Mostly done but WIP for perks/edges and other necessary changes. [hider= Jack 'Flowers' Rose, the Unknown Actor] [CENTER][SUB][COLOR=cecece]J A C K 'F L O W E R S' R O S E ◄ 40 ▎ MALE ▎ 6"3 ►[/COLOR] [img]https://artbreeder.b-cdn.net/imgs/eafa09bcba1b3b5a93b578f836f6.jpeg[/img] 'Iván Dimitrescu' age 18: photo taken from French Foreign Legion Service Records, dated 1999, at the beginning of the Subject's basic training. [img]https://artbreeder.b-cdn.net/imgs/9b55c346a9f4191d3ffd788b4447.jpeg[/img] Forensic Reconstruction of Subject's Likeness developed from Verified Positive ID Footage #1-14b-US, captured in Brightwell, IL. in 2017, at age 35. [/SUB][/CENTER] [SUB][COLOR=cecece]P R O F I L E[/COLOR][/SUB] [color=a8a8a8] Ordinarily quite reclusive, little of what his immediate acquaintances learn about Jack Rose - A.K.A. Lewis Rose, Jack Flowers, and as 'Flowers' alone - bears any real resemblance to the person he actually is. Our friends in England have been after him for so long they've all but given up the chase, but between their old files, a few interpol handouts from intelligence conferences, and some of the more likely reports of recent sightings, I've been able to put the start of a profile together. Find attached our existing material for his physical and psychological profile. -E [b]EXCERPT 1 - Taken from Interpol shared materials, dated January 2010, section labelled 'Physical Appearance'.[/b] [i]Jack Rose, 28 years old, North European ethnic background with uncertain locality, with approximately 6"2 in height. Subject is of broad build with a boxy, long-legged stature, sometimes described as the 'swimmer's build'. No confirmed sightings exist of Rose with visible tattoos or other distinguishing marks and scarring, though recent unconfirmed sightings suggest the presence of recently acquired thermal burn scars on the posterior aspect of Rose's right shoulder, and he is also known to possess characteristic chemical burn scars on his hands of the sort typical to illicit chemical lab workers and amateur bomb makers with access to higher grade materials and little regard for safety. His hair is dark brown, most often worn cut very short, almost to buzzcut length - recent sightings suggest that he has grown a beard. His eyes are blue, but he has been known to use coloured contact lenses.[/i] [b]EXCERPT 2 - Redacted Person of Interest file originally from MI5's records, section labelled 'Psychological Profile: Known abnormalities, habits, and motivations.' No date attached.[/b] [i]Rose is well known to have a meticulous and disordered personality, tempered by intelligence, training, and personal discipline. Information gathered during suggests that he suffers regularly from anxiety and paranoia, and that his near-compulsive attention to detail and perceptual skill is partially a coping mechanism for this. He is generally quite disinhibited, especially towards violent or intimidating behaviour, despite his anxiety; this initially raised questions about especially dysregulated Narcissistic Personality Disorder, though the moral compass he professes to have in does make this less likely. His morality is likely flexible, and his attraction to a criminal or violent lifestyle is most likely to stem from his personal aptitude and stomach for it rather than true ideology, but he has also been known to claim anarchist ideals and has been linked to bombings conducted by left wing terror groups throughout the Pacific, as well as six separate attacks on government buildings in Algeria during . He typically avoids spending long periods of time in crowded environments, rarely eats or drinks in public, and generally prefers to find quiet places to pursue recreation or relaxation if he does so at all. Data recovered from an improperly disposed of harddrive suggests he has a varied taste in music, with interests spanning several genres from British pop music to Iranian folk songs. Some stored email exchanges also reveal that he maintains very irregular contact with an unknown group of previous associates, typically sending and receiving no more than one or two emails every few months, each email discussing matters relating to the weather, sports, television, or music; cross referencing email dates matching sightings of Rose with weather forecasts from his area of operations suggests that these emails may be coded, as there are regular conflicts between his descriptions of the weather and his actual locale. Eyewitness accounts from individuals known to have had contact with Rose - eg, shopkeepers or hotel staff who interacted with him in verified CCTV footage - typically recall very little in detail about him whatsoever. He is typically described as being quite friendly, but a little awkward, and 1/3 of these accounts mention that he has an 'intense' quality about his speech and mannerisms, which some statements given to