Puffer

Puffer

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Full name:	Puffer Takifugu
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Birthplace:	Prima, Dragon Dimension
Sex:	Male
Race:	Priman
Hair:	None (scales are brown)
Eyes:	Green
Height:	5'7"
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Known skills:	Icthioid Empathy, Sub-aquatic combat training
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From a very young age, Puffer's parents worked hard to instill in him the values of working hard to make it in the system of trade that keeps Prima afloat (so to speak). And so it was that Puffer grew up working out of the trade shops in Auria and Tunlan, selling his wares to traders and craftsman from around the Dragon Dimension.

But Puffer soon found that his naivete was easily overwhelmed in the dogfish-eat-dogfish world of Priman trade; and within weeks after he had left his father and mother's practice to sell on his own, he found himself in debt.

He began smuggling for pirates, using his ability to turn into a giant blowfish to easily bypass trade inspections by going underwater. Soon though, he was caught by the Guild Master and his liscense was confiscated. He found himself joining the pirates he smuggled for, and while aboard the pirates' ship he made friends with Pete Cutpurse, a noted rogue and shifter from Bleak.

It so happened that, as the Great War raged in Dragon, Puffer's crew made a stop to pick up metal works for the ship when they ran afoul of Dark Dragons in the midst of a slaving run through the outlying villages of Gant. The Dark Dragons didn't take kindly to the tresspassers, and so they attacked.

In the confusion of the fighting, Pete and Puffer managed to escape, and took with them one of the Dark Dragons' prisoners, a burly Gant named Minos. Puffer, Minos and Pete escaped by fusing themselves together with Pete's shifting powers and made for the sea, together sharing Puffer's ability to breathe underwater and Minos' super-human strength and stamina to swim far and fast away from the onslaught on shore.

While travelling beneath the waves, they came across the wreckage of an airship. It was badly damaged, but salvageable. The trio hauled it ashore and Minos, using his extraordinary machinist's skills, personally saw to all the ship's engine upgrades, and under his care, the ship soon became the fastest thing in the skies. Thus was the Blowfish Express born.

The crew worked extensively during the Kuvalla-Ticondera-Medina war -- for the wrong side, it turned out. When Kuvalla surrendered, Puffer was refused assylum, and the GA labeled him a wanted man.

He and his crew managed to evade the GA long enough for the race for space to begin. Finding refuge on the island known as Giant's Claw in the Gate Dimension, Puffer was able to buy parts from a corrupt Atreus technician, which Minos tinkered with and used to upgrade the Blowfish. They took to the stars and earned a reprieve from their wanted status by working for the Guardians, taking up pirate bounties. While in the Alter Dimension, the crew also took on a fourth member, Kero de la Croaket, an excentric Siman rogue with an uncanny knack for computers and hacking.