Nicholas Wolfwood
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Wolfwood's typist is Alec.
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Basics
Stats
† Name: Nicholas D. Wolfwood
† Alias: Chapel; Punisher
† Age: 30
† Race: Human
† Hair: Black
† Eyes: Slate blue
† Height: 5'11"
† Weight: 180 lbs.
† Middle Name: Dokonokuminomonjawaresumakinishiteshizumetarokakora
Haircut?
He takes scruffiness to the extreme with his rumpled black suits, bad haircuts and haphazard attention to shaving. While he is clean, he just doesn’t see a reason to make himself look like a male model from sort of magazine. Add to that a very dark tan – desert living ya know – his silver cross cufflinks, battered sunglasses and his brown loafers, he is a rather seedy looking person for a priest.
Due to the surprising weather - i.e. SNOW! - his collection of black suits and white shirts have gained a few colorful and whimsical holiday inspired sweaters. They look just as rumpled as the rest of his clothing, with the added bonus of being just a bit longer in the arms and waist then they should be.
In speaking, he has a distinct accent, made even worse while drawling around a cigarette or drinking or doing both at the same time. This drawl sometimes makes it hard for others to understand him especially since he uses it as a way to add more confusion to his words. He is a chain-smoker, easily going through several packs a day even though he has yet to develop a smoker’s hack or voice. He drinks a lot, especially whiskey, and tends to get a bit morbid while drunk.
Friends and Family
His best friend is Vash the Stampede even though the two disagree on several key issues.
He runs an orphanage outside of the city of December where he brings children that have no other family.
Midvalley the Hornfreak and other members of the Gung-Ho Guns could be considered family since they were brought together for the same purposes, but Wolfwood still has a shred of humanity left in him that makes him at odds with them.
Wolfwood's only family was his uncle, who he had shot to death at the age of seven.
Personality
Wolfwood is the type of man that isn’t always what he seems to be. He cares deeply for the people around him, to the point of going out of his way to help them. He is especially soft on children whom he feels need someone to look out for their well-being and give them a chance to be children. Yet, despite his caring, he is realistic enough to know that not everyone can be saved and that the actions of a selfish few would cost the majority more than just money and freedom. He knows that he cannot help every stray he comes across but it never stops him from trying to save some from a harder life. He has no faith left in humanity as a whole – those that he does run into that are exactly what they appear to be only brings home the painful truth that life on Gunsmoke is hard and softness is a quality the suns suck out of souls. It makes it hard for him to believe in anything, especially in a God that would put people out on a rock that hot and unsuitable for life and then care for said people, but he tries. He really tries to believe in something, even if it is in just his guns and his skills as Chapel. It makes him odd, but not as odd as some of the things he had seen over the years. He’s good at lying and he’s good at sin. He knows that he has to be good with both in order to survive, especially at his other profession, the one that does put money on the table. He sometimes tells himself that in order to wake up the next day and not walk away from his job and his life. But some days it was hard to accept that what he is - a liar and a killer trying the best he can for those under his care while wearing the mask of a priest. And he hoped that there was a better place than this even if his soul was too black to ever enter it.
Church
Eye of Michael is a militant religious group founded shortly after the colony ships' crashed. The members are few, usually picked from promising orphaned children and raised to work as both ministers and killers in the frontier towns where the only laws are those held by people with power. Their doctrines and teachings are Catholic in origin, but their main ‘mission’ is the destruction of anyone getting in the way of Million Knives – a being they feel is an angel sent to punish humanity for their vanity. Members of the Order do not live long, nor are they encouraged to form any attachments outside of their circle, which makes Wolfwood an oddity amoung them for his work with his orphanage outside of December. They work with other Orders inside of the church, but only if it would benefit them on their mission.
Chapel the Evergreen was part of the Eye working directly under the orders of Million Knives. He had two tasks – to find and train potential members of the Eye and to recruit people into the Gung-Ho Guns. He was the one who found and brought Midvalley the Hornfreak to the Guns as well as finding and training Wolfwood as his successor. Because of that, Wolfwood was brought up to be both priest and killer under the doctrines of the Eye, especially when it was proven that the orphan had the skills necessary to handle a Cross. The Crosses of the Eye are weapons made by the advanced technology of the plants given only to those who may someday become the next Chapel. The title 'Chapel' itself is handed down through the Order as its highest honor.
In Desai, the Eye is associated with the local Archbishop that also handles such groups as Iscariot. This person also confirms Wolfwood's preisthood if any questions arise.
Weapons/Skills
Weapons
Wolfwood's main weapon is his Cross-Punisher. It is a heavy cross nearly as tall as he is; made of an extremely durable metal by the plants under the guidance of Million Knives. Only ten of them had been made in the history of his Order, his being the tenth one made. When not in use, it is wrapped in cloth and secured by several straps. He can sometimes be seen carrying it over his back like a piece of luggage, especially if he is going somewhere dangerous. Anyone that tries to lift the Cross-Punisher when he's not around will notice that a) it is far heavier then he makes it out to be and b) the wrappings are fiendishly hard to remove.
In combat, all he has to do is unsnap one of the several snaps on his carrying strap, revealing the central skull-shaped trigger and the bronze designs along all four cross pieces. When in use, the longest arm of the cross splits open to reveal the long muzzle of a machine gun, the shortest arm the barrel of a missile launcher while the two side arms house all his ammunition.
