APP; The Bowler [talktotheball]
Name: Sammo
Journal: fribbled
Email: liberalkitten@gmail.com
AIM: morbidpurr
Character Name: The Bowler
Fandom: Mystery Men
Timeline: Post-film.
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History:
Champion City was just another run-of-the-mill metropolis with run-of-the-mill problems: traffic, pollution, hobos, really overpriced tolls, and oh yeah - supervillains! Not as badly as New York had it, but still. Ever since the first psycho managed to finagle his first doomsday device, there's been idiots donning ridiculous costumes to stop them. Among these heroes was Carmine the Bowler. He never really managed to spend all that much time with his family between his league nights at the local tenpin alley and the whole hero gig, but his daughter Carol never minded. Her mother on the other hand... Well, she quickly got tired of the smell of rental shoes and ditched them both. Carol got over it pretty quickly (it wasn't as if she'd been mother of the year or anything), but her dad took it hard and basically started doting on his daughter. A lot. So much so that he even tried getting her in as his sidekick - being Baby Bowler simply wasn't the way Carol wanted to go. Which just made it all the better for her when she finally went off to college. He bawled his eyes out over his baby leaving him, never mind she called twice a week and visited once a month.
So Carmine was basically a legend in the hero community - at least until he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets. Carol thought it was just the tiniest bit fishy, but the cops never seemed to agree.
Now usually she would have just gone home to grieve, finish up the funeral arrangements, then go on back to school. But this got shot all to hell when in the middle of identifying her father's body, Carmine started talking. It took an hour of him not shutting up before Carol figured she actually wasn't losing her damn mind and started listening. Which just ended up being stuff she'd already figured out - that he'd been murdered and that he was pissed. As. Hell.
The part she hadn't seen coming? Was the part where he asked her to help avenge him. That led to a massively uncomfortable argument at the morgue in front of medical examiners looking very askance at her. Eventually she caved, put her education on hold, and agreed to take up the mantle of the Bowler - but as soon as this whole thing was taken care of, she was going back to grad school. Carmine grudgingly accepted, thinking that eventually she'd take to the business and just do it full-time.
Carol managed to get her dad to a more open-minded funeral home, got his head lopped off, and headed to a pro shop that owed her a hell of a favor to get his skull embedded in a custom-made bowling ball (the flower power decal and pink resin were so her father's decisions, Carol wanted the neon green to match her hair - something she still gets earfuls about).
After a couple of months of dead-end leads and jobs (psychic bowling ball vendettas do not do much for the bank accounts), she was sharing a cigarette with PMS Avenger when they got a call from the Ballerina about a recruitment-slash-pool-party being held at the Shoveler's house. Carol wasn't planning on going until she heard the magic word - "kegger". Of course, she got stuck working a double shift at the local Piggly Wiggly and only managed to get there after everyone was gone (and the kegger drained, goddamn it). Between her reputation as Carmine's daughter, her own skill with the bowling ball, and her grad school vocab, Carol wowed her way onto the team in spite of SOME people's (cough, MR. FURIOUS, cough) reservations.
The new team (Shoveler, Spleen, Invisible Boy, the Blue Raja, Mr. Furious, and Bowler) immediately went out to confront Casanova Frankenstein, a very badass dude who'd kidnapped the city's main hero, Captain Amazing. But when they tried to ambush Casanova in his limo, his group of henchmen - the Disco Boys, led by Tony P - things didn't go so hot. They ended up dinging up his car and annoying the crap out of him, though Carol did end up learning that Tony P was the one who killed her father. So that was something, at least.
Their second attempt went even worse. After breaking into Casanova's mansion to rescue Captain Amazing, they end up killing him with Casanova's Psycho-Frakulator. The team is basically wallowing in their epic failure when the Sphinx, an old-school hero and good friend of Carmine, showed up out of the blue to help train the fledgling heroes and hook them up with Dr. Heller to beef up their non-lethal arsenal. Everything was peachy except for where Mr. Furious had a hissy fit and went off because he had control issues, but he came back eventually.
The team then storm the figurative castle, kick ass, take names, all that good stuff. Carol even managed to finally off Tony P and finally shut her father up about the whole revenge schtick for a minute. Then other stuff happened and Mr. Furious surprisingly manned up and kicked some ass of his own, defeating and killing Casanova with his own Psycho-Frakulator. Of course, in the process, Furious doomed them all by breaking it and the city was about to get frakulated but good. But Carol talked her dad into destroying the core while the team anchored her, and they basically saved the freaking day to great media coverage and praise.
And now, with all of that nonsense dealt with, Carol was going to head back to grad school, despite her father's strident calls for her to get back in there, young lady, and do your heroic duty (yeah, she has no idea how Carmine survived being tossed into a Frakulator core - none). They had an agreement, damn it.
