[b]Notice: Sometimes I'm on the mobile app, so if I poof, then the app might've crashed and I'll get back to you soon! And it crashes often.[/b]

[quote]"I'm uh... a contractor. Yeah... that's it. People give me problems they need solved and I take care of it for them. Not exactly the cleanest or most honest living there is, but you just get your work done like everyone else, and go about your day."[/quote]

Wakim is a cut above your average hired thug on the streets these days. You pay up front, you pay top dollar, and your problems disappear, no matter how far away, or close by. Being a simple shape shifter is quite the boon in this line of work. Means he can get in and out of anywhere almost unnoticed if he wishes.

[quote]"Not one to talk about myself really. I'm a pretty average guy, but as a kid I used to be kind of a bully."[/quote]

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[color=red][u]Background:[/u][/color] Wakim's story begins in a small unimportant orphanage on a small unimportant side of town. There was nothing special about his life there. He was for all intents and purposes, an average student, and child; made average grades, had this own clique he ran with and messed with the other kids cause at that age he was bigger than most of them his age, but besides that everything was normal.

Around the time of his 13th birthday Wakim actually got adopted. What a miracle right? Most people consider the teenagers as 'unadoptables' with a myriad of mental health issues, and problems from living in such a disconnected home environment. However, not all was right with this new family. Wakim was adopted by an older man, one with money bursting from his pockets, who no matter what he did, could do no wrong in the eyes of police, and judges, who was constantly surrounded by men of size and stature that carried guns bigger than Wakim's forearm, and who gave him everything he wanted in those years, toys, girlfriends, cars, video games, and yes I know what you're thinking, it's not that kind of story. All he asked of Wakim was to put a little plant in his uncle's drinks, who care if he got sick soon after and died? Sometimes he asked him to deliver a package to a place. Sneak in, put it in a little inconspicuous spot, like behind a water cooler, and leave. Maybe he'd see a news story about suspected gang bombing, but who gave a damn? Not Wakim. He was too busy having fun. Sometimes he asked him to entertain some friends of his at poker, make em feel comfortable, and then use a Glock or a dagger to paint their brains all over the walls when they and their bodyguards were good and drunk. Now that... that kind of act may have had some lasting negative effects on a young kid's psyche.

When he was 18 he dropped entirely off the grid, soon after a deal to go through with someone on another side o town went horribly wrong. No pictures, videos, no digital imprint, paper trail, nothing; and he prefers to make sure no one knows what happened then. Upon his resurface he astounded the other members of the family when his father showed him off. See, Wakim never knew exactly how special he was until after he dropped off the grid. He had the ability to shape any part of his body into a weapon, and to change the simple features on his face and body, down to skin color, height, and voice. He likes to think maybe he got the power from his parents, if he ever could meet them he'd ask. The questions that have piled up over the years, are never too far from his mind.

His father made him a Made Man, to much protest from the rest of the Family, some saw it as a rise in power, a secret weapon that the family had, and others plotted to get rid of such a dangerous thing that was all under the Don's control, and could ruin any power play they made. In this new role, his performance was stellar, taking solid blows that would kill normal men, getting into and out of target locations better than when he was some little kid most people overlooked when they saw him, and his ability to interrogate? He could have weaker men screaming their life stories from start to finish in less than an hours work. Everything is looking up for Wakim right now. Business is good and looks to get even better now.

[quote]"You think you've got dysfunctional family? You don't know the meaning of it until your family's actively setting up to get each other shot in the back of the head until they're at the head of the table. These are the main players."[/quote]

[collapse=Meet the Family][url=http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/3/31599/2219236-scannedimage.jpg]"Dear old dad[/url]is pretty much a scumbag. Not that anyone's got the cajones to say it anywhere he might have a kissass, or god forbid to his face. Last time someone tried that, he called the entire family to dinner, and stabbed the poor bastard to death with his own steak knife. Aimed for the stomach too, away from the vital organs so he bled out right in front of everyone. After that, everyone just kept eating to some nervous laughter, including me. The guy pretty much raised me to be just like him. Ruthless, cunning, and with a philosophy of 'Take what you want cause no one's gonna give it to ya Wakim.' I like to think I'm a better than him, maybe cause I still have an ounce of human kindness left? Nah that can't be it."

[url=http://img.rule34.xxx//samples/1201/sample_ff91f7a2e798e401e47913447ca5d26e.jpg?1875414]"Auntie Joan[/url] dressed like she was 21 all the time, and looked like it too when she was like 38 or something when I got adopted. One of the best asses I've ever seen on a woman too! Taught me how to pick up chicks much older than I was, and even helped me date a cop that was in Dad's pocket. She even taught me how to fuck em too. I'm pretty sure she's why I love asses to this day. Come to think of it, where everyone else paid me in cash, we just kinda fucked right before she wanted something from me. If she wanted a guy beat up, I got a blowjob. If she wanted some collateral damage done, she'd ride me half the night. If she wanted someone dead, I got her ass the next night after clean up. Best way to keep a horny teenager paid is in quality ass I guess."

