Throughout his career Adam has shown mastery in many forms of martial arts such as Karate, Kenpo, Bokator, Aikido, Kendo, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Bare-knuckle Boxing, Fencing, and many others. He also possess expert marksmanship with pistols, machine guns, shot guns, assault rifles, and various types of throwing weapons. Adam has also displayed a stunning sense of spacial awareness which seems to give him an edge against large numbers of opponents.
➳ What are their weaknesses?
Adam isn't an expert with sniper rifles but he has no other specific weakness aside from mortality.
➳ How do they act?
Adam is a force of nature. He is always calm but there is clearly a storm underneath. Every action, every word said is said with purpose. He is a man of sheer will and when he sets his mind to something, it is almost impossible to stop him. Polite, kind, and pleasant to his friends. A nightmare to his enemies.
➳ What's their backstory?
Adam's notable life didn't begin until he joined ISIA. Before then he was the son of an English lawyer and an Irish singer. Neither were very noteworthy in their careers but they were good people for the time he knew them. At the age of ten, he loss both his parents. He loss his mother to lung cancer and his father to an angry man who got a gun into a court room. After he was orphaned he looked to the military and through the military, ISIA found him. He accepted the offer and ran through the program like any other recruit. However once he began a field agent he began to display skill the others had not. Skill that had not shown during his training. He became a legend of sorts. He was the man you sent in alone on missions that would certainly end in the agent's death and he was the man that always completed that mission. For twenty years he served and the moment he turned fifty they sidelined him. That was what severed his connection to them. He quit, he just left. He tried to get out of the life for a little while. He went for roughly a year before he got into any trouble. Without the ISIA, the people he had upset found him. The Russians, the Cartel, even the mob. They came for him and he was thrust back into the life. He made it very clear that they needed to leave him alone and now works as a hitman for those very same people who came to kill him. He has been in that business ever since.
➳ Anything else we need to know?
- Adam feels betrayed by the ISIA - Being a hitman is a profession. None of the gangs hold any of his kills against him. They have accepted that it is not personal, it is just business. Some believe they are only so accepting because they know what he can do to them.
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:13 pm
Nine1122
Dismissal does come with benefits; they're removed from service, but they're still on speed dial, per se. It would be unwise to leave a retired agent without any support (the information they know, the enemies they've made, a natural concern of theirs), so they do prioritize the support for those out of service, whether finanially, medically, etc. I mean, they can afford to make sure former agents are compensated for their service.
I imagine it does but Adam didn't reach dismissal really. When the idea came up he got angry and just left, refusing any help they offered. The idea was to create the idea that he really wasn't happy about the 50 year policy and abandoned the ISIA because of it.
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:43 pm
Nine1122
Well, if that's the case, you're good. I suppose switching over to the security division just wasn't his thing?
He was insulted that after more than 20 years of service they wanted to sideline him. Plus by the age of fifty he had been looking to get out of the life and start a family or something. A little late in his years but he figured he could do it. The ISIA trying to transfer him out of the Field was really just the straw that broke the camel's back on him leaving.
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:09 pm
Nine1122
He was insulted that after more than 20 years of service they wanted to sideline him. Plus by the age of fifty he had been looking to get out of the life and start a family or something. A little late in his years but he figured he could do it. The ISIA trying to transfer him out of the Field was really just the straw that broke the camel's back on him leaving.
I suppose the drawback is that they're informed beforehand that agents are dismissed at fifty; that's always been there. I mention this because I don't want to debase the character by having seem like just a guy who was upset over something he knew was mandatory.
I mean, if he spent twenty years, it could be that he must've believed he would be the exception, but was disappointed to find out he was not. I imagined someone like the director being retired from the field but still actively working with the agency.
I suppose the drawback is that they're informed beforehand that agents are dismissed at fifty; that's always been there. I mention this because I don't want to debase the character by having seem like just a guy who was upset over something he knew was mandatory.
I mean, if he spent twenty years, it could be that he must've believed he would be the exception, but was disappointed to find out he was not. I imagined someone like the director being retired from the field but still actively working with the agency.
Oh he was absolutely upset that he was not the exception to the rule but again, it was more that he wanted out of the life than he was actually mad at the ISIA. His feelings towards the ISIA are the reason he didn't go back to them after the year passed. They are also the reason he didn't accept the ISIA's help. Really a "Look, I'm not to old" mentality.
