PIRATE, richard maxwell

[RICHARD MAXWELL]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style,width: 460px; padding: 10px; background-image:url('http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff327/theSasa/paidrequests/awpp.png'); border-top: 10px #3e7f9a solid; border-bottom: 10px #3e7f9a solid;] RICHARD MAXWELL PIRATE this character is played by Shattered PERSONAL INFORMATION NICKNAMES: "It’s Rick between friends. Ricky and Max are fine too, but if you call me Dick, I’ll have to hurt you." BIRTHDATE: January 19th AGE: thirty-seven GENDER: male RACE: human SEXUALITY: heterosexual MARITAL STATUS: divorced ALIGNMENT: neutral evil POSITION: doctor CREW OR ORGANIZATION: currently none APPEARANCE INFORMATION FACE CLAIM: Tubalcain Alhambra from Hellsing HAIR: Richard keeps his short and sleek hair neatly combed back, but it has turned gray early and has some white streaks thanks to a little lab accident. EYES: Years of chemical exposure has made his eyes sickly green and a careful observer can notice black swirly patterns in the place of pupils. Rumor has it that the swirls twist into beli symbols whenever he’s blinded by greed. HEIGHT: 6'0'' WEIGHT: 165 pounds BODY BUILD: Richard is tall and lanky, with no visible muscles worth mentioning. ATTIRE: His usual outfit is a chocolate brown suit that consists of a coat, trousers, leather shoes and a wide-brimmed hat with a white hatband. Beneath it, he wears a dark brown vest along with a white, striped dress shirt. Blue tie, white gloves and a simple steel watch complete the refined outfit. If he’s feeling particularly dramatic, or just wants to appear more professional, the hat comes off, jacket gets replaced with a classic laboratory coat and gloves with rubber ones. OTHERS: He also sports a well-groomed mustache that has luckily stayed healthy brown and beneath it he has a set of unnaturally sharp teeth. PERSONALITY INFORMATION LIKES: Wealth Smoking Secrecy Chemicals Long walks DISLIKES: Debts Nosy people Competition Fighting Rain SKILLS: Studying and practicing medicine for almost 20 years in total has made Richard a quite skilled doctor. He can perform first-aid exceptionally well and handle basic surgical procedures with improvised or lacking equipment. His skills as a chemist are also above average, which allows him to make medicine or poisons reliably out of common ingredients. He also has an excellent sense of direction and has gathered information on many places during his travels. PERSONALITY: The first thing to know about Richard is that he is greedy beyond belief and absolutely loves everything physically valuable. Money, treasure and resources are all on the list of things he can never have enough. Shiny gems are his greatest weakness and he’ll do anything to get his hands on them. When blinded by greed, he won’t hesitate to sell out his comrades, sabotage acquaintances and generally stab people in the back. It often seems that he is only loyal to the highest bidder, but people who have gained his true respect will know differently. Richard is a polite, calm and generally affable person around everyone he meets. People are treated with friendly respect regardless of their social standing. He rarely raises his voice or gets angry, preferring to use stinging sarcasm when things don’t go his way. His behavior remains the same among allies and enemies alike, partially because he doesn’t harbor strong hate towards anyone, but mostly because it’s all just a façade to hide his real intentions. Bluffing is such a big part of his speech that sometimes he even believes his own lies. However, most that goes out of the window when he is frightened, which isn’t very hard to achieve. He is cowardly by nature and gets easily intimidated by anyone who shows enough power and/or skill. During scary situations, he tries to hide his fear by pretending that he has seen worse, or by acting that he has the upper hand, but pretty much anyone with common sense can see right through him. Whenever he is scared, he can’t stop trembling and his bluffing skill just disappears. While he is naturally quite talkative, his fear throws this out of control as well and shutting him up becomes unbelievably difficult. As a doctor, he still cares for the well-being of other people, even if he doesn’t act like it. When someone is injured or ill, he can offer his help and ask for a hefty payment up front in the same sentence without feeling a twinge of quilt. He used to be much more open about helping and without any hidden intentions, especially when it came to people he knew, but the world changes a man. Nowadays, he’s too jaded to feel bad for anyone, or at least so he likes to think. In truth, Richard has just as much empathy as others, but he keeps it bottled up and hidden. COMBAT INFORMATION SPECIALTY: Agility - Despite his unimpressive build and the cumbersome suitcase he always lugs around, Richard is surprisingly swift and light on his feet. He knows how to sneak around unnoticed and how to escape various hazards with his suit intact. FIGHTING STYLE: What others call fighting dirty, Richard calls fighting smart. Biting, choke holds, low blows and using innocent meat shields are all viable