Post by bladesthroughsmoke on May 6, 2009 15:07:11 GMT -5
Name: Raphael Sabbat
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 34
Height: 6' 0
Physique: Athletic build
Hair: black, short
Eyes: grey
Clothing description: Black slacks, shirt, usually a black leather jacket. Motorcycle boots.
Occupation: Legally? Manual labourer. In actual fact? Gun-for-hire and general mercenary.
Home City: Blackwork
Housing location: An apartment in Blackwork which he shares with Archer
Backstory: Sabbat is the son of a prostitute and one of her clients. He spent his formative years living in a squat, where a chance accident resulted in the discovery of his powers.At the age of five or so, he and another boy were playing around in the basement , feeding pieces of wood and othersuch debris into a fire they'd started with a stolen lighter. There was a quarrel (about the ownership of the lighter, or somesuch nonsense), and Sabbat ended up being pushed unintentionally into the fire by his companion.
Surprisingly (and to the other boy's great relief), the only damage he sustained was to his clothing - his skin remained completely unharmed. And, experimenting a few days later, he found he had the power to create and control flames, providing he had had access to a fire beforehand to 'charge up', as it were.
This he, understandably, kept very quiet about, and it had little impact on anyone else around him....until a particularly problematic experiment ended with the squat ablaze, the fire brigade being called out, and several deaths (among them Sabbat's own mother).
Having no place to live and, from what the authorities knew, no surviving relations (and certainly no-one willing to take him in), he ended up in the hands of the state, drifting from one foster home to another. However, his antisocial and at times psychopathic behaviour ensured that even the most understanding of foster-parents soon had to admit that the boy was a lost cause.
At the age of fifteen, and faced with the prospect of a potential spell in a youth detention centre as a result of his latest action, he ran away from his latest foster-home and started living rough on the streets, where he soon becoming embroiled in the criminal underworld. It didn't take him long to discover that his skill with blades (his favoured weapon being a cut-throat razor) and his powers could be put to good use in the field of assassination and othersuch thug-for-hire activities, and he embraced the lifestyle with ease, seeing it as the perfect way of getting money as it involved doing something he enjoyed immensely: hurting people.
And about seven years before the present day, after a run-in with some members of a law enforcement agency, he collapsed on the doorstep of a certain William Archer. After spinning the other man a story about being a secret agent, he managed to secure his aid, beginning what would later become a long and extremely odd friendship. Which would eventually turn into an extremely odd and implausible relationship.
He and Archer are at the moment living together, and both in Mercury City (having left Blackwork temporarily for the sake of Archer's work and Sabbat's criminal record).
Other: Red-brown skin (Native American-looking). Distinguishing marks - long scar on left cheek, several large and ugly ones down the right side of his body (from the fourth rib to halfway down his thigh), one side of his mouth partially paralysed.
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 34
Height: 6' 0
Physique: Athletic build
Hair: black, short
Eyes: grey
Clothing description: Black slacks, shirt, usually a black leather jacket. Motorcycle boots.
Occupation: Legally? Manual labourer. In actual fact? Gun-for-hire and general mercenary.
Home City: Blackwork
Housing location: An apartment in Blackwork which he shares with Archer
Backstory: Sabbat is the son of a prostitute and one of her clients. He spent his formative years living in a squat, where a chance accident resulted in the discovery of his powers.At the age of five or so, he and another boy were playing around in the basement , feeding pieces of wood and othersuch debris into a fire they'd started with a stolen lighter. There was a quarrel (about the ownership of the lighter, or somesuch nonsense), and Sabbat ended up being pushed unintentionally into the fire by his companion.
Surprisingly (and to the other boy's great relief), the only damage he sustained was to his clothing - his skin remained completely unharmed. And, experimenting a few days later, he found he had the power to create and control flames, providing he had had access to a fire beforehand to 'charge up', as it were.
This he, understandably, kept very quiet about, and it had little impact on anyone else around him....until a particularly problematic experiment ended with the squat ablaze, the fire brigade being called out, and several deaths (among them Sabbat's own mother).
Having no place to live and, from what the authorities knew, no surviving relations (and certainly no-one willing to take him in), he ended up in the hands of the state, drifting from one foster home to another. However, his antisocial and at times psychopathic behaviour ensured that even the most understanding of foster-parents soon had to admit that the boy was a lost cause.
At the age of fifteen, and faced with the prospect of a potential spell in a youth detention centre as a result of his latest action, he ran away from his latest foster-home and started living rough on the streets, where he soon becoming embroiled in the criminal underworld. It didn't take him long to discover that his skill with blades (his favoured weapon being a cut-throat razor) and his powers could be put to good use in the field of assassination and othersuch thug-for-hire activities, and he embraced the lifestyle with ease, seeing it as the perfect way of getting money as it involved doing something he enjoyed immensely: hurting people.
And about seven years before the present day, after a run-in with some members of a law enforcement agency, he collapsed on the doorstep of a certain William Archer. After spinning the other man a story about being a secret agent, he managed to secure his aid, beginning what would later become a long and extremely odd friendship. Which would eventually turn into an extremely odd and implausible relationship.
He and Archer are at the moment living together, and both in Mercury City (having left Blackwork temporarily for the sake of Archer's work and Sabbat's criminal record).
Other: Red-brown skin (Native American-looking). Distinguishing marks - long scar on left cheek, several large and ugly ones down the right side of his body (from the fourth rib to halfway down his thigh), one side of his mouth partially paralysed.