So, here's my bid for a hardcore villain.
From The Pages Of... RPG APPLICATION
Screen Name: RGDurant
Character you'd like to portray: Robert G. Durant
Superhuman powers, traits, other attributes of interest: Durant has cheated death at the hand's of Darkman numerous times, so much that his entire body has been destroyed with the exception of his brain after their last encounter. Though his vast private, military, and government connections, Durant's brain has been installed into a android body with a titanium alloy skeleton covered with living tissue. With this artificial body, he possesses superhuman strength, durability, stamina, and longevity.
Physical aspects aside, Durant is a criminal mastermind of genius level intellect. His personal syndicate interests include drug trafficking, human trafficking, racketeering, black market weapons, money laundering, and financing for various national and international criminal and terrorist enterprises. Durant maintains a massive network of underworld and mainstream connections, ranging from police officials, scientist's, business tycoons, and lawyers to federal agents, politicians, militants and crime lords throughout the world, keeping loyal through regular bribery, blackmail, and intimidation. He also employs multiple hideouts, safe houses and hidden bunkers to remain away from prying eyes. His personal crew of enforcers can easily be labeled as “violence crazed losers” for their brutality and weak wills. He prefers them so he can control them easier and order them to use their abilities for his own benefit.
His personality consists of sadistic, sociopathic, and cynical almost emotionless behavior. He greatly enjoys killing and torturing people, in which he treats with a cynical business like attitude, he seems to lack the ability to feel emotion other than anger or greed. He is extremely paranoid and ill tempered that he’ll kill his own men on mere suggestion if they make the slightest blunder. The motives to his actions are mainly greed, he is ambitious to the point where his personal sadistic ways are used in obtaining his goals.
Durant’s signature mark is to severe fingers of his victims with his golden cigar cutter, in which he collects and keeps in a box as trophies.
As far as weapons, he has a preference for handguns, but mainly carries either a customized Taurus PT92 or a Colt Python. He doesn't use much large weaponry, but when he does, he favors Milkor Grenade Launchers, M-60 Light Machine Guns and the Vigilante Particle Assault Rifle.
Originally appearing from (which comic, and company?): Darkman as briefly published by Marvel Comics and Dynamite Comics, as well as the Universal movies and novels.
Fictional history of the character (as you're going to interpret it): Robert G. Durant’s life before his career in crime is a mystery but he is one of the most nefarious and brutal criminals to exist.
For a long time during his career, he made himself a list of enemies but due to his sadistic way of killing and the power he has with his connections to government officials, no one dare to cross him. And then Durant met Peyton Westlake, while performing a favor to Louis Strack to retrieve an incriminating document; Durant had Westlake beaten and burned beyond recognition, thusly creating Darkman.
Durant’s gang began to drop like flies, and his money being stolen, he eventually discovered Westlake survived their encounter and he orchestrated an attack on Darkman's lab. The remainder of his current crew at the time were killed off and Durant ended up dragging Darkman about the city from his helicopter while firing grenades at him. In the end, Darkman hooked the helicopter's crane cable to a truck and caused it to crash while it drove into a tunnel.
Durant however survived the crash and was rendered into a 878 day coma, from when he awoke from, he found his empire fledgling due to the ineptitude of his crew during his absence. To regain control black market gun trade, Durant had decided to provide a new weapon all together, more powerful than any conventional firearm.
He broke out a weapons scientist named Dr. Alfred Hathaway from a state institution for the criminally insane. Durant was interested in project Dr. Hathaway was developing before his arrest, an air cooled semi-automatic particle beam weapon. He accepted Durant's proposal on the condition that they found a building with a surplus of power, as the prototype model ran on conventional electricity, Durant assured the professor that he would provide the necessary assets.
Durant found a perfect location for a factory, an inner city power plant. The only obstacle was the current owner Dr. David Brinkman, who was using the place as his lab. He attempted to buy the property, but Brinkman refused to sell.
A few nights after the monetary offer, Durant and his crew visited Brinkman with the intention of pressuring him into selling, Brinkman didn't give in and attacked the criminals with a homemade laser device. Durant had his cronies brutally torture Brinkman to death.
The next move was to attempt to offer Brinkman's sister Laurie one million dollars for the property, which she agreed to. However when the day came to sign the deed over, Laurie refused upon hearing Durant's name. They then moved to force her cooperation, but she was aided by one of Durant's lackeys . They managed to capture Laurie and discover that the person helping her was none other than Peyton Westlake in disguise.
With the building, Hathaway produced several of the particle rifle's they had dubbed “The Vigilante”, and arranged the sale of these weapons to a Neo-Nazi vigilante group in hopes of wiping out all other competition in the city.
