Backwoods

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Appearance

Backwoods wears a gnarled wooden mask, a black toque, black overalls, heavy boots, and a dark green coat that appears to be smothered in oil or grease. He has a 'V' of branches sticking out his shoulders.<ref>Backwoods had a gnarled wooden mask, black toque, black overalls, heavy boots, and a dark green canvas coat that looked like it had been liberally smeared with oil or black grease. Maybe to dull colors or to turn a regular coat into something resembling forest camouflage. He held spear-like branches in each hand, and had a ‘v’ of two more branches sticking up from his shoulders. - Excerpt from From Within 16.4</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Backwoods produces branches from his back. When he hurls these branches, they explode into a dozen spikes and impale everything around them.<ref>Backwoods was using his power too. He hurled his wooden spikes, they hit a car near the Huntsmen, and then exploded into a dozen more spikes, impaling the car from within. - Excerpt from From Within 16.4</ref> These branches can also bloom with poisonous flowers, eventually releasing a gas.<ref>As I got closer, branches forked, stabbing out, and then bloomed, exploding into foliage with gray-green leaves and tiny white flowers. They grew with enough violence I could imagine I would have been scraped up, if not outright flayed or stabbed with a branch that then expanded out into five branches pointing out in different directions.

I could see some spots where the foliage was already grown, perhaps strategically located to block the defending capes from being able to shoot. As I flew over, toward the Huntsmen, they motioned again. This time it was unanimous. Up.

I flew up and over, giving the growths an extra-wide berth.

Leaves and flowers came to pieces, detonating into what might have been poisonous gas or pollen, a heavy cloud that was about as dark as green could get while still being green. - Excerpt from From Within 16.4</ref>

History

Post-Attack on Teacher

Backwoods, alongside the rest of Deathchester, began attacking and looting evacuating civilians. He fought against the combined forces of Breakthrough and The Huntsmen.

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