Bismuth

Name: Bismuth



Age: 29



Family: None that she remembers, but she considers her best friend from the juvy, Garnet, as her blood-related sister. She’s also the godmother of Rose’s, another volunteer from the center’s, child, Steven.



Personality: Bismuth is boisterous, fierce, determined, empathetic, and emotive. She is not afraid to speak and act her mind. She cares deeply for her friends and cohorts. Behind an aggressive personality, she’s practically a big teddy bear; one of her. She likes to have fun every once in awhile, but she prefers being alone at her forge with hers or Bunny’s students, sparring and training them in the art of combat.



Style of thieving: Weaponry teacher



How the teachers joined Once-ler's gang: No one really knew that much about Bismuth, and neither does she. For most of her life, she remembers it being spent in a dark and dim room (not actually, but it seemed that way for young Bissy) at Miss Cinch’s Home for Wayward Children. In fact, her first memory was of her being pushed out of the middle of a fighting ring by two people: a girl with a black, square afro and a older woman with long pink ringlets in her hair. They introduced themselves as Garnet and Rose, respectively, and lead her to Cinch’s place, where they both were being kept. Garnet had lost her parents in a thunderstorm and Rose was one of the superintendents of the juvenile center and orphanage. Garnet then explained that Rose was the only person at Cinch’s who actually gave a crap about their well-being (Cinch would be around for mealtimes and other minor occasions, but for most of the day, she stayed in her office working on “important business”) and showed Bismuth the ropes of how to get by at the juvy.



Things were good for about six years after Bismuth joined until one day, Rose had come back from one of her charity drives limping and bruised, making her feel out of sorts for the next few days. One week later, she called Garnet and Bismuth over to them and revealed to them that she was harassed by some men in the city and she got in a pretty bad fight; one of them tried to sexually assault her, but she defended herself. Bismuth, enraged by anyone trying to hurt Rose, decided to go out of her way and confront the men who attempted to rape her. With only a rusted car hood from the junkyard and her fists, she beat them up. The kids in Bissy’s sector were impressed, but Cinch seemed oddly blasé with the fact that one of her employees almost could have died or been sexually assaulted. She then confronted the matron about her lack of concern towards the situation. After a heated argument, Miss Cinch locked Bismuth in the basement of the facility. There was where she discovered the joy of weapon-making.



When she was being punished, which was often now in rebellion defending Rose, she’d slowly make use of that car hood that she had fended off the perverts with by opening the fireplace down there, making a makeshift forge to melt the hood to make something for future use. She didn’t know what, but it was going to be something. One night while she was down there, Garnet unlocked the door and they ran away from the juvie, but not before taking that metal ingot freshly smelted from the fireplace.



For the next couple of years, Bismuth and Garnet lived in the next city over at a fight club and a low-profile blacksmith where the two sparred for a while. There, she was taught more in the art of making weapons and got some tattoos. When the two turned twenty, they received a letter from Rose that she had been married for the past couple of years, apologized for not notifying them sooner so they could be bridesmaids, and that she and her husband were going to have a baby. The two couldn’t be happier, so they returned back to their original home. While they were going to see the baby, she ran into a former foster brother who told them that Cinch was now Chief Inspector of Interpol and that she was looking for them. As if on cue, two Interpol officers surrounded them, telling them that they were past curfew and needed to return as soon as possible. Bismuth then punched them in the face, telling them that they were adults and that they need to tell Miss Cinch to “shove a fork up where the sun don’t shine”. A bunny then approached the rainbow-haired one and asked her about that feat; Bismuth told him that it wasn’t just her strength, even though she could have done it without her freshly-pressed brass knuckles. He introduced himself as Bunnymund and told her about the gang. She gladly accepted the offer, but she couldn’t go with him yet; she had a baby to go see. Nine years later, she encountered Bunny and Once-ler again, after warding off some thugs who attempted to hurt her 14-year-old godson named Steven, and formally accepted the offer.