I would like to make a character that
1 - Is highly specialized in a skill to the point of obsessive compulsion
2 - Is not your usual killer (personality, history, morals... something about him is odd)
1 - Is highly specialized in a skill to the point of obsessive compulsion
2 - Is not your usual killer (personality, history, morals... something about him is odd)
For 1, what if they're obsessed with puzzles, to the point of creating puzzle out of nothing? They can solve any sort of sudoku, cryptogram, crossword that they have to create puzzles from nothing. It comes in handy when there are actual puzzles hidden in newspapers, less handy when there is nothing actually there.
2. Perhaps her first job was something like a kindergarten teacher? Very soft and patient, wouldn't hurt a fly type.
2. Perhaps her first job was something like a kindergarten teacher? Very soft and patient, wouldn't hurt a fly type.
For some reason, I’m immediately thinking of the idiom Honour among thieves. Or in this case, honour among assassins?
Male, slender, approachable and charismatic. Not what you’d initially think of when you imagine a killer.
His highly specialised skill is lock picking. An often overlooked one, but highly effective in his line of work! Picture the target sleeping, in a locked hotel room. With such a skill in lock picking, the assassin can easily unlock the door, take out his target, and lock the room again to make any attack look self-inflicted.
Unlike the mark, what excites this assassin is the break-in. What kind of safe, what locks, alarm systems, and security does he have to bypass? He speaks about it with a burning passion, often making clients wonder why this man is not just a simple thief.
Perhaps there's more to his backstory, what drove such a charismatic man to become an assassin, instead of a thief/ break-in artist?
(I'd love to hear someone else snowball on top of this point!)
Male, slender, approachable and charismatic. Not what you’d initially think of when you imagine a killer.
His highly specialised skill is lock picking. An often overlooked one, but highly effective in his line of work! Picture the target sleeping, in a locked hotel room. With such a skill in lock picking, the assassin can easily unlock the door, take out his target, and lock the room again to make any attack look self-inflicted.
Unlike the mark, what excites this assassin is the break-in. What kind of safe, what locks, alarm systems, and security does he have to bypass? He speaks about it with a burning passion, often making clients wonder why this man is not just a simple thief.
Perhaps there's more to his backstory, what drove such a charismatic man to become an assassin, instead of a thief/ break-in artist?
(I'd love to hear someone else snowball on top of this point!)
Cacophony wrote:
For 1, what if they're obsessed with puzzles, to the point of creating puzzle out of nothing? They can solve any sort of sudoku, cryptogram, crossword that they have to create puzzles from nothing. It comes in handy when there are actual puzzles hidden in newspapers, less handy when there is nothing actually there.
2. Perhaps her first job was something like a kindergarten teacher? Very soft and patient, wouldn't hurt a fly type.
2. Perhaps her first job was something like a kindergarten teacher? Very soft and patient, wouldn't hurt a fly type.
These are both really excellent ideas- I am especially keen on the kindergarten teacher!
EarlyGrey wrote:
For some reason, I’m immediately thinking of the idiom Honour among thieves. Or in this case, honour among assassins?
Male, slender, approachable and charismatic. Not what you’d initially think of when you imagine a killer.
His highly specialised skill is lock picking. An often overlooked one, but highly effective in his line of work! Picture the target sleeping, in a locked hotel room. With such a skill in lock picking, the assassin can easily unlock the door, take out his target, and lock the room again to make any attack look self-inflicted.
Unlike the mark, what excites this assassin is the break-in. What kind of safe, what locks, alarm systems, and security does he have to bypass? He speaks about it with a burning passion, often making clients wonder why this man is not just a simple thief.
Perhaps there's more to his backstory, what drove such a charismatic man to become an assassin, instead of a thief/ break-in artist?
(I'd love to hear someone else snowball on top of this point!)
Male, slender, approachable and charismatic. Not what you’d initially think of when you imagine a killer.
His highly specialised skill is lock picking. An often overlooked one, but highly effective in his line of work! Picture the target sleeping, in a locked hotel room. With such a skill in lock picking, the assassin can easily unlock the door, take out his target, and lock the room again to make any attack look self-inflicted.
Unlike the mark, what excites this assassin is the break-in. What kind of safe, what locks, alarm systems, and security does he have to bypass? He speaks about it with a burning passion, often making clients wonder why this man is not just a simple thief.
Perhaps there's more to his backstory, what drove such a charismatic man to become an assassin, instead of a thief/ break-in artist?
(I'd love to hear someone else snowball on top of this point!)
I really like the highly specialized skill/compulsion to be lock related. I was always a fan of the keymaker concept in Matrix. He would probably be one to create and take apart locks at home all the time. That's how the FBI or interpol follows his footsteps. He's always leaving tiny gears and htings behind. But it doesnt end there as he is also obsessed with security system and digital keys. A hacker on top of the locks. Anything that has a key, anything that has a lock.
