[hider=Arcturus Hale] [hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]Arcturus Hale[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/JEoLjFd.gif[/img][/center] [hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=b93c3c]Name:[/color][/b] Arcturus Alexander Hale [b][color=b93c3c]Aliases:[/color][/b] Archie / Arc [b][color=b93c3c]Species:[/color][/b] Mutate [b][color=b93c3c]Powers:[/color][/b] Telepathy – able to hear surface thoughts and transmit his own over a moderate distance (same room/floor of a building). [b][color=b93c3c]Age:[/color][/b] Twenty-Two [b][color=b93c3c]Nationality:[/color][/b] Swiss [b][color=b93c3c]Birthday:[/color][/b] September 21st, 1997 [b][color=b93c3c]Birth Place:[/color][/b] Zürich, Switzerland [b][color=b93c3c]Gender:[/color][/b] Male [b][color=b93c3c]S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy:[/color][/b] Communications [b][color=b93c3c]Qualification:[/color][/b] Graduate from Oxford (Modern Languages and Linguistics), 3+ Years Experience in Cybersecurity [hr][center][img]Another Character Image[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]Appearance[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=b93c3c]Height:[/color][/b] 5'7" [b][color=b93c3c]Weight:[/color][/b] 130lbs [b][color=b93c3c]Build:[/color][/b] Slim [b][color=b93c3c]Eyes:[/color][/b] Brown [b][color=b93c3c]Hair:[/color][/b] Black (Dyed) [b][color=b93c3c]Skin Tone:[/color][/b] Pale [b][color=b93c3c]Tattoos/Scars/Piercings:[/color][/b] Pierced ears and tongue. No scars. Tattoo of a power button behind his left ear. [b][color=b93c3c]Personal Style:[/color][/b] Arcturus has eclectic tastes and no interest in fashion, only comfortably. He usually pairs dark trousers and expensive dress shoes with huge cardigans, over-sized jumpers, and a variety of button-ups with bright, obnoxious patterns. Despite the eccentricity, each item of clothing tends to be from designer brands. [hr][center][img]Another Character Image[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]Psychology[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [color=b93c3c][center][i][color=00a651]Resilient[/color][/i] ◆ [i][color=ed1c24]Proud[/color][/i] ◆ [i][color=00a651]Perceptive[/color][/i] ◆ [i][color=ed1c24]Evasive[/color][/i] ◆ [i][color=00a651]Flirtatious[/color][/i] ◆ [i][color=ed1c24]Selfish[/color][/i][/center][/color] [b][color=b93c3c]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Homosexual [b][color=b93c3c]Relationship Status:[/color][/b] Single [b][color=b93c3c]Personality:[/color][/b] Notoriously tight-lipped about himself, Arcturus likes to distract from questions about his own life by overcompensating with interest in other people's. He's one of those good listeners, remembering and observing the little details, the names, faces, birthdays, likes and dislikes of everyone around him, no matter how inconsequential their role might be. An extrovert through and through, he enjoys being a social butterfly, and prides himself on his ability to find common ground with anyone, even if he has to fake a layman's knowledge in topics he has no idea about. Arcturus has a disinterest in and is far from motivated by money. The fact that he was born into it is incidental and, other than liking the finer things in life, he doesn't believe it makes him any different from anyone else. At the same time, he doesn't seem to know or care about the value of it, careless with valuable possessions and blasé when it comes to ostentatious displays of wealth. He is spendthrift, especially when it comes to people he cares about and himself. A venn diagram of these two categories would be a circle. His greatest flaw is egotism. Self-confidence in his own areas of expertise crosses the line into arrogance, and he doesn't believe himself fallible in those areas and others. Additionally, Arcturus places his own goals first even when he genuinely likes other people. At the very least, he values those personal relationships over the interests of any organisation, even if he can't put them above his own interests yet. [b][color=b93c3c]Habits:[/color][/b] Compulsively checking his phone, picking at scabs. [b][color=b93c3c]Hobbies:[/color][/b] High-stakes gambling, music. [b][color=b93c3c]Fears:[/color][/b] [list][*] Guns [*] His Family [*] Enclosed Spaces[/list] [b][color=b93c3c]Likes:[/color][/b] [list][*] Newspapers [*] Hot Chocolate [*] Cyberwarfare [*] Celebrity Gossip [*] Bad Movies [*] Polyglottism [/list] [b][color=b93c3c]Dislikes:[/color][/b] [list][*] Mansions [*] Crime Syndicates [*] Power Cuts [*] His Family [*] Summer