Name: Stanley Humes. [hider=Stan (currently has hair)][img]http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg612/azseth/Garrett-Hedlund_zpsfqvgwwvb.jpg[/img][img]http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg612/azseth/Guy2b_zps6b187bdd.jpg[/img][img]http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg612/azseth/Guy2_zps984d45fa.jpg[/img][/hider] Age: 25. Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel Height: 6'4". Weight: 210 pounds Classification: Eccentric but assumed mundane. Powers: As an eccentric, he can manipulate his body in various ways. Some examples include altering muscle mass, or skin density. He is learning his powers, and how to use them, but also making sure it stays hidden from anyone. He can still be enhanced, making him a valuable “mundane” member of the team. Picture: Bio: Born and raised in eastern Missouri, Stanley never really had it easy. He was the second of two sons and from an early age, the parents gravitated to his older brother. While Stan was quiet and withdrawn, his brother was outgoing, charismatic, and into sports. His father was also was of the prior generation where things were different and masculinity was an extremely important aspect of life. His dad also struggled with depression and alcohol, occasionally becoming abusive, mainly towards Stan and occasionally his mother. Being a quiet and reclusive wasn’t a good thing in Missouri, especially since as a white kid, he was a minority. His brother went to a separate school because of their age gap, so there was no help there. Add the lack of confidence and somewhat anti-social tendencies because of the relationships with the parents at home, things just kind of got worse. He took up boxing and then mixed martial arts around that time, working to be able to do it as his parents didn’t know, or care. His brother got a scholarship to a major university and both parents could not have been more proud. It actually was a bit nice because the parents both showed Stan a bit more attention at that point, but that didn’t last very long. In his junior year at high school, he was involved in a fight with three other students and there was some pretty bad damage to all the students. When Stan’s parents were called away, they left the oldest son at home as he was visiting for a holiday. They had no idea that a group of criminals intended to rob the place and had been waiting for them to leave. When they entered, they didn’t know anyone was home and there was a confrontation that led to the son being stabbed to death. While it was hard on the family all around, much of the family—especially the mom and dad, blamed Stan. Of course, just like anything bad that happened, it was his fault. Several days after the death and funeral, Stan left the house, graduating the next year. For about 2 years, he traveled the country working odd jobs and ultimately fighting. He enjoyed it and while he wasn’t a professional, he won enough times and enough money to keep moving place to place. Not long after, he joined the Marines and served 1 tour in Iraq and 1 in Somalia. After being discharge, he joined the police and married a girl he’d met in the service. The two divorced about a year and a half later. As an officer, he was notoriously difficult to work with and didn’t open up to partners much, if at all. He’d also volunteer at the worst areas and work many tactical deployments because of his military training. This led many partners to bail quickly as it seemed he had issues with aggression and had little regard for his health or safety. With mixed reviews, he was eventually recommended to the ASA and accepted. Personality: Stan is tormented. He struggles with degrees of depression (undiagnosed) and is often self loathing. He has a low sense of self and sometimes thinks the only thing he can do to make himself important is to do good things--even at the expense of himself. He’s still quiet and withdrawn and turns to drinking on occasion. Deep down, he’s a good person who wants to do good but battles his past, much of which he hasn’t explored with anyone else. He definitely has issues with his sense of identity and seems unable to move out of the past and become something more than a continuation of his past. [i][u][color=39b54a][b]----------------------------------------------[/b][/color][/u][/i] Name: Kenji (Ken) Grazuyai (Granderson). [hider=Kenji][img]http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg612/azseth/Kigo_zpsa601fff6.jpg[/img][/hider] Age: 275. Hair: Brown. Eyes: Brown. Heights: 6’2”. Weight: 240 pounds Classification: Werehyena. Bio: Originally Kenji Grazuyai, he now goes by Kenneth (Ken) Granderson. Kenji is actually originally from Japan but has not been there in over a hundred years. He was born into a samurai family that ended up traveling to Africa where he was bitten by a hyena but survived. He didn’t know at the time, but that was another werehyena and he was infected at that point. Upon his return to Japan he got sick and started experiencing odd changes, vivid dreams, and seemed to be having animalistic urges. He changed one day and was fortunate enough to harm no one and not be seen. When he told his family about it, they banished him, cursing him for a demon. After that, he stayed in the woods, learning to deal with his powers and cope with his changes. He eventually started to get a solid grasp on his abilities and what it meant to be a skinchanger. This allowed him to move back into society, this time working as a ronin under a new name. After several close calls with people who recognized him, he decided to go to America and start over. It was rough and in his time here, he has seen people live and die, he’s fought in wars, started new lives and witnessed much. In that time, because he was not in a clan and had no ties to other supernaturals, he was extremely lonely. The only times he’d met another changer, the two ended up fighting to the death. This happened about 4 times. He wasn’t sure if it was because they were other breeds, or on their territory, but he hadn’t had a good encounter until the early 1900’s. He met a werewolf at that time who explained that skinchangers were generally hostile towards each other, especially over territory. But as the world got more civilized, so did a great many clans and they tended to be more open to others now. The wolf also mentioned that Kenji was an odd breed of changer, having never seen a hyena changer before. He also mentioned how that breed was odd in that they were matriarchal, led by females which was not common at all. From then on, Kenji went on living, searching for a clan but having no success. Eventually, he joined the ASA after they tracked him down. On top of a noble job, he hoped to be exposed to something in terms of a clan or network of people where he could be more at ease and more of himself. Personality: Kenji is very quiet and guarded but he isn’t uninviting. He is slow to bond but can eventually once he believes he can trust someone. For the first time in his life, he is not hiding or acting and it’s finally starting to sink in and relax him. In combat he’s very violent and aggressive.