Another poster mentioned him having been a kindergarten teacher at one point - perhaps that factors into our backstory here. A teacher who lost a precious student perhaps? My brain is now stewing into an idea that this man was once a teacher of some kind andthe death of a student led him to the organization - some sort of intel he uncovered when he witnessed the murder? - and becoming a spy.
After reading your criteria I thought of the following.
1. Extensive knowledge and interest to the point of obsessive about chemistry, alchemy, potion /drug making. (s)he's always after rare ingredients for the experiments and would perform those "medical" experiments to both friends and foes alike.
2. This person is against killing and would go any length necessary for this principle. This combined with the vast medical and medicine knowledge or him/her it's ensured that the opponent won't die, however this doesn't mean that this person would be against of causing pain.
Perhaps a little sadist even could be living inside of him/her.
1. Extensive knowledge and interest to the point of obsessive about chemistry, alchemy, potion /drug making. (s)he's always after rare ingredients for the experiments and would perform those "medical" experiments to both friends and foes alike.
2. This person is against killing and would go any length necessary for this principle. This combined with the vast medical and medicine knowledge or him/her it's ensured that the opponent won't die, however this doesn't mean that this person would be against of causing pain.
Perhaps a little sadist even could be living inside of him/her.
Tjogs wrote:
After reading your criteria I thought of the following.
1. Extensive knowledge and interest to the point of obsessive about chemistry, alchemy, potion /drug making. (s)he's always after rare ingredients for the experiments and would perform those "medical" experiments to both friends and foes alike.
2. This person is against killing and would go any length necessary for this principle. This combined with the vast medical and medicine knowledge or him/her it's ensured that the opponent won't die, however this doesn't mean that this person would be against of causing pain.
Perhaps a little sadist even could be living inside of him/her.
1. Extensive knowledge and interest to the point of obsessive about chemistry, alchemy, potion /drug making. (s)he's always after rare ingredients for the experiments and would perform those "medical" experiments to both friends and foes alike.
2. This person is against killing and would go any length necessary for this principle. This combined with the vast medical and medicine knowledge or him/her it's ensured that the opponent won't die, however this doesn't mean that this person would be against of causing pain.
Perhaps a little sadist even could be living inside of him/her.
This is another really good choice for the quirke/difference of the character. I think a lot of folks think that a spy has to be an assassin, but the reason I chose for them to be a spy was because that is another really good quirk. I think that I definitely wanted to be able to make the character avoid killing; but why is the question. Why do they avoid killing? Morality? Or something more. Like a deal with death.
I really like the idea of the alchemy because then I could set this in a different time. Than the modern one. That appeals to me quite a bit and I hadn’t thought of something like that. For a spy to be a pro at alchemy would make a lot of sense, and I have a pirate character that also assassinates people using a poison/venom. I hank you for this idea !!
BB-Neesan wrote:
DoubleCrossed Spy
I would like to make a character that
1 - Is highly specialized in a skill to the point of obsessive compulsion
2 - Is not your usual killer (personality, history, morals... something about him is odd)
I would like to make a character that
1 - Is highly specialized in a skill to the point of obsessive compulsion
2 - Is not your usual killer (personality, history, morals... something about him is odd)
A couple ideas here for a modern-day modern world spy:
- Has exceptionally good hearing in one ear, but worse than normal hearing in the other ear, so has an obsessive compulsion to hear al lhe can, and eavesdrops easily.
- Is very good at using old and/or damaged technology to make listening devices, directional microphones, communication devices (radios, phones, etc.) to enhance his special acute hearing ability.
I had a couple more but seemed to have lost them for now.
Dawnia wrote:
BB-Neesan wrote:
DoubleCrossed Spy
I would like to make a character that
1 - Is highly specialized in a skill to the point of obsessive compulsion
2 - Is not your usual killer (personality, history, morals... something about him is odd)
I would like to make a character that
1 - Is highly specialized in a skill to the point of obsessive compulsion
2 - Is not your usual killer (personality, history, morals... something about him is odd)
A couple ideas here for a modern-day modern world spy:
- Has exceptionally good hearing in one ear, but worse than normal hearing in the other ear, so has an obsessive compulsion to hear al lhe can, and eavesdrops easily.
- Is very good at using old and/or damaged technology to make listening devices, directional microphones, communication devices (radios, phones, etc.) to enhance his special acute hearing ability.
I had a couple more but seemed to have lost them for now.
This would be even cooler if the character denied the use of hearing apartatus like hearing aids. I really like the inclusion of this one for sure. You could write a lot about a character with hearing related trauma and make it so interesting!
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