Character Sheet
Name: Luit Nicolaas
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Luit is a rather small man, coming in at around 5'6, and carries a small frame. His hair, though usually trimmed to perfection, has become unkempt and bushy; like a pale, well worn mop. His eyes are of a pale blue, and are framed by a pair of black rimmed glasses. A keen eyed observer will notice that his upper left ear is missing a chunk - as if someone, or something, bit him there some years ago.
His face is a war zone of pock marks, grey stubble and spider veins. A nose, disjointed at the base so that it trails off to the left slightly, is perhaps his flagship facial feature. Though, despite his perhaps ugly appearance, Luit has with him a warm and full smile that has weathered the ages far better than everything else his appearance can boast of. Although, when Luit does smile, his face ages by another decade due to the wrinkles that are formed.
If his Dutch name wasn't a giveaway, Luit is a white man. In his youth, he was considered a handsome Boer ; in his old age, not so much.
As the Vicar to one of many Anglican Churches of the city, (St. Francis Church), Luit wears a double breasted cassock with a black full collar shirt and white clerical collar underneath.
His shoes are ordinary black leather and smart looking, though they've lost their gleam over the last few days.
Current Health: Injured (recovering from treated shrapnel wound to left side of chest)
Current Mental State: Depressed
Current Emotional State: Angry
Personality
Temperament:
Luit is a man of action, and is not one for standing around waiting for God to come to him. He's happiest when he's doing something, and dreads sitting or laying down unless it's time for sleep. He is rather quick to anger, but this anger is almost never seen... perhaps owing to his religious beliefs. If he finds himself in a situation that has him seeing red, then he'll more than likely turn around and walk the other way - or block the offending individual from his consciousness.
He is always eager to help others; again, his religion probably plays a key part of this mentality. Often he has found himself in trouble, having given away the last of his food rations to a more needy individual than himself.
Luit's warm smile is the cornerstone to any social interaction. Whether preaching to the masses from a church altar, or talking an angry young man out of running him through with a crowbar, the smile is always there.
Positive Traits:
Negotiator - This man brings a bible to a knife fight. Not to say he always wins!
Priest - No one would shoot a Man of God. Would they?
Negative Traits:
Old - Physically weaker than his younger countrymen, and his immune system isn't what it used to be.
Thou Shalt Not Kill - Has a deep aversion to violence. Do not count on him to back you up in a fight, and do not count on him to put up a fight if you attack him.
Speciality Traits:
Man of God - Will seek comfort in his beliefs in times of need, and will not become suicidal or broken.
History
Luit Nicolaas is an orphan, given to the Anglican Church before his brain was capable of recording memories. He was brought up in a relatively lax and caring facility, where he and other orphans were tended to by the kind but often stern hands of nuns, and the complexing words of priests. With God being the only thing the young Luit really knew, thanks to what some would consider his slightly suffocating religious environment, it was perhaps natural that he pursued work in the Anglican clergy when he came of age.
Always, Luit tried to be one of Christ's true followers. Racism was not an issue for him, though it perplexed him that many priests from several Christian denominations, including his own, made such a thing an issue. Such blind hatred for your fellow man, because his skin colour did not match yours, angered Luit to the point where he turned his back on the etsablished "White Only" institutions, and made a humble attempt to connect with South Africa's black community. Though he initially struggled to gain acceptance, it was through determined charity work that he was finally able to gain the love and understanding of those he sought to help.
After Apartheid formally ended, Luit was successful in petitioning the Anglican Communion for the funds required to build himself a modest church in the centre of the city.
During the first service, which was a rather racially diverse affair, a group of armed men burst into the church and fired into the congregation with assault rifles. St. Francis Church never held its second service after that, because by the time the victims' bodies were lowered into the ground, the rebels had swept through the city in force.
St. Francis Church became a refugee centre of sorts in the first days, but (what is suspected to be) a Government war plane hit the structure and levelled it, killing a hundred men, women and children, and leaving scores more injured. Luit survived the massacre, but has been haunted by it ever since. He now stumbles through the war zone looking for reason behind the madness; he questions God on a daily basis, but in doing so, draws closer to him by aiding anyone he can.
Current Equipment: St. John's Bible.
EDIT: Somehow missed out the actual personality criteria. I've replaced it with "Temperament".