Big Band

Name: Big Band Real name: Ben Birdland

Birthday: December 15

Blood type: B♭ (experimental oil mixture)

Height: 7' 7"

Weight: 5000 lbs. (95 lbs. organic)

Age: 49

OCCUPATION: Police Officer (formerly) Anti Skullgirl Agent

AFFILIATION(S): Lab 8

PREVIOUS AFFILIATION(S): New Meridian Police

Likes: A good beat, shoe polish, brass polish, 4-part harmony, autumn leaves, the flat 5th, the spirit of the law, gin, neat

Dislikes: Punks, corruption, unresolved dissonance, carelessness, electric shavers, smoothies, narrow spaces

Story: Big band is a former policeman from New Meridian who became a senior member of Lab 8 lab after being beaten and left for dead by his coworkers for going after the Medici. He now works under Dr. Avian in fighting skullgirls and developing new ways to fight them.

Personality: Ben Birdland, aka "Big Band", is a senior member of Lab 8, enhanced by experimental procedures performed on him he is committed to using his abilities to stop Skullgirls and the Medici. While he maintains himself to be calm and collected and prefers to talk things out, he will not hesitate to fight back if he has to. He is also a father figure and mentor to the younger members of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs and has shown to be empathetic to others, always ready to put himself infront of them to protect them like if they were his own kids.

Named after & referenced from: Big Band references a type of jazz ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians playing saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

The character's last name is a reference to "Birdland" a famous jazz club in New York City, named after saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.

Style(Design and body): Big Band has a variety of musical instruments hidden under his coat, although he has a large arm with brass knuckles he usually uses sets of small arms with cushioned tipped claws to hold small items.

He's been confirmed to wear striped boxers with musical notes on them, and his voice was fixed after his brutal beatdown, His voice now filtered with a smooth metal echo to go with it.

Backstory: Ben Birdland has seen a lot in his time, including the worst of the Grand War. But nothing was worse than what he saw as a beat cop in New Meridian. When he ran afoul of his crooked unit, he was given a violent early retirement, and his broken body was left to spend the rest of its days in an iron lung.

That would have been the end of Ben’s story if it hadn't drawn the ears of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs. With little left to lose, he agreed to be rebuilt with their experimental procedures. Melded with the machinery that allows him to breathe a powerful array of pneumatic weaponry, he was reborn as “Big Band.”

Now a senior member of Lab 8, he’s become a father figure of sort to the younger ASG soldiers. A firm believer in their cause, he has stayed with the project through its controversies and still sees his place on the front lines against the Skullgirl. His technology may be dated, but he more than makes up for it with experience and fortissimo.

Big Band has fought the previous two Skullgirls, and he has participated in attacks against the Medici's slave trade alongside with the help of some allies

Abilties, powers & tools: Big Band makes up for his new massive sturdy and heavy body in experience. He has an array of musical instruments that he can use in various ways to attack his foes, Despite his size, Big Band is capable of flight using rocket like thrusters. He is a slow character that packs a punch and is generally very sturdy.

He generally prefers to fight with others and doesn't use lethal methods when not fighting skullgirls.

He was given musically themed powers as Dr. Avian was a fan of jazz music. In the same way to how Peacock employed her extensive knowledge of cartoons when creating unique weaponry for herself, a better understanding of the mechanics of jazz instruments meant that Avian could create mechanisms based on them more effectively.

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Big band sadly dosent have arms and has to rely on 6 small metalic claws to help him do stuff like pick things up, open doors but most importantly play jazz~

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