Quatre Bornes Lee

Iwaku

• "Iwaku" Is a slight character variation of Q. This is all the information pulled from a game on the RP forumsite named Iwaku. I'm porting it over to this page for reference, as a lot of work was put into organizing the character bio, history, etc.

• Character Sheet

  Name:
  Quatre Bornes "Q" Lee
  His first name is "Quatre Bornes". It is a joint first name. You could call him "Quatre" or "Bornes" but Bornes is NOT a middle name. His last name is "Lee" and he often goes by the simple alias "Q".
  
  Race:
  Presumed Human
  See "What Q DOESN'T know" for more information
  
  Age:
  25
  
  Faction:
  N/A
  
  Place of Residence:
  Vagrant, but he enters via Iwaku City Transylvania
  
  Appearance:
  Go here for a huge photobucket of all Q stuff.
  For this RP specifically, he's going to start out with this outfit and transition to another(red and black in the photo albums) at some point in the future: 1, 2.
  
  At 25 years old, Q has a full head of grey hair. It's parted to the side and covers one of his forest green eyes in attempt to cover a large slash-like scar going from beneath his left eye, over his nose, and down his right cheek. His tanned skin is a mix between south african and korean, and is further marred by two black whisker-like tattoos on either side of his chin, going down toward his neck.
  
  Standing at six feet tall, he's rather slim, but nonetheless built well enough to carry around about eighty pounds with him as walks long distances.
  On his back is a faded gold ankh tattoo that was placed specifically to try and hide many small surgical scars along his spine.
  
  Often hidden inside of the leg of his pants is a long dog tail, resembling that of a Saluki. The tail, unlike the hair atop his head, is a dark brown, almost black. It reaches about to the inside of his knee when hanging downward and is extremely sensitive to touch.
  
  Q often wears button-up long sleeve dress shirts and black slacks or jeans with boots of the same color. He almost always wears sunglasses, even inside buildings. He carries with him a large seabag and a hard violin case when traveling from city to city. Normally however, these things are left in a hotel room of some kind.
  
  Personality:
  Quatre Bornes is a confounding mix of sanity and insensibility. On the one hand, he can be cool and calculating. On the other, he can be explosive and over-reactive. He is somewhat emotionally unstable, often acting on instinct and influence rather than expertise when it comes to interpersonal communication.
  
  Q can bury his emotions deep within himself and carry out jobs and business with unscrupulous lowlives with ease. Killing from a distance is his game, and it his ability to turn himself off that allows him to do his job with no remorse. However, when it comes to his off time, he has no friends and prefers to drive people away. A vagrant at heart, he wishes for partnership but also does not allow himself to get too connected to people as he knows he will have to leave them.
  
  When Bornes talks of his father, he never uses possessive pronouns. Bornes's father is not "my father" it is simply "Father" with a capital F. Father insisted Q was normal and did all he could to make Q so; Father almost disowned Q for admitting he liked boys. Q now subconsciously tries to bang every woman to win back Father's love. Bornes needs to prove that he is not Father's failure.
  
  As such, he seeks out prostitutes to get the false sense of being wanted. He'll often get drunk for an inflated ego boost. He views himself as human with a terrible genetic defect (his tail). While normally he'll hide this defect, when he is drunk he believes himself to be "greater" than a normal human, and that what women want is really an animal-- lucky for him, he is part one.
  He goes to exotic fetishist clubs almost exclusively as he knows the people there will "accept" his flaws and view them as triumphs. He feels that no "normal" person could ever accept him fully, and even if they did, he'd never be able to have sex with them as he acts very bestial in bed, animal sounds and all. In a normal situation with a "normal" person, he is very self-conscious of this.
  
  Drivers:
  Find a purpose for his life, a possible "cure" for his "disease" and maybe even acceptance and a place to settle down.
  
  Equipment:
  Inside the seabag he carries everything he needs- clothes, toiletries, basic cooking wares and some canned goods. If he were stranded on a deserted island, he'd be able to survive for at least seven days (provided he found a water source, as there's no water in his seabag).
  
  Also inside the bag at the very bottom is 20,000USD in cash. If shit ever hits the fan, he'll have something to fall back on. But this is essentially his "life savings". He doesn't trust banks.
  
  Other than the seabag and what's inside, he carries a hard violin case which harbors an M40 sniper rifle with extra ammunition for it and his handguns. Although normally on his person, his two glocks (handguns) are in shoulder holsters, may also be in the violin case should he need to show unarmed for something.
  
  He also wears a SOG Seal Knife at his hip in its sheath.
  
  Lastly are his specially prescribed sunglasses, which never leave his person. Without them, he wouldn't be able to see in the daylight.
  
  Strengths:
  Marksmanship (SP), patience, walking long distances, language (can speak fluent english and french), long-distance weight lifting. Low-light sight (PP), enhanced hearing (TP).
  
  Weaknesses:
  Tail is sensitive to touch.
  Pulling his tail grants terrible pain. Along the underside are somethin akin to whiskers. If brushed the right way will cause sexual gratification, the wrong way more pain or even imbalance in some cases (think of cat's face whiskers). Cutting it or injuring it in some way yields more blood than normal. Due to Q's other problems, damage to his tail can result in death fairly easily.
  
