Post by Bloodscream on Jun 14, 2008 23:20:11 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Zachariah Ravenscraft
Code names/Aliases: Bloodscream
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Mercenary
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Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Apparent Age: Around late forties
Hair: White
Eyes: White, covered by Sunglasses at all times
Height and weight: 6’ 2” and 167lbs
Appearance: Zachariah’s appearance can not be called normal. His figure is more tall and gangly then muscular. His face is slightly long with very prominent features. His nose is slightly pointed and curves down some, while his hair forms a widow peak at the top of his head. White locks then flow down and rest at his waist, when they aren’t pulled up into a high pony tail. Black sunglasses are worn over his eyes at all times, to protect them from the sun as well as hide them from view.
His clothing is normally a black body suit, although he has been seen wearing black slacks and a black dress shirt. The two twin katana’s are strapped to his back for easy access and the long fingers of his hands are covered with black gloves.
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Super Powers: Bloodscream possesses a variety of superhuman abilities that are reminiscent of those possessed by supernatural vampires, even though he himself is not a true vampire. He possesses none of the supernatural or mystical vulnerabilities common to true vampires in the Marvel Universe. He suffers no harm from sunlight, silver, or any other traditional weakness from folklore. However, he also does not have any of the mental abilities that a true vampire of his age would most likely possess.
Like true vampires, however, Bloodscream possesses superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reaction time. The full limits of Bloodscream's physical capabilities are unknown.
Bloodscream must regularly feed from the blood or the lifeforce of other human beings in order to maintain his physical vitality. There are times in which he merely ingests blood and there are others when he drains an individual of his or her life energy. He is able to accomplish either by touching a victim's bare skin. If a victim survives, the victim is left with a red scar in the shape of Bloodscream's hand at the exact point where he touches a victim. It also can result, if Bloodscream chooses to absorb a victim's entire lifeforce, in the victim's body quickly withering into rapidly aged husk. Bloodscream is able to transform a dead victim into a mindless, zombie-like being that is forced to do his bidding.
Bloodscream is functionally immortal in the sense that he is immune to the effects of aging and to all known diseases. He has also shown the ability to rapidly heal from physical injury and to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues, similar to Wolverine's mutant healing factor. Bloodscream has, in the past, reattached his own head after being decapitated by Wolverine. According to the necromancer who transfromed him into his current form, Bloodscream cannot be slain by any weapon created by a mortal being, though it is unknown this is true or not.
Bloodscream also possesses limited shape-shifting powers, able to transform from his 'normal' pale-skinned vampire likeness into a more monsterous form. While in this form, Bloodscream possesses rows of bone spines down his back and a sleek tail that can impale as well as constrict. His jaw expands to several feet deep, and his teeth grow to almost a foot long. Bloodscream's arms, hands, and fingers also elongate, with his fingernails growing out to a similar length as his teeth. The fingernails are apparently tipped with a toxin capable of affecting Wolverine to some degree, despite his healing factor. In this state, Bloodscream is little more than an animal and his craving for blood reaches frenzied levels.
Learned Abilities: Hand to Hand Combat, Experience in Navel warfare and piracy
Equipment: Will use two twin katanas if need be.
Weaknesses (Must Have): To be able to be in the top physical condition that he is, Zachariah must regularly feed on either human blood or on their life force. In doing this, it makes his powers weak and causes him to be slower then he normally would be.
Background: Bloodscream is a Pseudo-Vampire, a creature with vampiric powers but not an actual vampire. He was born in the Kingdom of England during the 16th century, and was an apprentice of an unknown doctor before adulthood, in the manner typical of the Tudor period. He served in Sir Francis Drake's pirate fleet as a naval surgeon from 1577 till 1580.
However, Ravenscraft was mortally wounded while the fleet was attacking a Spanish galleon, and Drake personally directed him to be treated by a Native American shaman named Dagoo. The shaman was secretly a necromancer and was only able to save Ravenscraft's life by turning him into a pseudo-vampire. Enraged by his new condition, Ravenscraft forced Dagoo to reveal the ingredients of the potion that had saved him, in case it were to weaken or fail, and then killed him.
Despite his vast powers, Bloodscream longs to be human once again. His activities for the following four centuries are unknown, except that he continuously fought in any war he could partake in, searching for an immortal man that he could take blood from(as the blood of an immortal was one ingredient of the potion) He most recently surfaced in the 20th century as a soldier in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. He served during World War II and first encounterd Wolverine during the Battle of Normandy, when Wolverine was serving as a corporal of the Canadian Forces.
Bloodscream met Wolverine again decades later in Madripoor, and saw that he had not aged a bit. He realized that Wolverine was an immortal, which is why Bloodscream repeatedly hounded Wolverine from that point on.
He properly introduced himself to Wolverine while working in Madripoor as a criminal enforcer with his partner, Roughhouse. He often came into conflict with Wolverine (who was at the time in his alter-ego as "Patch"). He almost killed one of Patch's close friends, Archie Corrigan, actually managing to scar his chest with a handprint before being interrupted.
Personality : Because of the Era he was born and raised in, Zachariah has a bit of a gentleman type attitude about him. You could, in vision him as a type of Dracula. Upon first meeting him, you would think he was the most perfect man in the world, the very man any woman would be looking to marry. Of course, that is only an appearance, although some women seem to be attracted to him, there are times when Zachariah gives off an eerie feeling.
Zachariah is a manipulator, he enjoys setting something up and watching it unfold, as well as playing with humans like they were puppets so to speak. A vicious fighter lies underneath this aged vampire as well, one that doesn’t back down from a fight and one that won’t stop unless something grave truly happens.
Zachariah can get a little touchy on the subject of being called a vampire however. Because of this, he has been known to get into disagreements with mortals, although that normally ends with their life being ended if things aren’t going his way.
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Brief Sample Roleplay Can you look at Chrissy?
