Post by Zhiel on Apr 25, 2008 19:52:15 GMT -4
Human
Name: Richard "Codename: Hunter" Mallory
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Ranking: CEO of Mallory Arms. And President of the New World Order.
Physical Description: Richard is a caucasian looking man in his early thirties, his skin is a bit tanned but it is clear he is atleast partialy European. He stands at a height of a little higher than 1.8, the norm for a european man, and with a weight of 80Kg's, being prety thin its easy to guess he is well-trained from these facts. He has blonde hair that is cut short, just enough to stand up in a spikey manner after applying a little hair gel, which is the hairstyle he is usualy seen with, however he has no facial hair, being very carefull about his looks he shaves it every two days. His eyes is a saphire blue color that seems to be filled with what could either be an intense drive, or insanity. In public Richard seems to always wear a black buisness suit, from the morning when he steps out of his large, almost mansion like house, to the evening when he returns from his office. So not many know of his personal preferences, but on days he spends time with his family or alone he usualy wears casual clothes of varying color and shape, basically anything that comes to mind.
Personality: Richard is a man who might appear to be a good person who cares for other, is always in a good mood and is polite against others, of course this is just a farce, as the people he dislikes or lack respect for would be able to tell you. In fact he is a arrogant prick who'd rather insult you than show you even a speck of respect, of course this only goes for people he doesen't care about or dislike greatly. But as much as he attempts to always stay calm in public, there are times when he lacks the same self-restraint he normally does, these are usually when he's in his own office or only around his closest subordinates however. Although these outbursts seem to be all the pent up anger he otherwise keeps in check, among his closest subordinates it is well known he has these regularily.
Internally Richard has this seething hate for spirits that feeds his "regular" anger, however this is something he nearly always keeps in check, only occasionally loosing it when he's fighting or "interrogating" a spirit. While anger and hate seem to be all there is to Richard, he is infact a very manipulative person who usualy tries to get on the good side of people he thinks might become usefull, and then if he finds a good time and its worth it in the long run, backstab them. However he is extremely intollerable against people who tries to cheat on him, making him quite the hypocrite. However he cares greatly for his closest subordinates or his niece Harue, and as they show him loyalty he gives it to them in return.
During battle Richard's normally calm demeanor turns ice cold, unlike his casual one whenever he fights it nearly seems like all his emotions have disappeared, however in a fight with a spirit being all he radiates is a ice cold hate, the only emotion he seems to possess is that one emotion, however unlike his normally fluctuating emotions he seems to go about the battle with calculated movements with 100% precision and effectivness, however if he has the upper hand he does not kill his opponent directly, instead he tries to cause it as much suffering as he possibly can, in a nearly sadistic way before capturing it.
[Note: Slightly out of date, though most is still accurate to a degree]
History: Richard was born as the first son to a European mother orginating from Sweden, and a multi-millionaire American who was the founder of the very successfull Mallory Arms Corp. Richards father, Marcus was a kind man, although he always had high expectations of Richard, but he did not push him much in his studies, which is why Richard liked him so much more than his mother, who wanted Richard to be more like his father and always told him to do his homework right away, usualy signing him up for extra classes and the like without his concent. Because of this kind of background Richard had very little free-time, and most of that was spent playing some simple games with his father when he had time over from work. As can be expected from this kind of life-style Richard had very little friends, and most of the time he lost contact with those he had befriended in one class when moving onto another. When he was eight years old his parents had another child, this time a girl they named Jessica, who took up even more of Richards free-time as his mother wanted breaks from takng care of her and saw the perfect opportunities whenever Richard had finished his homework, and while Richard did not like this he got attached to his sister very quickly, and even after he did not need to take care of her played with her whenever he had time.
Unknown to Richard and his parents, Jessica had a high amount of spirit power, which drew hollows to them, but most of the time they were quickly dispatched by shinigami before they even got close, but one time they failed to notice the hollow in time, it was when the family were out during a trip, they were going to a carnival of sorts to celebrate his sisters birthday, this was when Richard was twelve years old and his sister was six. Even tough Richard had a small amount of reiatsu it had not awakened yet and as such he could not see the hollow looming over them as they were standing in the cue, waiting for their time to pay for the tickets and go inside, Jessica on the other hand was yelling and crying while pointing at the hollow, but no one else saw it, and as such thought it was just something the girl either believed to be something else or imagined something, Richard was concerned however, as she had never acted like that before.
Just moments later the hollow leapt off the pillar it had been standing on and crashed into the middle of the big line of people, crushing several under its weight while it ripped others appart with its claws and devouring those who was close. Richard looked onto the scene in terror, even though he could not see what was causing it he could see a blur that was moving about, just a few meters away from them, and as it did the people that had now started running was either stomped flat to the ground, or blood sprayed out as they were torn appart, it was a horrible scene, one that was to be etched into Richards mind forever, however the worst was yet to come. Suddenly the hollow turned towards Richard and his family, and as it ran up towards them it slammed its huge claw into the ground, somehow it had either missed the blow or something had caused them to evade it, but either way they were scattered and sent flying off in the ensuing crash.
When Richard opened his eyes after this he found himself lying on the ground, and as he was about to get up to his feet he saw it, the beast, this made him freeze in terror, what was that thing!? However despite the fear he was experiencing he realized that his sister, mother and father wasnt there, and as he looked around to find them he found his parents lying knocked out several meters away, at the opposite side of the hollow, while his sister was lying almost right by its feet. Even though he wanted to run up there and help her, he was too scared. What could he do against that thing? It was incomprehensible, he had never even glanced upon such a monstrosity, yet now in just a few seconds his life had been turned upside-down, it was not fair!