[url=http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/e/ea/Nickycavella.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100629162354]"Freddie the Flame[/url] used to be the most fucked up son of a bitch I knew. Story goes he caught his wife cheating on him with some drugged up dyke, so he takes em out of the city at gunpoint, and the dyke tries to fight him right? Well Freddie beats her into the fucking ground, and slices her Achilles heels in front of his wife. Then covers her in Gasoline and lights her on fire in front of her. Wifey didn't even do anything after that he said. Just cried softly while he used the rest of it on her."

[url=http://www.marvelmasterworks.com/marvelhcs/images/panel_punborn_b.jpg]"Donnie[/url] was the most certified, badass, killer I have ever, and will ever know. Scares the living shit out of me to this day. I have never seen a more efficient hitman in my life. If he killed you, and I mean if he didn't want you to suffer, it'd take police months to even find a smidge of evidence pointing to a murder. One time, he took me on a job, and after tying a guy in his garage, filling it up with carbon monoxide from his car, took the body inside, and typed up a suicide note and printed using stiff wires tired around the guys fingers, and put him back in the garage. I do everything I can to stay on that guy's good side. If someone pays for him to kill me, I want it to be painless at least."

[url=http://orig14.deviantart.net/f00e/f/2011/037/6/6/vampire_alucard_by_kaoring-d38x1gm.png]"The Consigliere, Jackie Barzini.[/url]If I'm my Dad's brawn, this is Dad's brains. While I bust some heads, he runs the numbers. While I whack the owner of a brothel, he'll put a new person in charge. If I fuck up and get thrown in jail, he gets me out next day. Pretty cool guy honestly. Probably one of few in the family worth a damn for anything other than using until they're all washed up. Threw away half of that algebra shit I learned in the orphanage, and stuck to what was useful. Ratios, statistics, and that linked as to how to keep a gambler playing in a casino. Times tables, interest rates, money handling, and I learned how to give a bogus deal and make money off of a small bank or cost a dumb bimbo her job flirting my way into a 17% compounded continuously bank account. You ever seen 150 grand multiply in 6 years with that rate? You come out with 415 G's!"

[url=http://orig07.deviantart.net/5aa0/f/2008/007/5/c/the_butcher_by_namesjames.jpg]"Sarah Lane[/url] was like my bestfriend. Always baked the best cakes, and cooked the best steaks. Everyone could count on her to chop up a quality meal. Real shame about her face though. Freak accident fucked up all the skin on her body. Still, she's the sweetest older lady I've ever met. Never used me for a hit, or put pubes in my food, so she's alright in my book. One time, over Christmas, her present to me was the biggest fucking omelette I'd ever seen, even threw in bacon, whole strips on the inside of it, and covered it in cheese. Second best Christmas ever. The best so far was when Auntie Joan woke me up at midnight with a blowjob that lasted for hours. You know, one time I got my head stopped in by a couple of cops. Probably mad Aunt Joan set me up with his girlfriend or something, but I was in the hospital for a month. Ms. Lane visited me every day and kept me company. When it was about time for me to get out, she gave me this little notebook, and the only thing written in it were 4 addresses and 4 names. She said to me on that hospital bed, 'If you want to run the family some day, you gotta teach cocky pricks like that a lesson Wakim. Don't make the same mistake they did.' Oh and I didn't. Ms. Lane even helped me dump the bodies after."

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[quote]"What? You got a problem with the way I look? I might change if you ask nicely."[/quote]

[color=red][u]Physical Appearance:[/u][/color] Height: 6'4/193 cm
Weight: 245 lbs/102kg
Build: Muscular
Blood Type: AB
Description: 6'4 adult black male, with long black braids. Muscular build, strong jaw, clean faced, with green eyes. As a bit of a quirk, when he's not paying attention, his hair seems to grow rather rapidly, several inches over the course of just a few days leading to him having to cut it or transform it down to manageable length quite a lot.

[quote]"I hate to talk about work, but when you've been in this business for long enough, you learn to move through your day, and imagine everyone as some of the worst scum with as many skeletons in their closet as you've put in the ground. Makes it all easier."[/quote]

[color=red][u]Personality:[/u][/color] He doesn't like to think about his work too much. He goes through the normal day on auto pilot, tossing memories of past fights and murders into the back of his mind. As long as he convinces himself it doesn't matter, it's all good. He comes home to a great pad, fun times, and maybe sometimes a short term, or long term partner to spend the day with. Outside of work, he's got a cheery personality. Likes to smile a lot, enjoys the simple things in life like baked goods, and the sound of smashing glass. He's a bit of a kidder. He doesn't take much seriously, even in the face of life and death he's known to taunt said danger and come out with only a few more scars than if he had kept his mouth shut.

[quote]"I got quite the mean right hook my friends say. Never met a guy I couldn't knock down with one punch... Okay except maybe Crazy Abdul, but he did go down after the 3rd swing, and he was high as a kite at the time."[/quote]

[color=red][u]Abilities:[/u][/color] Besides being an expert brawler, wrestler, and a self-taught shooter, he's a simple shape shifter. Capable of growing or shrinking any part of his body, changing its shapes, the color of its skin, hair, and other things of that nature. He cannot change gender, or alter himself at a genetic level. Things like growing armor over his body, and growing his fists to gigantic proportions and using them like hammers? Those are more up his alley.

