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Aug. 8th, 2010
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Aug. 8th, 2010 10:47 pm[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: AJ
AGE: 26
JOURNAL:
IM: [AIM] boozeandsurgery
E-MAIL: fenrismorkai@gmail.com
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[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Frank Castle
FANDOM: Marvel 616 but with applicable events from the MAX series that have been noted as being canon in the 616 universe.
CHRONOLOGY: Immediately after Punisher Vol. 4 No. 37
CLASS: Anti-Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: The Punisher
ALTER EGO: Johnny Tower, Charles Rook
BACKGROUND:
Born in Queens, New York to Sicilian parents, Francis Castiglione was tied to organized crime from the moment of his birth, his father having fled Sicily to avoid being forced to work for the Mafia. This would remain unknown to Frank until decades later when he visited Sicily and learned about his family. His childhood was generally a happy one though Frank was noted for a tendency to take risks.
At the start of his adult life Frank spent a brief time in a seminary training to be a priest. Ultimately he decided that he couldn't pursue a life serving God as he had difficulty accepting that evil could not always be punished. Not to long after leaving the seminary he got his girlfriend Maria pregnant and married her. With a new family to provide for Frank chose to answer long held patriotic feelings and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam.
Enlisting in late 1967 Frank completed Boot, and Sniper School just in time to arrive in Vietnam for the Tet Offensive in January 1968. He acquitted himself well and continued to show himself to be an exceptional Marine. Frank also started to become a combat junkie, addicted to the conflict. His constantly high performance and skill at eliminating the enemy was noticed by his superiors and he was selected for further training in Unconventional Warfare, UDT, and Airborne Operations. Volunteering for a second tour Frank was assigned to Marine Force Recon and carried out Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols, Seek and Destroy missions, and Direct Action behind enemy lines. He also had contact with, or performed missions for MACV-SOG and the CIA's Special Activities Division.
Sometime after his second tour Frank changed his name from Francis Castiglione to the anglicized Frank Castle. Returning to Vietnam for yet another tour, Frank, now a Captain, was assigned to Firebase Valley Forge near the Cambodian border. The Firebase was a mess. Morale was low, troops were unmotivated, and many had turned to drug use as an escape. Compounding the problems were a drunk commander and NCOs who more often the Marine's dealers instead of their leaders. All of this still did not prevent Castle from having his war. Gathering the few solid Marines he could, he formed a platoon and began to lead patrols in the jungle, killing the NVA anywhere he could find them. For months his platoon did this without a single member being killed in action. Finally in late October 1971, during a terrible tropical storm that grounded the Marine's air support, the NVA massed for an attack against Firebase Valley Forge, some say in response to Castle's increasing activity in the area. In one horrific night the base was overrun and Castle was the only survivor. Actually to be correct, he was the only survivor on either side, having killed the last of the NVA troops hours before any reinforcements arrived.
Returning home Castle accepted an assignment training Force Recon Marines in upstate New York. Leaving the war behind him Frank jumped into the life of a family man, spending as much time with his two children, Barbara, and Francis Jr. that he could. It was during these calm, idyllic days that the family made the fateful decision to have a picnic in Central Park together. When they arrived it looked like it couldn't be a finer day. Instead it ended with all of them except Frank being murdered. Chasing a kite together through the Sheepshead Meadow the family stumbled across a mob hit being carried out by the Costa family. Without hesitation they gunned down the Castle family and fled, unknowingly leaving an injured Frank alive.
At first he pursued justice through legal channels, expecting the system would work as it should. He identified his family's killers and was prepared to testify in court. Instead the case was dropped. The Costa family had provided alibis for all of their men and where that hadn't worked they had resorted to buying off officials. In his despair Castle almost attempted suicide, but was interrupted by a reporter named Mike McTeer, who earlier had tried to profit off of his tragedy. Due to the guilt from this he agreed to help Castle try to get the evidence to bust the Costas, even if it wouldn't be for his family's murder they could still get justice. Together they began to rough up the Costa's operations and people for information, soon gathering enough to actually be a threat to the Costas. In response they sent out one of their enforcers, Billy "The Beaut" Russo, after the pair. Russo succeeded in killing McTeer, but not Castle. Instead Castle found him and threw him through a plate glass window, horribly scarring the mobster. Calling himself Jigsaw he would return again and again in an attempt to gain revenge against Castle for this.
