Full Name: Owen Merlowe

Codename: Red Hood

Aliases/Nicknames: Owen Todd, Owen Crowley

Birthplace: Gotham City, NJ

Hometown/Base of operations: Gotham City, NJ

Species: Homo Sapien

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Alignment: Villain

Affiliation: Whomever's check has the most zeroes

PHYSICAL

Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 225
Hair Color/style: Brown/Short
Eye Color: Green
Anything Else: Owen's body is covered with scars from various injuries gathered during his career as Red Hood.

Equipment and Weapons:

Red Hood Costume: The costume is a combination of Nomex, Kevlar, and lightweight alloys reinforced with various shock plates to absorb and diffuse impacts. The costume is designed to resist most small arms fire and is reinforced to offer protection from bladed weapons. He tends to wear a specially treated leather jacket over his tunic. The tunic is based on Jason Todd's original Robin costume in a Red and black variant. Owen wears a Red Domino Mask (equipped with starlite lenses and a radio transceiver) and a red, metallic, mask he wears on top. The gauntlets and boots each contain eight separate compartments where he holds his various tools, in addition to his small utility belt.

Weapons:

2 x Colt 1911: This is Owen's weapon of choice for dealing with his enemies. He prefers to dual wield them.

Collapsible Staff: A bow staff that can collapse into a compact state.

Batarangs: With originals stolen from Jason, Owen managed to replicate enough of his own to keep him supplied. He has three, he uses primarily beyond the basic, though he has been known to make others if the need arises.

Basic Batarang- Sharp edged, makes a lovely stabbing or throwing implement.

Sonic- This batarang produces sound waves. It can be set to varying levels of noise, which allows it to go from distraction to crippling with an adjustment.

Incendiary- A batarang used mostly for starting fires. Good for covering a crime scene

Explosive- An exploding batarang. Good for removing a wall, person or pesky double parked car.


Tools:

Spare Magazines: Owen's costume has plenty of spare magazines for his pistols.

Grapnel launcher: Owen uses this to scale buildings and make his escape.

Lockpicks: electronic and manual lock picks for accessing buildings

Small tool kit: Used to make repairs to tech and anything else he'll need

Rebreather

Flashbang and small explosive pellets

First aid kit: stocked with various anti-toxins and first aid supplies. Owen adds to this as he encounters new situations.

Binoculars

Vehicle:
Motorcycle: This is Owen's custom motorcycle. A bike he built for himself, it has various hidden compartments all over that contain extras of all his gear, as well as additional firearms, ammunition and a change of civilian clothing.

Powers:
N/A

Skills:

Acrobatics: Owen learned this skill set from training with Jason Todd, who gleaned this from his training with the Batman.

Driving: Owen is a skilled driver. He works best with a car or motorcycle, though he is a proficient helicopter pilot, after being taught by Jason.

Firearms: Jason taught Owen to use a variety of weapons including Batarangs and various firearms. He's most proficient with small arms though, he is adept with a sniper rifle.

Gunsmith: Owen has learned to maintain the firearms that he relies on. He can strip, clean, build and even repair his own weapons. This is useful since he mostly operates outside the boundaries of an organization.

Genius Level Intellect: Owen's tutoring from Jason and others has allowed him to become an expert in many subjects including Science, Medicine, History, Mathematics, and Engineering. He was also schooled in leadership skills for a role as a hero. He uses these skills rather widely in his role as the Red Hood.

Demolitions: Jason was taught this skill from a world renown expert in the subject and he passed his knowledge on to Owen. Owen can make anything from an improvised device to something military grade if need be.

Multilingualism: Owen is fluent in English, German, French, Italian and a few others.

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced): Jason Todd passed on his hand to hand skills to Owen. Owen is an advanced level combatant though nowhere on the levels of Batman or Captain America.

Investigation: Owen learned many of the skills Jason had to offer in this area. He learned various things about investigating and criminology in his training. This was supposed to help him catch criminals, but ironically, it has only helped to make him a better criminal.

Martial Arts: Jason embarked on a similar journey to Batman after his revival. He passed as much of his training on to Owen as he could before their falling out.

Surveillance: Owen has learned patience enough to use this skill to learn about his targets before he robs them or eliminates them.

Weaknesses: (3 minimum)
1.) Only Human: Owen, despite his beliefs, is only human. As such he can be killed any number of ways. He is not immune to stabbing, being shot, illness, old age or disease.

2.) I have no limits: Owen has an obsessive personality. When he gets his mind set on something he will do whatever he needs to to accomplish this. Often times, this means ignoring the physical limitations of his body to the point of collapse.

3.) Have I mentioned Obsessive?: When something catches his eye, Owen can be very single minded in his pursuit of it. Be it the next heist, a woman, or even some inane subject he enjoys. Sometimes, it can be down right annoying, other times it can be down right dangerous. His primary obsession is finding the men who killed his family and balancing the scales.

4) I have a secret: Owen's brother William survived the attack. Though he is comatose, Owen devotes his money from his jobs to making sure that his brother is safe. If anyone found out, this could easily be exploited.

