Post by Dokeshi on Jul 3, 2014 2:40:30 GMT -5
Name: Grimm
Age: Grimm is physically age 35, but is in reality hundreds of years old.
Race: Originally human. Has since lost his humanity through a combination of disease, mutation, and black magic.
Powers: Grim possesses a deadly and almost surgical skill with knives. He can use a pen-knife small enough to be concealed in his sleeve to kill a man with a few well placed stabs or slashes. He is also possessed of the ability to communicate with and control rats, which provides him with a veritable army of tiny assistants. Grimm is able to shift into a rat-like form, giving him claws and large rodent's teeth, as well as heightened senses of sight, smell, and hearing, and increased strength. Even when out of rat form, Grimm has naturally good night vision. Due to his half-rat nature Grimm can act as a "carrier" for diseases, meaning that if he contracts a disease, while he himself will not show symptoms, he will be able to pass it on to others through a transfer of fluids, such as saliva from a bite. Despite these abilities, Grimm is still just as vulnerable as a normal human being, and can still be injured and even killed in the same ways. Despite the advantages offered by his transformed state, it can also provide weaknesses, as his heightened senses can be thrown off by extremely loud noises, suffocating smells, or bright lights. In addition to this, due to his rat like nature, and his inherent night vision, Grimm has developed nocturnal tendencies, and rarely goes out during the day. As a result, he has developed a bit of an aversion to daylight.
Date of birth: June 26, 1630
Home: Originally London. Has traversed the globe during his long lifetime, but has frequently returned to London and has an affinity for the city.
Alliance: Willing to work for anyone who will pay, but due to his skill set predominately involving murder and thievery, and his inherent enjoyment of both, he usually finds himself in the employ of villains.
Relationship: No surviving relatives, but Grimm was a distant cousin to the famous Brothers Grimm, from whom he took his name.
Appearance: Grimm is tall and thin, but muscular. He has a lean, angular face, with thin lips, and sunken, beady, black eyes. He has short cropped dark brown hair, and scruffy mutton chops on either cheek. He wears a grey button-down shirt with a dark brown vest, dark brown pants and brown work boots. Over all of this he wears an ankle-length charcoal-black coat. He wears the coat open in the front, and stores his knives concealed on the inside of it. On his head he wears a six inch tall charcoal-black top hat. When in his rat form, Grim becomes slightly taller and more hunched over. He sprouts coarse black hair all over his body, his fingers elongate into claws, and his face elongates into a rat like snout with large, sharp, gnawing rat’s teeth, his ears grow into rat ears, and he sprouts a rat tail from his hind quarters. (His clothing is designed to accommodate these physical changes without tearing.)
Personality: Having grown up among the working class in 1630s London, Grimm’s personality is rather crude. He’s used to working, legally or otherwise, for everything he gets, and knows how to ingratiate himself to potential employers. Grim is essentially a sociopath, with virtually no morality. He has no scruples about thieving and grave robbing, or killing, and has found that he actually enjoys these acts. Due to a habit of impersonating London’s upper class that he developed as a child, Grimm’s demeanor comes off as a sort of crude parody of nobility. When he becomes angry, Grimm has a tendency to become incredibly savage and feral. He also has a taste for nursery rhymes and fairy tales, due to his connection to the Brothers Grimm, and having lived when many of them were widespread and popular.
History: Grimm was born Jack Grimmton Samuel, in London on June 26, 1630, to a working class family. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to coroner and worked with the man until he turned 21. Because he worked in the lower class section of London, and times were hard, the Coroner also served as an Undertaker, and Jack served as both his assistant, and as a grave digger. It was during this time that Jack acquired his knowledge of basic human anatomy and causes of death. Because the Undertaker worked in the lower class portion of London, his shop was frequently infested by rats, and Jack soon became adept at capturing and disposing of the rats, eventually being able to capture them without killing them. As he found a strange fondness for the rodents, Jack took to capturing them, and then releasing them into the local graveyard when he went to dig graves. As times were hard, and Jack wanted a little extra money for himself to supplement the meager pay he earned as an apprentice, he took to moonlighting as a grave robber. He would dig up graves he himself had dug in the first place, then sell the bodies as cadavers to local universities, which were always eager to purchase them. Occasionally, Jack would observe the autopsies performed on the cadavers he supplied, and thus supplemented not only his pay, but his knowledge of anatomy.