Now a deserter from the Marine Corps, Castle started calling himself the Punisher and continued his fight against the Costas until he had wiped all of them out. Then he found another crime family to target, and another, and another. For thirty years now he has pursued his own personal war against organized crime, destroying his enemy wherever they can be found. There is now almost no crime organization that hasn't suffered at least one loss due to the Punisher. Even when he's been imprisoned, Castle has continued to rack up a body count before ultimately escaping.
A few years after starting his war, Frank came into contact with a hacker and engineer called Microchip. At first Frank only used him to obtain fake IDs and other counterfeit documents, but in time Microchip chose to join up with Frank full time. Soon Microchip was using the funds Frank had stolen from his victims to make hi-tech battlevans and other sophisticated pieces of hardware to aid Castle in his war, soon dropping all other clients in favor of the Punisher. Microchip even eventually brought his son into their business, though this sadly resulted in his death a short time later producing a rift between Micro and Frank that never fully sealed.
Though their relationship was rocky at times, Frank and Micro managed to remain partners for many years until Micro finally left, feeling that that Frank had gone off the deep end and lost sight of the mission. Setting a trap for the Punisher, Micro locked him up in one of their secure warehouses, hoping that Frank would come to his senses. Eight weeks later Frank was freed by a pair of hackers he had hired after Micro had left. Immediately he went in search of his ally turned foe. Facing off in another secure warehouse Castle's revenge was cut short when a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agent destroyed the place, killing Micro in the process. While Castle later defeated the agent, Micro's betrayal would have long term effects on his behavior for the worse. Since then Castle has almost always worked alone, only briefly teaming up with others when the situation demanded it.
During this time Castle also engaged in a firefight in Central Park with the assassin Bullseye where he believed he accidentally killed a family of four. The truth was that Bullseye had killed the family in order to pin it on Castle, something Frank would not learn until after he had been tried for the crime.
Captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. Castle was forced into rehabilitation with Dr. Samson. However, their hypno-therapy sessions were interfered with by unknown parties, and Castle had it implanted into his mind that S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury was the one responsible for the murders of his family. Escaping custody he began destroying S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities in New York trying to eliminate any LMDs that Fury could use to confuse him. Finally Castle confronted Fury in Hell's Kitchen and murdered him. In actuality Castle had killed an advanced Life Model Decoy of Fury, but this remained unknown to himself and S.H.I.E.L.D. for some time.
Turned over to New York for the murders of the family in Central Park, Frank plead guilty and was sentenced to death. To the public's knowledge his execution was carried out succesfully and the Punisher was dead. However, Castle was alive and still active. Rumors and sightings over the next few years would place him as the head of a Mob family, working for S.H.I.E.L.D., dead or in particularly absurd rumor, resurrected by angels to serve as heaven's hitman. None of these have ever been confirmed, or denied by Castle and the full details of his activities during this time are unknown.
In the year 2000 the Punisher announced his return to the public by throwing mobster Bobbie Gnucci off the Empire State Building. The Gnucci's retaliated, but despite the crime family's best efforts Castle managed to wipe out the rest of the Gnucci family, burning their estate to the ground and completely removing them from the criminal scene in New York. During the next three years Castle made up for lost time, and managed to rack up an impressive body count even for him. This culminated with him destroying the terrorist/mercenary hideout known as Nixon Island with a nuclear device stolen by the terrorists from France, killing over two thousand criminals in the blast. While most of the world's intelligence agencies suspect Castle as the true instigator, the official credit went to the French flight crew who had been transporting the weapon.