police describe as being unnerving but not intimidating or threatening. [/i] Something to note is that sightings of Mr. Rose became increasingly sparse after 2011. It is widely believed that he remains active in some capacity, and he remains classified as an active threat. I must also make this clear - his apparent 'anxiety' is no grounds to underestimate this man. I was able to call in a favour or two from some friends I have and take a peek at what, precisely, the British decided against sharing; Rose has been concretely identified as a participant in the destruction and killings of numerous agency interests across North Africa around the same time as his Algeria bombings, which themselves appear to have been action against French assets, and he also has links to at least one of our own being KIA around the same time. This was almost fifteen years ago, and his records show a picture of someone who gets [i]more[/i] dangerous with time, not less. -E [/color] [SUB][COLOR=cecece]D A Y S - G O N E[/COLOR][/SUB] [color=a8a8a8] I'm not even going to try with the excerpts for this one - you'll get a fuller picture in your personal briefings. The long and short of it is that we aren't sure precisely where Rose was born, where he was raised, or where he was educated. We have good reason to believe he [I]is[/I] educated, and that he originates in Northern Europe - and if Rose is even related to his real name, we can narrow that down a little further to Anglo-French origins too, but none of this is verifiable information and Rose shows little preference in his choice of AO, with sightings reasonably evenly distributed across Europe, the continental United States, Asia, and Africa. He has, reportedly, never been seen active in Russia, Finland, Lithuania, or Estonia - but this is merely the largest blank spot on a map filled with them. What we [I]do[/I] know is that he spent some time with the French Foreign Legion before he was outright criminal, and that he was operating under another false identity during this time - Iván Dimitrescu, a Romanian seeking French citizenship the hardest way possible. We only know this as a false identity because the copies taken of his personal documents during his basic training show signs of forgery, and because no pictures or footage exist of him attending the high school they say he did. It's even possible the French knew and didn't care enough to find him out - by all accounts he acquitted himself well during training and was viewed positively by his instructors, insofar as the FFL can be positive about anything. I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to overlook his fake passport, especially since they'd be printing him a new one if the legion didn't kill him first. He is known from his service records to have graduated basic training with distinction, and he was earmarked for specialist training during his first tour of duty in Kosovo, where he was reportedly among the first NATO elements to enter Kosovo itself. After the start of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001 he was returned to France in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan/ The Legion evidently took this opportunity to upskill him. We know he was trained in the use of explosives and combat demolitions, that he earned marksman’s qualifications but was never deployed in this capacity, and there are rumours he later engaged in commando and paratrooper training through the Legion as well - though apparently the French are sensitive about those records, so I didn’t ask again after my contact said no the first time. Rose served two further tours in Afghanistan before leaving his unit behind, possibly working covertly for the French in Algeria for a period - as his records list him as being currently serving but without deployment or training - and eventually disappearing in the line of duty. Interestingly, his records mark him as KIA rather than missing; the French claim to have ruled out tampering, and appear to have classified this as a legitimate mistake. He was with them for almost exactly four years before his alleged death. Having now had the chance to cross examine a number of different agencies’ records, it can be fairly conclusively said that Rose did disappear while on operations in Algeria around 2004, and that - while his intentions remain a mystery - he was at least present during a verified road traffic collision in Marrakesh, 2004, which itself led to several gas explosions and a large fire. He was misidentified as being among the remains of victims from the fire - which, again, is possibly a deliberate ploy by Rose. He has been retrospectively identified in Libya in 2005, which may be where he sourced the explosives, hardware, and support for his attacks in Algeria in 2006. He has been linked more tenuously to other bombings, robberies, and political attacks