  Chronic Low Blood Pressure
  Q's heart is larger than a normal human's, as are his veins. He self-medicates by smoking to tighten his blood vessels. If he's injured or his blood pressure lowers too much, he's prone to fainting and at risk of stroke. His body take a lot longer to produce new red blood cells, making normal wounds rather lethal to him. A very real fear for Q is to pass out and have a stroke while he's unconscious.
  While he is unconscious, his body will eventually equalize, depending on circumstance, but normally within 10 - 20 minutes.
  
  Eyes Sensitive to Sunlight
  Q can see in near perfect darkness, but with this comes the inability to see clearly during the day. His vision resembles that of a moving, heavily over-exposed photograph. He wears specially prescribed sunglasses to be able to see in the day without inducing a terrible headache or burning of his eyes, however on overtly sunny days he is completely blinded.
  
  Enhanced Hearing
  His hearing range falls under about the same range as a dog's. However because he mostly deals with cities, he's constantly bombarded by the annoying buzzing of fluorescent lights, dog whistles, and other atmospheric sounds humans don't normally notice. Being around too many people or in a place with such 'buzzing' for too long makes him irritable or brings on a headache. He's especially wary of silent alarms- to him, they are the most annoying.
  
  If he's in a town where many of these things are, or he is unable to get away from them, he'll try to drown them out through alcohol.
  
  Primary Power (PP) :
  Low-light sight. Confluence. See weaknesses "Eyes sensitive to sunlight".
  His eyes react to light similar to a cat's.
  
  Secondary Power (SP) :
  Marksmanship. Confluence. He's basically a mercenary and has trained in his trade to the point of accurate/enhanced aiming even while inebriated.
  
  Tertiary Power (TP) :
  Enhanced hearing. Confluence. See Weaknesses "Enhanced Hearing".
  His hearing range is similar to a dog's.

• What Q DOESN'T Know

  Q is one of four "children" in a project known as "deadwoods". Long story short, French military discovered humanoid cryptids in Mauritius (A french-owned african island) and proved that "werewolves" (lycanthropes) actually existed. United States Secret Services bought into the project, dispensed agents and attempted to make human-lycan hybrid super soldiers.
  The plan failed, and the CIA shut it down (as it was instated without their prior knowledge) after the first three children died. Q was the last and most "tame" of the children. His bio-father (A French/US spy) kidnapped Q and raised him, forcing him through several surgeries to look "more human" and insisted Q was normal. (Q was originally a lot hairier and "werewolf" looking).
  Under the barrage of post-surgery medications and mood stabilizers, Q was able to actually be normal. When he ran away at 18 and went cold turkey off all the drugs, his conditions worsened, his hair began to grey, and his animalistic instincts/mannerisms/vocals began to become much harder to control.
  On the meds, he was expected to live to be 25 - 28. Off the meds no one knows for sure, and after Q ran off he was presumed dead.

• Background

  Quatre Bornes grew up in France. He was raised in military boarding schools and specialized in Strategy. His father, one of the commanding officers, was pushing Q to become a strategist and follow in his foot steps. Q excelled in linguistics and held a dream of becoming a Sniper. His father would not allow it.
  Q befriended a man named Vespasien, who would secretly teach Q about firearms and promised to make Q the sniper he wanted to be if Q would run away with him to the United States. Ves's dream was to become a mafia lord. Ves and Q fell in love, and when Q made the mistake of telling his father such in a final argument over Sniper School, Q's father took a rapier to the boy's face, intentionally scarring it.
  "If you like boys, you don't deserve the face I made you!"
  About a month later, at 18, Q found himself with Vespasien on a ship to the US. Weeks later they wound up in New York and began to fulfill their dreams. Q became Ves's right-hand and partner in crime as they took over a small city. He played translator as Ves hated speaking english, and they made quick work of their goals. In return, Ves taught Q what he knew of sniping. It wasn't much, but Q took to it immediately and seemed to have an innate talent.
  
  As time passed, a new player came into the game- Alexandre- who convinced Ves that being openly gay hurt their image. Ves took to women and Q was pushed aside romantically. Years rolled by and finally Q realized he was only being used and left his "family" of the newly formed French Mafia.
  
  Since that time, he became a hired gun, only taking on low-budget kills (under $100K a head). Because of his unique requirements, he's often laughed out of "real" merc circles and left to work with drug addicts and rich men who don't know better. As wiith the illegality of his job, he's forced to travel from city to city, state to state. He normally does so on foot but occasionally if needed will take a cab.
  In his personal life, Q tries to find a connection to women. He doesn't really like them, but if Ves took to them and his father scarred him for liking men, then women must be what he's supposed to like, so he may as well set out trying to prove to himself that there is something to like to them. As he ages, he not only becomes more homophobic and defending of his perceived masculinity, but his "beast" condition worsens. His sight becomes worse in the day and better at night, his hearing gets "better" (thus giving him more headaches) and his grunts turn into growls...