Blockbusters [*] Traffic Laws [/list][hr][center][img]Another Character Image[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]Cards On The Table[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=b93c3c]General World Skills:[/color][/b] [list][*] Second Language (Swiss-German) [*] Logic Puzzles [*] Street Racing [*] Card Shark [*] Legerdemain[/list] [b][color=b93c3c]Speciality Skills:[/color][/b] [list][*] Foreign Language (Chinese) [*] Foreign Language (Russian) [*] Hacking [*] Computer Science [*] Cryptography [/list] [b][color=b93c3c]What Is On Your Person:[/color][/b] [list][*] Clothes: Black trousers, Armani shoes, pale cardigan and charcoal dress-shirt. [*] SHIELD Academy ID Badge [*] Dorm Room Key [*] Phone [*] Spare Phone [*] Lighter [*] Engraved Ring [*] Wallet: Debit/Credit Cards, Starbucks Card, $100, £50[/list] [b][color=b93c3c]Dormitory:[/color][/b][list][*] Desktop PC [*] Laptop [*] Assortment of High-End Computer Parts [*] Translation Dictionaries [*] Walkman Cassette Player & Audiobooks [*] Dossier on Theodore Hale [*] Old Deck of Playing Cards (Marked) [*] [*] [*] [/list][hr][center][img]Another Character Image[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]History[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=b93c3c]Why did you want to become an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.?:[/color][/b] Arcturus happened to like the recruiter who approached him, and he wasn't quite ready to jump into proper adulthood. Further study in the academy seemed right up his alley, as opposed to whatever it was he would do otherwise with his degree. They promised that they would have a use for his language skills [i]and[/i] his illicit online activities, and Arcturus chose to believe them, though mostly because MI6 was full of themselves. [b][color=b93c3c]General History:[/color][/b] Arcturus Hale is the only child of [i]noveau riche[/i] parents. His father, Alexander Hale, is an internationally-renowned investment banker only investigated twice for fraud, and his match to Arcturus’s mother, the socialite Léonie Morgenthaler, was one of convenience: they live in separate buildings if not separate countries whenever possible. Sequestered in the family’s Zürich estate and home-schooled for most of his childhood, Arcturus was mostly left to amuse himself. The tutors tried their best, of course, but he was a precocious child, always up to no good and sneaking into his father’s office or uprooting flowers in the garden. He had little interest in learning. Some of the hired help encouraged his love of puzzles and games, and one even taught him simple sleight-of-hand tricks with small objects and a deck of cards as soon as he was dexterous enough. His parents were not satisfied by his progress, and that particular caretaker was swiftly out of a job. There was one exception to the regime of lessons he so expertly squandered, a bright spot in a friendless childhood: time spent with his paternal uncle Theodore Hale. Far more pragmatic than his brother, Uncle Theo shared his nephew’s interest in technology, particularly as he grew engrossed in the illegal activities one could get up to on it. A few lessons on coding here, then an outline on cybersecurity, and eventually it became something of a game to bond over –– breaking down the digital defences of certain businesses ‘just for fun’ with little thought given to those whose livelihoods would be directly affected. No less nosy in his adolescence as he is now, Arcturus slowly pieced together his uncle’s secrets and just why he had such an eclectic mix of skills. Uncle Theo had been an operative at the tail end of the Cold War, a jack of all trades when it came to espionage. Upon being relieved of duty due to an injury, he turned to other pursuits as an information broker. Once the truth about the black sheep of the Hale family had been revealed to him, Arcturus realised that many of the so-called projects that they had done to improve his skills were actually to collect information. Arcturus felt used, with the only adult who seemed to care about him having the ulterior motive of using his skills for some unknown, likely criminal purpose, and so he searched for universities far away from the gilded cage he had grown up in to move away from home. Though his uncle tried to apologise after a huge blow-up fight, he was dissatisfied with his entire family. He blew through his sizable allowance each month with alcohol and partying and, of course, driving (without a license), and nearly failed out his first year in an attempt to stay away from his