across the Old World, as far east as Thailand in some cases. It is currently the opinion of the intelligence community that Rose was disillusioned by whatever work he was doing for France before his disappearance - operations that the French government also will not share - and that this led him towards Marxism, radicalisation, and his eventual career as a terrorist; I have different opinions. Rose excelled in his career as a professional soldier, finding difficulty only in his interactions with less radical allied soldiers, or more rarely with civilians who vocally disagreed with his attitudes towards violence. In 2004 Rose was credited with having written a single anonymous threatening letter to Else Scholz, a German journalist reporting on allegations of Foreign Legion war crimes committed during Enduring Freedom, wherein he specifically threatened to ‘... cut down like a fucking tree…’ after she criticised civilian casualties he may have been involved in causing. His arguments against her tend to centre around the point that his preferred level of force - overwhelming, shock-and-awe, immediately lethal methods with little respect for collateral - was necessary not only for achieving the objectives they’d been set (something he described as a generic sort of ‘greater good’) but for protecting the lives of allied troops and other civilians in the region. This appears consistent, initially, with the picture of a man whose ideology was sincere but being effectively challenged, which could lead him naturally to the sort of break-and-defection he is supposed to have undergone; this analysis informs the conclusions of our European cousins, but ignores the wording and sentiment of his message, which focus on the violence itself, and describe it both as a sort of vicious but necessary equalising force (the idea that God made Men, but Colt made Men equal by arming them), and as being much less horrific than the journalist appeared to believe. Rose was ignorant of the fact that Ms. Scholz had previously been a war correspondent, and had witnessed intimately - as many of us have - the true horrors of war; while Rose speaks of war as being not only necessary, but ‘... much less awful than vermin journalists like you tell people it is…’, Ms. Scholz write about the same events in the tone we would all, ourselves, normally use. Rose’s ideological and political justifications for the events in Afghanistan are not weak simply because he is losing an argument he believes in, but because he brings them up [i]exclusively as excuses[/i]. While some of his later political motivations do appear genuine, his moral flexibility indicates that he involves himself with radical causes primarily to exercise his own desires and impulses. He is aware that violence is, to most people, at least uncomfortable and hard to justify - but in agreement with MI5’s psychological analysis, he has few such inhibitions himself; this brings us to the most interesting part of our case file, Rose’s eventual abandonment of politics. Since 2011, Rose has been sighted with markedly decreasing frequency, and his last sighting was now more than five years ago - in 2017. During this time Rose has been linked to only a handful of incidents, but has displayed a remarkable shift in modus operandi across those reports; he has become less reckless and more methodical, showing uncharacteristic restraint and avoiding collateral damage, and while explosives remain a core part of his arsenal Rose has also displayed a notable shift toward precision charges and firearms as his tools of choice. This case file is the first time we’ve been able to pull so much information together about this man, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that there is no way he could have been working alone during this period - in fact, having now examined the trend of Rose’s killing more closely, since 2012 he has lost his previous patterns of locality, and can now be said to disproportionately target affluent individuals, or individuals with a close working or family relationship to those wealthy people. His targets themselves rarely share personal connections, and are typically distributed widely across the globe both in terms of their origins and their places of death. Based on the increasing cost of his equipment, the precise nature of his operations, and the discontinuing political nature of the kills, it seems likely that Rose has been working privately as an assassin - and that he has been supported in this be an as-yet unidentified covert organisation with the resources to permit him to travel globally unrecognised. His last known location is Brightwell, Illinois - a town you’ve never heard of for the usual reasons, primarily that it’s tiny, largely irrelevant even to its neighbouring settlements, and functions almost exclusively as a rest stop for truckers - and that was