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[/b][/font] Twenty four; February 19th
» Gender:[/b][/font] Male
» Sexuality:[/b][/font] Bisexual
» Race:[/b][/font] Human
» Affiliation:[/b][/font] Hunter; Undecided
» Occupation:[/b][/font] Cook at a 5 star restaurant; Hunter [/div][/td][/tr]
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[style=margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: -4px;]» PERSONALITY

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[/b] Desmond tends to have the habit of blending into places with how quiet he can be. He likes being able to do this though and remain in the background to observe the things around him. He has learned things perhaps even little things like habits of different individuals by sticking to this method and by observing. He's been told that he has a knack for this and that's probably what makes him a pretty decent hunter. He watches for the habits of the creatures he's hunting before he actually goes after them. He doesn't want to run the chance of making a life threatening mistake.

He is also seen at most or all times to be a quite stubborn or strong willed individual. He doesn't like to budge when he makes up his mind and its something that he tends to do very fast. Once he's decided to pursue a hunt or something else it is very difficult to get him to stop. He's decisive almost to a fault especially when he decides on doing things as fast as he does. He can't help it though as there is very little that he considers before actually doing something and even if it means regretting it later on. He doesn't much care if he regrets something later and if he does he just ignores the feeling and moves on.

His decisions almost makes he a bit reckless especially if its not the best sounding idea and could wind up with him in trouble. He does try to avoid the situations that would be the most life threatening but otherwise he just does it. No regrets and no looking back. He's not the most social being either or at least when it comes to hunting. No he would prefer to hunt by himself if he's given the choice because its a lot less difficult and messy that way. He doesn't want to have to take into account the lives of one or two other people while he's hunting as that's just a lot more work. He likes to calculate the possible outcomes before actually going after his prey after all and the equation just gets messy with more people in it.

Desmond in any other social situation that doesn't include staying in the background and observing or hunting is a pretty friendly individual. Much more so if he knows something and has been given the time to learn more about them by observing. He can be an affectionate and caring individual and likes to show the people he knows he cares about them. Whether its showing them with affection or getting something that he knows they might like. That's almost the reason why he started hunting in the first place. Not that a lot of people know he hunts mythos but he does it to protect those he cares about. Only hunting those that have been deemed dangerous and attacking humans. Trust him he realizes that there are friendly mythos running around in the city; he can tell.

Tempers will flare even when it comes to him though but only when he feels betrayed or the need to be angry. He only gets mad when it becomes personal so it isn't an natural thing to see him hulking about the city in a terrible mood either. If he has been upset in any matter whether it be someone betraying him or when he's hunting a mythos that might have brought harm to someone he cares about it will flare up quickly. When dealing with a mythos that has done such he gets to into this terrible mode of being quite cruel while putting it down and that's just putting it nicely. But with normal people he'll yell at them saying what he thinks or what's on his mind about it and go sulking off in a terrible mood. He may stay like this for a while until he's apologized to or finds that he has to apologize.[/div][/td][/tr]
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[style=margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: -4px;]» APPEARANCE

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» Height:

[/b][/font][/size] 5’10”
» Weight:[/b][/font][/size] 160 lbs

»[/b] Picture Desmond is probably considered to be of average height of a male; not too tall and not too short. He stands at 5'10" and weighs about 160 lbs. Most of this extra weight that he has is the muscles that he's packed on since he's been a hunter. He's muscles only show though when he's not wearing a shirt or he's using them when he's hunting. They consist of mainly upper body as in biceps and he has some pretty toned abs to go along with them but that doesn't mean his leg strength isn't good either; it is above average. His hair isn't all that long falling to the nape of his neck and naturally rather neat looking although it has the tiniest bit of a shaggy look to it. Its black in color and he has bangs that fall around his face rather nicely being swept mainly to the right side of his face. His eyes are a nice match to his hair being a deep red color and his skin is a bit on the pale side for living in California. Typically he wears jeans of any shade but usually of the darker kind with a black belt to hold them up no matter what. For shirts he wears mostly dark colored t-shirts with or without hoodies of dark colors. He also is quite fond of dark colored long sleeve shirts or v neck shirts and he usually tops it off with a black jacket that fall just to his butt with tan fur trimming on the hood, the ends of both the sleeves and around the bottom of the jacket. He also has a white coat that he likes to wear sometimes instead of the jacket that has white fur trimming on the hood, the ends of both sleeves, and around the bottom of the jacket. As for shoes he usually wears regular black shoes or converses that are black or red and sometimes a pair of dark brown boots. He isn't one that's much of a fan of jewelry but he does wear two silver rings one of each pointer finger.[/div][/td][/tr]
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[style=margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: -4px;]» COMBAT

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Strengths
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[/b] Strategic
»[/b] Good Stamina
»[/b] Physically Fit
»[/b] Observant

Weaknesses
»[/b] Low Endurance
»[/b] Rash
»[/b] Easily Angered if provoked right
»[/b] Not trained in specific fighting styles

