[hider=Isaac Reynolds] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/YJSEOR6.png[/img][/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Name[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Isaac Reynolds[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Gender[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Male[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Age[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Twenty-Three[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Place of Birth[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Harlan County, Kentucky[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Sexuality[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Heterosexual[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Relationship Status[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Single[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Occupation[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Swindler[/center] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Power[/color][/h2][/center] [hider=Probability Manipulation] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/phDFrKm.png[/img][/center] Isaac can manipulate any outcome no matter how big or small it may be. Usually it is used to alter the probability of cards and dice in games of chance. However, if pressed enough, Isaac can alter the outcome of a bullet hitting him to even causing misfortune on others. Potentially, Isaac has the ability to control his fate and future. In plain terms, Isaac can cause events to happen or not to happen. [/hider] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Cost of Power Use[/color][/h2][/center] [hider=Hemorrhaging] So, controlling your own fate is not easy. When Isaac uses his power it causes his body to hemorrhage. If it is something as simple as changing the outcome of dice or cards, it hardly affects Isaac. But something dramatic like altering the chance of getting shot at close range or altering the course of a vehicular accident will cause Isaac to bleed from his mouth, nose, and sometimes eyes. The damage done to Isaac depends on how dramatic he changes the probability of an event and the scale of the event itself. Those near Isaac suffer the reverse of his probability manipulation. If the probability of an event increases in favor of Isaac, those around him will suffer a decrease in probability. The inverse is true. Is the probability of an event happening for Isaac decreases, those around him will suffer an increase in the probability of the event happening. You can say he drains the luck from everyone around him. If the probability of an event happening is either 0% or 100%, it is impossible for Isaac to manipulate it. He is not able to bend the laws of reality itself. Everything he does is confined to the laws of physics. [/hider] [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Appearance[/color][/h2][/center] Isaac is a rather tall individual standing at 6'3 with brown hair kept at a mid fade and stubble growing all over his face evenly. His ears comically stick out at the sides and his eyes have a piercing glare many find uncomfortable. In reality, Isaac is not considered a handsome man by most. Doubled with his height, Isaac has a build of a man who has struggled for a living. He is on the lean side from constantly not having enough to eat and his eyes look worn and tired. He has small tattoos of the Roman numeral VII on his left wrist and a horseshoe on his right. His brand is located in the palm of his left hand. Isaac tends to wear clothes that are typically unseen in his area of the woods. He tries his best to dress nice, though his clothes have obviously seen better days. The majority of the time, Isaac prefers to wear various shirts and ties with a light brown leather jacket, dark jeans, and steel-toe western boots that match the jacket. He also wears gloves to hide his brand. And if gloves are not on hand, he wraps his hands with cloth to mimic a hand injury. [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Skills[/color][/h2][/center] Though he is not that intelligent compared to most, he can sneak his way in and out of dangerous situations verbally or physically. Though he cannot fish or hunt as well as his compatriots in Harlan, Isaac knows his way with a handgun. A skill that was earned the hard way. Because Isaac prefers to sneak his way out of dangerous situations, he is not a good fighter. Another useful skill Isaac has is mechanics, something earned with his fascination with vehicles. After all, his front yard is littered with broken vehicles. [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]Personality[/color][/h2][/center] As a conman, Isaac can change his disposition on the fly. However, his true self is very simple. All throughout his life, Isaac had to fend for himself. Thus, his natural state is very crude and rude. He is never courteous and is the exact opposite of nurturing. He only looks out for himself and everyone else is either a tool or a hindrance. It takes a lot to become a friend of Isaac, and the single friend he had was killed in a drug deal gone bad. But you can bet Isaac was as loyal as a dog to this person. Because of the nature of his “job”, Isaac is in the habit of taking risks and is quite ambitious. Despite being self-controlled the majority of the time, sometimes an opportunity is too good to pass up. Isaac is very untrusting of everyone he meets and is a very dishonest man. An interesting fact is that Isaac feels sympathetic to many people, but that does not make him altruistic. Just the opposite, he will feel bad for you while saying “sucks to suck.” Optimism is both a strong point and weak point of his. You can't be in the business of chance without believing in yourself and Lady Luck. [center][h2][color=#2E2EFE]History[/color][/h2][/center] Isaac's misfortune began when he was born, destined to be a warrior of the streets. As a son of a prostitute, the boy lived his early life from the seclusion of his bedroom, and memorizing the numerous faces of the men that come and go from his home. His mother tried her best to keep her son away from the underbelly of the city, but when the entire town is Hell itself, it became impossible to keep pure from the corruption of the darkness in the hearts of man. Isaac spent many nights starving in the cold winter and scavenging for money in the dusty Harlan County streets. It was in the streets that Isaac learned his trade. It started with a pair of dice, upgraded into a pack of cards, soon Isaac had a whole collection of shell games and books detailing fight matches and dog fighting. By the time he turned fifteen, he was known around his block for being a traveling casino. However, street gambling has its dangers. When people did not want to pay their debts, or if they felt cheated (and in many cases they were), they would come looking for Isaac. At sixteen Isaac joined a small time crime syndicate simply called The Six Four. With help from the 6-4, Isaac was able to protect himself and collect debts without much trouble. But he still kept himself armed at all times. His affiliation with the 6-4 came with consequences Isaac could not foresee. Those around him alienated him out of fear or simply did not want to affiliate with a gang member. This compounded a deep feeling of loneliness that grew like untamed weeds in the garden of his heart. The isolation ate away at him until he learned to seal himself away from all others except for his mother (whom he cares deeply for). After he graduated from high school, his mother was killed in a home invasion in which Isaac was the intended target. Isaac was sent in a deep pool of despair, and on a wild Thursday night, he and a few members of the 6-4 went out in the morning twilight searching for heads. And they found their targets. It was known by some as the Bloody Morning or the Thursday War. But Isaac never fired a shot. Instead, he acted as a forward observer calling in locations and high value targets/areas for the 6-4. This proved to be fortunate for Isaac as well as his clean record when law enforcement became involved, Isaac was cleared from any involvement. He was considered an innocent bystander in such a violent mess. He was there at Old Man Johnson's farm when shit hit the fan. With cards on the table and dice on hand, he slowly put together that his headaches were correlating with how badly he wanted the odds to be against his players. Isaac thought nothing of it until his luck turned around dramatically, and his body bled freely. Initially there was no worries from Isaac until Tillie Helton was killed. That was the wake up call he needed. Not even members of the 6-4 could, or would want to, protect him. [/hider]