Ettore DiRoma

[Ettore DiRoma]

Tell Us About Yourself

Name: Ettore DiRoma (More of an Assumed name than actual name)
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Race: Human

What Do You Look Like?

Picture/Description:


Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color Light Brown
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 155 lb
Notable Feature:
Right arm is bandaged tightly. Though the wound has long healed, Ettore sees it as a kind of shame so tries to hide it. Although once in awhile, it reopens for no apparent reason.

You Can Do That?!

Weakness(es):
Hypersensitive Wound: An old would covered in a bandage. It's extremely sensitive and usually in high stress and conditions, it tends to open up. While it can be used as a tell for certain levels of danger, it's a pain to re-bandage and generally is painful. It also tends to make that arm much weaker.
Vices: Tobacco is a vice of Ettore, and generally effects his personality. When he hasn't had enough for a while he tends to get on edge and cranky. He also tends to fancy alcohol, preferably in great amounts.
Distraction: Working in a profession dominated by men due to dogma tends to... make him a bit distracted by the opposite sex. While not a huge disadvantage, it still can add to awkward and dangerous moments.
Closed Vocabulary: Though he tends to keep more of an open mind than others like him, his vocabulary tends to be the same. So he tends to call people by the absolute truth of what he believes in, such as calling much of the residents of the city "Demons" or "Tainted" subconsciously. This can tend to get him into a mess most of the time.
Zealous: His faith makes him fear less then most people. However, when he gets too zealous, it often effects his judgment and can truly cause problems more than fix them.

Personal Strength(s):
Experienced In Warefare: Before devoting himself to the church he had experience in special forces, with a proficiency in stealth and infiltration. This allows him to go around mostly unnoticed and disappear into the backdrop of his environment when he needs to, and to be a seasoned fighter.
Eagle Eyed:

[/b] Naturally sharp eyed and trained in spotting and long distance attacks. Not only does Ettore use this ability to scout out places, but also uses it to shoot a light collapsible crossbow he carries around with deadly accuracy.
Free Runner: Well practiced at the art of free running and at his physical peak, moving about urban landscapes quickly and efficiently. When used alongside his experience in infiltration it allows him to be quite fast and yet still hidden.

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Personality:
Tends to keep a smile and a happy demeanor, even when discussing a topic that tends to conflict with his smile. This keeps him extremely enigmatic and hard to read his true emotions.
When talking to someone he tends to be quite aloof and upbeat and barely shows disrespect or insults unless he truly means it.

He never lies. Although this merely means as long as he believes it's true then he tells it as he believes.

Likes/Dislikes
Likes
God
Tobacco
Alcohol
Females
Being Lazy

Dislikes:
The Devil
Heretics
Desecrators
Defilers
Door to Door Salesmen

History:
Ettore's past is one big regret. So large that when he turned to faith, he gave up his old name and took his current one.

He was born son of a prostitute and a politician on the border of a country. A shameful birth, he was treated like a mistake by his mother, who, though she kept him, would hide him in the closet whenever she had to do one of her "Jobs". Through years of this, he learned he was "Trash" and at a young age ran away from her to free himself.

He found himself on the stairs of a religious orphanage and was brought in. Cared for and treated much more kindly he came to be happy and lived there for many years. However, when he finally left, instead of adhering to the beliefs of the people who raised him, he joined an army. It doesn't matter which, but either way, he soon became a killer and went through wars and fighting, being discharged for his uncaring attitude towards allies and foes alike and ending up a soldier of fortune in the end.

Having free reign and not anyone to hold him back, he looted, sacked, and pillaged in his unsaitable thirst and rage. However, it finally all caught up to him and an assassination attempt was done against him. He barely survived and was humbled as he hid in a gutter from his assassin.

It changed his life, being so close to death and he gave up his wandering and decadent lifestyle and returned to the last thing he felt happy at, the church. He dedicated his life to it, and though not ordained, was added to the Ordo Exorcismus, a secret order of the church given free reign to exorcise "Demons".