Abilities
»[/b] Desmond was taught how to use twin pistols back when he was training to become a hunter. He's gotten rather good at it over the years and takes time to practice with targets out in the woods or a firing range. He's gotten to be a rather good shot.
»[/b] His pistols now have a particular talent of being able to seek the prey that he asks of them. He has to just whisper his target just before firing the bullet and it starts off on its way like its master commands. The bullet will only follow the mythos only to about 15 ft before it just stops following. It also can't follow the prey if it turns a sharp corner.
»[/b] He's not trained in anything specific and not that it would help much against any mythos anyway. He's at least been trained to fight in several different situations and has learned several things over the years. He fights in the only way he knows how and that's with his fists and legs. Not much against a mythos but plenty of a problem against humans.
»[/b] He's got another gun that he keeps on him while he's hunting just in case his hell hound babies don't work do the job. He wrangled a fire demon a year or so ago and had it fashioned into another gun that of a shotgun. When fires it off it changes the bullets into that of fire bullets that could bring harm to any living creature that is weak to fire.
»[/b] Tracking is a hobby of his and one that he uses when he hunts. It's something that he's worked at ever since he was taught a little about it when he was training and it's something he uses to track down mythos. It's where him being observant comes in handy.

» Weapon:[/b][/font][/size] Desmond possess dual pistols that he had made out of a hell hound and enables the bullets to seek. He also has his trusty shotgun made out of a fire demon's remains that enables him to fire bullets of fire.[/div][/td][/tr]
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[style=margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: -4px;]» HISTORY

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[/b] Desmond Cross was born February 19th on the night of a blizzard and in the comfort of his home. It wasn't much what his mother had expected when he came along but his parents made due with what they could. He grew up living in another town close to Moonlight Bay but he and his mother moved there when he was still quite young; being about 7 at the time. He wasn't quite sure why they were moving without his father but he listened to his mother nonetheless. What was he going to do to change her mind at such a young age? And especially after he had told him that he would be joining them shortly.

Days turned to months, months turned to years and he was beginning to lose faith in the words his mother had told him. He was well aware that his mother was keeping a secret from him and so began his rebel against her. He was about 14 when he decided to let this stage of his life take place. He did anything to defy her thinking that him acting out would cause her to tell him what had happened to his father and why they had to move. He just wanted to know why he was no longer living with them and why they were now in a city that didn't have anything to do with him.

This stage of his life went on until he turned 17 and was finally told the truth. Well, more like the truth was forced onto him in one swell swoop. He wasn't sure what to think as his mother had kept it and several other things a secret from him all along. It was when he was 17 though that he learned that his father had been killed all those many years ago trying to protect them from something that shouldn't exist. It was then that his mother told him that she was being hunted. He wasn't sure what she was talking about at first but something seemed to jog his memory. it had been so long ago that it was hard to recall let alone the fact that he had refused to remember it.

The monster in question was a horrid creature that he would know upon seeing it and upon seeing it did it recall his memory. He didn't really know what was going on since his mother had chosen to hid it all from him but he knew he needed to protect her. That's all he could think of and that's all he wanted to do since she was the last person that was alive that he cared about. He had friends sure but his mother was the one he cared about the most. This creature had already taken his father from him but his mother wasn't going to suffer the same fate.

Even if the creature had decided to mark her just ever so right so it could recall her from 10 years ago and come to play with its food. For 10 long years his mother had been hiding in fear thinking that the monster would pop up out of nowhere just to kill her. For 10 years she lived with this fear that had caused her to run away with her son to another city to live. It wasn't enough though to just move away as the monster still found her. He wasn't going to let her die though but try as he may he wasn't very successful. It wasn't that she died though as someone else came in to help the two of them. In his place a complete stranger protected the two of them and asked nothing in return.

That event and that stranger was the reason why Desmond decided to become a hunter and hunt down the mythos. His plan though was not to kill all of them but just the ones that were like the monster that hunted his mother down after 10 years of letting her live in fear. The mythos that want nothing more than to see the humans suffer and find them nothing but little play things. He dropped out of his last year of high school to devote his time to becoming a hunter and training to hunt. His teacher ended being the stranger that had saved them and so from him he learned all about the mythos that were there to cause problems. He didn't have the same opinion about the mythos as Desmond did though and they eventually parted ways. He didn't want to slaughter a mythos if they weren't bad and caused no harm to the city. He just wanted to protect the people he loved in the city from the bad ones.

It was probably a little after his 22nd birthday that he hunted down a hell hound and killed it. He knew the legends about them and decided to use the one he had killed to make a weapon for himself. His weapon of choice at the time being a pair of dual pistols which could use ordinary bullets but influence them to seek what he was looking for. It was all he would need to be able to hunt the mythos he sought after. It was then after that he sought after other mythos to kill to turn them into guns for him to use.[/div][/td][/tr]
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[style=margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: -4px;]» MISCELLANEOUS

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[/b] Desmond did take time after his training to get his GED so he could have job other than hunting.
»[/b] He finds it particularly fun to hunt the hell hounds that cause trouble for humans.
»[/b] He does not in any way associate with Gnosis as he doesn't believe in their ways. He's aware that most think that all the mythos are terrible creatures that should be wiped clean off the world.

» Alias:[/b][/font][/size] Facepalm Mute
» Other Characters:[/b][/font][/size] Amaya Mori
»[/b] Faceclaim:[/size]
DURARARA!!, Izaya Orihara; desmond cross[/div][/td][/tr]
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