Post by lowlaville on Oct 15, 2021 2:11:33 GMT
Jacob hunter was born and raised in New York. His father was a dockworker and mother was a nurse. They are both alive and well but Jacob no longer sees them. He was only 16 when he left home, after his accident. The accident left him in a hospital, in critical state. Someone decided to save his life for who knows what reason, but when Jacob came about, he was no longer human. He detests who he had become, which is why, through nothing but willpower, he has since maintained a lifestyle different from those of his kind. He'd become a WEREWOLF. It's not all bad, though. He used his new found abilities to become a bounty hunter. At first he worked as an assistant to a bounty hunter, from whom he learned the ways of bounty hunting, learnt about the potential for business in the world. It was much later in his life that he realized the legal aspects of it. He'd work both at first but later on, as the prospect of metahuman bonds increased, he soon choose to call it quits to the underground bounty hunting and stick with the legal.
And a few years after the legal, he managed to set up his own agency based in NYC, a business that is able to support his aging mother and father, though in secret. Both of them believe their son died in that horrible accident. The hospital records will attest to that. He just made a brand new identity for himself after the fact. He actually hated his household environment, the father used to come home drunk on weekends and beat his mother. It was too much for young Jacob.
Jacob has spent about 10 years on the streets. That life has gained him certain skills, most notably a fighting style that doesn't conform to any. Out on the streets, survival is what matters, and there's no such thing as a cheap shot or 'that was not fair'. Out there, life tested you in ways the comfort of rules couldn't. Perhaps this is the reason why Jacob Hunter grew to appreciate the existence of rules and boundaries and why he feels a passion in bringing every criminal back into the fold of justice, they be metahuman or not.
LIFESTYLE CHOICES
You might expect a werewolf to be brazen and wild, claws out and craving human flash. Jacob is built different, so to speak. Rather, through sheer willpower and nothing else, he's refused to eat meat since the age of 20. So the past seven years of his life? He has maintained a strictly vegetarian diet. And it's made it that much easier for Jacob to control the beast within. He's heard or seen some werewolves on meds but they were just miserable because of it.
He also don't like to change gears and go full on werewolf. He likes to do most of his business as a human. Human form affords him a degree of super strength and speed and the benefit of superhuman senses, but if shit does get intense, he has a second version, which is ways away from full on werewolf mode, because it only transforms his limSbs into that of a werewolf. This mode gives Jacob the near full benefits of the physical prowess of the beast within but also prevents the onset of dullness that he undergoes during full transformation.
WEAPONS
Jacob does not strictly rely on his hand to hand combat skills in a fight. He does employ Knuckle Dusters, blades and swords, depending on circumstances or what can be found in the immediate vicinity. He carries a sectioned staff in holstered to his hips that can be extended and used as a weapon.
POWERS & ABILITIES
Mode 1
Superhuman Speed and Strength combined with his senses allow Jacob to react to gunfire with relative ease as he is able to perceive the world in reduced motion. He is able to lift in excess of 300 kilos in a single hand and flex his arms with it. In application, his punches can shatter reinforced concrete and put dents into steel bars. He doesn't have much in the way of running speed in human mode though, as it's only slightly better than a world class athlete's.
Mode 2
Mode 2 is when Jacob's limbs turn ing werewolve's, and he starts showing canines and claws. This version gives Jacob the strength to effortlessly pick up a weight close to 800 kilos in one arm, and pulverize a block of reinforced concrete by hitting it. He can send steel doors flying clean off its hinges, and compress a ball of steel if he pressed it hard enough. The biggest advantage of version two would be the speed, as he is able to top the fastest vehicle and react to machine gun fire. He is able to leap up over 30 feet (two stories) into the air. Version 2 also grants Jacob some durability, as he is able to fall from two stories high without suffering any damage except perhaps just pain in general.
Mode 3
The werewolf mode, Jacob goes from 6'5" to 7'7" in height, his normally slim body frame becomes buffed and well muscled. Elongated limbs allow him to exert more power than ever before, with a single arm having the capacity to lift and flex in excess of 2 tons of weight. He can shatter a steel ball in the palm of his hands, decapitate human beings with one swing of his arm and when he runs, he's fast enough to rival a bullet train. Getting hit by a truck won't necessarily kill him and he's able to leap seven stories in a single bound. Physical advantages come with a slight dimming of his intellectual prowess as his reasoning takes a fair amount of hit. Version three is mostly fueled by instincts rather than skill.
HEALING/REGEN
A cut heals near instantly. Broken bones mend in a couple seconds. It takes longer to heal a deep gash and an hour or two to regrow a limb.
SENSES
Jacob sees the world much like an animal would. He hears and sees things beyond the scope of human beings. He photoreceptive organs change depending on what he is looking for, alternating between heat vision, infrared or ultraviolet on command. He has fine tuned senses able to pick up trails that are weeks old, and even pinpoint sources that are less than bound by the physical world. These senses have been honed and tuned through a career of hunting metahuman beings.
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