Post by Deimos Masque on May 6, 2012 23:35:06 GMT -5
Character Name: Dark Claw
Nick Names: The Clawed Crusader, The Lethal Knight, World's Greatest Detective, The Wolverine
Real Name: James Bruce Wayne
Backstory:
In 1888 at the age of 5, James Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents at the hands of an armed robber. Young James was sent to live with his uncle Thomas Logan in Alberta, Canada. His uncle was a member of the Mounted Police, and was ambushed and murdered by poachers a short time after his arrival in Canada. After the death of his uncle he was sent to live in a home run by nuns and as soon as he was old enough, he joined the Mounted Police himself. He served for twenty years before realizing his lack of aging was going to cause questions. He disappeared until 1935, spending time in Japan, Arabia, Russia and South America learning fighting and detective skills.
After reemerging he tried to return to his old home in Gotham City. James Wayne had returned, and with his grand nephew Thomas Wayne formed the basis of Wayne Enterprises. Logan claimed to be the child of Jame Wayne after he was raised in Canada.
Thomas and Logan did much good for the people of Gotham. But what was even more interesting was a vigilante appeared in Gotham called the Dark Claw. He had gloves that gave him metal claws and fought crime violently and with a ruthlessness that dropped Gotham's crime rate significantly.
When WW2 came, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force under the name Bruce Logan and joined Creed T. Quinn in several mission in WW2. He even served with the Super-Soldier. Slowly the memory of the Dark Claw in Gotham faded as nothing more than an Urban Legend.
Both Logan and Creed were submitted to the Weapon X project, the Canadian Super-Soldier program. It was here that Logan had adamantium bonded to his bones and he learned of his meta-mutant nature. Throughout the course of the project, the other subject, Quinn, became increasingly insane and would later become Dark Claw's most dangerous enemy, the Hyena.
The Weapon X project was discontinued after Logan and Quinn when through it. The results were considered a failure and the files were deleted and the existence of the program was utterly expunged with the exception of a few fragments of notes by a professor Carter Nichols.
However that did not mean that Logan and Creed couldn't be put to use. After several years of black ops he quit and went underground. Reappearing in Gotham City in 1984 as the enigmatic bilionare technocrat, artist and playboy: Logan. He used the fortune of his parents, mixed with nearly a century worth of pay from the military and police forces to put together L Inc. The second it showed up on the scene in Gotham City it made a killing in the art, technological and philanthropist worlds. Soon “Logan” was a household name in Gotham City, not knowing that he was born in Gotham to the Wayne family (his grand nephew Bruce Wayne, suffering a similar fate to James, had chosen a different fate.)
However a year later something new came after Logan. The enigmatic vigilante Dark Claw returned. The Clawed Crusader has been the fear of the criminals of Gotham ever since.
Personality:
In reality, James Wayne is a roughneck, he barely even remembers the life of luxury in which he was born. He remembers the most his days with his Uncle Thomas Logan, hunting, fishing, trapping. His life in the mounties and the Airforce, afterwards. His experiences in Weapon X and Team X haunt him nightly, knowing that he committed crimes as horrible if not worse than those he punishes now. However few people outside of Sparrow have ever seen this more laid back, mountain man side of himself.
As the enigmatic Logan, you would never know he was raised primarily in the mountains of Canada. He acts a bit like a fop and a playboy, but even behind that the genius of his intellect shines through. He is a flirt, a social butterfly and the type of dilettante that most people think only exist in movies. There is no party in Gotham City that doesn't have 'Logan' on the guest list, no society page that is complete without a reference to him.
The Dark Claw however is fear personified. His whole look and persona is designed to bring fear to the criminal element he seeks to destroy. His only focus is the mission, his only goal is ending the plight of villain on the city of his birth, the city that took his parents from him. The Dark Claw persona is designed to make sure that no criminal goes unpunished and that no innocent person suffers again. Even his allies suffer under this persona as he is always pushing his own agenda, trusting no one except those he's trained himself.
Powers, Skills and Abilities:
As a meta-mutant Dark Claw has several super-human abilities:
Dark Claw's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process that enables him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. Logan's accelerated healing powers have been commonly referred to as his mutant healing factor. The full extent and speed of Dark Claw's healing factor isn't known.