After he finished his term as the Coroner’s apprentice, Jack took up employ as an undertaker and grave digger, but continued to supplement his income by working as a grave robber. One fateful night, during the fall of 1660, under the light of a full moon Jack dug up the grave of a recently hanged murderer, who had been rumored to have practiced black magic. When Jack dug up the grave and broke open the coffin, he discovered that the rumors had been all to true, and that thanks to the sorcerers magic, by opening the coffin Jack had resurrected him as a soulless shade. The newly born evil spirit’s first act was to curse Jack with lycanthropy. Every night, Jack would transform into a mindless wolf, with his strength and ferocity peaking during the full moon.
Now unable to rob graves by night, Jack needed to find a new way to make the extra money he had grown accustomed to having. He decided to put his skills as a ratcatcher to work, as the profession was in high demand due to the rising rat populations in London. Jack continued in this manner, working as an undertaker and part-time rat catcher by day, and at night locking himself in his cellar to avoid slaughtering others in his wolf form, for five years. Then, in 1665, the Great Plague of London broke out, killing hundreds of people. Even as people fled the city Jack continued to work, as the increase in the death rate ensured he had plenty of bodies to bury, and the increase in plague rats provided him with plenty of rat catching jobs. Jack survived without contracting plague for almost a year, but on Christmas Eve, 1665, he was employed to remove a particularly large rat infestation from the basement of a local church. The church pastor believed that the rats had been placed in the basement by occultists in an attempt to undermine the Church in those dark days. Jack went into the basement, and managed to capture a few rats, when he shined a candle into a hole in the wall, and awoke a nest of black rats, which proceeded to swarm him, causing him to drop his candle into the wall. Jack was bitten many times by the rats, but managed to drag himself out of the church, just as the flame from the candle set fire to it. As Jack dragged himself away, the church burnt to the ground. Too weak to return home, Jack made his way to a back alley, and sat, shivering from loss of blood and shock, as night approached. But when night came, Jack didn’t turn into a wolf. The priest’s fears had been right; the rats had been placed in the church basement by occultists, and were cursed and plague ridden. The disease and black magic combined with Jack’s own cursed blood and mutated his lycanthropy. When he transformed, it was not into a wolf, but into a deformed wolf-rat-man hybrid. Worse yet, when day break came, Jack found that he did not transform back to himself. Desperate, deformed, and feeling the onset of plague, Jack used his somewhat heightened senses to follow the trail of the rats that had fled the burning church, to the back alley lair of the occultists. When he found them, they were at first unwilling to provide any assistance to him whatsoever. But when Jack revealed that he had burned down the church they had cursed, they were willing to make a deal. Jack had enjoyed the heightened senses his transformation provided, and the cursed disease had, in a short time, warped his mind into madness. So Jack offered that he would sell his soul to the occultists, provided that they grant him the ability to transform at will into a rat like man, with the ability to withstand disease, who would never age. His affinity for rats having warped into a sick admiration and envy, Jack also requested that the occultists give him the power to communicate and control rats. The occultists agreed, and Jack was transformed, his lycanthropy warped into a bizarre ability to become a rat-human hybrid at will, his plague gone, his risk of old age vanished with his soul, and with it, the last trace of his humanity.
Jack left England the next day, and traveled abroad for thousands of years, making money by using his powers for grave-robbing, kidnapping, stealing, and killing for any who would hire him, as well as committing the occasional crime on the side as a means to amuse himself. During his time abroad, he studied to improve his knowledge of human anatomy and its applications to murder, until, in 1888 he felt that he had learned enough and decided to test his prowess with the knife back in his hometown of London. Travelling to Whitechapel, Jack murdered five prostitutes, and removed their organs to feed to his rats. Because he had written a letter to the police signed “Jack the Ripper”, and because the murders became so widely known, Jack decided that it was time to change his name. Remembering the descendants of his distant cousins, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who had compiled so many of the fairy tales he had enjoyed throughout his long life of travels, Jack shortened his middle name to “Grimm”, and began to go exclusively by that name.
Grimm has traversed the globe several times in his exceptionally long lifetime, having more than a few close calls. Despite his agelessness, he knows that he could still be killed, and as such has always been as cautious as possible. As he is constantly on the lookout for work and opportunities to amuse himself by committing crimes, when news of the increasing conflicts and growing number of criminals in Jump City, Grimm decided to make his way there to see what opportunities he could find for himself. If nothing else, the war would provide him with plenty of bodies to dig up.
Anything else: Grimm speaks with a thick, lower-class British accent. His Birthday is Ratcatcher’s Day.