in 2017. He was caught on CCTV buying gas for a silver 1995 Toyota Corolla with license plates that match an owner who was found deceased (apparently of natural causes, though this is now in doubt) just a week after the footage was taken, car never reported missing. To summarise, Jack Rose is the potentially-false name of a known terrorist at large who was trained to endure impossible conditions and achieve his objectives with little to no regard for their cost by the French Foreign Legion, to whom he identified himself by yet another potentially-false name, Iván Dimistrescu. He has a long history of military service with distinction, is experienced with demolitions, sabotage, anti-emplacement, and anti-armour infantry tactics, procedure, and equipment. It is likely he has experience working covertly for a national government, and should be considered to have the covert training this implies. He defected from this lifestyle and aligned himself with a radical interpretation of marxist ideology in 2004, convincingly faking his death to do so, and was able to effectively engage and destroy the interests of his likely ex-employers from the disadvantaged position of an exclusively covert insurgent, possibly with some form of support from Gaddhafi’s Libya. At some point after 2011, he largely abandoned his former pretenses at political motivation, and likely began working as a contract killer, which may have been independent initially, but which also likely led him to membership within a covert organisation that then supplied him with materiel and logistical support, and a potential marketplace for his skills. He is best described as an intelligent, analytical, and utterly ruthless individual, with a background of mild to moderate psychiatric disturbance including debatably compulsive behaviours, deep seated (though ultimately not too unreasonable) paranoia, and a possible anxiety disorder. Rose is a high strung but incredibly disciplined killer whom is best considered both as a peer adversary to our agents, and as now residing incognito for as many as five years within the United States of America, whether he still works for this anonymous cabal of hitmen or not. Despite the contents of this report he remains a mystery for the most part, with even his motivations lost in the shadows; he is an Unknown Actor on U.S. soil. We have our work well cut out for us. - E [/color] [SUB][COLOR=cecece]M E M O R I E S[/COLOR][/SUB] [color=a8a8a8] Rose spent a great deal of time in the employ of a shadowy and reclusive organisation whose trade in stock was killing, and before that was the blunt instrument of more than one terror group. He keeps very irregular contact with the former, and - while he has no regular communication with them - could feasibly identify and contact operatives of some of the latter, if he [i]really[/i] wanted to. For the former, there is a curt but respectful professional relationship in place - he occasionally provides them with advice and expertise, they occasionally provide him with hardware - though relations would naturally be much tenser with the latter, and there is a real risk that individuals within each terror group would see him as more of a traitor than an asset, even if the overall organisation would still benefit from his skills.[/color] [SUB][COLOR=cecece]C R E E D[/COLOR][/SUB] [color=a8a8a8] Martial - though with touches of an Inquisitive approach. [/color] [SUB][COLOR=cecece]D R I V E[/COLOR][/SUB] [color=a8a8a8] Curiosity - though no agency is yet aware of his recognition of the supernatural, Rose perceives such things through a lens of dark but sincere interest. He normally claims that his interest in fighting the supernatural is more closely aligned with Pride than Curiosity. [/color] [SUB][COLOR=cecece]E D G E S & P E R K S[/COLOR][/SUB] [color=a8a8a8] Arsenal With a storied career behind him, it is only natural for Rose to have kept certain acquaintances handy, and this includes the sort of convenient contact who can provide augments to an existing personal set up, or an entirely new armoury just as easily. Ordnance As above, but for explosive material and precursor chemicals. Rose is also adept not only with military and civilian demolitions explosives and weapon systems, but with the improvised variety too - his scarred hands may have faded in recent years, but they remain a testament to the consequences of his earlier, more careless home chemistry. Perk: ‘Incognito’ - Rose has training in covert operations, and is capable of passing undetected in a broad variety of environments, including crossing national borders either illegally or with forged documents. This is owed partially to his paranoidly meticulous nature and his attitude that mistakes even in daily living can easily be fatal, but mostly to training and resources provided by his previous occupations. [/color] [/hider]