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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Immanuel Washington

Concept: high-level Professional killer

AKA: Some spook quality paper with half a dozen ID’s

Desc: A tallish African American without a trace of fat on him. Has a swimmer’s build. moves like a martial artist. Keeps his hair short. Surprisingly empathetic eyes. Navy seal Tattoo.

History: It’s kind of hard to picture certain things.  Manny as a little baby with his mother holding him tight and singing to him. It happened all right. But it seemed that there were so many things that went wrong along the way.
Mama tried to raise a good boy. But the neighborhood was rough, and the church they went to was full of people who were just as bad in their own way. Manny could see it, even if mama couldn’t. 
   Manny wasn’t a bad kid really. He simply had a gift for violence.  He wasn’t wrathful or emotional or anything like that. He understood on some level that he simply didn’t feel things in the same way that others did.  It occurred to him that with little effort, he could become an utter monster.

And on some deep level, he realized that he didn’t want to be a monster. That he had to...HAD TO...harness this gift of his.  As soon as he was old enough, he enlisted in the navy.  He threw himself into the work of being a professional military man and eventually a Spec-ops operator.  Military service was exactly what he needed and also exactly what he needed to avoid. Eventually, the bad outweighed the good, and he waited long enough to muster out before disappearing. 

He took some time off.  He audited dozen of courses at universities. and then, when the time was right. decided that he should go into business for himself.

The thing about Immanuel is, He doesn’t do innocents. He ALWAYS refuses rush jobs because it’s too easy to find that he’s killed someone that WAS innocent if he’s not able to do basic research. (And as a group of Basque separatists found out, he doesn’t take it well if gulled into killing an innocent.) Oh, he’ll kill someone for money, but the only thing that comforts him is that most of the people he contends with have done something to bring him to their door.  When he saw the movie “Grosse Point Blank” he felt like he understood.

Attitude: Some people need killing. It is a thing that I am skilled in. I don’t kill cops or spooks or soldiers unless I have to, those men and women are just doing their jobs. I don’t kill women unless they are fellow professionals AND trying to kill me. I do not kill children.

Skills: Immanuel is a skilled hand to hand combatant, having dots in jiu Jitsu and Military Arts Combatics. He also has a good working knowledge of improvised weaponry.  He’s had more than one job that’s required him to walk into a hot zone entirely weaponless. He is skilled in the use of knives (Spetnatz knife fighting) and most military weapons in use by Seal teams.  While strong, his main skill is the ability to think on his feet and deal with evolving dynamics.(High wits and Dex) Also, he’s Eidetic and ambidextrous.
In addition: Immanuel has made up for an inner city education by becoming a skilled computer user and investigator.  He speaks 3 separate languages and has a fondness for poetry too, but it rarely comes up in the field.
Socially...Well. He tends to come off as somewhat terse and taciturn. He doesn’t seem to have any trouble intimidating people. They can sense a certain coldness in him.

Gear: As someone who is more than capable of killing with his bare hands, Manny rarely goes anywhere without some sort of arms. Usually two handguns under his armpits (Laser sights) Two knives at his wrists, Two in the small of his back. Two inside his belt. and two on his shins.  On a lark, he bought a strangling wire concealed in a wrist watch from a free-lance armorer. Turned out to work pretty good in a pinch.
Manny keeps intel on his clients and targets on a cloud server easily accessible from his phone or tablet. He is careful to keep nothing incriminating on either. Certain entities have discovered that intel is kept in a button-down mode and that if he’s kept from accessing it, information is slotted into the hands of a dozen law enforcement professionals.

Home: Manny lives in hotels. Manny owns a home, under another name. It employs a caretaker. That the caretaker happens to be Manny’s mom is surely just a happy coincidence.

Circle: Immanuel is as lone wolf as they come.  He knows a (very) few people in murder for hire, has a (very)small number of navy buddies and has a couple of friends from the old neighborhood. He doesn’t really see anyone regularly.  He has an agent that lines up contracts for him but the agent is carefully anonymous and he is just as anonymous to him.  It’s safer that way.

Story Uses:
“No, what you don’t understand is that I’m not like other guys.”
He’s really not.  Immanuel’s father was a part of a soldier improvement program. Immanuel was supposedly an impossibility. Immanuel’s father was supposed to be sterile. He was also not supposed to be able to buck his programming... And Immanuel is twice as good as his old man. (Seriously. give him ridiculous mental and physical and lot of similar merits.)

“Shockingly...I’m not here to kill you at all. But certain people are going to be very sorry I was sent.”
It’s not so much that he has a conscience, It’s that he has RULES.  and the rules are important. Even his mother suspects that Immanuel is a very dangerous man and has maybe done some bad things. But he knows that there is a line and he won’t cross it.  Otherwise...he’d never be able to look her in the eyes again.

Connections:
*Has fulfilled contracts for Don Pentangelli. The Don is impressed with Manny's professionalism. Most hitters are decidedly "buggy" in the Don's opinion.
Dr. Ronnette Franklin is one of Manny's friends from the old neighborhood. He's the one who taught her how to use the pistol she has.
Aldous Church is a professional acquaintance. Neither is attached to the other, but each knows the other is the one of the best at his job.
Charlie is actually Manny's uncle. Neither of them know this.


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