It was at this time that the Shinigami in charge of protecting this area arrived, black robed and with their katanas drawn they appeared as if from nowhere infront of Richard, this did not make him any less scared however, especialy not with the accompanying spirit pressure that made him fall back down onto the ground from his half-standing position. Who were those men? What did they do here? Were they going to fight the monster? The last question was answered when one of the black robed men pointed his hand at the monster with an open palm and said a weird phrase, before a red shot of what appeared to be fire burst out and headed for the monster.
The hollow however raised its large claw and smacked the fireball into the ground, causing a small explosion to occur, this made Richard panic however, as it could very well have hit his sister. It was only a second after that there was a whimpering sound from under the hollow, this caught its attention and it looked down to see a wounded Jessica laying just by its left foot. In a swift motion that one would not expect from such a hulking beast the hollow picked Jessica up in its claw-like arm and after roaring at the surprised Shinigami jumped backwards, ontop of a buildings roof and then began to rush away, the shinigami immidiately followed however, two of the three yelled something resembling victory shouts, as those two probably didnt see the little girl to begin with.
And while all of this unfolded, Richard was staring at it with fear in his eyes, and tears started to form under his eyes as the beast picked his sister up and ran off with her, even though he was still crying though it quickly changed to anger, as he shouted out after them to return his sister, however that was the last he saw of any of them.
The next day Richard awoke in a hospital, where he got to hear what had happened, or what the police that had arrived at the site later was convinced had happened, they said the convict had been captured and was to be sentenced in the end of the week, of his sister there was no trace. Though he knew what had happened, what had really happened there, he had seen it, the monster, and them, the black clothed sword wielding individuals who had followed the monster. Although he now understood what his sister had meant when she told him of ghosts, though at the time he had not believed her, and because of that he knew there was no point in speaking about it with these people, it would merely bring them to think the ordeal had made him insane or something stupid as that! Although even if he did not know it himself, or want to admit it, his mind had been shacken by the incident.
It continued from there, his life eventually returned to its original pace, although now with no sister to play with his mind was instead occupied by the four spirits he had seen when IT had happened, if they were truly spirits they should not have been able to touch anything living, yet it had taken his sister, crashed the streets and killed several other people, there had to be a way to fight such monsters. He was not aware of his own spirit power, or his ability, and as such his life continued even further as Richard grew and kept studying, however he could now suddenly see the spirits that his sister once had, however he kept his distance from them, thinking them all to be evil. He even tried to beat one down once, but it had simply escaped.
When Richard had grown to the age of nineteen another of those monsters appeared, it was when he and his father was out on a buisness trips of sorts, he was taking the time to teach Richard how to deal with customers and how to supervise the company, right now Richard acted as his fathers secretary in order to get a grasp on how the job worked. However as they were driving back home after a long day of work the hollow struck, a sudden collision in the streets ahead of them caused Marcus to steer off-road, then as there was nothing he could do about it, the car crashed into a tree, and Richard blacked out.
When he awoke, an undetermined amount of time later he was laying outside the car on his stomach, and as he looked up with blurred vision he could see his father standing on his knees in a pool of his own blood, his right arm was gone, and over him stood one of those black robed figure with a raised katana. As he tried to cry out to him to move, or do something, he fainted again. What had truly happened at the scene, was that after the crash the hollow had attacked, killed Marcus violently as he had attempted to protect Richard, then he had lost his arm to the hollow as well as gaining several other wounds, while he had not been powerfull, he had actualy possessed some strength. The Shinigami that had been there was merely going to soul burial him, unfortunately Richard saw it in the wrong way, and at the wrong time.
As he awoke once more, almost a day later he thought that it might have been a bad dream, but when he saw the pool of dried spiritual blood on the ground realization hit him, his father was dead, those damn black cloaked figures had done it once more.
After a lot of media fuzz about "how" Marcus Mallory had died, it had become accepted that he had died in the car crash, and that a animal had dragged his body away from the scene. Richard who "knew" what "actually" happened was furious about this, however he did not say anything to anyone of it, instead he focused on taking over the company, it was a lot of paper work and even more discussions with the other leaders of the company, to them he was merely a kid, he'd prove them wrong. After only a few weeks of paperwork, discussions and a few legal bullshit Richard had managed to get his fathers old position in the Mallory Arms Corp. However that was just the beginning, because he did not want the position to make his mother proud or to make sure his fathers company remained, he wanted revenge against the strange spirit like beasts and murderers who had taken his father and sister.
After constructing a secret laboratory under the main HQ of the Mallory Arms, Richard began research upon the strange creatures he had encountered, granted without any actual specimen or more knowledge than "they were big and scary" he could not accomplish much. However it was during this nearly pointless attempt at research that he stumbled upon his own spiritual energy, and it did not take long until he had learned of his own special ability, the power to siphoon energy from a living being or spirit into himself. It was using this newfound ability that Richard began to create small weapon modifications, his first being a standard secondary firearm conversion that could fire shots with a bit of spirit power in them, however he quickly noticed how little effect they had on actual hollows, and how easily the guns themselves became worn out by the bullets, he needed to strengthen the construction of the guns themselves, and at the same time he needed to concentrate the spirit power in the bullets so they became much more powerful.
It only took him a year to construct the predecessor to the current firearm that is the standard for the NWO military, a SMG type weapon that could fire bullets loaded to the brim with spirit energy, a solid gun that only needed weekly maintenance if used constantly. As the stockprices of the company started to dwindle, and more and more money went into the secret spirit research that Richard conducted, he realized he would need to create something to maintain their high position, something that could be publically released. As such he began designing projects in areas that the company had previously not visited, that being veichles and heavy weaponry. After nearly two years of successfull construction Richard had created several tank, helicopter and plane types, and the stockprices of the company started rising even higher than before as the designs of the weapons was highly superior to those currently being sold by other companies.
