UNDER CONSTRUCTION


Name: Pinocchio the Puppet

Age:

Gender: Male

Occupation: Bodyguard of The Queen, Informant to The Resistance.

Appearance:

Abilties/Skills: Pinocchio is trained in many aspects of combat, and is proficient with most weapons. He's also quite stealthy and can remain completely still for long periods, making him seem inanimate.

Strengths: - He can be taken apart without being killed, so long as the enchanted 'heart' piece set into his chest is left intact, it'd be theoretically possible to build a whole new body around that.
- He's very light, making him extremely quick.

Weaknesses: - He still feels pain, despite being made of wood and other materials.
- His wooden parts make him highly flammable.
- He's incapable of lying convincingly, as he nose grows when he does.


Personality: Pinocchio is a rather confused puppet-boy. On the one side he has a rather childish and naive sort of perosnality. On the other side he can very easily commit violent acts.

Equipment: Pinocchio is equipped with a halberd and two shortswords, both of which he can use very well.

History:

Pinocchio was constructed a few years back by Geppetto, a skilled woodcarver drafted in by The Queen to craft soldiers to populate her armies. He worked every day manufacturing the artificial men from pine. They werre ade purely to follow orders and do as they were told. They were large in number, but rather fragile, easily taken apart. Pinocchio was something of a 'deluxe model'. Geppetto was a lonely man. He'd lost his wife and only son some years before, and he carved out Pinocchio in the image of him, as well as using a variation on the others, setting an enchanted 'heart stone' to act as his core and source of power, so he could be repaired when broken. Once Pinocchio was activated, Geppetto taught him a lot of things, and the living puppet grew quite attached to the old man, helping him around the workshop. However, it wasn;'t long until the Queen took interest in the puppet-boy. She saw no reaosn why Geppetto should have the best model he'd made, and requested Pinocchio to become one of her guards. Pinocchio had to bid a sad fairwell to his 'father' and was taken to be trained.

Soon, Pinocchio had become highly skilled in combat. His form leant to fighting extremely well, and soon he was a full-fledged bodyguard. The royal crest was painted onto his back and chest, and he was put to work. for some while, he enjoyed his tasks. He went about everything he was asked with enthusiasm, and looked up to Her Majesty. Still, things changed. Everybody had known that Pinocchio was smarter than most of the other living puppets...but they had not counted on him developing his own sense of morality. Pinocchio began to question what he was doing...and whether The Queen was a good person to be serving. He was rather torn...it was then that one day he came across a member of The Resitance. They'd made an ill-thought out attack on The Queen, and he had been ordered to dispatch them.,...however a lot of what they were saying made curious sense to him. He quietly let them go. It was assumed that he'd killed them, and he carried on his duties. Gradually, Pinocchio became more sympathetic to the rebel cause, and began meeting with them sometimes, in secret to relay some of the Queen's plans. He knew he was playing a very dangerous game, especially as a being the could not lie...but he felt he was finally behaving like a perosn in his own right.