Blade

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Background= ''Eric Brooks was born to his mother Vanessa Brooks in a brothel in England. While under the care of her doctor, Deacon Frost, she didn't know that he was a vampire and fed upon her regularly. He passed an enzyme along to her unborn son which inbued him with all of the abilites of a vampire, but none of the weaknesses. At age nine, Blade became a vampire hunter, learning his craft under a blind hunter named Jamal Afari. Becomming proficient with all blades and a master of hand to hand combat, he uses his abilities to hunt his own kind, vowing to destroy every vampire he came across to avenge his mother. As he grew older, he realized that while he was not immortal, he aged at a much slower rate than a normal human. Thus Blade has decades of combat experience. He went into business with former vampire Hannibal King as paranormal investigators, helping people with problems that normal law enforcement couldn't fathom. Decades later, Blade moved to New York, opening up his own offices there, running his business out of a garage where he maintains his own weapons, gear, and vehicles. Blade now roams the night, helping those who cannot help themselves, all the while hunting for the elusive vampire lord, Dracula.''

''Eric Brooks, the man later known as Blade, was born in a whorehouse in the Soho neighborhood of London, England. His father, Lucas Cross, a member of the secret society the Order of Tyrana, sent his pregnant wife Tara to England before he was taken prisoner in Latveria. There she took the name Vanessa Brooks and found shelter with brothel owner Madame Vanity, another member of the Order of Tyrana. Experiencing labor complications, Tara was forced to seek a doctor's assistance. The doctor, Deacon Frost, was actually a ravenous vampire and feasted on the woman as she gave birth, passing on a series of enzymes that altered her baby. The enzymes entered the infant's bloodstream, transforming him into a Dhampir - a being tainted by a vampire's kiss, but not converted.''

''Frost was driven away before he could slay the child, but Tara perished, leaving the orphaned Eric Brooks to be raised at Madame Vanity's brothel. Determined to avenge her death, he fashioned himself into a vampire hunter even before he reached adulthood. Blade grew up living at Madame Vanity's, and at age nine, returning home from school one December, he saw an old man being attacked by three vampires. Blade helped the old man, who used a silver cane to kill the vampires and fight off the attackers. The man was Jamal Afari, a jazz trumpeter and vampire-hunter who then moved into Madame Vanity's and trained the young Blade in both music and combat. Blade was soon able to defeat many of the weak, younger vampires that he and Afari found in abundance. Blade became a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with an expertise in edged weapons such as knives and daggers.''

''After stalking the night on his own for a number of years, Blade became leader of a small band of like-minded individuals hunting Dracula. He first encountered the dark lord in Japan, after many months of searching. Blade lured Dracula into an ambush, and the vampire was slain with a wooden stake. However, Dracula soon was resurrected by his servants and exacted revenge by murdering Blade's entire band of vampire hunters. Blade pressed on, often fighting alongside a team led by Quincy Harker, the great vampire hunter. The company's members included Rachel van Helsing and Frank Drake. Later, Blade teamed with vampiric private eye Hannibal King to hunt down and destroy Frost. Blade, King and Drake helped Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts and Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, cast a spell that destroyed Dracula and all the vampires on the planet. Following their victory, King was cured of his vampirism. Subsequently, he and King formed a private-investigation firm.''

''The mother of all demons, Lilith, hired Blade's agency to kill Ghost Rider -- the leather-clad, motorcycle-riding Spirit of Vengeance -- and bad-boy John Blaze, the fiery skeleton's former host. After a protracted battle, Blade and company realized they had been duped. The team joined with Ghost Rider and Blaze against Lilith, battling her monstrous minion Meatmarket. Blade, Drake and King continued their partnership with Ghost Rider and Blaze. Along with Dr. Strange, Morbius the Living Vampire and the Darkhold Redeemers, they formed the Midnight Sons, a group dedicated to preserving the boundaries between our world and the dark realms. The Midnight Sons clashed with Lilith and her demonspawn, the Lilin, in a supernatural contest with Earth as the prize. The Midnight Sons proved victorious, destroying Lilith and her brood.''

''Blade's desire to destroy supernatural enemies led him to be tricked into using the Darkhold. As 'Switchblade' he attacked a number of supernatural beings and stole their power in the 'Midnight Massacre'. Eventually Blade was stopped and another page of the Darkhold was used to restore things back to normal. However, the team was unable to prevent its hated quarry, the vampire, from returning to the Earth realm. Blade, Drake and King, who again had become afflicted with vampirism, began their crusade anew to cleanse the world of all bloodsuckers. Blade and his partners clashed with dread lord Varnae -- supposedly the first vampire, the demon who had visited this hellish curse upon men. King and Drake were slain in a bloody and futile battle. The loss of his compatriots only strengthened Blade's resolve to rid the world of vampires, regardless of the circumstances of their creation.''

