Hayden "DaVinci" Zhang
Name: Hayden Zhang
Codename: DaVinci
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: London, England
Occupation: Scavenger, Jack of all Trades
Race: Human
Appearance:
Hayden has that old world charm to him, something you'd see in the Victorian era. While his hair is white for the most part, it doesn't make him look elderly but seasoned. He's tall and walks with a certain swagger, his comb backed white hair bobbing along. There's a scar located over his left eye with most of it hidden by an eyepatch but the bottom can still be seen.
Powers:
Outdoorsmen of Legend - Hayden is a wonder at exploring the ruins of the old world; he can run twice as fast as a normal man and run longer, his jump hieght allows him to go at least 10 feet up and lets him jump on to the roof of a small house from ground level, a mix of unshakeable iron grip and terrific balance lets him climb much better than most mountain climbers and his eyes are comparable to that of a hawk's. While he had abilities like this prior to the end times (in a much reduced level of course), he theorizes that something that the apocalypse brought evolved them into the super state which they are now. At any rate, he's not complaint since its brought his youth back to him.
His vast wealth is also of use, it seems like even when the world is burning, people are still envious of wealth. Greed, greed never changes.
Skills:
- Scavenging - His first and foremost profession, scavenging is how Hayden get things to tinker with and explore around. He prioritizes the collection of books as to increase his own knowledge to teach to others.
- Marksmanship - Trained on tin can targets paired with metahuman skills, Hayden is an excellent shot with any weapon at any range, rivaling the skill of military marksmen
- Crafting - Hayden is adept at putting his creativity to use, many in the fields of armor and various gadgets and life things. While can't make you a machine gun with scrap metal and a pistol, he is able to craft whatever he might need.
- Medicine & Life Science - Able to do first aid and fix somethings like dissociated shoulders or wound cleaning. Hayden also takes interest in the examining of all the new beasties of the world, dissecting them and poking at squishy bits.
- Botany & Husbandry - Hayden raises several plants in and around his home, most often used in herbal remedies or cooking. Although not a master with animals, he knows enough to not feed certain animals certain things or act a certain way.
- The Arts - Music and arts are not useless even in the end times. Hayden is a wonderful singer, a decent actor and an accomplished artist who can draw everything from complex mechanisms to the human figure should he be allowed too.
Equipment/Resources: Hayden wears a dirtied white suit, complete with white gloves and dress pants, black hiking boots, a frayed golden scarf and orangish tie. A dulled brass pocket watch is in his pocket, which he lets the chain drape out for style. When he goes "casual", he is often seen with only a white polo collared shirt that has a bloodstain which he refuses to explain where he got it from.
When going out, he dons a light grey vest with metal plats sewn into it to protect the squishy bits of him. His shins are protected with sheet metal shin guards while his wrists . His all important scavenger pack is what looks like an olive school backpack with a flap in the front, some more pouches and a waterskin. In the case of rain, he is accompanied by a snazzy Indiana Jones-styled hat.
Weapons wise he personally owns an over-under double barreled shotgun and a .45 Colt pistol. The "Gentleman's Survival Tool" (GST) is his most iconic weapon however, combining the head of a shepard's axe with a metal rail spike and a wrench at the end to create an omni-tool of sorts. His GST which is is most often on his back is supplemented by a lawnmower blade-machete that is sheathed above his waist. The mosin-nagant that leans in his home is borrowed from the guard armory.
Weaknesses: He's human and he's an aging one at that. While his memory is still sharp and he is still strong enough to be a good scavenger, he can be out classed by younger or more powered people.
Psychological Profile: Hayden is a gentleman, he's calm and level headed most of the time, sometimes to the point of obliviousness. Teaching and learning is his great passion, believing if he can find enough knowledge and information he can make the world a better place, but that occasionally lead to him prioritizing preservation of knowledge over resource consumption and has also lead to a belief in eugenics. Exploring and sightseeing is another love of his, seeing it as a sort of "wasteland safari", a trait resulting from his outdoorsmanship in his youth. While he's reasonable and well-mannered, he goes have a temper that shows if he believes someone is being to stupid to understand what he's saying but out side of that, Hayden is a simple man.
Biography: Hayen was born to a wealthy family in London nearly four decades ago to Emilia Lovelace and Jarred Zhang. His parents had, from birth, told him knowledge was power. For a great deal of his early life was spent reading on books with his favorite television show being the nightly news instead of whatever Saturday morning cartoons his classmates were watching. He found an almost insane longing for knowledge, shutting out everything else, even social connections.
However, everything changed when he went on a middle school trip to the countryside. Something hit him, something that gave him a thrill which simple books and paper lacked. From that point on, he pestered his parents to take him across the world to a plethora of exotic and beautiful locations around the world which, considering their vast wealth, was not a hard thing to do.
As he aged his life was otherwise standard, he went to college and got a degree business to take over the family company. Soon after he married a young woman but never fathered any children and donated money to various conservation charities and organizations. You might be able to see his name on greenhouses or state parks.
When the end times where coming down, Hayden personally went out to inspect the results that it was having on people, donating money to prospecting charities that would agree to help for 4 years. Going against the pleads of his subordinates, he refused to seek shelter and instead continued to travel about. He was finally completely isolated from his contacts while in Yellow Stone, all of them, but one. He managed to find out from a friend who was working for a woman named Cassandra Patel was attempting to create a "safe haven" in LA. So, Hayden walked to the nearest town and hotwired a car. When the car gave out, he walked, when his shoe went out, he swapped some wealth with a group of stranded hikers in Uath for a spare pair of boots only to pick up a ride sometime later. The driver didn't want much, pure generosity and luck they both had been going to California, but Hayden told him stories of camping out in Siberia and fighting crocodiles bare handed while boating on the Nile.
By the time the two parted ways, Hayden told the man enough story to fill two bioghrapical volumes, but he wasn't a tenth done. Now, at The Citadel, Hayden has already seen the world once, and now wants to go see it once more, this time from a slightly different perspective.
