Name: Ballard Nicknames:
Breed: Sphinx
Attached to: His amazingly hawt reflection.
Alignment: Senshi
Blood Type: Unknown
Fav. Food Nachos with plenty of really spicy dip.
Hated Food: broccoli, chocolate, sweets
Hobbies:
-Too hot to handle: Although in a trait deceptively like a 'normal' cat, Ballard seems to be indifferent, at best,to sweets, and claims they taste like cardboard, he LOVES hot and spicy. He loves trying new hot and spicy sauces and dips, and wants to find out how hot he can go. At the moment his goal is to get someone to buy him a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce... The one so hot you need to sign a waiver.
-Photograph: until he can transform, this one will either be reduced to a feline version of impressions... Or require help from an like minded accomplice, but Ballard also happens to think that photos of peoples sweating, red faces as they get more heat than they can handle are the height of humor. As a result, he has the unfortunate tendency to... Not reveal the extent of the heat in any given sause, or deliberately underplay it, and wise people are very cautious in trying anything he's had a paw in the making of.
- I wanna get lost in your Rock and Roll:
If any cat in the universe is ranked 'most likely to loose his hearing by being too close to the speakers' it's Ballard. Music, especially rock, enchants him on a primal level, and he notes that humans are 'damn clever apes' for coming up with it. He's not picky, and he probably couldn't even list five bands, let alone five songs by name, but he feels he doesn't need to. He just loves it all.
-Socrates: Ballard is very fond of the saying attributed to this philosopher, "The only thing I know is that I know Nothing". He knows he doesn't have all the answers, that no one does, but he thinks half the fun is trying to find them.
-Smashin' Fashion: Calling Ballard a fashion-plate on any level would be... Something of a stretch, since if it hadn't been demonstrated otherwise it would be easy to swear he was color blind... And as a result this particular hobby shouldn't be surprising. As soon as cooler weather kicks in, Ballard pulls out, and sports, an incredible array of sweaters. Really. Ugly. Sweaters. Pomppoms, cables, FunFur, boucle... Lime green and fushia... You name it, he probably has it, and probably has it in combination. Being a Naked Kitty is obviously the superior way to be, in his book, but he does have to admit he needs some help in the cold. And what a fun way to do it!
Ooh, matching kitty mittens! Woo!
Virtues:
-Unflappable: The same impressive ego that fuels Ballards belief in his own undeniable sexiness makes him difficult to phase. He shrugs off most insults with an attitude that suggests he'd react the same to the highest compliment. He does his best to treat even the most hysterical senshi calmly, believing that it's the best way to coax them to do the right thing.
-The Great Detective: for Ballard, it's about the search for answers not the answers themselves. He wants to be there for the great discoveries, and he'll go to great lengths to try and find the answers, and try and inspire the same passion in others. He not only wants to know the truth about why so much seems to be focused on Destiny City, but the history of both the senshi and the negaverse. For the same reason he doesn't flinch at insults, he's sure he won't flinch from the truth either, whatever it is.
-Moral Code: in these times of great uncertainty, Ballard considers this his greatest virtue. He won't sacrifice anything thats 'not his to give' including the lives or possessions of others, even for the truth. He firmly believes that the senshi should, ideally, stand for justice, and for the preservation of life, even if he can't be sure they always have, or do. It's an ideal that should be strived for, in his mind, and it's one of his few hot button issues.
After all: if the senshi do things that are equal to, or worse than the crimes of the forces they fight, how can they claim the high ground? And even if they won, wouldn't it feel kind of hollow? They're supposed to defend, after all, not conquer.
Flaws:
- I'm too Sexy: Ballard really really does think he's incredibly hot, and actually telling him he's right is a fast track to making him happy. I mean your judgment is just so keen, you cant't be bad, or not all bad... Right?
This fast track to his ego is dangerous, and can make him complacent, since he doesn't hear it all that often from people other than his reflection, and when potentially dealing with the negaverse, complacent and trusting is bad.
- Of course it was funny! : although he tries to be a sensitive, caring guy... Er... Cat... Ballards sense of humor could use some fine tuning. He's callous as hell about his hot sauce fetish, and he sometimes thinks it's funny as he'll to tip samples into other peoples food. This can get him into some serious trouble, especially if you're unfortunate enough to gave a very low tolerance to the heat-causing chemical capcacin in the sauces.
Likewise he can demonstrate some rather off the wall senses of humor about... Well, just about anything. From battles to horror movies or horrific corpses, he tends to pop up with horrible jokes at the wrong time, and would possibly pop off a line to Tanz herself about peoples tendency to 'loose face' around her. Har har.
Not only could this piss off an enemy it can make it difficult for friends to relate to him, and even cause some pretty big arguments. Generally speaking, most people wait for a very long time before he apologizes either, since he really doesn't understand why his jokes upset people.
-C-can't read your Poker Face: Perhaps it's his ego getting in the way, but in spite of his desire to investigate, Ballard has trouble reading peoples faces. An open expression is one thing, but as soon as people start closing off, putting up their poker faces and trying to hide what they're thinking, he starts to loose the emotional threads. This contributes to him tending to not apologize, insisting instead that she shouldn't have to when clearly no one was upset. It also makes it much harder for him to gauge how serious an situation is when he's dealing with enemies who's faces are ideal poker faces or are obscured, and this can cause a seriously dangerous miscalculation.
Challenge: Are you afraid of the naked truth?
