The Emerald Knight

Name: Zyke Taylar

Aliases:

Former
The Emerald Knight

Current
Nightbane

Age: 28

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Hair: Dark Brown, now dyed Blonde

Eyes: Green

Weight: 189 lbs

Height: 6' 2"

Equipment:

Former
Longsword
Knife
Throwing Stars
Grappling Hook
Glider Cape

Current
Katana x 3
Throwing Stars

Armor:

Former
Bulletproof Kevlar vest
Stabproof gloves/boots

Current
Low caliber bulletproof vest
Stabproof gloves/boots

Strengths: Zyke is highly agile, and can jump over six feet in the air from a stand. He is very smart and cunning. He is highly skilled with all his weapons, and can hit up to five different targets with five different throwing stars at one time, thrown from the same hand.

Weakness: Nightbane is not very strong however, and can sometimes overlook important details. He tends to rush into situatuions without fully analyzing them, and his skill sometimes makes him feel overconfident.

Abilities:

Zyke has a small device attached to the base of his skull that can be activated mentally. When it is, it spikes his adrenaline for two minutes, then it take thirty seconds to lower them to normal levels, and three minutes to recharge. During this adrenaline spike, his reflexes are so fast, he can catch a bullet from the air, and he heals more quickly, but still not perceptibly.

Appearance:

Former


Current


Personality: Zyke has a strong sense of justice, and will not tolerate any lawbreaking. His mission against crime has left him seemiong cold on the outside, but he has a soft spot for children, and a heart of gold. He is willing to take any risk to his own self to hunt down lawbreakers, but he is always acutely aware of the dangers he will be putting on others, and will not take unescessary risks to others. However cold he is to lawbreakers, he will always give those he hunts a chance to explain and prove thamselves innocent. He's not a monster. However, he is tormented by the paradoxical nature of his own mission. In killing criminals, he himself becomes a criminal.

Biography: In the year 4786, a new, habitable planet has been disovered. Named New Earth, this planet quickly prospered, and towering cities, taller than they were wide, sprang up. Highrise City was among the first of these. Its tallest building is 4o,000 stories tall, and it has degraded into a cesspit of crime.

Born in the lower levels of Highrise, Zyke Taylar had a hard life. he wasn't poor, but his father got into some trouble with the local loan sharks. They would pay him "visits" more and more frequently, until one night, the beating went too far, and Zyke was left fatherless. Blind rage filled him, and he pushed the men off the 700th story balcony. Justice was served that night. Zyke liked it.

Determined that no other child would decome fatherless at the hands of criminals, Zyke crafted himself a new identity, as the Emerald Knight, defender of Highrise City. Zyke combated crime lords such as the Hyena, Firearm, Munition, and the Demon-Thing.

Then came the day he got into a fight with a powerful and deadly woman. Their struggle ended with a building being brought down on top of Zyke. The Emerald Knight was declared dead, and Zyke was free to resume his vigilante activities without the entirety of New Earth knowing his true identity. With the help his savior, Dr. Talis, he became Nightbane, and resumed his hero work, undercover.

Okay, lemme see ...

Personality: Zyke has a strong sense of justice, and will not tolerate any lawbreaking. His mission against crime has left him seemiong cold on the outside, but he has a soft spot for children, and a heart of gold.

I want more than two sentences. Two sentences is like making him two-dimensional. Tell me more about this guy. Right now he's what I call a flat character. I want to see you blow him up and round him. I want to see a round character, because right now he's got about as much personality has he does sentences. Not a lot.

How's it now?

Okay, that's better. Looks like you've got enough.

*Approved*