#and unlike sweet paulie he will NOT STAND for being forgotten

[twst-the-night-away]

... oh HECK it's Paul's birthday! I don't have anything :c it's been busier and less artsy than usual lately and it kinda snuck up on me.

Paul will appreciate any well-wishes you have for him today! I'll have to give him TWO cards next March.

Sorry to all the Little Guy Enjoyers but I'm just glad Paul has his own little fanclub <3

Profile: Paul Pilchard

[ art by @oseathepebble ]

Paul Pilchard: He's Just Some Guy.

Paul is what you’d call a pretty average teen boy. He’s interested in things like comic books, games, and basketball. Nothing about him really stands out. That’s the life he’s used to living, as one of a huge family of sardine merfolk, where everybody knew their place and who they needed to stick with. Now that Paul’s at NRC by himself, though, he needs to learn how to be an individual - and maybe how to get noticed a little bit.

Dorm: Octavinelle Grade/Class: Freshman/Class C Birthday: March 5 (Pisces) Age: 16 Height: 163 cm/5’4” Dominant Hand: Ambidextrous Homeland: Coral Sea Club: Basketball Club Best Subject: Animal Linguistics Worst Subject: Alchemy Hobbies: Comics, video games, following Floyd around Pet Peeves: Wide-open spaces Favorite Food: Pizza Least Favorite Food: Anything with little seeds Talents: Drawing, languages, navigation Physical Description: Short and kind of scrawny, with knobby elbows and knees. Pale skin with a few little freckles here and there. Short brown hair with a little bit sticking up at the top of his head. Big blue eyes. There is a gap between his front teeth, which he’s a little self-conscious of. Floyd’s Nickname: Barnacle Rook’s Nickname: Monsieur petit frais (Mr. Small Fry) Special Magic: None yet. Twisted From: No one in particular, he’s just a sardine merman

Relationships (changing as needed)

OC Friends: He hasn’t hung out with many people yet! This space under construction. @twstinginthewind's Punch has been nice to him before, and Bobby and Jon once got him in trouble with the boss after a dine and dash. Canon Friends: Ace, Deuce, Epel (this space also under construction) Respects/Admires: Floyd, most of all, but he also respects Azul as his “boss”. He’s good at showing respect to upperclassmen in general. Avoids: Just about anyone in Savanaclaw, they could probably eat him up. Avoided By: Floyd (the best he can) Potential Ships: Mia (@twstinginthewind), Cyrila (@the27th) ... so far.

Character Opinions

Housewarden: Azul is the Boss and what he says goes. Paul may not always understand his methods or motivations, but he does what he’s told. His grades have gotten better since he’s been Octavinelle, so he knows that Azul’s legit. Dormmates: Paul’s admiration for Floyd mostly lies in how Floyd just does whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Having been in a tightly regimented family where he always had a job to do, Paul is just amazed at how Floyd can choose not to do something if he’s not feeling it. He wants to become more like that. Paul likes Jade because he always tells him where Floyd is when he’s looking for him, although he does sometimes wonder why Jade looks like he’s stifling a giggle when he lets him know. Clubmates: Paul and Ace get along all right, though Ace started teasing him about his height when he first showed up to try out. That was shut down pretty quickly when Paul demonstrated how quick and agile he was on the court. Jamil gets a respectful nod now and then - Paul feels like Jamil is someone he can’t approach lightly. Floyd is the reason Paul’s in the club in the first place. Crowley: Crowley’s in charge. Paul won’t question him. Trein: Gets caught doodling during his class a lot, but he swears it helps him concentrate. Crewel: Kind of scary. Paul’s not great at alchemy, he does better in lecture classes. Vargas: Paul’s okay at P.E., but he still dreads Vargas’s classes. Sam: Paul’s actually pretty good at negotiating. He’s haggled with Sam before and won.

History

Paul was born to a large family of sardine merfolk. The Pilchard family runs a restaurant, and as soon as he was big enough, Paul was put to work there like all of his other siblings. Since there were so many children, all of them were assigned a “buddy” who was close in age to them. Paul’s sister, Brooke, was his buddy, and they spent a lot of time together, whether they were playing, running errands, cleaning tables, or working in the kitchen.

