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Buffalo Bill; William Handy
Topic Started: Oct 6 2009, 06:45 PM (747 Views)
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Codename: Buffalo Bill

Real Name: William Handy

Nickname: Bill

Age: 19

Gender: Male


Appearance:
Normal form:

  • Height: 6'2"
  • Weight: 250
  • Skin Color: White
  • Hair Color: Brown
  • Eye Color: Brown
Bill has an open, trustworthy face and an easy smile. He looks trustworthy, and there's an obvious chivalry and kindness to him. It takes a lot to make him not respect someone for some part of their ability, and he's a caring person. Unfortunately, once he makes a friend, he has a tendency to defend them above all else. This often gets him into trouble.

Minotaur form:

  • Height: 6'7"
  • Weight: 250
In this form, his polite southern drawl disappears and he starts bellowing. Horns grow from the sides of his now shaggy, bull-like head. His body changes into almost pure muscle, and well, this is the closest I could find.
http://thetorchonline.com/wp-content/uploa...08/minotaur.jpg

Clothing:Bill wears almost stereotypical "farm boy" clothes. Cowboy boots, blue jeans, and plaid flannel shirts make up the most of his wardrobe. He's also rarely seen without his hat. He also likes to carry a pair of long-barrel .45 revolvers.

Powers: Animal Transformation - Minotaur: When he gets mad, Bill turns into a Minotaur. He gains enhanced durability and enhanced strength, along with horns.
His limits are as follows:
Human form: Olympic-level bench pressing, approx. 400 lbs.
Minotaur form: Able to lift (and throw) 1 ton.

Weakness: He doesn't gain superhuman enhanced agility or superhuman speed (except by leaping, which uses his enhanced leg muscles). He can get going pretty good, but once he does, say goodbye to turning! Of course, at this level of control, it only comes out when he's mad, and since Bill has something of a long fuse, it takes quite a bit before he transforms - that's not to say he won't fight before that happens, but you'll be contending with a reasonably-trained baseline human, not a minotaur.

Personality: As said before, Bill is a trustworthy, easygoing sort. He's living proof that chivalry isn't dead, as he has extreme trouble bringing himself to hit a girl - even if she hit first. He's very respectful to people, opponents and allies alike. The one thing that might become annoying is that he has a tendency to throw strange, "down-home"-ish sayings out in his slow Southern drawl. The easiest way to get him angered? Either hit a girl in front of him, or hurt one of his friends regardless of gender.

Oh, and in case it's not obvious, he doesn't kill. Ever.

History: William Handy was born in Montana, his family a group of devout religious folks. In fact, the entire community he grew up in was religious, and so was he for a long time. Much of his morality comes from seeing the way the people were when he was young, though there was a critical turning point when he was 18. Bill had always been athletic, more gifted with brawn than brains. And it wasn't a shock that in senior year, he was quarterback of his high school football team.

However, he was kicked off the team soon after the homecoming game. When he saw one of the players on his team - one of the people he'd considered a close friend - slap one of the cheerleaders hard enough to throw her to the ground. Bill didn't take well to this and his blood started to boil. As he walked over to confront his teammate, he changed, growing larger, his hair growing longer and his body looking more and more like a buffalo from the waist up. He punched the guy hard enough to send him flying, and would have truly hospitalized him if he hadn't been pulled away.

Upon the discovery that he was a mutant, it was made obvious that he was no longer welcome in this small town. Not to mention that because he transformed into a Minotaur, it brought up uncomfortable mythological references to his former family and friends. Feeling ashamed at his lack of self-control, he took this judgment remarkably well. He's not part of any organized religion anymore, but he is sure that there is a God, and that there is a plan. He is kind from a desire to help people, and because he feels that it is the right thing to do.

He left Montana in his beat-up 1976 Ford F-150, having only it and his clothes to his name. He later found the pair of revolvers he carries in a sporting goods shop on the way out of the state (he'd stopped in for beef jerky). With that, he decided to set his sights on New York as a good place for a mutant to be, though he's only ever heard of the X-Men as the bad guys, because he never heard about what they actually fought for.

Team Affiliates: Solo for the moment, and who he starts hanging with will tell what he ends up doing.

RP Sample: See Facedancer.

Code: easy-as-pi.

