Background: As one-half of a rarely-used cliché
goes, any person will be at a definite disadvantage when thrust into an
environment from a time that has not yet occurred. He, she, it, whatever,
will be unaccustomed to the languages spoken, the manners displayed, the
tricks used, and, in this particular case, the weapons employed. As the
second half of this cliché, a man from the future will have a definite
advantage when thrust into an environment of a time already passed. If the
necessary studies are conducted, this person can learn the languages,
manners, tricks, and weaponry; everything down to the thoughts of an
elderly man who was sideswiped by a semi, lived to tell about it, and
indeed told about it. In this manner, would a man, a time traveler from
the past have a disadvantage against one from the future, when placed
inside of the same timeframe? Most likely. Let’s say these men want to
make a business. One will be able to learn the actions, or at least the
very first actions, taken by the one from the past. However, one will have
the advantage of not altering anything too important pertaining to
himself, the other will not. Let’s say these men are assassins, and are
set against each other. Who will have more of an advantage? Perhaps the
one from times that have not yet to be will have a plan formed to strike
down his opponent. But the man from the past has so many targets. He only
needs to eliminate one to wipe the one from the future out completely. The
doctor who pioneered a revolutionary technique, the only one that dealt
with a certain birth defect. The high-school student who slept with the
objective’s great-great-grandmother, whom without the great-grandmother,
the grandmother, and the mother would never be able to come into the
world. Or perhaps just something simple, like eliminating the father while
toddling though a shopping mall, barely at the age of three. This is where
the man from the past has the advantage; he does not have to kill his
target directly to completely wipe him away from the timestream. Of
course, in this case, we stumble upon the paradox, in which there would
never be a need to eliminate the mark in the first place, but, since this
is not the exact matter we’re dealing with, we shall not address it. Now,
let’s say you take an assassin, long dead in the present, and hand him a
device with which he is allowed to traverse Time. If he is foolish, he
will go to the past after obtaining certain bits of knowledge, and run his
business there, very possibly endangering his very existence. If he is
creative, he will go to the future, a place where he cannot possibly be
affected by any lives he takes, and make a living there. And, if he is
especially noteworthy, he will check and double-check with the potential
future, to make sure his target has been appropriately eliminated. But, we
shall digress, if only a little...
Character Personality He calls himself Mr. Awth nowadays. The fact that he is
an assassin should tell you enough about him, but, here, it shant suffice.
A true professional through and through, he wears formal clothing at all
occasions. After all, he will never have a need to bloody his hands with
his work. With a grin that stretches from ear to ear, he pleasures at the
fact that no one will know what has hit them, they won’t know why it was
done, they will never know that it is him, and that, even if they do, they
won’t live long enough to warn others. We do not know how he obtained the
ability to journey in time. Some man from decades ago was merely never
heard from again. He is a perfectionist. He is an assassin. He is, simply
put, The Accident Waiting To Happen.
Powers and Abilities
Explosives
- Power: Concussive
Attack
- Level: Superior
- Kit Power Link: Mentalist
- Advantage: Area Effect This attack causes damage in a large,
circular area.
- Advantage: Seeker Ranged attack hunts target.
- Advantage: Ranged and Melee Attack! Attack is equally
effective at range and up close.
- Advantage: Multi Attack Attack can hit multiple times during
one strike.
This is his weapon of
choice. Whether it be C4, concussive grenades, dynamite, landmines, or
even cherry bombs, he has mastered creating and/or finding the proper
explosives for a job, and placing them in just the right places for the
desired effect. But, he usually makes well and sure that the explosives
never touch his targets, for reasons that shall be explained to you in a
few moments. Guns are too sloppy. Melee weaponry is too personal.
Explosives are the trick of his trade, with the ability to be planted and
detonated without ever seeing his mark die.
Premeditated Planning
Now, we have
an fairly intelligent man, with no worries about temporal repercussions
should he kill the wrong person, the ability to cross time like it was a
sidewalk, and money to earn upon a target’s demise. Would he go back to
the past to kill him off as a child? No, too obvious, and there are very
serious repercussions there. Why go to eliminate a target before he
becomes one? Mr. Awth has found a very simple way around this. Kill them
in the present. But, that’s where the beauty of time travel takes effect.
With explosives, it is very hard to kill a single target in a crowded
area. Once again, our clever assassin has bypassed this matter. Why blow
up a person when you can destroy their setting? Place a few explosives on
certain walls of a cave, and watch as a pre-planned rockslide crushes a
single spelunker. Hide two explosives in the wall of a building, an
apartment or mall let’s say, and watch in delight as a section of the
northern wall falls and crushes the single customer underneath. Trace the
path of a mark walking through the desert, go back a few moments in the
past, and plant some landmines before he ever sets foot. Do you think that
even a silly steel cage will limit Mr. Awth? Not so. Rig a few bars on the
inside, time them just right, and watch as the top falls right on his
target. His first attempts are rarely ever flawless, though. So, he very
simply goes back, replants the explosives after his first self plants
them, and tries again until the only casualties are the ones he intended.
And no one ever suspects.
Demolition Experience
Investigate
the building the objective is occupying. Examine structural integrities,
which floors or ceilings would fall if a certain support were to be
eliminated. A certain manner in which scaffolding would fall. Perhaps a
few flaws in the architecture of the building could be put to use? In any
case, a plan is sharpened to perfection when there are minimal casualties.
There’s always minimal casualties. People say it was an explosion, perhaps
volatile leftover materials or wastes, terrorists or Marauders or maybe a
leaky gas pipe. It always looks like it was not planned, like it didn’t
happen on purpose, like he, or anyone else for that matter, had nothing to
do with it. No one ever learns that it was him very simply because he
plans it well enough so that it looks like an accident, and it looks to be
mere coincidence that someone died...
Undetectable Movement
It takes him mere seconds to
carry out a plan once it’s been devised. Stop the flow of time, plant the
explosives, move away, unfreeze time, and activate the timer from remote.
It is that simple; in and out, with no security cameras, watchdog guards,
or normal civilians ever seeing where he is, what he is doing, or what he
plans to destroy. Only after the smoke clears do they see what damage has
been done, and see which bodies have been crushed under scaffolding, with
him far away, always knowing that he’ll never hurt his own family tree,
and grinning at a job well done.
Immunity: Detective
Do you
honestly think you can learn anything about someone you don’t even
realize, let alone know, is there? Investigating someone that is almost
certifiably non-existent, or at least deceased for several decades, is a
waste of time and energy, at best. He is not of the present nor is he of
the present yet to come, and barely anybody cares about a lowlife assassin
who merely disappeared off the face of the planet some fifty years ago.
One would think that he could be tracked down to the contracts he takes,
but not even that is a viable means of learning who he is. All his
contracts are paid with most of the payments up front, with the contract
stating that, even if the targets are to die ‘before assassination’, that
he keeps what was given. Eventually, someone might make a connection, at
least until they see that one thing in common with a bunch of ‘failed’
contracts on people who were wanted dead more than they were alive...
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