First appearance: S2E13 — The Brave — Buli v Chancy · watch it on YouTube
Chancy is a winged fairy bard, about three feet and one and a half inches tall, who swears that everybody already knows who Chancy is. Pulled into the Void to fight Buli the Brave, Chancy brought a bag full of instruments, a petticoat supposedly gifted by a queen, and an endless supply of tall tales. The fight that followed involved dodgeball, a stolen lute, a heartbroken ghost and a trip down a bottomless well. It ran twelve rounds before Chancy finally won.
Story
The Arbiter tore open a rift and called “Buli the Brave versus Chancy!” Chancy arrived announcing, “Everybody knows who I am. I’m Chancy,” and Buli replied that he did not. Chancy then listed some credentials: “I fought 10,000 dragons,” “the Witch in the Hills, probably,” and “I pet Doug today.” The Grandmaster was delighted that the bard had brought an instrument. The Arbiter asked for “Stairway to Heaven,” which Chancy claimed to know, though “it’s not ready yet.” When Buli asked whether Chancy was a bird, the fairy was deeply offended: “How dare you insult me with a bird.” The arena was a ruined seaside castle with an uncovered, echoing well, the site of a wedding that never happened. Chancy started on the cliffside and opened by taunting the hidden owlbear so viciously that Buli was rattled before he threw a punch. Then Chancy played a tune on the ocarina so beautiful that the Grandmaster wanted to book the bard for the Christmas party.
Chancy’s magic poured out of the ocarina as a stream of musical notes, and the bard’s first real blow came from hovering out of reach and blasting fire at a disguised Buli. Buli was holding a brick in front of his eyes on the theory that “If I can’t see him, he can’t see me.” A chaos event rained junk from the crowd: a raccoon landed on Chancy’s head (“This is not how you treat a diplomat”), and somebody in the crowd even threw their own feces onto the field. Buli answered with a flaming pepper to the petticoat. The Arbiter then revealed himself as a superfan, producing a Chancy concert tee and declaring, “Carved on my bones is Chancy’s name.” Things turned personal when Buli, sorting through his gear at Gerald, pulled out a tiny lute. Chancy insisted it was “my loot” and accused Buli of stealing it. A singed, freshly flying Buli took a fireball for it, and a second spell turned him into a butterfly in a matching blue petticoat. The Grandmaster’s verdict: “Remind me never to steal anything from Chancy.” Butterfly Buli recruited Doug the Pug, who pounced on the bard and pinned those wings to the ground. Chancy took it as “Too much love. All animals love me,” and then tried to bribe the pug with an introduction to the queen’s dog, a flat lie.
The ruins turned out not to be empty. Christina the ghost crawled out of the well calling for her lost groom, Frederick, and broke Buli’s butterfly form with a word. Chancy proposed a truce, and the two champions sent the ghost to the well by faking Frederick’s voice (“It’s me, honey. I’m at the well”) while Buli made splashing noises. The truce lasted exactly until Chancy patted Buli on the head. Buli then told Christina the fairy had lied to her, and turned her glowing eyes on Chancy. Chancy turned invisible and climbed down to the Box of Chaos “Cirque du Soleil-ing.” There the bard traded a lyre supposedly signed by Van Halen in invisible ink, and Gerald completely believed the story. The box answered with the rarest draw the Grandmaster had ever seen and a pair of Gauntlets of Ogre Power. Chancy’s verdict: “Well, I am Chancy. Everyone knows about me and I do impressive things.” Buli held the lute hostage over the well, the crowd chanted “Drown the loot!”, and down it went. Nobody ever heard a splash.
What followed was pure vengeance. Chancy fireballed Buli again and again, kept misdirecting the ghost with “Follow the sound of my voice!”, and hissed at the hiding Frederick: “Listen here you little shit, stop moving around because this little bitch over here needs to find you, you little fuckhead.” Chancy’s cutting heckles sent swing after swing of Buli’s axes into the dirt. Chancy finally dropped invisibility to fireball Buli face to face: “I dropped [invisibility], so I can watch you burn.” When a frenzied Buli hooked his claws in and dragged them both down the well, the gauntlets let Chancy haul the clinging owlbear back up into the light. Burned featherless and fighting with his head, Buli refused to stay down until Chancy, petticoat ripped in rage, buried him in a cloud of daggers, one of them left poking into his twitching eyeball. Buli rose once more and then finally fell. The Grandmaster called it, the Arbiter tossed Buli down the well, and Chancy, though the loot was lost, got a final bow. The Grandmaster herself unrolled the petticoat’s sleeves, and Chancy played a little tune and danced a jig.
Personality and Abilities
Chancy is a showman first and a fighter second. The bard is vain about the music, touchy about the wardrobe, and never short of a story, true or otherwise. Chancy was magnificently unconvincing as a liar to the hosts, admitting to “lying out of my ass” about the queen’s dog. The same lies worked beautifully on the people who mattered, from Gerald to a lovesick ghost. The bard’s favorite insult for Buli was “cute,” which drove the owlbear wild. Chancy wilted when a spell actually failed: “I’ve never had something not hit before.” The Grandmaster at one point called Chancy “her,” while Buli called the bard “mister.”
In battle Chancy stayed airborne, played magic through the ocarina, and leaned heavily on fire, mind-stabbing spells, invisibility and a fairy’s quick blink-step away from danger. Chancy also had a butterfly transformation, healing magic and a cloud of daggers. The bard’s sharp tongue doubled as a weapon, with cutting jeers timed to make an enemy’s attack miss. Chancy’s gear included the ocarina, a small lute (until the well), a bag with “a ridiculous amount of instruments,” a dagger, a longsword, the beloved petticoat, and the Gauntlets of Ogre Power won from the Box of Chaos.
Relationships
- Buli the Brave: Opponent, briefly an ally against the ghost, and the owlbear who dropped Chancy’s lute down the well. Chancy never let that go.
- The Arbiter: Chancy’s self-declared superfan, who has “been to all their concerts” and gets the newsletters.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: Charmed by the bard’s music, she wanted Chancy for her Christmas party and gave Chancy a final bow.
- Doug the Pug: Chancy claimed to have petted him that day; he pounced on Chancy to defend his butterfly friend.
- Christina the ghost: The ghost Chancy repeatedly fooled with fake Frederick sightings, until she struck back.
- Gerald: Accepted Chancy’s “Van Halen” lyre and paid out the Gauntlets of Ogre Power.
Memorable Quotes
- “Everybody knows who I am. I’m Chancy.” (S2E13)
- “No, I am a fairy. How dare you insult me with a bird.” (S2E13)
- “If you think you can fly, you might as well be a creature who can fly well.” (S2E13)
- “It is totally the one Van Halen played. It’s signed. He gave it to me.” (S2E13)
- “I dropped [invisibility], so I can watch you burn.” (S2E13)
- “You will never take me down, ever. Not even once, you cute little ball of fluff.” (S2E13)