Previous RP Experience: I'm Facedancer. Not as imposing as "I'm Batman", I guess...but it works.
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Ivan Borskov: Buffalo Bill is the kindest cowboy you'll ever meet that can lift a truck.
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Can you give an idea of how strong he is exactly when in his minotaur form?
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Okay, let's start with this, I'm trying to ratchet him down rank-wise from what our tabletop game does. His current ranks are Excellent when in normal form and Monstrous when in minotaur form.

What that means in the tabletop is that he's normally able to bench about 600, 800 with extreme difficulty.

His rank in the tabletop when he's in Minotaur is the actually the same strength as both the Thing and Colossus - able to lift 80 tons with extreme difficulty.

However, I was thinking that he could lift either one or two tons maximum, possibly building up to that with enough experience.
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Bumping because it's been a week and no one answered my question yet. However, if you want me to come down on a set of solid numbers:

Human form: Able to lift 650 lbs.
Minotaur form: Able to lift (and throw) 1 ton.
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Updated, y'all.
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So everything about his strength being able to lift 80 tons has been scrapped, right?

And can you also include his superhuman/enhanced strength while being in human form.

How long does it take for him to transform into the minotaur.
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Yep. The bit about him doing 80 tons is dropped. I'm liking that 1-ton number for right now, though with training and fighting that may increase in the future, obviously.

About the transformation time, that depends on what context you mean it in. Bill has a very long fuse like I said, so unlike, say, the Incredible Hulk, he's liable to be in (what he calls) a little tussle or two without transforming. But once he gets to that point of bein' mad? I'd say it takes him between 5 and 10 seconds, because it does hit when his body and mind react to certain triggers, in a Hulk-like reaction.

And, he ain't got superhuman strength when he's in human form. He's a high-school football star, who could/should have gone on to play college and pro ball, if it wasn't for him bein' a mutant and people around him being ignorant. He can bench 650, and he can take a pretty good hit, but otherwise, he's normal.

And by the way, a ton being 2000 pounds, it means he approximately triples his bulk and muscle capacity when he transforms.
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How about we meet halfway and call it Olympic? That is still pretty big for someone who is 19. The average for highschool kids are 200-400 pounds. It seems like he is near the peak of human capacity. That's the main issue I have.

The other thing is how fast he can run. What's the top speed he can it at this present time?
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The thing is, like I've said, he's not an "average" high-school kid. He should be near the high end of what is considered "human", naturally. And since there are bench press records from this guy who's not quite in his 30s pressing over a half-ton, I don't see where someone who's been working out and was hoping to be a pro football QB by 25 should be unable to bench 650. Realize that he grew up on a farm, doing physical labor as a kid before he started officially "working out". A nebbish he ain't, you get what I'm saying?

As far as his speed, well, he's no speedster if that's what you're asking. He could run down the average robber, in a straight-line dead run. While he's normal, his average running speed is on par with what he was - a football QB. Once he transforms, it about triples, to maybe marathon runner speeds. But also once he transforms, he is running on hooves, so the whole 'turning' thing at anything more than a light jog (which isn't likely to happen) kind of seems about as pointless as seeing a crow and a plate-glass door, y'know? He's a powerhouse, to be sure, and in human form, he's light enough on his feet. I don't really know what kind of numbers to assign to it though, especially since the speed thing is something I figure is sort of "as fast as the plot says he needs to be". He's slower than the slowest speedster or most people with flight capabilities (The Wasp he might be able to outrun if she were shrunken and flying, but she's quick too). I mean, maybe he's able to do 11 mph, when in Minotaur form and 3.5 normal? I'm basing this on the idea that (without having other big brutes in the way), he could run a football field in a little under a minute, and maintaining the 650 lb. | 2000 lb. equivalence, it's a hair more than a 300% increase with the transformation.
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So for the speed, you are saying roughly 35 mph in minotaur form?

Now what I am saying with the Olympic Level, I am saying it for his age. I am not saying it is the physical capabilities of all people in the world, but for his age it is. My friend has worked on a farm all of his life and he can't bench press 650. I am being more than generous by having you classify it as Olympic. I don't want to have to be rude or bark orders here, it is a simple request for you to categorize it as Olympic, and everything will be fine and you will have another stamp.
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As I said, no. His speed, like his strength, approximately triples, meaning he goes up to a maximum - total max here - of 11 mph, far below anyone like Rhino or like that. Eventually, he may get to 35 mph, but as you said, he's a teenager.
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That answers all of my questions, thank you for making the changes requested.

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