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User DW:lavanille
AIM/IM: n/a
E-mail: hatofrabbits@gmail.com
Other Characters: Selina Kyle, Lark Tennant
Character Name: David Cain
Series: DC Comics, Batman
Age: In his 60’s, but it’s hard to say where exactly.
From When?: Batman 606, as he’s being transported to the infirmary and intercepted by Batman and Deadshot. His last memory of home will be of falling off the bridge after the explosion.
Inmate: Cain is an unrepentant murderer. But he feels intense guilt for what he did to Cassandra, and he’s going to be trying to make amends for that in his own way.
Abilities/Powers: He has mastered over 100 forms of martial art, he is an expert marksman and adept with any weapon or improvised weapon he gets his hands on. He’s highly analytical and he has finely honed mechanical skills, all of which make him very difficult to beat, let alone kill.
But that being said, David Cain is just a human. A highly skilled, obsessively perfectionist assassin, but at the end of the day he is mortal and he is growing old. He won’t have the endurance that most people on board have, and it’s very likely that he won’t heal as fast, and that he’ll have old injuries that “act up” now and again.
Personality: David Cain is a man married to his work. He may not have the manic love of it that you would expect from someone as ruthless as he is, but he’s every bit as devoted as Batman’s sidekicks. He may not have had the galvanizing personal reasons for doing what he does that many ‘villains’ do, but he hones his skills for the sake of competition, and he has a keen sense of legacy. He designed Cassandra Cain to be his replacement, so that his talents wouldn’t die with him.
There are two sides to Cain, then: the assassin, and the father. He spent Cassandra’s childhood blending the two, training her relentlessly and dangerously. The other children he attempted the ‘coursework’ with ended up dead, but Cassandra’s parentage was carefully chosen: Lady Shiva is her mother, and he is her biological father. As a result of her parentage, she has genetic advantages, but she also has Cain’s genuine love and devotion.
Cassandra is no longer his heir, and Cain doesn’t seem the least bit disappointed by that. Instead, when he meets her again after a decade and realizes she has learned to speak, he weeps. And after he turns himself over to the police, he breaks out of solitary confinement just to give her a birthday present, and then he returns to his cell. Most telling of all is the way he gives up on his life when he realizes what he has done to her.
When he isn’t working, he drinks and he womanizes and he brags. He has a jovial perception of his life that is always somewhere between genuine and sardonic. At one point he sings “Darling Clementine” as his only apology to Cassandra; at another point, he regales a woman with a rambling, drunken tale of how he was beaten by Batman—at the last instant he changes the ending and says that he shot Batman dead. When she calls him out on it he shrugs off the gaffe and gives up on trying to woo her.
Cain is not as stubborn as most men in his line of work. He can be single-minded bordering on sociopathic, but he has proven himself to be insightful and empathetic as well. He knows in a single word how badly he damaged Cassandra, and later he's willing to listen to Batman, a man who has repeatedly beaten Cain to a pulp and disrupted his work. Cain listens to reason, but he also listens to humanity; it's just hard to predict when he'll show mercy and when he'll pull the trigger.
Barge Reactions: David is obviously very adaptable; that's a job skill. He also is coming from a prison, and has just had someone try to kill him. He'll assume he's been transferred to a new prison for safety, or on Batman's recommendation.
He will have people who hate him on board. Some of them will try to beat him, or even kill him. He won't stop them at first. He loves Cass, but he won't need or try to protect her until he sees a few floods or Ports and realizes he might need to step in.
Path to Redemption: You won’t have to convince him that what he did to her was wrong, and you probably won’t be able to convince him that what he did for a living was bad. But the right warden will be able to get Cain to be a sort of anti-hero type, to use his skills to support his daughter in her new calling (and eventually to shape his own life into something a tiny bit more noble than ‘assassin’.)
As he progresses, he'll start to want to protect himself again. David tends to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, but as long as what you ask him to do is in his best interests he's usually cooperative. He won't scrub floors or toilets, and if he can't get something out of a job, he probably won't do it.
