My first time RPing here, so let's see how it works out...

Name: Stephen Harlan
Gender: Male
Rank: Recruiter
Common Equipment: Note: He doesn’t ALWAYS carry the full load, this is just a list of his personal favorite weapons of different mission types.
Colt M19A11 x2
HK MP7 PDW
Franchi SPAS-12
M249 SAW
Barrett “Light Fifty” MA283
Benchmade Model 158 - CSK-II, 6” fixed blade
Preferred Style: Steve Harlan is a brilliant tactician, and likes to plan surgical military style strikes; and if that doesn’t work, infiltration or a straight out gun battle will due.
Biography: Stephen “Hard-Boiled” Harlan has been with the Company for fifteen years, though it must be mentioned there was little AGI has been able to teach him; forty five years old, he spent eighteen of those years in the military, nine of those being under special operations command. After a brief tenure with a CIA taskforce, he retired into the role of a private investigator; this was true for a year, until an AGI recruiter with more muscles than brains tried to muscle him into the organization.

It must be noted that he was pardoned of his murder of an assassin, for something about his character caught old Jack’s eye; he liked the sob, for some reason he couldn’t explain. The Assassin King had him approached once more, very respectfully, with an invitation to meet with him; during their private discussion, Harlan was convinced it was in his best interest to join the AGI… and had given the King quite a shiner for something he’d said. To this day no one knows what was said, as neither ever saw a reason to divulge it.

Stephen took the death of the King without as much as a shrug, his career having reached the level of Dealer at the time; it had not taken long. Yet there was no professional pride shown, no ambition; promotions and accolades came, but they seemed to be merely distractions to the contract killer. The man was a machine… or so everyone had assumed, when they gave him a case to kill a little girl.

The Assassin had been quicker than people supposed he would be for his age; he’d come across the table and had a hand full of his handler’s shirt before he could blink. Steven, upon later interrogation, does not remember beating the man nearly to death, but does reflect upon the bone fragments pulled out of his knuckles. It was then decided he was not fit for work if he could not follow orders… but yet again, he was given another reprieve; demoted to recruiter, he has found some very promising but divergent individuals to live the life.

Thus we find him now, taking on the occasional hit, blending with the masses… never knowing when someone may test him again.

Physical Description: Standing at 6’2 of average height and tight build, Harlan looks every bit a man of weathered stone. His hair is kept short, though not as tight as it was in the military; it was once raven black, but has now aged to salt and pepper. He normally wears turtlenecks and slacks, overlain with a trench coat; he can give the impression of a fatherly figure or professor type at the drop of a hat, especially if he puts on glasses.

Other Important Info: The best word to describe Stephen “Hard-Boiled” Harlan is Noir.

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"When they ask how I died, tell them; Still Angry." -Quellcrist Falconer
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It was Kovacs who closed his eyes.
It was Rorschach who opened them again." -Rorschach