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Requin Warrior - Aquatic - PL 10
The bloody waters and projecting shark fin shirt, because why not?
Strength 12, Stamina 8, Agility 6, Dexterity 0, Fighting 6, Intellect 1, Awareness 4, Presence 4
Advantages
All-out Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Languages 1, Move-by Action, Power Attack, Startle, Takedown
Skills
Acrobatics 6 (+12), Athletics 5 (+17), Close Combat: Unarmed 2 (+8), Expertise: Mythology 4 (+5), Insight 6 (+10), Intimidation 9 (+13), Perception 6 (+10), Ranged Combat: Throw 8 (+8), Stealth 4 (+10)
Powers
Were Shark
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Aquatic Adaption: Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation: Choose Environment)
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Immunity: Immunity 1 (Suffocation: Drowning)
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Regeneration: Regeneration 5 (Every 2 rounds; Limited: Not Versus Magic, Fire or Silver descriptors)
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Senses: Senses 8 (Accurate: Scent, Accurate: Detect Electrical Fields, Acute: Scent, Detect: Electrical Fields 2: ranged, Tracking: Scent 1: -1 speed rank)
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Swimming: Swimming 6 (Speed: 30 miles/hour, 500 feet/round)
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Powerhouse Legs: Leaping 6 (Alternate; Leap 500 feet at 120 miles/hour)
Offense
Initiative +6
Grab, +6 (DC Spec 22)
Throw, +8 (DC 27)
Unarmed, +8 (DC 27)
Languages
English, Japanese
Defense
Dodge 10, Parry 10, Fortitude 10, Toughness 10/8, Will 8
Power Points
Abilities 82 + Powers 21 + Advantages 8 + Skills 25 (50 ranks) + Defenses 14 = 150
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REQUIN
Hero name: Requin, Project Greyfin
Birth name/Identity: Thomas Bruce Hojiro
Also Known as: Bruce Hojiro (preferred nomme du guerre), Joe Fins, Req (pronounced Wreck), Jabberjaw
Identity: Requin's identity and existence is easily known and learned by the general public, especially if he meets them. His status as an active US Marine Reservist is also public knowledge. Requin's activities in covert operations, however, is not.
Occupation: Professional adventurer, United States Marine
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Height: Prior to Change: 5'10", Currently: 7'2"
Weight: Prior to Change: 190 lbs, Currently: 900 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Prior to Change: Black, often dyed with blonde or red frosting, Currently: None
Group Affiliation: USMC (ret'd), The A-Game (Blackwater-based premeir super-team), Dangerous Operations Group (the DOGs - covert super agency), Salamander's Fire (renounced when it was learned that the leader - Salamander - was not only his father, but the group was illegal)
Known Relatives: General Salamander (aka General Thomas A. Vance) (father), Hamako Hojiro (mother), possible unknown brothers, sisters and cousins.
Base of Operations: The Stadium (A-Game HQ), Blackwater, IL.
Origin:
Bruce Hojiro was the product of a tryst between General Thomas A. Vance and Hamako Hojiro. Hamako raised Bruce in the city of Blackwater, a dimensional nexus city which is in other universes' Chicago. Because of its odd placement, it is an attracting ground for all manner of supernatural beings, which Bruce discovered he was during an ambush in Afghanistan.
When the insurgents hit Bruce's Marine platoon, the young Marine charged to the protection of his fellow soldiers. He felt the bullets strike his back, but didn't feel them penetrate, even as he grew two feet in height, and multiplied his weight by a factor of five. He turned and attacked the Taliban killers, restraining himself as he realized that his strength had grown with his size and strength. Upon the cessation of the battle, Bruce realized that he was changed into a humanoid shark. He didn't know how to turn back, but in his current form, he was able to withstand all manner of weaponry, even an RPG rocket's direct hit, lift enormous weights, and had incredibly accute senses.
Due to his changes, he was drawn to the attention of the man who had sired him, a General Thomas Vance, also known in the US Military Black Operations divisions as General Salamander. Though Bruce wished to continue to assist his fellow Marines in "the Sandbox" the General said his abilities would be put to better use elsewhere. Over the course of several missions, Bruce, now codenamed Requin (a double pun on the French name for a Great White a.k.a. Requiem shark and the combination of what he does - ie: Wreck and win), learned of General Salamander and Salamander's Fire and their illicit activities. Rebelling, Requin turned to one group he could trust - the A-Game. One of its members, Armada, was a fellow Marine, and she believed his stories of what had been done. Together with the rest of the A-Game, the two American warriors brought down the crooked organization, driving General Salamander out of power, but into the shadows to continue his efforts. In the last battle, Requin learned that Vance had impregnated Hamako Hojiro because she had the blood of weresharks in her, and one of his abilities was to breed true with all kin of supernaturals.