Dark Claw possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals. He can see at far greater distances, with perfect clarity, than an ordinary human. He retains this same level of clarity even in near total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to detect sounds ordinary humans can't or to hear at much greater distances. He is able to recognize people and objects by scent, even if they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent, even if the scent has been greatly eroded by time and weather factors, with an extraordinary degree of success. Dark Claw can also use his keen sense of smell to detect lies due to chemical changes within a person's scent. These senses stem from, at least partially, his constant cellular regeneration, as are his enhanced physical capabilities.
Thanks to the Weapon X he was granted an Adamantium Skeleton and Adamantium Claws. This renders his skeleton indestructible and his claws are capable of cutting through anything.
Throughout the years Dark Claw has trained himself to be the master in many skill to prepare him for his campaign against crime. He's a master of several martial arts as well as acrobatics, firearms and hand-to-hand weapons. As well as strategy and tactics to put those skills to best use.
He is capable utilizing stealth tactics to a level where even those with superhuman senses cannot detect him until he wishes him to. Even if caught Dark Claw is skilled in both methods of escape and trickery to lose his pursuers. On the reverse side, Logan is a skilled tracker using his enhanced senses with conventional tracking skills to make sure its near in possible to escape him.
He is well learned in many sciences including Biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry and more. In addiction he knows history, geography, computer science, engineering, technological and more. He is a genius level intellect and is a quick study able to learn complex concepts quickly.
Dark Claw is considered the World's Greatest Detective, capable of observation, forensic investigation, and inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber. Human intuition is an unlearnable trait and one of Dark Claw's most effective tools. Given any mystery, he can arrive at any conclusions with a fraction of the data. In aid of this he also has total recall and can remember anything in great detail.
He is able to speak Spanish, French, Latin, German, Japanese, English, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, and most likely more.
Has been seen flying the various versions of the Claw-Copters with ease. Thanks to Mister X, Dark Claw has full knowledge of how to pilot a Martian Carrier Spaceship. He is also proficient at combat driving. Has learned improved vehicle designs. Was trained and proficient in basic vehicles operations.
Has mastered the art of disguise by the time he was 23. Has further learned Expanded Disguise techniques by the time he was 26. Dark Claw has many aliases he uses to infiltrate the underworld or just to go undercover in public situations. His current aliases are: Matches Malone, Thomas Quigley, , Detective Hawke, Sir Hemingford Grey, Frank Dixon, Gordon Selkirk, and Mr. Fledermaus.
Nick Names: The Clawed Crusader, The Lethal Knight, World's Greatest Detective, The Wolverine
Real Name: James Bruce Wayne
Backstory:
In 1888 at the age of 5, James Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents at the hands of an armed robber. Young James was sent to live with his uncle Thomas Logan in Alberta, Canada. His uncle was a member of the Mounted Police, and was ambushed and murdered by poachers a short time after his arrival in Canada. After the death of his uncle he was sent to live in a home run by nuns and as soon as he was old enough, he joined the Mounted Police himself. He served for twenty years before realizing his lack of aging was going to cause questions. He disappeared until 1935, spending time in Japan, Arabia, Russia and South America learning fighting and detective skills.
After reemerging he tried to return to his old home in Gotham City. James Wayne had returned, and with his grand nephew Thomas Wayne formed the basis of Wayne Enterprises. Logan claimed to be the child of Jame Wayne after he was raised in Canada.
Thomas and Logan did much good for the people of Gotham. But what was even more interesting was a vigilante appeared in Gotham called the Dark Claw. He had gloves that gave him metal claws and fought crime violently and with a ruthlessness that dropped Gotham's crime rate significantly.
When WW2 came, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force under the name Bruce Logan and joined Creed T. Quinn in several mission in WW2. He even served with the Super-Soldier. Slowly the memory of the Dark Claw in Gotham faded as nothing more than an Urban Legend.
Both Logan and Creed were submitted to the Weapon X project, the Canadian Super-Soldier program. It was here that Logan had adamantium bonded to his bones and he learned of his meta-mutant nature. Throughout the course of the project, the other subject, Quinn, became increasingly insane and would later become Dark Claw's most dangerous enemy, the Hyena.
The Weapon X project was discontinued after Logan and Quinn when through it. The results were considered a failure and the files were deleted and the existence of the program was utterly expunged with the exception of a few fragments of notes by a professor Carter Nichols.
