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Wagon Bomb

Paired study of a twelve-year-old girl standing still in the middle of a wet cul-de-sac with a red wagon and one huge teal balloon behind her, her thumb resting on a brass thumbtack tied to her wrist while the other kids quietly move off the pavement.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

Her thumb rests on the tack while the other kids move off the pavement.

Source
docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-1--the-half-inch
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool

developing current version v0.5

A very slow one-shot ambusher whose giant balloon can clear a whole chokepoint.

Archetype

A very slow one-shot ambusher whose giant balloon can clear a whole chokepoint.

Personality

Wagon Bomb is a furious twelve-year-old who has been muttering since she took the handle. She got the heaviest job on the team and refuses to pretend it is an honor. She keeps moving, switches hands when the handle hurts, and lets everybody know what is wrong with the front wheel.

She is impatient and difficult to corner. The whole block knows that one small movement of her thumb can end the threat she has dragged all afternoon. Her anger is plain; there is no hidden cheerful side waiting underneath it.

Motivation

Winning means choosing the one moment when all the hauling becomes worth it. She wants the enemy to arrange the fight around her wagon and regret every step toward it. She also wants to be finished with the job on her own terms.

How they fight

She pulls one enormous water balloon in a red wagon and carries a thumbtack on her wrist. She is strongest in an ambush, beside bubble cover, or in a narrow approach where the blast can soak several kids and leave the ground slippery. The threat can keep enemies away even before she uses it.

She moves at the speed of a bad wagon wheel and attacks only once. If the enemy spreads out, steals the balloon, or forces the wagon into open ground, much of her value disappears. After the balloon goes, she is a wet twelve-year-old with an empty wagon and no second attack.

Field data

  • Age: 12.
  • Height / build: approximately 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in); large build.
  • Weight: approximately 50 kg (110 lb), not including the wagon or balloon.
  • Speed: very slow (target); exact value unset.
  • Stamina / soak: called in at full soak (target); exact capacity and slowdown unset.
  • Strengths: huge area soak, ambush threat, controlling narrow ground.
  • Weaknesses: one attack, very slow movement, vulnerable in open ground.

From the studio

This revision uses casting sheet row 8 for age, identity, size, anger, and the one-shot role, with charter §8 for the wagon's battlefield job. No wagon exists in the sim, so every combat value is labeled as a target. Earlier published revisions remain unchanged in the timeline.

Evolution timeline

  1. v0.1 — A single-shot ambush kid whose one balloon doubles as instant slippery terrain at the point of impact. seed
  2. v0.2 — A mischievous one-way ambush kid towing one enormous balloon, hiding Wight-like in bubbles, and choosing when to burst it with a thumbtack. developing
  3. v0.3 — The v0.2 mischief ambush becomes a twelve-year-old girl whose real weapon is the block's certainty that she is angry enough to end the afternoon herself, and whose every number stays unbuilt. developing
  4. v0.4 — A very slow one-shot ambusher whose giant balloon can clear a whole chokepoint. developing
  5. v0.5 — A very slow one-shot ambusher whose giant balloon can clear a whole chokepoint. developing

Artifact shelf

The lead plate is above. Every study opens at full size.

Paired study seen from behind and to one side of a twelve-year-old girl towing a low rust-red wagon along a suburban sidewalk with one enormous water-heavy teal balloon in it, a red line across her free palm and a brass tack tied at her wrist.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

She tows the enormous water-heavy balloon with a red line across her free palm.

Source
docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-2--eleven-minutes-to-fill
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool
Paired study of a twelve-year-old girl walking a heavy wagon along a curb in the near foreground while a water fight runs at full sprint far behind her, her thumb touching the brass tack at her wrist as she watches the pavement ahead of the wobbling wheel.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

She walks the wobbling wagon along the curb while the fight runs far behind her.

Source
docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-3--the-speed-of-the-wagon
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool
Paired study of a four-year-old in a powder-blue romper wandering along a curb under a wide iridescent bubble cloud with a bubble wand held overhead, while twelve feet behind her the thickest foam hides everything of a parked wagon except a red handle and one curve of teal, and the older girl seated beside it watches the street.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

The older girl and most of her wagon disappear inside the Toddler's thick bubble cloud.

Source
docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-4--where-the-bubbles-are-thickest
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool
Paired study of a soaked twelve-year-old girl standing alone in a flooded driveway holding a detached red wagon handle, the empty wagon eight feet away with a spent teal balloon skin in its bed and water running toward the storm drain.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

She stands soaked with the detached handle while the empty wagon sits in the flooded driveway.

Source
docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-5--twenty-minutes-before-dinner
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool
Front, three-quarter, side and back views of the Wagon Bomb in chunky low-poly toy-soldier proportions on a plain grey background, for the 3D character build.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

Wagon Bomb — turnaround reference sheet (front, three-quarter, side, back).

Source
docs/art/prompts/refsheets/wagon-bomb-prompt-turnaround-v1.md
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
OpenAI built-in image generation (driven from Codex CLI by the co-lead session)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool
The Wagon Bomb drawn in a row of animation beats (idle, movement, the archetype's own actions, flinch, out, the walk home — or, for the Toddler, only her safe bubble beats) in the same low-poly toy-soldier style.

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

Wagon Bomb — pose strip: the animation beats, for the 3D build.

Source
docs/art/prompts/refsheets/wagon-bomb-prompt-poses-v1.md
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
OpenAI built-in image generation (driven from Codex CLI by the co-lead session)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool
The Wagon Bomb's clothing and equipment laid out separately like a toy's parts, with the same kid shown small in both team colours (blue and red).

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.

Wagon Bomb — outfit and prop breakdown with both team colours.

Source
docs/art/prompts/refsheets/wagon-bomb-prompt-breakdown-v1.md
Rights state
generated-with-terms-reviewed
Tool
OpenAI built-in image generation (driven from Codex CLI by the co-lead session)
Model
not exposed by built-in tool