By the end of 2003 Castle was once more one of the most wanted men in the country, by law enforcement, super-heroes, and criminals. All three groups had tried to arrest or kill him at some point and had failed. As a message to all of them that he couldn't be stopped, Castle kidnapped a mobster and tossed him off the top of the Empire State Building, echoing his message from three years ago. Frank will be pulled to the City the day after this event.
PERSONALITY:
Frank has lost most of his humanity in his long years of vigilante action. Frank doesn't view what he's doing as crusade. To him it's a war, and a war of attrition at that. His measure of success is his kill ratio. There is no grand push for territory, only simple search and destroy. Find the enemy wherever he hides, and kill him. The people Frank kills aren't just criminals to him, they're the enemy in an endless war that he's determined to win. A war that seems futile to everybody else. That others would show the enemy mercy is simply stupid in Frank's opinion. In his mind the only way to truly stop your enemy is to destroy him completely. Break his mind and body and then throw it at the feet of his comrades to demoralize them. To let them know that this is what will happen to them too. Frank makes extensive use of his knowledge of military tactics that he learned in Vietnam. He doesn't just kill criminals, he aims to demoralize them through psychological warfare, thus giving him an edge against the almost always superior numbers he faces.
At his core, Frank is a broken person with only one thing keeping him going, purpose. He has no dreams, or hopes, only the mission. There is nothing else. Everything of true importance to him has been taken, and can never be returned. With only one exception he doesn't socialize, or do anything that doesn't in the end revolve around fighting his war. That one exception is that every year on the anniversary of his family's murder he visits their graves, or the site of the slayings in Central Park to leave flowers.
While the Vietnam war is not solely responsible for turning Frank into what he has become it left it's mark on him. It give him the skills he needed for his war and a comfort with killing which hastened his slide into violent vigilantism.
Franks opinion on super-heroes is mixed. While he thinks many of them are naive and foolish, he does seem to at least respect the idealism of some of them. Still he will not harm them as he views them as being part of the good guys.
As for how he views himself and his work, Frank doesn't think he's a hero in the slightest. He's a killer with little sympathy for his victims, and he's all too aware of it. To him it doesn't matter why someone committed a crime, simply that it was committed. Claiming that it wasn't someone's fault due to circumstance does not sway him as an argument. He points out that people always have a choice, no one can truly force someone to become a criminal. They choose to and that is why he feels no guilt from killing them.
Frank is also completely incapable of giving up his war. Any chance of him being anything other than the Punisher died along with his family. If it doesn't relate to the war Frank usually doesn't care. His last long term friendship was with Micro and the circumstances under which that friendship fell apart have continued to have a severe affect on Frank's ability to interact with others. Since Micro's betrayal Castle has become even less trusting than before, and refuses to work with anyone except very briefly and always on his terms.
POWER:
Determination
While only human Frank has survived wounds that would have killed men with less willpower. Whenever an innocent is in danger he has always been able to push himself past his limits and keep fighting until they were safe. The Porter has enhanced this. Now if an innocent is in danger Castle cannot be stopped. He can ignore any pain, loss of blood, or anything that might cause him to fall unconscious until that innocent is safe. Once they are no longer in danger Castle will succumb to the full effect of his wounds.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[The video feed turns on, focused on a beaten man tied up in a chair. It looks like he's in a warehouse.]
Wake up Jimmy.
[Whoever is speaking throws a bucket of water on the man in the chair.]
Smile, you're on TV.
Oh man just...just let me go, please. I already told you everything I know.
You did, but I'm not done with you yet. I need you to help me get a message to your bosses.
Anything man! Just tell me what you want me to say.
Say goodbye, Jimmy.
[The mysterious speaker draws a pistol and fires two rounds into Jimmy's head before the man even has a chance to scream. Stepping over to the comm he stands just to the side to make sure that the corpse is still visible. All that can be seen is his t-shirt, the skull glaring out at the camera.]
