Unbroken Hound

The Unbroken Hound
Player: @Jayfast
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Character Build
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Mastermind
Security Level:	50
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Jackson Caolán Shaw
Known Aliases:	Jack, Hound, The Unbroken Hound (Mastermind), The Hound of Shannalot (Brute), The Gentle Hound (Controller)
Age:	42 (~3000)
Gender:	Male (Fluid)
Species:	Chimera [Human / Dryad / Dog ]
Ethnicity:	Irish / Telugu
Birthdate:	May 16
Birthplace:	Paragon City, Rhode Island
Relatives:	*Jackson Shaw Sr. (Father - Deceased) Satya Shrivastav (Mother) Mahat Shaw (Brother) Siobahn Shaw (Sister) Auntie Tuhi (Aunt) Cu Briste (Praetoria Twin, considers sibling)
Characteristics
Height:	6'3"
Weight:	244lbs
Eyes:	Hazel
Hair:	Ginger
Complexion:	Tan
Physical Build:	Comfortably strong
Physical Features:	*Freckles Dog Tail Scar over left eye Three piercings in his upper left ear Calloused Hands
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Neutral Good
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Reclusive
Identity:	Relatively Known
Years Active:	4 years as The Hound, 2 as Jack. (Retired)
Base of Operations:	Croatoa
Citizenship:	Dual Citizen (Ireland / America)
Education:	*Some College EMT Certification
Occupation:	*Teaches Arcane Theory at Salamanca University Freelance Enchanter and Researcher
Marital Status:	Single
Known Powers and Abilities
*See Magic Dryad's Heart Shapeshifting Communication with Canines
Equipment and Paraphernalia
*Crystal Pen for inscriptions

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Endurance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Agility	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Speed	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Fighting	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Projectiles	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Durability	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Resistance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Psyche	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intuition	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Charisma	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
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Profile

Background

Originally a human with minimum magical talent, Jack worked as a mechanic at his father's shop "Shaw and Sons". As the eldest son who had any interest and talent with engineering, Jack inherited the store from his father after he died of cancer. Jack's mother, Satya, lived separately from his father in India, but visited often when she had the opportunity. Jack maintained a routine life until he met the dryad Shannalot, who immediately took interest in the human and his awkward kindness. Jack married Shannalot after a brief period of dating, before the two were captured by the cult Somnis Sol. Due to this incident, Jack and Shannalot are permanently fused, along with The Hound.

Currently, Jack lives alone in an isolated part of Croatoa, where he performs his studies, gardens, and teaches at the Salamanca University.

Personality

Depending on which part of the chimera you speak to, Jack's personality can leave people in almost whiplash. Being an amalgamation of three different people, Jack's personality maintains three specific aspects that cross over with each other fairly often.

Jack

Jack himself is very quiet and anxious. In life, he was diagnosed with a Generalized Anxiety Disorder that made conversation difficult for him, and led him to lead a more solitary, reclusive life. Underneath that quiet anxiety lies a heart of gold and a drive to learn. Jack himself represents the part of the trio who wants to learn, grow, and help. His determination shines especially through during times of trouble when others need his help, pushing him to drastic heights in order to reach out and protect whomever he deems as important.

Jack comes off as gruff and prickly, often falling back to the occasional insult and colorful swear to get his point across. The PPC often coined that his bed-side manner was practically "non-existent" and better fit for the morgue than the hospital. Once one gets past the gruff exterior, he is a genuinely caring and kind person... who has the mouth of an Irishman.

Jack has an insatiable appetite for learning, which after his fusion with Shannalot turned from mechanics to magic. Often times he falls into long winded explanations and rants on magical theory, only to interrupt himself when he recognizes his explanations.

While all three personalities mesh together, Jack's personality is the most prominent in the three. Due to his natural personality, Hound and Shannalot amplify his positive traits, allowing him to have the confidence to connect with others and act when necessary.

