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BasicsName: Rupert Hubert Smithson.
Alias: Ruhu Geist.
Title(s): None.
Age: Eighteen.
Gender: Male.
Race: Human.
Occupation: Scoundrel.
AppearanceHeight: 5'9”
Weight: 70 kgs.
Eyes: Pale blue with flecks of navy.
Hair: Bright blue. Yes, really.
Physique: Tall, sinewy but not lanky. He insists that he isn't. Even if he is.
Skin Colour: Pale pink. Standard really.
Memorable Features: “Eh? I've got blue hair that I almost never hide. How much more memorable do you want to get?”Attire Ruhu dresses about as typical bloke as you might get, wearing a variety of brightly coloured shirts and jeans combinations, though he tends to have a love of the colour yellow. This is peculiar considering his hair colour but no one has yet managed to convince him that bright blue clashes horribly with canary yellow. People keep trying though!
Unusually, he wears a silver chain around his wrist at all times and has since he was a little kid. It's nothing special – just simple links – but he seems very attached to it.
Equipment There is an assortment of miniature toy replicas clipped all around Ruhu's waist, seemingly harmless.
It was with a swagger that Ruhu at last arrived at Wing City. No doubt if the other two asked what had taken him quite so long, he would be uncharacteristically quite evasive. After all, no one wanted to admit they got lost...
“Ah!” he exclaimed, his contemplative frown shifting to a playful smile, temporary bad mood forgotten as he spotted the unmistakeable figure of Beau; the boss and one of his best friends. “Hey... HEY!” he yelled, quickening his pace as he dodged and weaved through the patrons, sparing long, lingering glances for a few attractive women he passed, grinning despite himself.
Eventually, he reached Beau and that grin remained as Ruhu stuck out his hand, eyes bright with enthusiasm. “Sorry I'm late!”
Ruhu Geist grinned throughout, though he made a rather amusing show of protesting the headlock, even stumbling forward. “More than you'll ever have mate,” he shot back, chuckling as he straightened.
At the question, the young man decided that this would be a perfect cover and set a very knowing smile on his lips, making a great gesture of counting on his fingers. “Quite possibly, but hey, I don't kiss and tell mate!” Then he looked around the bar for a long moment, clearly disheartened by something before waving it away, playfully punching Beau in the shoulder.
“Also, thanks for making me feel welcome. Honestly, attacking me!” But he beamed, the happiest he'd been for ages.
Ruhu Geist shrugged, expression playful. It wasn't like any of the stories he made up were true... He made a show of looking embarrassed for a second before perking up at the mention of Phantasm, immediately looking around as if expecting the stoic bloke to turn up at his name. Hey, it wasn't like he hadn't been so silent that the inventor's son hadn't noticed him before!
“Our pretty Whisp's changed? Hopefully for the better,” he returned, eyes lighting up with interest. His flirtations with their only female member had been entirely playful. That didn't mean he didn't get a kick out of watching her fuss. Now he grinned more, nodding. “We better find them both before they get into trouble without us!”
Abruptly, he felt his gaze shift, eyes sliding close at the scene developing on the other side of the bar, giving Beau a measuring but not serious look. "You really think this place is safe?" he asked quietly.
Ruhu Geist didn't think he liked the sound of that. Different but not better? Alarmed for a moment, he didn't react to the second statement, idly nodding. They were a gang and if... Whisper was in trouble... His eyes flashed defiant for a moment, looking at Beau, forcing himself to relax. Above everything else, he wasn't in charge.
If Beau thought there was reason to help her, he'll go in all toys swinging. Damn straight he would.
“Flighty thing as always. Phantasm... just look for... silence?” he tried, laughing sheepishly before glancing around the bar again, listening carefully. “Yeah. So I see. We'll have to find somewhere safe to sleep though. I don't fancy my chances around here taking a kip.”