And tell them I'm coming for them next.
[He reaches over to the communicator and cuts the feed.]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
It wasn't New York, but it was close enough. In some ways all big cities were the same. In crime they were all the same. Same scum, different names, different places. Still the same filth, and corruption. Always the same solution. It didn't matter where he was, the mission was still the same. Find them and kill them, every last one of them. It was a constant, a stable, unmovable fact in his life. Everything in the world changed. Everything, but the mission.
The criminals think they own these streets, think they're the biggest cats in the urban jungle. They're going to find out just how wrong they are. He's spent the day watching this crack dealer, works an alley near 82nd and 5th. Low on the food chain, but that doesn't make him any less deserving of punishment. He's also an easy target. The dealer's gang is off cooking up the stuff. He'd deal with them later, plenty of time, plenty of ammo. First he needed them to know someone was coming for them, needed to put anger in them. Anger would make them stupid and then they would make mistakes. Mistakes he would use to make them feel fear. Fear of death, fear of punishment, fear of him.
Unnoticed he walked by the alley and turned the corner. Another turn, and he came down the alley from the opposite direction, the dealer's back to him. He got the dealer's attention, and once the creep had turned he drew his pistol, Colt Model of 1911, one of John Browning's finest. A Glock was just as reliable, easier to maintain as well, but he couldn't modify it like he could this pistol. Couldn't squeeze every bit of accuracy out of it like he could with this pistol. It also didn't balance as well, or have as crisp and light of a trigger. That crisp, light trigger that he squeezed once, twice, three times. Two to the chest one to the head. The Mozambique drill, the failure drill. Single shot to the head more efficient, but he liked this better. Ensured the opponent was dead, left no room for errors. There would be more to replace him, there always was. It didn't matter. They'd die just like he did, like all the rest had. Same scum, different names, different places. Mission always the same. The mission never changed. Never changed.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Frank will be coming into the city with a pair of trusted Model 1911 pistols, and his Kevlar body armor.
NAME: AJ
AGE: 26
JOURNAL:
IM: [AIM] boozeandsurgery
E-MAIL: fenrismorkai@gmail.com
RETURNING: Yes I am returning, and I play Seras Victoria, and Boyd Langton (
newbvampire, rossum_ceo)[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Frank Castle
FANDOM: Marvel 616 but with applicable events from the MAX series that have been noted as being canon in the 616 universe.
CHRONOLOGY: Immediately after Punisher Vol. 4 No. 37
CLASS: Anti-Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: The Punisher
ALTER EGO: Johnny Tower, Charles Rook
BACKGROUND:
Born in Queens, New York to Sicilian parents, Francis Castiglione was tied to organized crime from the moment of his birth, his father having fled Sicily to avoid being forced to work for the Mafia. This would remain unknown to Frank until decades later when he visited Sicily and learned about his family. His childhood was generally a happy one though Frank was noted for a tendency to take risks.
At the start of his adult life Frank spent a brief time in a seminary training to be a priest. Ultimately he decided that he couldn't pursue a life serving God as he had difficulty accepting that evil could not always be punished. Not to long after leaving the seminary he got his girlfriend Maria pregnant and married her. With a new family to provide for Frank chose to answer long held patriotic feelings and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam.
Enlisting in late 1967 Frank completed Boot, and Sniper School just in time to arrive in Vietnam for the Tet Offensive in January 1968. He acquitted himself well and continued to show himself to be an exceptional Marine. Frank also started to become a combat junkie, addicted to the conflict. His constantly high performance and skill at eliminating the enemy was noticed by his superiors and he was selected for further training in Unconventional Warfare, UDT, and Airborne Operations. Volunteering for a second tour Frank was assigned to Marine Force Recon and carried out Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols, Seek and Destroy missions, and Direct Action behind enemy lines. He also had contact with, or performed missions for MACV-SOG and the CIA's Special Activities Division.