Knowing Darkman was after him, Durant grew paranoid and decided that the only way they could continue without trouble is if Westlake was dead. So he decided to use Laurie as bait to lure Darkman into his grasp, then he would kill them both. He was right when he discovered Darkman attempting to poison him. Durant came close to reducing his nemesis to ashes with the new weapon, but he demanded that he have one of Laurie's fingers and all ten of Darkman's. This threw Darkman into a rage and though a destructive series of events, Durant's crew, Dr. Hathaway, and the Neo-Nazi's were killed. Darkman then finally trapped Durant in his car and blew up with a remote controlled car bomb.
Durant had barely survived Darkman's murder attempt, but not without severe injuries and in an effort to save his life, his associates implanted his brain into an experimental android body.
Durant still runs his organization from underground, and keeps his interests in an iron grip.
Hero, Villain, or Walking the line?: Villain
List a few reasons why you chose this character: Robert Durant is evil personified, and I feel that someone in his position can be a major threat to the majority of our characters. He is very capable of bringing misery and destruction on a massive scale if he wanted to and if it was profitable. Anyone who stands in his way is subject to his sadistic retribution, and he knows all too well how to ruin someone's life.
How will this character differ from it's original incarnation?: In the comics, Durant was rendered to being a head placed on robotic spider legs, like Mr. Freeze in the BTAS. This time, he's been put into more of a Terminator-like body after Darkman completely destroyed his human body.
Write two complete sentences explaining what you can bring to this RPG:
“The name isn't buddy! It's Durant! Robert G. Durant!”
Also a hardcore villain who can provide some well needed opposition for our heroes.
How many days a week you intend on posting in the RPG: As much as I can, as many times as I can.
Please provide a small sample post as your character, at least three paragraphs and one line of dialog in length:
Arnold Collins sat at his desk while doing some midnight paperwork, marking up mutli-zero numbers in his clients ledger. He rubbed his eyes and sipped out of mug, but then spat the liquid right out as his coffee had gone cold. He stood up and went to fixed him a fresh cup.
"Mr. Collins, a Mr. Santos is here to see you." his secretary's voice said over the intercom on his desk.
Arnold gulped down some flem build up in his throat, he knew what this was about. He clicked the button to speak, "Alright, send him right in Peggy."
The door open and a thin Hispanic man with short oily hair and an expensive, if rather tacky suit walked in. He refused to shake Collins' hand, subituting greeting with a simple chin thrust. "Uh Hector, this is a surprise, you should have called."
"Didn't want you know I was coming." Hector replied, closing the door behind him, "You know what this is about?". Collins was confused and started to grown nervous, "Um, no, I uh did the books last week, numbers were nice and solid.". "Well the boss is concerned, you see he had a thorough look through the numbers, you see they look solid, but when he looked hard enough, he noticed some money had been missing from the overall sum." Hector replied.
Collins wiped his sweating palms on his pantlegs, "Well maybe it's typo, you know paperwork gets screwed up all the time, you could send me back the books and I'll have it fix in a jiff."
"Was that your car outside, the BMW? Very nice car, third one in two months for you isn't it?" Hector asked, smirking as the accountant started to go white. "What are you implying Hector, that I'm skimming? Your boss is not my only client, I'm very well off man." Collins stuttered, trying to sound insulted. "And your not the bosses' only shyster, but he keeps an eye on all of them." Hector replied.
Collins couldn't find anyway to defend himself, Hector noticed this and pressed the intercom button, "Take her out."
Two silenced gunshots rang from the intercom and the door was kicked opened by a massive man with an overly thick jaw. Collins fumbled for a drawer that held a .38, but before he could get to it, he was lifted from his seat by the huge man and slammed against his desk. Hector grabbed Collins' tie and wrapped it around his neck to choke him while the big guy held him down.
A third man walked into the room, a tall, stocky man with a roundish head, dressed in a brown suit and overcoat. The emotionless, almost catlike face stared at him with pale blue eyes with a mix of anger and predatory sadism. He reached into his pockets and drew out two items, in one hand, he held a cigar, and in the other, a golden cigar cutter. He snipped the end off the cigar and placed it into his mouth, he lit it and breathed in the rich smoke before nodding to his men. The large enforcer took Collins' hand and held it up, forcing the fingers to spread wide as his boss approached them.
"Now, let's consider my points, one by one."
Robert G. Durant slid his cigar cutter around Collins' pinky finger.
"One, I try not to let my anger get the better of me."
SNIP!
Collins screamed at the loss of his first digit.
"Two." Durant said, putting the cutter around his ring finger, "I don't always succeed."
SNIP!
Collins cried and moaned as his severed ring finger hit the floor.
"Three." Durant put the cutter on his middle finger, "I've got seven more points."
