Barley Bron

Barley is a halfling thief from the metropolis of Bekon. Used to be an alcoholic. Now they are fey-touched and also still an alcoholic.

Barley is 4 feet of fury, give or take a few inches, and has a giant... desire to die. He wields daggers, a bow of warning, and carries with him a pet mouse trained in thievery named Jasper.

Recently, Barley has acquired a box containing paints that, when used to create any 2D object or being, the object or being becomes real. To demonstrate this, Barley's first painting was of a cat that promptly came to life after it was drawn.

Beginnings+

When Barley was born, he was taken to Bekon to get away from the war, and shortly thereafter, his parents both became ill and died. Luckily, he was taken in by a dwarven thief who found Barley while attempting to rob Barley's childhood home, and alongside the dwarf's elf companion, the two unwitting parents taught Barley their trade and cultures. Barley was once a gifted student, learning how to create runes and picking up languages quickly, but his alcoholism has ruined much of his attention span for learning and enjoying new things. Following the death of his adoptive parents, he has lost his will to live, and he often verbalizes his desires to follow his parents in death to anyone who will listen. He has had terrible luck, however--or rather very good luck depending on how you look at it--as no one has yet killed this small, angry, adult orphan. Out of sheer boredom, Barley continues to ply his adoptive parents' trade, stealing and scraping by on odd jobs that keep him in enough gold to keep his belly and his ale-glass full.

In one session containing an alternate reality, Barley met the rest of the (at the time, unnamed) Charismaniacs in an arcade that had animatronics that killed people at a certain time each night, all in search of chicken tendies. When the group arrived, Red (played by Robbie) proceeded to eat all of his chicken tendies except one, which was on the ground. Barley ate the forbidden ground-tendie, and the rest was history. Or well, actually it didn't happen in this reality so nevermind...

In the current reality, Barley met the group after an apocalyptic dream that told him to go to a certain location and there he met the rest of the group. He now spends his days drinking, talking smack, making bad jokes, teasing Rhythm for her sexual exploits, going on really terrible dates, and getting to occasionally pet Vita and Rhythm (despite that Gaius keeps trying and never gets to) because he's not weird about it. Oh yeah, and doing his favorite thing--breaking and entering, and thieving. Because it's fun! Oh and because they're trying to save the world, or whatever.