Mops, Mickey "Charlie"

[Guest]

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CASE FILE: Alkahestrist

”D'ya like dags?”
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FULL NAME:
→ Mickey “Charlie” Mops

AGE:
→ 36

SEX:
→ Male

BIRTH PLACE:
→ Shady Pines Campground, Carraig

RACE:
→ Pikey (Creig Gypsy)

DATE OF BIRTH:
→ May 28, 1975

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HEIGHT:
→ 180 cm (about 5’11)

WEIGHT:
→ 82.55 kg (about 182 lb)

PICTURE:
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Spoiler:

DESCRIPTION:
→ Pikeys are an identifyable bunch. Their clothes are old, usually worn, and their everyday outfits tend to have a clash of colors. However, there’s one Pikey in particular that’s identifiable: Mickey. Due to a pigmentation disorder, his skin is dark and hair white. Even his style of clothes is more unique among the Pikeys. Although he puts serious effort to avoid clashing colors, he’s almost always found in bulkier, heavier clothes.

Mickey is slim for his height and weight, but toned, the result from his boxing training when he was younger and the active lifestyle he lives on a daily basis. His body is riddled with scars, thanks to his chosen professions during his life, though he has avoided losing any limbs so far, something he’s quite proud about.

His face is almost constantly plastered with a grin, as though he’s constantly amused by something he sees. His speech is fast and somewhat slurred, even when compared to a normal Pikey.

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PERSONALITY:
→ Mickey is, in all honesty, a bit of a character. He’s laid back and aloof, even when in the face of danger, and tends to take even the most serious of threats in a light-hearted manner. There are, of course, sensitive issues that this disappears. He does not take kindly to insults towards his mother, nor threats to his people.

As a Pikey, he shares a very close bond with his people. In a sense, one band of Pikeys is like one big family. They have their disagreements, but in the end, they’ll always rally behind one of their own in a time of need. Mickey, though, appears to be more sensitive to sticking up for his extended family, and is overall more protective. This means that, in a given emergency situation, he’s likely to take things to the extreme. Even amongst his family, Mickey is the most protective of his people. So long as they are family, he would fight to the death to save anyone, would go through Hell and back, and would wreak as much havoc as necessary to get the job done. Preferably with explosives.

He is, by all means, aloof. A betting man by nature, he’s not a smooth talker by any means, but rather a fast talker. He uses his quick thinking and slurred speech to put someone into a situation they didn’t want to be in. When someone wants to buy a caravan from him, he can manage to turn it around relatively quickly.

Lacking a formal education, Mickey isn’t dumb, but also isn’t particularly bright either. Like his father, he seems be a bit of a savant in “cooking,” although Mickey specializes in bomb making than beer brewing, despite having any formal training, prior knowledge, or even proper tools to do so. Still, it hasn’t stopped him yet.

LOVE:
→ Caravans, betting, things that go “boom,” the thrill of a chase, his mom, magic tricks, Kaede Patton, apples

HATE:
→ Getting caught, bomb disposal units, pig farmers, people that mess with his family, “Yo mamma” jokes, eating apples

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HISTORY:
→ ”You set the wine cellar on fire?”

”Fro hud? Ed'c hud mega ed luimt kad yho funca.”

”But the house just exploded! All that wine down there…”

”Drana fyc feha tufh drana?”

”Of course! What did you think was in the wine cellar?”

”E druikrd ed fyc zicd y hysa, mega dra Ymmah Fnahlr!”

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Mickey’s origins were perhaps as humble as they can get within a modern society. It was on one fateful morning in late May that he was brought into the world, by his parents, in their caravan, somewhere deep within a national forest campground in Carraig. For a moment, the world seemed to stand still, as the mother held her newborn child in her arms, and the father looked in awe at the image before him.

And then the two promptly went back to drunken arguing.

Mickey, as it turns out, had the luck of being born into a family of Pikeys, Creig gypsies. As luck would have it, Mickey took to this strange lifestyle like a duck to water. The mobile lifestyle, the rusting homes, the fast-paced negotiation, everything. Even at a young age, he showed many trademark characteristics of a Pikey. Fast-talking, tough, and always working another angle on a given situation. He was the pride and joy of his mother.

