Biek Fowler

Biek Fowler, known in Japan as Bie Maruku, is the Space Police's chief fighting instructor in Magical Starsign, as well as a former student of Macadameus. His ways of combat blend powerful martial arts with dark magic, rivaling the likes of Miss Madeleine in strength.

Personality
Biek acts from experience, keeping himself of proper composure during the more tense confrontations. He is very faithful to his superiors, taking the most extreme of measures to fulfill their tasks. Alongside this, he is confident in his abilities and straightforward to his adversaries. He has a habit of clucking like a rooster when cackling.

Appearance
Biek resembles a European white rooster by the means that he is a full white color with long, hanging feathers and a large crest. His hands and feet are similar to the talons of a hawk, his hands having three digits each, his feet having four. He wears a dark green robe that resembles a kimono under the grey shell pack attached to his backside.

Enemy
Fowler is more dependent on physical attributes than magic, since his power and agility are both very high. He also tends to use two attacks in a single turn, which could be dangerous if he uses lotus barrage back-to-back. This skill has a 25% chance to instantly kill a party member, and it can also bypass protection spells such as prism barrier and parsley wall.

Bestiary entry
Chief fighting instructor for the Space Police and a (mostly) unparalleled martial artist, Biek Fowler's slightly sleazy style has bested many a lawbreaker.

Early life
Very little is known about Fowler's life before joining the Space Police, but he is known to have graduated from Ambergris Preparatory School on Cassia, and trained under the guidance of Macadameus, whom he has since surpassed.

Magical Starsign
The first mention of Biek Fowler takes place in Honey Mint after the Protagonist, Lassi, and Mokka (and Pico if the player chooses to visit Gren before Puffoon) reunite with Chai, who fled Bena Rikashi with secret Space Police documents. Upon reading the stolen paperwork, the group finds out that it is actually a list of magicians who were abducted by Chard's Astro Pirates. One of the magicians on that list is their teacher, Miss Madeleine, with Fowler being cited as the arresting officer.

Fowler makes his first physical appearance when the party is in Couscous Ruins, though he is only a mirage created by the dungeon's distorted flow of time. The mirage depicts him with a full unit of SP officers, and he brags to Madeleine about how she is nothing but bait in Kale's master plan, which is to feed the abducted magicians to a worm that lurks inside the sun. Madeleine declares her unwillingness to be Kale's pawn, warping Fowler's unit away with her incredibly strong magic, and the mirage fades away.

Later on, as the party defends the town of Paella by fighting off many SP officers, as well as the ferocious Cybersaurus, they plan on returning to Condimen Tower in hopes of boarding an upgraded Neumann. However, Beignet warns them not to leave the town yet, and Fowler arrives to call him a traitor to the force. He tucks himself into his glider as it charges with electricity, but before he can launch himself at the students, Beignet jumps in and takes the blow. While the kind-hearted officer is knocked on the ground, Brie Pourri swiftly flies into the village, forces Flower back with her sword, then uses her wind magic to send the group up to Condimen Tower's entrance. Fowler coldly laughs at Brie, who has finally revealed herself to be a traitor too.

The final encounter with Fowler is at Nova's Starway beneath Sparklin Palace. He blocks the entrance to the warping platform's chamber, also unveiling his possession of the dwarves' etherealization device, which was how was able to reach Nova to begin with. The students fight him and win, allowing them to meet Grenadine inside the Starway where he boots up the warping platform. Just as the six kids are about to be sent to Shadra, Fowler shows up and threatens to end their journey once and for all. He dramatically proclaims his loyalty to Kale's goals, until he is unexpectedly struck by a wave of magic. Durum, Farina, and Apitos rush into the chamber while Grenadine continues to hastily repair the platform. Their emotional good-bye is disrupted when Mokka detects dimensional bombs within Fowler's glider, so to save the students, Durum picks it up and runs outside. The six kids are powerless to do anything, as once they hear a powerful explosion in the distance, they are immediately warped through dimensions into Shadra's domain.

Trivia

 * His name comes from 'fowls', birds eaten by humans, otherwise referred to as poultry. His Japanese name, Bie Maruku, is an anagram of kuruma ebi, meaning 'penaeid shrimp'.