Code Word: Titans Forever
Age: Grimm is physically age 35, but is in reality hundreds of years old.
Race: Originally human. Has since lost his humanity through a combination of disease, mutation, and black magic.
Powers: Grim possesses a deadly and almost surgical skill with knives. He can use a pen-knife small enough to be concealed in his sleeve to kill a man with a few well placed stabs or slashes. He is also possessed of the ability to communicate with and control rats, which provides him with a veritable army of tiny assistants. Grimm is able to shift into a rat-like form, giving him claws and large rodent's teeth, as well as heightened senses of sight, smell, and hearing, and increased strength. Even when out of rat form, Grimm has naturally good night vision. Due to his half-rat nature Grimm can act as a "carrier" for diseases, meaning that if he contracts a disease, while he himself will not show symptoms, he will be able to pass it on to others through a transfer of fluids, such as saliva from a bite. Despite these abilities, Grimm is still just as vulnerable as a normal human being, and can still be injured and even killed in the same ways. Despite the advantages offered by his transformed state, it can also provide weaknesses, as his heightened senses can be thrown off by extremely loud noises, suffocating smells, or bright lights. In addition to this, due to his rat like nature, and his inherent night vision, Grimm has developed nocturnal tendencies, and rarely goes out during the day. As a result, he has developed a bit of an aversion to daylight.
Date of birth: June 26, 1630
Home: Originally London. Has traversed the globe during his long lifetime, but has frequently returned to London and has an affinity for the city.
Alliance: Willing to work for anyone who will pay, but due to his skill set predominately involving murder and thievery, and his inherent enjoyment of both, he usually finds himself in the employ of villains.
Relationship: No surviving relatives, but Grimm was a distant cousin to the famous Brothers Grimm, from whom he took his name.
Appearance: Grimm is tall and thin, but muscular. He has a lean, angular face, with thin lips, and sunken, beady, black eyes. He has short cropped dark brown hair, and scruffy mutton chops on either cheek. He wears a grey button-down shirt with a dark brown vest, dark brown pants and brown work boots. Over all of this he wears an ankle-length charcoal-black coat. He wears the coat open in the front, and stores his knives concealed on the inside of it. On his head he wears a six inch tall charcoal-black top hat. When in his rat form, Grim becomes slightly taller and more hunched over. He sprouts coarse black hair all over his body, his fingers elongate into claws, and his face elongates into a rat like snout with large, sharp, gnawing rat’s teeth, his ears grow into rat ears, and he sprouts a rat tail from his hind quarters. (His clothing is designed to accommodate these physical changes without tearing.)
Personality: Having grown up among the working class in 1630s London, Grimm’s personality is rather crude. He’s used to working, legally or otherwise, for everything he gets, and knows how to ingratiate himself to potential employers. Grim is essentially a sociopath, with virtually no morality. He has no scruples about thieving and grave robbing, or killing, and has found that he actually enjoys these acts. Due to a habit of impersonating London’s upper class that he developed as a child, Grimm’s demeanor comes off as a sort of crude parody of nobility. When he becomes angry, Grimm has a tendency to become incredibly savage and feral. He also has a taste for nursery rhymes and fairy tales, due to his connection to the Brothers Grimm, and having lived when many of them were widespread and popular.
History: Grimm was born Jack Grimmton Samuel, in London on June 26, 1630, to a working class family. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to coroner and worked with the man until he turned 21. Because he worked in the lower class section of London, and times were hard, the Coroner also served as an Undertaker, and Jack served as both his assistant, and as a grave digger. It was during this time that Jack acquired his knowledge of basic human anatomy and causes of death. Because the Undertaker worked in the lower class portion of London, his shop was frequently infested by rats, and Jack soon became adept at capturing and disposing of the rats, eventually being able to capture them without killing them. As he found a strange fondness for the rodents, Jack took to capturing them, and then releasing them into the local graveyard when he went to dig graves. As times were hard, and Jack wanted a little extra money for himself to supplement the meager pay he earned as an apprentice, he took to moonlighting as a grave robber. He would dig up graves he himself had dug in the first place, then sell the bodies as cadavers to local universities, which were always eager to purchase them. Occasionally, Jack would observe the autopsies performed on the cadavers he supplied, and thus supplemented not only his pay, but his knowledge of anatomy.
