Tacey "Knuckle" Hase

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Name: Tacey Hase
Alias: Knuckle
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Tribe: Wildcats
Rank: Hunter
Term of Residence in New Pork: 0-1 months
Political standing: Probably quite liberal, but I doubt that he thinks about politics.
Romantic orientation: Gay
Marital status: Single
Nationality: American Mutt
Birthplace: NYC, NY
Country of residence: U.S.A.
Occupation (pre-Plague): Kid. Student. Seller of illegal goods and services (prior to entering New Pork). Obnoxious little sonuvabitch (professionally!).
Weight: Scrawny; growing too fast. Stringy-muscular.
Height: 6'3
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blonde
Mutation: --
Mental disabilities: Generally twitchy. Occaisionally suicidal.
Physical disabilities: Red-green colorblind.
Fears: Guns. Anyone stronger than he is. Anyone with a bigger knife than he's got. Large, meaty men. Screaming women.Tiny, enclosed spaces.
Likes: Food of any and all kinds. Hats and shoes. Fighting. Hugs and cuddling (yes, really).
Dislikes: Losing fights. Getting beaten up. Going hungry. Cold. His dislikes are very pragmatic, in that he dislikes anything that discomforts him or makes his life more difficult.
Addictions: Alcohol and cocaine; he's probably going through some kind of withdrawals (or has done so in the recent past).
Average intellect / average test score: Good with numbers. Basically flunked everything else.
Merits: Extremely accurate sight-memory. Compassionate (sometimes). Enthusiastic. Loyal. Quick.
Demerits: Cowardly. Selfish. Immature (sometimes to the point of being child-like). Impulsive. Temperamental. Mercurial. Sometimes, he just doesn't...get it, whatever it might be. Rather scrawny, due to his height.
Favorite super-hero(es): Batman
Favorite color: Orange
Favorite food: Anything there's a lot of.
Family status: Grew up with abusive single mother, ran off at thirteen.
Crime record: Extensive, and stopping just short of manslaughter in severity.
Preferred weapon: Fists, brass knuckles, switchblade.
Fighting style: Unpolished brawling/streetfighting, bears certain resemblances to boxing; think of a cagefight.
Kills: None as of yet.
Special skills: Well, he fights, and he's good at what he does (though he tends to have a weight disadvantage). Head for numbers, good visual memory.
Habits: Constant fidgeting: nailbiting, running his hands through his hair, jittering his leg, snapping fingers...and on and on and on.
One word to describe: Twitchy.
One quote to describe:

"One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die."
-Raoul Duke, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (movie)

Appearance:

Having grown a ridiculous amount in a fairly short space of time, Tacey has a too-thin, unhealthy scarecrow look about him; he's stronger than he looks, but not by all that much. He tends to slouch. His face is too babyish still, though the cheeks and eyes are rather sunken; he's got big brown eyes, a snub nose, and full lips. His mouth is small, his teeth chipped, his jaw crooked. His cherubic appearance is marred by a near-constant scowl and by complete inconsistency with the rest of him: his shoulders are broad, his hands and feet enormous, and none of that matches his face at all. His head is topped by a short-cropped but still messy mop of mustard-yellow. He's scarred all over for various reasons, be it beatings, accidents, fights, self-injury, or what have you.

Personality:

Temperamental, cowardly, and selfish. He uses violence to solve all his problems, and almost anything can inspire violence. He operates on an almost wild-animal level, and often behaves based on simple fight-or-flight instincts. He is motivated by food, energy, and the rush he gets from fighting. He is selectively moral. His loyalty, once secured (and all it takes to secure it is a little kindness) is unshakeable, gullible, and fanatical. He is a follower.
He's prone to fits of depression and hysteria, and tends to either hide or crawl to someone he thinks he can trust (whether or not he should actually trust them is up in the air) when in one of these states; when hysterical, he is either even more prone to becoming violent, or may become entirely submissive. This, however, does not happen often; he's a cocky little brat, and works hard at keeping his tough guy persona in place.
He talks a lot of smack, and can't necessarily back it up.

Notable History:

Your typical miserable past:
Bastard son of a single mother, the woman herself being an alcoholic of loose morals and low standards. Verbally and physically abused, otherwise abused on occaision by certain of his mother's partners. Got understandably sick of it all and ran off at thirteen. Left New York City, scrounging, scamming, and downright stealing for a living, surviving on the very fringes (and at times barely surviving).
Then, there was the plague, and the Children of the Sandstorm. The news reached Tacey's ears, as news does. The society the Children were building appealed to him--a savage world, scrounging for food, fighting for life...it wasn't so different from the way he was living, and there no one would bother him about it.
So he returned to New Pork.

Reputation:

Hasn't had time to build much of one, but I'd say that if he's known for anything, it's being absolutely ferocious in a fight.

Other:

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[Mina Crow]

[Whoa. Why is everyone who comes here from BRPS so amazing? ^^] [Accepted] [Wildcats Hunter, if that's ok with you.]