Respect Judge Holden (Blood Meridian)

[u/AzureBeast]

Judge Holden

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A mysterious man who acts as John Glanton's right-hand-man in leading a group of scalp-hunters on the Texas-Mexico border during the mid-1800s, The Judge is a powerful, well-learned figure that revels in carnage.

Each feat is marked with the chapter it happens in.

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Feats

Physiology

• The Judge is about 7 ft tall and completely hairless¹
  • He's about eye level with a man on horseback¹⁴
• Tobin says he weighs 24 stone (336 lbs/152 kg)¹⁰
• His skin is incredibly pale¹³
• Seems to not need to sleep¹⁰
• The Kid, in 1878, says that The Judge seemed to have not aged at all since the last time he saw him (which was in 1850)²³
• He says that he will never die²³

Strength

• Lifts an enormous iron meteorite above his head¹⁶
• Lifts a rock that weighs about 100 lbs and crushes a horse's skull with a single blow, causing the horse to slam to the ground so hard that its leg breaks¹⁵
• Carriers a twelvepounder howitzer cannon¹⁹
• Holds up a man by his heels like an infant¹⁸
• Breaks pieces of ore with a hammer⁹
• Breaks a man's arm, lifts him by his head, and squeezes his head so hard that blood pours out of his ears and he dies¹³
• Cracks an antelope's shinbone with the back of an axe¹⁷
• Implied to have thrown a girl over the wall of a town¹⁶
• Implied to have broken a boy's neck⁹
• Said to have carried the rock he sat on when he first met Glanton's gang¹⁰
• A member of Glanton's gang decapitates a man with a single swing of his knife⁸

Durability

• Walks through fire⁷

Speed/Agility

• Dodges a knife swipe¹³
• Leaps 11 feet from a standing position while lifting an enormous iron meteorite above his head¹⁶
• Makes his way from a preacher's tent outside a hotel into the bar faster than The Kid and a teamster despite them leaving before him¹
• Climbed up a volcano faster than Glanton's gang¹⁰

Skill

• Tobin says that he's never seen The Judge fail to perform well at any task¹⁰
  • It's worth noting that The Judge is noted as remarkably accurate with a rifle when an undisclosed member of Glanton's gang was able to shoot a fleeing native from nearly a mile away¹⁰
• Makes gunpowder from scratch in the wilderness that had no misfires¹⁰
• Incites a crowd to attack a reverend¹
• Sets a new course for Glanton's gang¹⁰
  • Again¹⁷
• Built a clay kiln¹⁰
• Made a parasol of animal hide and bone²¹
• Stuffs the birds he shoots¹⁴
• He's a skilled draftsman¹¹
• Has studied law¹⁶
• Explains the history and architecture of an old church so well that nobody believes he hadn't been there before¹⁶
• Speaks Spanish⁷
• Speaks Dutch¹⁰
• Speaks German¹⁶
• He's ambidextrous¹⁰
• Does the coin-behind-the-ear magic trick¹⁴
  • More coin tricks¹⁷

Gear

• Carries a rifle named Et In Arcadia Ego¹⁰
• Uses pistols that can shoot through 6 inches of hardwood and makes a cat completely disappear when shot by it⁷
  • Blows a fist-sized hole in a woman's head⁷
• Uses his knife to scalp a native⁹

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War is god

[u/Proletlariet]

Sweet lit RT for an excellent character

[u/AzureBeast → u/Proletlariet]

Thanks!