After making sure the company was safe once more Richard went back to his own research, however he realized that he himself would be unable to take care of everything. He needed subordinates that would believe in the same vision he had. It was that day that Richard decided to form "The New World Order", its meaning being to purge the spiritual threat that was conspiracing against the humans. There was something necessary before he could reqruit anyone however, he needed a way to make normal humans able to see the spirits. After working with spiritual technology for a few years, being able to create a form of visor that allowed its bearer to see spirits was a piece of cake for Richard, granted that was all it could do at this point, he had already planned ahead of where to take it though.
Once he had made the spirit visor Richard reqruited eight handpicked mercenaries whom he thought could be usefull, among those were the current HALO Storm, his secretary Kaeshi and the current chief of security Marc. After first explaining to them about their roles in the organization he had created he showed them the "truth" by allowing them to see a captured spirit, a extremely weak hollow. After having throughoutly convinced them of his vision he began to explain about what he had dubbed "inner power", that being reiatsu. Naturally he did not expect them to work for him in such a dangerous environment for a regular mercenary fee, no their pay was the same as the top researchers and scientists within the Mallory Arms Corp, as well as getting help in advancing their own latent spiritual powers and getting the best equipment available at the time.
For a few years things progressed at a steady pace, Richards troop of hollow hunters began to expand, and as better equipment became available the ones who had joined at first or developed strong spiritual powers became elites of the growing underground organization. Despite them being prety active around Tokyo and nearby areas they had avoided discovery by Soul Society, atleast the shinigami did not know it was a slowly growing organization who's goal was to exterminate all spirits that was the cause of it all, merely that some humans had been killing hollows now and then, they probably assumed it was the work of the brotherhood, who the NWO had discovered by now. However after spying on them for a short time Richard quickly decided that they were enemies, as they had unnatural beings called "mod souls" in their ranks, as well as being on terms with the black robed bastards.
Right now the Mallory Arms Corp. has grown to be the most wealthy weapons manufacturing company in the world, and as such Richards research has continued in new ways that would previously have been hard to conduct, one of those was a project where Richard wanted to forcibly draw out every ounce of strength a human could muster. In the first attempted experiment, the one that yet has been the only one, of the thirty specimens that had been prepared only one survived. However wether they could call it a success or not remains to be seen even to this day.
Additional Info: Richard is extremely intelligent, bordering on genius. However it is in one subject that he is by far unsurpassed and that is the reverse-engineering of spiritual abilities or powers into functional technology. Only seeing an ability once can make him start forming theories in his mind, it was this way the levitation systems were born after having studied shinigami standing in mid-air while fighting Hollow.
Power Level: Without gear - 1, weak. With gear - 2.
Armor Appearance: Richard uses the "Mk2 AICS", standing for Mark 2 Advanced Integration Combat Suit, as its name implies its a more advanced version of the original Combat Suit that he has created specifically for himself. The suit itself is made up of a dark grey full body suit with double layers in which small plates of a spiritualy enhanced metal has been placed in order to make it similar to a body armor against the spiritual. Though this underarmor is fairly basic when it comes to protection it's got a dozen advanced tech built into it to enable it to act as the connection between Richard and the rest of the armor, creating a "proxy" that protects him from any adverse effects that might befall the combat suit.
Ontop of the underarmor Richard wears the plating of the Combat Suit, spiritually hardened and strengthened black metal that gives off a very faint sheen when exposed to light. The general shape of the armor is what appears to be a double-layer over his chest, allowing it to slightly fold into itself for maximum flexibility while still providing very good protection to all areas of his body. The back of the armor has an extension over his spinal cord, giving added protection to this vital part of the human body, among other functions. The helmet to the suit has a fairly generic shape to it, looking nearly like that of a medieval crusaders except sleeker, with obvious tech built into it and a visor that seems to be part of the armor helmet itself which connects effortlessly to extensions from the neck-area and also to the underarmor, however these connections are not visible nor easy to reach due to the neck-guard that surrounds the back and sides of his head. The visor is of a dark blue color that when activated glows faintly, and surprisingly enough it is not that much weaker than the armor itself due to it's direct connection with it and thus only focus attacks can truly break it easily.
From there the armor extends down his arms and legs, providing adequate protection while also strengthening the limbs with the built-in exo-skeleton that both makes the armor easy to wear and use but also more than quadruples his strength putting him on par with many spirits around his level once he wears the armor. The back of the gauntlets that cover his hands and wrists have a concentrated mass of spiritually enhanced steel on covering them acting as guards capable of blocking some of the strongest spiritual attacks any opponents of equal level can dish out, unfortunately they are not very big and therefore is not capable of blocking large area attacks, however in these cases the armor itself is usually more than enough. He wears steel greaves with a very similiar design to the rest of his armor with the exception of a multitude of 'power lines' that extend down the sides and connect at the bottom of them where the suit has a built in Spirit Levitation Device.
The AICS gives him formidable protection and increases his strength, and while he loses a bit of flexibility it is fairly unremarkable compared to all the pros, as due to his improved strength his speed in general is increased to a certain degree. The spiritualy enhanced metal in the suit gives Richard resistance to the spirit pressure of those with much higher reiatsu than him, however it also blocks his own ability to sense reiatsu around him. Someone of captain level could still make him cause a strain on him with their pressure however.
