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Bloat (Wild Cards)
Bloat is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wildcardsonline.com/characters-b.html )〕 He was created for the books by Stephen Leigh. An adolescent boy transformed by the Wild Card virus into a monstrous Joker, he resembles a tiny human torso atop a massively bloated sluglike body. Introduced in ''One-Eyed Jacks'' as Governor of the Rox he comes to prominence and full awareness of his vast powers in ''Jokertown Shuffle''.
==Character background==
Born Theodor Honorlaw, Bloat is a shy, overweight boy with a talent for painting and a fondness for role-playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons.〔 Picked on by school bullies and ignored by girls, he seems destined to become an accommodating non-entity like his parents. When infected by the Wild Card virus his weight problem surges wildly out of control, especially in the lower half of his body, eventually obscuring and absorbing his legs. Unable to cope with their son's transformation, much less properly feed or care for him, Bloat's parents abandon him around the time he reached the size of a small bus.
Much of what occurs between that time and Bloat's first appearance as the governor of the Rox is uncertain. Throughout ''One-Eyed Jacks'' various characters notice graffiti bearing such slogans as "Bloat Floats" or references to ''the Rox'', a street name for Ellis Island, which has become a hideout for homeless jokers and the jumpers that supply them with drugs and new bodies. Bloat finally appears towards the end of ''One-Eyed Jacks'' as leader of a gang of machine-gun toting jokers and possible mastermind behind the jumper reign of terror. It isn't until the beginning of ''Jokertown Shuffle'' that Bloat is seen to be just as much a prisoner of his criminal accomplices as he is an asset to their operation.
It seems likely one of the joker or Asian street gangs comprising the Shadow Fists discovered Bloat soon after his parents abandoned him and decided to put his telepathic "wall" to good use. Transported or possibly towed ("Bloat Floats") to Ellis island, Bloat became the psychic security system of the Rox. The larger Bloat grows, the further out his Wall, a telepathic barrier inducing a nearly uncontrollable fear response, extends. Only those with icy self-control or the overwhelming desire to reach the Rox can pass this barrier which seems to almost physically push the intruder away.
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