William Kennedy

by **Romulus Emanuel Mercury** June 26th 2014, 5:53 pm

William Kennedy
“I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls.”

Basic Biography

Real Name: William Kennedy
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name: Doesn’t have a true one.
Title: William the Bloody, Will, Kenny.
Alignment: CN
Age: Looks 30 (Actually 170)
Gender: Male
Race: Metahuman
Hair: Bleach Blond
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 190lbs
Blood type: A positive

The Looks

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The Legacy

Personality:
William is loyal to a point of no return, that is of course if you are lucky enough to get to earn his respect and trust. In his life time he has been known to have a capacity for extreme acts of selflessness and loyalty to people that he truly loved and cared for displaying strong senses of honor and devotion. However earning this devotion and loyalty aren’t easily come by, being and old coot as he calls himself William usually thinks only about himself and no one else. Having recently taken up work as a sell sword the century old man is in it for himself and only himself. Because of a some past relationships that ended terribly, getting close to people and trusting has become that much harder for the man who does not age.

For one of the man’s most notable personality traits is his lust for violence and his love of brawling. Shortly after his powers developed his love of thrill seeking became that much more involved. He liked to engage himself in life-and-death battles, and became obsessed with fighting other meta-humans as a result as they were the only ones who were able to keep the dance going. He even finds fighting and acts of violence quite therapeutic to the extreme sense that when feeling sad or angry he will purposely go out to look for something to bash in the head not caring what he gets to fight as long as he can fight. However he has never really enjoyed inflicting pain on others; he simply revels in the rush he gets while ignoring the countless victims he’s left behind.

History:
Born in the year 1850 to a Lower end Upper Class English family William Kennedy lived what could be determined as a normal life during those times. By the year 1880 he was a thirty year old man still living with his mother trying to make ends meet with his acting career, writing plays, poetry and songs. Most of these written works had to do with love and honor which surprisingly weren’t looked upon favorably by his peers. In fact he was ridiculed and looked down on, thought to be a fool by those he tried so desperately to become. Once such example, and the most important as well, was in December of that year at a party of sorts. After professing his love to one of the lady’s there, whose name he claims not to even remember now, she shot him down and he of course was laughed out of the party.

Running out of the party ashamed and devastated he found himself in an alley crying his eyes out ready to take his own life. He would have to if the man who started the laughing and name calling at the party hadn’t followed him to the alley and beaten him to a bloody pulp. There he laid dying and ready to pass on to the next life ending his suffering and pain in this one, but it seemed the world was not quite ready to let go of William Kennedy. Some greater power brought him back to life two days later, rising from the river in which his body was tossed in William Kennedy was back. But, he had been brought back different, no longer was he the winey love struck mama’s boy. Now he was a thrill seeking badass who was more or less still love’s bitch.

For years he tore across Europe and Asia leaving destruction, chaos, and death wherever he went. He became a thing of legend in the supernatural and metahuman world known for killing more than thirty ‘super-humans’ and other powered individuals. And for about twenty of those years he even fell in love. Annabel was her name and yet even then he didn’t settle down. Instead together they moved through the world doing whatever it is they pleased, rumor has it they might have accidently caused Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg which started the Russian Revolution, until she left him. Devastated William killed her and her lover’s entire family before taking flight and moving from place to place all across the world. No true destination in mind and no true goal save for that of the want to fight and ‘Dance’ some more.

It wasn’t until the early 1960’s that William the Bloody found his way to America, New York City to be specific. There he once more started a trail of destruction until being stopped by a rising super heroine. Her Super Hero name was Starlight, an African American Heroine with the ability to control light in all of its properties. She bested William in a fight and allowed him to live and to be taken to jail. Awestruck by her William easily broke out of the prison when his wounds had healed and made his new life’s goal to find her, learn everything he could about her, and then sweep her off her feet. Eight years later he did just that, and for the next year and a half they lived life together and she even coaxed William into fighting for the ‘good guys’ and it was working, he hadn’t killed a single person the entire time they were together.

But, like all things it came to an end. A drastic and at that and even to this day he blames himself for her death. She was out on patrol by herself and he was coming to meet her on the subway with take out from some Chinese restaurant that doesn’t exist anymore, only to find her body lying on the ground of the train cart neck snapped and the assailant running away. Unable to contain his rage William Kennedy was once more William the Bloody and he took off after the man and after a bloodthirsty battle disposed of the meta-human killer. Returning to the train he found that her body had already been removed from the scene by men in lab coats and military personnel.

Grief Stricken for the next thirty years William Kennedy lived life with only the thought of finding the people who took Sharon White’s, Starlight, body. Not the brightest man in the world William constantly got distracted or rushed into things head first or even got bored of waiting and watching, usually ending in whatever plan he had laid out ultimately crashing down upon its self. Around the late 1990’s he has finally found the group that stole her body and from the information he found tested upon her and used her for their own purposes. The memories of her death and the fools taking her body for their own sick experiments instead of giving her a proper burial enrages William and he charges head first into Project Perfection’s man lab with thought of burning it to the ground.

Ending terribly as one would guess he was captured, tortured, and studied for twenty years until the fall of Project Perfection during the New York Assault. Now only two years later in 2020 William Kennedy has found himself released blinded by the sun light he hasn’t seen for quite some time and ready to do whatever the hell he wants once more. The only thing is, he isn’t quite sure what he wants to do just yet so until he figures it out he has hired himself off the highest payer as a sell sword, figuring not only would it get him money but also a reason to fight again.

The Powers

Power 1:
Superhuman strength and Speed as well as near Superhuman Durability

Power 2:
William has a healing factor which was 'given' to him the night he gained the rest of his powers all those years ago. He is unable to age and unable to die by any natural causes, so the only way out is if someone else takes him out. He has a somewhat slow healing factor, but it is extremely efficient. Capable of healing even the most fatal wounds, he can even lose a limb and reattach it with this factor. However he does not heal automatically and while he is actively using his muscles to fight or run away he will not heal.

Power 3:
Inhuman reaction time and superior fighting skills.

10 – Epic – This is it. The pinnacle of martial perfection. You might as well be psychic, that’s how easy you can read most people’s fighting style; you can react to their moves almost before they’ve even made them. Your fighting abilities have grown to the point where there’s no longer really such a thing as ‘styles’. You’re beyond that now.
Only those in the highest levels of superhuman skill could even hope to keep up with you in battle.

Power 4:
Heightened Sense of Smell, able to pick of the trail of someone who has not even been in the area for a day.

Grid
Occult: 3
Strength: 6
Speed: 6
Durability: 4
Ability: 3/1
Fighting Skills: 10
Exp transfer from PS, 76-15-20-25=15 allowing for plus 2 in Fs and 1 in Occult.

by **Dissonance** June 27th 2014, 10:20 am

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