After he finished his term as the Coroner’s apprentice, Jack took up employ as an undertaker and grave digger, but continued to supplement his income by working as a grave robber. One fateful night, during the fall of 1660, under the light of a full moon Jack dug up the grave of a recently hanged murderer, who had been rumored to have practiced black magic. When Jack dug up the grave and broke open the coffin, he discovered that the rumors had been all to true, and that thanks to the sorcerers magic, by opening the coffin Jack had resurrected him as a soulless shade. The newly born evil spirit’s first act was to curse Jack with lycanthropy. Every night, Jack would transform into a mindless wolf, with his strength and ferocity peaking during the full moon.
Now unable to rob graves by night, Jack needed to find a new way to make the extra money he had grown accustomed to having. He decided to put his skills as a ratcatcher to work, as the profession was in high demand due to the rising rat populations in London. Jack continued in this manner, working as an undertaker and part-time rat catcher by day, and at night locking himself in his cellar to avoid slaughtering others in his wolf form, for five years. Then, in 1665, the Great Plague of London broke out, killing hundreds of people. Even as people fled the city Jack continued to work, as the increase in the death rate ensured he had plenty of bodies to bury, and the increase in plague rats provided him with plenty of rat catching jobs. Jack survived without contracting plague for almost a year, but on Christmas Eve, 1665, he was employed to remove a particularly large rat infestation from the basement of a local church. The church pastor believed that the rats had been placed in the basement by occultists in an attempt to undermine the Church in those dark days. Jack went into the basement, and managed to capture a few rats, when he shined a candle into a hole in the wall, and awoke a nest of black rats, which proceeded to swarm him, causing him to drop his candle into the wall. Jack was bitten many times by the rats, but managed to drag himself out of the church, just as the flame from the candle set fire to it. As Jack dragged himself away, the church burnt to the ground. Too weak to return home, Jack made his way to a back alley, and sat, shivering from loss of blood and shock, as night approached. But when night came, Jack didn’t turn into a wolf. The priest’s fears had been right; the rats had been placed in the church basement by occultists, and were cursed and plague ridden. The disease and black magic combined with Jack’s own cursed blood and mutated his lycanthropy. When he transformed, it was not into a wolf, but into a deformed wolf-rat-man hybrid. Worse yet, when day break came, Jack found that he did not transform back to himself. Desperate, deformed, and feeling the onset of plague, Jack used his somewhat heightened senses to follow the trail of the rats that had fled the burning church, to the back alley lair of the occultists. When he found them, they were at first unwilling to provide any assistance to him whatsoever. But when Jack revealed that he had burned down the church they had cursed, they were willing to make a deal. Jack had enjoyed the heightened senses his transformation provided, and the cursed disease had, in a short time, warped his mind into madness. So Jack offered that he would sell his soul to the occultists, provided that they grant him the ability to transform at will into a rat like man, with the ability to withstand disease, who would never age. His affinity for rats having warped into a sick admiration and envy, Jack also requested that the occultists give him the power to communicate and control rats. The occultists agreed, and Jack was transformed, his lycanthropy warped into a bizarre ability to become a rat-human hybrid at will, his plague gone, his risk of old age vanished with his soul, and with it, the last trace of his humanity.
Jack left England the next day, and traveled abroad for thousands of years, making money by using his powers for grave-robbing, kidnapping, stealing, and killing for any who would hire him, as well as committing the occasional crime on the side as a means to amuse himself. During his time abroad, he studied to improve his knowledge of human anatomy and its applications to murder, until, in 1888 he felt that he had learned enough and decided to test his prowess with the knife back in his hometown of London. Travelling to Whitechapel, Jack murdered five prostitutes, and removed their organs to feed to his rats. Because he had written a letter to the police signed “Jack the Ripper”, and because the murders became so widely known, Jack decided that it was time to change his name. Remembering the descendants of his distant cousins, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who had compiled so many of the fairy tales he had enjoyed throughout his long life of travels, Jack shortened his middle name to “Grimm”, and began to go exclusively by that name.
Grimm has traversed the globe several times in his exceptionally long lifetime, having more than a few close calls. Despite his agelessness, he knows that he could still be killed, and as such has always been as cautious as possible. As he is constantly on the lookout for work and opportunities to amuse himself by committing crimes, when news of the increasing conflicts and growing number of criminals in Jump City, Grimm decided to make his way there to see what opportunities he could find for himself. If nothing else, the war would provide him with plenty of bodies to dig up.
Anything else: Grimm speaks with a thick, lower-class British accent. His Birthday is Ratcatcher’s Day.
Code Word: Titans Forever
