Blackjack
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Blackjack
Abilities, Powers, Weaknesses, and Equipment
Abilities
Blackjack is very proficient in boxing and karate, the former more so. He's an expert marksman and assassin, and once shot the gold tooth off a smiling man from a rooftop 3 blocks away. (It was a bet and he was drunk.)
Powers
Superdurable skin is arguably his greatest asset. It will block most bullet-wounds and knife-stabs, as his skin is now tougher than a bolt of 4 inch thick cowhide leather. However, this also has the disability of making him unable to recognize minor pain, and his wounds can accumulate without him realizing it. Another thing to note is that his skin, while incredibly tough, is not invincible. It will not hold up against lasers or other non-conventional weaponry. If it's made with regular steel, it'll probably bounce off. Questionite or lasers? Not so much.
Weaknesses
As skilled of a fighter as Blackjack may be, he does have many weaknesses. The first and foremost would be his weak mind. Described by telepaths as somewhere between insanity and sanity, he's sometimes rational and strategic, but can verge onto unpredictability and insanity on the stop of a dime. He also has periods where he argues with his imaginary friend turned tulpa, Black, sometimes even in the heat of battle. To him, Black is a separate person that only he can see, but to others, it just comes off as him yelling at himself.
Equipment
Due to his skin acting as armor in its own right, Blackjack tends to dress light. He's armed to the teeth with grenades, guns, pistols, and seems to have a small mastery over hammerspace, though it may just be him pulling an AK-47 out of his trousers. His preferred style mostly involves guns and the occasional throwing knife, but will avoid melee if possible due to claustrophobia.
Personality, Feats, and Affiliations
Personality
Jack is borderline unpredictable. One moment, he could be shaking your hand and inviting you for a drink at Sherrera's Bar. The next, he could be trying to shove a shotglass in your eye because you said something he didn't like. That being said, he does have a heart. He refuses to take hits on people who are completely innocent, are fighting for what he considers a more 'righteous' cause, and children. In fact, threaten a child in front of him and watch him flip out. He does NOT like children in peril, as he had a rough upbringing that he does not wish upon any growing boy or girl. Jack has an unhealthy obsession of three things - gambling, which he takes his motif from, outdated pop songs, which he will sometimes play in the middle of battle to 'feel the awesome', and Danny DeVito, whom he has a restraining order with after 72 creepy fan-letters, some of which claiming that him and the celebrity were separated at birth, or that him and Danny should 'flee the border as Nuns, and start a new life together in Ireland'. Whatever the case may be, one thing is for sure - Jack is always an interesting person to be around.
Feats
Jack has survived quite a lot in his day. Before he even became a mercenary, he had to deal with his alcoholic father who abused him and his mother on a daily basis. He solved that by sending in forged documents to the United Nations to believe that his father was an escaped convict from a Russian Gulag, and he got to spend a happy childhood from 11 onward with his mother. At the age of 21, Jack had just started the mercenary business and proved himself to a crime lord by killing all of his rivals' lieutenants under a 40 minute period and presenting the crime boss with their severed ears. At the age of 25, Jack had been doing contracts at a 100% success rate for larger and larger clients, some of which even came from United States Senators and CEOs of mega-corporations. At the age of 26, he had successfully escaped from being marooned on a desert island, and proceeded to get revenge on the third world dictator who put him there. Inadvertently, the dictator's death caused more civil unrest in the country, but Jack was satisfied and moved on with his life.