tactics to him. Running away like a frightened, little rat is also a big part of his strategy. If he thinks odds are against him, he will try to flee by any means necessary. He doesn’t exactly fight to win, only to survive. This is evident in his overall style as he lacks grace, skill and accuracy. It could be said that his usual attacks resemble boxing and wrestling moves, but even that is stretch. His primary weapon is his suitcase filled with various chemicals and other tools. Most of the time he just smacks people with it, but occasionally he also manages to use it as a shield. When the situation demands it, he’ll start using his medical equipment to support himself or his comrades. He only pulls out his gun in desperate self-defense, or when he feels cornered, because his aim is subpar at best. WEAPONS: A big, black suitcase: It holds his medical equipment and chemical supplies, and is reinforced to withstand average hits and slashes. Walther P99: a semi-automatic pistol with some spare ammo. Self-made smoke bombs: They explode on impact to create thick clouds of gray smoke, completely covering an area in 15 feet radius for few minutes as long as wind isn’t involved. WEAPONS ABILITIES: Maxwell’s Cocktail: With his medical equipment, Richard has created a potion that temporarily reinvigorates a person while granting a small speed boost and ridiculous pain resistance. The mixture takes effect within seconds of drinking it, but the strength of the effects varies from person to person. People with combat prowess can completely ignore pain and keep fighting even with serious injuries, but weak people are only able to move enough to run away. After the effect wears off, the user will experience a sudden crash that is at least twice as bad as their exhaustion was before drinking the potion. The effect lasts for three posts and the crash for six unless prevented by a new dose. Richard can hold one premade potion at a time and it takes two posts for him to mix another one. Maxwell’s Lunch Box: Using various healing chemicals, Richard has spiked some sandwiches he carries around for a quick snack. Their main use is to promote healing to degree where minor cuts and bruises will get healed within two posts and more serious injuries like deep cuts and fractured (but not broken) bones in four posts. They are also unnaturally nutritious and filling, able to keep a grown man full for a day, but the taste isn’t too appetizing. If he collaborated with a cook, he could spike different food items while still keeping them tasty. He can only carry two premade sandwiches at a time and can’t prepare new ones without new food items. Food is absolutely necessary for safe and balanced distribution of such powerful chemicals throughout the body. Making a new sandwich takes two posts and can’t be done in direct combat. BACKGROUND INFORMATION HISTORY: Richard was the only child of Victor and Melanie Maxwell, both of whom have passed away seven years ago. He was an honest and hardworking fellow at first, studying diligently to become a doctor and to help people. Back then it was his biggest dream. As a result, his studies went well and he started his career at the age of 25 in Loguetown. In five years, he gained some reputation as a good doctor and even got married with a fiery, but good-hearted barkeeper, Jana. The couple continued to live together, managing to stay out of trouble with both pirates and marines despite Loguetown being a popular among pirates. However, treating the civilian casualties of the fights that occurred between pirates and marines left their mark on Richard. His smile and friendly demeanor never left him, but something beneath them changed, turning him dishonest. Both his friends and wife noticed it, but Richard refused to admit that anything was wrong. Any attempts to sort it out or even talk about were just brushed aside. When Jana came to accept that there was nothing she could do for him, she wished for a divorce on the grounds that he was no longer the man she had loved. They parted peacefully three years ago. Jana kept their house while Richard headed to seas with bit over half of their shared money. During the recent years Richard has turned into a fully-fledged criminal who is completely driven by his greed. Every time he switches a town, he changes his approach. In one town he is a thief, in another he is a back alley doctor and so forth. He only stays in an area as long as it’s safe and profitable for him. Occasionally, he has gotten into trouble with beginner bounty hunters who were eager to test their skills on a supposedly easy target. So far he has managed to escape every encounter with bounty hunters while keeping his reputation small enough to have marines focus on bigger criminals, but it’s difficult to say how long his luck will last. Currently, he spends his time searching for an opportunity to get rich quick. OOC INFORMATION cbox name: Shattered AGE: 20 EXPERIENCE: Around three years OTHER CHARACTERS: N/A FACE CLAIM: [color=3e7f9a]▍[/color] [b][color=3e7f9a]HELLSING[/color],[/b] Alhambra Tubalcain  [color=3e7f9a]–[/color]  [i]Maxwell Richard [/i] by rimy ♥ of btn!

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