FAMILY:
Mother: Lonna Merlowe (OC) (Deceased)
Father: George Merlowe (OC) (Deceased)
Siblings: William Merlowe (living)
Children:
Extended family: Jason Todd (retired, mentor)

THE REST

Personality:
To say Owen is complex is an understatement. Some people have issues. Owen's got a small library with a card catalog small statues of lions outside. For the most part, he puts on a persona that tells people that he is the villain and isn't to be trusted. This is mostly to ward people away. He tells himself that he isn't looking for friends. He just wants to get to the next job and get paid. Arrogant, anti-social, willing to kill. All words that describe the Red Hood.

Except that's the surface Owen. If anyone breaches the emotional armor, they would find that Owen is really just someone's big brother. The real Owen is overprotective to a fault. He doesn't really have any friends. And that's mostly to hide his secret. With his brother William in a coma from the attack, most of the money from his jobs goes towards making sure that William has the best care in the world. He rarely "pals" around with villains to keep that aspect secret lest anyone try to use it.

Either version is full of pride. He wouldn't let Jason adopt them or offer any help towards William's care, since he is the older brother and it's his job to care for him. This is something that can be bruised rather easily and people have been known to exploit.

History:

Owen was the first born to George and Lonna Merlowe. The Merlowes were natives to Gotham. George was a store owner that fell on hard times. It was hard to make a living and compete with the new mega-marts that were popping up all over the place. George was a proud man and borrowed money from the wrong people since the banks wouldn't loan him anything. The money helped turn the business around. George was a success again and paid back what he owed, but eventually even the tides would turn.

When Owen was 16, he was working his first job as a clerk for his father. Some men in fancy suits came to the shop, in search of his father. These men were the same men that George had borrowed money from years ago. The times had been good to them as well and their fortunes were increasing. They wanted George to let them launder money through his store, seeing as they saw themselves responsible for his success. George wanted no part of this and felt that the men were not entitled to anything. And he told them so. These men being the sort of hard characters that you would expect, weren't known to take no for an answer.

One night, when they were closing up shop, some men came into the store and shot it up. Owen's father was gunned down immediately. His mother died shielding them both. A bullet nicked a gas line and there was an explosion. The store front blew out. They pulled Owen and William from the wreckage. Owen spent a few days in the hospital, but William ended up in a coma. With his parents gone and no relatives, foster care seemed like the only option. Owen slipped away in the night, preferring the streets to 'the system".

Owen was found by an aging Red Hood, trying to figure out how to steal the older man's bike. The boy's kindred spirit reminded Jason of himself. He took Owen in and helped him. He saw the potential in the young man and began to train him, realizing as of late that his time as a crime fighter was over. Though Jason was a costumed vigilante, he was the black sheep of the Bat Family. As he got older, his methodology drifted back towards his former mentor's, but he rarely kept contact with the Bat family. This was reflected in his training and tutoring of Owen as the young man grew. When Jason found out about Owen's brother, he offered to adopt the pair and use his funds to help pay for the medical expenses.

This lead to a disagreement between Owen and Jason. The former being too proud to accept the help of his mentor. Owen didn't understand why they didn't occasionally use their skills to gain the funds they needed. Jason tried to counsel him that this was not the way that it worked. But as the days went on, Owen became more and more disillusioned by the concept of being a good guy.

Finally, one night, when he'd felt he'd learned enough, Owen stole one of Jason's costumes and some of his tech as a starter and struck out on his own. He'd pulled a few small jobs here and there and then after a few big scores, realized that he was making enough now to pay the medical expenses. Owen's Red Hood had become a criminal. And now his life was more than about survival. It was about protecting all he had left.

Face Claim/Play by: David Giuntoli

Sample RP:

Nighttime in Gotham. A silhouette appears on the rooftop. As the car pulls up, Owen watches several men in suits get out and walk into the closed restaurant. Owen had been scouting out the location for a few days the upper "management" of the Giarardi family was meeting here. He had meticulously staked the place out and knew every exit and entrance. One in the front and one in the back as well as a side door.

Owen grappled over to the neighboring building and then moved to the roof of the restaurant. He dropped down and quietly snapped then neck of the guard, before he realized what hit him. Then Owen pushed a dumpster up against the door and moved towards the side. He stood right outside the side door and hit a button on a remote. A car parked outside detonated and then Owen went in through the side door, pistols drawn. As he came through the side door, he leveled the guns and took out two guards and then went to work. He shot as many Mafiosos as he could, seeing the Don and a few others scurry through the kitchen door.

After a few moments of more gunfire, taking out the stragglers and putting survivors down, he reloaded and walked into the kitchen. As the retainers fired at him, he killed the last two and found the Don pushing against the door, now blocked by the dumpster. Owen smiled under his helmet and shot out the backs of his knees. The Don screamed and hit the door, slipping and falling back on his backside. "Why? Why are you doing this?"

Red Hood holstered his guns, reaching back and unclipping the helmet. He wore no domino mask this time. He knelt down in front of the man. "Your people killed my family. Put my brother in a hospital permanently, probably. Unlike the Judges in this town, I can't be bought. So now, I'm passing your sentence. Guilty as charged. Enjoy eternity." He withdrew a batarang from his pocket and with some force, stabbed it into the man's eye socket, and into the brain beyond, killing him.

Owen replaced his helmet and walked over to the stove, turning on the gas on all the burners. He walked out into the dining room and lit a candle on the table and then exited through the side door. A few minutes later, La Trattoria, exploded in a ball of fire.

Secret Word:
HOLA

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