Sometime after his second tour Frank changed his name from Francis Castiglione to the anglicized Frank Castle. Returning to Vietnam for yet another tour, Frank, now a Captain, was assigned to Firebase Valley Forge near the Cambodian border. The Firebase was a mess. Morale was low, troops were unmotivated, and many had turned to drug use as an escape. Compounding the problems were a drunk commander and NCOs who more often the Marine's dealers instead of their leaders. All of this still did not prevent Castle from having his war. Gathering the few solid Marines he could, he formed a platoon and began to lead patrols in the jungle, killing the NVA anywhere he could find them. For months his platoon did this without a single member being killed in action. Finally in late October 1971, during a terrible tropical storm that grounded the Marine's air support, the NVA massed for an attack against Firebase Valley Forge, some say in response to Castle's increasing activity in the area. In one horrific night the base was overrun and Castle was the only survivor. Actually to be correct, he was the only survivor on either side, having killed the last of the NVA troops hours before any reinforcements arrived.
Returning home Castle accepted an assignment training Force Recon Marines in upstate New York. Leaving the war behind him Frank jumped into the life of a family man, spending as much time with his two children, Barbara, and Francis Jr. that he could. It was during these calm, idyllic days that the family made the fateful decision to have a picnic in Central Park together. When they arrived it looked like it couldn't be a finer day. Instead it ended with all of them except Frank being murdered. Chasing a kite together through the Sheepshead Meadow the family stumbled across a mob hit being carried out by the Costa family. Without hesitation they gunned down the Castle family and fled, unknowingly leaving an injured Frank alive.
At first he pursued justice through legal channels, expecting the system would work as it should. He identified his family's killers and was prepared to testify in court. Instead the case was dropped. The Costa family had provided alibis for all of their men and where that hadn't worked they had resorted to buying off officials. In his despair Castle almost attempted suicide, but was interrupted by a reporter named Mike McTeer, who earlier had tried to profit off of his tragedy. Due to the guilt from this he agreed to help Castle try to get the evidence to bust the Costas, even if it wouldn't be for his family's murder they could still get justice. Together they began to rough up the Costa's operations and people for information, soon gathering enough to actually be a threat to the Costas. In response they sent out one of their enforcers, Billy "The Beaut" Russo, after the pair. Russo succeeded in killing McTeer, but not Castle. Instead Castle found him and threw him through a plate glass window, horribly scarring the mobster. Calling himself Jigsaw he would return again and again in an attempt to gain revenge against Castle for this.
Now a deserter from the Marine Corps, Castle started calling himself the Punisher and continued his fight against the Costas until he had wiped all of them out. Then he found another crime family to target, and another, and another. For thirty years now he has pursued his own personal war against organized crime, destroying his enemy wherever they can be found. There is now almost no crime organization that hasn't suffered at least one loss due to the Punisher. Even when he's been imprisoned, Castle has continued to rack up a body count before ultimately escaping.
A few years after starting his war, Frank came into contact with a hacker and engineer called Microchip. At first Frank only used him to obtain fake IDs and other counterfeit documents, but in time Microchip chose to join up with Frank full time. Soon Microchip was using the funds Frank had stolen from his victims to make hi-tech battlevans and other sophisticated pieces of hardware to aid Castle in his war, soon dropping all other clients in favor of the Punisher. Microchip even eventually brought his son into their business, though this sadly resulted in his death a short time later producing a rift between Micro and Frank that never fully sealed.
Though their relationship was rocky at times, Frank and Micro managed to remain partners for many years until Micro finally left, feeling that that Frank had gone off the deep end and lost sight of the mission. Setting a trap for the Punisher, Micro locked him up in one of their secure warehouses, hoping that Frank would come to his senses. Eight weeks later Frank was freed by a pair of hackers he had hired after Micro had left. Immediately he went in search of his ally turned foe. Facing off in another secure warehouse Castle's revenge was cut short when a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agent destroyed the place, killing Micro in the process. While Castle later defeated the agent, Micro's betrayal would have long term effects on his behavior for the worse. Since then Castle has almost always worked alone, only briefly teaming up with others when the situation demanded it.
