Post by blaquesaber on Nov 18, 2008 1:16:37 GMT -5
Which Side: Good [with questionable methods sometimes]
Real Name: Jean Paul Valley
Code Name: AZREAL
Age: 25
Hair: He has close cropped blond hair that isn't styled at all.
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 187 lb
Overall Visual Image: On his own, in a crowd, Jean Paul is very average. Whether it be those who altered his DNA or a simple coincidence Jean Paul blends into a crowd of one very easy. Not tall dark and handsome by any means, he's a bit scrawny and gangly.
Piercings: Jean Paul pierced his left ear lobe, but has allowed it to grow back.
Tattoos: None
Scars: None. Jean Paul possess a very intense healing factor.
Powers: The source of Azrael's abilities is a post-hypnotic training regimen known as The System. The details of The System are never fully explained, but it is understood that training begins before birth and includes genetic modification, prenatal electric shock, and the use of gorillas as surrogate mothers. The end result is a human being who is inhumanly strong and fast and has a raging split personality triggered by the donning of the Azrael costume. The split personality is apparently coached to believe it is an actual Biblical angel of vengeance. His weapons include wrist-mounted swords which ignite flames and can also be launched from the gauntlets. Azrael also dons a bullet- and flame-proof armor.
Strong Points: An accomplished combatant, a honed assassin, and a drive for unyielding success.
Down Points: Azreal can often times be quick to judge and lunge forward without thinking things through. The "System" has a strange control over him, it leaves him vulnerable...
Personality: Jean-Paul Valley, a university student in Gotham City, is unaware that he is the latest in a line of assassin-enforcers for "The Sacred Order of Saint Dumas", a sinister secret society, and had received training and mental conditioning to prepare him for his role since before he was born. He is a test tube baby, and his genes have been spliced with those of animals. For most of his life, he has been brainwashed with "The System", a deep level of psychological conditioning. Valley only learns of this upon the death of his father, who was also his predecessor, at which time his conditioning is activated and he is called upon to take up the mantle of Azrael. When he is sent by the Order to kill a weapons dealer, a rogue member of the Order who had turned against the others and killed his father, he crosses paths with Batman, who was investigating the death of Valley's father after the damage he had caused following his attack. While working with Alfred to find the weapons dealer after he has captured Bruce Wayne, using the Batman costume to kill the other Order members in an attempt to create further confusion, he is shown the error of his ways and he decides to fight alongside Batman against the criminals of Gotham, rejecting his "birthright" and seeking Batman's help in breaking his conditioning to forge his own destiny. His name isn't revealed until the end of the story, at which point he claims it was his father's name too.
Real Name: Jean Paul Valley
Code Name: AZREAL
Age: 25
Hair: He has close cropped blond hair that isn't styled at all.
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 187 lb
Overall Visual Image: On his own, in a crowd, Jean Paul is very average. Whether it be those who altered his DNA or a simple coincidence Jean Paul blends into a crowd of one very easy. Not tall dark and handsome by any means, he's a bit scrawny and gangly.
Piercings: Jean Paul pierced his left ear lobe, but has allowed it to grow back.
Tattoos: None
Scars: None. Jean Paul possess a very intense healing factor.
Powers: The source of Azrael's abilities is a post-hypnotic training regimen known as The System. The details of The System are never fully explained, but it is understood that training begins before birth and includes genetic modification, prenatal electric shock, and the use of gorillas as surrogate mothers. The end result is a human being who is inhumanly strong and fast and has a raging split personality triggered by the donning of the Azrael costume. The split personality is apparently coached to believe it is an actual Biblical angel of vengeance. His weapons include wrist-mounted swords which ignite flames and can also be launched from the gauntlets. Azrael also dons a bullet- and flame-proof armor.
Strong Points: An accomplished combatant, a honed assassin, and a drive for unyielding success.
Down Points: Azreal can often times be quick to judge and lunge forward without thinking things through. The "System" has a strange control over him, it leaves him vulnerable...
Personality: Jean-Paul Valley, a university student in Gotham City, is unaware that he is the latest in a line of assassin-enforcers for "The Sacred Order of Saint Dumas", a sinister secret society, and had received training and mental conditioning to prepare him for his role since before he was born. He is a test tube baby, and his genes have been spliced with those of animals. For most of his life, he has been brainwashed with "The System", a deep level of psychological conditioning. Valley only learns of this upon the death of his father, who was also his predecessor, at which time his conditioning is activated and he is called upon to take up the mantle of Azrael. When he is sent by the Order to kill a weapons dealer, a rogue member of the Order who had turned against the others and killed his father, he crosses paths with Batman, who was investigating the death of Valley's father after the damage he had caused following his attack. While working with Alfred to find the weapons dealer after he has captured Bruce Wayne, using the Batman costume to kill the other Order members in an attempt to create further confusion, he is shown the error of his ways and he decides to fight alongside Batman against the criminals of Gotham, rejecting his "birthright" and seeking Batman's help in breaking his conditioning to forge his own destiny. His name isn't revealed until the end of the story, at which point he claims it was his father's name too.
