Merc With a Mouth

PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: Kaiya
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PREFERRED CONTACT(S): pillowtalkative
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Wade Wilson
CANON: Marvel 616
TIMELINE: After the events of Cable & Deadpool
AGE: Mid-thirties

REFERENCE: Rescuing puppy dogs, groping hot manga chicks and saving the world.

PERSONALITY:
Being criminally insane in the membrane does give you some interesting personality quirks. There's a reason one of Deadpool's monikers is “Merc With a Mouth”-- he seems to be physically unable to shut the hell up. A master of rhetoric, he's quick to sling taunts and witty comebacks, even at the risk of his own safety. In canon, he had a devil-may-care attitude about the world around him, and seemed to have little regard for anything except for where his next paycheck was coming from. Because of this, he had very few friends, and even thought of friendship as a “completely bogus concept”.

Despite his bravado, however, there is compassion and kindness in that black little heart of his, and it's only gotten more prevalent in recent events. Although he's not ashamed of his career as a mercenary, and money is a very important aspect of his life, deep down he dreams of being a true hero; of being respected and adored much like Captain America, Thor, and the rest of his childhood idols. His vocal disdain for friendship hides a deeply flawed and lonely man, one who is desperate for love and recognition. He’s fiercely loyal to the few friends he does have, and even though he might occasionally be cold toward them or threaten them with severe bodily harm, he can be very protective of them in his own way. He’s also very intolerant of anyone who would prey on children-- from an assassin’s standpoint, they’re totally off-limits, to the point where he has resigned from several missions without getting paid as a result of a child getting caught in the crossfire.
Unfortunately, all is not fun and games with the Merc with a Mouth-- there are some very dark aspects of his personality, as well. Despite being able to hide his feelings under a veneer of snark and witticisms for the most part, Wade is a very hot and cold individual; a man of many intense emotions. When he's happy, he's ecstatic. When he's sad, he's desolate. And when he's angry, he's dangerous. Quite a few individuals have borne witness to him when he's in a rage, and some unlucky people have borne the brunt of it. While he usually solves problems with violence, angering him can cause him to get downright sadistic with his punishments. Sometimes it's for the benefit of mankind, and sometimes it isn't, but when the jokes stop and Wade actually gets serious, it's always terrifying.

There's also the matter of his low self-esteem. To say that Wade has a low opinion of himself would be like saying that the ocean is a little heavy on the salt. No matter what disparaging words anyone says to him, whatever cutting remark they have at his expense, no one is as hard on Wade as Wade is on himself. His self-loathing is so potent that a part of him actually accepts his hideous new appearance, and although he may joke that nowadays his outside matches his inside, there's a dark part of him that actually believes it. It's for this reason that he's so easily manipulated by people promising him love and affection, as he's so starved for simple human kindness that he'll greedily lap up any attention that is given to him. It's also the reason why he doesn't take criticism well, and is most assuredly the reason why he grows considerably insecure-- and in worst case scenarios, absolutely enraged-- when strangers see him without his mask.

Wade's insanity has made him strangely self-aware-- he understands to an extent that he's a fictional character and has a rather annoying penchant for breaking the fourth wall, which most of his comrades have learned to ignore or chalk it up to yet another example of his crazy. His insanity has oftentimes been more of a hindrance than a help, but it's also gotten him out of a great many tough scrapes due to his potential to be totally unpredictable, and if there's one thing he's gotten very good at, it's flying by the seat of his pants.

ABILITIES:

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Meadowlark Abilities - Upon his arrival to Meadowlark Wade was implanted with a "shard" of a dead god inside his chest, which is the source of his original healing factor being nerfed and new powers being given to him. Wade has access to one "blue" power and one "gold" power, which causes his chest to glow blue and his eyes to glow gold, respectively.

- Self-regeneration (Blue Power) - A mild healing factor, much less advanced than the one he has in canon. At its “seed” stage it is only able to completely and instantly heal small cuts, scrapes and bruises, with the timeframe of the healing process increasing with the severity of the injury. More extreme injuries, such as broken bones, cannot be healed at all without medical attention, and he is just as vulnerable to shock from blood loss or death as any normal person without a healing factor. While he still retains his high metabolism, he’s also completely vulnerable to being poisoned, drugged, or stricken with illness, and can no longer regenerate limbs, though there is the opportunity for this power to grow stronger under certain circumstances. As his previous healing factor was tied to his cancer, and he canonically is seen completely recovered from said cancer whenever his healing factor is removed, he will be perfectly healthy.

