He is English. Born in England and worked in England. He basically hitched a boat to a america in a drunken stressed out haze-since his family no longer wanted to be associated with him and he wanted to get way from his crime.
Eh, making my character have dramatic skin change so he turns black...would actually be a really cool idea in some sense but not really as weird or open for possible humor. Unless I made him a real stereotype who hates black people because he see them as all stereotypes...which could make a cool personal trip for him, learning about his racism issues and having to deal with racism as a whole. There wasn't a too big a link at racism being the cause his accusation, it was more of the fact he did a bad job, got suckered by some poor evidence and blamed the Irish bum-more on the account he was a foreigner contributing nothing, sort of a territorial classism issue more-which due to the crime got the guy lynched.
A typical haunted by ghosts curse isn't really anything extreme or weird(but it can be good given the right touches here and there) and can more or less...like you said be dispelled by prays, magicks or enchanted objects and doesn't have that much of an effect beside making him paranoid at best and a little stressed out from time to time and if I'm going for a pure mind play curse rather than a character alteration I would be better off just shooting high and aiming for something specifically meant to drive him mad(or at least disturb him...since those kind of events are generally just more cinematic to write
Example Given: When he lights a candle flesh drips off it instead of wax or something. Shadows stop moving in his eyes. Sound suddenly stops for him.
Which, would be nice. I'm rusty in the RP-year long break mostly-and little events like that would help me work out the rust.
Alright. How about something more classic call of Cathulu type character scenario. He suffers with a curse that no one can identify, haunts him and makes him experience random scenarios. Silver only knows that the curse is reaching an "ultimate" as in it is building up and will only get very, very slowly more intense before unleashing it actual effect. He sticks to Silver and works hard because its his only chance to find something or someone(who may be a something technically) that can give him answers. He Joined Silver shortly after contracting the curse from a book that he collected from the occult. Which he burnt out of disgust shortly after, although left with the fact monsters do exists. Prayers and specifically holy items and actions only soften it-to the same effect an soothing cream has against a enflamed tumor has-in this one he still a normal detective, pretty good at his job. Decent ballistic skill and physically alright for a punch up.
I kind of want the curse to be really over powering-or at least have a sort of... surrounding presence-or be really, really weird (like the hobo one for just an example)also he copes with the drinking issue with Silver basically giving him only solid food, letting him camp outside as a guard-since his curse says he can't have lodgings-and pretty much using a straw-the curse only activates if it touches his lips, if it got straight into his mouth he is ok-
if you like any of those that I said. Feel free to pick one. I'll write up a profile for him.
please excuse if I'm typo'ing a bit. It late for me.
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