"You and me kid, we're goin' places."
David Sinclair
Age:46
Gender:Male
Height & Weight:1m78 - 90 kg
Sexuality:Heterosexual
CCG Rating:SS+
CCG Title: Terror from the Deep
Mask: Here it isKagune:Like many Koukaku, David's very dark red Kagune is mostly employed under the form of a weapon. In his particular case, the most efficient form is a large drill that envelops the entirety of his forearm and both length and width can be modified at will. The Kagune itself resembles a large mass of perfectly curved branches, almost appearing as disassembled disks, and can employ them as a makeshift wall or tentacle-like Kagune in a pinch.
The reason why the drill form is privileged is because of the bright blue organs emitted from the Kagune, mostly concentrated on his back where his Kakuhou would be. When under the form of a weapon, some of these orb shaped organs grow on the rest of David's arm and emit concentrated RC cells that manifest themselves as lightning (Similar to Arima's Narukami). With this electricity, David is capable of spinning the drill at insanely high velocities all the while coating it with said electricity to zap anything it comes in contact with and pierce through robust opposition with the heated up Kagune.
Alternatively, after gaining a large amount of experience with age and learning from others, David imitated many Ukaku he came across (instead of just killing them). As of now he also allows his Kagune to simply coat his free arm without forming a weapon. Highly electrified blue organs form on his hand and forearm, blue lightning sparks being perpetually visible when having it active. He can charge up electricity and either fire weak electrical strikes to immobilize targets to charge up a powerful bolt to cut through most obstacles.
As a Kakuja, David has full control of himself. He grows at about 2.8 meters in height and his body is quickly enveloped in a large mass that is his Kagune. Upon contracting all around his body, he emerges as a fully armored Kakuja. The resemblance to classical deep sea divers is stunning as the the shape is almost identical to those nightmares. Fully coated in a red and thick armor, the many thin appendages that seem to levitate and defy gravity behind him complete the diver look. The blue organs are gone but the powerful electromagnetic field released from the Kakuja proves that they're there, just concealed. The appendages behind him all have a glowing, blue light at their tip. They can amass a large amount of concentrated RC cells and fire them much like an Ukaku with waves of thunderbolts thrown at once. They can also be used in melee like typical Kagune.
The most dangerous feature about this Kakuja is the ridiculous weight it has. By simply taking steps, nearby individuals can feel the ground shake a bit. David is slower as a Kakuja than he is in base, making this a very sedentary tool. The trade off is of course, a strong defensive shell that clearly surpasses other Kakuja due to it being a Koukaku, the same can be said about its strength, one punch being sufficient to project an opposing Kakuja many, many feet away.
RC Type: Koukaku, Kakuja
Special Quirk: Physically he isn't as efficient as a ghoul anymore, having developed a beer belly and investing more of his time working on computers and handling some of his men. He's still superior to a human, of course, but when fighting the CCG his Kakuja is the best alternative for long term fights as his base form quickly runs out of stamina. After all, ghouls age too.
Speaking of which, his eye sight sucks. It corrects itself when he activates his Kakugan, but in everyday activities he is obliged to have the Pedo glasses, which were quite normal in his time honestly. He also had a rubber band on them for the extra old factor.
A compulsive smoker. Ghouls don't get the sickness of humans, as such smoking isn't really an issue. It tastes like shit, but to be fair it tastes like shit for humans too, the nicotine just makes it all the better, even for ghouls. Though it doesn't help with the belly and the stamina.
Oh and he has a Southern/Louisiana accent. It doesn't make many anglophones see him as dim witted due to stereotypes. He isn't afraid to bank on that fact for he is far from being the idiot of the bunch to have survived this long.
Personality:A man who has seen it all, David is beyond being impressed by human or ghoul nature and remains unfazed by anything miraculous or particularly good. The same can be said about the other extreme, he isn't one to complain about the perpetual unfairness of this world. He fully embraces this cruel world and makes the best of it without making it sound like a carebears adventure. Though luckily for those around him, he has a way to illuminate most bad situations even if he's being negative about it. There's just something about his voice and tone that makes people feel at ease around him. Catching prey has never been easier with this type of eloquence.
Sleazy but not evil, he always had to rely on social skills to escape the inevitable short life he'd live as a ghoul. With a little business acumen, he fully exploited markets to have crony-like strategies in the little businesses he worked for as a young adult. "Profit common, a profit going." was and still is his motto. He isn't above going to extensive lengths to complete certain requirements he deems as high priority, and like most ghouls his lack of regard for any life made him efficient at exacting most means to an end.
He isn't completely heartless, however, for David always put his fellow Ghouls in front of humans in his various initiatives. Although not a true altruist, he recognized the needs of others and acted on those needs to help them, such as giving them jobs and education on the side. Though, once again, it's more of a common profit than a humanitarian action. Anything to keep his little capitalist chain going. It isn't to say that he has a bit of humanity in him, just far less than the masquerade he displays behind nice ol' Southern David Sinclair. The years have taught him to keep decent relationships with others after all.
