Post by hellboy on Jul 29, 2008 0:40:46 GMT -7
Basic Information
Full Name: Anung un Rama - AKA: "And upon his brow is set a crown of fire" - AKA: Hellboy
Age: 64
Gender: All Male Baby
Birthday: December 23, 1944
Codename: Hellboy or Red
Classification: Demon
Abilities: Among his more obvious powers are superhuman strength and resistance to physical injury. Hellboy has been shown to tear down a large tree and hurl it as a weapon, as well as cars, and toss opponents weighing several hundred pounds many yards away with one hand. He can withstand powerful blows that would severely injure or kill a human, such as being repeatedly struck by a super-humanly strong opponent, with little or no discomfort. Nonetheless he is far from invulnerable, and can be injured by conventional weapons.
Hellboy possesses an accelerated healing factor that rapidly heals his body, repairing damaged tissue and quickly generating new blood. It regenerates so quickly in fact that he has shown the capability to rapidly heal from being shot many times in the chest with an MG-43 machine gun before destroying the gun. He has also withstood being impaled through the chest with a sword, healing completely within a matter of minutes.
Hellboy also seems to age differently from humans. Having reached full physical maturity by at least the age of ten. His rapid maturation is in contrast to his actual rate of aging, which seems to be much slower than normal. Throughout the sixty-year plus span of his life, he has not aged beyond the point at which he reached physical maturity.
Hellboy's right hand, referred to as the "Right Hand of Doom", consists of a large forearm and hand that seems to be made from red stone. The Hand is dexterous enough to catch a fly, but its large size causes Hellboy to prefer his normal-sized left hand to operate weapons and devices. The Hand is effectively invulnerable and feels no pain, serving much like a sledgehammer when used to punch an enemy.
Unbeknown to Hellboy, the Right Hand of Doom was formerly the right hand of one of the "greater spirits" that watched over the burgeoning Earth, and the hand the spirit used to create the dragon Ogdru Jahad. With that same hand, he bound the dragon, but then his fellow spirits turned upon him for his deeds, and destroyed him utterly - save for his right hand, which was kept and preserved by many races throughout history, including the first race of man. As the hand which created and bound the Ogdru Jahad, it is also the key which will "loose and command" them; in other words, it is a catalyst that will bring about Armageddon.
Unknown at this point to Hellboy, it is not even necessary for the arm to be attached to Hellboy, as even on its own it could perform its tasks. However, it may be that if Hellboy dies while the Hand is attached to him, it would become useless.
Alignment/Occupation: Primary B.P.R.D. Agent
Special Skills: Hellboy is good at...beating the hell out of things. And apart from being for the most part a great big wall of a demon-man, can be pretty sneaky and well spoken when it's needed of him.
Weapons: Hellboy carries a variety of items in his utility belt that can be used against various supernatural forces. He has been known to carry holy relics such as bones from Saints, horseshoes, various herbs, and explosives such as grenades. He commonly carries his giant pistol - the Good Samaritan. The gun itself uses specialized bullets, typically of his own design, incorporating silver, garlic and even holy water making them effective against demonic or supernatural foes. The Samaritan is fashioned from melted church bells and contains fragments of the True Cross. Admittedly, however, Hellboy is not much of a marksman, perhaps suggesting why he uses such a large gun, and he prefers to tackle opponents hand to hand.
The Look
Appearance: Hellboy is roughly 6'5" gigantic and proportionately muscular. His skin is a bright red, his brow low, and his jaw square. He has a mostly bald head, with what little hair he has pulled back into a sort of samurai pony-tail. He would normally have two curved horns erupting from his forehead, but he commonly grinds them down, leaving only two circular stumps on his forehead. Hellboy's right hand, referred to as the "Right Hand of Doom," is an oversized forearm and hand that appears to be made from some sort of red stone. Hellboy also has a handy prehensile tail, which he sometimes likes to wrap around his waist (one to many times getting stepped on for his liking.)
Celebrity: Ron Perlman
Style: Hellboy is a simple guy, he wears mostly black - t-shirts, pants, and shoes, and when on mission is commonly seen in a nice long brown trench coat. Of course, these are simply the clothes he is supplied with, but he seems to like them perfectly fine.
It's The Inside That Counts
Personality: Hellboy may have the physical body of a half-century-old red ape/demon/man, but he has the heart and mind of a young teenager. He is very spoiled, he's very temperamental and he's very unruly. Hellboy is for the most part a lovable under-achiever. He's been born with enormous strength and near immortality, but all he really wants to do in life is kick back with a six-pack of beer and watch football on TV with his girlfriend and a few of his buddies - just like a regular guy. In a different life, Hellboy would have fit in perfectly with the working blue-collar stiffs of the world, and buried deep in his mind is the want for a far simpler life than the one he currently leads. For now, however, he's content to get the positive attentions of the world, something he believes he richly deserves. And furthermore, he's eager to dispel the negative connotations around him, and that of his secretive history.
