[Human] Oscar Leonhardt

[Oscar Leonhardt]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width, 500px] [atrb=style,border-top: 10px solid #4477aa;background-color: #222222;] OSCAR LEONHARDT THIRTY ONE ✖ MALE✖ HETEROSEXUAL ✖ GOVERNMENT ✖Ability Hand to hand combat – both offensive and defensive mixed martial arts. As one of the Generals in the Operatives section of the Government, tasked with the coordination of retrieval groups or individuals as well as participation as squad leader, part of Oscar’s job is training and it’s the only thing in his life he doesn’t neglect. Although still 100% human, he makes up what he lacks in enhancements through experience and tactical mastery. Marksmanship and weapon handling – from basic pistols to complicated new age laser rifles, Oscar has experience in shooting. Although he can adapt to any weapon, he prefers a pair of pistols he keeps on his person at all times, their weight, strength of fire and range familiar to him like the back of his hand. When he uses his personal pistols he’s confident he can shoot an apple off someone’s head without causing fatality. He’s completely hopeless with bows, crossbows and their modern variants. It has to work with bullets to suit him. He’s especially fond of tranquilizer bullets, one of the government’s latest inventions. Gadgets and traps – from your typical gas bombs, to complicated traps with tricky triggers, Oscar can use a wide variety of means on the job. He’s especially fond of avoiding fights altogether and instead having his prey delivered to him in the various traps he plants. His favorite device is the shock glove which delivers a paralyzing electrical current through the body of its intended victim. Oscar isn’t especially fast, his greatest problem always having been losing his targets when they decide to flee. One of his legs suffered a multiple fracture in the past and it pains him slightly when it rains or the atmosphere is persistently moist. Overexertion can cause more significant pain, that although he tries to ignore, hampers his movement, concentration and efficiency anyway. ✖ Personality Brave and daring, Oscar’s most distinguishing characteristic is his incredible ability of charging forward in face of adversity and peril. Not a reckless man, but an incredibly dutiful one, he takes on the mistakes of his subordinates, always prepared to take on both responsibility for their actions as well as stay behind to fix their mess. No one gets left behind on Oscar’s watch and whoever picked a fight with a dog they couldn’t possibly defeat soon discovers that they wouldn’t have to face the consequences of their mistake alone. The general regards all of his subordinates in a borderline fatherly way, always ready to cast aside his own well-being if it means getting them out safely. Stern and serious when in charge, he doesn’t take tasks lightly and prides himself on employing strategy, depending on the information he has on the designated target. A born leader, he exudes an aura of capability and almost always manages to gain respect without being forceful or resorting to threats. Prideful and responsible, he overlooks his direct subordinates’ training personally, involving himself as best he can in their learning and practice. Whatever failures occur on his missions, he takes as personal. If someone screws up on the job, it’s clearly his fault for not guiding them well enough or asking them to perform a task not suitable for their skill level. Even though he often takes the blame for things he considers to have been within his ability to control, he’s not blind to the obvious faults of others and offers sanctions accordingly, without discrimination or favoritism. Fairly intelligent and especially resourceful, he’s not prone to acting under the influence of impulse. Oscar suffers from a fiery temper he’s been fighting all his life. Even though it flares up and inspires him to act on it, he’s trained his discipline and restraint, opting to leave from the aggravating situation or person until he’s had a chance to cool down and consider things rationally. On the rare occasion he lets his rage run rampant, he’s especially violent about it, breaking things and on a few occasions even hitting others, though never women even if he’s bruised a wrist or two. When not on the job or in more casual circumstances, he’s jovial and rather charming, with a well-developed sense of humor. The stern boss is easily also your friend, particularly interested in being there for anyone in difficulty and with a special place in his heart for gossip. An amusingly happy drunk, he’s the one laughing heartily at anything and telling silly jokes. He’s not the type with wandering hands, however, being rather reserved in this department even when he may be spewing provocative words continuously. There’s no such thing as hearing rumors about the general casually sleeping around either and he never drinks so much that it interferes with his self-imposed core restrictions. Oscar knows everything about what goes on in the DNCS. In his eyes, mutants are dangerous and best kept under surveillance. Although he doesn’t approve of some of the scientists’ methods when it comes to experimenting on the captives, he rarely bats an eyelash for the suffering person. If the mutant is there in the first place, it means he or she deserves the treatment for being part of the nasty lot of them. Although the media these days loves to paint the government in dark colors, what they don’t say is how many mutants commit heinous crimes because they can and live with complete disregard towards anyone else. Sometimes, Oscar is sent to capture an obviously innocent kid who happens to have supernatural powers. In these situations, the missions fails unexpectedly due to strange circumstances orchestrated by Oscar himself. Other times, fellow DNCS operatives bring in such people and although there has been only one instance where Oscar actively secretly freed a mutant from the facility, he does his best to make sure the faultless ones are not subjected to harmful experiments (but there are many instances where there's little he can say on the matter and he's not willing to compromise his position to save what fate decided to torment). There are top secret projects that not even Oscar is privy to knowing about, as well. As for the criminal mutants, he could care less if they died during the procedures and he feels that way about any person who choses the path of the deviant, mutant or not. ✖ History Oscar was born to a prostitute who lived in a trailer and walked the streets at night in search of patronage. The pregnancy was a drunk oversight on her part and a gigantic headache she would have aborted if she had the money for it at the time. Contacting the father was impossible, so she had the child whose birth touched some latent maternal instincts