This one’s a doozy cuz each member has a lot going on so strap in!!!
Their job is to hunt intergalactic monsters, beasts, and other such dangerous anomalies. With Kisyku running around rampant across the Cosmos, he quickly becomes their biggest target yet!! While their heavy duty weaponry and means of combat mean serious business, the brigade often gets caught up in numerous misadventures (sometimes they’re just outright hard to take seriously…)
Also.. I call them the Bomb Brigade as their official title, but I’d imagine in the actual story the name alliteration gets mixed up and butchered every single time, as if no one can remember the actual name hahahaha. Anywhos..
Bombs
Bombs is the head-honcho of the Brigade. He’s a human from Earth who leads his team with great confidence (sometimes to a fault). He can be stubborn.. and.. hard to co-operate with sometimes.. but all in all he’s a captain who cares deeply for the whole team. Each member to him is like family, so he’s always doing anything he can to look out for them.
I’d imagine whenever the Brigade needs to put up with Kisyku (like a temporary truce, or whenever they eventually form an alliance later in the story), him and Bombs would be that kind of friendly rival dynamic that just has them constantly arguing while they have to put up with each others annoyances.
Bombs also has an interesting speech-style, adding a lot of S to the end of words and stuff.. He also has a big rocket launcher, because he believes anything can be solved with explosives.
Bits and Blitz
Bits is little shark-manta-alien-thing who was recruited by Bombs for his incredible technical prowess. He’s super smart, and having four hands is quite helpful when you’re the team’s primary mechanic. Outside of his technical craft, however, he enjoys gardening a lot. Bombs even lets him have his own garden room on the ship! He also just talks with a lot of sailor/sea terminology hahaha
Bits invented Blitz before joining Bombs, but she was just the orb/eye part back then. She didn’t get the laser cannon extension until Bits built Bash (yeah he built Bash too!!). Bits has been meaning to give her a proper robot body, but she’s actually happy being just the way she is.
Blitz is like a sister to Bits, having a cheery heart-of-gold. She speaks in beeps, chirps, and whirs, but everyone can still understand what she has to say anyways. She’s a great listener, and often the one the Brigade members (especially Bury…) confide in to talk about their feelings. Despite her physical limitations she’s still a girl at heart, doing things like makeup and stuff. :P
Bash
Most of Kisyku’s Cosmic Energy rampages are mainly targeted at ships, fleets, and facilities created by the Cosmos. They’re a mostly unknown/dormant race that watches over the universe to ensure Cosmic Energy isn’t abused. That’s kinda a quick summary that I’ll likely go into more detail on another time.. but that’s all the context you really need to know for now.
The Brigade often searches through the aftermath of those destructive rampages for anything useful. Bits managed to collect enough scraps and parts to give Blitz a laser cannon, and eventually construct Bash.
Bash is forged from the scraps of Cosmic Destruction. He has one goal and one goal alone and it’s to “kill the Celestial.” That tunnel-vision mindset is kinda like Android 16 in DBZA, except Bash is also very arrogant too. He often sees himself as the superior being, the greatest, flawless, you get the idea. This is likely a result of his Cosmic technology DNA haha. Somehow though, he’s just co-operative enough to still be tolerable… except for Bury… him and Bury kinda argue like a LOT.
Bash has no powers aside from sheer physical strength and agility. He can spin his body around a whole 360 degrees, making him very versatile and a threat that’s able to keep up with someone as quick and nimble as Kisyku.
Eventually, Bits constructs the Giga Bash, a giant mecha that the Brigade uses at the climax of their rivalry with Kisyku in attempt to finish him off once and for all! This form of Bash is piloted by the rest of the Brigade, and has tons of features like missiles, swords, lasers, and all sorts of heavy duty artillery.
Kisk does.. end up beating the Giga Bash though.. I’d imagine it’s then that they finally put the bounty stuff aside for good. Though I imagined later big story beats will have them bring Giga back out again to help out with massive threats Kisk faces.
Bury
Oh boy uhm. Bury is. interesting. She’s my personal favorite member of the Brigade (prolly why she’s the only one I have an actual reference sheet for so far).
The Brigade was just doing their usual Cosmo-debris rummaging, likely from a Cosmic ship or space station that crashed into a planet because of Kisyku. This snowy and desolate planet doesn’t have any sort of life, so it was very out-of-place to find an unconscious body on it. She was badly beaten and bleeding out a missing arm, but the latter meant that it was recent enough for the Brigade to recover her.
She was taken back to the ship and they quickly got to work on making sure she’ll be alright…….
Throughout checking up on her, Bits was unable to pull up any sort of species identification on her or anything.. making her a total anomaly. She already seemed out of place on that desolate planet, but now she seemed to be out of place with everything. The only thing she had with her was her armor, and a scythe that was oddly enough powered by Cosmic Energy.
After she was up and about, Bits would eventually give her a prosthetic arm powered by Cosmic Energy. She doesn’t share anything about her past to the Brigade, so Bombs gave her the code name Bury. Her scythe was also upgraded to being a sniper rifle convertible, so she can play both long range and close range coverage.
It took time, but she got into the general swing of the Brigade dynamic pretty well. She got a little more vocal, often arguing with Bash or just being kind of aggressive towards the others. She has nowhere else to go, so she ends up secretly enjoying sticking around them. She also has a lot of alone time too…
I guess tsundere is the term for her?? I think of her like a hard-outer shell but a waterballoon for an interior.
In terms of their Kisyku encounters in particular though, Bury seems to really stick out from the other members in a weird way during these. She just feels rather off-putting, and especially quiet, almost like she has her own goals with him.
Surely she has nothing going on that she just doesn’t wanna talk about, who knows. She just has a whole shroud of mystery surrounding her… but maybe one day I’ll get around to sharing the rest.
Anyways, like I said, she’s the only one here with a proper reference sheet, so here she is!! She sounds really uncooperative, but she really does eventually get into the usual swing of the Brigade, and they all openly accept her as one of them! If only if she’d stop arguing so much with Bash lmao.
And wow that’s them!! Hopefully you learned a lot about these guys, it’s my first time sharing info about them like this!! Now I can go and draw my silly doodles about them :P
