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A true officer of the law stands by her principles, no matter the circumstances. |
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| —Percival King, "Winner Take All" | ||
Percival "Percy" King is a young police detective. She spearheads the investigation over the Arsene Amulet burglary, which leads her to the backwater town of Redwood Run.
Her Epithet, "Parapet", allows her to instantly create miniature fantasy styled buildings that produce a variety of different effects, for example, an apothecary that heals physical wounds or a wizard tower that fires lightning magic.
Personality
Percy has a very strict moral code as a police officer and values order and safety.
However, she doesn’t have many social skills and tends to speak in a flat monotone with a dry humor. She can often come off as straight-laced and insensitive as well, unknowingly talking down to Mundies.
Abilities
Skillset
- Sword Proficiency: Percy is shown to be very skilled in wielding a "real-ass goddamn sword".
- Architecture knowledge: Percy has a vast knowledge of architecture, hence explains why she takes architectural work as a side job.
Unique Abilities
- Epithet: Parapet: Percy's epithet allows her to instantly create small buildings with a variety of different effects, but the quality of the building depends on its foundation. The first time she was shown using her epithet was in season 1, episode 5- Redwood Run. However, her towers cannot be built on organic matter. [1]
- Apothecary: Percy can create a little mushroom-hut apothecary that can heal injuries or calm someone within her range. However, it can not heal any mental injuries.
- Wizard Tower: Percy can create a tiny castle tower with electricity coming out from the top which she can fire at command. They also can exhibit electromagnetic fields capable of stopping bullets in the air, when used in a pair. They're around 3 feet tall.[2]
- Forge: Percy can create a small gazebo with an open flame in the middle. This apparently has a positive effect on defense, but it has yet to be shown. They're around 3 feet tall.[3]
- Static Cling: A combo technique she performs with Ramsey, summoning a bunch of Wizard Towers to zap Ramsey (while he is made of gold) while he's holding on to the opponent.
Relationships
Ramsey Murdoch
Percy has a reluctant alliance with Ramsey who is a con-artist, after being persuaded by him. The two end up to be a rather good team, however, Percy is still rather ignorant of Ramsey's health and safety. Upon realized he has been a criminal who has been reported on multiple forgery cases and witnessing his epithet, Percy is displeased with him lying and proceeds to arrest him, but still convinces him to use his appraising skills for the law force if he has a chance in order to allow him to make up for his past crimes, even promising him to give him a comfortable stay in jail.
Howie Honeyglow
Howie has a strained history with Percy, and hence they are rivals since Howie is a Mundie who dislikes epithets and they both work in construction. Percy has no understanding of being a Mundie, leading Howie to be rather snappy towards her when she talks about her epithet/other Inscribed.
Theme
Be Nice, Be Cool
Oh Danny Boy
Trivia
- In universe, she is Taiga-raced.
- Parapet is actually based on a tower defense game, in which the player chooses from a pool different small towers and constructs one per "turn". This can explain her low stamina.
- Owing to her low stamina, she has extremely bizarre methods of recharging herself, such as putting butter in water as part of her breakfast or even literally sipping a pine cone.
- Her name means pierce, befitting her choice of being a sword wielder.
- It is also derived from the name of one of the Round Table Knights.
- Brendon Blaber believes that Percy is 29 but cannot confirm due to other crew members being her creators.[4]
- Percy has been confirmed to be written as asexual, and may also be aromantic. [5]
- Brendan (Jello) also leaves fans to interpret her as trans, non-binary or even autistic whatsoever. He even admits that she is his first purposefully ambiguous character he has created.[6]
References
- ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189981125637/combining-your-info-about-all-the-different?is_related_post=1
- ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866322112/hello-i-have-a-weird-question-but-a-bet-is
- ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866322112/hello-i-have-a-weird-question-but-a-bet-is
- ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189531710167/may-i-ask-the-ages-of-zora-percy-and-ramsey
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190090771062/will-any-non-binary-characters-be-showing-up
Gallery
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