Name: Rakkaras Lamraoui
Nick Name/ Code Name: Rakka, Hellhound
Age: 27, though he looks no older than 22.
Description (image and/or words): Somewhat swarthy and dark haired, he looks of probable Persian descent. At six-foot-two, his body is remarkably athletic with a lean, muscular sculpt over attractive bone structure. His hair is chopped into messy layers to his collar, and his eyes are a somewhat disconcerting red-amber color, lending to a feral appearance. A closer look at his hands reveals claw-like fingernails, and his teeth look more adapted to biting than the average person. His tendency to ditch all unnecessary articles of clothing reveals that his flesh is remarkably unblemished and free of scarring. The clothing he does wear normally consists of a pair of jeans, though he'll bread out the tank top and flip flops if he's going to be entering a store. He holds himself with quite a bit of easygoing and natural confidence, lending him a certain charisma. Despite his friendly nature, he can very quickly start to look like the dangerous, intimidating fighter he actually is when threatened.
Talent/ Power: Rakka is a 'feral type,' possessing a collection of characteristics common to his animal association; the dog. Stronger than normal senses of smell and hearing, hotter core body temperature, claws, and pointy teeth are readily noticeable. His super Talent, however, is his exceedingly exceptional healing and regenerative ability, which has allowed him to remain free of scarring, and seems to have slowed down his aging process.
Strengths: Rakka has significant experience in fighting, and therefore possesses exceptional strength and above average speed and reflexes. Due to his ability to heal, he tends to take daring risks to his health and well being that all but the most reckless individual would blanch to take... and has yet to regret it. Rakka is also a capable jack of all trades, from fixing a leaky pipe to a leaky car, cleaning house, cooking a meal, or a number of other tasks.
Weaknesses: Rakka tends to trust first and ask questions later. While far from unintelligent, he prefers a simple world view due to his dog-like nature, and is susceptible to things like food bribes and distraction via petting/scratches. Rakka also has a somewhat overactive libido, and doesn't do terribly much to resist seduction, unless he is currently involved with a lover who actively expects exclusivity.
Likes: Men, fishing, long walks on beaches or otherwise, food, a good fight, and taking nice, long naps after satisfying baser needs and desires.
Dislikes: Getting angry or upset, when friends are threatened or in dangerous situations, anything that threatens or poses a danger to friends, losing.
Fears: His past coming back to haunt and threaten him.
Open and gregarious, Rakka makes friendships easily. Footloose and independent, he holds the sort of confidence only seen in individuals who can and have lived entirely off of the environment, free of obligation. Though independent, he is in no way shape or form a 'lone wolf' type. Instead, he is exceedingly warm, affectionate, and generous. Never adverse to hard work, he'll pick up jobs if the fancy strikes him, and he's exceedingly loyal to anyone he decides to attach himself to.
Rakka carries around a mid-sized duffel bag filled with what possessions he feels are necessary, which is a good deal less than what the average person considers necessary.
Rakka is the younger of a set of twin brothers, who were born in urban slums to indeterminate parentage. Abandoned in toddler-hood, they were abandoned again at the age of five, sold by their caretaker's drug dealer to a child labor ring. After an incident revealed the nature of their Talent, they were requisitioned by their boss' boss into the pit fighting ring by the age of eight, where they were trained by a combination of brutal lessons and need to survive into highly successful child fighters. After an unsuccessful attempt to run away at age ten, they came into the awareness of a particular group of unethical Talent researchers, where their Talents were put to the test in more regulated pit fighting battles, where they received further fighting and martial arts training. At age fourteen, they were given the opportunity to take part in a more coordinated, and ultimately more successful "jailbreak" effort, after which they faced the depressing reality that they would be much less identifiable if they ran solo, than in a twinset. In New New Orleans, they split up. Rakka has not seen his brother in person since, though they had remained in brief but regular contact up until five years ago.
Upon splitting up with his brother, Rakka gravitated to the southern countryside, and ended up on a small farm run by a late middle-aged man and his sweet-tempered wife. Under their gentle guidance, Rakka learned how to do many physical, craft-related labors, his favorite being carpentry. While he had learned rudimentary literacy and math in the fighting rings, he was able to continue and expand his education while on the farm, where he stayed until he was seventeen, when the farmer had a stroke, and was relieved of his labors by an adult son who Rakka did not have the best relationship with. Rakka began his travels at this point, wandering all over the country and occasionally out of it, never staying more than a maximum of a year in any one location. He became a proficient Jack of all Trades and a master of the bohemian lifestyle of living on almost no money at all, since he did not have the sort of identification required to open a bank account, acquire a credit card, or start a mortgage. At the same time, he actively keeps away from the underworld as much as possible, not wanting to encounter anyone who might remember him and somehow connect the adult to the child. Though he no longer fights unless he has to, he keeps up his training and condition, fearing the worst and expecting the past to come back and bite him someday, especially given the mysterious silence from his vanished twin.
