Barbara the Bandit
Backstory
Barbara the Bandit just wanted a quick buck (well, coin) when she and her group of Bandits broke into Priscilla’s castle and stole some coins. The group was leaving when, out of nowhere, a baby landed on Barbara’s shoulders. Confused but not wanting to end up as lunch, the group of Bandits left with the baby still clinging onto Barbara.
The group of Bandits didn’t know what to do with the baby, but they at least agreed it wouldn’t be right for them to ditch it in the wild. Barbara had the idea that someone had to be looking for the baby, and thus the group could rank in some sweet reward money once they found the parents. Unfortunately, as it was her idea, she got stuck with baby duty.
As time passed, she found herself growing attached to the little snot and taught him some of her tricks (including pickpocketing and lockpicking). When Baby Wario eventually went missing, she was terrified; and when she saw him being carried off by a stork, she was heartbroken. Inevitably, she knew it would happen, as he technically wasn’t her baby.
But then said stork landed in front of her. Since then, Wario has been the son of Barbara.
Personality
Barbara is an eccentric but mostly well-meaning kleptomaniac lady who’s very blunt and honest. She’s also (the Super Mario equivalence of) German and fluent in the language, which is where Wario picked up phrases like, “So ein Mist!” and other less family-friendly ones. (Wario isn’t personally fluent in German, but he can understand it when it’s spoken.)
Barbara was and is still a master of stealing. You go to her home to see it adorned with many a “missing” famous painting. She’s proud of her son’s capitalistic ways (“Stealing and hoarding from people but making it perfectly legal! I raised such a smart boy!”). She may or may not have been involved in a series of crimes from O♦ to ♥X that involved the impersonation of at least three doctors.
As with any Shy Guy or variant thereof, she has a certain degree of stage fright, although she isn’t as worse off as some other Shy Guys with the fear. Also, the only non-Shy Guy she’s taken her mask off in front of is Wario.
(She once tried to see about getting Wario a mask. Wario protested, saying that his face is too handsome to hide.)
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