History: Wiki Here
Sample Journal Entry: [Cain has always liked cameras. The right angle can say so much, can't it? And maybe that's why he's carrying his along--he re-calibrated it to record only in black and white, and that's what he decides to explain first.]
When I was a kid, we used to dream about having all the talkies in color. Then it happened and I saw Gone With the Wind in technicolor and you know what I realize now? It's all overrated. Color! Look around, all you see is color. But see something in all these shades of grey and it's like entering a new world.
[He whistles a little tune, pauses, camera held against his chest so for a moment there's nothing to see. Then he continues on, having evaded someone. He doesn't speak again for a few moments; he's found his way to the deck and, like a lot of people, he's a little awe-struck. But then he turns the camera to show a little stuffed animal's round ear; you can't tell what type of animal it is, since most of it is hidden in a bag.]
Anyone want to guess what color this is?
Sample RP: Breaking into any place on the Barge was impossible. He'd learned that the hard way weeks ago. When he'd given up on liberating potential poisons, he had decided to resume his hunger strike in his room, but that hadn't been necessary after all. Not with so many people out for his blood.
So now he spent most of his time either alone in his room waiting for the next assault, or on the deck staring at the stars. And waiting for the next assault. He supposed the next time someone tried to kill him, he'd try to find a warden to take him down to Level Zero for a visit with his attacker, but that also meant he'd need to find a warden to make nice with.
That normally wasn't such a daunting task. As lethal as he was, he could usually befriend some poor schmuck long enough to get a key or a free beer. But as it turned out, Cassandra was a warden here, and she had soaked up all the useful alliances.
Well, good for her. He had never thought the kid would need social skills. His reasoning hadn't been to isolate her, it just seemed practical. Why ask a concierge for a room key when she could break in through the window? He'd never known if her native language would translate to things like friendship. Or love. He had never felt any romantic stirrings, and naively he had assumed his daughter wouldn't either, but here...maybe she'd get a chance. Maybe she'd fuck it up, but maybe she'd enjoy doing it.
Yeah, if that next assault didn't come soon he'd have to go find it himself.
Special Notes: Already cleared with the other DC members!
User DW:
lavanilleAIM/IM: n/a
E-mail: hatofrabbits@gmail.com
Other Characters: Selina Kyle, Lark Tennant
Character Name: David Cain
Series: DC Comics, Batman
Age: In his 60’s, but it’s hard to say where exactly.
From When?: Batman 606, as he’s being transported to the infirmary and intercepted by Batman and Deadshot. His last memory of home will be of falling off the bridge after the explosion.
Inmate: Cain is an unrepentant murderer. But he feels intense guilt for what he did to Cassandra, and he’s going to be trying to make amends for that in his own way.
Abilities/Powers: He has mastered over 100 forms of martial art, he is an expert marksman and adept with any weapon or improvised weapon he gets his hands on. He’s highly analytical and he has finely honed mechanical skills, all of which make him very difficult to beat, let alone kill.
But that being said, David Cain is just a human. A highly skilled, obsessively perfectionist assassin, but at the end of the day he is mortal and he is growing old. He won’t have the endurance that most people on board have, and it’s very likely that he won’t heal as fast, and that he’ll have old injuries that “act up” now and again.
Personality: David Cain is a man married to his work. He may not have the manic love of it that you would expect from someone as ruthless as he is, but he’s every bit as devoted as Batman’s sidekicks. He may not have had the galvanizing personal reasons for doing what he does that many ‘villains’ do, but he hones his skills for the sake of competition, and he has a keen sense of legacy. He designed Cassandra Cain to be his replacement, so that his talents wouldn’t die with him.
There are two sides to Cain, then: the assassin, and the father. He spent Cassandra’s childhood blending the two, training her relentlessly and dangerously. The other children he attempted the ‘coursework’ with ended up dead, but Cassandra’s parentage was carefully chosen: Lady Shiva is her mother, and he is her biological father. As a result of her parentage, she has genetic advantages, but she also has Cain’s genuine love and devotion.
