History Characters / CodexEquusCodexEquusProject

** When the Researcher Trio and company encountered Maud Pie's rival Buried Treasure in Mousiko, Mirthful's [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/930826834/5068813472 first instinct]] was to draw out and blast her with an Elemental Caster, both to take her out ASAP before she can threaten them (and out of sheer frustration of having to deal with ''yet'' another villain on their already eventful research trip). True to his expectations, Buried Treasure would cause them trouble after she managed to dodge his shots and escape them.

* DoomsdayDevice: Some weapons Planeswalker Mirthful possessed or built are this, capable of destruction of truly cosmic scale. One weapon system, the [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/932007147/5099027632 Variable Cosmic Obliterator]], is capable of blowing up an entire universe at maximum yield

* CombatPragmatist: Being an unskilled combatant with anger issues, Mirthful Stone would use any means and any tricks he could reach or think of to win a fight if his wand isn't available. This went up as he found a Armlet of Illusions, allowing him to ambush foes while they can't see his invisible form and distracted by his illusions when he can't afford to fight fair. Once he got himself Elemental Casters and Rocketpipes, he solved or attempted to resolve a lot of problems simply by shooting them or blowing them up ASAP.

* ManOnFire: Was set alight by burning grease during the [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Quest-s-A-Codex-Equus-Story-Part-12-933890380 fight]] against krakens in Qumado's Cherub Cove seafood restaurant, complete with flailing and screaming. Fortunately, he quickly revealed he was [[TheGadfly just joking]] as Qilin are mostly fire-proof.

* CelibateHero: Sherlock is aromantic and asexual, and thus has no interest in romance or sex. It is noted that he does masturbate, but to him it has nothing to do with sexual attraction and is more just a form or relaxation and stress relief.

* LovableCoward: By his own description and officially classified by Cultura as one. He would help any way he can, but he would rather avoid attention or danger if he could help it.

* BarrierBustingBlow: Played With at least in one scene, where he merely ''pretended'' to burst through a wall to attack someone as a distraction. It's noted he is [[HotBlooded very much the type]] to do such a thing if he could afford to.

* InvisibilityCloak: It's mentioned Mirthful found among other Third Age artifacts a Helm of Invisibility while the group was in Mousiko. It allows him to hide from and ambush his enemies, especially when combined with an [[MasterOfIllusion Amulet of Illusion]].

* SirSwearsalot: Of the 'Researcher Trio' Mirthful Stone is remarkably more foul-mouthed than the more subdued Jade Shell and the very polite Sherlock, especially when experiencing extreme anger or stress like when fighting back against a bunch of Autorist [[spoiler:including some Tyrannos Pantheon cultists]] assassins trying to kill them, dropping the ClusterFBomb more than once. He's trying to clam it down now that he's becoming a more public figure to set a better example for others, but he still relapses on occasion.

First mentioned in a [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/914602463/5004734573 Drabble]], Azure Glacier is an ancient Dracomorph and streamer who has become part of the Codex project.

* EnergyWeapon: During the incident in the Cherub Cove Technology Musuem Mirthful Stone looted and used Elemental Chargers wielded by the dragon terrorists (which were also showcased in the tech fair) which channels his rage-flames (though any draconic breath weapon would do) into a coherent fiery beam which allows him to hit at ranges further than his fireballs and flames normally could. He would use it primarily for medium to long-range combat.

