Big Time (Peter Gabriel)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
 Big Time
Song/Album
 "Big Time"/ So
Act
 Peter Gabriel
Writer
 Peter Gabriel
Release Date
 1986


ABILITIES

Powers
-Grow larger
"So much larger than life"
-Can make individual body parts larger
"I've been stretching my mouth"... "with the widest smile"
"big fat head"
"My eyes are getting bigger"
"My belly is getting bigger... and my mouth."
-Make objects grow larger
"My car is getting bigger"
"My house is getting bigger"
-Transform himself into pure sound
"I'll be a big noise"
Skills
Has a vocabulary full of long, "big words"
Is an avid storyteller: "Tell them how my life is one gig adventure/ And always, they're amazed."
Attributes
is eager to display conspicuous consumption 
is religious, or at least wants to seem so:
"I will pray to a big god, as I kneel in the big church... my heaven will be a big heaven."
Vulnerabilities
poverty, "small thoughts... small words."
Formidability
Mild. Once he makes himself and everything bigger, what does he do with it? 
Attractiveness
High, to some: "My parties have all the big names... the big boys" 
Source
Ambition
Goals
Amassing "stuff," displaying it:
"So much stuff I will own."
"I've got to make it show... when I show them around my house"


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
 N/A
Amulets
 N/A
Objects
 A bed, a pillow
Clothing
 N/A
Vehicles
 A car that gets bigger
Dwelling
 A house that gets bigger; it resembles a "mountain range." 
Milieu
 The "big big city."


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
 Male
Age
 N/A
Physique
 Big
Ethnicity
 N/A
Origin
 Was born in a "small town" 
Ancestry
 N/A
Profession
 Finance (speculation)
Education
 Self-taught: "I worked it out." 
SES
 Stratospheric: "...and my bank account (is getting bigger)"
Relationships
 Has celebrities at his parties
Pets
 N/A


PERSONALITY

Morality
 self-involved, but not necessarily exploitive
Intro/extrovert
 extrovert
Intelligence
 "smarter than that."
Emotions
 greed, primarily
Sanity
 is likely less than fully sane. Certainly a hoarder, a money addict
Enemies
 People who try to keep him from getting more stuff?


Narrative Function
 Protagonist
Other Notes
Big Time is able to grow, but it is unclear if he can shrink. It is clear that he does not want to.
At a certain point, however, he will have to stop growing, because either there will be no more room, or no more of a necessary resource, like food, water, or air. Hopefully, he will choose to stop growing before the rest of life on Earth runs out, also.   


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