The Soul
Raymond is of slightly above average height standing at 6" solid no more and no less. He fairly muscular with a well built stature. 190 pounds when he is stripped down to his basics, he certainty fills out his clothes at least and not in a bad way. A strong square set jaw and without the beard it is all strong lines going down. His nose is crooked tilting slightly to the right the results of an angry fist when he was still a lad. His Right ear is missing part of the lobe almost like it was bitten off. His eyes are two different colors one a cool brown and the other a dull metallic grey with hints of glowing yellow, a cybernetic implant.
Name: Raymond Georg Lamb
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Nationality: Scottish
The Body
Profession: War correspondent
Notable Traits:Seen It All: Raymond's been around the world more then once over and has seen a lot of terrible things in his time and had to write news report about it. From the insurrections in North America, to the wars in Asia and the Middle East and Genocides in Africa. Nothing much phases him at this point with a harden resolve developed over the years.
The Gentleman's Way: Raymond knows how to throw a punch, a fairly successful bare knuckle boxer in his earlier years, he knows how to throw a punch and take one for that matter.
Tongue of Snakes: Raymond is quick with his words and will not refrain from using his own particular brand of dry wit.
Flaws:la fée verte: He has become very close to hard liquor in his time from whiskey, vodka, absinth and everything else under the sun. Some would argue that at the least that he was a high functioning alcoholic but he insists that he could stop at any time.
Honor Before Reason: As the man's man that he is Raymond can't step down helping somebody that needs it, nor punching a fellow that deserves it. This fact has gotten him in many a fight over the years and usually ends fairly badly for him.
Feel The Rush: He isn't really the type of man that can sit down and be content with his life. His career and most of his life choices have been driven by a need for him to feel that next hit of adrenaline. He is never happy, he is always moving.
Inventory: Notepad, Pen, Wallet, lighter
Cybernetic Implants:EYE-SEE Retinal Implant: An optical membrane implant and data-frame for vision augmentations, this device is a microthin base coating layered onto the inside of the human eye, with a synthetic neural tissue spike connected to the optic nerve; it is capable of projecting digital information directly on to the retina.
The Mind
History:Mister Lamb was born in a small village outside of Kilwinning where nothing ever happened. His father was a police officer and decorated war hero and his mother was a school teacher. Life was hard growing up mostly do to the account of his father, his father was the town hero, he grew up there was the captain of the Rugby team at his school and was loved by everybody everybody would call John Lamb a saint. That's why the never expected anything to be happening at home and they wouldn't belie it if they told him. He was a very strict man who had very strict rules that his wife and son had to follow, these rules were strange and would change almost constantly just so that they could break them and give him an excuse to hit them. He was smart though for an arse and would cover a piece of piping in a towel with padding so that the bruises wouldn't show. One day his mother tried to take Raymond and herself away but John caught them, beat both of them the hardest they ever had and threatened that next time he would kill them and that he would get away with it. The sad thing was that he was probably right.
Due to these circumstances growing up Raymond spent as little time as possible at home. He would either spend his days wandering the village with his mates or at school. He was a fairly intelligent student and helped work on the Schools newspaper once he was older. But he was also prone to getting into fights lashing out against bigger boys, because he had enough of it all. Because of this he ended up getting quite the name for himself as a pugilist and bad bloke that everybody at school should stay away from. Well at least the respectable folks, he ended up befriending the hooligans, the bad seeds who thought that he was pretty real with the way that he took nobodies shit. They participated in the normal actives underage drinking and smoking, vandalism, shoplifting and the like and that was what he knew for a while, chasing after that next high to dull the pain. But he knew he was different from his friends, he wasn't content with this little life, he wanted to see the world. And so he hunkered down and took his schooling seriously again to get to Uni. He ended up at Trinity College, Dublin where he studied journalism and philosophy.
Raymond found a job as an independent correspondent heading into the hell holes of the world and selling his stories to the highest bidder. Finding a steady job would eventually be what lead him to the City. The Eye, the City's largest newspaper hired him on full time and financed his adventures around the world chasing the depravity of humanity for that next big scope. And this would become his life spending most of his time out in the world and his few moments of piece among the scum and death of towering buildings that he called home. He is currently at home in one of those lull periods killing time by hoping bar to bar trying to find a meaning for it all, plagued with bordem.
Personality: Raymond is your stereotypical man's man with man values and man feelings. He is blunt with a dry sense of humor not the type to waste many words. Not the type that cares much about anyone's private life especially his own. Neither a eunuch or an incubus he may seduce a Queen but not spoil an innocent. He is not emotionally tarnished, nor afraid of the darkness ahead of him, grounded in his reality and common amongst the mass yet with a spark of individuality about him. He is a man of honor be it intrinsically, instinctively or inevitably, without thought of this honor and without ever mentioning it. He is a man with a strong sense of pride and will make sure you treat him as a proud man. He is a lonely man caught on the edge of boredom and stuck in a state of ever present unrest.
Motivation:The adrenaline rush mostly, anything to get his mind of the own emptiness and discontent feeling he has within himself.
Character Goals:Raymond just wants to make it. That's what everybody talks about right? Making it? Well he isn't really sure what they mean by making it but maybe that because its something you figure out when you get there?
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