Jack's personality is most prominent in intimate, one-on-one situations. His speech tends to be calmer and more thought out, occasionally falling back into his own stutter when his anxiety begins to ebb in again.

Hound

Although neither Jack or Shannnlot recognize the Hound's breed, both simply accept that he is indeed a good boy. Hound is friendlier than Jack and Shannalot, delighting in spending time with others and meeting new people. The Hound tends to be more jovial and indulge more in jokes and physical affection with others, much to Jack's chagrin sometimes. Often The Hound will simply assuming his own form using Jack's shapeshifting, and spend time looking for affection or exploring when he gets the chance to.

The Hound is more prominent in times when Jack's emotions are heavier on the positive, and often in social situations. He has a tendency to amplify Jack and Shannalot's protective instincts, and is often the one most comfortable with hero work.

Shannalot

The Dryad Shannalot is an ancient, mysterious existence who took interest in Jack. Her level of confidence and aggressive optimism far outshined Jack-- and was in fact what originally attracted Jack to her. As herself, Shannalot is confident, almost to reckless levels, and loves to play tricks on Jack and sometimes even his friends. Possessing an ancient library of knowledge, Shannalot harnesses an intense level of knowledge and magic that Jack still has difficulties maintaining.

Above all, Shannalot is the part of Jack that loves him the most. She encourages Jack to take care of himself and love himself, while coaxing his more confident and determined side into the light.

Shannalot is very rarely prominent among the three, only seemingly coming out whenever Jack needs her support or if there is a level of magic required that Jack can't yet harness.

Appearance

Jack's appearance can come off as rough and almost intimidating for those who do not know him. Due to the rough life he's lead since Somnis Sol, Jack has a low grade illusion constantly maintained over his skin that hides a majority of his scars and deformities.

With the illusion, Jack looks like a relatively comfortable man in his late thirties with tanner skin from his Telugu heritage, and ginger hair that's often tied back or cut short to keep out of his eyes. Jack maintains a thick beard that's often styled in either a full beard or a goattee depending on how recently he's shaved. During the spring, he's often wearing tank-tops or hoodies with his jeans, and very rarely if ever dresses up. He shows an aversion to shoes, preferring to walk around barefoot. In winter, he's noted to wear leather jackets layered with a hoodie-- often verbalizing his dislike for the cold.

Without the illusions, much of the life that Jack has lead so far becomes more apparent. His skin is covered in small scars from where he's been injured and healed using his almost immortal level regeneration. A large scar is located over his heart where he gouged out his own heart, and his right wrist and left knee show signs of having been severely broken through the skin before being surgically repaired. Due to these, Jack tends to favor his left hand and right leg, walking with a limp when he's not using his cane or reinforcement magic to protect his damaged knee.

Thanks to his chimeric nature, Jack is able to shapeshift into a more canid-hybrid form with deep ginger fur and clawed hands. The scars on his face are still prominent in his canid forms.

During the rare times he's aiding the city as a hero, Jack often wears his EMT uniform to signal his status as a medical expert, or he goes for a more casual 'hoodie covering his head' look.

When Shannalot is prominent, Jack's eyes glint with an ethearal green light.

History

Shannalot

As a teenager, Jack was known as an anxious, quiet person. He preferred the company of animals and machines to his classmates, and ended up spending much of his time in quiet hobbies. His voice would often break or stammer whenever he was required to talk, to the point where he chose silence more than speaking up. After dropping out of college, Jack worked at his father's garage "Shaw and Sons", and ended up inheriting the garage after his father died from liver cancer. Jack's older brother had no interest in the garage, which allowed him to inherit the garage and make it his own.

During his early thirties, Jack ended up meeting a beautiful woman named Shannalot during one of his daily jogs with his dogs. He ended up helping out Shannalot, who had actually be harmed by one of the various factions located within Croatoa, before awkwardly leaving the conversation. Shannalot began to wait for Jack, hoping to spend time getting to know him and get closer, eventually leading the two to dating and getting married. Thanks to Shannalot, Jack was able to manifest a meager talent for nature magic, and started to communicate with Professor Stewart Martin, who began to rely on the information that Shannalot funneled to him through Jack.

