Create a Hero RPG Application [b]NPC[/b]

Character you have created: Alexander Anderson, Director of STRIKE
Alias: None

Speech Color (Actually say what you're using, don't go "Like this", or what not): N/A

Character Alignment: Walking the Line (for now)

Identity: To the general public, secret. Known to top level politicians

Character Personality (Give information on how your character acts, what he/she believes in, how they handle situations): Alexander is cold and calculating. He is generally distrustful of meta humans and is willing to do anything he has to do in order to keep the population of the US safe from these beings that he sees as nothing more than menaces. As the Director of STRIKE, he has access to nearly unlimited resources, and he is willing to use it all to do what he believes must be done. However, above all he is a patriot, having fought for his country nearly all his adult life. Though his days as a soldier and field agent are over, he continues to fight using the resources at his disposal to make sure that the American way of life continues.
Uniform/costume: Generally, he wears nothing but the best designer suits. However, he does occasionally like to wear a military uniform to remind those around him that he is not above getting his hands dirty.
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Origin Info/Details: Growing up in a small suburb of Chicago, Alexander Anderson always wanted more. It was because of this that the day after he turned 18 he met with an Army recruiter and soon after joined the United States Armed Services. Anderson excelled in every aspect of his service to the United States, serving first as an infantry soldier. During a routine checkpoint stop, Anderson noticed that one of the men inside a vehicle that was stopped was acting strangely. The man began pulling at the shirt he was wearing, trying to get at something that was being concealed. Without thinking, Anderson fired into the vehicle, killing the man and his accomplices. After searching the vehicle, it was found that the man had been trying to reach a detonator to a bomb in the trunk of the car, which would have killed not only those inside the vehicle, but there was enough explosive material to vaporize everyone within a quarter mile radius. Anderson's actions not only saved the men in his immediate vicinity, but dozens others living and working in the surrounding areas. For his actions he received several distinctive honors, not the least of which was the Congressional Medal of Honor. Anderson also gained a certain amount of recognition within the Armed Services, and was eventually recruited for a covert black ops group tasked with taking out high risk targets.
On one such mission in the jungles of South America, Anderson came face to face with a meta human for the first time.
While working to assassinate a former drug lord who had elevated himself to leader of a militia that had overthrown the legitimate government of a small South American country, Anderson's unit was attacked by a man who had the ability to control electricity. Using his gifts, the man single handedly eliminated Anderson's entire unit, except for Anderson himself, and his best friend Marcus Ryder. With Ryder help, Anderson was able to eliminate the meta, as well as the would be dictator.
After returning to the States, Anderson and Ryder were debriefed on the events on South America, and then were offered new roles in the US Military, working for a new organization that had been put together to deal with just the kind of "hostiles" that they had dealt with in the South American jungle, as well as a variety of other phenomena that the US Government was not willing to admit even existed. 
Anderson accepted the position along with Ryder, and together they worked for nearly 20 years to keep the existence of Meta humans and other unexplained occurrences, as well as the agency itself, known only to a few as STRIKE, a complete secret. Eventually, Anderson worked his way up the ladder of the organization, at first as a field agent and then an administrator, until attaining the office of Director. With his vast resources, Anderson has continued fighting a war that began for him over 20 years ago in a remote jungle in South America, and has spread all over the world. A war he knows that we as a species cannot afford to lose.

Hero Type (Select one):
Normal (Non-powered characters)

Power Level (Select one below): While he has no super powers, he does control one of the largest agencies in the Government, so I'd say World Level.

Powers (Be Specific): None

Attributes (Select one at each category):

Strength Level: Normal Human

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human

Agility: Normal Human

Intelligence: Genius
 
Fighting Skill: Mastered

Resources: Extreme

Weaknesses : He is a normal human

Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):
Marcus Ryder: Best friend and former partner. Ryder is Anderson's right hand man, and still often works in the field to make sure that the nature of STRIKE's business remains a secret.
Elizabeth Powers: Anderson's personal assistant
Other agents, metas, politicians, and underlings which will be described when used.

List a few reasons why you've created that character: Since the first season, STRIKE has been a major influence in our universe, yet the organization remains a mystery. I'd like to use this character to bring some of the inner workings of STRIKE to light, and possibly make it into the force that it could be.

What can you bring to the RPG?: an interesting character who can really shake things up.

Do you know how to post pictures on the RPG boards?: Yep

Sample Post (Minimum Four paragraphs containing dialogue):

From behind his desk Alexander Anderson reviewed the events of the last several months, and begins to feel sick. For over twenty years he has worked tirelessly to protect the people of America from the threat posed by the unknown. These so-called "metahumans" that had recently been popping up all over the world were just one of the many instances of the unknown that has surfaced over the years.

The emergence of public "heroes" such as this Icon character has been somewhat problematic, though it was nothing that could not be handled.Since the day Anderson became a STRIKE agent, he has worked tirelessly to investigate the bizarre. Both as an agent, and an administrator, he had seen things that most people on the planet would never even knew existed, and for most of his professional life, he has been one of the few that stood between those things and the American public.

Now, those very things which he had fought so very long to keep secret from the masses has begun to emerge and openly flaunt their seemingly god-like abilities for all to see...

And that is a problem.

Already, he has seen throngs of people welcome these beings with open arms, willing to place their safety, and the safety of their own children in the hands of these few extraordinary "Super Humans." In his experience with the few enhanced humans that he has encountered, that course of action would prove to be a mistake.

A mistake that was going to cost a lot of lives. And that was something that he would not stand for.

With a press of a button, Anderson's computer screen showed a video feed of all the recently recorded metahuman activity all over the world, as well as a superimposed map of the world showing any new reports of meta activity. As he saw the growing number of incidents involving super powered beings, his stomach turned. He knew that with each and every new incident is another defeat for STRIKE. It was this thought which brings about another, and before he can fully explore this new thought, the buzzer on his desk sounded.

"Yes, what is it Ms Powers?"

"Sorry to disturb you Director Anderson, but Mr. Ryder is here to see you."

"Very well, send him in."

With that, there was a buzzing sound and the door to his office slid open and Marcus Ryder, Anderson's best friend and most trusted agent entered the lavish room. Anderson and Ryder have been partners and best friends for over twenty five years. They have fought side by side and survived many situations together that would have claimed the lives of lesser men. Above all else, Ryder is the only man on the face of the earth that Anderson trusts completely.

"Marcus, what have you brought me?"

Ryder reached under his vest producing a folder, tossing it on Anderson's desk.

"See for yourself, Alex. Afraid it's not good news."

Anderson briefly scaned the report inside the folder before putting aside.

"It doesn't matter."

"Sir?" He said, unable to keep the surprise from his voice.

"It doesn't matter, none of it. We've been at this for a long time, Marcus. And the whole time that we've been dealing with these freaks, we've been doing so with kid gloves. But I think that it's time to take those kid gloves off, to stop dealing with these things as if they're your average criminal. It's time to take these 'people' for what they really are...monsters. I've decided that it is time for STRIKE to take a more proactive role in dealing with the superhuman threat."

Anderson smiled as he met Ryder's gaze.

"Marcus, it's time for STRIKE to show these metahumans just what we are capable of."