SNIP!
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From The Pages Of... RPG APPLICATION
Screen Name: RGDurant
Character you'd like to portray: Robert G. Durant
Superhuman powers, traits, other attributes of interest: Durant has cheated death at the hand's of Darkman numerous times, so much that his entire body has been destroyed with the exception of his brain after their last encounter. Though his vast private, military, and government connections, Durant's brain has been installed into a android body with a titanium alloy skeleton covered with living tissue. With this artificial body, he possesses superhuman strength, durability, stamina, and longevity.
Physical aspects aside, Durant is a criminal mastermind of genius level intellect. His personal syndicate interests include drug trafficking, human trafficking, racketeering, black market weapons, money laundering, and financing for various national and international criminal and terrorist enterprises. Durant maintains a massive network of underworld and mainstream connections, ranging from police officials, scientist's, business tycoons, and lawyers to federal agents, politicians, militants and crime lords throughout the world, keeping loyal through regular bribery, blackmail, and intimidation. He also employs multiple hideouts, safe houses and hidden bunkers to remain away from prying eyes. His personal crew of enforcers can easily be labeled as “violence crazed losers” for their brutality and weak wills. He prefers them so he can control them easier and order them to use their abilities for his own benefit.
His personality consists of sadistic, sociopathic, and cynical almost emotionless behavior. He greatly enjoys killing and torturing people, in which he treats with a cynical business like attitude, he seems to lack the ability to feel emotion other than anger or greed. He is extremely paranoid and ill tempered that he’ll kill his own men on mere suggestion if they make the slightest blunder. The motives to his actions are mainly greed, he is ambitious to the point where his personal sadistic ways are used in obtaining his goals.
Durant’s signature mark is to severe fingers of his victims with his golden cigar cutter, in which he collects and keeps in a box as trophies.
As far as weapons, he has a preference for handguns, but mainly carries either a customized Taurus PT92 or a Colt Python. He doesn't use much large weaponry, but when he does, he favors Milkor Grenade Launchers, M-60 Light Machine Guns and the Vigilante Particle Assault Rifle.
Originally appearing from (which comic, and company?): Darkman as briefly published by Marvel Comics and Dynamite Comics, as well as the Universal movies and novels.
Fictional history of the character (as you're going to interpret it): Robert G. Durant’s life before his career in crime is a mystery but he is one of the most nefarious and brutal criminals to exist.
For a long time during his career, he made himself a list of enemies but due to his sadistic way of killing and the power he has with his connections to government officials, no one dare to cross him. And then Durant met Peyton Westlake, while performing a favor to Louis Strack to retrieve an incriminating document; Durant had Westlake beaten and burned beyond recognition, thusly creating Darkman.
Durant’s gang began to drop like flies, and his money being stolen, he eventually discovered Westlake survived their encounter and he orchestrated an attack on Darkman's lab. The remainder of his current crew at the time were killed off and Durant ended up dragging Darkman about the city from his helicopter while firing grenades at him. In the end, Darkman hooked the helicopter's crane cable to a truck and caused it to crash while it drove into a tunnel.
Durant however survived the crash and was rendered into a 878 day coma, from when he awoke from, he found his empire fledgling due to the ineptitude of his crew during his absence. To regain control black market gun trade, Durant had decided to provide a new weapon all together, more powerful than any conventional firearm.
He broke out a weapons scientist named Dr. Alfred Hathaway from a state institution for the criminally insane. Durant was interested in project Dr. Hathaway was developing before his arrest, an air cooled semi-automatic particle beam weapon. He accepted Durant's proposal on the condition that they found a building with a surplus of power, as the prototype model ran on conventional electricity, Durant assured the professor that he would provide the necessary assets.
Durant found a perfect location for a factory, an inner city power plant. The only obstacle was the current owner Dr. David Brinkman, who was using the place as his lab. He attempted to buy the property, but Brinkman refused to sell.
A few nights after the monetary offer, Durant and his crew visited Brinkman with the intention of pressuring him into selling, Brinkman didn't give in and attacked the criminals with a homemade laser device. Durant had his cronies brutally torture Brinkman to death.
The next move was to attempt to offer Brinkman's sister Laurie one million dollars for the property, which she agreed to. However when the day came to sign the deed over, Laurie refused upon hearing Durant's name. They then moved to force her cooperation, but she was aided by one of Durant's lackeys . They managed to capture Laurie and discover that the person helping her was none other than Peyton Westlake in disguise.
With the building, Hathaway produced several of the particle rifle's they had dubbed “The Vigilante”, and arranged the sale of these weapons to a Neo-Nazi vigilante group in hopes of wiping out all other competition in the city.
