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Player Name: Shade
• Player Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
Light_shade or .lightshade on Discord
• Player Age: 30+
• Permissions: Here.
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter
• Character Age: Early thirties
• Character Canon: Daredevil (MCU)
• Canon Point: Season 3, Episode 8 mid-episode just after he leaves the FBI office feeling discouraged.
• Character History: "I'm drowning in deep water."
• Character Personality:
— Positive Trait: 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.
— Positive Trait: 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 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.
— Positive Trait: 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.
— Negative Trait: Lack of empathy. One of Dex's biggest detriments is that he lacks empathy almost completely. Being a born psychopath, he simply does 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.
— Negative Trait: 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.
— Negative Trait: 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.
• Character Skills:
• Shooting. Dex is an incredible shot, able to do things like actually ricochet bullets off of other objects to get them to hit their intended target. He was also trained as a sniper in the U.S. Army.
• Throwing skills. He's also got an uncanny ability to throw objects. Anything he can get his hands on has the potential to be turned into a deadly weapon, even if it's something as innocuous as a pencil or pen.
• Hand-to-hand combat. While he's no Daredevil, Dex can hold his own at close range up to a point, though he obviously functions much better at a long-range distance.
• Character Inventory:
— ITEM ONE: Dex's therapy tapes. These are many tapes made over the series of many years in his childhood during his sessions with his therapist, enough to fill an entire shoe box.
— ITEM TWO: A tape player to play the tapes with.
— ITEM THREE: A picture of himself from his days working at the suicide hotline featuring himself and his coworkers including his "North Star" Julie Barnes.
• Important Notes: Just a note that while Dex's abilities seem insane and on the borderline of having a superpower, he is in fact just a normal human being who just happens to be able to do what 99.999999% of the population would not be able to do. He's just figured out how to do all this through years of obsessive training.
• Writing Samples:
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here
Player Name: Shade
• Player Contact:
• Player Age: 30+
• Permissions: Here.
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter
• Character Age: Early thirties
• Character Canon: Daredevil (MCU)
• Canon Point: Season 3, Episode 8 mid-episode just after he leaves the FBI office feeling discouraged.
• Character History: "I'm drowning in deep water."
• Character Personality:
— Positive Trait: 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.
— Positive Trait: 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 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.
— Positive Trait: 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.
— Negative Trait: Lack of empathy. One of Dex's biggest detriments is that he lacks empathy almost completely. Being a born psychopath, he simply does 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.
— Negative Trait: 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.
— Negative Trait: 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.
• Character Skills:
• Shooting. Dex is an incredible shot, able to do things like actually ricochet bullets off of other objects to get them to hit their intended target. He was also trained as a sniper in the U.S. Army.
• Throwing skills. He's also got an uncanny ability to throw objects. Anything he can get his hands on has the potential to be turned into a deadly weapon, even if it's something as innocuous as a pencil or pen.
• Hand-to-hand combat. While he's no Daredevil, Dex can hold his own at close range up to a point, though he obviously functions much better at a long-range distance.
• Character Inventory:
— ITEM ONE: Dex's therapy tapes. These are many tapes made over the series of many years in his childhood during his sessions with his therapist, enough to fill an entire shoe box.
— ITEM TWO: A tape player to play the tapes with.
— ITEM THREE: A picture of himself from his days working at the suicide hotline featuring himself and his coworkers including his "North Star" Julie Barnes.
• Important Notes: Just a note that while Dex's abilities seem insane and on the borderline of having a superpower, he is in fact just a normal human being who just happens to be able to do what 99.999999% of the population would not be able to do. He's just figured out how to do all this through years of obsessive training.
• Writing Samples:
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here