During this time Castle also engaged in a firefight in Central Park with the assassin Bullseye where he believed he accidentally killed a family of four. The truth was that Bullseye had killed the family in order to pin it on Castle, something Frank would not learn until after he had been tried for the crime.
Captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. Castle was forced into rehabilitation with Dr. Samson. However, their hypno-therapy sessions were interfered with by unknown parties, and Castle had it implanted into his mind that S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury was the one responsible for the murders of his family. Escaping custody he began destroying S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities in New York trying to eliminate any LMDs that Fury could use to confuse him. Finally Castle confronted Fury in Hell's Kitchen and murdered him. In actuality Castle had killed an advanced Life Model Decoy of Fury, but this remained unknown to himself and S.H.I.E.L.D. for some time.
Turned over to New York for the murders of the family in Central Park, Frank plead guilty and was sentenced to death. To the public's knowledge his execution was carried out succesfully and the Punisher was dead. However, Castle was alive and still active. Rumors and sightings over the next few years would place him as the head of a Mob family, working for S.H.I.E.L.D., dead or in particularly absurd rumor, resurrected by angels to serve as heaven's hitman. None of these have ever been confirmed, or denied by Castle and the full details of his activities during this time are unknown.
In the year 2000 the Punisher announced his return to the public by throwing mobster Bobbie Gnucci off the Empire State Building. The Gnucci's retaliated, but despite the crime family's best efforts Castle managed to wipe out the rest of the Gnucci family, burning their estate to the ground and completely removing them from the criminal scene in New York. During the next three years Castle made up for lost time, and managed to rack up an impressive body count even for him. This culminated with him destroying the terrorist/mercenary hideout known as Nixon Island with a nuclear device stolen by the terrorists from France, killing over two thousand criminals in the blast. While most of the world's intelligence agencies suspect Castle as the true instigator, the official credit went to the French flight crew who had been transporting the weapon.
By the end of 2003 Castle was once more one of the most wanted men in the country, by law enforcement, super-heroes, and criminals. All three groups had tried to arrest or kill him at some point and had failed. As a message to all of them that he couldn't be stopped, Castle kidnapped a mobster and tossed him off the top of the Empire State Building, echoing his message from three years ago. Frank will be pulled to the City the day after this event.
PERSONALITY:
Frank has lost most of his humanity in his long years of vigilante action. Frank doesn't view what he's doing as crusade. To him it's a war, and a war of attrition at that. His measure of success is his kill ratio. There is no grand push for territory, only simple search and destroy. Find the enemy wherever he hides, and kill him. The people Frank kills aren't just criminals to him, they're the enemy in an endless war that he's determined to win. A war that seems futile to everybody else. That others would show the enemy mercy is simply stupid in Frank's opinion. In his mind the only way to truly stop your enemy is to destroy him completely. Break his mind and body and then throw it at the feet of his comrades to demoralize them. To let them know that this is what will happen to them too. Frank makes extensive use of his knowledge of military tactics that he learned in Vietnam. He doesn't just kill criminals, he aims to demoralize them through psychological warfare, thus giving him an edge against the almost always superior numbers he faces.
At his core, Frank is a broken person with only one thing keeping him going, purpose. He has no dreams, or hopes, only the mission. There is nothing else. Everything of true importance to him has been taken, and can never be returned. With only one exception he doesn't socialize, or do anything that doesn't in the end revolve around fighting his war. That one exception is that every year on the anniversary of his family's murder he visits their graves, or the site of the slayings in Central Park to leave flowers.
While the Vietnam war is not solely responsible for turning Frank into what he has become it left it's mark on him. It give him the skills he needed for his war and a comfort with killing which hastened his slide into violent vigilantism.
Franks opinion on super-heroes is mixed. While he thinks many of them are naive and foolish, he does seem to at least respect the idealism of some of them. Still he will not harm them as he views them as being part of the good guys.
