Birthday (which is Christmas in the Wowlife universe) and having white hair in the post-timeskip era. Besides his outfit being themed around the colour green to suit alongside his fellow guardians, it can be served as a reference to Santa's outfit being depicted as green instead of red. His birthday is also March 15th, which is the birthday of Saint Nicolas.
* Besides being inspired by firbolgs in Dungeons and Dragons and Santa Claus, his design also takes inspiration from Captain America from Marvel Comics, Piccolo from Dragon Ball and the concept of his guild coming from Wigglytuff's Guild from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

## **Gallery**

Boss's Default RenderBoss's Pre-Timeskip RenderBoss's Early Sketch/Depiction as a Chesnaught. Seen in the cut credits of the Team Tazmily VideoBoss's Guardian RenderBoss's Versus RenderBoss's Reference SheetBoss's Pre-Timeskip Reference SheetBoss's Early Icon, made for the major DND session.