roots, avoiding computing courses like the plague. He graduated with a top degree in Modern Languages and Linguistics from Oxford instead, however, old habits die hard. Arcturus had already returned to performing white hat work on commission, patching up holes in the systems of businesses he previously helped to sabotage. For these efforts, he was scouted by both MI6 to join one of their cryptography teams and S.H.I.E.L.D. From there it is rather obvious what route he picked. [hr][center][img]Another Image Here[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=b93c3c][center]Extras[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=b93c3c]Character Quote:[/color][/b] 'Be so good they can't ignore you.' [b][color=b93c3c]Theme Song:[/color][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHXEGz3PJg]Florence + The Machine - Hunger[/url] [b][color=b93c3c]Anything Else:[/color][/b] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4639923]Linky![/url] I'm more of a DC fan... [sub][color=ed1c24]*By submitting this CS in its completion I am stating I have read all the rules for this Rp and am agreeing to follow them to the fullest with respect and courtesy. I acknowledge that I can and will be removed from the RP without warning if I break a rule or cause problems with my fellow Rpers or the GM.[/color][/sub] [/hider] [hider=Relationships][center][hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=b93c3c]The Journal[/color][/i][/b] [sup][b][i][color=b93c3c]Arcturus Hale[/color][/i][/b][/sup][/h1][img]https://i.imgur.com/JEoLjFd.gif[/img] [i][color=b93c3c]"Character Quote"[/color][/i][hr][hr][color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 🎆 Respects [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 🌓 Neutral [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 👋 Acquaintance [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 🙇 It's Complicated [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💛 Friend [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💙 Good Friends [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💜 Best Friends [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] ❣️ Ex-Friends [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 😈 Frienemy [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💘 Infatuation [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💓 Loves [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💗 Couple [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💕 Basically Family [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💞 Family [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💔 Ex-Lovers [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] ♨️ Tense [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 💀 Dislikes [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 😡 Hates [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 👿 Enemy [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color] 👹 Absolutely Loathes [color=b93c3c]⟣[/color][hr][hr] Symbol [b][color=add3ff]Dominika Novikova[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=6ecff6]Cassandra Reed[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] [color=8dc73f]💛[/color] [b][color=0080ff]Niah Bautista[/color][/b] [color=8dc73f]💛[/color] [i]"She's a very good cook, and an even better scientist, I'm sure."[/i] Arcturus will forever bemoan the fact that he and Niah are from different academies that seldom meet, the conflicting schedules limiting the times they can hangout. He would not trade hot chocolate nights holed up in one dorm room or another or home-made meals or (frustrating) shopping trips for the world. [hr] Symbol [b][color=FF8CBD]Tinley Abercrombie[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] [color=8dc73f]💛[/color]😈 [b][color=lightgreen]Mariah Smith[/color][/b] 😈[color=8dc73f]💛[/color] [i]"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my massive inheritance."[/i] Arcturus and Mariah are [i]friends[/i], sort of, but there's a residual tension too strong to be anything but rivalry. While he can take a loss on the chin (provided he gets to bitch about it), his few victories against Mariah identify her as someone who can't take losing herself. Arc wonders if all of Operations are like this. [hr] Symbol [b][color=7ea7d8]Teig Kelley[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=F3E010]Theresa Sparks[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=bc8dbf]Zoya Nikolova[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=Beige]Emilia-Marie Rivera[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] [/center][/hider]