NAME/ORIGIN
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Character name
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Bo
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Song/Album
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"Who Do You Love?"/ (single)
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Act
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Bo Diddley
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Writer
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Bo Diddley
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Release Date
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1956
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ABILITIES
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Powers
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-Imperviousness to pain
"I walk 47 miles of barb wire"
-Can kill with one blow
"Gotta tombstone hand"
-Can know the time, place and cause of another's death
"Gotta... graveyard mind."
-Can "see" sounds
"You shoulda heard just what I seen."
-Is likely impervious to snake venom, possibly other poisons
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Skills
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Has excellent balance and endurance
"I walk 47 miles of barb wire."
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Attributes
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Unassuming at first glance
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Vulnerabilities
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Formidability
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Attractiveness
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Source
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Goals
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-To win over Arlene
-To find things to make from, and new uses for, snakes |
POSSESSIONS
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Weapons
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Amulets
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N/A
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Objects
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N/A
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Clothing
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"I use a cobra snake for a necktie"
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Vehicles
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Horse (speculative)
"I rode around town, use a rattlesnake whip."
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Dwelling
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"I got a brand new house on the roadside, made of rattlesnake hide"... with a "brand new chimney made on top, made out of a human skull" (perhaps he just means the flue cover?)
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Milieu
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Anywhere with snakes. Rattlers are from the US, cobras from India.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Gender
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Male
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Age
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"Just 22"
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Physique
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N/A but likely muscular
Since he only had one tombstone "hand" one hand mat be larger than the other.
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Ethnicity
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N/A
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Origin
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N/A, but likely south or southwest US, given all the rattlesnake images.
Also, somewhere that still uses ice wagons, so no electricity or at least no refrigrators
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Ancestry
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N/A
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Profession
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N/A -- gravedigger? tombstone carver? undertaker?
Or ice-wagon driver |
Education
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Not high, given his grammar. High school doubtful
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SES
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Doesn't seem to need money. Most likely takes what he wants.
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Relationships
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Arlene, the woman he is trying to impress
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Pets
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None-- unless he keeps snakes until he makes things from them, and then they would be more like livestock.
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PERSONALITY
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Morality
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"Take it easy, Arlene, don't give me no lip."
(to which she responds) "Oo-whee, Bo, you know I understand"
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Intro/extrovert
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Extrovert and bragger
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Intelligence
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Aside from his death-seeing ability, not high
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Emotions
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Self-aggrandizing, self-involved
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Sanity
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"I don't mind dying"
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Enemies
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Narrative Function
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Protagonist
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Other Notes
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Like a superpowered version of Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Bo is full of swagger. It would be fun to see him smacked down and put in his place, or at least fun to watch someone try.
I can see him with two jobs-- driving and ice wagon and working in a cemetery. He is digging a grave not knowing that a vodoo shaman has been buried there ages ago. A snake, possibly embodying the shaman's soul, or simply having tasted the shaman's blood, shoots out of the grave, and bites him on the hand, which swells and becomes hard and flat (like a tombstone). He gets snake-like powers... and a hatred of snakes. He also can't get bitten by snakes or pierced by barb wire anymore. |
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