[@Dynamo Frokane]
This guy alright?

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[b][color=a36209]Name:[/color] [/b]
Tony Tedesco
(Note: This is not his real name, just what he puts on official documents.)

[b][color=a36209]Quote:[/color] [/b]
[i]"Let me get this straight - You dress up in a costume and call yourself a stupid name of your own free will?"
"I stacked the whole deck, dumbass! Look! *Points behind the enemy, then runs away as soon as they turn around*"[/i]

[b][color=a36209]Alias: [/color][/b]
Dealer

[b][color=a36209]Age: [/color][/b]
26

[b][color=a36209]Gender:[/color][/b] 
Male

[b][color=a36209]Occupation:[/color][/b]
Croupier

[b][color=a36209]Abilities: [/color][/b]
[b]Experienced Dealer:[/b] Tony has been a professional Croupier for 6 years, and has the skills of the trade (Good at bluffing, poker face, etc).

[b]Sleight of Hand:[/b] Tony is very good with his hands - from magic tricks to picking pockets, he is very skilled.

[b]Card Manipulation:[/b] Tony is capable of turning any item he touches into a card, a process he can revert at any time. He is also able to move these cards via telekinesis, up to 50 feet away from himself. He can sense where his cards are within his 50-foot radius and can adjust how bright they glow.

[b]Otherworldy Connection:[/b] Tony can speak telepathically with the alien being that gave him his powers. This being rarely offers helpful advice, and in most situations uses this ability to annoy the man until he does what the creature requests. 

[color=a36209][b]Weaknesses:[/b][/color]
Tony is relatively frail - while dexterous, he has never really hit the gym, and his best physical attribute is his ability to run away. The Cards that Tony creates are only as durable as normal playing cards, and an item in a destroyed card disappears. Tony can only turn items of 300 pounds or less into cards, and he cannot turn still living matter into cards. He can make his cards glow brightly, but not enough to hurt anyone. Tony is intrinsically bound to obey the being that gave him his power, and his cards disappear after 24 hours.

[color=a36209][b]Equipment:[/b][/color] 
[b]Heirloom Poker Set:[/b] Only thing he didn't sell when his mother passed away. Takes it with him wherever he goes.

[b]Dealer Costume:[/b] Tony stole this getup from a renaissance fair some chick he dated took him to. Not very armored, but it's light and his landlord sewed in dozens of pockets for his cards.

[b]Lots of Ball Bearings:[/b] Small metal balls that are basically just heavier, more annoying marbles. 

[color=a36209][b]Bio:[/b][/color]
Tony Tedesco was raised by his mother until he was 15, never knowing his father.

His mother barely spoke English, and Tony had spent the majority of his childhood as a bully - stealing money from other kids and selling shoplifted toys and knick-knacks. His life was spent in poverty on Minimum Island, as that was the only place his mother could afford to live. Tony occasionally got into trouble with the law for his shoplifting, but was usually able to sneak away after giving a fake name and address.

At the age of 15, Tony's mother passed away, falling into a vat of chemical waste at the Gastro Chemical factory. Tony dropped out of Highschool shortly later, getting a job at a shoe store in North Maximum - the life insurance and selling of his possessions helped supplement this increase in lifestyle. It was here he met Xian Min, who gave him an apartment for very cheap, as well as occasionally giving him homecooked meals. 

With most of his bills taken care of, Tony quickly got wrapped up in old habits - he continued shoplifting to this day, and this behavior quickly got him enrolled with seedier ventures. He roamed the Siren Strip for most of his fun, the owners of the smaller casinos willing to let in someone who could not legally collect winnings. Those years were where he became skilled in card games, and several of the more illicit gamblers were willing to show Tony some sleight of hand and card tricks (which he never used, in fear of being assaulted by the owners).

He managed to make some connections over the years, and at 18, he got his GED and enrolled in college to become a professional Croupier. He graduated two years later and started working with one of the various casinos on the Siren Strip. Tony managed to avoid the particular violent clients, and other than his relatively small wage, he was pretty satisfied with his life. One week ago, just after falling asleep, Tony dreamed he was floating in a vast expanse of pure darkness.

A being contacted Tony in this space - Referring to itself as 'The House,' this creature offered Tony supernatural abilities, for the low price of actually using them and sometimes doing the beast a favor. Tony, assuming the vision was a particularly bad alcohol-induced nightmare, agreed. When he woke up to a pounding hangover and a voice speaking in his mind, Tony was informed about the deal he made. Only three days of Petty crime later, The House suggested the path of heroics - And when Tony realized that this was a much easier way to hit on chicks, he donned the mantle of Dealer.

[color=a36209][b]Relationships:[/b][/color]
[b]The House:[/b] Gargantuan alien lifeform that gave Tony his ability, on the condition that he regularly used his power and obeys the occasional request. Tony doesn't trust the creature, but he was never the person to look a gift horse in the mouth. It suggested the path of heroics, leading to Tony taking the mantle of Dealer.

[b]Xian Min:[/b] A 72-year old Chinese woman, and Tony's landlord. Can be a bit intrusive, but she is very kind and arguably the only person Tony really cares about.
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