Weapons and Gears:
Spirit Combat Gun - MDE44
A pistol with a similar shape to a "Desert Eagle" and power to match, however being custom built it has a magazine of 25 bullets and coupled with the AICS can fire about three steady shots per second. While a normal gun would do nothing to spirits the SCG's bullets are filled with a concentrated mass of spirit energy, making them highly effective against spiritual beings, and being coupled with the physical mass of the bullet the gun's piercing power is incredible considering the low amount of power it possesses. On top of this the bullets, once lodged firmly in something explode in a small concentrated one foot radius after a few seconds, thus causing internal injuries to anything hit that does not remove the bullets in time.
Spirit Battery, keeping the "spirit" trend on gear made by Richard, these SB's is probably the most bizarre out of his whole arsenal, having the compressed essence of a plus or weak hollow in them that Richard can pick up and absorb in times of need, acting as a form of "stim pack" temporarily increasing his own spiritual energy, he usually carry about four of these on every "hunt".
Extendable Arm-Blade - CG B2ft
As the name implies, it is a blade that can be extended from his right gauntlet acting as his close combat weapon when forced into such situations. This blade is 2 feet in length and whenever it is activated has spirit essence coursing through its edges. It is located on the back of his right hand and is hidden partially in the gauntlet and partially in the wrist-plate.
Extendable Spirit Dagger - PSD.5ft
Similar to the EAB this is an extension to his left arm, located on the underside of his wrist is a small barrel like object from which he can extend a dagger of pure reiatsu used most of the time as a last resort. It is only a weapon usefull for stabbing and is very weak in terms of endurance and can therefore not be used to guard against any attacks.
Spirit Tasser Gun - STG v1.2
On the back of his left hand is a square barrel like object that seems to go all the way back to under the wrist plate, from this barrel Richard can fire a tasser that works by distrupting the reiatsu in the target, making them unable to move. Naturally this is not very effective against those with increadibly hard skin like Arrancar or those with massive amounts of reiatsu to begin with, and is more meant for easy capture of plus or as a distraction.
Spirit Levitation System, after watching the shinigami and hollow being capable of standing in thin air Richard made this device that allows him to output spirit energy into his greaves, effectively creating a "barrier" that he can stand on anywhere in the real world, as well as being able to act as a dampener when falling and increasing his jumping distance. However currently the SLS has severe limitations, only making him able to "stand" in midair for about a minute when not using his own reiatsu to empower it before it has to recharge, which can take several minutes, usualy depending on how much reiryoku is in the area. Even if it has been nearly completely drained it can be used to increase jumping distances and slow down falling to a degree, as those functions do not require a constant output of energy, but is rather kept internally, thus not using it up as fast.
Spirit Scanner, a integrated part of his helmet, acting as a form of "power sensor" that both scans the area around him for reiatsu signatures and shows it to him as a radar on his HUD, as well as being able to scan targets within his sight to see the amount of reiatsu they have, something he himself is unable of sensing inside the SCS.
Com-Unit, A simple headset integrated into the helmet of the SCS that he uses to communicate with NWO Intelligence or other agents in the field. Uses a highly encrypted and constantly shifting electric wavelength to make it nigh impossible to catch and decipher even for the most tech-savvy.
Abilities:
Richards one and only ability is to upon physical contact with a spirit or person, drain their reiatsu. While he can do nothing else than that initially, after having drained reiatsu from something he can chose to either absorb it to temporarily increase his own reiatsu, or transfer it to another object. This is the ability he has used in order to create his arsenal of equipment. However the draining of reiatsu is a slow process so it is not very effective as a combat ability, which is why he rarely uses it in combat, and while the draining is only temporary he can drain a spirit completely dry, leaving an empty shell if he so wishes.
Other Characters: Zhiel Azerin/Kehieleth, Jessica Mallory
Roleplay Sample: ((Since I'm a lazy piece of shit I'm adding another already written piece here
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On the other side of the riverbank a black shrouded figure laid in the grass, the robe he wore and the zanpakutou at his side told their own tale of what he was, yet that was not all there was to former third seat Azerin, no he was much more, and at the same time, much less, than simply a shinigami. After his escape from Soul Society Azerin had been wandering, only stopping to rest occasionally, his fear of getting caught great, but even more so, he did not want to hurt any of his comrades anymore.
When the garganta opened on the other side of the river, naturally his senses picked up on it, but he did not really pay attention or care, it did not concern him. Although the hollow inside him, Kehiel, seemed to stir when the hollow, or was it an arrancar? He couldent really tell. Made its way into the living world, what was the feeling he felt? Fear? Disgust? Azerin did not know much about Arrancar, and even little about Kehiel, but from what the leaking feelings expressed it seemed he both felt the arrancar to be a threat, and that he didnt like it, or them, at all. Strange.
After what he assumed to have been a few minutes Azerin felt a burst of spiritual power emitting from the being on the other side, though it felt a bit closer, like if it was in, or above the river. Even though he had no intention of getting involved the sudden burst caused him to sit straight up and grab the hilt of his zanpakutou, and knowing that the being infront of him would no doubt notice him now, he decided to go along with it and stood up fully, his white hair moving slightly in the wind as he moved his deep green eyes to the arrancar.
He did not doubt for a second what she was when he saw the mask covering half her face, yet seeing that made him feel unfomfortable, it reminded him of the changes to his own body. He had not made any threatening movements or taken up any stance yet, instead he simply stood there looking down at his bandaged left hand, at the distance she was at she could probably not tell, but it was definitely too large for the bandaged area, like something was covering the hand under the bandages. He had no intention of fighting, but if she attacked he would have no choice but to defend himself.
