Rowen Thomas [Hunter]

[vile]

Player Nickname: vile

Name: Rowen
Codename: Hunter
Age: 23
Date of Birth: March 23, 1988

Height: 5'5
Weight: 200
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Bright blue
Place of Origin: Detroit, Michigan
Nationality/Race: American
Classification/Origin of Powers: Mutant

Status: Other

Occupation: Freelance pest/animal control

Personality Profile: Rowen is astoundingly simple. As long as his basic needs are met (food, warmth, shelter), he'll virtually always be in an upbeat mood. There's not a malicious bone in his body and he's almost incapable of premeditated violence. Few things can rile him save from insulting his mother. The only things he wants out of life is to be accepted, happy, and healthy.

Physical Description: Rowen's short, stout and strong. It's clear right off the bat that he spends a few nights in the gym each week from his build. The clothes he wears aren't form-fitting and don't draw attention to his body as he's fit for work and not pride. Even if he did, it might be hard to notice rippling abs or bulging biceps due to the sorry state of his face. One side looks like a great animal decided to try and rip it off, mangling him horribly. The damage runs deep enough to render one side of his mouth partially unresponsive, slurring some of his words. An eye patch covers his ruined eye. His hair is shoulder length and he wears his bangs long, brushed over the scarred side of his face in a half-assed attempt to hide the damage. Wears a black leather black collar around his neck with a tag stating his name on one side and MUTANT on the other. The second tag has his phone number and address engraved on it.

Dogbody: Brown and white pitbull. The distinguishing marks, other than the scars across his face, are notches in his ears and other remnants of fighting while in a dog body.

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Powerset: Acute senses, shapeshifting

Ability One: Acute senses. While in human form, he still has the heightened senses of smell and hearing of a dog. [note: night vision is increased somewhat but not to a notable level]

Hearing: Quite a bit more sensitive to noise than the average person. He can hear moderate sounds from a quarter of a mile away and louder things a greater distance than that. Roughly half the strength of a dog's sense of hearing.

Smell Sense of smell is drastically more powerful than any human's but not quite at the level of a dog's. Again, roughly half the strength. It's still more than enough to help him with his job and he's able to locate a mouse hiding behind a wall just by smell or hearing alone.

Ability Two: Dogbody. Shapeshifting into his pitbull form

The shifting is quick and fluid though morbid to watch. Fur sprouts over his body, bones and joints shift and change length and position, body gets more compact though his weight remains the same. Once changed he experiences the hearing, smell and other senses at the normal level that any dog would. His intelligence level hovers right between an average dog's and human's would be. He can focus on tasks and get jobs done but is prone to getting distracted. Every once and a while he stays shifted for long periods of time where he simply forgets to switch back.


Drawbacks & Weaknesses:

Acute senses:

*Keen senses: This goes both ways, being both an aid and weakness. Strong scents can cover up or block the more subtle ones. Things that smell wretched and strong can rattle him. Stinkbombs and other wretched odors are Hell on earth and easily drive him away from the source. Loud noises harm his ears and leave him more prone to attacks that target the senses.

*He can't control how strong his senses are and can't tone them down in a situation that he'd like or needs to.

Dogbody:

*Simple brain/short attention span: This is a bit more of a problem than just being easily distracted. Certain triggers can completely derail every train of thought he has and switch his focus to the new stimuli. Most notably would be bacon/cats/moving cars/squirrels. When human, these things can simply distract him but while in dog form, he can forget he was ever a person at all. More than one time he's found himself in a strange place, having chased a small animal or vehicle there, having no recollection of what brought him there. Some times, while shifted, his simple dog-like brain doesn't understand he can change back at all, leaving him in a canine form until he regains his senses.

*Diseases: He can be infected by diseases that a human or canine can get, meaning he can get ill twice as easily. The canine diseases mean he has to stop by a vet if a traditional doctor can't help him.

*Shifting: Going from dog to human and back again isn't a pleasant experience. It tingles, the bones shifting are painful and going between the two forms drain his energy and can leave him tired. If he changes to and from man and animal too many times or too quickly, the added strain can injure him. There's a chance that if he grows too excited or stressed, he can lose control and shift forms.

*The back of his eyes have the same reflective property as a dog's would. While it doesn't increase his vision much, the eyeshine makes him visible at night should a light shine into his eyes.


Skills:

*Repair: Things like mechanics and repairing things can keep him occupied for quite some time. He enjoys building things, especially if he already knows how. New tasks or designs take him a while to learn and can frustrate him tremendously but he likes to pick up new skills.

*Tracking down animals/people/targets: This comes with him having amplified senses. But he honestly likes finding hidden things, whether he's supposed to or not. It's gotten him in trouble before, sticking his nose in places it doesn't belong. Once on a trail, he finds it difficult to stop or give up, having a pathological need to be victorious.

Background: Rowen's childhood was...interesting. His mutation didn't spring up out of the blue at puberty but instead when he was a young boy. House training soon followed after potty training. It was doubly frustrating to his parents but they hung in there, determined to raise their boy as best they could. In the early years, Rowen couldn't control his powers, flicking between dog and boy every few hours or so. It meant attending a normal school was way out of the question. Much of his schooling was done at home.

Years later, he grew able to stay human most of the time. Still, if he gets overly stimulated, he can abruptly change while in public. He finished school and went on to trying to find his place in life. That took him on the road and he wandered across the midwest until he found himself in Salem. He realized that he excels in finding stuff, especially small animals, and decided to go into extermination and pest control.

He does freelance work and distributes plain business cards around the city advertising his pest control services. The jobs he gets are varied but he gets the job done in a decent amount of time. As for animal control, he does collections per head and delivers the captured animals to the city pound.

Criminal Record: N/a

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