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After a while, now we have the next profile up, that of a maniacal, bomb obsessed Leprechaun...Guy O'Reilly! Gaze on at this guy and how absolutely bananas he is!

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Name: Guy O’Reilly

Bio: Guy O’Reilly…a name that goes hand in hand with such words as bombs, bombing, terrorism and ‘fucking maniac’, and with good reason, because…he’s basically a totally bonkers section eight sort who has a downright fetishistic obsession with explosives, and will set them off whenever he feels like it, for profit or for fun, and it can be either one or both pretty much most of the time.
He wasn’t always the unofficial patron saint of insane explosives fetishists though, centuries ago (in what was known to us as 1507 AD) he was born in the Faerie Vhale, a dimension apart from Earth itself and known to most others as the Fae Homeworld. Guy O’Reilly was born to a Leprechaun family from what could be called their equivalent of Ireland, which has a name I have not yet found out.
Guy’s father, one Sheamous O’Reilly was a cobbler (a rather popular vocation amongst leprechauns) and part time watchmaker who was quite good at his work, and instructed the younger Guy, a middle child from a family of six siblings, in a good work ethic and how to carefully make both footwear and clocks…Guy tended to prefer clocks though.
His siblings often had a tendency to pilfer his stuff, it was all in jest, but it tended to annoy Guy to no end, and the annoyance grew to a real pet peeve of his, to the point where nobody really wanted to upset him over this.
Now a pastime of leprechauns (especially back then) involves them taking chunks of their gold, placing them in cauldrons in hard to find spots and subtly challenge humans to try and catch them in return for getting the gold, for some reason this behavior was usually reserved for Ireland and very few people actually succeeded in catching any of them when they actually made it there…Guy on the other hand, was not like most leprechauns, because as you might guess, he hated the idea of someone taking his gold, so when he ended up engaging in the tradition of trolling humans, he tended to booby trap his cauldrons.
Other leprechauns were less than pleased to find this trait of his out, even when they pointed out to the paranoid Guy that only a stupid leprechaun could get caught by a human being, Guy however could not be convinced and decided to ensure this wouldn’t be a problem, he deliberately let himself get caught a few times just so people got the hint that he doesn’t get messed around with…however, this kind of grew out of hand, and he developed an interest in just periodically letting himself fall in this situation, because he’d slowly developed an interest in setting traps for people, a leprechaun’s penchant for mischief played into this somewhat, but it really didn’t go out of hand until Guy discovered gun powder from a Fae merchant, when he suddenly realized that his watchmaker’s training could be very useful…
He started teaching himself how to make bombs, and his own ingenuity let him conceive of the idea of making timed explosives, which he began to make and use in traps, needless to say, leprechauns in general were not very happy with what Guy did…however, his timing could not have been worse (well, for everyone else that is) as in what was known to Earth as 1644 AD, the Faerie Civil War broke out.
While I won’t give too many details about the conflict (at the moment) save that there were three sides in the whole conflict, and only one of them was actually relatively good (sort of), this conflict lead to Faeries fleeing to Earth to avoid the conflict, but unlike these, Guy gained an entirely different feeling from it.
He felt a stirring within himself, as he’d describe it a ‘borderline religious calling’…to blow things up, to reduce buildings (and other Fae) to rubble, and during this war between the three kingdoms alliance that the entire planet was wrapped up in, he had his chance.
Guy chose to offer his services to the closest of the factions to reach, which happened to be the Fae Magnai, a separatist party that really just wanted to usurp power for themselves, he offered his services to a low ranking officer, and proved himself by totally destroying an enemy fort with his bombs singlehandedly.
Guy quickly began to rise through the ranks of the Fae Magnai, but never lead a unit, he just was sent on missions to blow stuff up and make them bombs…however, during the remaining century of the war, they began to regret ever letting him in.
His love for explosions made him more loyal to destruction than their cause (which was horseshit itself), and Guy became far more of a loose cannon than they’d thought, see he at first just stuck to targets they’d given him, but as time went on, he became more and more addicted to explosions, and even more willing to go off reservation and attack enemy compounds on a whim, before long he was even willing to attack civilian establishments on similar whims.
