Character Sheet for Denzel Douglas
Age
65 or near to it. They recently revealed their age but depending on the game it could a couple of years either way.
Character Description
abilities
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possessing high levels of agility, strength and seemingly limitless stamina he's pretty damn good in a fight.
he also possesses Sammu's feed powers however Dennie uses them to wrap up enemies, tie them to objects and catch their limbs from a distance.
his feed powers are cast via his feet and make sticky threads. he can also use his feed powers to make net traps on the floor where he's previously stood which grasp the victims shins and hold them in place.
Personality
Serious and cruelly sardonic he's very much like Sammu but without the finer touches. He has a lot more self control than Sammu does but at the same time he doesn't have Sammu's occasional happy and carefree side he often uses to be extra friendly to people and manipulate them.
He is however rather protective but not in an aggressive fashion, it's more like desperation. He fights because he has no choice but to protect the people he cares about. He couldn't live with himself if someone-else died. That doesn't mean he's grown accustomed to it however. He's scared every time he fights. Even though he's quite capable. He's just too afraid of what he might lose.
Always a bit gloomy his mood tends to bring down everyone else especially as he rarely has anything nice to say. Also his habit of staring into space or at his feet when talking to people might be a sign that he's socially shy or awkward or nervous around other people. Maybe he doesn't want to get too close and risk grief again.
Likes/Dislikes
likes smoking (yeah, i know. first smoking character i've had in years)
likes drinking (though never seems to get drunk)
likes blues music.
dislikes exciting music.
plays harmonica.
dislikes dancing.
likes classic cinema and romantic movies.
dislikes action movies and loud exciting tv programs.
likes to lie on his bed and think alone.
likes nature, the outdoors and country life including quint little villages and the simple folk who live there.
Background/History
It's important to remember that Denzel is not from the same dimension as the rest of the Sammu cast or this will make little sense.
Denzel in his original human form wasn't vaccinated as a child and was often very sickly. He later developed leukemia and needed to take a course of chemotherapy that wiped out his immune system.
Whilst recovering from the chemo and scheduled for a bone marrow transplant he contracted the anima virus due to medical negligence. Normally this would have killed a person undergoing chemo due to sepsis but in Denzel something truly weird happened.
First of all Denzel died. A complete death. Heart failure, collapsed breathing and eventually brain death. And then he started to wake back up.
The anima virus used its RNA to restructure Denzel's DNA in a way that transformed his own body's cells into anima virus variants. Denzel quickly recovered from his leukemia without any further treatment and doctors told him that after 10 years the new hybrid cells would replace every cell in his body.
Now a picture of health and with superhuman levels of stamina and temperature resistance he was enlisted into the army to help his home country of Yugoslavia fight in the war against Russia.
Whilst fighting there his whole family was wiped out back home and he was stricken with grief when he returned home to find this out.
He become a recluse but soon realized that he was developing empathic powers of intuition. He could think in the way other people think and predict their movements.
One day a child went missing from the village and Denzel used his powers to track the child down. However the child was so happy to be found they ran carelessly towards Denzel and slipped down a slope into the river.
Denzel jumped after the child but the pair were swept into a tunnel with no air pocket and the child panicked and drowned whilst Denzel held his breath.
At the end of the tunnel was a sheer drop after a brief patch of pond weed. Denzel took the chance to kick the lifeless child clear enough to land safely on some grass knowing he would get tangled in the weeds.
Luckily someone saw and came running but they briefly glanced at the child before rushing to rescue Denzel. Denzel knew the chances of reviving the child were slipping by the second and there was no time to untangle himself so he ripped out the weeds from their roots and fell to his death so that the child would rescued.
In the afterlife he encountered Drako who was serving as a doctor at the time. When Denzel told Drako about the anima virus replacing all his cells Drako realized that meant that even Denzels stm cells contain cancer fighting RNA and using Denzel as a guinea pig Drako experimented to find a cancer cure which Drako named CAR.
After a hopping dimensions a few times Denzel became Sammu and Sammu's life events unfolded. After establishing a method of making copycat Sammus by using a fanbase Denzel retired from being Sammu and took up his rabbit form from the afterlife.
Denzel planned to live a new life far away from Sammu but people attempting to take down Sammu for the things he'd done on his own since followed the trail back to Denzel and he realized that for his own safety he must join Sammu's crew.
Relatives/Family
Denzel had a large family he was close to but they were killed during a war between Yugoslavia, his home country, and Russia. Denzel survived because he was enlisted into the army and serving elsewhere when the bombs dropped.
He tried to keep to himself after that but due to the way events unfolded he wound up making a lot of friends along the way who he now sees like a family.
World/Setting
To all intense purposes the main canon Denzel belongs to is almost a carbon copy of the real world. For that reason Den often takes human form in public but around John's apartments where everyone is his friend and knows his secret he can be found in rabbit form. Similarly when in the club he frequents he may take rabbit form as long as only him and the fellow members of John's apartments are present, which is often the case.
Dennie can also appear in other canons by using the teleporting door of The HORS Hotel to hop dimensions, in which case the laws of that world apply, apart from anything that changes the Denzel persona into something it's not.
In these kinds of settings it might be normal for anthropomorphic animals to exist so Den will take the form of a rabbit if that's the case.
It's important to remember that Dennie wont suddenly develop forward vision or digitigrade legs if you want. He is who he is and you gotta just live with that.
Body
a dark "chocolate" brown fur pigment all over. pale green eyes. plantigrade legs.
Clothing
black sweatpants and matching sweatshirt jacket each with dark blue along the outside of the limbs, around the waist and on the trim.
Accessories
tends to travel light though does carry a mobile phone and wallet.
