The World We Live In Character Reference - Jek Barlow
Introduction of Character
Name: Jek Barlow
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Heterosexual
Nickname(s): Jek, The Lone Wolf
Species: Loup (Wolf Person)
Affiliations/Organizations: The Wanderers
Occupation: Mercenary for Hire, Bounty Hunter
________________________________________ The Character's Appearance
General Appearance: Jek is a wolf person with a humanoid body with features of a wolf. His head is animalistic and look pretty much like a wolf, including snout, maw, sharp canine teeth, golden wolf eyes, wolf ears, and fur all over his head. His body is lean and entirely covered with black colored fur. As a Loup, he has a bushy furred tail and digitigrade legs.
Height: 5'25''
Weight: 170 lbs
Handedness: Right-Handed
Tattoos/Birthmarks/Scars: He has no visible scars or tattoos due to being entirely covered in fur.
Jewelry/Accessories: He has a golden earring on his left ear and a bracelet made of discarded bullets on his right wrist.
________________________________________ About the Character
Personality: A veteran in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world, Jek is a hardened bounty hunter who can come out as menacing and dangerous. He is very sarcastic, but calm in situations that needs it. He respects those who is worthy of it, and can be quite protective to those he considered underage or children. He can kill in cold-blood as it is his work.
Likes: Stories, Guns, his friends, Narati, drinks in bars
Least Favorites: Overzealous cultists, Child killer, cannibals
Hobbies/Interests: Repairing and upgrading his guns, telling 'stories' (it's mostly a scare tactic)
Phobias/Fears: Losing those he considered friends and families
Habits: Checking bullets in his guns when free, Smoke old carton cigarettes
Mannerisms: He is quite sarcastic, but on the point. As a seasoned bounty hunter, always try to find a job in settlements
Skills/Talents: Sharpshooting, tracking
Best Qualities: Protective, caring, friendly (only to those he considered close friends)
Worst Qualities: Sarcastic, ignorant
Morality/Ethics: Due to being a seasoned bounty hunter for years, he is quite hardened when killing, and can maintain a straight face. An opportunist, he has no problem shooting people on the back of their heads if he thinks the person is insane or his enemy.
Goals/Motivations/Dreams: To retire from killing people for living and start a settlement without racial segregation.
________________________________________ The Character's Relationship With Others
Reputation: His reputation as 'The Lone Wolf', a popular bounty hunter, makes him quite intimidating and someone to be wary of. But among his closest friends in the Wanderers, he is a kind and caring 'big brother' person who likes to tell stories. He is dedicated to protecting Narati and see him grow into a better person.
Love Interest(s): None
Friend(s): Narati Vasra, Raine Winlow, Aranis Darion, Karkas Sobesk,
Enemy(ies): The Vampire in the Mountain, Agents of Tomorrow
Relationship(s):
Narati Vasra - Jek's closest friend. Despite of a bad start with Jek trying to kill Narati, he becomes a close friend, even considered Narati a little brother or his child. They like to tease each other like brothers and support each other in his bid to change Narati to a better person
Raine Winlow - Jek's oldest and personal friend, and before Narati, his only friend. He was a rival bounty hunter who fought Raine, but after being beaten and spared, he became a mercenary for hire and occasionally meet Jek in between jobs.
________________________________________ The Character's Abilities
Powers/Abilities: Jek is a sharpshooter with great accuracy. He is proficient in almost all kinds of firearms like pistols and rifles. He also utilizes grenades made by Narati.
As a loup, Jek has heightened hearing and olfactory senses due to being a wolf person. His digitigrade legs provide him with stealth. He can survive jumping from the third floor of a building due to his spring-like digitigrade legs.
Origin of Powers: His heightened senses are due to his racial traits, while his sharpshooting skill is from training.
Element(s): None. He does not use magic.
Strengths: Being a Loup, he has many capabilities of a wolf, including running faster than humans. He can also use his teeth in close combat to bite and shred opponents, along with his claws.
Weaknesses: As a pure-blooded Loup, his eyes are totally color-blind like a canine, and he can only see in gray-scale, so he cannot discern color, and is quite disadvantageous when pursuing jobs that needs color differences. As a result, he tries to avoid these kinds of job or need support for it.
Restrictions: He can only shoot as much as he has bullets.
Fighting Style: He is a self-taught sharpshooter and gun combat expert.
Preferred Weapon(s): Guns like sniper rifles and pistols.
(On a scale of 1-10; 1 being terrible and 10 being the best)
Knowledge: 8.5/10
Motivation: 8/10
Will to Act: 8/10
Agility: 9/10
Swordsmanship: 5/10
Hand-to-Hand Combat: 3/10
Long Range Accuracy: 10/10
Offense: 9/10
Defense: 6/10
Social Skills: 7/10
________________________________________ The Character's Familial/Biographical Information
Birthplace: Somewhere in the Region
Family: Unnamed Father (Deceased)
Unnamed Mother (Deceased)
Familial Background: Born in a world that is devastated after a War of apocalyptic scale, Jek has been taught many survival skills from his father and mother, who were bounty hunters themselves. As it was very dangerous to stay in one place outside a settlement, his parents travelled often. They kill and they plunder like most people, and like them, only survival could save them from deadly situations. It isn't the case with his family, though, as his mother and father were killed as victims of raid, forcing Jek to flee. He was 15 when this happened. He was in the good care of a gunslinger, who taught him the first skills of using and maintaining firearms. The gunslinger was soon killed by raiders, and Jek scored his first kill by shooting a raider point-blank to his skull. Since then, he never fully trust anyone unless they need protection and suffered worse past that him, or those he truly respected and trust.
Character Background: After the gunslinger's untimely death, Jek wandered the desert Region and the remains of a civilization to survive. At first, all Jek did were kill and plunder, like his parents were doing and what he had been doing with the gunslinger. It was easy at first, but Jek knew early on that he was pushing his luck when he met raiders with advanced machineries made from scraps. In a settlement, after relaying his problems with a helpful bartender, he decided to be a bounty hunter, taking jobs for muns to eat and to upgrade his weaponries. He killed many people at first, but as time went on, Jek realized that some people were worth more alive and dead, and started doing jobs for slavers and night club owners. All these, combined with the fact that it was like that in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, made him ignorant of the plight of those he captured for the slavers and others. All he needed was the muns for his own survival. He became known as 'The Lone Wolf' when he was 27.
One day, he heard of a serial killer known only as 'the Red Rogue', but his experience with similar serial killers knew that this person was also a bounty hunter, albeit his pattern and his method of killing was similar in all his victims: they were all bathed in blood. Interested, as the Red Rogue had a price on his head, he waited near one of the potential target, a similar outlaw, but corrupt. Jek did not try to kill the corrupt outlaw, and proceeded to fight the Red Rogue, who used combat magic to fight the non-magic Jek.
Using cunning strategy, he managed to defeat the Red Rogue by shooting his legs. When the Red Rogue asked to be killed, Jek refused, helped him recover, and took him to a bar. They became partners since that time, although frequently, and the Red Rogue, Raine Winlow, became a mercenary for a free-town, while Jek continued to travel and continue his bounty hunting business. One day, after finishing a job involving a raider boss, he opened camp and found that a thief managed to sneak in and took his food. He promptly knocked him out, and was fascinated on the fact that the thief was a Fa'ar, a rat person. Tying him up and intimidating and torturing the Fa'ar, Jek realized that the Fa'ar was a coward, and he hated gun noises. Sympathetic after knowing that he was still 15 and alone (Fa'ars had a pack mindset), Jek took him and travelled with the Fa'ar, Narati.
(The Rest are spoilers and this character background might continue after the story is published)