As for how he views himself and his work, Frank doesn't think he's a hero in the slightest. He's a killer with little sympathy for his victims, and he's all too aware of it. To him it doesn't matter why someone committed a crime, simply that it was committed. Claiming that it wasn't someone's fault due to circumstance does not sway him as an argument. He points out that people always have a choice, no one can truly force someone to become a criminal. They choose to and that is why he feels no guilt from killing them.
Frank is also completely incapable of giving up his war. Any chance of him being anything other than the Punisher died along with his family. If it doesn't relate to the war Frank usually doesn't care. His last long term friendship was with Micro and the circumstances under which that friendship fell apart have continued to have a severe affect on Frank's ability to interact with others. Since Micro's betrayal Castle has become even less trusting than before, and refuses to work with anyone except very briefly and always on his terms.
POWER:
Determination
While only human Frank has survived wounds that would have killed men with less willpower. Whenever an innocent is in danger he has always been able to push himself past his limits and keep fighting until they were safe. The Porter has enhanced this. Now if an innocent is in danger Castle cannot be stopped. He can ignore any pain, loss of blood, or anything that might cause him to fall unconscious until that innocent is safe. Once they are no longer in danger Castle will succumb to the full effect of his wounds.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[The video feed turns on, focused on a beaten man tied up in a chair. It looks like he's in a warehouse.]
Wake up Jimmy.
[Whoever is speaking throws a bucket of water on the man in the chair.]
Smile, you're on TV.
Oh man just...just let me go, please. I already told you everything I know.
You did, but I'm not done with you yet. I need you to help me get a message to your bosses.
Anything man! Just tell me what you want me to say.
Say goodbye, Jimmy.
[The mysterious speaker draws a pistol and fires two rounds into Jimmy's head before the man even has a chance to scream. Stepping over to the comm he stands just to the side to make sure that the corpse is still visible. All that can be seen is his t-shirt, the skull glaring out at the camera.]
And tell them I'm coming for them next.
[He reaches over to the communicator and cuts the feed.]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
It wasn't New York, but it was close enough. In some ways all big cities were the same. In crime they were all the same. Same scum, different names, different places. Still the same filth, and corruption. Always the same solution. It didn't matter where he was, the mission was still the same. Find them and kill them, every last one of them. It was a constant, a stable, unmovable fact in his life. Everything in the world changed. Everything, but the mission.
The criminals think they own these streets, think they're the biggest cats in the urban jungle. They're going to find out just how wrong they are. He's spent the day watching this crack dealer, works an alley near 82nd and 5th. Low on the food chain, but that doesn't make him any less deserving of punishment. He's also an easy target. The dealer's gang is off cooking up the stuff. He'd deal with them later, plenty of time, plenty of ammo. First he needed them to know someone was coming for them, needed to put anger in them. Anger would make them stupid and then they would make mistakes. Mistakes he would use to make them feel fear. Fear of death, fear of punishment, fear of him.
Unnoticed he walked by the alley and turned the corner. Another turn, and he came down the alley from the opposite direction, the dealer's back to him. He got the dealer's attention, and once the creep had turned he drew his pistol, Colt Model of 1911, one of John Browning's finest. A Glock was just as reliable, easier to maintain as well, but he couldn't modify it like he could this pistol. Couldn't squeeze every bit of accuracy out of it like he could with this pistol. It also didn't balance as well, or have as crisp and light of a trigger. That crisp, light trigger that he squeezed once, twice, three times. Two to the chest one to the head. The Mozambique drill, the failure drill. Single shot to the head more efficient, but he liked this better. Ensured the opponent was dead, left no room for errors. There would be more to replace him, there always was. It didn't matter. They'd die just like he did, like all the rest had. Same scum, different names, different places. Mission always the same. The mission never changed. Never changed.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Frank will be coming into the city with a pair of trusted Model 1911 pistols, and his Kevlar body armor.