If I were wearing a mask, the press would be calling me a hero!

Player: Shade
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Age: 30+
Pronoun: She/her
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Character Name: Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter/Bullseye
Character Canon: MCU, specifically the TV show Daredevil: Born Again
Canon Point: The end of Season 1
Age: Early forties-ish

Crime: Murder. While Dex does a lot of bad things in the series, it's almost always motivated by the murder of someone he's done or the ripple effects that are created from that. It's a difficult issue because even if he would like to, Dex's brain isn't wired to care about what he's done. Once a person is dead at his hands, they're forgotten about, just another lump of cooling meat on the floor as he moves onto his next target or task. He commits his first murder when he's just a kid and shows no remorse for it. Only the influence of his childhood therapist keeps him from going down a dark path. That path is eventually chosen when he's an adult and Kingpin deliberately ruins his life so that he will become reliant on him. Every life he takes in service to the man causes a bit more pain and chaos until it all starts to accumulate and everything in his life comes crashing down. Ten years later, he finds himself stuck in the same cycle, lashing out and killing rather than finding a different way to move forward in his life.

Background: He never misses.

Personality: — Loyal. Dex is the original ride or die kind of person. For those that can gain his loyalty, he will remain completely and utterly devoted to them, even to the point of turning a blind eye to any of their negative traits. This is bad when Fisk gets hold of him, but given he was able to stay in control of himself for fifteen years before when being in the Army and the FBI, it shows he can also do a lot of good if he puts his faith in something like his job rather than in a person.
— Desire to be good. Despite his severe mental illness, Dex often struggles against his own darker nature in attempt to stay on the straight and narrow path. Every day he has to stay in control and keep from falling into the part of himself that just wants to hurt and kill other people. The third season of the original show he's featured in is one long supervillain origin story for him we keep seeing him fail time and again at remaining a good person until eventually he gives up after a VERY intense week of his life being continuously ruined. But he's also shown to go through a daily struggle of trying to foster a sense of innate goodness in him even if he doesn't naturally possess it. He managed to do so for years on even before getting sucked into Fisk's sphere of influence through a mixture of staying on his medication, having a strict routine in place, his job at the FBI, and stalking a former coworker named Julie. Even after he embraces his fate becoming a supervillain, he's shown to have moments of realizing he's on the wrong path, muttering "What have you done?" after killing 11 innocent civilians in Josie's Bar.
— Determined. When Dex has a goal or mission in mind, he simply does not give up. If he's motivated enough, he'll move mountains to achieve what he needs to. This goes all the way back to when he was a kid, focused on the goal of pitching a perfect game, having somehow irrationally correlating the idea of doing something so big, important, and special as that with the ability for his parents to somehow come back to life after he was orphaned. As an adult, this comes out in his uncanny ability to shoot or throw anything to accurately hit a target. His desire to kill the Fisks, the ones he holds responsible for ruining his life, shows him trying to assassinate them twice, which is far more than most of their enemies ever even get to. He also comes close enough that it is shown Vanessa Fisk fears him and at the very least Wilson Fisk recognizes he is enough of a threat to pose a genuine possibility of killing both of them.

— Lack of empathy. One of Dex's biggest detriments is that he lacks empathy almost completely. Being a born psychopath, he simply doesn't possess the physical ability in his brain to be able to feel things like compassion or kindness for people naturally. This can get him in a lot of trouble, because while he can fake empathy to blend in with the canned phrase he often uses of "That's hard. Really hard", at his core most people don't feel "real" to him, more like a herd of cows or characters in a video game he's playing.
— Anger. Dex has a short fuse and very little patience. It's said repeatedly that he's used deadly force a number of times already while working in the FBI simply because he can. When two of the Albanians in the shootout he's first introduced in try to surrender, he coldly shoots them dead even while they're unarmed. When he snaps, he just lashes out and hurts those around him until he can calm down again. This would already be bad for any normal person, but given Dex's abilities, it's actually dangerous given how easily he can kill anyone around him with just ordinary objects.
— Loner. Dex has a tendency to keep people at arm's length, both for his own well-being and theirs given his severe mental illness in the form of his BPD and psychopathy. But this unfortunately means when Fisk starts manipulating him and he loses his job, he's got no safety net and no one to turn to who can help him. This makes him susceptible to Fisk and turn to him so he will feel someone honestly cares about him, even though it makes Dex desperate to do anything to keep the man in his life despite his toxic influence.

Abilities: - While it may seem supernatural or some sort of power he was granted, Dex's abilities to accurately hit anything he shoots at with a gun or throws with his hands are in fact just normal human abilities. They're just not ones 99.9999999% of the population could ever hope to achieve without the obsessive training he's done since he was a child to get to that level. His level of accuracy is such to the point where he can ricochet bullets off of different targets so that they will still hit the intended victim and he can throw even something like a pen with enough force that it stabs through a table, normal silverware hard enough to impale someone's body many times over, or a microphone hard enough to embed it in someone's ribcage. This accuracy isn't limited to his hands, for he's shown to be able to accurately spit a tooth into a guard's eye hard enough to destroy it.

- He also has some skill in hand-to-hand combat that can allow him to hold his own against people like Daredevil, who has ninja training under his belt, and Kingpin, who is a mountain of a man who can physically crush people's heads in. That being said, he's far more of a long-range fighter and usually only fights close-up enough until he can get some distance between himself and his target so he can get the advantage.

- After he was paralyzed in a three-way fight with Kingpin and Daredevil, his spine was repaired with Cogmium, a MacGuffin metal that is ridiculously sturdy, though not quite as indestructible as adamantium or vibranium would be. It has made Dex's spine incredibly durable and is partially why he survives a five story fall off the roof of a building when Daredevil is pushed to his limits and throws him in an attempt to kill him.



Samples: - His TL.
- Werewolf AU.

Actions during the TDM: Dex found a room to stay and put his supplies in on the fourth floor where he woke up. Also went to go meet the shopkeepers and poke them with a stick.

Questions: N/A

Appearance

- As a Myth, Dex has two small horns that mirror the ones that were on his Daredevil outfit when he impersonated the superhero, fangs (the faerie image), and sharp claws.
- Living in Cruel Summer for months on end means he's gotten the tell-tale "stripes" of people that live there. There's some all over his body but the largest concentration are on his arms, torso, and neck. They resemble tiger stripes and take the appearance of pale ropey scars, though much more symmetrical and clean-looking than any that would be made by actual injuries.
- This pic is how he currently looks with all his changes.

Inventory

- One Welcoming Committee Slot.
- A cassette player + the 10 years worth of therapy tapes Dex recorded with his therapist Dr. Mercer. The tapes also have a small enchantment on them that make them completely indestructible.
- A knife given by Ava as a gift in December, "improved" to make it fancier and with better balance to it.
- A whistle from the train trial.
- A pack of playing cards that holds sentimental value for him.
- Some "raindrop knives" from the Exile knife rainfall.