- Damage Empowerment (Gold Power)- An offshoot of his healing factor in Meadowlark, Wade now has the ability to increase his strength, speed and stamina the more damage he takes. Obviously this does not extend to his ability to heal himself, and as it stands now it is very easy for his injuries to vastly outstrip his power increase. He must be able to withstand the injuries he receives in order to benefit, and he will immediately lose this power buff if he dies, falls unconscious, or is able to heal himself completely.

- Chest object/power swap - While in Meadowlark, Wade gained access to something called a “chest object”, which is an item unique to each individual character that can be removed from their chest by either themselves or another character. When another character is in possession of this chest object, that character has access to a weakened version of the first character’s powers, as well as a direct link to the first character’s thoughts and feelings. Wade's chest object is a large red and black claymore.

- Empathy bond - Wade also possesses the ability to share emotions with another character through skin-to-skin contact, which can range from simple feelings to memories and in some cases even dreams. (Note: there will be an opt-out permissions post to reflect this.)

Weapon and fighting skills - Wade is a master of many martial arts as well as being an accomplished marksman and swordsman, having trained in the Canadian Special Ops for many years until his eventual discharge. He knows practically everything there is to know about fighting with conventional weapons and fighting styles... and is knowledgeable (and crazy) enough to improvise in unconventional ways as well. He's also skilled in the art of parkour.

Polyglot - Fluent in at least five languages aside from his native English (he's been seen to speak Russian, German, Spanish, Japanese and ASL in canon, although he appears to be able to speak more and more languages as the plot demands).
PERSONAL EFFECTS:
Adamantium-bladed katanas - Exactly what it says on the tin.

Guns - Two automatic pistols, one that he's customized himself and taken care of over the years. He calls her Carlotta.

Ammunition - Just your standard handgun bullets.

Spandex outfit - The standard red and black spandex suit that has become Wade's trademark.

Neural implant - A surgical implant issued to him in Meadowlark which gives him the ability to access a neural network.

PRIZED POSSESSION: A mood ring that he won in a Skee-Ball game. What? It’s a prize and it’s in his possession! (He won it in a game he played with Fenris, and has more of an attachment to it than he’ll truly understand at first.)

CRAU PREMISE:
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Wade is a transplant from meadowlark , set in the fictional cyberpunk city of New Amsterdam. It was only recently discovered that the Displaced also have a shard of a long-dead god residing in their sternum, giving them powers that can be evolved over time while also enabling them to share a sort of empathy bond with other individuals-- a bond which allows Displaced to feel the emotions and sometimes even dreams of a person they have physical contact with. 

The powers each Displaced received could only be evolved and tailored through development and personal growth, and Wade only went through a little bit of that during his time in New Amsterdam, which is why his power is still close to its original seed status. Wade is still a very reckless risk-taker even without the advantage of having an overpowered healing factor, and in fact his original healing factor in canon manifested because his desire to avenge the death of a friend completely overrode his desire to die. Considering it’s the only power he has aside from the skills he’s picked up through training, the struggle to coincide his devil-may-care attitude with his sudden realization that he actually can kick the bucket now would, at the very least, cause him to have a very personal conflict as he fights between the desire to just give in and leave this world behind and the desire to actually take advantage of this second chance he’s apparently been given; to make friends and actually allow himself to care about people again.

One such individual was Fenris, whom he had met earlier in his stint in New Amsterdam, and whose subsequent disappearance and re-emergence came at a time when Wade had lost a great many of his social bonds. As a result, he attached himself to the broody elf almost immediately in an almost desperate attempt to rekindle that rapport, even though they hadn't known each other very long.

Being in a new area and having to expend the effort to establish himself again does run the risk of Wade backsliding, as making friends doesn’t exactly come easy to the overly-gregarious mercenary, and keeping them is even harder.

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