Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Mannish Boy
Song/Album	"Mannish Boy"/ (single)
Act	Muddy Waters
Writer	Muddy Waters, Mel London, Bo Diddley
Release Date	1955
ABILITIES
Powers	-Slow the passage of time "You know, I make the Moon come up two hours late" -Speed the passage of time "I can make love to you, woman, in five minutes time"
Skills	Superior marksmanship "The line I shoot will never miss"
Attributes	Acts like a kid trying to be an adult (cf the movie Big)
Vulnerabilities	Can be hurt by children only "Don't hurt me, child"
Formidability	High, but highly localized
Attractiveness	"When I make love to a woman, she can't resist" "I'm a natural-born lover man"
Source	Voodoo: "I'm a hoochie-coochie man"
Goals	"I have lots of fun"
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	May have a gun or just use whatever weapon is available, but is confident with his aim with any firearm
Amulets	"Johnny Conqueroo"
Objects	N/A
Clothing	N/A
Vehicles	N/A
Dwelling	none, is a "rolling stone," a drifter
Milieu	Where the action is
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	"M... A... N..."
Age	"Way past 21" but is a "Mannish boy." His ability to manipulate time may make him age difficult to determine, even for himself.
Physique	N/A
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	"Kansas"
Ancestry	His mother may have practiced voodoo and taught him She had confidence in her ability to foretell that he would be "the greatest"
Profession	May get paid for his voodoo abilities, may use them for crime
Education	Seems to have been focused on his magic, not standard subjects
SES	N/A
Relationships	Loves his mother. His cousin is "Johnny Conqueroo"
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Amoral. Lives to satisfy his desires.
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert
Intelligence	Above average. We would hope someone who can manipulate time would be super-intelligent, but...
Emotions	Laconic. He literally has all the time in the world.
Sanity	Sane
Enemies	Who can even keep track of him that long?
Narrative Function	Antagonist
Other Notes	Did you ever loose track of time? Has is sometimes felt like an hour was only a minute long, or vice versa? It's possible that Mannish Boy was around, warping time to his liking, and you got caught in the wake. He learned at his mother's knee how to speed up time, to make unpleasant things take a minute and make good things happen faster. Good things may come to those who wait, but to Mannish Boy they come faster. Mannish Boy can also delay things, or make pleasant things last longer. He doesn't want to go to bed? He makes the Moon come up later.  It's possible that his marksmanship is superior because he has all the time he wants to practice, It's also likely that he never aims at a moving target-- he simply makes it slow to the point of near-stillness. He was able to physically grow up and appear manly (or "mannish") while still being a "boy" emotionally. So it's hard to know, even for Mannish Boy himself, how old he is, because of all the time-manipulation he has lived through. He may have aged his body to around 21 quickly, so as to start enjoying adult things. But as he does not have 21 years of life experience, he is still an impulsive boy inside. And that means he uses his powers only for self-gratification, never to "change the world" in a global sense. Given his appetites, that may be for the best.