within her and made her actually care for him with newfound tenderness. From the very beginning, Oscar knew what it meant to be dirt poor. His mother barely made enough money to feed the both of them but she did her best to send him to school as well. Oscar was five years old when his mother made her second mistake which resulted in a sister for the blue eyed boy, Laurie. Oscar was only nine when he realized his mother wasn’t like your usual parent. She came home drunk, sometimes hooked onto a man she dragged to her “room” and they never had actually cooked meals, only what you could get out of cans and instant packages. The reality of his mother’s lack of responsibility made him grow up startlingly quick. Without realizing it he had started taking care of Laurie with a lucidity he didn’t yet understand. Over the years he watched his mother steadily becoming more and more depressed. When he was twelve she had stopped working as a prostitute and became one of his school’s cleaning ladies, which solicited laughter and mocking from the local bullies. He took everything with a sternness and maturity that surprised everyone he came across. After all, the mocking was nothing when you came home to find your mother crying on the table in a state of indecency and drunkenness. At the age of thirteen there was no doubt about who was fulfilling the role of the parent in the house. A young Oscar already knew how to cook, clean and worked as a paper boy in the suburbs they lived their life in. He took Laurie to school every morning, packed her lunches as well as his mother’s. When his mother had another one of her nervous breakdowns, he was the one calling her in sick. Without even noticing, his mother had come to rely on him in a way he should have been relying on her and he shouldered her burden simply because there was no one else to do it. Once every few months, when animated by some otherworldly lucidity, his mother would come into his room and hug him protectively; apologizing for her failures and telling him what a strong and brave boy he was for facing the world in a way she couldn’t have. Oscar rapidly became aware of the fact he needed to study if he wanted to get a job that could sustain his family. During highschool, he was the most queerly determined kid when it came to scholastic achievement. He worked as a pizza delivery boy and waiter when he wasn’t doing chores and studying, never having time to go out and have fun like the rest of his peers. At the age of seventeen, falling in love came as a complete inconvenience to him. The girl in question worked at the same restaurant as him and unfortunately felt the same way! Try as he might to avoid it and focus on his many problems, he felt uncontrollably swayed to let her little by little into his life. Later, Oscar would realize she was a helpful, soothing presence. Suddenly, he was no longer completely alone with his circumstances and Sophie constantly surprised him with her attentions and willingness to help with… everything. At first it was strange, since Oscar didn’t know the first thing about letting others help him with his problems much less spoil him with other attentions. Over time, Sophie became so important to him he was ready to leap in front of a raging bull to protect her. Laurie was growing up as well and she was starting to help around the house and even got her first job to contribute to the living expenses. In contrast, their mother was slowly disconnecting with her environment. When Oscar hadn’t been looking, she had someone managed to become attached to a man who ended up discarding her like a used rag, situation which cracked the last of her fragile sanity. She became paranoid, frequently suffering panic attacks that had Oscar calling the hospital due to their violence and Laurie hiding under the covers from the shock of her mother’s wails. Unable to work and a nervous wreck, Oscar had to take care of her like someone would a little kid. Luckily, he wasn’t alone and could rely on both Laurie and Sophie to be there for him when everything seemed too much to handle. Somehow, he managed to graduate from highschool with honors and recommendations. He went to a military academy and slowly started building his career in the police force and later the government. His mother, declared clinically insane, no longer looked at him or anyone, her fragile psyche having taken shelter somewhere in the past. When Oscar had to leave on missions that took him away from home for weeks at a time, Laurie was left in charge of caring for their mother and he was away more and more often and for longer periods of time. Oscar was twenty four when Sophie’s voice shocked him over the phone, explaining how she had fallen for someone else and how sorry she was and how she wished him all the best in the future. He was on a mission at the time and had been gone for roughly four months, with two months left to serve before he could return to the country. It was something most people in his line of career had to face at the beginning of their training before they were given a stationary position. That same year his mother became so ill he and his sister had to commit her to an asylum. She died two years later and Oscar couldn’t even shed tears at her funeral, the ending of her life coming as a welcome release to him. To this day he feels shame over that feeling. His breakup with Sophie turned him into a workaholic for a very long time. He invested all of his effort and focus into training and climbing up the titles ladder in the military sector of the government. Where most people shunned responsibility and tried to have as little of it as possible, he was on the other pole, readily accepting duties and many. It wasn’t long before his position made him familiarize himself with the reality of mutants and the practices within DNCS related to them. During one of his missions, a mutant who possessed the ability to produce flame at will left a permanent impression on Oscar, burning one side of his face. The mutant in question had proven to be the person involved in a large chain of arsons that resulted in many civilian deaths. The large burn scar Oscar keeps under a half-mask will forever remind him of the threat mutants pose, especially when they’re part of the criminal population and he’s ready to drag them all in to be experimented on in order to pay for their wrongdoings while keeping in mind, in a very lucid fashion, that not all mutants are to blame for the faults of some. ✖ Example Too lazy aka refer to "Kara Eisenheim." This character is played by [Norbex].

[✖ GRIM]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width, 300px] [atrb=style,border-top: 10px solid #4477aa;background-color: #222222;] ACCEPTED! *stares hard and long* ....... Okay...... *points to the face claim thread and kinda goes to die of a blood nose somewhere, yeah*