Post by Bryce Langley on Aug 11, 2011 1:23:27 GMT -6
Aiden Longstaff
“Look, just leave me alone, you'll be better off in the long run.”
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Height: 3 ft head to hip, 10 ft tail (6ft 3in standing)
Weight: Aprox. 260 lbs, fluctuates depending upon the time of year
Hair: Light golden brown
Eyes: Yellow, originally green
Species: Modified human, Naga
Primary residence: Apartment complex just off Clockwork Park
Profession: Professional assassin, sniper
Personality:
A farm boy born and raised, Aiden is generally soft-spoken and is very good with animals. When fully human, he was very optimistic and outgoing, always ready with a joke and a smile. Since his transformation, he has become very withdrawn and is extremely shy, preferring to hang back out of sight when approached by new people. If someone manages to gain his trust, he comes across very quiet and reserved, though he can be coaxed into telling tales of his adventures back home without too much trouble. If he feels threatened or is on the job, he is very cold and calculating, forcefully distancing himself from the situation at hand so he can focus properly.
Appearance:
Tanned, muscular. Heavily scarred on right side along ribcage, explosives accident. Hair is trimmed short, has relatively thick side-burns and a thin beard he keeps neat when he can. Eyes are an interesting shade of amber-yellow with slitted pupils, and seem very sensitive to light. Slim but athletically built, a lot stronger than he looks. Generally doesn't like to move very quickly, but his strikes are lightning fast and his extremely flexible spine allows an increased range of motion otherwise unheard of. Snake half is based off the massasauga or black rattler, and as such is quite formidable, heavily muscled and armored with thick scales, along with an under-developed rattle at the end of his tail. Scaled across much of his body, black rattler patterning all the way his spine in shades of deep brown and gray. The only portions of his body with fully human skin are his head, inner arms and the front of his torso to his groin. His arms are scaled, and have a light patterning. Claws are short and thick, with similar hardness to his scales that makes them impossible to trim. He is able to flex his jaw like a snake, and his teeth are mainly carnivorous, with large extendable fangs that fold up into his upper jaw when not in use. Tongue is still mostly human, but is elongated and has a forked tip.
Wears thick leather gloves and long-sleeved shirts to hide his appearance, as well as a vest and sunglasses to hide his eyes. In colder weather, adds a long black trenchcoat and flannel shirts to his usual outfit, always wears a hat and will drag out a knitted scarf if it gets chilly enough.
Play-by: N/A
History:
Born a few miles outside Marla in South Australia, Aiden grew up on his family's lupin farm with two younger brothers and an older sister. As the eldest son, it was his job to keep the birds away from the crops, and ended up learning his sniping skills by shooting at the pests with a BB gun. When the farm started falling into money troubles, the teen took his shooting skills to the bank, entering and winning several competitions, sending the money back home to help his folks. This eventually drew the attention of a few mercenary companies, and he was offered a great amount of money to turn his competitive skills to less savory but more lucrative profession. He stalled at first, reluctant to leave home with his father ill, but when the man passed away, he decided to take up a few of the jobs so he could pay for farm hands to help his mother around the property.
Time passed, and Aiden grew to have a reputation of sorts, known within certain circles to be a man of efficiency and silence who always got the job done right on schedule or your money back. As his reputation grew, he was allowed to become picky over which jobs to take, and as he became more and more choosy of his clients, he unwittingly began to dig himself into a dangerous hole. His decisions finally came around to bite him in the ass when he turned down an extremely lucrative job offered by a pharmaceutical company to take out their competition, citing that he wasn't comfortable taking out someone who was a healer by trade. The company did not take kindly to his refusal, and his next job turned out to be a trap.
Captured, drugged and carted off to an underground research facility in the middle of nowhere, Aiden was subjected to a huge battery of less-than-humane experimental testing, kept delirious and often unconscious for a period of over 18 months. He was finally found and rescued by an undercover agent looking to gather intel on the company's illegal experimentation, the agent fleeing the facility after his cover was blown and stumbling across the barely-conscious marksman strapped into a straitjacket and tied down to a gurney whimpering in pain.
In the midst of being heaved onto a helicopter as sections of the research facility went up in flames, the sniper came fully awake and aware for the first time in eighteen months and realized that something was horribly wrong.
Now, Aiden is the key witness in a massive malpractice lawsuit, and is under constant guard while waiting for the court date.
Abilities/Trivia:
+Aiden's bite is extremely venomous, and is potent enough that it will most often kill whomever he bites within a few minutes, the hemotoxin causing paralysis and sever internal bleeding. Fortunately, his lower fangs produce an antivenin, a requirement due to his mixed genes. His upper fangs are quite large, and actually retract into his upper jaw when not in use. He has to milk both pairs of fangs on a bi-weekly basis or else his venom glands will become swollen and extremely uncomfortable, giving his face a slightly puffy look like someone suffering allergies. Anyone touching his face when the glands are swollen is likely to get bitten on reflex.
+His senses are heightened, especially scent and touch, though his eyes are also quite sensitive and bear a secondary eyelid. He can sense heat and can taste the air like a snake to get a better handle on his surroundings, though he prefers not to since he feels such actions make him less human in the eyes of others.
+The rattle on his tail doesn't work very well, but it still makes noise when he feels threatened (or embarrassed).
+He also is very sensitive to temperature changes, and gets very lethargic if he gets too cold, generally 55 degrees Fahrenheit is his limit before starting to bundle up. Too long without a proper heat source and he will get very sick, as his lowered internal body temperature will start acting adversely in conjunction with his human organs. He could possibly fall into a coma if he is unable to warm himself properly.
+Also, he has internal sexual organs, and goes to great lengths to keep from getting aroused because he finds the appearance of his equipment disturbing, even though they are still humanoid.
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Thread List:
Refugee (Intro, Miles) - Meeting Him.
Song of the Voiceless (Hermes) - A new friend is made, and Aiden learns he's not the only one around with animal bits patched on.
Snakeskin (Coraline) - Meeting Her.
Orthinophobia (Hermes) - Snakes don't get on so well with predatory birds...