Name - Eric Brooks
Alias - Blade
Faction - Independent could change depending on faction's stances towards Deacon Frost, vampires and Blade himself being a Dhampir.
Race - Dhampir
Age - 90, physically much younger of course.
Powers -
Enhanced senses
Superhuman strength
Superhuman speed
Superhuman agility
Superhuman stamina
Superhuman durability
Healing factor
Personality - Cocky, boisterous, and sarky are the three best words to describe Eric. You'd think with a past such as his and with his life experience he would have grown out of his cocky phase, but he remains just as he did as a young man.
He's the type of guy to save you from a group of blood hungry vampires, but at the same time shout at you for being such an idiot to go looking for them.
Appearance - Eric stands at 5 foot 10 and has a muscular physique. His hair is a dark black cut into a buzzed style. His healing factor means he doesn't scar often, but his arms are bandaged every now and then due to his rather peculiar fighting style. The most noteworthy traits of his appearance are, of course, his vampiric ones. His eyes resemble that of a cats, being mostly yellow with two black slits down the middle. Furthermore, his fangs are rather prominent, although only when he opens his mouth.
He doesn't have a costume per say, but considering he travels about mostly on his motorbike you could consider that outfit to be his costume. It consists of a black bomber jacket with a red line running down it and trousers to match.
Bio - Eric Brooks was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to what he believed were a pair of bakers. Eric grew up in seclusion, his life was practically backwards, his parents would never let him out in the day time and would home school him at night. For years he couldn't understand why.
And then puberty hit.
Eric's appearance drastically changed, his teeth grew into fangs and his eyes changed to a piercing yellow. It was at this time that his parents told him the truth, having hoped this would never happen. The truth was that, the man Eric had called father for years wasn't actually his father. His real father was a vampire who had seduced his mother and left her pregnant after just a night of passion. But not before biting her, which would have infected her had the virus not spread to her child.
Eric, understandably, felt betrayed by his parents and ran away from home. He expected to burn up in the sun, but to his surprise he was fine. After a day or two of sulking he'd eventually seen sense and made his way back home. He regretted ever leaving. He found his mother and father, dead and being feasted on by a group of Vampires and their Ghoul's. Eric flew into a fit of rage, slaughtering the vampires and their ghouls with nothing but the dagger he'd taken with him when he ran away.
He salved what little memories he could from the burning wreckage of his family home and set off, vowing to hunt and kill any vampire that crossed his path.
Years of hunting came to pass until the advent of the Second World War. Eric, being a minority in a rather bigoted society, was drafted into the army. Of course, Britain was one of the more progressive societies at the time when it came to their treatment of black soldiers, but nevertheless, it was no picnic.
After months of fighting in the trenches, Eric received a carrier pigeon, very odd for a soldier on the front lines. He was actually being recruited into a supernatural taskforce to battle Nazi occult rituals. The Nighstalkers they called himself. Eric accepted, and learned most of his fighting skills while in the Nightstalkers.
Years passed and Eric went back to doing what he did best. Killing vampires. At some point in the 70s he began going by the pseudonym 'Blade'. It's been that way for a number of years now. He's had a few encounters with other superheroes and villains here and there, but mostly he couldn't care enough to bother with them. But with the Ultimate War just around the corner, it looks like Blade's going to have to make friendly all of a sudden.
Supporting Characters - Deacon Frost, Morbius, Hannibal King
Notes -
Power Grid:
INTELLIGENCE - 4
STRENGTH - 5
SPEED - 5
DURABILITY - 5
ENERGY - 1
FIGHTING - 6
