GENERAL CHARACTER STATISTICS
Character Name: Bernard Samson
Gender: Male
Species/Race: Human
Age: 33
Birthplace/World: Las Vegas, Nevada
Occupation/School/Grade: Mercenary
More: Villain name is "Mr. Samson"
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
General Appearance:
Strengths:
-Eidetic Reflexes: A minor villain (of sorts), Mr. Samson was gifted with a remarkable version of eidetic memory that allows him to merely witness the physical movements of another and recreate them perfectly. This makes him incredibly adroit at disguising himself as others, but the most useful (and utilized) form of his ability is in copying the combat styles of others. If he watches a Kung-Fu Master go through his forms, essentially, Mr. Samson is able to be a Kung-Fu Master himself.
-Martial Combat: Setting aside his eidetic reflex, Mr. Samson is an accomplished martial artist himself, having Greco-Roman wrestling and boxing for a background in high school and college. This gives him the foundation to use his eidetic reflexes to their fullest potential, having innate knowledge of the combat arts. In addition to standard hand-to- hand combat, Mr. Samson has extensive experience with melee weaponry. In summary, Mr. Samson has the capacity to be the perfect melee combatant.
-Assassination: Another ability granted to him from his eidetic reflexes, he's learned to blend in to most all crowds to make him an ideal invisible killer. Extensive combat knowledge allows him to deliver lethal strikes that leave little trace, giving him another impressive weapon for assassinations.
Weaknesses:
-Shrewd: While not a coward, Mr. Samson knows exactly when to bow out and enter combat, as well as when he needs to create or break alliances. While he honours contracts with his employers, he honours them only to the most strict translation and will flat out refuse to go beyond them. Unless...
-Greed: Nothing will earn Mr. Samson's loyalty deeper, or faster, than the largest paycheck. Likewise, if you don't have a written and notarized contract with him, nothing will earn his treachery like the largest paycheck...
MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS
Current Goal/Purpose: Money money money Mooooney! MON-AY!
Talents: Setting aside his minor superpower and shrewd employment tactics, Mr. Samson remains a staunch professional. Carving a certain reputation for strong loyalty if the money is good, he is a solid enforcer and an apt right-hand man to turn to for strategic discussion.
Inabilities: Mr. Samson has no military experience, and little true marksmanship ability. While he has an excellent ability to 'throw' missiles like knives and darts, his long-range capability remains at just that. In addition, while willing to stake his life on a job where his skills shine, he is decidedly cowardly in the face of suicide missions. If the risk is too great, he will flat out refuse the job-- that is, unless it's part of the contract...
Fears: Dying and not having the money to live his lavish life-style.
General Personality: Amiable and surprisingly friendly for a 'villain.' Mr. Samson enjoys the finer things in life: women, booze, and cars. While he maintains a professional attitude in the face of employers and potential employers, he's very much a man who enjoys luxury. He finds no need to 'work out' or practice, really having never need to do such a thing, and he takes jobs so often in which he has to fight that his body never really atrophies.
Inner Personality: Insecurities abound, Mr. Samson grew up in a poor home with little to no amenities. His father was an obsessive gambler, his mother a whore who spent what money she made only for herself. Mr. Samson quickly learned to fend for himself.
Secret: Aside from his terrible childhood, there isn't many secrets. People that can afford him know how to contact him. Well, the biggest secret would probably be his face... No one knows what it looks like!
HISTORIC BACKGROUND
General History:
Born into a litter of bastards, Mr. Samson didn't have the ideal childhood. His father was a drunk, and his mother was a whore with little to no motherly instinct. Raised more by his eldest sister, the siblings were close and Bernard learned early on how to be self-reliant. Mistaking strength for ruthless preemptive action, he became a child menace on the streets of Las Vegas.
A natural fighter, Mr. Samson took up boxing at an amateur level in his early teens. He excelled immediately and continued practicing combat arts, eventually joining his high school wrestling team. He learned early, however, that these 'lessons' were ill-needed. On his first visit to the boxing gym, he realized he could perfectly mimic the fighter's movements and during his lesson, relied on this muscle memory. He learned just-as-quickly however the error in using this ability on it's own-- his body screamed at him in pain later that night. So his training became more about conditioning and theory.
He dropped out of college after his first year to run with one of the mobster gangs as an enforcer, a lieutenant having witnessed him dispatch more than half-a-dozen men in a bar fight where he was employed as a bouncer. Quickly realizing the potential of his combat ability, and learning more of the underworld, Mr. Samson began to expand his potential employer base and became muscle for hire. Eventually, it was killer for hire. And sometimes personal trainer.
Present Life: Mr. Samson is a high-priced mercenary now, offering his impressive array of combat-oriented expertise to the highest bidder. He lives the high-life, owning penthouse apartments all across the world and a number of high-priced toys. He also owes debts to a few high-placed mobsters, but that's neither here nor there...
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