Cosplay

"I guess this is why it's called "[Bloons Tower Defense Impersonation]]".|-Ai|undefined"

Pioneer Original, the Initial Tower is a new Hero in BTDI, mainly composing of parts from the 5 first towers of the BTD series (Dart Monkey, Tack Shooter, Ice Monkey, Bomb Shooter, and Super Monkey).

At Level 1, Pioneer Original just throws darts and at times, spreadshots of 3 tacks, as if it were a medium-ranged Dart Monkey mixed with a Druid. To compensate, Pioneer is the fastest upgrading Hero out of all the Heroes, requiring the least XP to upgrade.

Appearance
User:Shiverpeace

Levels
Level 1 - Throws darts like a Dart Monkey. Has a chance to throw tacks, which have more pierce than darts. 3 tacks are thrown at a time, akin to Dart Monkey's Triple Darts.

Level 2 - Increased chance to throw tacks. Tacks have increased pierce.

Level 3 - Immunity Bypass Ability: Pioneer and two other random towers in range can pop 3 more layers of bloon, and all towers on screen can affect any type of bloon for 5 seconds.

Level 4 - Faster attack speed.

Level 5 - Detects camo. Slightly increased range.

Level 6 - Has a chance to throw ice pellets, which can freeze and pop bloons.

Level 7 - Increased ice pellet freezing duration.

Level 8 - Has a chance to throw bombs, which explode.

Level 9 - Bombs have bigger explosions.

Level 10 - Originalize Ability: Do 50 damage to any bloon that wasn't in BTD1. (in other words, any bloon that isn't Red Bloon, Blue Bloon, Green Bloon, Yellow Bloon, Black Bloon, or White Bloon)

Level 11 - Replaces ice pellets with ice-tipped darts, which freeze and pierce through bloons. Can pop White Bloons.

Level 12 - Tacks are heated into Hot Shot Tacks, searing through Lead and frozen bloons.

Level 13 - Replaces bombs with explosion-laced darts, which somehow explode on their last pop. Can pop Black Bloons. Regular darts are not thrown anymore.

Level 14 - All attacks from Pioneer pop 1 more layer of bloon. Tack spreadshot count is increased from 3 tacks to 7 tacks.

Level 15 - Immunity Bypass Ability has reduced cooldown, pops 5 layers, and duration is increased to 20 seconds.

Level 16 - Has a chance to swiftly shoot a stream of 25 high-pierce darts, akin to Super Monkey.

Level 17 - Ice-tipped darts freeze a group of bloons upon making contact with a bloon.

Level 18 - Originalize Ability has reduced cooldown and does 200 damage against M.O.A.B-Class Bloons.

Level 19 - Explosion-laced darts do 20x damage against M.O.A.B-Class Bloons.

Level 20 - Originalize Ability does 500 damage against M.O.A.B-Class Bloons.

In-Game Quotes
Besides imitating the voices of others, Cosplay communicates only in vocables, incoherent gibberish, and other utterances that often cannot be expressed in exact words.

Trivia

 * Shiverpeace wonders who this character is supposed to represent.
 * Cosplay's actual gender remains unknown, partially because the game happens to not describe Cosplay enough, partially because they only appear in one cutscene, and partially because of a certain someone who keeps destroying birth certificates.