B.T.

The boy known as B.T. (ビーティー) is the protagonist of Cool Shock B.T..

He is a clever yet quite malicious boy who befriends Koichi Mugikari at the beginning of the story. With his smarts, B.T. fights against all manners of bullies but also commits his own crimes.

Appearance
B.T. is a young boy with an average constitution. He has mid-length hair cut into a regular haircut with a velvety texture. His hair is mostly of light color but his hair becomes dark when it goes down on his cheeks and also on his eyebrows. He has big eyes with large eyebrows and a sharp gaze.

Personality
B.T. is a clever, devious but ultimately friendly boy.

B.T.'s most prominent trait is his general cleverness for his age. His favorite pastime is to perform magic tricks, which he performs very skillfully. He likes to commit clevers schemes to get back at his enemies, but is also able to think of plans on the fly, his skill in magic helping him coming up with various ways to outsmart and defeat his foes. He considers himself to be smarter than most people and look down on brutes. When he schemes against his enemies, B.T. prefers to completely outsmart them and considers that physical assault like stabbing someone is too vulgar for him. His intelligence also comes with a fair amount of confidence. He is never afraid of anything and boldly enact his plans despite the dangerous adults he faces.

B.T. has got a criminal streak and often breaks the law. For instance, he's quite fond of fossils and once stole the skull of a dinosaur for himself. He's also interested in gaining money and once tried to blackmail his upperclassman Date, trying to extort a large sum of money from him. He also stole some jewels and planned on reselling them later. B.T. once went as far as indirectly causing the stabbing of a bully he greatly disliked, showing a fair degree of ruthlessness.

However, B.T. is also a good friend to Koichi Mugikari. Because Koichi tried to help him against two bullies, B.T. felt grateful for the help despite its failure and is constantly seen with his good friend. B.T. is very loyal to Koichi and constantly does him favors, such as giving him stolen jewels and helping his family when the Freckled Boy's family invades the Mugikari's home.

Tricks
B.T. is quite skilled in a number of tricks, from magic tricks to other athtletic feats. His skill in a good number of tricks help him perform the unexpected against stronger enemies and help him come up with clever plans that ordinary people won't see coming. Among the tricks he knows are :
 * Disappearing and Reapparing Tricks in which he's able to make objets disappear or reappear from nowhere in his audience's mind with his great handling skills and prestidigitation skills.
 * Capturing a hornet.
 * Ventriloquism.
 * Fake a cardiac arrest by temporarily stopping the blood flow in a limb. He does it with a ping-pong ball, putting it under the armpits and pressing it stops the blood flow in the arm and allows B.T. to make it look like someone has died.
 * Make writing magically appear on his arm by scribbling on his arm with a pencil and then rubbing the arm to make a message in red appear.
 * Lockpicking. He's knowledgeable in how to unlock doors without the keys, for instance using a clamp on a string to latch on to the lock from the inside through the mail slot.
 * Rubberband Flinging. B.T. is able to somewhat hide a rubberband on his hand and by mimicking a shooting gesture, can fling the rubberband at his enemy's eyes, blinding them temporarily and using this opening to perform tricks.
 * Stone throwing, which he uses to attack bullies from a distance with great accuracy.
 * B.T. is also quite agile and can use a wood stick as a pole from which to jump and reach tree branches.
 * B.T. is knowledgeable in chemistry and exploited the chemical reaction between cyanamide and alcohol to make the Freckled Boy's family faint.

Intelligence
B.T. is fairly intelligent, more than the average kid, and uses his talent to come up with clever schemes. For instance, he manipulates the frictions between two of his bullies to have one stabbing the other in anger, and comes up with a plan to fake a death and blackmail an upperclassman he dislikes. He's knowledgeable in a good numbers of topics and has great deductive skill. He once observed a car from afar and by analyzing the plate, guessed which direction it would take.