Backstory: Originally born in Hawaii but raised mostly in Louisiana, USA, David had a rather tame life for a young ghoul. His parents had to move out of the small island since, well, cracking down on them wasn't all that hard compared to the mainland. Luckily, moving around illegally in the 60's and 70's wasn't exactly the hardest thing ever. His father Peter was, quite oddly, a Pastor with his own flock in a small town while his mother Jane remained the typical housewife type. David would grow to be the eldest of two other brothers.
The perfect American family they were, heck they were probably candidates for one of those Marketing gimmicks to sell the American way of life. They had a method to keep concealment, and this was all the easier with the CCG not having the technology they have today and living in rural areas made going incognito simple. Feeding wasn't that hard, though made a lot harder once the black people of the States finally got their rights accepted by society considering no authority cared that much about them, at least the poorer ones. But nonetheless, those getting the short end of the capitalistic stick remained easy targets, especially with the advent of LCD and kids pretending to know about politics and calling themselves "hippies". Excellent targets, especially when they were mobile.
Now David's father had an important impact on the boy, as he'd be the one to set the young Sinclair on his current path. Before becoming a Pastor, he was rather feral, like most ghouls, but upon meeting what would be his last confrontation with the CCG, he was convinced he saw "the light". And almost miraculously, the turn of events would have spared his life. At this point, he was a new man and married a woman like him, a believer and a ghoul. It would be thanks to her that the Sinclair family would have the current methodology to avoid detection.
Peter was an Altruist, especially with Ghouls he tried to assemble in his church and help them through. Though evidently, that is nothing like the David Sinclair we see today. Clearly he was on the right track to become a better person and possibly make a difference. But the time came where his father would eventually succumb like any other ghoul. Technology evolved and eventually he got caught. Word on the street said one of his ghoul followers gave him away, but that didn't matter. The point was that no matter how much good or how close to "God" his father was, in the end all the old man got was a brutal death without any words from the flock that followed him. Truly, altruism wasn't something David would grace neither the humans nor the ghouls with, he wasn't going to make due with just dying while preaching such absurdities that probably killed his dad.
It didn't help that his father's death occurred when David was 14, in the middle of his teen and vulnerable years. Like many American students, Ghoul or not, he dropped out at the final year. His mother didn't worry, for the boy had a possible future in Soccer (Ugh, American way of saying it). He was good, but unlike his uneducated mother, he knew reaching a professional level of sports would be impossible for a Ghoul, not with the CCG getting more and more influential. The future looked grim in his eyes, and the idea of devolving into what his dad once was lingered. It'd be through a friend in Soccer that he'd at least find himself a first job in IBM, as a receptionist for extra money during summer.
He'd eventually follow their internship program, considering diplomas and such weren't as relevant back then, especially with the right contacts. David gained the basic qualifications to verify and control codes from the computer systems and become quite good at it. After a few years, he'd manage a team thanks to his rigorous work. Now a manager, he gained more and more insight on the market, as well as how the economy worked as a whole. With every year, he gained the experience needed to comprehend the latest breakthroughs in technology and how to establish certain networks. Getting through RC scanners would be crucial if he were to evolve in his career however.
When deciding to take his life at hand, in the middle of his 20's, his mother finally passed away. Though not slaughtered, she was already a bit old and had multiple deficiencies with her Kakuhou since a younger age. Her regeneration malfunctioned and she died. One of his brothers went on to be a trucker, possibly one of the better choices as a ghoul, while the other simply disappeared. David was unhappy with his life, and had no one to keep him anchored in Louisiana with his mother gone. He was going to expand around the world and use his contacts gained in IBM to exact this ambition.
Travelling in large US cities was the first stop, but if he were to go where technology would explode without having all these moralistic and religious issues clogging progress, Europe would be a safe bet. Using the emergence of accessible computers and the internet, it wasn't hard for him to see the benefit of establishing networking routes for various commercial or intelligence exchanges between people with certain agendas and ghouls stuck around the world. He didn't do it for ghouls, but he knew that connecting various Ghoul affiliated organizations, making them his clients, would be the ultimate piggy bank.
He didn't crate the Deep net, of course, he isn't a hacker or anything. He simply understands codes and functions of bother computers and networks to lead teams of both humans and ghouls (though not working in a same room, keeping them spread in Europe since they're networking after all). He'd made quite a pretty penny through this, but with faulty marriages, three and one with a human, a gambling problem and the fact that uncontrolled competition often emerged, he wasn't really that wealthy. Nonetheless, David became a highly cultivated man for he has traveled to various countries to meet clients. He can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian (and currently lives in Rome), a little Chinese, and decent Japanese given the necessity of having strong ties with Tokyo.
Speaking of which, he'd often visit the most populated city in the world to meet clients but also to enjoy the many activities going down there. He's always been a fan of watching Gourmets and auctions, though he didn't believe in enslaving neither humans or ghouls. No, they were to be too unpredictable and ultimately useless in his line of work. It wasn't through morality that he abstained, just pragmatism. Although, one little deviant element caught his eye. In every business dealing with low lives of every stage, one needs a little credible muscle, and there just so happened to be a little one of those crazies they were selling for a meaty price.
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