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CHARACTER INFO
Name: Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
Gender: Male
Source: The Jeeves stories by P.G. Wodehouse and television adaptation “Jeeves & Wooster”
Canon point: Post-canon
Age: 25
Colour: A96C91
Chumhandle: smashingSpats

History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Wooster

Bertie is a gentleman from the idyllic ‘Genteel Interbellum Setting’ that takes place sometime after WWI and before WWII... a world where the Roaring 20’s never ended, as well. He’s one of the ‘idle rich’ and has lived as such his whole life. He was orphaned at a young age and grew up with nannies and boarding schools and aunts in great country manors. He was taught to play the piano and sing as part of his lessons. As a child at Eton, he and the other boys were known to get up to mad antics with Bertie often taking the punishment for the crimes when they were caught as part of his calling as a ‘preux chevalier.’

The only sibling he’s said to have is a sister several years his senior (a Mrs. Scholfield after marriage). She and her husband have three daughters, though they are never named. Bertie and his sister aren’t terribly close as Captain Scholfield is stationed in India and the rest of the family resides there with him. At one point, Bertie did consider asking his sister to come live with him, but a comic series of missteps had him realize that he can’t abide children, least of all little girls, and that plan was laid to rest.

Bertie has lived in London for all of his adult life in a well-appointed flat. He’s known to pull childish stunts with his friends at the Drones Club (a gentleman’s club) such as pinching policemen’s helmets and singing loudly and drunkenly on boat race night.

Some five years ago, Bertie sacked his valet, Meadowes, for stealing his silk socks. The agency sent round Reginald Jeeves to replace him and Jeeves became a fixture in Bertie’s household and life. Over the course of their acquaintance, Jeeves has helped to extricate Bertie from unwanted matrimonial alliances, assisted him in carrying out the dubious schemes of his relatives and friends, and generally fished him out of whatever soup he’s found himself in.

Bertie has become reliant on Jeeves for a great many things and considers him more than just a valet. He has said on numerous occasions that he would be quite content to live out the merry bachelor’s life with Jeeves for the rest of their days. Jeeves seems amenable to this and has made every effort to retain his position. Bertie’s favored aunt, Dahlia, is a fan of Jeeves while his least favorite aunt, Agatha, despises Jeeves and thinks he’s got his claws too well into Bertie. Agatha believes that Bertie needs a strong young woman who will ‘mold’ him properly and has made many unsuccessful attempts to wed him off.

Personal head-canon coming into play a bit on the history now as the books are all written in the first person. Bertie is also an accomplished writer. He started at a young age and began detailing his adventures with Jeeves for minor publication shortly after their introduction.

Personality: Generous, gullible, simple, enthusiastic, and honorable to a fault. Bertie Wooster fancies himself the embodiment of the proper English gent of his age. He has a bad habit of allowing his good nature and gift for cross-signals to draw him into unintended engagements and unwanted tasks such as stealing silver for his Aunt Dahlia and financing poorly thought out schemes from his friends like Tuppy. He lives by the Code of the Woosters, though, which demands that he keep calm and carry on in the face of any adversity... unless the other party calls it quits.

Given his nature, Bertie has the singular ability to make a bad situation ten times worse by helping. He often thinks that he can sort things out and ends up saying or doing something that makes it all go to pieces. Most notably might be when he was trying to help his friend Gussie loosen up for a speech he would be giving in front of his paramour by slipping alcohol into Gussie’s usual orange juice. Bertie didn’t bother to confer with Jeeves who had done the same thing and Gussie ended up completely sloshed and ranting about Bertie in front of the crowd.

While he can take a lot of verbal abuse, Bertie does have rare bouts of spine that make it clear he was raised by two extremely proud and intimidating aunts. He’s been known to get snarky when he’s really peeved, and after helping the police apprehend two con artist jewel thieves and retrieving his Aunt Agatha’s pearls from their clutches, Bertie stood up to her on the matter of her forcing engagements upon him. Agatha had originally fallen for the con and tried to set up the female jewel thief with Bertie. He shushed his aunt when she was trying to shout him down about who the thief was (Agatha had decided it was one of the staff at her hotel), handed back her stolen necklace, and told her that if her choice of companions included such miscreants, he wanted nothing to do with them. It left her speechless for one of the few times in her and Bertie’s lives.

Ultimately, Bertie just wants to smoke, drink, and make merry with his friends and Jeeves for the rest of his days, free of husbandly duties and nephew-crushing aunts. SBURB is going to be rather a challenge for him as he’s not used to having to fend for himself and certainly not having to actually stand for battle. He’s going to miss Jeeves and his friends something fierce. Even if they do take advantage of him, he likes to think they do it out of love and affection and they’d do the same for him.

Abilities & physical limitations: Bertie is an extremely resilient chap. He’s a terrible fighter, but he can take a beating and even a lightning strike and still manage to scurry away. He doesn’t have any particular physical limitations and he probably has some fencing background from his days at Eton. Still, by canon accounts, he’s your average 25-year-old dandy.

Appearance: Bertie is a tall, slim young man who wears well-appointed suits from the 1920’s. He does have an attraction to terrible fashion that he is constantly at war with his valet on. He’s been known to grow a very unattractive mustache when allowed, and purchases things like magenta waistcoats and straw hats for the city.

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Notable AU differences from canon, if applicable: N/A

Strife Specibus: Whangeekind
Prototyping: A hideous tie shaped like a salmon (Underlings have fish-like tails).

Title: Lamb of Sacrifice

In-game abilities: The Lamb of Sacrifice has the ability to heal other players by taking on the injuries themself. With this comes some accelerated self-healing, but it’s not instantaneous and any pain from the injuries is going to transfer in full. At the highest levels of his Echeladder/God Tier, Bertie would be able to take on nearly-fatal wounds and still survive the healing process.

Planet: Land of Pianos and Parties: LOPAP is a planet of honeycomb city streets, clubs, and concert halls. There are meadows interspersed among these where over-sized dandelions and other weedy flower species grow. The consorts are enormous bumblebees (about the size of Scottie dogs) that enjoy dancing and tuning and playing pianos. The Denizen, Ligeia, has stolen away and hidden all of the tuning forks on the planet, though. The bumblebees are very distressed about this as their songs are going more and more out of tune.