Vance displayed multiple magical abilities himself, but these could have been mystic talismans as he was also quite capable with conventional military weapons - including having the strength to utilize 200-lb weapons systems such as heavy machine guns and automatic grenade launchers as rifles.
The AFL 4:
During his time with Salamander's Fire, Requin was entered into a transdimensional fighting tournament known as Angelcrusher's Fighting League - specifically to capture a creature Vance viewed as one of the most powerful forces in the multiverse, the Indescribable Whatchamacallit. To push Requin along into the contest, he told Bruce that the capture of the Whatchamacallit would allow Vance to help Bruce learn to return to human form. Feeling his monstrous nature would ever make him an outcast, Requin agreed, facing deep angst and trauma over the decision until he encountered Hazel Warren, otherwise known as the Newtropolis super-burglar Dandy Jane. As she was from a society where alien creatures were common, she was unphazed by Requin's appearance, and sensed his attraction toward her.
After the tournament, Requin had actually gained enough confidence to rebel against the General, helping out the Whatchamacallit by seeming to attack him in a staged battle that ended up with the two powerful brutes literally carving an escape route before Bruce punched Steven hard enough to propel him hundreds of yards distant and giving the chimeric superbeing room to leap away to safety.
The DOGS:
Requin was immediately inducted into Armada's own covert operations team - the Dangerous Operations Group. A false identity as a superhuman thug called "Joe Fins" - a name Bruce borrowed from Dandy Jane - was developed for undercover work. A second heroic/vigilante identity as Blacktooth was added as well. The DOGs are meant for multiple operations, all of which are, as their name implies, dangerous. This means both high-risk undercover and military-grade direct action against truly deadly threats. Requin has taken the opportunity to set up the fiction that "Joe Fins" is a "mook from anudder freak city, coolin' my heels while the heat dies down." He's been reluctant to draw Dandy Jane into his undercover operations status, despite her inspiration, as he does not want to implicate her in either dimension. Armada also warned him that if he ever commits a violent felony against a law-abiding citizen in Newtropolis, she will personally turn him into sushi and feed him to the rest of the A-Game.
Personality:
Bruce is a wry, good natured young man who realizes he is in a powerful and dangerous body. Most of the time he puts on the affectation of being a fun loving character, literally a cross between two of his favorite fictional creations - the Hanna Barberra character Jabberjaw and the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, especially off duty. However, as shown during the AFL tournament, he does have a berserker rage within him, something that reacted violently to intense supernatural powers that could be classified as demonic.
He also worries about being too forceful in combat, but his training alongside the A-Game has helped him immensely with fears of crushing a foe with a single blow. The greatest fear he has is of his potential for bloodlust. When he gets the urge to hunt, he heads off into the Blackwater Sea - an inland sea which was created by a powerful catastrophe that turned the Great Lakes into a large ocean, and flooded dozens of cities, including Chicago. There, he hunts and eats tuna to satisfy his hunger and need to kill. Otherwise, Requin as a hero sees lethal force as a final option.
Bruce has a healthy interest in women, and with his fellow single, male heroes, often goes out on the town dancing and drinking (fortunately, it takes literally five times the alcohol necessary to get him inebriated). One woman, however, has caught his attention, a thief from another dimension named Dandy Jane. While the A-Game has occasional dealings with the New Knights - mostly for multiversal events - it allows Requin to travel there, but he's torn between casually seeing someone who's a wanted criminal there and his duties as a hero in Blackwater. However, he really likes the Zoot Suit she had made for him.
To relax, Bruce is a voracious reader, enjoys classic cartoons and Three Stooges movies, and listens to a wide variety of music ranging across the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Powers and Abilities:
Bruce Hojiro was already an accomplished Marine before his change. He is still an Expert with the weapons of the Corps, including sniper rifles and various handguns, though most conventional firearms are too small for his hands. In hand to hand combat, he was, and still is, a world class martial artist.
As a wereshark, Requin possesses phenominal superhuman strength and durability. He can lift nearly 90 tons (and has been known to lift even more under extraordinary effort), his body is as durable as a foot thickness of steel - though bladed weapons do seem able to cause lacerations against him. His musculature is sufficient that he can swim at a speed of 30 miles per hour, withstand depths of 5000 feet, and intense cold.
Having the senses of a shark also makes Requin uncannily sharp. His sense of smell is capable of tracking quarry, even to the point of betraying hiding places and enabling him to react to an ambush just by the scent of foes. He can tell the differences between people quite easily, no matter the disguise, and see in near absolute darkness.
Requin's deadliest weapon, and the one he utilizes the least because of it, is his bite. He's been able to bite a city bus in half or penetrate the hull of a Coast Guard Cutter.
In combat, Requin's primary means of conflict are his prodigious fists, and he is quick to run interference and draw enemy fire.
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