He also carries a .45 auto that houses twenty rounds of ammo - with one in the chamber - and a three-inch knife just in case he has no other weapons available.
Skills
He's a marksman; all his skills having to do with guns, their ammunition and care. He knows a little about knives, just enough to be able to use one without sticking himself in the eye, and carries one just in case he has no other alternative. However he shines with his Cross-Punisher. He uses it as a blunt object, a ram, a shield, a projectile, a lance and a booster even without unwrapping it. He can swing it easily about with one hand or two, and has even used it as a makeshift chair and bed on more than one occasion.
He's a fairly decent motorcycle mechanic. He repaired and maintained his first bike - The Angelina - later lost in the wastelands due to lack of gas, and did the same for his second bike - Angelina II. He lost that bike when he entered the portal in hopes of finding water.
To go with his motorcycle fixing skills is his motorcycle driving skills. While he is used to dusty, sandy terrains, he can also handle driving on pavement and stone as well, although driving over grass is a bit odd. He is currently on the lookout for Angelina III so if anyone sees a guy with a huge cross go sailing by because he never EVER drove on ice before - that would be Wolfwood.
Background
History
Nicholas was a normal kid with normal dreams when his parents died and he was sent to live with his uncle. Still young and innocent, the boy found himself in an abusive situation unprepared for the harshness of life under the twin suns. He suffered the physical and sexual abuse for less than a year until one day, after his uncle passed out drunk; Wolfwood got his hands on a gun and killed his abuser. He fled to the streets where he eked out an existence until a kind man wearing the habit of a priest found him.
The kind man turned out to be a priest and assassin called Chapel the Evergreen who worked with the Gung-Ho Guns, a private group created by an unidentified benefactor. Wolfwood was tested along with other children found on the streets and then he was placed in the secret classes, training him to replace Chapel the Evergreen when the man’s time came. He learnt religion next to gun care, history along side of knife fighting, reading and writing and unarmed combat, and so on. His first test had been at age fourteen and his target some trashy lawman that never knew what had hit him.
Wolfwood became a priest fulltime when he grew older, taking care of the orphanage along with a couple of sisters and a few other adults trusted with the task. Sometimes, he was sent out to forefill contracts that his mentor could not take care of because of other pressing matters. When he was 28, Wolfwood was sent out to complete a daunting task – meet with Vash the Stampede, gain his trust and lead the man to ruin.
Now, like most people, Wolfwood had been raised thinking that the Stampede was some kind of monster. But when he actually met up with the guy, he wasn’t sure what to think. For one thing there was that pointy hair. For another, there was that empty smile. Wolfwood watched him for a bit, sticking around the same town where the Stampede was staying and then engineering their enrollment in the quick draw event. The events left him more than shaken up, but he did his best, and Vash ended up inside the reach of Legato and the rest of the Gung-Ho Guns.
But then something went wrong and somehow the Stampede managed to blow a crater into the fifth moon before vanishing. Wolfwood did not return to the orphanage as he thought he would with Vash’s disappearance. Instead he went to receive some new training from Chapel the Evergreen’s benefactor – Vash’s twin Million Knives. After the training was completed two years later, he was handed a new Cross-Punisher and Vash’s gun and sent back to his task at hand – find Vash the Stampede and bring him to where Knives waited for him.
Entering Desai
Wolfwood set out on the task and ran into a strange hole in the middle of the desert. He had thought it led to the inside of a lost ship, but instead ended up in Desai. After being informed that they could not send him back to where he came from, he was allowed out to the city proper.
The first couple of weeks he spent hounding the MDEA to find out when he could go back to Gunsmoke, unsettled by the world he found himself in. It was hard trying to understand the growing plants and the free water and things that people took for granted here was desperately needed where he came from. The next couple of weeks he went nuts trying out things he had never heard of save in myths and legends – like swimming in real water, and fresh fruits and vegetables which tasted so different from the plant-made ones back home. And then realizing that he was running out of money fast, he went looking for a job. And since he felt uncomfortable doing anything close to actual priest work these days, he decided on teaching. He could do that, right? Well, sort of.
Teaching
Ethics & Religion 1301: Indtroduction to Ethics and Religion
Ethics & Religion 1304: Comparative Religion
Ethics & Religion 2321: Philosophy of Religion
Office Hours:
Monday: 10:00 am to 11:30 am & 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 10:00 am to 11:30 am & 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am to 11:30 am & 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Thursday: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Friday: By appointment only
Game Happenings
Wolfwood meets up with his old friend the one and only Vash the Stampede!
He and Vash end up going out, talking about the good old days, and then getting into a bar fight. At the end, Vash invites Wolfwood to crash at his place until Wolfwood gets himself an apartment.
Wolfwood finds out that the last priest in his teaching position has a lot of things in his closet.
Wolfwood comes into contact with Dante and Vergil via the internet.
Midvalley the Hornfreak comes to town and end up face-to-face with Wolfwood.
Outside Links
Wolfwood's Journal - Read some of the priest's day-to-day ramblings.
Vash and Wolfwood meet - Wolfwood's first appearance on the campus where he meets an old familiar face.
