CIVILIAN . DAWKINS, ZACK

ZACHARY DAWKINS

Stubborn. Childish. Observant

Zack, 'Attack Zack'

Sixteen

13th of June 1995

Male

Heterosexual

Civilian

Student/ Well, at least on paper, he hasn't been to class for a long time, he's usually off beating up gang-members or chasing leads to find 'Fate'. Perhaps ironically, he's majoring in history.

Personality

Pretty poor, truth be told. He's classic 'single parent' offspring, always needing attention and generally getting into trouble with whoever or whatever he encounters. Zack's usually standoffish, he's got a bit of a problem making friends because he's so brutally headstrong. Perhaps contradictory to his nature, Zack also seeks to make friends with damn near everyone. He thinks people are awesome and genuinely wants to get to know everyone in LA. As you might guess, he isn't all that aware that he has his own limits as a 16 year old kid and he always gives it his all in an effort to protect people. BUT, having said that, he's also a hot-head and prone to beating up people who say or do things that offend his sensibilities (which include, but isn't limited to, hitting people smaller/weaker than you, insulting the elderly, bullying small children, etc). Perhaps it's best to say he likes people as concept but often has problems with individual people.

He's got a childish streak a mile-wide, if he isn't on his own personal 'quest' to find bad guys and smack the ever loving crap out of them (not the most mature or sane goal to begin with given it's nigh on impossible) he's usually goofing off and playing games. He's got a complete disregard for authority and reflexively does the opposite of what his superiors tell him, the only exception being occasionally he follows orders from people for reasons he doesn't understand (and naturally he finds annoying as all get out). He's self conscious about the scar on his eyebrow but he never makes and effort to conceal it because, to him, it represents his quest to stop chaos. As you may have gleaned, one of his other personality faults is his arrogance. On the plus side, he's remarkably observant, able to take note of tiny things a person says or does and use it to extrapolate information usually kept hidden, although he isn't a computer and he doesn't have a perfect memory so he can't just compile data, it's a here and now type deal.

One of the more interesting facts about Zack, his Aunt used to work at the Wright Law offices and was injured in a manner Zack finds suspicious and worth investigating. While he's largely ignorant of Fate, the Kingdom's etc, he is on the very periphery and is trying to find his way in. He has a total disdain for the police and government in general, coupled with a minor conspiracy theory about them being behind his aunt's injury. Because of his childhood, he's got a more favorable view of gangs and a generally relaxed attitude to crime.

Lineage

American national, caucasian. He's native speaker in English and thanks to his mother's private tutelage, he's conversational in Spanish and Japanese. He's also got a tentative grasp of russian but his accent is terrible.

History

No-one knows who 'Dawkins' was, but 9 months after he met Esme Lyndell he had a son happily burbling away in Oakside, Ohio. While he was a happy enough kid, Zack was always getting into trouble. The first notable encounter was in primary school where he wound up performing a suplex on another boy. It didn't really hurt either of them but he was 5 years old, it was considered somewhat excessive. The rest of Zack's school career can be charted less by his academic success (of which he had very few, History being the one stand-out case and languages) but by his various fights. He didn't win them all, not by a long way. He brawled and he scrapped and occasionally he won but the end result was nearly always what you would call a loss in terms of 'respect' or 'suspensions'.

Esme had something of a colourful past before she had Zack, though she never seemed willing to explain exactly WHAT it had entailed, and gave him some private home-schooling during his many 'sabbaticals' as she took to calling them. She seemed well-versed in languages, maths and the fundamentals of combat, which she all passed down to Zack (and was routinely ignored. She didn't need to teach him much about fighting as Zack was often learning the 'natural' way shall we say). She tried sending him to Karate classes but this was less teaching him when to fire a gun as it was giving him bigger ones. After being expelled from two different schools, Zack was sent to a reform school where he met a number of kids like himself. A few became his friends, a few his enemies and suffice to say a lot of violence was had over the subject of Zack's missing father.

The scar on his eyebrow was obtained in one of Zack's various forays into legitimate heroism. In an effort to prevent a mugging Zack found himself getting a cut above the eyebrow. While he managed to subdue the mugger (and break a number of that jerk's smaller bones in the face and hand) the scar was permanant and prompted Zack to carry a knife with him on days when he's lacking confidence, which isn't the safest of options. Zack's frequent expulsions lead to him and his mother travelling around a lot until they finally wound up in Los Angeles a month ago. It hadn't been planned but Esme's sister had been involved in an accident. While she hadn't been killed a man and a boy had been. The cover story was that it was a turf war between the Russian and Italian mafia but Zack observed something odd about his Aunt. While she supported the story Zack felt that she didn't believe it but was denying whatever the truth was for the sake of her own safety. Of course he had no evidence, just his talent for observation. Saying nothing, he decided to work out the truth for himself...

Roleplayer Information

NIKU

PREFERENCE;; Yeah, it'd fit with his character development (and be at least somewhat ironic if Fate was the cause)

FACE CLAIM;; Shokugeki no Souma – Yukihira Souma