General Info
Name: Richard "Codename: Hunter" Mallory
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Ranking: CEO of Mallory Arms. And President of the New World Order.
Physical Description: Richard is a caucasian looking man in his early thirties, his skin is a bit tanned but it is clear he is atleast partialy European. He stands at a height of a little higher than 1.8, the norm for a european man, and with a weight of 80Kg's, being prety thin its easy to guess he is well-trained from these facts. He has blonde hair that is cut short, just enough to stand up in a spikey manner after applying a little hair gel, which is the hairstyle he is usualy seen with, however he has no facial hair, being very carefull about his looks he shaves it every two days. His eyes is a saphire blue color that seems to be filled with what could either be an intense drive, or insanity. In public Richard seems to always wear a black buisness suit, from the morning when he steps out of his large, almost mansion like house, to the evening when he returns from his office. So not many know of his personal preferences, but on days he spends time with his family or alone he usualy wears casual clothes of varying color and shape, basically anything that comes to mind.
Personality: Richard is a man who might appear to be a good person who cares for other, is always in a good mood and is polite against others, of course this is just a farce, as the people he dislikes or lack respect for would be able to tell you. In fact he is a arrogant prick who'd rather insult you than show you even a speck of respect, of course this only goes for people he doesen't care about or dislike greatly. But as much as he attempts to always stay calm in public, there are times when he lacks the same self-restraint he normally does, these are usually when he's in his own office or only around his closest subordinates however. Although these outbursts seem to be all the pent up anger he otherwise keeps in check, among his closest subordinates it is well known he has these regularily.
Internally Richard has this seething hate for spirits that feeds his "regular" anger, however this is something he nearly always keeps in check, only occasionally loosing it when he's fighting or "interrogating" a spirit. While anger and hate seem to be all there is to Richard, he is infact a very manipulative person who usualy tries to get on the good side of people he thinks might become usefull, and then if he finds a good time and its worth it in the long run, backstab them. However he is extremely intollerable against people who tries to cheat on him, making him quite the hypocrite. However he cares greatly for his closest subordinates or his niece Harue, and as they show him loyalty he gives it to them in return.
During battle Richard's normally calm demeanor turns ice cold, unlike his casual one whenever he fights it nearly seems like all his emotions have disappeared, however in a fight with a spirit being all he radiates is a ice cold hate, the only emotion he seems to possess is that one emotion, however unlike his normally fluctuating emotions he seems to go about the battle with calculated movements with 100% precision and effectivness, however if he has the upper hand he does not kill his opponent directly, instead he tries to cause it as much suffering as he possibly can, in a nearly sadistic way before capturing it.
[Note: Slightly out of date, though most is still accurate to a degree]
History: Richard was born as the first son to a European mother orginating from Sweden, and a multi-millionaire American who was the founder of the very successfull Mallory Arms Corp. Richards father, Marcus was a kind man, although he always had high expectations of Richard, but he did not push him much in his studies, which is why Richard liked him so much more than his mother, who wanted Richard to be more like his father and always told him to do his homework right away, usualy signing him up for extra classes and the like without his concent. Because of this kind of background Richard had very little free-time, and most of that was spent playing some simple games with his father when he had time over from work. As can be expected from this kind of life-style Richard had very little friends, and most of the time he lost contact with those he had befriended in one class when moving onto another. When he was eight years old his parents had another child, this time a girl they named Jessica, who took up even more of Richards free-time as his mother wanted breaks from takng care of her and saw the perfect opportunities whenever Richard had finished his homework, and while Richard did not like this he got attached to his sister very quickly, and even after he did not need to take care of her played with her whenever he had time.
Unknown to Richard and his parents, Jessica had a high amount of spirit power, which drew hollows to them, but most of the time they were quickly dispatched by shinigami before they even got close, but one time they failed to notice the hollow in time, it was when the family were out during a trip, they were going to a carnival of sorts to celebrate his sisters birthday, this was when Richard was twelve years old and his sister was six. Even tough Richard had a small amount of reiatsu it had not awakened yet and as such he could not see the hollow looming over them as they were standing in the cue, waiting for their time to pay for the tickets and go inside, Jessica on the other hand was yelling and crying while pointing at the hollow, but no one else saw it, and as such thought it was just something the girl either believed to be something else or imagined something, Richard was concerned however, as she had never acted like that before.
Just moments later the hollow leapt off the pillar it had been standing on and crashed into the middle of the big line of people, crushing several under its weight while it ripped others appart with its claws and devouring those who was close. Richard looked onto the scene in terror, even though he could not see what was causing it he could see a blur that was moving about, just a few meters away from them, and as it did the people that had now started running was either stomped flat to the ground, or blood sprayed out as they were torn appart, it was a horrible scene, one that was to be etched into Richards mind forever, however the worst was yet to come. Suddenly the hollow turned towards Richard and his family, and as it ran up towards them it slammed its huge claw into the ground, somehow it had either missed the blow or something had caused them to evade it, but either way they were scattered and sent flying off in the ensuing crash.
When Richard opened his eyes after this he found himself lying on the ground, and as he was about to get up to his feet he saw it, the beast, this made him freeze in terror, what was that thing!? However despite the fear he was experiencing he realized that his sister, mother and father wasnt there, and as he looked around to find them he found his parents lying knocked out several meters away, at the opposite side of the hollow, while his sister was lying almost right by its feet. Even though he wanted to run up there and help her, he was too scared. What could he do against that thing? It was incomprehensible, he had never even glanced upon such a monstrosity, yet now in just a few seconds his life had been turned upside-down, it was not fair!