However that did not mean that Logan and Creed couldn't be put to use. After several years of black ops he quit and went underground. Reappearing in Gotham City in 1984 as the enigmatic bilionare technocrat, artist and playboy: Logan. He used the fortune of his parents, mixed with nearly a century worth of pay from the military and police forces to put together L Inc. The second it showed up on the scene in Gotham City it made a killing in the art, technological and philanthropist worlds. Soon “Logan” was a household name in Gotham City, not knowing that he was born in Gotham to the Wayne family (his grand nephew Bruce Wayne, suffering a similar fate to James, had chosen a different fate.)
However a year later something new came after Logan. The enigmatic vigilante Dark Claw returned. The Clawed Crusader has been the fear of the criminals of Gotham ever since.
Personality:
In reality, James Wayne is a roughneck, he barely even remembers the life of luxury in which he was born. He remembers the most his days with his Uncle Thomas Logan, hunting, fishing, trapping. His life in the mounties and the Airforce, afterwards. His experiences in Weapon X and Team X haunt him nightly, knowing that he committed crimes as horrible if not worse than those he punishes now. However few people outside of Sparrow have ever seen this more laid back, mountain man side of himself.
As the enigmatic Logan, you would never know he was raised primarily in the mountains of Canada. He acts a bit like a fop and a playboy, but even behind that the genius of his intellect shines through. He is a flirt, a social butterfly and the type of dilettante that most people think only exist in movies. There is no party in Gotham City that doesn't have 'Logan' on the guest list, no society page that is complete without a reference to him.
The Dark Claw however is fear personified. His whole look and persona is designed to bring fear to the criminal element he seeks to destroy. His only focus is the mission, his only goal is ending the plight of villain on the city of his birth, the city that took his parents from him. The Dark Claw persona is designed to make sure that no criminal goes unpunished and that no innocent person suffers again. Even his allies suffer under this persona as he is always pushing his own agenda, trusting no one except those he's trained himself.
Powers, Skills and Abilities:
As a meta-mutant Dark Claw has several super-human abilities:
Dark Claw's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process that enables him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. Logan's accelerated healing powers have been commonly referred to as his mutant healing factor. The full extent and speed of Dark Claw's healing factor isn't known.
Dark Claw possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals. He can see at far greater distances, with perfect clarity, than an ordinary human. He retains this same level of clarity even in near total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to detect sounds ordinary humans can't or to hear at much greater distances. He is able to recognize people and objects by scent, even if they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent, even if the scent has been greatly eroded by time and weather factors, with an extraordinary degree of success. Dark Claw can also use his keen sense of smell to detect lies due to chemical changes within a person's scent. These senses stem from, at least partially, his constant cellular regeneration, as are his enhanced physical capabilities.
Thanks to the Weapon X he was granted an Adamantium Skeleton and Adamantium Claws. This renders his skeleton indestructible and his claws are capable of cutting through anything.
Throughout the years Dark Claw has trained himself to be the master in many skill to prepare him for his campaign against crime. He's a master of several martial arts as well as acrobatics, firearms and hand-to-hand weapons. As well as strategy and tactics to put those skills to best use.
He is capable utilizing stealth tactics to a level where even those with superhuman senses cannot detect him until he wishes him to. Even if caught Dark Claw is skilled in both methods of escape and trickery to lose his pursuers. On the reverse side, Logan is a skilled tracker using his enhanced senses with conventional tracking skills to make sure its near in possible to escape him.
He is well learned in many sciences including Biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry and more. In addiction he knows history, geography, computer science, engineering, technological and more. He is a genius level intellect and is a quick study able to learn complex concepts quickly.
Dark Claw is considered the World's Greatest Detective, capable of observation, forensic investigation, and inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber. Human intuition is an unlearnable trait and one of Dark Claw's most effective tools. Given any mystery, he can arrive at any conclusions with a fraction of the data. In aid of this he also has total recall and can remember anything in great detail.
He is able to speak Spanish, French, Latin, German, Japanese, English, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, and most likely more.
Has been seen flying the various versions of the Claw-Copters with ease. Thanks to Mister X, Dark Claw has full knowledge of how to pilot a Martian Carrier Spaceship. He is also proficient at combat driving. Has learned improved vehicle designs. Was trained and proficient in basic vehicles operations.
Has mastered the art of disguise by the time he was 23. Has further learned Expanded Disguise techniques by the time he was 26. Dark Claw has many aliases he uses to infiltrate the underworld or just to go undercover in public situations. His current aliases are: Matches Malone, Thomas Quigley, , Detective Hawke, Sir Hemingford Grey, Frank Dixon, Gordon Selkirk, and Mr. Fledermaus.