[b]Name:[/b] Gerhardt, Master of the Hunt [b]Age:[/b] 44? [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Appearance:[/b] A Caucasian man with a slight white beard. He wears round spectacles. [hider=My Hider] [img]https://psmedia.playstation.com/is/image/psmedia/bloodborne-two-column-02-ps4-us-04jun14?$MediaCarousel_Original$[/img] [/hider] [b]Canon, AU, or OC?:[/b] Canon [b] Universe of Origin:[/b] Bloodborne [b]Personality:[/b] Gerhardt is, above all other things, a cautious man. He is careful in all things, and paranoid, seeing beasts lurking in every shadow ready to strike. Unlike most paranoids, however, he will stoically venture into that darkness to see whether something is actually there or not and kill it if there is. Not much fazes Gerhardt anymore, not after everything he's seen, but when something is horrible enough to get to him he tends to react emotionally. He enjoys helping people, even in situations he thinks are hopeless. Especially in situations he thinks are hopeless. To his deep shame he is completely enamored with the rush of combat, the stench of blood, and the thrill of the hunt, and has a interest in studying and tinkering with all sorts of weapons. Has a tendency to end his statements with creepy laughter, even if nothing he said was funny even to him. [b] Abilities/Weapons: [/b] [i]Results of Blood Ministration[/i]: Gerhardt is significantly stronger and more durable than a normal human being, being perfectly capable slaying beasts the size of bears with nothing but sustained blows with his bare hands and surviving and fighting with wounds that should be fatal. These wounds can be quickly healed with blood, either through injection it into his veins or being splattered with it. In addition he can tap into a beastly strength inherent in the blood, distorting his hand for a few moments and granting him enough strength to puncture flesh and bone like tissue paper in what is known as a Visceral Attack. He can also transform his own blood into emergency bullets. It's also left him with a distinctive, pungent scent. [i]Weaponry Genius[/i]: After finding himself in the nightmare of Yharnam Gerhardt discovered that, when it came to melee weapons and firearms, he was a bit of a natural. Even the quirks of the complex trick weapons used by hunters were figured out in a short time. He even picked up how to maintain and enhance them incredibly quickly. He has the potential to pick up any weapon and, given enough time to understand it, use it as though he had been all his life. Perhaps it is the echos carried in the blood of those that came before him that is responsible for this talent? The weapon he had with him when he followed the sound of a bell into the multiverse were the simple [url=http://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Saw+Cleaver]Saw Cleaver[/url] and [url=http://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Hunter+Pistol]Hunters Pistol[/url]. [i]Art of Quickening[/i]: An effect granted by the [url=http://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Old+Hunter+Bone]Old Hunters Bone[/url] he carries with him, using the Art of Quickening greatly increases Gerhardt's speed, to the point where he appears to be teleporting. However he can only move like this in short bursts. [i]Doctor[/i]: Admittedly, he has no great knowledge of modern medicine. But he can stop bleeding and sew someone up in a pinch. [i]Insight[/i]: Gerhardt, because of the eyes lining his mind, can see the truth hidden behind illusions. They do not work on him. [b]Backstory[/b]: [hider=My Hider] A professional doctor that fell sick with a disease even he could not cure, he sought a panacea from the forsaken city of Yharnam. It was in this nightmarish place that he was transformed from a man into a hunter, where he saw things that deadened his senses and opened his mind to eldritch truth, and where he did things that stained him forever in blood. He doesn't really understand why he refused the [url=http://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Gehrman%2C+The+First+Hunter]First Hunter's[/url] offer to free him from the nightmare. Fear, perhaps? Mistrust? Shame for the blood on his hands? Or was it some deep desire to continue the hunt? Whatever his reasons Gerhardt's refusal brought him into conflict with the First Hunter. They fought on that flower covered hill beneath the tree, and when only Gerhardt was left standing the presence hidden in the moon came down to meet him. When the presence departed he had taken the First Hunters place within the dream. He does not know for how long he was left in this state or how many other hunters came and went. But then, a sound cut through the fog in his mind. A familiar sound, one he hadn't heard in ages. [url=http://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Beckoning+Bell]The beckoning sound of a bell[/url], tolling across worlds. With nary a moments thought the hunter stood up from his chair and followed it. [/hider] Faction: I'm thinking factionless at the moment, but that's liable to change.