Post by Hannibal King on Jan 31, 2005 18:59:59 GMT -5
Name Hannibal King
Age: 28
Height: 6’3
Species: Human, though he did spend five years as a vampire
Body Alterations: He has a vampire glyph on his stomach, to the right of his beltline, from his time as one of them, which reads Danica Talos' name in vampire script. He also has a small scar under his left eye, though the cause of it is unknown. He also has both ears pierced, in which he wears small, practical studs.
King's vampire glyph
Hair: Brown with lighter points throughout, and very feral; wild and spiked, almost as if he hasn’t bothered to manage it.
Eyes: Brown, and very subtly haunted or melancholy.
Build: Muscular, and athletic. When one sees his arms and abdomen, it is obvious he prides himself on his fitness, and that he works out, a necessity for his line of work.
Clothing, Jewellery, etc: Hannibal King wears quite a bit of black, for stealth, but he doesn’t only wear this colour. He’ll wear blues etc, but black is a sensible colour in his job, and it seems he wears it more now after a tragedy in his life. King wears a varying style of shirts, anything from a muscle-shirt to a long sleeve Tee. He wears a silver chain with a small pendant/charm about his neck, with quite a lot of slack, hanging to his chest. He also wears large belts, with a variety of equally large buckles, such as a silver-appearing cattle skull. When on missions, he wears a vest on his torso, for storing items such as flash grenades, extra ammunition, or silver stakes. Sometimes he will also wear a padded/bullet-proof vest, but this is rare. Hannibal also wears fingerless leather-esque black gloves, and several black plastic ‘bangles’ around his left wrist. If he ever wears a jacket, it is a dark tan leather, waist-length coat. Also, in each ear, he wears a small, stud earring.
Where They're From: Originates from the Tomb of Dracula comic, and spanned over several issues in the line, before ending up in the Blade: Trinity movie as a member of the ‘Nightstalkers’.
Reasons for Joining the League: Hannibal King, the only surviving Nightstalker in his ‘unit’, has no real purpose in his life other than the hunt, and as such, agrees to join the team for a drive. It gives him something to do with himself. Plus, he discreetly uses this opportunity to get revenge for his best friend’s death.
Personality: Hannibal King should, if one is to go by his history, be a pretty bitter guy… but in actuality, he is pretty much your class comedian. He cracks bad jokes at every opportunity, and tries to get the laughs at the weirdest moments, perhaps to cover up how he feels inside; a front. He likes to make fun of vampires, probably since he harbours ill-will towards all of them, but this can get him into trouble. Despite all of this, King can be a killing machine when he wants to be, turning from this joker into a strong fighter at the proverbial flick of a switch. He was very protective of his fellow Nightstalkers, including Abigail Whistler. Since he pretty much has no family to speak of, this was what Abby and the others represented to him, and she was his closest friend. He would joke with them, but they shared a deep bond, and cared for each other very much. Now that they are gone, Hannibal King is somewhat a shell of his former, carefree self, and while the jokes keep on coming, he can be caught in mournful, respective silence for his fallen companions. As a result of all this, he despises vampires fiercely, and will take any excuse to ‘put one down’.
Powers: King has some reflex memory from being a vampire, so he has retained some of his heightened agility and strength, making him a little more than just your average, muscular human. Needless to say, he still has the average pain threshold and healing status of a human, but he seems a little more tolerant of, say, being stabbed. He will bleed and suffer, yes, but he’s learned to grit his teeth and fight through it if he has to. Since he only uses guns for weapons, he has become a very capable shot with any of the pistols or shotguns that he carries.
Abilities: All the expected gunfighter skills, such as rapid reload and hip-shooter/quick-draw. King retained none of his supernatural vampiric gifts, so if he is shot, he will only heal at the human rate. He is, however, a very capable hand-to-hand fighter, and simply watching him in unarmed combat is enough to testify to this fact. He is strong, and fast, and therefore a capable combatant. He almost seems to have a subtle sense about certain things as well… he can almost tell a human from a vampire simply by looking at them, no doubt from experience.
Weaponry: Two electronic pistols on his legs; a beefeater pistol under his left arm at his waist; a large, triple-barrelled modified shotgun called a bonejack. All guns are capable of firing at least two of the three different kinds of ammunition – the shotgun loaded with all at once; one kind in each barrel – namely missiles, silver and sundogs (explosive UV bullets). He also carries flash grenades, and silver stakes in a chest pouch if necessary.
King’s electronic pistol
King’s beefeater six-shooter
King’s bonejack shotgun
History: Hannibal King was a private investigator making a meagre living and waiting for a case that would make his reputation when he was killed by a vampire named Danica Talos, whom he had started ‘seeing’, without knowing what she was. King's corpse lay for three hours and then he rose as a vampire. Horrified at what he had become, the strong-willed King refused to give in to his vampiric curse. Although he now needed to take the blood of others to survive, King never drained blood from any living being. Instead, he would buy supplies of blood and, if necessary, steal supplies of blood or even drain it from corpses he found. King preferred not to use his vampiric powers, since he believed doing so was giving in to the curse.
It was five years before he was found by Abigail Whistler, who saved him from the curse, and with the help of the rest of the Nightstalkers, returned him to his human state, using a powerful cure. After that, he remained with the group, becoming one of the two fighters, along with Abigail. The rest of the team consisted of Caulder, Dex, Hedges and Sommerfield, along with the latter’s daughter in residence, by the name of Zoe. The team worked in the United States, wiping out vampires by any means possible, all doing their part to make their job easier, faster and more efficient at eradicating the race they so despised. Tragedy first struck when Dracula was resurrected by Danica Talos and her team of rebellious half-bloods. Bringing the first vampire back to life, they hoped to wipe and Blade and become perfect, and so set out to destroy the Nightstalkers, who had allied themselves with the Daywalker. On a mission, Blade, Abigail Whistler and King encountered this powerful vampire, and the latter was stabbed before they could stop him; surviving the brief attack, he was ‘hospitalised’ and sat out the rest of the assignment. Dex and Hodges were the first of the Nightstalkers to die, their throats torn out by the vampire overlord; Sommerfield was next, the blind scientist falling prey to Drake – as they had come to call him – before her daughter and King were kidnapped. They were held captive in Danica Talos’ lair of sorts, in the middle of the city, until Blade and Abigail King – with the help of Caulder, another Nightstalker from a different faction – ‘came to the rescue’. Zoe and King were both released, and Drake was killed by Blade in a final confrontation.
With his one-time sire destroyed by an airborne virus built to target vampires when mixed with Dracula’s blood, King felt a kind of release. He and Abigail went back to what they did best; hunting. But all was not as it seemed; there were complications. One night when on a ‘routine hunt’, the two were ambushed by what seemed to be vampires… and Abigail Whistler was killed. Though he tried to track down the beasts that killed his one real friend left in the world, he failed, and is now in accommodation with the orphaned Zoe, and Caulder, who engineers new weapons and ammunition for Hannibal to try… but he still tries to find peace and vengeance, the only way he knows how.
More hunting, and more killing…<br>