Arthur is a bouncer and a do-gooder with a mysterious connection to the masked hero Captain Right!
Description
He was Arthur, and he was usually posted up by the door. He had a thick mane of roughly cropped blond hair and broad shoulders like a plow. He was almost handsome, but a little too square and craggy, like he was made of legos… Arthur was well over six and a half feet tall and broadly muscled, while Graham was perpetually unable to put on much muscle. Arthur was meaty, Graham was stringy. Arthur loomed overhead, his physique carved like hercules, while Graham cowered like some underfed shepherd.
From Graham the Lover
He was damn near seven feet tall and built like a “bear’s shithouse”, as Teddy’s grandmother would have said. His shoulders were thickly muscled, his face squarish and noble, etched in marble-hard firmness. He was impossibly handsome from Teddy’s perspective, with a cut jaw and prominent cheekbones below a big shock of blond hair. Arthur was powerfully muscled, but the waitresses didn’t give him the time of day. Arthur didn’t have enough money to get in good with any of them. They mostly went home with bankers and coke dealers. Later at night, they might settle for any random with a warm bed and a bottle of tequila, but Arthur was not like that. In any case, he was too big, too broad, too barrelly.
From Arthur the Hero
“Alright, alright, gentlemen,” Mistah Gregarian finally said as he finished. “One last thing, then you can all go — Buck here is gonna meet with each one of you individually for training. That’s very important fer this role. Some of you have been shying away from a fight. I know, I know, I’ve said I want you avoiding fights when possible, but if somebody is causing a ruckus, grabbing women, breaking stuff, I want you to drag him out the door, not try and reason with him.” T’was a reference to Arthur, one of the nicer bouncers, with a square jaw and blond hair like a handsome mop. Last week he tried to reason with a man who was well past reason, and the end result was a dancer with a groped tit and a whole rack of shattered glasses on the floor. Reason only takes you so far. Arthur was handsome and smooth, and Mistah Gregarian decided the problem was that Arthur ain’t wanna take a punch. He was a prettyboy.
T’was not, in fact, true. Arthur was a bit of a prettyboy, that much was right, but Arthur was genuinely just nice and admiredta get that man out the door without violence. And he was right! Mostly. The drunk did grab Ebonette’s tit on his way out the door, and when she shoved him, he knocked o’er the glasses. So’n t’wasn’t a perfect ejection. But Ebonette was fine, and the glasses was cheap, and Arthur thunk he handled it okay. Mistah Gregarian done reach a diff’rent conclusion.
Books
Arthur the Hero: Teddy tends bar alongside the bouncer Arthur, who just might have a secret… Unrelatedly, the masked superhero Captain Right has been taking out the trash and cleaning up the city. Teddy’s about to make a discovery that will change everything!
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