It was at this time that the Shinigami in charge of protecting this area arrived, black robed and with their katanas drawn they appeared as if from nowhere infront of Richard, this did not make him any less scared however, especialy not with the accompanying spirit pressure that made him fall back down onto the ground from his half-standing position. Who were those men? What did they do here? Were they going to fight the monster? The last question was answered when one of the black robed men pointed his hand at the monster with an open palm and said a weird phrase, before a red shot of what appeared to be fire burst out and headed for the monster.
The hollow however raised its large claw and smacked the fireball into the ground, causing a small explosion to occur, this made Richard panic however, as it could very well have hit his sister. It was only a second after that there was a whimpering sound from under the hollow, this caught its attention and it looked down to see a wounded Jessica laying just by its left foot. In a swift motion that one would not expect from such a hulking beast the hollow picked Jessica up in its claw-like arm and after roaring at the surprised Shinigami jumped backwards, ontop of a buildings roof and then began to rush away, the shinigami immidiately followed however, two of the three yelled something resembling victory shouts, as those two probably didnt see the little girl to begin with.
And while all of this unfolded, Richard was staring at it with fear in his eyes, and tears started to form under his eyes as the beast picked his sister up and ran off with her, even though he was still crying though it quickly changed to anger, as he shouted out after them to return his sister, however that was the last he saw of any of them.
The next day Richard awoke in a hospital, where he got to hear what had happened, or what the police that had arrived at the site later was convinced had happened, they said the convict had been captured and was to be sentenced in the end of the week, of his sister there was no trace. Though he knew what had happened, what had really happened there, he had seen it, the monster, and them, the black clothed sword wielding individuals who had followed the monster. Although he now understood what his sister had meant when she told him of ghosts, though at the time he had not believed her, and because of that he knew there was no point in speaking about it with these people, it would merely bring them to think the ordeal had made him insane or something stupid as that! Although even if he did not know it himself, or want to admit it, his mind had been shacken by the incident.
It continued from there, his life eventually returned to its original pace, although now with no sister to play with his mind was instead occupied by the four spirits he had seen when IT had happened, if they were truly spirits they should not have been able to touch anything living, yet it had taken his sister, crashed the streets and killed several other people, there had to be a way to fight such monsters. He was not aware of his own spirit power, or his ability, and as such his life continued even further as Richard grew and kept studying, however he could now suddenly see the spirits that his sister once had, however he kept his distance from them, thinking them all to be evil. He even tried to beat one down once, but it had simply escaped.
When Richard had grown to the age of nineteen another of those monsters appeared, it was when he and his father was out on a buisness trips of sorts, he was taking the time to teach Richard how to deal with customers and how to supervise the company, right now Richard acted as his fathers secretary in order to get a grasp on how the job worked. However as they were driving back home after a long day of work the hollow struck, a sudden collision in the streets ahead of them caused Marcus to steer off-road, then as there was nothing he could do about it, the car crashed into a tree, and Richard blacked out.
When he awoke, an undetermined amount of time later he was laying outside the car on his stomach, and as he looked up with blurred vision he could see his father standing on his knees in a pool of his own blood, his right arm was gone, and over him stood one of those black robed figure with a raised katana. As he tried to cry out to him to move, or do something, he fainted again. What had truly happened at the scene, was that after the crash the hollow had attacked, killed Marcus violently as he had attempted to protect Richard, then he had lost his arm to the hollow as well as gaining several other wounds, while he had not been powerfull, he had actualy possessed some strength. The Shinigami that had been there was merely going to soul burial him, unfortunately Richard saw it in the wrong way, and at the wrong time.
As he awoke once more, almost a day later he thought that it might have been a bad dream, but when he saw the pool of dried spiritual blood on the ground realization hit him, his father was dead, those damn black cloaked figures had done it once more.
After a lot of media fuzz about "how" Marcus Mallory had died, it had become accepted that he had died in the car crash, and that a animal had dragged his body away from the scene. Richard who "knew" what "actually" happened was furious about this, however he did not say anything to anyone of it, instead he focused on taking over the company, it was a lot of paper work and even more discussions with the other leaders of the company, to them he was merely a kid, he'd prove them wrong. After only a few weeks of paperwork, discussions and a few legal bullshit Richard had managed to get his fathers old position in the Mallory Arms Corp. However that was just the beginning, because he did not want the position to make his mother proud or to make sure his fathers company remained, he wanted revenge against the strange spirit like beasts and murderers who had taken his father and sister.
After constructing a secret laboratory under the main HQ of the Mallory Arms, Richard began research upon the strange creatures he had encountered, granted without any actual specimen or more knowledge than "they were big and scary" he could not accomplish much. However it was during this nearly pointless attempt at research that he stumbled upon his own spiritual energy, and it did not take long until he had learned of his own special ability, the power to siphoon energy from a living being or spirit into himself. It was using this newfound ability that Richard began to create small weapon modifications, his first being a standard secondary firearm conversion that could fire shots with a bit of spirit power in them, however he quickly noticed how little effect they had on actual hollows, and how easily the guns themselves became worn out by the bullets, he needed to strengthen the construction of the guns themselves, and at the same time he needed to concentrate the spirit power in the bullets so they became much more powerful.
It only took him a year to construct the predecessor to the current firearm that is the standard for the NWO military, a SMG type weapon that could fire bullets loaded to the brim with spirit energy, a solid gun that only needed weekly maintenance if used constantly. As the stockprices of the company started to dwindle, and more and more money went into the secret spirit research that Richard conducted, he realized he would need to create something to maintain their high position, something that could be publically released. As such he began designing projects in areas that the company had previously not visited, that being veichles and heavy weaponry. After nearly two years of successfull construction Richard had created several tank, helicopter and plane types, and the stockprices of the company started rising even higher than before as the designs of the weapons was highly superior to those currently being sold by other companies.