Ruhu Geist raised an eyebrow at Beau's touch along his gun. Hey, whatever his boss got up to in his spare time was something he did not desire to know! At the shrug, the self-proclaimed scoundrel saluted lightly, almost as if reading the other's mind.
“Gotcha boss. It'll... be liveable before you know it,” he reassured, knowing that he needed to do something to make up for the lateness. “So, what's the situation around here?”
Some words Ruhu recognised and others were alien but all he needed to hear was 'Whisper' and 'needs our help'. Patronus, Orsa... didn't matter one lick. There were people trying to hinder their friend; that made it black and white to him.
Whatever she needed them to do, they would go to the ends of the earth to do it. That's just how they were. “Wits solidly kept about me, sir!” he joked, grinning at the comment made. “Hey, if a girl wants to kiss before she tries and kicks my arse, I'm all for that.”
When he won, he could kiss her again. Oh yes, Ruhu was as flirtatious as they came.
Then, the click of a violin case opening and despite not even turning around, the blue haired boy beamed, turning to see Phantasm, grinning inanely, ignoring the case moving towards Beau. “Lots ,” he said with a cackle, not wasting a second as he held out his hand to Phantasm, obviously expecting a handshake or some such.
He knew it probably wouldn't happen, but that didn't mean he wouldn't try. “I see you've been busy,” he said with a breezy tone to his voice.
Ruhu Geist laughed at the strange announcement by Lazarus, pondering whether he wanted to let any of his little 'toys' go towards such a fun, if disbelieving cause. The stranger seemed to be having fun though and thus, he began to think of a toy to hand over.
Ruhu Geist eventually comes to the decision, upon Lazarus's next words, raising from his seat at the bar, gin entirely forgotten. He was going to give the stranger his spare squeaky hammer. Definitely.
He waved a little towards Lazarus but would not interrupt just yet, sauntering over at his own pace, miniature toy in hand.
Ruhu Geist laughs out loud, surprised but thoroughly amused by Lazarus' behaviour, tossing the little squeaky hammer towards the diving vampire with a grin. "Push the button and it'll grow to a ridiculous size," he recommended, a big red button on the side of the so far tiny handle. "It'll be much better to swing then."
He wondered if Beau would admonish or cheer him on for donating to such a cause. Bullets and healing? His thoughts deviated back to the stranger, choking back another laugh.
Ruhu Geist waved a hand at the clearly enthused vampire. This would be his good deed for the day, for it wasn't like he did many of them. "You're welcome," he called after the stranger, eyes widening as he realises...
Crap. There went the table. He only hoped the bar staff hadn't noticed that he had given him the hammer. It was shockingly powerful, splintering the table quite nicely in two, shards of woods dusting the floor around it.
Ruhu Geist blinks at the coins now present in his hand, blinking at them before grinning. Ha, not a bad day of work! That might cover some of the weekly food shop. Excellent!
The vampire's mad dash away and prompt return made Ruhu laugh as he returned to his gin, gulping it happily.
Ruhu Geist sniggers just off to the right of JoJo, torn between amusement and disbelief. He wondered if the stranger could handle himself against an illogical foe.
Ruhu Geist wrinkled his nose at the distasteful smell, happily ignoring the eerie lullaby. He'd seen stranger.
They were doing alright for themselves in the city, Ruhu thought as he slipped into Gambit's without so much as a glance backwards at the alleyway outside. It was surely by some stroke of luck that they had not been caught yet but he never would knock it, grinning absently as steps carried him from the entrance to the bar counter, little replicas of toys swinging from the otherwise rather plain black chunky belt at his waist.
A moment's glance told him all he wanted to know about the room, raising an eyebrow at some of the more interesting patrons; those being Zul'kaz and his strange appearance, Sir Velvetaire, with the less than graceful entrance... well... whatever that was. Green skin was not normal. Not at all.
Ruhu Geist Micem Which is good, because Mentoring duties are making my focus divided.