His father, on the other hand, wasn’t quite as happy with him. A champion bareknuckle boxer himself, he started training Mickey at the age of ten. Now, bareknuckle boxing is a brutal sport, and being trained in the art himself, his father was an unrelenting teacher, and continued until his first match when he was sixteen. His father wasn’t abusive with his methods, but many of the tactics he used were skirting the border, and besides some bloody knuckles, Mickey never got hurt during his training. His first match, however, didn’t end well. Labeled as “Charlie” Mops, after his dad, people had high expectations for him. In reality, however, Mickey got the beatdown of a lifetime, getting knocked out just at the end of the first round, and not coming to until the next morning. Having “failed at his destiny,” Mickey turned to the more mundane duties of the camp. Mainly, making bombs.

As it turned out, Mickey had a talent for cooking. Though his food is terrible, his bombs are surprisingly high quality, given their origins. Homemade plastic explosives, Molotov cocktails, improvised shape charges and landmines – if you needed a conventional explosive, chances are he could make it for you. By age twenty-four, he was in constant reserves for camp defense. Having to interact with criminal elements by nature, living was a risky business, and having someone like Mickey in the wings ready to leap into action (with explosive results) was something useful to have.

Now thirty-three, Mickey’s mother thought it was time to teach him her craft. Having been an alkahestrist since she was a young child, she taught Mickey the basics of alkahestry, then moving onto human perception. These lessons were short-lived, however – eighteen months later, she had died peacefully in her sleep, leaving Mickey with a half-learned ability and without a mother. Since, he has been keeping up with practicing, but has progressed very little in the meantime.

About a year ago, Mickey introduced a new member to his band of Pikeys: a Creig girl named Kaede Patton. After finding her and her friends in the forest one night, he decided to slowly incorporate her into their merry group, and soon she was appearing at their campsite more and more. With Mickey’s influence, she soon became incorporated like she was a member of the family. This did, however, lead to a situation neither wanted to be in.

In the end, she wasn’t a full Pikey, though she did help out the group. Therefore, when a local pig farmer was extorting them for more money, the group decided to teach the man a lesson. They sent a group of their men to strike back at the pig farmer, but they were caught in the middle of their operation, and were taken hostage. As it turns out, the farm was run and owned by infamous crime lord known as McKinly (there are reasons a man such as he would find it beneficial to have a lot of pigs, just trust me on that). The Pikeys were now in a dire situation, as they were now being asked for even more money in return, and chances were their comrades would wind up dead anyway. They knew they had to resort to extreme measures. Thus, they turned to Mickey for help, who, in turn, turned to Kaede for support.

Arming themselves with all the explosives and flammable concoctions they could get their hands on, they made their way to the pig farm. Which… didn’t end too well. They did free their kin, but the method of escape was accidental and largely involved questionable structural integrity of the building. The rest of the compound quickly followed suit, which wouldn’t have been bad if McKinly had perished along with his guard dogs and starved pigs. But he survived, and they knew he would be back for vengeance.

Enacting standard emergency protocols, the Pikeys fought off the first wave of attackers, buried the bodies at their campsite, and promptly moved to a different one. Being the root of the new problem, Mickey decided to break off from the pack, figuring that McKinly would go after him rather than his people. Ever since, he’s been on the run, though he’s had the pleasure of Kaede’s company for it.

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ALCHEMIC/ALKAHESTRIC ABILITY:
→ Mickey has a relatively basic understanding of how the human brain processes its surroundings. By interfering with how the brain processes information, he can manipulate or even create what the brain senses, effectively causing the subject to hallucinate. This can result in the subject(s) seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling something that isn’t actually happening.

His level 1 ability is to mess with someone’s peripheral vision. Specifically, he makes someone think they see something in the corner of their eye. Reactions to this alkahestry vary greatly, since it depends on the individual, their reaction to the alkahestry, and their thought process afterwards. Anything else, such as a sense of dread or a feeling of paranoia, would be the result of an individual’s influence on the series of events, not the alkahestry.

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TRIVIA:
→ His nickname of “Charlie” comes from his brief stint in bareknuckle boxing, where it was thought adopting his father’s name would be beneficial.
→ His skin and hair colors are actually the result of a pigmentation disorder.
→ Creig, Cretan, Pikey. (Colors= steel blue, orange, and fire brick, respectively.)

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ALIAS:
→ Izzy

OTHER CHARACTERS:
→ Isabella Galicia, Viktor Stalin, Dietrich, Zinaida Tarasov, Valentin, Nevada Vervada

CREATOR'S COMMENTS:
→ Inspired by my time playing D&D, the movie Snatch, and a random thought.

FACE CLAIM:
Dragon Age: Origins/Sten

CUSTOM RANK:
→ The Pikey

OFFICIAL TITLE:
→ Ghost

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