Nick Cruise
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Nick Cruise | |
| Player: Fractured | |
| Origin: | Mutant |
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| Archetype: | Thugs/Force Fields MM |
| Threat Level: | 50 |
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| Real Name: | Niccolo Crusetti |
| Known Aliases: | ' |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 26 |
| Height: | 6'2" |
| Weight: | 210 |
| Eye Color: | Very Pale Blue |
| Hair Color: | Black |
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| Nationality: | Citizen of the Rogue Isles |
| Occupation: | Mercenary |
| Place of Birth: | Chicago, IL |
| Base of Operations: | Confidential |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | All deceased |
| Known Powers | |
| Telekinetic, Formerly Telepathic | |
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| Nick's body is covered in extensive tribal tattoos and he is trailed by a faint smell of smoke, as from a fire. | |
Nick Cruise is the creation of User:Fractured, who can be reached in-game at @Fractured or on the CoH boards at the same name. Originally created just to goof around with the then new Thugs powerset he evolved a personality of his own and became enjoyable for the sake of playing a character who is an unapologetic bad seed.
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Affiliations
Nick Cruise is a freelance mercenary, and not directly associated with any known organizations operating in the Rogue Isles. He has formed a group by the name of "Sod Off" with his partner-in-crime, Kiss Off. Where you find one of them, you usually find the other.
Personality
Nick is a world class hedonist, taking what he wants today and making no plans for tomorrow. Spending the first ten years of his life below the poverty line and the next eight curled up in a padded room didn't teach him much about long term planning and resource management. He's also a right bastard. He'll kill you, stand over your body mocking your taste in clothes and then sit on your private beach drinking your best liquor while your house burns down behind him.
Powers
Thugs Mastermind
Nick's crew aren't technically real. They're phantasms made out of telekinetic force and a ruined telepath's tormented memory. At the age of ten, Nick lived through the fire that killed his older brother Jackie and all of Jackie's crew. The dying thoughts and screams of those sixteen men were burned into Nick's mind. As Nick grew older he became strong enough to manifest those memories in the real world.
Force Fields/Flight
Nick's ability to generate force fields and to fly are both manifestations of his mutant telekinesis.
Character History
Nick Cruise was born Niccolo Crusetti on December 12, 1980. Raised by his older brother Jackie after their mother died, Jackie's crew became all Nick knew of family. On Nick's tenth birthday he was trapped with Jackie and his gang in a burning warehouse. The pain and terror those men went through lit up Nick's latent telepathy and burned it out all in one night as they died screaming in his mind. Driven mad by the experience, he spent the next eight years locked in mental institutions, going back and forth between near catatonia and incoherent telekinetic rage. One day he simply walked out, any security in his way shot dead by person or persons unknown.
He wouldn't surface again until when, two years later, he calmly walked into the house of the arsonist who set the warehouse fire and shot him point blank in the head during Sunday dinner. That little stunt landed him in the Zig for five years before Arachnos extracted him as part of Recluse's 'Project Destiny'.
Shortly after arriving in the Rogue Isles he found a kindred spirit in his mercenary partner Kiss Off. The two have worked together ever since.
Nick is covered head to toe in elaborate tribal tattoos acquired during the two years between walking out of the asylum and returning to kill the arsonist. He's never disclosed where he got them, only that they were applied traditionally with reed and hammer and they are part of the means whereby he quiets the screams in his head enough to think and act coherently.
Stories
An old friend of Nick's spills all of the mercenary's secrets to a bounty hunter.