Needless to say, it wasn’t too long before the kingdom he was attacking caught him, but he shocked everyone when, after being captured, he offered to fight on their side, which the kingdom did not believe…until he sold out his previous allies. The Fae Magnai still survived, but they took a large blow from Guy’s betrayal.
So he turned on the Magnai and began bombing THEIR territory instead…but it wasn’t long before everyone else in the conflict realized Guy wasn’t some conniving opportunist, just a maniac. He developed a tendency to switch sides on a whim, depending on who’d help him blow up whatever he wanted to blow up, the higher command would rarely enlist the mercenary, but he did have a niche for finding younger, less experienced officers who wanted an edge in battles that they could take credit for.
Guy would periodically visit other worlds as well, in particular Earth, which he began to frequently menace after the  Faery Civil War finally died down in the mid-1700s (and all three of the factions started an immense witch hunt for him when they realized that now he wouldn’t even stop during peace time, which lead to him ultimately agreeing to leave their world alone provided they allowed him to menace others away from said world), and began either offering his services to any government he could, or just blow things up because he wanted to see them go up in smoke and fire, the latter became more and more prominent as centuries went by.
He’d clashed with many different heroes and monster hunters over the years, and committed many wicked acts, such as the destruction of the Hindenburg, he would also be hired to do covert operations for people who didn’t want to admit he was working for them, but needed his destructive skills, especially during the Cold War by both the Russians and Americans (though this didn’t stop him from being arrested), he’s also known to have been involved in the Manhattan Project during World War II (fact is, one of the Fae kingdoms he used to work for was aligned with the Axis powers, when the nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, they remembered that Guy had been captured by the Allies shortly before that, they put two and two together, realized that they had Guy help them develop a bomb capable of destroying cities, and surrendered immediately because they wanted to keep him away from them), and to have committed many other acts of terrorism, either for his own interests or because people hired him.
However, Guy has been arrested on multiple different occasions, though he’s been able to break out of many different prisons, but prison hasn’t been as much of a problem for him until the more recent generations of monster hunters and adventurers, beginning with Lockjaw Garth, his son Silas, and Alistair Garth, his grandson, and numerous others, who have proven to be a match for him.
Currently, Guy has been arrested for several months, and is interred at a Hetelville maximum security prison for 1,000 consecutive life sentences (a VERY long time given Fae lifespans), and though he’s quite pissed off about this, he’s also confident that he’ll be able to break out again…

Personality and mannerisms: Guy O’Reilly, is a phenomenally skilled bomber with talent to spare…and about as much sanity as the average Arkham Asylum inmate.
Right off the bat, Guy O’Reilly is generally associated with insanity, and while his tendency to engage in insane giggling and maniacal grins is a good indicator of it, the main cause (and indeed source) of his insanity comes from a massive obsession with bombs and explosions…which you could already guess, but I might as well mention it.
Guy’s obsession with bombs started out simply due to him being paranoid about gold thieves,as mentioned above, and gradually grew into an obsession with destrution. His love for explosions knows very few limits, and is boundless…he also has a large interest in cars and various vehicles because they have combustion engines, which he sees as ‘being powered by explosions.’ He also believes in the Big Bang and holds a downright religious reverence for it, and refers to it as ‘the Mighty Kaboom.’
Guy still really hates thieves, and is quite paranoid, so he’ll frequently and periodically check out his many caches of gold and bombs to make sure none are missing, he’s very meticulous about knowing how much of either he has,  and if anything is missing, he’ll go on a rampage until he finds what’s lost, and if you happened to either rob him, or he thinks someone is trying to rob him, you better give the stuff back or convince him otherwise, because he’s willing to blow people to pieces over suspicion alone.
He’s also quite unpredictable and known to be willing to switch sides on a whim, he sees very little wrong with this himself but only because his true loyalty is to explosions, and he’ll back whoever can help him set them off, however his loyalty only lasts as long as it takes to set off the bombs, up until then he’ll generally be very loyal. Amusingly enough, about the only thing he doesn’t usually use when betraying people is in directly ratting out his former employers unless he wasn’t actually told to keep things secret. He’s even willing to go to prison over this…however, despite his willingness to turn against employers and blow their stuff up, he tends to get very angry when other people betray him.