Likes:
[Cats]
[Liz Sherman]
[Beer]
Dislikes:
[Anything that hassles him or his friends]
[Getting ordered around]
[The almost always coming Apocalypse. Seriously can't he get a break or something?]
Fears:
[The loss of his family]
[Actually becoming what he was born to become]
Weaknesses:
[His family]
[Complicated problems/prophecies/math]
Strengths:
[The strongest member of the B.P.R.D. and their most capable tool of destruction]
[Charismatic and not a bad leader - even if he can be a big baby sometimes]
History: Hellboy is a creature summoned in the final months of World War II by Grigori Rasputin on Tarmagant Island, off the coast of Scotland, having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of war ("Project Ragna Rok"). He appeared in a ruined church on December 23, 1944. Proving not to be a devil, in the traditional sense, but a young, devil-like creature with red skin, horns, a tail, and an abnormally disproportionate right hand made of red stone, he is dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm who takes him in as a sort of father figure.
Taken by the United States armed forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico, Hellboy is raised by the United States Army and by the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.), a federal agency dedicated to combating occult threats.
As an adult, Hellboy became the primary agent for the B.P.R.D., alongside other human and quasi-human agents that have come to include Abe Sapien, an amphibian humanoid (Ichthyo sapien); Liz Sherman, a pyrokinetic; and Johann Krauss, the spirit of a medium kept in a containment suit.
Hellboy lived at the B.P.R.D. with limited access to the outside world, and considered simply an urban legend by the general populace... that is until he revealed himself to the world before the recent near war with Prince Nuada and the Golden Army.
It's been a month since then, and Hellboy's world has been getting anything but easier. Liz has left the B.P.R.D., perhaps indeffinetly, with no explanation more than she simply needed to be alone. Furthermore, Abe has found a new object for his attentions, the elven Princess Nuala. The combination of the absence of his wife, and the burgeoning loss of his "brother," coupled with the sudden spike of new recruits, has left Hellboy feeling somewhat off. Perhaps upset that his semblance of a family is starting to dissipate.
There's won't be much time to dwell on such things however, as Prince Nuada, breaking the truce, is readying another attack on mankind. Only time will tell if Hellboy and the rest of the B.P.R.D. will be ready for it.
Concerning the rest of his past, especially the sort of things brought up to him by Rasputin in their final encounter, "I like not knowing. I've gotten by for years without knowing. I sleep good not knowing." It is in this spirit that generally no one asks about the whole "Anung Un Rama" business, and he generally doesn't speak of it.
The Person Behind It All
Name: Antony
Age: 21
Gender: Male
RP Experience: Several Years
RP Sample: Perhaps an upcoming post between the big monkey himself and newcomer Solaufein....
"Hey," said a nearby gruff voice. Solaufein attempted not to look up, he didn't want to talk to anyone, he just wanted them all to leave the library so he could read.
"Hey. Hey. HEY. I'm talkin' to you," said the voice again, only it was followed by a large stone finger pulling Sol's book down away from his face.
Sol visibly shrunk at the sight of Hellboy. He had been told, of course, about the great red demon, but it was still a bit of a shock. Hellboy himself wasn't even looking at Solaufein, instead he was staring over at Abe and Nuala on the other side of the library. He was sitting, and had pulled the chair all the way next to Sol's.
"You know what's going on over there? Are they making the (he made a kissy face, accompanied by sounds) over there? Or it Abe still actin' the chicken?" He asked, smiling slightly.
"I...I don't know who those people are," Sol said in a strained voice. His voice sounded like sandpaper, rough and broken, and the sound made Hellboy actually turn to look at the young Dark Elf.
"Wait, I don't know you. You one of them, uh, new guys we got recently right? Whole hell of you just seemed to crop up over night here. What're you, some kind of Mummy guy?" Hellboy said earnestly.
"Mu-mummy? Ah...well...well I suppose my bandages would lead you to think...no, I'm a Dark Elf," Sol said quietly and somewhat awkwardly.
"Oooh, sorry. Someone messed you up pretty good then I take it. That sucks, you okay?" Hellboy continued, already losing his concentration about Abe and Nuala.
"I'll be fine. Thank you," Sol replied politely.
"Eh," Hellboy said with a shrug, "What's your name anyway?"
"Solaufein De'Vir," Sol said quietly, "And I know who you are...you're the Hellboy."