Cassandra is no longer his heir, and Cain doesn’t seem the least bit disappointed by that. Instead, when he meets her again after a decade and realizes she has learned to speak, he weeps. And after he turns himself over to the police, he breaks out of solitary confinement just to give her a birthday present, and then he returns to his cell. Most telling of all is the way he gives up on his life when he realizes what he has done to her.
When he isn’t working, he drinks and he womanizes and he brags. He has a jovial perception of his life that is always somewhere between genuine and sardonic. At one point he sings “Darling Clementine” as his only apology to Cassandra; at another point, he regales a woman with a rambling, drunken tale of how he was beaten by Batman—at the last instant he changes the ending and says that he shot Batman dead. When she calls him out on it he shrugs off the gaffe and gives up on trying to woo her.
Cain is not as stubborn as most men in his line of work. He can be single-minded bordering on sociopathic, but he has proven himself to be insightful and empathetic as well. He knows in a single word how badly he damaged Cassandra, and later he's willing to listen to Batman, a man who has repeatedly beaten Cain to a pulp and disrupted his work. Cain listens to reason, but he also listens to humanity; it's just hard to predict when he'll show mercy and when he'll pull the trigger.
Barge Reactions: David is obviously very adaptable; that's a job skill. He also is coming from a prison, and has just had someone try to kill him. He'll assume he's been transferred to a new prison for safety, or on Batman's recommendation.
He will have people who hate him on board. Some of them will try to beat him, or even kill him. He won't stop them at first. He loves Cass, but he won't need or try to protect her until he sees a few floods or Ports and realizes he might need to step in.
Path to Redemption: You won’t have to convince him that what he did to her was wrong, and you probably won’t be able to convince him that what he did for a living was bad. But the right warden will be able to get Cain to be a sort of anti-hero type, to use his skills to support his daughter in her new calling (and eventually to shape his own life into something a tiny bit more noble than ‘assassin’.)
As he progresses, he'll start to want to protect himself again. David tends to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, but as long as what you ask him to do is in his best interests he's usually cooperative. He won't scrub floors or toilets, and if he can't get something out of a job, he probably won't do it.
History: Wiki Here
Sample Journal Entry: [Cain has always liked cameras. The right angle can say so much, can't it? And maybe that's why he's carrying his along--he re-calibrated it to record only in black and white, and that's what he decides to explain first.]
When I was a kid, we used to dream about having all the talkies in color. Then it happened and I saw Gone With the Wind in technicolor and you know what I realize now? It's all overrated. Color! Look around, all you see is color. But see something in all these shades of grey and it's like entering a new world.
[He whistles a little tune, pauses, camera held against his chest so for a moment there's nothing to see. Then he continues on, having evaded someone. He doesn't speak again for a few moments; he's found his way to the deck and, like a lot of people, he's a little awe-struck. But then he turns the camera to show a little stuffed animal's round ear; you can't tell what type of animal it is, since most of it is hidden in a bag.]
Anyone want to guess what color this is?
Sample RP: Breaking into any place on the Barge was impossible. He'd learned that the hard way weeks ago. When he'd given up on liberating potential poisons, he had decided to resume his hunger strike in his room, but that hadn't been necessary after all. Not with so many people out for his blood.
So now he spent most of his time either alone in his room waiting for the next assault, or on the deck staring at the stars. And waiting for the next assault. He supposed the next time someone tried to kill him, he'd try to find a warden to take him down to Level Zero for a visit with his attacker, but that also meant he'd need to find a warden to make nice with.
That normally wasn't such a daunting task. As lethal as he was, he could usually befriend some poor schmuck long enough to get a key or a free beer. But as it turned out, Cassandra was a warden here, and she had soaked up all the useful alliances.
Well, good for her. He had never thought the kid would need social skills. His reasoning hadn't been to isolate her, it just seemed practical. Why ask a concierge for a room key when she could break in through the window? He'd never known if her native language would translate to things like friendship. Or love. He had never felt any romantic stirrings, and naively he had assumed his daughter wouldn't either, but here...maybe she'd get a chance. Maybe she'd fuck it up, but maybe she'd enjoy doing it.
Yeah, if that next assault didn't come soon he'd have to go find it himself.
Special Notes: Already cleared with the other DC members!
