Armstrong, also known by his original name Aram Anni-Padda, is one half of the adventuring duo Archer & Armstrong. He is one of four immortal siblings born in ancient Mesopotamia, along with his younger brother Gilad the Eternal Warrior, older brother Ivar the Timewalker and younger sister Vexana the War-Monger. Unlike his more serious brothers, Armstrong is known to be a hedonistic party animal famous for his drinking and carousing. He is relentlessly pursued by ancient religious order called "The Sect" who view him as a demonic figure. In the 21st century Armstrong teams up against the Sect with Obadiah Archer, a young martial arts prodigy raised in a Christian cult.
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Personality[]
Armstrong is a hedonistic alcoholic, spending the millennia he's been alive bedding countless women and consuming countless gallons of alcohol. However, he also has a poetic streak, writing poems that range in quality from poorly-written excuses for poems to classics of literature such as the Epic of Gilgamesh (which was loosely based on his early life)[5]. Additionally, Armstrong struggles to develop long-term meaningful relationships, as he knows he will outlive almost anyone he meets.
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Using the boon transformed Aram Anni-Padda, once the transformation ended his mind, soul, spirit, body and very existence were permanently altered, granting him the following abilities
- Immortality: The soul is made invincible, forcing them to live out their existence forever. Immortality unties the soul from the physical body, which is just recreated as necessary, although the subject still retains all bodily sensations and functions. In this sense one is separated from the cycle of life and death, rendering their existence to be completely independent from the concepts of reality, granting them complete and perfect immortality.
- Halted Aging: The boon restored to him to pinnacle youth, he is incapable of aging, decaying, rotting, etc. He will never become ill, has no imperfections, possesses a perfect physiology and will never be able to die.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Every injury shall cease; critical injuries will be healed in a matter of days. Complete destruction results in complete restoration. The effect is irreversible and cannot be copied or interfered with, they will always be restored to pinnacle condition.
- Apathy: Is fully capable of experiencing emotions, but those feelings do not play a prominent role in his thought processes. Brain waves are very calm, akin to a zen monk. As such immune to depression, mental illness, etc.
- Immunity : Is immune to all elements and elemental forces, being completely invulnerable to direct and indirect effects. Seem to be a mechanism that prevents immediate death after revival, in a sense it allows them to be safe and functional any environment
- Superhuman Strength: Aram Anni-Padda is extremely strong, capable of using his full strength, essentially he is able to exert 100% of the body's muscular strength, maximizing the capacity.. He has ragdolled several grown men at once, uprooted a tree, and punched a T-Rex into submission.
- Superhuman Durability: Aram Anni-Padda's body is very resilient. He has shrugged off gunfire, been punched through several walls by the Eternal Warrior, and taken the full brunt of an explosion relatively unscathed. Durability allowing him to use his strength without sustaining injury. When a normal man repeatably punched him, he felt no discomfort and the assailant hurt his hand. He was unfazed by an entire Warehouse collapsing on him.
- Superhuman Endurance: Aram Anni-Padda can even neutralize his sensitivity to physical pain. He has been impaled several times throughout his life and retained his consciousness and composure.
- Superhuman Stamina: Armstrong's body generates no fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting him nigh limitless stamina in all physical activities
- Perfect Memory: Aram Anni-Padda's mind has unlimited storage and analytical capacity; able to instantly recall and cross-correlate any information stored with perfect clarity.
- Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Basic): Aram Anni-Padda has received very little training if at all, but experience has made him a very competent fighter. He has held his own against the Eternal Warrior and has fought Bloodshot and a fully-powered Archer to a standstill, respectively.
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You're making a big mistake, Archer! The world is a lot stranger than you think! You need a guy like me, who's been around, to show you the ropes! Archer!!
- -- Armstrong[src]
- If you could see yourselves the way I do... you wouldn't waste all your time on this "faith" nonsense! You'd see how beautiful the world is on its own without being polluted by your beliefs...
- -- Armstrong[src]
- You greedy idiots get it now? Huh? This is what the Boon does. This is what it was designed to do! That's why I wanted to make sure no one would ever use it again! I have a million stolen lifetimes screaming inside me! That's what keeps me living! There's no free lunch!
- -- Armstrong[src]
- I strived to be the best I could be for centuries... then in AD 529 I realized I was as good as I was gonna get, so I stopped...
- -- Armstrong[src]
- I was right, when me and my brothers set off on our journey, that we'd find the world's greatest subject. My first work, "Gilgamesh," got hailed as a masterpiece. So I didn't bother writing anything else after that. I decided to dance, and feast, and be merry. I changed a bunch of stuff -- okay, I lied -- to get to the truth. Immortality, eternity... forever doesn't matter. What matters is what you've got now... before it's gone.
- -- Armstrong[src]
- Dang... Carl Jung always said UFO's were a myth -- just a stand-in for God in an increasingly atheistic society. You know... an unknowable higher power manipulating events from beyond the sky? If he were still alive, dude would owe me an absinthe! We had a bet!
- -- Armstrong[src]
- Dude, chill. We're a friendly sort of intruders. Like Santa!
- -- Armstrong[src]
- We come in peace! Take us to your lager...
- -- Armstrong[src]
- Doesn't that feel nice? Thaaat's it... just feel the hate ooze out of your body, into mine, replaced by bro-nesss... sssh. There, there. It's all gonna be all right...
- -- Armstrong[src]
- You set a trap for me with booze? That's like putting Popeye in a cage of spinach!
- -- Armstrong[src]
- If I don't come back -- BURN MY PORN!
- -- Armstrong[src]
- What I think, Obadiah, is you have not lived long enough for Aram to let you down. So I would strongly suggest you quit this partnership before he gets the chance.
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