| Tomas Dorrance-Wu-San profile |
[05 Feb 2013|08:14pm] |
Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Jeff
Character Name: Tomas Dorrance-Wu-San
Character LJ (if applicable): Anti_Venom
Physical description (face, build, weight): 6'7, powerful build, dark skin and hair.
Age: 23
Birthday: November 4
PB:
Codename: Skanda
Abilities:
Trained by Shiva Wu-San, Bane and to a small degree by David Cain, Tomas is one of the world's foremost martial artists, particularly for his age. Though trained in a wide range of martial arts, he favors 'hard' styles, including Tiger Claw Kung-Fu, Kyokushin Karate, TaeKwon Do, Muay Thai and Krav Maga, blending what he's been taught into a highly versatile, very physical form. Because of this focus, he knows and uses very few of his mother's more precision or chi based abilities beyond meditative focus and centering techniques.
Educated by his father and Bane's allies beyond pure focus in the martial arts, Tomas has also been trained extensively in strategy and tactics, classic literature, philosophy and linguistics. To the latter end, he is fluent in English, Spanish and Latin and at least conversational in Arabic, Italian, Sicilian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
Powers:
No superhuman powers, but has been educated by Shiva Wu-San, Bane and David Cain to the degree that some abilities appear almost supernatural. Including some pseudo-mystical martial arts skills, Bane and Shiva's meditation techniques allowing centering, mental resistance, resistance to pain, and ability to hide from psychic abilities, and training in reading body language - his sister's in particular, sufficient that the twins can communicate with one another entirely in silence so long as they can see one another.
Weaknesses and flaws:
Outside of the extensive training, Tomas is entirely human, with all resulting general vulnerabilities.
He has also earned a number of powerful, vengeful and ruthless enemies in the form of various drug cartels around the world - including within operations such as Kobra and some of Ra's al'Ghul's operations.
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Anti-Hero
Team: (if on one): Suicide Squad
Relatives (living/dead?): Bane (father), Shiva Wu-San (mother), Scandal Savage and Knockout (adopted aunts), Cassandra Cain (half-sister), Carolyn Wu-San (twin sister)
Backstory:
Shiva finally gave up on the Bats and Cassie, and decided she needed an heir, so she set to trying to figure out who else might be suitable, was willing to kill, and could conceivably beat her in a fight. Ended up with Bane. Twins were a surprise, but nothing that couldn't be handled. No real emotional attachment, but they worked out a business arrangement. With the requirement of time share for the kids, because if she wanted the best possible heir possible, he wanted himself and Scandal training them too,
While he has a sense of fun, training was always both his favorite activity, and deadly serious. He worked hard to become the best martial artist and tactician he could. His time training also helped in indoctrinating him to Bane's hatred of Venom, and the control addiction took of his life. By the time he was ready to go independent, it became Tomas' crusade as well. In time, he expanded it beyond Venom, and began disrupting the activities of drug cartels around the world, taking mercenary work to help pay for his 'hobby', though he took assignments against cartels - often from rival cartels and crime lords, whenever he could.
He works solo at times, but never minds involving his sister or "little sister" Iona with him in his crusade, even if he takes it far more seriously than they do. While much of his crusade may mark him as a hero to some, his mercenary tendencies, and willingness to use the cartels' own tactics and violence against them makes him far more of an anti-hero.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: End up on the wrong side of something bad enough to end up <s>blackmailed</s> recruited into the new Suicide Squad.
What are you planning to do with this character?: Follow Suicide Squad plotlines and make some of the Gotham/street level types lives more difficult at times, allying at others.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: Suicide plotlines and developing suitable rivalries and alliances, much like his parents.
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