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Name
No Armour : Skulduggery Pleasant
Armour : Lord Vile

**Nicknames**
No Armour: Prime Detective, Skeleton Detective
Armour: Death Bringer, Lord

Age
443, sounds as if he's in his mid 30s.

Gender
Male

Race
Skeleton (Human Mage)

Fandom
Skulduggery Pleasant book series.

Personality
Skulduggery, despite his bizarre appearance (which he hides while in public with a disguise), is something of a dapper gentleman. He has a polite, old-fashioned way of speech, and a velvety-smooth voice. As well as a powerful sorcerer, more specifically an Elemental, he is particularly enthusiastic about detecting, always searching for clues. He is also a flamboyant egotist, vocally exalting his own plans, complimenting himself, and showing off his magical abilities. Skulduggery is a clever strategist, usually forming the plan, and has a sense of humour which mist find enthralling, but others, not so funny.
Skulduggery's suave demeanor hides a desire for revenge. The only thing keeping him 'alive' is his hatred for the man who killed him and his family. His legendary rage manifests itself in the form of Lord Vile, who is Skulduggery's evil side and shows how deadly the skeleton detective can really be since Lord Vile was arguably the most powerful necromancer who had ever lived. When Skulduggery transforms into Vile his is capable of appalling acts including slaughtering hundreds of people. However Skulduggery has also shown a very strong will and has managed to fight off his darker urges. He is also deeply remorseful for the terrible acts he committed as Lord Vile and has spent his entire life (or more accurately his afterlife due to the fact that he was dead) trying to redeem himself. Despite the darker side of his nature, witnessing the murder of his family makes him sensitive to the loss of others. Although he accepts sacrifice of individuals as part of war, he is highly reluctant to allow this to happen. Through a previous experience, his sanity has been partially lost, some say it is an improvement.
On an interesting note, the head he was wearing was not his own; he won it in a poker game. His real head was stolen from him by goblins while he was asleep. Skulduggery particularly hates being shot at, as he finds it very rude.

Backstory
Skulduggery Pleasant grew up presumably somewhere in Ireland approximately 400 years ago. When he was a child he had a stutter that caused people to think that he was possessed by the devil. At some point he met Ghastly Bespoke and they became good friends. When an evil sorcerer named Mevolent gathered an army and tried to conquer the world to summon the Faceless Ones back to their reality he was opposed by a resistance movement. Skulduggery was one of the leaders of the resistance movement but he fell victim to Mevolent's second-in-command, Nefarian Serpine, who killed Skulduggery's wife and daughter and then attacked Skulduggery himself with a dagger. Skulduggery then grabbed it, and discovered that it was barbed with poison. Skulduggery was tortured for several days before being killed by Nefarian Serpine on October 23 (which was intentionally the author Derek Landy's birthday). Mevolent's minions then stuck Skulduggery's body on a pike and burnt it for all to see.
One by one the other leaders of the resistance fell but strangely Skulduggery's spirit did not move on. His bones had been placed in a bag and thrown in a river, but Skulduggery was somehow able to go into the bag, reattach his bones and quite literally pull himself together. He then returned, and with his help the resistance was able to defeat Mevolent whose minions were either imprisoned or rehabilitated, Serpine included. Another of Mevolent's henchmen, Baron Vengeous, was personally tracked down by Skulduggery, who threw a stick of lit dynamite at him. A truce was signed between the Sanctuaries and the former followers of Mevolent and an uneasy peace began. After Mevolent's defeat, Skulduggery became a detective, but he never lost his hatred for and desire for revenge on Serpine. During the war, Skulduggery was part of a group, ironically named the Dead Men, as they would always come back from suicide missions alive. Ghastly Bespoke and Erskine Ravel are some of the members. It is revealed that it is called the "Dead Men" as the members were not afraid of death like Mevolent's allies.

(This is just a summary of what happened before the books, to find out what happens in the books, as it is too long to put here, read them, or go to see the plot synopsis here

Equipment
.38 Smith and Wesson revolver

Lord Vile's armour, likely to be given to him later, as it is extremely powerful.

Physical Traits
Strong, skilled swordsman and hand-hand fighter,style described as "brutally efficient, disregarding finesse for effectiveness".

Super Abilities
The ability to manipulate air, such as a form of telekenises, possible uses are:
-Used to push objects/people.
-Destroy or create walls.
-Flight.
-Pull an object/person.
-Deprive a person of air.
-Levitation, of the user or of another object/person
-Air bubble in dust, possibly in water.
-Read disturbances in the air.
-Create whirlwinds
-Crush objects.
-Squeeze, press, cut, or hold objects floating in midair.
-Containing explosions (like grenades, etc.) by making a sphere of air around them.

Weakness and Fears
-Death of those close to him.
-His sudden bursts of rage/ transforming into Lord Vile.

**Other**
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