Hylian Royal Brigadier, Basil Von Kaapo :::

Appearance: Basil is the 2nd in command of the Hylian Royal Army, only taking orders from General Keeta, even if the king says otherwise. Basil stands about 6,3, he is best know as being the crazy member of the army and leader of the Kaapo Korps.

Basil wears a pair of glasses (With hypno swirls on the lens, adding to his maddened look) and some note that he looks quite intelligent. He has messy crimson colored hair, and though some say he wouldn't appear quite muscular, he is mostly covered in armor and cloth.

A long red scarf encircles his neck and trails down to the ground. On his back he carries a massive shield, green and spiked, his chest and gut is covered by golden armor and displays little weakness between the two armors.

Instead of carrying a blade, or gun like his superior, he has two other armor like attachments on his arms, but cover the top of his hands and curl into vicious claws. His legs are covered by similar armor but lack the offensive capacity, none the less a stomp of kick has the capacity kill or maim should it land a good hit.

Finally, Basil seems to have a bad posture, leaning forward slightly due to the weight of his armor. When angered, Basil is noted to have a crazed look upon his face, twisted and insane.

Reward: Basil acts as a mini-boss, a tough one at that. Defeating Basil grants two items to the victor, the first being a hookshot, a weapon often refined to high ranking officers, and also Basil's personal treasure, The Blast Mask... (Keeta is known to have collected many of the masks from MM, and has distributed some to his favorite soldiers, he rewarded Basil with the Blast Mask)

Weapons/Attacks: Basil relies on his strength but also shows himself to be capable at magic and other such attacks.

Basil's primary attack is a slash with his claws, which can cause massive damage (an X swing, that is both claws in a path that follows an X will cause a loss of 3 hearts), however, besides the use of his claws, if the player tries to circle around they might be struck with a kick and should they get to close in general, a shove could send the player flying.

Basil also has a variety of potions, specifically for the use as incendary weapons. Swallowing down a red potion in a spiral glass will allow Basil to 'breath' fire, or even spite forth fireballs. The fire is short lived and will disperse on its own. There is also a blue potion that sllows for blue fire.

Also, Basil makes use of his hookshot, the weapon showing its worth... while it cannot pull the massive Basil to location, should the player be caught they will be brought to the claws of Basil Von Kaapo.

DEFEATING BASIL: At first, Basil will seem invincible. The sword will have no effect on his armor, arrows will break and even bombs do little as he withdraws into his armor, which takes the impact gracefully.

However, Basil will make a mistake just once, his weight playing against him as he falls over and is unable to get back due to shock. This shows his weakness, that long red scarf he wears being the target. With links power gloves he can grab the scarf, and spinning on his heels send the Brigadier into the distant wall.

This will have to happen three times, and as you do so he will differentiate between fire and claw, each time growing more violent and maddened, shown not only in attacks but his actions. After his first mix up, the player can cause him to trip but going around to the back of Basil, he will attack with a kick, should the player dodge the kick, they will have an oppurtunity to strike the other exposed leg and send him to the ground.

However, after sending Basil into the wall three times, one of the walls shall give, revealing that it was storing gun powder. One more spin, sending Basil into the powder room will end the battle with an explosion... Basil, to heavy to be launched away will be blasted nearby, defeated but not dead allowing for the player to strip him of weapons and rupees.

NOTE: As with so much of my work, I like to reference many things and in this case you might note that the characters appearance is similar to the of Bowser from Mario, and in particular the battle is similar to the one with Bowser in Mario 64. Still, a fun battle referencing the good ole days.