[Deadline is January 21st, at 11:59 Pm EST]

He/him

Age: 34

Voice and Accent: Male in mid 30s, rough and mischievous. American, Italian or Australian accent. 

Summary and Personality:Sly, charismatic, witty, and a downright loveable scumbag. He has mastered the art of the con man, weaponizing his very words, and able to swindle you down to your underwear and then some. Doing all of this with a lazy smile. Despite how scummy he can be, he’s not a monster. Believe it or not he does have morals. Though they are known for being somewhat flexible, even a flimsy piece of metal can bend so far. 

Once a merc himself in his youth, he has since taken a side step from that life. Feeling that risking your neck so often for cash was just not worth it, or even all that profitable. So he claims anyway. 

But he does hold a soft spot for the two passengers that readily accompany him on his favorite double decker bus, and perhaps some mercs he has grown fond of, if not for them being entertaining to him. Such as a grumpy scott he loves to argue with. 

Character Notes: 

• Merch is a swindler and a con man with good connections to places and people and isn’t afraid to do some dubious things, but he does have standards he lives by. He will never sell anything that isn’t top notch quality. Even when insulting someone, he nevers insults their mother. He will not deal in moving people. He won’t swindle the poor and helpless (though that is up to his perspective). And above all else, he won’t kill without good reason.

• Underneath the bravado and manipulation, Merch is a scared man who fears the wrath of the Mercenary Guild’s legal departments and his own mother.

• He’s a smoker both from stress and from being told he looked more favorable to potential customers.

• He gives various backstories to why he became an arms dealer instead of continuing life as a merc: Too dangerous of business. A tragic disbanding. A hateful betrayal. His mother’s insistence. New opportunities. Boredom. Whatever the reason was, he won’t speak truthfully about it.

• Despite what he may say, Merch cares deeply about his two roommates who share his bus/shop space. Long ago they were people that piqued his curiosity and nothing more, but now they are the rocks that keep him going.