Guy can generally be quite offbeat and wacky, but due to his unpredictability, he will often switch from either being silly and comical…to just being deadly serious, while he’s dangerous in either mood, when he’s just serious and able to focus his skills very precisely, he’s actually even more dangerous than he already is. To make matters worse (or better) is that he can switch between the two at the drop of a hat.
He’s known to be quite hyper to boot, and also loves to dance…like a lot, he’ll dance at the drop of a hat, and knows many different forms of it too, he’ll even dance frequently during his jobs as well.
He’s known as quite a chatterbox, and will talk frequently, often very loudly, and he’ll often yell too, his tendency to talk and yell constantly has been able to bite him in the ass at times as he’ll periodically talk to himself if he thinks he’s alone…and he doesn’t always realize when somebody’s around.
And in addition, he’s highly prideful, refusing to let anyone take the blame for his crimes…because as far as he’s concerned, anything he does is his, and nobody else’s.
Guy’s notably fond of drinking poitin, an Irish moonshine drink, along with French fries and potato chips, though he’s known to season food of his with gunpowder, he enjoys smoking immensely, and loves watching Michael Bay films. And though his family wants nothing to do with him, he actually does still like them, even though he doesn’t like how his siblings used to steal his stuff, which is saying a lot given how much he hates thievery no matter the reason.

Powers, skills, and equipment: Guy O’Reilly may be short of stature, and not as durable as some mighty badasses…but he more than makes up for it and is rightly feared by many for the simple fact that he’s one of the most accomplished and skilled explosives expert on the planet, and downright insane when it comes to using them.
While he was a novice bomber during the beginning of his career, over time Guy grew more and more skilled as he went along, due to his growing love of explosions, he became more enthusiastic about his craft, which compelled him to try and learn as much as he could about them.
While he was learning whatever he could read about bombs, he experimented and taught himself an awful lot too, through trial and error he taught himself how to make better bombs, be they large, loud and powerful or small, quiet and weaker (but harder to detect) ones, then and at present he’s capable of making very high quality bombs and is very good at it.
His skill at making them became even better once he learned how to place enchantments on his  bombs, though explosives themselves are a bit harder to enchant (or at least they were at the time) Guy developed various techniques that allowed him to do it easier and much more consistently, he can tailor a large amount of magical effects to his bombs, mostly elemental though, as outright curses and bad luck are things he’s had great difficulty with in this regard (plus he doesn’t find them as interesting.)
Guy has incredible levels of experience with pretty much every kind of bomb and explosive you can think of, time bombs, pipe bombs, C-4, firebombs, rockets, grenades, bouncing bombs, TNT, car bombs, smoke bombs, and just about everything else. As you can guess from his backstory, he’s also fully capable of working with and making nuclear weapons. While he usually likes to use the gold he’s hoarded up and stolen to get bombs or the materials to make them, he’s no stranger to personally scrounging up the materials to make the stuff himself, and is more than happy to do so if he needs to. Even if he were on a world where people never made it out of the middle ages, he’s fully capable of finding uranium and producing a nuclear warhead (though depending on what else they have in their world, it may or may not take a while).
In addition, he’s capable of cobbling together some magical items, he doesn’t usually do this so much, but the enchanted items he usually uses, if he does, are a pair of boots he calls his ‘Kaboom shoes’ which have the difficult to achieve effect of literally causing explosions when whoever wears them wishes to…when they walk, these shoes aren’t worn usually, but when he does just moving is dangerous for those around him, he also has a pair of gloves capable of releasing explosions when he throws a punch. Aside from these he also has some skill in magic himself, and can use these to his advantage, primarily by using runes and symbols to direct the flow of his explosions, primarily for transportation.
As to be expected, there are magical abilities that leprechauns naturally have as opposed to humans, however there’s really only one aside from naturally being very fast and agile, and that’s the ability to turn invisible and silence footsteps of their own…the problem is, he can only activate the power if nobody’s looking at him, he can be invisible right in front of open eyes, but he’s simply unable to turn invisible if eyes are on him, this only applies to the bare eyes of a being, human or otherwise. He can turn invisible if he’s only being seen through a camera. However, his invisibility does not work on robots or beings of especially high magical power.  