Brooke showed magical abilities from a young age, and Paul felt kind of jealous of what his sister could do - she was able to bus tables without having to carry anything heavy, while he was carrying a tub full of dirty dishes and silverware. He started practicing his own magic to see where it could help. His parents didn’t mind him doing that, but they made sure he remembered that he really just needed to focus on getting good grades and helping out at the restaurant. They didn’t have any big dreams or expectations for their kids, and they were excellent physical providers, but there wasn’t a whole lot of individual one-on-one time where the parents and children could get really close. Paul’s closer to the siblings near his age than he is to his parents.

Some of Paul’s older siblings had already gone to NRC before, so when he showed up, he was wearing his big brother’s old uniform, two sizes too big for him. Everything Paul has ever owned has been handed down - new things only came when the thing they were replacing was absolutely torn to shreds. Paul’s looking forward to living on his own at NRC, making his own money at the Mostro Lounge, buying nice new things for himself, and figuring out what his own destiny will be like. He gets homesick once in a while, but not so much that he necessarily wants to go back.

Actions During the Story

Prologue: Paul was annoyed! His big day starting at NRC, messed up by a couple of party crashers. This was supposed to be an important ceremony.

Book 1: Paul didn’t have much to do aside from settle in to his own dorm, but the stories he heard from Ace and Deuce about their housewarden made him pretty glad to be in Octavinelle.

Book 2: Paul was running a booth during the tournament, and nearly got run over in the stampede. He would have been hurt if it hadn’t been for the quick reflexes he’d been developing in the Basketball Club.

Book 3: Paul really didn’t understand what was going on. All he knew was that Azul was collecting a lot more contracts than usual, and then the anemones started appearing … He had a little hesitation inside, and he started to feel like something was really wrong, but he kept doing what he was told. Azul’s overblot really scared him, and he hid when it happened. After that, Paul felt bad for running and hiding. He wants to become braver and stronger.

Book 4: Paul went back home for the winter holiday, and he spent it working. He didn’t know about what happened in Scarabia until he heard about it later.

Book 5: In an attempt to try and make himself stand out more, Paul tried out for the SDC, but he didn’t make it in. He ended up working in the Mostro Lounge during the festival, so he had no idea what happened.

Why Octavinelle?: Paul may not stand out very much, or be a very powerful mage, but he's willing to work hard. As he settles into life at NRC away from the daily distractions of his large family and their business, he will start to flourish and become stronger.

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Tony Bellew stops hobbling David Haye in extraordinary boxing upset

Tony Bellew stopped a hobbling David Haye in the 11th round to ruin the former world champions return to the ring and shock boxing

Tony Bellew, no stranger to Hollywood, ripped up the David Haye script he had always considered a sham, and belted the former world heavyweight champion into unwilling submission less than four minutes from the end of a fight that will occupy highlights reels for years to come.

There was no title at stake, but a lot of money and bags of pride after the two fighters had swapped increasingly tedious insults as well as the odd handbag for five months. That Haye was crippled for the last half of the fight only enhanced the drama and, of course, they embraced at the end, the winner generous in his praise of an opponent he had affected to despise in pursuit of pay-per-view sales as much as gaining any psychological advantage.

I wanted to really beat him and he really wanted to beat me, Bellew said, glowing like a man who had proved the entire world wrong. Hes a brilliant boxer. Who wants to see it again?

There was a slim consensus for a rematch among the crowd, but it surely makes sense. This was a strong contender for fight of the year.

Haye sneaked into the London Arena in Docklands 17 years ago without a ticket to watch Lennox Lewis knock out the South African Frans Botha, and left this grander venue with considerably more than the price of admission in his bank account, probably 4m of the roughly 7m pot left from the estimated maximum revenue of 13.5m. But he did not get the result.

Victory might have earned him a payday approaching 10m with Anthony Joshua who was ringside on Saturday but that hope is as shredded as the right achilles tendon that appeared to give up on Haye when he slipped on a wet patch of canvas during a wild exchange in the sixth round.

Bellew remains the owner of the WBC cruiserweight title and will boil down to 14 stone to make a second defence of that belt after a suitable rest. He has earned it. It is unlikely, however, that he will risk fighting the much bigger Joshua or Wladimir Klitschko if the Ukrainian beats the Londoner next month.