Money and Connections can be considered an ability right? Well he's got a lot of both. Not a billionaire, or even multi-millionaire, but he can get himself out of prison on a few assault charges, or grease a few palms, and leave the backdoor of a prison, cameras off, and records burned.

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Wakim was self taught up until he was 20. Before 20 he fights mostly like a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbXlj4sYVA]Violent Grappler.[/url] But he's not afraid of a good [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F3D9Phoj1U]Brawl[/url] every now and then.

After getting some formal training however, he's learned to be much more of a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g1fzZr8HMM]Surgical Striker.[/url] But still with a love for [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiTRYhlTUpY]Crippling Beatdowns.[/url]
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[color=yellow]On Playing as Another Species:[/color] I can work this character around the idea of playing as another species, just give me a heads up on what you like and maybe we can work something out, long as the background stays the same.

[collapse=Setting Ideas]I made him able to fit into multiple scenarios, from Fantasy to Cyberpunk, and I'll just throw down some ideas per scene here.
[color=yellow]Low Fantasy/Medieval:[/color] Tricky one, but Wakim's job in this fantasy world is a bit of a jack of all trades. He's a spy, arsonist, and knife for hire. If you need something destroyed he's who you talk to. In this scenario he's hot off of a job gone horribly right, and while his career might be in some trouble, he's got a very interesting item on him. (Shapeshifting power up to partner's discretion)

[color=blue]High Fantasy:[/color] This one puts him in the shoes of an infiltrator. His shapeshifting is stronger and more complex, and his job offers are just for assassination. In the time he's been doing this, he's made quite a name for himself among the rich and noble classes, getting rid of infighting, or being hired with another small team said nobility collects to depose a high target like priests, king's court members, generals, and even one time, monarchy. In this setting, he's much more well off from doing this for years, but it seems like someone's taken notice of him, and is intentionally trying to set him up with bad jobs, or traps by bounty hunters or town guards.

[color=gray]Noire/Modern:[/color] In this version, Wakim works as a freelance agent for crime syndicates the nation wide. Jobs come frequently and he's not in one place for too long. His shapeshifting is still here, allowing for use of body modifications like simple weapons, or feature changing. Wakim's specialty here is information gathering, being it through watching, stealing, or capture and interrogation. This scene is open to a teacher of some sort. Early in Wakim's career, he might have had a teacher who taught him everything they know about the arts of interrogation, and information gathering while he performed out in the field.

[color=green]Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi:[/color] This is one of my favorites. It's not much different than the Noir/Modern scenario except that his shapeshifting is caused, not by any magical means, but by extremely advanced nanites, in his bloodstream, skin cells, hair follicles, and digestive system that rearrange him on presets that he must upload to their systems and use. These nanites are extremely expensive, but were bought and paid for by corporate interests eager to make use of someone like him. These nanites are susceptible to EMP bursts, but given a 6-hour reset, they can come back online. Aside from that, he does jobs not just for criminals, but for mega-corporations as well. These range from sabotage to hijacking to just a murder. [b](Shadowrun Universe greatly loved for this one.)[/b]

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A Day/Week/Month/Year In the life: Slice of life RP, where we can simply experience the lives of our characters colliding.

You've Done it Now...: You've got the wrong kind of attention, or someone you know does, and it's Wakim's job to take care of it. He could either buy your silence, intimidate and interrogate information from you, or be hired to whack you or someone you know. You might just have a debt, and he's here to collect. Maybe you pay your tab then and there, or you pay in other ways.

Indoctrinate: Wakim's power grows, allowing him to shape other people however he wants through touch and some concentration. Here he could be looking for a partner to watch his back on jobs, turning them on to the family business, or something as simple as making a pet or servant.

I Had Strings...: Wakim's been used long enough! It's time he took a power play of his own. He'd need support in a big way, but with planning, he could move in and take the job from his Father. He'd need a small battalion... and a trustworthy partner.

Long Nights: A hit is on Wakim's head. One ticket per entry, and the guy to bring back his head, gets the entire ticket pot! Are you his friend during this madness, or are you a bounty hunter?

Superheroes? Superheroes!: In this universe you have a Wakim who's less of a hero or a villain, but more of a mercenary, toeing the line between good and evil in the work he does for his employers. Hell, he may not even be a one man operation, belonging to a team, or running a group of like minded individuals.

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[collapse=Flavors of Wakim]
Wakim can be played a few different ways, and I'll add more as I get more ideas on what to put here. All references to the Flavors can be found in the images.

Anthro Wakim: Wakim is a light grey tiger Anthro. Muscular build, and not much changes about his past unless we're in an Anthro controlled world. In that case, The Family is also Anthro.

Tribal Wakim: Simple idea. This one takes place in a Tribal Setting with Wakim being apart of a small yet vicious tribe of people known as 'Songbirds'. Thanks to [icon]Queen Shada[/icon] for turning me onto this idea!
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