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Although Mirthful have plundering tendencies, when he and his Planeswalker counterpart managed to create a device that could cure most diseases in one fell swoop with their '[[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/928205148/5093105636 Selective Pathogenic Neutraliser]]', rather than monopolising/capitalising on their invention for massive profit, he and Planeswalker Mirthful instead created a cooperative (a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise in contrast to a company) to make sure they can make the invention as cheap and accessible to as many people as possible. At the end of the day, saving lives and helping people are more important than any profit they can get out of it.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/928205148/5095091809 When]] a group of 'Big Pharma' CEOs complained/threatened them over the commercialisation of their [[{{Panacea}} Selective Pathogenic Neutraliser]], Planeswalker Mirthful reminded them the story of how insulin's discoverer sold his invention for only 1 Bit out of the belief that such a medication should be affordable to any diabetic patient who need it, pointing out that they could had easily made it just as affordable but instead chose to jack-up the prize to hundreds of Bits per injection purely for profit. He proceeded to chew them out for being greedy fat-cats who only see desperate patients as little better than 'drug addicts' whom they could exploit, declared them as little better than drug pushers for it, made it clear to them that '''''YES''''' both he and Researcher Mirthful are despite their accusations genuinely out to save lives (and also actively planning to push them out of business), before telling them to their faces that if they do anything dirty or diabolical to avert their inevitable extinction [[ImpliedDeathThreat he's more than happy to speed things up with overwhelming force]], before telling them to GetOut of their sights.

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Although Mirthful have plundering tendencies, when he and his Planeswalker counterpart managed to create a device that could cure most diseases in one fell swoop with their 'Selective Pathogenic Neutraliser', rather than monopolising/capitalising on their invention for massive profit, he and Planeswalker Mirthful instead created a cooperative (a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise in contrast to a company) to make sure they can make the invention as cheap and accessible to as many people as possible. At the end of the day, saving lives and helping people are more important than any profit they can get out of it.

First mentioned in a [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/941757179/5048000829 Drabble]], Shock Minion is one member of the Codex Equus project, known for among other things having a strange mix of good AND bad luck.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/941757179/5088400650 Subscribes]] to this even more than mainline Mirthful, who is already pretty pragmatic. Having witnessed and fought (or help fight) countless unspeakable evils and unimaginable horrors across the Multiverse, he had seen far too much death, destruction and despair on literally cosmic scales to care about principles, rules and morality anymore - if there's a threat to all that is innocent and good, it's going ''down'', whatever it takes.
--> '''Planeswalker Mirthful Stone:''' Stand among [[ApocalypseHow the ashes of]] [[CrapsackWorld a million dead universes]] and ask them if [[HonourBeforeReason honour]] matters. [[ShoutOut Their silence is your answer]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/941757179/5088400650 Subscribes]] to this even more than mainline Mirthful, who is already pretty pragmatic. Having witnessed and fought (or help fight) countless unspeakable evils and unimaginable horrors across the Multiverse, he had seen far too much death, destruction and despair on literally cosmic scales to care about principles, rules and morality anymore, only stopping the threat(s) no matter the costs.

* ClassicalChimera: Athervara is a sapient Chimera, being an amalgramation of three different creatures with three heads from each one.

* MultipleHeadCase: As a Chimera, Athervara possesses three heads, each belonging to a different creature with its own mind and personality.
* PoisonousFiend: Minerva, being the cobra head of Athervara, could produce a venom so potent it could kill an untreated person bitten by her within fifteen minutes.

--> '''Planeswalker Mirthful Stone:''' Stand among [[ApocalypseHow the ashes of]] [[CrapsackWorld a million dead universes]] and ask them if [[HonourBeforeReason honour]] matters. Their silence is your answer.

* IDidWhatIHaveToDo: [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/941757179/5088400650 Subscribes]] to this even more than mainline Mirthful, who is already pretty pragmatic. Having witnessed and fought (or help fight) countless unspeakable evils and unimaginable horrors across the Multiverse, he had seen far too much death, destruction and despair on literally cosmic scales to care about principles, rules and morality anymore, only stopping the threat(s) no matter the costs.

First mentioned in a [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/941757179/5062468879 Drabble]], Athervara is a sapient Chimera whose three heads/siblings had joined the Codex project together as a researcher, each sister specializing in a specific aspect of the job.

* LamePunReaction: Athervara loathes 'Three in one' jokes made at their expense, since they had heard of it too many times already.

* KleptomaniacHero: Mirthful has a tendency to behave like an RPG hero taking every equipment and weapon he could get away with from his opponents when not buying them, enabled by possessing many a BagOfHolding. This goes to the point that by the end of the Trio's first foreign research trip he was already a WalkingArmory, but in his defence he ended up finding himself using nearly all of them at one point of another in the Trio's adventurers.