After making sure the company was safe once more Richard went back to his own research, however he realized that he himself would be unable to take care of everything. He needed subordinates that would believe in the same vision he had. It was that day that Richard decided to form "The New World Order", its meaning being to purge the spiritual threat that was conspiracing against the humans. There was something necessary before he could reqruit anyone however, he needed a way to make normal humans able to see the spirits. After working with spiritual technology for a few years, being able to create a form of visor that allowed its bearer to see spirits was a piece of cake for Richard, granted that was all it could do at this point, he had already planned ahead of where to take it though.
Once he had made the spirit visor Richard reqruited eight handpicked mercenaries whom he thought could be usefull, among those were the current HALO Storm, his secretary Kaeshi and the current chief of security Marc. After first explaining to them about their roles in the organization he had created he showed them the "truth" by allowing them to see a captured spirit, a extremely weak hollow. After having throughoutly convinced them of his vision he began to explain about what he had dubbed "inner power", that being reiatsu. Naturally he did not expect them to work for him in such a dangerous environment for a regular mercenary fee, no their pay was the same as the top researchers and scientists within the Mallory Arms Corp, as well as getting help in advancing their own latent spiritual powers and getting the best equipment available at the time.
For a few years things progressed at a steady pace, Richards troop of hollow hunters began to expand, and as better equipment became available the ones who had joined at first or developed strong spiritual powers became elites of the growing underground organization. Despite them being prety active around Tokyo and nearby areas they had avoided discovery by Soul Society, atleast the shinigami did not know it was a slowly growing organization who's goal was to exterminate all spirits that was the cause of it all, merely that some humans had been killing hollows now and then, they probably assumed it was the work of the brotherhood, who the NWO had discovered by now. However after spying on them for a short time Richard quickly decided that they were enemies, as they had unnatural beings called "mod souls" in their ranks, as well as being on terms with the black robed bastards.
Right now the Mallory Arms Corp. has grown to be the most wealthy weapons manufacturing company in the world, and as such Richards research has continued in new ways that would previously have been hard to conduct, one of those was a project where Richard wanted to forcibly draw out every ounce of strength a human could muster. In the first attempted experiment, the one that yet has been the only one, of the thirty specimens that had been prepared only one survived. However wether they could call it a success or not remains to be seen even to this day.
Additional Info: Richard is extremely intelligent, bordering on genius. However it is in one subject that he is by far unsurpassed and that is the reverse-engineering of spiritual abilities or powers into functional technology. Only seeing an ability once can make him start forming theories in his mind, it was this way the levitation systems were born after having studied shinigami standing in mid-air while fighting Hollow.
Special Ability/Equipment
Power Level: Without gear - 1, weak. With gear - 2.
Armor Appearance: Richard uses the "Mk2 AICS", standing for Mark 2 Advanced Integration Combat Suit, as its name implies its a more advanced version of the original Combat Suit that he has created specifically for himself. The suit itself is made up of a dark grey full body suit with double layers in which small plates of a spiritualy enhanced metal has been placed in order to make it similar to a body armor against the spiritual. Though this underarmor is fairly basic when it comes to protection it's got a dozen advanced tech built into it to enable it to act as the connection between Richard and the rest of the armor, creating a "proxy" that protects him from any adverse effects that might befall the combat suit.
Ontop of the underarmor Richard wears the plating of the Combat Suit, spiritually hardened and strengthened black metal that gives off a very faint sheen when exposed to light. The general shape of the armor is what appears to be a double-layer over his chest, allowing it to slightly fold into itself for maximum flexibility while still providing very good protection to all areas of his body. The back of the armor has an extension over his spinal cord, giving added protection to this vital part of the human body, among other functions. The helmet to the suit has a fairly generic shape to it, looking nearly like that of a medieval crusaders except sleeker, with obvious tech built into it and a visor that seems to be part of the armor helmet itself which connects effortlessly to extensions from the neck-area and also to the underarmor, however these connections are not visible nor easy to reach due to the neck-guard that surrounds the back and sides of his head. The visor is of a dark blue color that when activated glows faintly, and surprisingly enough it is not that much weaker than the armor itself due to it's direct connection with it and thus only focus attacks can truly break it easily.
From there the armor extends down his arms and legs, providing adequate protection while also strengthening the limbs with the built-in exo-skeleton that both makes the armor easy to wear and use but also more than quadruples his strength putting him on par with many spirits around his level once he wears the armor. The back of the gauntlets that cover his hands and wrists have a concentrated mass of spiritually enhanced steel on covering them acting as guards capable of blocking some of the strongest spiritual attacks any opponents of equal level can dish out, unfortunately they are not very big and therefore is not capable of blocking large area attacks, however in these cases the armor itself is usually more than enough. He wears steel greaves with a very similiar design to the rest of his armor with the exception of a multitude of 'power lines' that extend down the sides and connect at the bottom of them where the suit has a built in Spirit Levitation Device.
The AICS gives him formidable protection and increases his strength, and while he loses a bit of flexibility it is fairly unremarkable compared to all the pros, as due to his improved strength his speed in general is increased to a certain degree. The spiritualy enhanced metal in the suit gives Richard resistance to the spirit pressure of those with much higher reiatsu than him, however it also blocks his own ability to sense reiatsu around him. Someone of captain level could still make him cause a strain on him with their pressure however.