Because they didn't understand the nature of the events in Verada, the Ordo Exorcismus believed that the events there were demonic, rather than an advanced race of humans, and Ettore was sent to investigate.


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[Raphael Scarpa]

I like this character a lot. Holds great potential and ideas ^^

You've gotta go from me.


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[Zane/Selena Solister]

First, I'm not too sure about his wound. How exactly is it able to sense levels of danger? Do you mean by how much pain it feels? Please be a little bit more specific.

Also, what is the distance on his Eagle Eye ability? IT has to be something reasonable. And does the detail decrease as it moves further away. And isn't it a little difficult for him to shoot a crossbow with only one hand? Or can he only use it with both hands.

And about the whole Closed Vocabulary, I'm not entirely sure how that would be considered a weakness. I know it can get him into trouble, but that might belong into the personality section.

Other than that i guess it looks ok.

[Ettore DiRoma]

Well I tried to make him within realistic standards since he was human, but I'll clarify if you don't know. I didn't want to make someone who couldn't exist in real life.

Human bodies can react to stress and often old wounds can reopen from that feeling. In the past people have been able to train their bodies to "Sense" a feeling of danger. I just put those two together to get what happens to him. As for the pain, it increases the longer it's open, due to the bleeding. May be a pain, but it's still a small way of getting an edge, despite the risk.

For eagle eye, he is a human so obviously it's within standards and naturally it decreases as it goes further. If it didn't decrease and had just a solid point, that would be bad because it would throw off depth perception and make him a bad shot. I'd say around 20/10 vision is what he has, which is possible.

Also his bandaged arm is weaker, not dead.

As for closed vocabulary, I would think having vocabulary which can seem insulting, considering the situation of a bunch of people much stronger than him in terms of powers and physical strength can be a weakness if it can get him attacked. It's like being in a biker bar and calling them names unintentionally.

[Zane/Selena Solister]

Ok on the arm I'm willing to say that's good.

However I still need a certain distance on the Eagle Eye, like in feet or meters or anything. Basically the distance at which he can stop seeing clearly.

And I know the arm is weaker, I'm just wondering because if it is would it interfere at all with how long it would take him to shoot it thats all.

Well I can see your point I suppose. It still seems more like a personality trait thats all.

[Ettore DiRoma]

Well I just can't give a precise estimate of sight, he isn't a machine. As I said, 20/10 vision. It's a realistic sight. Best ever recorded vision was I believe 20/8. Common vision is 20/20. 20/10 means at optimal conditions he can see things 20 feet away that a regular person must go 10 feet to see.

It's not even about how far he can see but more about his accuracy judgment and stuff. I suppose by calling it "Eagle Eye" you kinda mistook it for being mainly something based on distance, but I didn't want to put sharpshooter cause I didn't want it to sound like he was using a gun.

[Zane/Selena Solister]

Ok I see what you mean. That clears that up. And I may have gone over this before but when you say "deadly accuracy", do you mean constant one-shot-one-kill? I'm just making sure because if so that could be a problem. I know this may be annoying but I have to make sure that there's no certain skill that a character could take advantage of. Other than that I'm ready to approve.

[Ettore DiRoma]

Deadly accuracy means theoretically yes, he could shoot someone one hit one kill. But that doesn't factor in human error (As I said before, he's not a machine), the fact that an arrow's flight is much slower than a bullets, the arrow can be affected by the wind, and of course the target, if a living being, could dodge.

Buffalo Bill was deadly accurate, but he didn't always hit his target.

And all that is a moot point anyway because that would be breaking the rules, something I do NOT intend on doing.

Now please, I do not want to make a fuss, but I've been explaining things that... really aren't important things but facts of real life. I feel like I've been targeted... but I know that's not true. So please forgive me.

[Zane/Selena Solister]

Ok that pretty much clears everything up then. Yes I know I had to have everything explained but that's only because I needed to understand the character better to make sure everything is fair. So I'm sorry it took so long. I'm not really targeting you or anything, so sorry for that.

*stamps forehead*

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