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"Mr Bliss is, physically, the most powerful individual being on the face of the planet. His strength is beyond legendary."
Skulduggery telling Valkyrie of Mr Bliss' powers, Skulduggery Pleasant
Mr Bliss
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Character Information
Taken Name Mr Bliss
Species Human
Gender Male
Birth Unknown
Age Hundreds of years old
Death October 2009
Magic Enhancement
Faction The Irish Sanctuary
Titles Elder
Location Deceased
Relations China Sorrows (sister)

Mr Bliss[1] was the most physically powerful man on Earth. Enigmatic and slightly sinister, he worked for the Elders. In addition to his alarming strength, Mr Bliss was also described as being very difficult to kill. His sister, China Sorrows, admitted "I've tried to kill him three times already and he just won't stay down". He was also an Elder of the Irish Sanctuary and was killed by one of the Faceless Ones at the Battle of Aranmore Farm.

Biography[]

History[]

He and China were brought up to worship the Faceless Ones, but neither worshipped them anymore at the time the Skulduggery Pleasant series starts. Mr Bliss deserted the teachings and belief at an early age. China takes a while to do the same. They both continue to believe in their existence. Both he and China mistrust each other but Bliss apparently cares about her wellbeing as he attacked Gruesome Krav for attempting to kill her. China said that she had tried to kill him on multiple occasions (presumably when she was still a member of the Diablerie), but was unable to. At some point someone (implied to be China Sorrows) hired the assassin Avaunt to kill him. Tanith Low tried to protect him and this was where they first met after Bliss killed Avaunt.

The Munchkin Army[]

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Mr Bliss from The Munchkin Army.

Throughout the centuries, there has been a league of warrior mages, of combat sorcerers, that has defended the world from the threat of the Faceless Ones and their disciples. They were once known as the League of Ghosts, then the Shadow Echelon, and now, in this time, they are known as The Munchkin Army. - Mr Bliss

It is implied that Bliss was a high-ranking member of the Munchkin Army, if not the leader. Initiates helped Bliss to defeat the Dark Gods. Presumably, Bliss would have fought earlier incarnations of the Munchkin Army when he himself was a Disciple of the Dark Gods, however further discussion would be limited to speculation. What is known is that he was a member of the Army in 2008.

Skulduggery Pleasant[]

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In the first book, he betrays the Elders in favour of Serpine who he believes is too powerful to defeat. It is later revealed Bliss was only pretending to help Serpine so that he could retrieve the Sceptre of the Ancients and "his actions would become predictable" (he says this after being told to kill Valkyrie). He then assists in bringing Serpine down. The first time Valkyrie meets Bliss, she said there was something about him that made her want to curl up and cry.

Mr Bliss is sent by the Elders to meet with Serpine in his castle. During the meeting Mr Bliss informs Serpine that two Sancuary agents, Clement Gale and Alexander Slake, who had been monitoring him were found dead yesterday. Serpine lies, denying having anything to do with it, and Mr Bliss leaves to catch and plane to London.

In London Mr Bliss approaches Tanith Low on Westminster Bridge, where she is killing a troll. He tells her that Serpine is going to break the truce, and that he wants her to help him prevent war breaking out. She agrees and he tells her to go to Ireland.

The next day he approaches Skulduggery Pleasant and Stephanie, where he tells them about Clement Gale and Alexander Slake and states that the Sceptre of the Ancients was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig and bought by Gordon. He also says that the Elders underestimate Serpine too much to act against him.

Upon learning that Skulduggery Pleasant has been abducted by Serpine, Mr Bliss sends Tanith Low to help Ghastly and Stephanie, having now taken the name Valkyrie Cain, in rescuing him.

The following day, having acquired Gordon’s brooch, the key to the Caves of the Void, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain meet with Mr Bliss, who has agreed to help them retrieve it, at the Martello tower in Haggard They show him the key, and Mr Bliss mentions that Serpine wants the Sceptre of the Ancients, believed to be in the Caves of the Void, to use as a stepping stone to achieving his goals, based on a conversation he had with Mr Bliss this morning. When they get suspicious of Mr Bliss conferring with Serpine, he pushes Skulduggery off the edge of the cliff. He takes the brooch off of Valkyrie and leaves.