While completely insane, Guy is more dangerous than most nutjobs because though you wouldn’t guess it from seeing or listening to him, but he is actually quite intelligent and clever. During the Faerie Civil War, as his skill in making bombs grew, he also learned relatively quick that changing his methods periodically would be a very good idea if he wanted to avoid such unfortunate states as imminent death, so he developed many different methods of delivering, placing, and rigging up bombs so they go off to the best effect, this carried over to the present where he’s got one of the hardest to predict methods of any bombers, in fact he really has no pattern or constant to his attacks.
He’s also quite a smart and dangerous planner and full of ideas for bombing plans, and also how to manipulate people when he needs to…usually to trick them into triggering one of his explosions or something like that.
Guy also has some pretty good hand to hand combat skills, they are greatly paled by his skill in making bombs, but they are still good enough to put up a good fight when it comes down to it; due to his tendency to try and blow shit up, many people have tried to capture, kill or arrest him, so he developed these skills, both through self-training and experience.
He is a bit more durable than a normal human, he can take more punches but isn’t ridiculously invulnerable or anything like that, though due to his magical skills, he’s actually invulnerable to explosion. Faeries are at average about two or three times stronger and faster than a normal human…Guy’s strength is about two, but he does boast incredible levels of speed and agility, especially the latter, he’s not superhumanly fast, but he can move very fast, his main strength is itself agility and leaping, as due to his smaller size he can leap around a room like a monkey and beat the hell or blow up people with ease.
His hand-to-hand fighting style capitalizes on this, and is based off of bounding around the room like a pinball, ping-ponging about and trying to land as many blows as possible, if he can he frequently likes to augment his speed through explosions big and small, making him into something akin to a fleshy cannonball.
As Guy is quite fond of cars, one might expect him to be a pretty good driver…in truth however, he’s a terrible driver, he’s still very dangerous behind the wheel though, but mostly because he has a tendency to cause massive amounts of damage regardless of whether or not he wants to, which depending on the situation is either a strength or a huge weakness. He does have an average skill level in using a ‘witch broomstick’ but hates them because they ‘don’t run on explosions’.
On a side note, Guy himself still retains some pretty good knowledge of how to make and upkeep shoes, still kinda remembering that skill his dad taught him, he’s also quite good at hoarding away items and gold (especially the latter)…he’s also very skilled at dancing, mostly due to just how frequently he tends to do it, and possesses a coat equipped with hammerspace magic, which is also where he keeps a large number of explosives (the stuff he doesn’t keep in whatever lair he’s using or just hoarded away) and other items.

Appearance: Guy O’Reilly is a Leprechaun who’s over six hundred years old…which to Faerie, means he’s just in his early thirties, and looks fittingly as old.
He is about four feet, and has firey red hair, in addition to a busy beard like the kind one generally pictures a leprechaun with…only in his case it’s quite unkempt, frizzy and just crazy, giving more of an impression that he’s batshit insane, he also has similar hair, it’s not very long though.
His head is rather large, not disproportionately, but large nonetheless, and he has a big mouth which possesses full rows of teeth that are seen clearly whenever he grins (which is frequently), amusingly enough though he’s quite diligent with taking care of his teeth, so they’re quite white. Guy has a pair of purple eyes that themselves are big, and almost always have a ‘wild eyed’ appearance. He’s in reasonably good shape, as you could guess from the above mentioned agility, though he has a few scars from past fights on him, none on his face though.
For clothes, Guy wears a red jacket and matching pants, with white (but very dirty) socks, a pair of grey shoes with silver buckles, a green shirt beneath his jacket, a gray belt with a gold buckle and red crocked hat. When in disguise he frequently tends to favor no hat and frieze overcoats.

Other: Guy O’Reilly was inspired initially by Fatman from Metal Gear Solid 2 (my favorite villain in the series), after first seeing him, I decided to make my own ‘mad bomber’ character, and go way over the top when I did so as well, hence the over the top, badass villain he is now.
Guy O’Reilly, despite being an infamous terrorist, did have a movie based on his life, a biopic…that was produced and directed by Michael Bay.
I do not have an ‘ideal voice’ for Guy, yet, save that it’d be Irish accented and just plain crazy.
If you received no random explosions when reading this...then you were luckier than I was.
On a completely unrelated note, next up will be the profile of a character who'll appear more in Rod's story, Aiko Masaki, the surprisingly dim mom of Rod's friend and partner Chieko.
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Reminds me of Vince and bomberman mixed up