Weapons and Gears:
Spirit Combat Gun - MDE44
A pistol with a similar shape to a "Desert Eagle" and power to match, however being custom built it has a magazine of 25 bullets and coupled with the AICS can fire about three steady shots per second. While a normal gun would do nothing to spirits the SCG's bullets are filled with a concentrated mass of spirit energy, making them highly effective against spiritual beings, and being coupled with the physical mass of the bullet the gun's piercing power is incredible considering the low amount of power it possesses. On top of this the bullets, once lodged firmly in something explode in a small concentrated one foot radius after a few seconds, thus causing internal injuries to anything hit that does not remove the bullets in time.
Spirit Battery, keeping the "spirit" trend on gear made by Richard, these SB's is probably the most bizarre out of his whole arsenal, having the compressed essence of a plus or weak hollow in them that Richard can pick up and absorb in times of need, acting as a form of "stim pack" temporarily increasing his own spiritual energy, he usually carry about four of these on every "hunt".
Extendable Arm-Blade - CG B2ft
As the name implies, it is a blade that can be extended from his right gauntlet acting as his close combat weapon when forced into such situations. This blade is 2 feet in length and whenever it is activated has spirit essence coursing through its edges. It is located on the back of his right hand and is hidden partially in the gauntlet and partially in the wrist-plate.
Extendable Spirit Dagger - PSD.5ft
Similar to the EAB this is an extension to his left arm, located on the underside of his wrist is a small barrel like object from which he can extend a dagger of pure reiatsu used most of the time as a last resort. It is only a weapon usefull for stabbing and is very weak in terms of endurance and can therefore not be used to guard against any attacks.
Spirit Tasser Gun - STG v1.2
On the back of his left hand is a square barrel like object that seems to go all the way back to under the wrist plate, from this barrel Richard can fire a tasser that works by distrupting the reiatsu in the target, making them unable to move. Naturally this is not very effective against those with increadibly hard skin like Arrancar or those with massive amounts of reiatsu to begin with, and is more meant for easy capture of plus or as a distraction.
Spirit Levitation System, after watching the shinigami and hollow being capable of standing in thin air Richard made this device that allows him to output spirit energy into his greaves, effectively creating a "barrier" that he can stand on anywhere in the real world, as well as being able to act as a dampener when falling and increasing his jumping distance. However currently the SLS has severe limitations, only making him able to "stand" in midair for about a minute when not using his own reiatsu to empower it before it has to recharge, which can take several minutes, usualy depending on how much reiryoku is in the area. Even if it has been nearly completely drained it can be used to increase jumping distances and slow down falling to a degree, as those functions do not require a constant output of energy, but is rather kept internally, thus not using it up as fast.
Spirit Scanner, a integrated part of his helmet, acting as a form of "power sensor" that both scans the area around him for reiatsu signatures and shows it to him as a radar on his HUD, as well as being able to scan targets within his sight to see the amount of reiatsu they have, something he himself is unable of sensing inside the SCS.
Com-Unit, A simple headset integrated into the helmet of the SCS that he uses to communicate with NWO Intelligence or other agents in the field. Uses a highly encrypted and constantly shifting electric wavelength to make it nigh impossible to catch and decipher even for the most tech-savvy.
Abilities:
Richards one and only ability is to upon physical contact with a spirit or person, drain their reiatsu. While he can do nothing else than that initially, after having drained reiatsu from something he can chose to either absorb it to temporarily increase his own reiatsu, or transfer it to another object. This is the ability he has used in order to create his arsenal of equipment. However the draining of reiatsu is a slow process so it is not very effective as a combat ability, which is why he rarely uses it in combat, and while the draining is only temporary he can drain a spirit completely dry, leaving an empty shell if he so wishes.
Additional
Other Characters: Zhiel Azerin/Kehieleth, Jessica Mallory
Roleplay Sample: ((Since I'm a lazy piece of shit I'm adding another already written piece here
))On the other side of the riverbank a black shrouded figure laid in the grass, the robe he wore and the zanpakutou at his side told their own tale of what he was, yet that was not all there was to former third seat Azerin, no he was much more, and at the same time, much less, than simply a shinigami. After his escape from Soul Society Azerin had been wandering, only stopping to rest occasionally, his fear of getting caught great, but even more so, he did not want to hurt any of his comrades anymore.
When the garganta opened on the other side of the river, naturally his senses picked up on it, but he did not really pay attention or care, it did not concern him. Although the hollow inside him, Kehiel, seemed to stir when the hollow, or was it an arrancar? He couldent really tell. Made its way into the living world, what was the feeling he felt? Fear? Disgust? Azerin did not know much about Arrancar, and even little about Kehiel, but from what the leaking feelings expressed it seemed he both felt the arrancar to be a threat, and that he didnt like it, or them, at all. Strange.
After what he assumed to have been a few minutes Azerin felt a burst of spiritual power emitting from the being on the other side, though it felt a bit closer, like if it was in, or above the river. Even though he had no intention of getting involved the sudden burst caused him to sit straight up and grab the hilt of his zanpakutou, and knowing that the being infront of him would no doubt notice him now, he decided to go along with it and stood up fully, his white hair moving slightly in the wind as he moved his deep green eyes to the arrancar.
He did not doubt for a second what she was when he saw the mask covering half her face, yet seeing that made him feel unfomfortable, it reminded him of the changes to his own body. He had not made any threatening movements or taken up any stance yet, instead he simply stood there looking down at his bandaged left hand, at the distance she was at she could probably not tell, but it was definitely too large for the bandaged area, like something was covering the hand under the bandages. He had no intention of fighting, but if she attacked he would have no choice but to defend himself.
