Anthony Griffin
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"I didn't do a thing, officer, The bullets did."Name: Anthony Griffin
Alias: Alkaid
Occupation: Bodyguard, mercenary, hitman, getaway driver. Whatever pays the bills.
Allignment: True Neutral
Allegiance: Royal Navy (former), Secret Intelligence Service (former)
Nationality: British, Brazillian (descendant of British immigrants)
Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
Hair Color: Blonde
Left Eye: Hazel
Right Eye: Green (covered by lens)
Height: 1.78 m
Weight: 75 kg
Age: 23
"Kill Count" Tattoos: Anthony's upper back and shoulders, along with his central lower back are tattooed with tallies. Each of the 63 tallies, he claims, represents a kill in his successful, albeit recently-started career. Should you be grasped by curiosity, refrain from asking him on its validity. You'd rather not find out the hard way.
Skills and Abilities
Marksmanship
Anthony's favored way of finishing things, especially if it's from a distance. One thing's for sure, it's practical, and it's a hell of a lot easier. Anthony trained extensively with firearms of all kinds, shapes, and sizes. He utilizes two modified Desert Eagles .50 Caliber.
When wanting something quieter or something that simply incapacitates, he'll use posioned throwing spikes.
Hand-to-Hand
His fighting style revolves around the same thing as his marksmanship does: practicality. He didn't ever feel the need to go and master every martial art discipline ever created, he just learned everything there is to know about those that work best.
Anthony has mastered Capoeira, Kombato, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Savate, and has adapted them to fit his personal style. He has also studied, albeit briefly, Kickboxing, Taekwondo, and Jeet Kun Do.
Capoeira and Savate are martial art disciplines based off of striking, focusing on powerful kicks. Combine this with his strength and speed, which is the peak of humanly possible, and you have a deadly combination. Due to his knowledge of the human physiology, he knows exactly what to strike. Anthony prefers to target the body's weak points and nerves, causing searing pain and ending fights quickly.
Kombato, differently from the above, is the only style he mastered which was not designed to quickly go for the kill. It is a self-defense discipline, which is used by Brazilian military. It revolves around defending one's self from knives and guns, and on protecting another person that you are accompanying. It is an essential skill for a bodyguard, or at least one that charges as much as he does.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, often abbrreviated to BJJ, is a fighting style that revolves around submission techniques. It's helpful to incapacitate targets, or to take down someone stronger than you.
Weapon Skill
Griffin is skilled with multiple weapons, but his preferred weapons are knives and batons. He uses a kukri knife. While it isn't what you'd expect an assassin to have, he likes how it can end things with one chop, unlike smaller blades. However, he still uses other blades, and is particularly skilled with a switchblade and throwing knives.
He might also use his batons if he wants to finish his job with making a mess, as disposing of corpses that leave bloody trails can be difficult at times.
Other
Anthony also knows survival skills, stealth, medicine, trap-setting, lock-picking, hacking, and utilizing poisons.
He studied Law shortly, but dropped out when it didn't interest him anymore, hence why he joined the Royal Navy.
Equipment
Mercy and Grace, Twin Modified Desert Eagles .50 Caliber
His two guns, which he calls Mercy and Grace, were customized following his taste. They're silent and faster than any revolver available in the market. The bullets are solid tungsten, and the high caliber doesn't hurt either. It can put a hole in just about anything.
Black Gloves
In combat, the gloves protect his hands due to their special property: they can absorb kinetic energy, allowing him to block even bullets and come out unscathed. The gloves recharge by absorbing energy, and he can release this energy through close-range "shockwave" blasts, which cause internal damage. Anthony can decide the strength of the shockwave.
This high-tech pair of gloves has more than just combat applications, however. They leave no fingerprints and allow for hacking and scrambling software.
Vest
Anthony's vest is also state-of-the-art technology. It's bulletproof, fire-proof, and is incredibly light. Using electric shocks to stimulate nerves, his vest regulates his body temperature, heart rate, as well as a few other bodily functions. This stimulus can activate certain parts of the brain, which can decrease pain, release adrenaline, etc..
Other
Anthony is proficient with many kinds of weapons. Whenever on an assignment, he also takes the following.
- Kukri, switchblade, along with many other hidden knives
- Poisoned throwing spikes.
- Stun gun.
- Batons.
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