Personality/Psychology:
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Journal: fribbled
Email: liberalkitten@gmail.com
AIM: morbidpurr
Character Name: The Bowler
Fandom: Mystery Men
Timeline: Post-film.
Appearance:
Placemarker.
History:
Champion City was just another run-of-the-mill metropolis with run-of-the-mill problems: traffic, pollution, hobos, really overpriced tolls, and oh yeah - supervillains! Not as badly as New York had it, but still. Ever since the first psycho managed to finagle his first doomsday device, there's been idiots donning ridiculous costumes to stop them. Among these heroes was Carmine the Bowler. He never really managed to spend all that much time with his family between his league nights at the local tenpin alley and the whole hero gig, but his daughter Carol never minded. Her mother on the other hand... Well, she quickly got tired of the smell of rental shoes and ditched them both. Carol got over it pretty quickly (it wasn't as if she'd been mother of the year or anything), but her dad took it hard and basically started doting on his daughter. A lot. So much so that he even tried getting her in as his sidekick - being Baby Bowler simply wasn't the way Carol wanted to go. Which just made it all the better for her when she finally went off to college. He bawled his eyes out over his baby leaving him, never mind she called twice a week and visited once a month.
So Carmine was basically a legend in the hero community - at least until he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets. Carol thought it was just the tiniest bit fishy, but the cops never seemed to agree.
Now usually she would have just gone home to grieve, finish up the funeral arrangements, then go on back to school. But this got shot all to hell when in the middle of identifying her father's body, Carmine started talking. It took an hour of him not shutting up before Carol figured she actually wasn't losing her damn mind and started listening. Which just ended up being stuff she'd already figured out - that he'd been murdered and that he was pissed. As. Hell.
The part she hadn't seen coming? Was the part where he asked her to help avenge him. That led to a massively uncomfortable argument at the morgue in front of medical examiners looking very askance at her. Eventually she caved, put her education on hold, and agreed to take up the mantle of the Bowler - but as soon as this whole thing was taken care of, she was going back to grad school. Carmine grudgingly accepted, thinking that eventually she'd take to the business and just do it full-time.
Carol managed to get her dad to a more open-minded funeral home, got his head lopped off, and headed to a pro shop that owed her a hell of a favor to get his skull embedded in a custom-made bowling ball (the flower power decal and pink resin were so her father's decisions, Carol wanted the neon green to match her hair - something she still gets earfuls about).
After a couple of months of dead-end leads and jobs (psychic bowling ball vendettas do not do much for the bank accounts), she was sharing a cigarette with PMS Avenger when they got a call from the Ballerina about a recruitment-slash-pool-party being held at the Shoveler's house. Carol wasn't planning on going until she heard the magic word - "kegger". Of course, she got stuck working a double shift at the local Piggly Wiggly and only managed to get there after everyone was gone (and the kegger drained, goddamn it). Between her reputation as Carmine's daughter, her own skill with the bowling ball, and her grad school vocab, Carol wowed her way onto the team in spite of SOME people's (cough, MR. FURIOUS, cough) reservations.
The new team (Shoveler, Spleen, Invisible Boy, the Blue Raja, Mr. Furious, and Bowler) immediately went out to confront Casanova Frankenstein, a very badass dude who'd kidnapped the city's main hero, Captain Amazing. But when they tried to ambush Casanova in his limo, his group of henchmen - the Disco Boys, led by Tony P - things didn't go so hot. They ended up dinging up his car and annoying the crap out of him, though Carol did end up learning that Tony P was the one who killed her father. So that was something, at least.
Their second attempt went even worse. After breaking into Casanova's mansion to rescue Captain Amazing, they end up killing him with Casanova's Psycho-Frakulator. The team is basically wallowing in their epic failure when the Sphinx, an old-school hero and good friend of Carmine, showed up out of the blue to help train the fledgling heroes and hook them up with Dr. Heller to beef up their non-lethal arsenal. Everything was peachy except for where Mr. Furious had a hissy fit and went off because he had control issues, but he came back eventually.
The team then storm the figurative castle, kick ass, take names, all that good stuff. Carol even managed to finally off Tony P and finally shut her father up about the whole revenge schtick for a minute. Then other stuff happened and Mr. Furious surprisingly manned up and kicked some ass of his own, defeating and killing Casanova with his own Psycho-Frakulator. Of course, in the process, Furious doomed them all by breaking it and the city was about to get frakulated but good. But Carol talked her dad into destroying the core while the team anchored her, and they basically saved the freaking day to great media coverage and praise.
And now, with all of that nonsense dealt with, Carol was going to head back to grad school, despite her father's strident calls for her to get back in there, young lady, and do your heroic duty (yeah, she has no idea how Carmine survived being tossed into a Frakulator core - none). They had an agreement, damn it.
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