Fatty Arbuckle

Fatty Arbuckle
Companion (Gern Blanston's thrall)
Basic information
Actor	Matthew Mercer
Race	Skeleton
Biographical information
Full name	Fatty Arbuckle
Pronouns	he/him
Places	Cindergrove (final resting place)
Affiliations	Gern Blanston (animator) Carol, Coral, and Stimpy (fellow thralls)
Status Status Deanimated Causes of death Original death unknown; corpse later animated by Gern Blanston. Killed by his master Gern Blanston's Cone of Cold ("Cindergrove Revisited" (1x46))
Mechanical information
Creature type	Humanoid (formerly) Undead
HP — AC 13 DC —
Appearances First seen "Cindergrove Revisited" (1x46) Stream Campaign 1 (1 episode)

Fatty Arbuckle, often simply called "Fatty", is a humanoid male, who at some point after his death was animated as a skeleton by the necromantic powers of Gern Blanston. Fatty serves alongside his fellow thralls Carol, Coral, and Stimpy. As a companion NPC, Fatty is played by Matthew Mercer, but he followed the instructions of Gern's player, Chris Hardwick.

Biography

Background

Fatty was not related to Gern Blanston or his other thralls, although Gern considered them all a make-shift family.

Campaign 1: Vox Machina

While investigating the ruins of Pyrah after Thordak's escape from the Elemental Plane of Fire, Vox Machina spotted a group of four undead creatures. After killing Carol, the group spotted a blue-skinned humanoid running toward them. He introduced himself as Gern Blanston, then introduced his three remaining thralls: Coral, Fatty Arbuckle, and Stimpy.

Fatty helped Gern and Vox Machina in their fight with the salamanders and elementals around Cindergrove, who were guarding the area around a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire. Fatty started the fight by triggering an Ice Storm candle, then served as a beating dummy for the enemies. Although he survived the Ice Storm and several attacks, Fatty was eventually destroyed by Gern as collateral damage when attacking the enemies with a Cone of Cold.

Appearances and mentions

• Campaign 1
  • "Cindergrove Revisited" (1x46) (first appearance)

Trivia

The name "Fatty Arbuckle" was the stage name of a lesser-known and somewhat-infamous comic actor from the early silent movie era, named Roscoe Arbuckle. He was a contemporary of Charlie Chaplin.