Old-style family man Bellew who still enters the ring to the nostalgic Z Cars theme tune was determined to bring down the playboy Londoner, who prepared on a Miami yacht and saunters through his sport like a film star. A quietly thudding irony played in the background, though: Bellew, Scouse to his fingertips, has starred in a Hollywood film, as Pretty Ricky Conlan in the Rocky spin-off, Creed, in 2015; Haye, who once boxed at the Playboy mansion, never did realise his dream of cracking the film capital of the world.

All that was forgotten in the heat of an enthralling battle. From the opening bell, Haye, who had had only eight rounds of competitive boxing in five years, stalked and swung with vicious intent but curious impatience. Did he trust his stamina? Was he desperate for an early night? Certainly there seemed little wrong with his suspect achilles at this point, or the old shoulder injury that kept him out of the ring for two years. Bellew, nearly a stone lighter and no body-beautiful, picked his sculpted rival off on the counter, and broke out of his back-pedalling shell to land some telling head shots in the second.

The Evertonians dodging and dipping served him well until the fourth, when Haye dazed him mid-ring with four good swipes to the head, but he did not follow up. Bellews corner had to work on a cut over his left eye as the contest drifted towards halfway without a defining moment.

And then it exploded. Drawn into a bar-room brawl after mistakenly thinking he had his man hurt, Haye lost his cool and his footing three times the last one for a count and limped back to his corner at the end of the sixth round, the injury now a genuine hindrance to his every movement.

David Haye looks dazed after being knocked out of the ring in the 11th round. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Reuters

Emboldened by the sight of his stricken prey, Bellew poured it on when they resumed, landing one crunching blow after the other as Haye sought refuge on the ropes. Haye was shot to pieces and gasping for air, but Bellew could not find the finisher. Again, Haye staggered drunkenly to his stool.

His right ankle heavily strapped, Haye showed tremendous fortitude to even remain standing after giving up two 10-8 rounds and a good portion of his senses. Wounded and exhausted, he must have dreaded the next assault but Bellew, curiously, granted him respite. Husbanding what little was left of his resources, Haye broke briefly into life in the ninth but his cause looked doomed. Now Bellew was the stalker. Showing discretion that has not always been part of his repertoire in the past, he took a low blow and gave one back in the 10th.

Derided for complaining about a bruised toe when outpointed by Klitschko, Haye was surviving now on one leg, unable to push off on his right foot, and the more knowledgable fans recognised that. But when Bellew barrelled him through the ropes untidily in the penultimate round Haye beat the count but his trainer, Shane McGuigan, threw in the towel to save his man. Haye was later taken to hospital for a precautionary examination of his injury.

There will be far worse losers.

On a varied undercard, Katie Taylor, in her third professional bout after a long amateur career garlanded in medals and unstinting praise, is still in six-rounders and was way too good for the 39-year-old Italian Monica Gentili, who did not go so gentle into that good night, floored and stopped in the fifth. It was Taylors second stoppage win, and she looks well settled in the paid ranks, buoyed again by a good reception from a largely blokeish constituency steadily warming to the 30-year-old Irish boxer.

Earlier, freewheeling Yorkshire heavyweight David Allen not quite as funny as the late Irish comic, but he tries proved there was more to him than the sock he pushed down his shorts at the weigh-in when he knocked out Sheffields David Howe in the second round of six. Allen, who improved to 11-2-1, joined the bulging Matchroom roster recently, probably as a spare, but a couple of good wins and he could be in the mix for some sort of title.

The world super-featherweight champion Lee Selby, treading water between defences, looked sharp pounding out a ninth-round stoppage of the Spanish trier Andoni Gago. The Welshman is always a joy to watch, but he might need a bit more pop in those quick fists to prosper at the highest level.

The sweet science took a back seat when the former WBA lightweight champion Derry Mathews challenged the flashy Londoner Ohara Davies for his WBC light-welterweight belt and was decked three times before the referee rescued him in the third. There probably arent many working options for the 33-year-old Liverpudlian, who has had a grand 51-fight career spread over 14 years. Davies, unbeaten now in 15 bouts, should make inroads from here.

Paulie Malignaggi, a very former world champion who operates better behind a microphone these days and has a considerable UK fanbase, needed every ounce of his skills to stay clear of Sam Eggingtons heavier and younger fists but could not rise from a body shot in the eighth of 12.

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