Rise of the Grotesquery[]

During the second book, Mr Bliss is working with Thurid Guild to rebuild the Sanctuary after Serpine's attack on it the previous year. He helps with defeating the Grotesquery and was the only one in the group, which contained Skulduggery Pleasant and Tanith Low, which could not only push the Grotesquery back but could fight on par with it with sheer brute strength. He was going to be chosen as one of the members of the Council of Elders.

Return of the Diablerie[]

In The Faceless Ones, a group of people work with Bliss to organise a revolution to over-throw Guild and elect Mr Bliss as the new Grand Mage. At The Battle of Aranmore Farm, he beats up Gruesome Krav after Krav tries to kill China. He is ripped apart by a Faceless One in the body of Gruesome Krav. His body is currently at the stables owned by his sister

After the battle, Guild told everyone that Bliss had given his life to save everyone but fails to mention Skulduggery's efforts in the battle.

Alternate Dimension[]

In the dimension where Mevolent won the War, Mr Bliss was shown to have been killed by Mevolent and his naked body was shown floating in a tank to show Mevolent's enemies of his power.

The Maleficent Seven[]

It is revealed in a flashback in The Maleficent Seven that he first met Tanith Low when she tried to save him from Avaunt, an assassin that she had grown up with. The two fought and Tanith was injured. She attacked Bliss, who stopped her sword with his bare hands, shattered it and took multiple blows without reacting before snapping her neck. He did not know who sent her, but speculated it may have been his sister.

Last Stand of Dead Men[]

China was seen visiting the resting place of her brother, and thought admirably of him.

The Dying Of The Light[]

Mr Bliss is seen as a ghost in the Necropolis during Skulduggery's second test.

Personality[]

"My sister is the only family I have left!"
— Mr Bliss to Gruesome Krav after learning the he tried to kill his sister China Sorrows shortly before punching him through a wall.

Despite the fact that he was considered intimidating by many people, Bliss was a decent man although he could be manipulative as shown in the first book when he pretended to be on Serpine's side in order to find a way to defeat him. He maintained an extremely calm and reserved demeanor around other people and rarely lost his temper - a lot of people see his stoicism as so unbreakable he looks almost bored, even when he should have suffered a fatal injury. He was intelligent, able to deduce which side was the winning side in the conflict. However, he was no coward: he willingly laid down his life for those he loved and respected. Despite the fact that his sister had tried to kill him, Bliss was very protective of China as shown when he furiously attacked Gruesome Krav for trying to kill her stating that she was the only family he had left.

Interestingly, Bliss was the ultimate display of his family's expectations: he never changed his character. He was intensely stubborn and, when he refused to follow the Sorrows family tradition and refused later to join Mevolent, he was labelled as a coward and a hypocrite by his family. He believed that the Faceless Ones existed, but was not fanatically devoted to them. The most prominent factor of his personality was that he was extremely forgiving: even after everything China held against him, he still loved her with every fibre of his being.

Magic[]

Bliss was an extremely powerful Adept sorcerer who studied the discipline of Enhancement. His Adept magic went to his strength, and it caused him to become physically the strongest person in the world, able to punch through huge solid structures and break bones to splinters without suffering any injuries himself. Even the likes of Nefarian Serpine see his strength as overwhelming. Bliss's muscularity means that he has viciously fast reflexes. This also means that he possesses incredible amounts of durability: he survived being exploded into bookcases, a brick wall and even the full brunt of Serpine's red right hand. His most impressive demonstration of durability was when an assassin swung a sword at his neck – he caught it in one hand without getting a single cut, and then crushed the blade in his hand, all without a single drop of blood lost. As a result, he was also noted for being extremely difficult to kill; whether this was because of magic or simply his physical resilience is unclear. However despite Bliss' excellent survival skills he was eventually killed by one of the Faceless Ones.

Description[]

Mr Bliss is described as being an extremely tall and strong man. He has a deep blue eyes and his head is completely shaved. He often wears suits and Valkryie says that he "creeps her out." He speaks with an unbreakably calm tone and disposition, and it was expressed that he looked somewhat bored whilst fighting someone who was trying to kill him.

Mr Bliss has really light blue eyes.

Trivia[]

  • In The Maleficent Seven, it is revealed he is an opera fan.

References[]

  1. 'Mr' is part of the character's Taken Name.

Appearances[]

Skulduggerypleasant(book)
Playingwithfire
Facelessones
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Kingdom of the Wicked Front Cover
Maleficent Seven
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The Dying of the Light Cover
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