Jack and Shannalot settled in together, but very few things last forever in this world.

Somnis Sol

During one of his daily dog walks, Jack was captured by the cult known as Somnis Sol-- a cult dedicated to controlling and exploiting parts of the fae realm for their own needs. The cult had identified Shannalot as a dryad, and an important protector in fae society, thus chose to strike at her most notable weakness: Jack.

Jack is still unable to fully recount his time with the Somnis Sol cult. He knows that Shannalot had attempted to save him, only to be captured when his life was put in danger, but the rest of the time he existed in an almost dream like state for what felt like several years.

In order to control the part of the fae realm known as Underhill, the cult had to sacrifice the heart of a powerful fae. Sensing his connection to nature magic, the cult brainwashed Jack into performing the ritual, which would include removing the heart of Shannalot and piercing it against the core of Underhill. The cult, however, underestimated Jack's determination, and during the last moments of the ritual, Jack chose to sacrifice his own heart instead of Shannalot's, hoping to provide her with the opportunity to escape. Shannalot, filled with grief and horror, attempted to sacrifice herself in order to resurrect Jack. Her attempt was twisted, as the cult-- wanting to protect the precious sacrifice-- performed a ritual to fuse Jack and Shannalot, thus preserving the dryad's heart in his body. The ritual was interrupted by the strange magic of Underhill, and Jack and Shannalot's essence escaped the fae shard to locate a suitable host: The Hound.

The Unbroken Hound

Due to the trauma of the ritual, Hound was left without any memories of his previous life, to the point where he was unaware of originally being human before awakening in Perez Forest. The Hound lived its life with the excitement only a super powered dog could possibly contain. As he continued to tap into and learn bits of his magic, Hound began to regain his humanoid form and speech that greatly resembled Jack's.

The Unbroken Hound was born, and began to dedicate himself to being a quiet hero of the city. He would arrive to heal and protect people, only to leave before anyone could identify him or possibly grab him for interviews. The Hound continued to grow and learn with each day, and sought to tackle greater and greater challenges each day.

Dark Astoria & Mot

Jack maintains a theory of Dark Astoria. Due to the inherent nature of Mot impressing on the world, the infinite timelines in which Mot exist all cross-over within Dark Astoria. This is why, Jack surmises, that he was able to exist in the Dark Astoria campaign when it had truly happen years before his heroic debut.

Hound entered Dark Astoria, seeking more ways to help people and protect them, but quickly found that he bit off more than he could chew. Due to his lack of memories and maturity, Hound's decisions cost the life of several people he met along the way, and with each decision a sense of dread and pain settled itself within the Hound. Hound continued to try, pushing forward with a foolish determination that only a bright-eyed hero could maintain. He was already entangled in the Mot campaign, he couldn't leave now when he felt others relied on him.

All of this brought him to face to face with Mot, where he began to succumb to Mot's influence due to his fractured memories and lack of true "self". Thanks to the vestiges of Shannalot's concious, Hound was able to break free from Mot, before helping to seal him away and escaping Dark Astoria with the people around him none-the-wiser.

Hound reached out to a local agency, seeking to lead a life as a civilian and retire from heroics due to the trauma of his encounter with Mot.

Civilian Life

Retired from heroics, Hound began to seek a new way to utilize his gifts. He entered a short program, and received his EMT license. Eventually leading him to apply to the Paragon Police Command (PPC), and assist as a support member in the Rescue Division.

Things... didn't exactly go how he wanted them to, of course. Hound unwittingly climbed the ranks of the PPC, until he was eventually designated as the head of Rescue Division. More of Jack's personality redeveloped in this environment, although in a more surly, stressed manner than before his fusion. Still, he continued his magical training thanks to the PPC's funding, and continued to provide his services however he could to guide and protect the members of the Rescue Division.