#boffin

A couple of pieces from the aftermath of Gael's death in the Risen War.

Boffin

Character Type: Minion

Ability: The Demon (even if drunk or poisoned) has a not-in-play good character's ability. You both know which.

Flavour Text: "Stellar hydrogen, vast, inert; carbon, oxygen, neon gases, all ruined. Molecular chaos, entropy, yields new cosmic phenomena, rebirth from atomic chaos, dense matter collapsing. All in a teeny little bottle."

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Simply put, as long as the Boffin is alive and sober, the Demon has a townsfolk or outsider ability. This ability can modify the setup as usual, and the Demon will also wake at the same point in the night as the character would.

It’s easy enough to understand, while also changing the entire dynamic of the game. On a Boffin script, no mechanical ‘confirmation’ is truly confirmatory. (For example, Virgin or Nightwatchman, who can usually hard confirm themselves, could now just as easily be the demon.)

Aside from that, though, there are also a ton of other options with this character! You could use it to learn which players to kill, to secretly drunk good characters, or just to sow confusion. The Demon may not choose to claim the role whose ability they have, whether to hide that it’s in play or to have the Boffin claim it instead.

The Owl-Eyed Villain : Strigid

(welp guess who blew through one and a half seasons of this show in the last few days! more to come im sure)

Training and experience are key factors in getting the most out of ones quirk- an expert with a lackluster quirk can often beat a rookie with a powerful one. And Boffin is a prime example of this: learning through decades of villainy how to best (or elude) a variety of heroes (and villains)

His quirk is fairly simple at face value- being able to see fine details at a good distance, including at night (as well as being able to do the signature owl-head-turn thing). As with most experienced heroes/villains, he has learned to apply it in numerous ways beyond the obvious: alternating between normal and owl vision to locate ideal hiding spots, locating weak points on opponents, noticing the finer details of how others’ quirks manifest, etc. He backs up the slight advantages he can get with his quirk with extensive combat training and every possible gadget money can buy (or can steal)- favorites including a crossbow (for long-ranged silent sniping), grappling hook, gliding cloak, and goggles (for extra binocular capability, as well as mitigating damage to his eyes from sudden changes in lighting level while using his quirk)

Boffin butts heads with villains as much, if not more often than heroes: taking the selfish approach to altruism (a safer world is a safer world for Boffin). In particular will go out of his way to fight more mindless or destructive villains (“kill a man and you’ll rob him for a day, but let him go and I can rob him for the rest of his life”) but there is nothing Boffin despises more than a villain with some warped ideological agenda- he feels a selfish desire for wealth should be more than enough for any self-respecting villain.

But fighting against evil does not make you a hero: Boffin is still only out for Boffin and those few who are important to him. And he is incapable of working within the law: he prefers to deal with perceived threats personally- and permanently.

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Who’s the first to wake up in the morning: Probably Lara? I feel like Griff isn’t a morning person, at least when he doesn’t have to be for work. 

Who’s the one to make breakfast: Lara would chop up fruit and call it breakfast. Griff would probably drag them both out for some actual calories. 

Who’s the one to serve the other breakfast in bed: Griff. He’s an actual cutie under all that arrogant banter (plus he knows how hangry Lara gets). 

Who would suggest a quickie in the morning before work: Lara. 

Who suggests they both ditch work to lay around all day: Griff, usually on days when he notices that Lara isn’t leaving her office much. 

Who chooses the movies: Both of them? Although Lara will pretty much watch anything. 

Who initiates kissing during the movie, thus distracting the other from the movie all together: Griff, he just can’t help it, especially if the movie is shit. 

Who orders lunch: Lara. She is always thinking about food. 

Who steals food from the other’s plate without asking: Lara. She knows she can get away with it. 

Who curls up next to the other and falls asleep due to a full tummy: Lara. It’s the easiest place for her to fall asleep. 

Who distracts the other from trying to work at home: These two distract each other permanently. 

Who asks to go get ice cream like a five year old: Lara because FOOD.

Who takes pictures of their partner eating ice cream: Lara, she likes having evidence of getting her own way. 

Who makes a sexual joke about the dripping ice cream on their partner’s face: Griff. Lara pretends to be mortified, naturally. 

Who cooks dinner: Lara. Or at least she tries, fails and then Griff bails her out. 

Who cleans up the kitchen afterwards: They both put it off as long as they can.

Who stays up until 2 reading: Lara, her insomnia is a bitch. 

Who stares at their partner while their sleeping: Again, less of the staring but I can see them both doing this.