Pursuer

Name: Matt Davis, aka Pursuer

Alignment: Hero

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Physical description: Matt is a good-looking young man with stoic features. He has a wild look to him, with his disheveled hair and dark blue eyes. He has the features of a hunter, lean and agile. His body has a slim stature to it, packed with lean muscle. As a civilian, Matt often sports simple clothing, such as plain shirts and jeans. His clothes are often ripped, as he trains and practices in them. As Pursuer, Matt sports urban camo paint pants and a long sleeve black shirt. A black hood covers his head, and a mask covers his mouth. In addition to these, he has a few compartments on his abdomen to store necessities.

Playby: Logan Lerman

Personality: Matt is a passionate and determined young man, ready to pave the way for his own future. He is a bright person, and often questions the world around him to understand it better. Matt is very single-minded when it comes to most things, and he is hard to turn once he is set on a path. He hates violence and death, to the point of risking his life to prevent such things from happening. Matt has an innate contempt for authority, and he is fiercely independent and self-sufficient. A less favorable trait of his is that he is unsure of himself, often doubting his abilities. Matt wonders how someone like him can survive in a world of metahuman heroes and villains.

Matt also has a contempt for the law's apparent inability to apprehend criminals and bring them to justice, so he takes matters into his own hands. Stemming from this is his dislike of being told what to do, as he wants to do things his way. Bending to the will of others does not come naturally to him, AT ALL. Matt also hates it when innocents are intimidated and exploited by those that would do them harm, as he views this as a direct offense against himself and the values he represents. He especially hates organized crime and cartels, as their brutality and ruthlessness has a profound negative impact on whomever gets embroiled in their affairs. He often takes the law into his own hands when he deals with such dangerous people. This tendency to do so comes from his past, as he himself had the misfortune to fall into these traps set by wily criminals to take advantage of people. Matt looks upon his now-deceased mother as his role model, as she was noble and courageous in her willingness to protect and nurture him. He wishes to do things that would make her proud of him if she was alive.

Powers/Skills/Abilities:


Peak athleticism: Through rigorous training and perseverance, Matt has attained a very impressive level of conditioning for someone his age and size. This applies to peak levels of strength, stamina, agility, reflexes, durability, and speed. He is highly agile and light on his feet.

Unarmed combat (advanced): Matt is very competent and highly skilled in unarmed combat, having studied such techniques for several years.

Tracking Expertise: Matt has honed his tracking abilities over the years to better pursue his opponents. He is now a master in this art, using many different techniques to prevail.

Survival Techniques: Matt is highly skilled in the use of survival techniques.

Parkour (advanced): Matt is an avid practitioner of parkour and freerunning, and is a master in these fields.

Stealth: Matt has displayed expertise in stealth tactics, able to pass by armed guards and the like without being detected. This gives him a natural aptitude for guerrilla tactics.

Weapon Expertise: Matt has shown highly impressive capabilities in regard to fighting with his weapons of choice, his dual katanas. He is able to perform expert maneuvers and skills with his weapons. He is also an adept marksman with projectiles.

Intelligence: Despite his background, Matt is intellectual and can provide valuable insight into different situations. He often formulates creative and unconventional ways to get the job done.


Paraphernalia:
-Dual katanas
-Military camouflage (urban camo paints on his gear)
-Hood to cover his head, mask covers mouth
-Body armor under his other gear (the armor is lightweight, allowing flexibility and movement. Its lightness, however, also makes it less durable than some other armors. It can take high-caliber bullets, but too many bullets will still injure or potentially kill Matt.)
-Improvised grapple gun, assembled from individual parts

Weaknesses:

Mortality: Matt is a human, and can be killed by conventional weaponry and physical trauma.

Overconfidence: Matt can get overconfident and leap into situations without fully realizing what he is up against.

Mentally unstable: Matt can have vivid hallucinations in his sleep, or when fighting. This is due to his traumatic childhood, which left him with emotional scars.

History: Matt's parents were intelligence operatives for the government, and had earned their places among the best surveillance spies in the world. When they had Matt, there was lots of rejoicing between the two lovers. However, two years after Matt's birth, his mother Olivia killed a global terrorist. The terrorist cell came after Matt's family, hard. The family was placed in a witness protection program to keep them safe. However, this did not last long. The terrorist cell rediscovered Matt's family when he was six, and sent an assassin to kill Olivia. The assassin burned down the house, instantly killing Matt's dad. Olivia and Matt escaped to nearby Gotham to hide, and settled down in the Burnley District.

Olivia used her skills to work as a private military contractor for high payers, in order to provide for her son. When Matt was seven, he was brutally beaten by a group of teenage thugs. He wanted to learn to defend himself afterwards. He went to Porter, a mob enforcer for the Royal Family. Porter had worked with Olivia before, and was skilled in combat and strategy. Matt learned combat techniques and tracking from Porter. Porter saw potential in the serious yet devoted young man. He continued training Matt until the age of eleven. By this time, Matt was already skilled enough to hold his own against tougher and more experienced opponents. However, at age eleven, Olivia forbade Matt from taking any more lessons from Porter. She said that he wasn't cut out for being tough, and enrolled him in normal school.

Matt was bullied at school, and constantly suffered hallucinations due to his past traumas. This alienated him from the other kids even further. They thought he was a freak and an outcast. Soon, Olivia fell sick and was unable to do her job anymore. She and Matt were forced to live on the streets, homeless and poor. Matt requested Porter to help him find a way to make money on the side. Porter suggested he take up work as a delivery boy for the Royals, a powerful gang. He shipped weapons and drugs for the mob, using his skills to help out the mob. Matt eventually rose up to the role of torture. He used interrogation techniques to extract information from the enemies of the Royal Family. However, after one traumatic interrogation session, Matt left Marie's group of henchmen.

One man of the Royal Family, named Derrick Polaski, decided that Matt was a loose end that needed to be cut. He sent some Royal thugs to kidnap Matt's mom to lure him out of hiding. Once Olivia was kidnapped, Matt went after Polaski, determined to get his mother back. He enlisted Porter's help, and the two confronted Polaski in his office. In desperation, Polaski shot Olivia in the head. Enraged, Matt stabbed Polaski to death. Deeply troubled by his actions, Matt swore never to take another life. He traveled to the Far East using Porter's money (yes, he was allowed) to return to a state of peace. Matt went to an ancient monastery in Japan, and learned more combat arts, but more importantly to clear his head.

He returned to Gotham at age fifteen to put his skills to use. He became the Pursuer, a vigilante out to make a name for himself in Gotham. Porter became his legal guardian, and sought an honest job as a military operative for the CIA. Matt continued to gain training from him, and became a vigilante and high school student.

Roleplay sample: Check Batman app.

Alias: James Jacobs

Age: 15

Roleplaying Experience: 2 years

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