''Blade was also temporarily in SHIELD custody due to the machinations of Silvereye as they sought to use him. Nick Fury ordered a battery of tests to determine how Blade became a Daywalker so that they can replicate the process. However, all attempts to recreate the situations that created Blade failed. It is unknown why this happened. Eventually, Fury released Blade and offered him a position as a SHIELD consultant, to be utilized when the organization delved into occult cases that might require his assistance. Blade returned to New York, where he currently is, stalking the night and protecting humans from those things that go bump in the night.''
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The Sheet
Powers= Acute Senses | Superior | ''Blade's sense of sight, smell and hearing are heightened to levels comparable to those possessed by true vampires. He is capable of seeing objects with perfect clarity at much greater distances than an ordinary human. He retains this same level of clarity even in near-total darkness. Blade's hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing him to detect sounds that an ordinary human can't and to be able to hear sounds an ordinary human can, but at greater distances. Blade is also able to mentally sense the presence of supernatural beings or forces, whereas an ordinary human would be oblivious to them. His sense of smell is so acute that he can distinguish people by scent alone, allowing him to track both humans and supernatural creatures with accuracy. He can also 'smell' magical energy, allowing him to be able to tell if magic was used in a location and how long ago. He can also use this ability to sniff out magic users.''

Vampire Physiology | Advanced | Superhuman Agility: Blade's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.

Superhuman Strength: Blade is supernaturally strong and is able to lift about up to four tons due to his heritage.

''Superhuman Speed: Blade is capable of running faster and moving at speeds much greater than that of a peak human athlete. At short distances, he can even seem to blur as he moves, giving the illusion that he teleported from one space to the next.''

''Superhuman Stamina: Blade's musculature generates less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair him.''

''Healing Factor: Blade, like full vampires, possesses an accelerated healing ability that allows him to heal mild to moderate injuries with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Blade is capable of healing from severe slashes and puncture wounds within a matter of hours. However, he is not able to regenerate missing limbs. Ingesting fresh blood can accelerate this process from hours to minutes, if there is any on hand. Blood also enhances his other physical abilities to twice their effectiveness.''

Immortality | Advanced | While Blade is not truly immortal like a true vampire, he does age at a significantly reduced rate being a half-breed.

Immunities | Advanced | ''True vampires have numerous and very particular supernatural vulnerabilities, most of which Blade is totally immune to. For instance, Blade is unaffected by direct exposure to sunlight, whereas most vampires are either rendered comatose during the daylight hours or are quickly incinerated when exposed directly to sunlight. Vampires are also highly allergic to silver, supposedly because of the metal's mystical purity. As a result, silver blades or bullets are capable of killing vampires. If not killed, and merely injured, it will take a vampire much longer to heal than if the injury had been inflicted by another material. Blade himself could be injured by a silver weapon, much as an ordinary human would, but his healing powers would be able to heal it as if it were an ordinary wound. Blade is also immune to the effects of religious icons, such as crucifixes, whereas vampires are rendered almost powerless when confronted by them. He is also immune to mental tampering, such as glamours and mental suggestion as a supernatural creature. Master Vampires such as Dracula are able to affect humans with these abilities but they are completely lost on Blade.''

Musician | Skilled | ''Blade is an accomplished jazz trumpeter, saxophone player and pianist. He has been known to spend some of his downtime playing the instrument, especially since he doesn't require much sleep and has on occassion played in public.''
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Occult Lore | Exceptional | ''Blade has a great knowledge of both vampire lore and lore on the occult in general. Over the years, he has amassed a personal library on these subjects and often uses them as references when attempting to figure out what creature he's hunting. While unable to cast magic himself, he is well versed in several types of magic so that he can tell what spells are being cast or has been cast when working crime scenes dealing with the occult.''

Mechanic | Skilled | ''Blade is a fairly competent mechanic and tinkerer. He is the one that maintains the upkeep on his motorcycle and car and is also responsible for building the various special weapons and contraptions that he employs in the field while hunting.''

Combat | Master | ''Blade is a master martial artist and is proficient in practically every form of weapon known to man. His specialty is the use of edged weapons. He is particularly fond of daggers and swords, but he also has an extensive knowledge of firearms.''

Languages | Studied | ''Blade is fluent in several human languages, including Japanese, French, Latin, Spanish, Russian and German. He is also proficient in supernatural and occult languages as well due to his exposure and the desire to understand his prey. He is fluent in the vampire tongue and even some languages spoken in the mystical Otherworld dimension.''

Tracking & Stealth | Master | ''Blade's acute senses make him the ultimate tracker in both a rural and urban setting. While he mostly uses this skill to track vampires, he is also able to track anything or anyone that exudes a scent or that leaves behind a trail that can be followed. Blade is also accustomed to moving within the shadows. Mostly hunting at night, Blade is able to move silently while utilizing his ability to see in near total darkness.''

