Post by Endicott on Mar 28, 2015 15:43:15 GMT -5
Character Name: Leon Pardo
Nickname(s): Officer Leon Pardo, Leo, The Angel of Death
Race: Human; Caucasian
Sex: Male
Age: 29
Birthplace: Shady Sands, Core Region
Height: 6'0
Weight: 182lb
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Blonde
Hair Style: Short albeit messy, unkempt and rugged
Facial Hair: 5 O'clock Shadow
Skin Color: Pale, despite his time in a desert city
Build: Pardo is muscularly toned and athletic, due to it being a requirement in the force. However, his agile and dextrous fingers also make quicker than most.
Distinguishing Features: Pardo, amongst his fellow boys in blue, is hailed as a hero for his tribulations and is a respected member of the city. At the same time, he's infamous for how ruthless he is with getting information or for how he, allegedly, has sometimes killed suspects without proof or without provocation. Physically, he's not much different from your average cop, though his rather cynical streak is defined.
Profession: Police Officer for the Shady Sands Police Department
Skills:
Guns, extensive
Lockpick, masterful
Sneak, extensive
Training: Pardo has been trained in all basic aspects of his work during the academy; basic first aid training, advanced firearms training, melee weapons training, police radio communications training, criminal negotiations training... all the works.
Other Abilities: Aside from having the power to arrest people and being a good sharpshooter, he has no other special abilities.
Apparel: Shady Sands Police Uniform, Black Combat Boots, Black Utility Belt, SSPD Badge, Drop-leg Holster
Weaponry: Colt Official Police Revolver, Nightstick, 10mm SMG (Riots Only)
Other Equipment: SSPD Walkie-Talkie Radio, .38 Calibre Rounds (12), Handcuffs
Affiliation: Shady Sands Police Department
Religious Belief: Atheist
Sexual Preference: Heterosexual
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Pardo is a man dedicated to his job and little else. While being extremely efficient in his line of work, it's his ruthlessness that allows this; he's willing to hurt suspects, sometimes even kill suspects, if he believes they're lying or knows they're guilty without having the evidence to prove it. The death of his father has made him overzealous, but also an over-thinker; he's perceptive and sharp to a fault, often finding the finer details during an investigation.
Pardo is also extremely cynical due to his experiences growing up, but is empathic of the people that suffer at the hands of crime in his city... which makes him willing to go to great lengths to end their suffering, even if it means creating more suffering in the process. Pardo doesn't see this as evil or bad, but as justice beyond legal limits; vigilante justice.
Leon Pardo was born in Shady Sands during the height of it's development, his father being one of the many boys in blue protecting the citizens of the shining beacon of a city. Pardo idolised his father in an almost godlike sense due to his father's incorruptibility and pure motives; he was one of the few wholeheartedly honest cops in the city. This image was soon shattered, however, when his father was shot in a jet den. Evidence, apparently, suggested that he was accepting bribe money and also aiding them in their drug operations.
With his paternal image in pieces, he was heartbroken and distraught. In spite of this, he continued to set out what his father and he had wanted; for him to join the force. The age was right, and his intelligence and athleticism was already present, so he signed up for the academy the first chance he got. The reputation his father had obtained stuck to him like a curse during his training, both from fellow trainees and the cops running the place. Pardo was not deterred; if anything this only inspired him to work harder... he would overcome whatever mistakes his father had made and be a better officer for it. The academy, despite it's efforts, hadn't defeated him and in fact he passed with flying colours. So began his next trial.
Being a regular beat cop was, in Pardo's eyes, even more enlightening than being a detective; the streets were rampant with more information than any crime scene could provide. This only served to invigorate his zeal and temperament, but it did give an informed, if askew, view of the crime that plagued the city. In his early years, his cases mainly involved assault cases, drug possession cases and petty robbery cases, and the pathetic nature of the people committing these crimes was sickening. It got to a point that he started to become violent during interrogations or arrests, threatening suspects and their families. For most officers, this would've been enough to get them thrown out, but due to some of his fellow cops' respect for his father they made sure it was all kept quiet.
This only served to let the problem grow; Pardo felt above the law... the only real justice warrior in Shady Sands. If suspects had an overwhelming degree of evidence against them at a crime scene, Pardo would execute them if he could make it look like they tried to attack him first and used to flat out beat up criminals in the lock up or at crime scenes. There were complaints, but these amounted to nothing but circumstantial accusations. The violent atrocities he committed made his sanity fragile, but he never felt regret when he remembered the people he hunted were criminals... at least, he never tried to. The build-up of emotional disgust manifested itself in hallucinations of his dead father, whom he personified as a guide of sorts; the once-broken childhood view he had of him from the past. Others barely noticed him talking to himself, nor his paranoia.
Eventually, he began to go to known criminals in the area and execute them without any arrest, trial or evidence (often because they could find loopholes to stay out of prison). The scenes often appeared as though he'd been attacked first, absolving him of wrongdoing. The notoriety he had for wasting groups of criminals of all kinds once every blue moon and his reputation for pointing out small details in cases rubbed off well on his ego, and allowed him to shake off the corrupt shadow of his father figuratively, though he was still haunted by visions of him.
In his mind, he knows his father never did what the press and the other cops claimed but he still hasn't found who set him up either. This conflicting path has made him more and more unstable, but to this day he's one of the best assets the Shady Sands police force has ever acquired.