Knowing Darkman was after him, Durant grew paranoid and decided that the only way they could continue without trouble is if Westlake was dead. So he decided to use Laurie as bait to lure Darkman into his grasp, then he would kill them both. He was right when he discovered Darkman attempting to poison him. Durant came close to reducing his nemesis to ashes with the new weapon, but he demanded that he have one of Laurie's fingers and all ten of Darkman's. This threw Darkman into a rage and though a destructive series of events, Durant's crew, Dr. Hathaway, and the Neo-Nazi's were killed. Darkman then finally trapped Durant in his car and blew up with a remote controlled car bomb.
Durant had barely survived Darkman's murder attempt, but not without severe injuries and in an effort to save his life, his associates implanted his brain into an experimental android body.
Durant still runs his organization from underground, and keeps his interests in an iron grip.
Hero, Villain, or Walking the line?: Villain
List a few reasons why you chose this character: Robert Durant is evil personified, and I feel that someone in his position can be a major threat to the majority of our characters. He is very capable of bringing misery and destruction on a massive scale if he wanted to and if it was profitable. Anyone who stands in his way is subject to his sadistic retribution, and he knows all too well how to ruin someone's life.
How will this character differ from it's original incarnation?: In the comics, Durant was rendered to being a head placed on robotic spider legs, like Mr. Freeze in the BTAS. This time, he's been put into more of a Terminator-like body after Darkman completely destroyed his human body.
Write two complete sentences explaining what you can bring to this RPG:
“The name isn't buddy! It's Durant! Robert G. Durant!”
Also a hardcore villain who can provide some well needed opposition for our heroes.
How many days a week you intend on posting in the RPG: As much as I can, as many times as I can.
Please provide a small sample post as your character, at least three paragraphs and one line of dialog in length:
Arnold Collins sat at his desk while doing some midnight paperwork, marking up mutli-zero numbers in his clients ledger. He rubbed his eyes and sipped out of mug, but then spat the liquid right out as his coffee had gone cold. He stood up and went to fixed him a fresh cup.
"Mr. Collins, a Mr. Santos is here to see you." his secretary's voice said over the intercom on his desk.
Arnold gulped down some flem build up in his throat, he knew what this was about. He clicked the button to speak, "Alright, send him right in Peggy."
The door open and a thin Hispanic man with short oily hair and an expensive, if rather tacky suit walked in. He refused to shake Collins' hand, subituting greeting with a simple chin thrust. "Uh Hector, this is a surprise, you should have called."
"Didn't want you know I was coming." Hector replied, closing the door behind him, "You know what this is about?". Collins was confused and started to grown nervous, "Um, no, I uh did the books last week, numbers were nice and solid.". "Well the boss is concerned, you see he had a thorough look through the numbers, you see they look solid, but when he looked hard enough, he noticed some money had been missing from the overall sum." Hector replied.
Collins wiped his sweating palms on his pantlegs, "Well maybe it's typo, you know paperwork gets screwed up all the time, you could send me back the books and I'll have it fix in a jiff."
"Was that your car outside, the BMW? Very nice car, third one in two months for you isn't it?" Hector asked, smirking as the accountant started to go white. "What are you implying Hector, that I'm skimming? Your boss is not my only client, I'm very well off man." Collins stuttered, trying to sound insulted. "And your not the bosses' only shyster, but he keeps an eye on all of them." Hector replied.
Collins couldn't find anyway to defend himself, Hector noticed this and pressed the intercom button, "Take her out."
Two silenced gunshots rang from the intercom and the door was kicked opened by a massive man with an overly thick jaw. Collins fumbled for a drawer that held a .38, but before he could get to it, he was lifted from his seat by the huge man and slammed against his desk. Hector grabbed Collins' tie and wrapped it around his neck to choke him while the big guy held him down.
A third man walked into the room, a tall, stocky man with a roundish head, dressed in a brown suit and overcoat. The emotionless, almost catlike face stared at him with pale blue eyes with a mix of anger and predatory sadism. He reached into his pockets and drew out two items, in one hand, he held a cigar, and in the other, a golden cigar cutter. He snipped the end off the cigar and placed it into his mouth, he lit it and breathed in the rich smoke before nodding to his men. The large enforcer took Collins' hand and held it up, forcing the fingers to spread wide as his boss approached them.
"Now, let's consider my points, one by one."
Robert G. Durant slid his cigar cutter around Collins' pinky finger.
"One, I try not to let my anger get the better of me."
SNIP!
Collins screamed at the loss of his first digit.
"Two." Durant said, putting the cutter around his ring finger, "I don't always succeed."
SNIP!
Collins cried and moaned as his severed ring finger hit the floor.
"Three." Durant put the cutter on his middle finger, "I've got seven more points."
SNIP!
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