Weapons | Master | ''Blade is a master in the use of small bladed weapons and can hurl knives with great accuracy. Blade also shows great skill with firearms, including both automatic and semi-automatic, which he often modifies to fire hollow-point, garlic-filled silver bullets. He is also greatly proficient in swordsmanship. He often changes the loadout of his weaponry depending on what he's hunting.''

Driving | Skilled | ''Blade's primary modes of transportation is his motorcycle and his car. He is proficient in it's use as is able to employ defensive techniques when pursuing others in a vehicle. While not a stunt-driver, he has no problems maneuvering in heavy traffic while going at high speeds thanks to his increased senses.''

Weaponry | Global | Blade uses a small arsenal of weapons, some them are: teakwood daggers; Adamantium acid-etched swords; Kevlar body armor; automatic and semi-automatic firearms with various loadouts and converted for use with hollow-point, garlic-filled silver bullets; and a variety of portable, custom-designed weapons that employ silver, garlic, sunlight, ultraviolet rays and anti-coagulants.
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Car | Local | ''In addition to his motorcycle, Blade owns a custom built black 1968 Dodge Challenger. With a supercharged engine, it has alsp been modified to assist him with hunting vampires. In addition to two normal headlights, it also has two additional headlights that utilize Ultra Violent lights. The tires are re-enforced so that they don't puncture easily and while the glass is not bullet proof, it is thicker so that it doesn't break quite as easily as normal glass.''

Motorcycle | Local | ''Blade's bike houses a lot of his vamp fighting equipment, such as extra knives and garlic grenades. His tires has the added feature of spiked tires that allow him to drive on rough terrain, even up the side of buildings, thanks to Nick Fury and SHIELD. His headlight can also be used as a UV lamp. The engine was built by Blade himself to give him an edge in high speed pursuit.''

Headquarters | Local | ''Blade's work does take him all over the world, however, he does maintain a seemingly empty garage in New York where he stores his extra gear and his bike for when his job takes him overseas. There is an office and living space above the garage itself where he operates his paranormal investigations business out of and living space for when he's in town.''

Blade's Sword | ''Blade's adamantium acid-etched sword has a security feature that will expel blades into the user's hand unless they push a switch hidden into the hilt before the timer runs out. This makes sure that if any enemy attempts to use it against him, they will most likely lose their hand unless they are aware of this feature.''
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S.H.I.E.L.D. | ''Even though Blade distrusts Nick Fury because he once captured and experimented on him to find out the secret of his Daywalker powers, he is on the SHIELD roster as an asset to be called upon should Fury require someone with his particular expertise and abilities. While usually a loner, Blade has led and worked with teams in the past and has no problems working with SHIELD agents.''

Thirst | ''While Blade may have all of the abilities of a real vampire and none of the weaknesses, he does have the blood thirst associated with them. It is difficult for him to control on his own. And he has been driven in the past to feed on a human even though he loathes feeding on humans in general.''
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Serum | ''To control the blood lust, Blade takes a serum that suppresses his thirst for human blood. However, over the years, his body has been building up an immunity to it. It is his fear that someday the serum will cease to work and he will be forced to destroy himself.''

Detached From Humanity | ''_Blade knows he's not human, and most of the time he does not feel like he's part of the human race. He shows a detachment from humans when dealing with them, often showing no compassion or empathy for them or their plight beyond his desire to protect them from the supernatural.''

Driven | ''Blade is determined to hunt vampires into extinction. He is driven to do this because of the vampire that killed his mother when he was just a baby. His personal mission sometimes overclouds his judgment.''

Inhuman Presence | ''Blade's canines are longer and more pointy than a normal humans, they elongate even more especially when 'excited'. This is something that he can't hide and tends to freak out most humans. His eyes also resemble those of a vampire whenever he does anything that causes an adrenaline rush. While he wears sunglasses to cover this up, there are times when his eyes are very visible and tend to also freak out normal people.''

Zero Tolerance | ''Blade has a zero tolerance rule when it comes to vampires. He will even kill his own associates and partners should they ever contract vampirism and succumb to the thirst, hurting humans needlessly, or try his best to. If someone tries to stop him from doing so, he will attempt to remove them from his path through almost any means necessary.''

Relationships
Personal= Lolita | Lover | ''The two have dual natures and association was a necessary evil at first. Then there were books, music, and acceptance of the darker natures. Now Blade is caught in a whirlwind relationship he is not sure where it will go. This has given him unlimited access to the Sin & Faith Nightclub.''

S.H.I.E.L.D. | Asset | ''Even though Blade distrusts Nick Fury because he once captured and experimented on him to find out the secret of his Daywalker powers, he is on the SHIELD roster as an asset to be called upon should Fury require someone with his particular expertise and abilities. While usually a loner, Blade has led and worked with teams in the past and has no problems working with SHIELD agents.''
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