Steven 'Candyman' Rhodes's Authorization Application

[Sectus]

Player Section

Steam Name: Sectus
Age: 16
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): Six Years.
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: Five Months

Character Section

Authorization(s):
-Gun-making Abilities.
-The ability to make knives/weapons out of common objects.
-Above-average intelligence.
-Shiv made from a broken piece of metal.
-A pet rat that he found in the tunnels, named "Skittles."

Name: Steven 'Candyman' Rhodes
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Affiliation: None

Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
Steven originally grew up in a small town in Kentucky known as Oaksville. He grew up as an orphan, and never had the chance to meet his parents. All during his teenage life he stayed in the orphanage, doing not much more than reading, writing, and constantly re-watching the original Charlie and the Chocolate factory movie. The orphanage owners had noted that he had an abnormal obsession with the movie, the scene involving the candy shop owner singing of the candy man in particular. As he grew older, his caretakers became less and less comfortable with being around him. They had good reason for this fear however, as Steven had been staying in the orphanage less and less as well.

Steven's time on the streets taught him to fend for himself, as he would often be confronted by intimidating gang members that would beat him to a pulp and steal anything of value he had on him. He learned over time to fashion knives and weapons out of common items one could find on the street. Broken pipes, abandoned plastic forks, anything he could find, he found that he could hurt, or even kill someone with. This adaptation usually led to him harming people that he assumed would hurt him, but were in reality perfectly innocent. He managed to cover these incidents up, and was never connected to them. As time wore on, and Steven's mind started to become less and less tied to reality, his caretakers became even more eager to see the last of him. During a chilly evening in late fall, he had been watching the candy man's song over and over again as per usual, when he cracked. He sat in his room for about fifteen minutes, fashioning a bent piece of metal into a shiv of sorts with a file, and wrapping cloth around the end of it to make it into a handled blade. Once his weapon was complete, he stood, perfectly calm and left the room. He proceeded down the hall to the owner's office, and stabbed his caretaker twenty-seven times. The caretaker died at the fourth stab.

After this event, he was never seen near the orphanage again. Though he was suspected to have committed the crime, the police were never able to tie the caretaker's death to his name, and he was allowed to roam free without capture. Now comes his true life on the street. He spent most of his adult life wandering the streets, drifting from groups and gangs, taking initiations and rituals to enter each one. From his time in gangs he learned how to fashion metals down to the bare parts of weapons, and turn even common house-toys into proper weapons that would fire bullets as efficiently as any regular gun would. Though his weapons were indeed useful, and very convienient, they had a higher chance of failing and locking up than other guns would. While they were not perfect, they did serve their purpose. After experiencing a near-death experience in one of these gangs, he decided it was time he quit his kid-life, and attempted to adapt with normal society.

Despite his shady past, he was able to find a good, albeit low-paying job, and managed to work his way through a cheap college to get a degree working with a small medical center in northern Kentucky. He worked with this facility until the day of the seven hour war. At the time of the invasion, he managed to hide himself in the radiology department until the loud booms and roars of gunfire and death had left the air. The facility was soon raided by the combine forces, and he was dragged off to a city center to begin his new life under union rule. Seeing the atrocities and horrors the combine committed caused his mind to revert back to his "cracked" state, and he now lives in Precinct Three, silently plotting his next move, all just to rattle people's cages, upset society, and upset the norm.

What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
They will give my character the following qualities:
-An eerie nature, thus leading people to wonder about his mysterious past.
-The ability to be a leader to the people of Precinct three.
-The ability to demand respect from people of all kinds.
-The ability to strike fear into people's hearts, and achieve his role as being a terrifying murderer.
-He will be able to persuade even a very savvy person into assisting him, even if he plans on betraying them in the future.

Defects
They will give my character the following defects:
-He may at times become dependent on the weapons he fashions, and give them names, or bond with them emotionally.
-His intelligence will lead him to think differently from the average person, and even sometimes lead to fits of amnesia and insanity.
-His reliance upon weapons and objects to defend himself lead him to be a very weak fighter when it comes to direct physical or hand-to-hand combat.
-He is more intelligent than he is strong, so he will often find the need to persuade stronger people into doing tasks that require direct physical force for him.
-The guns he can make are never perfect, at best they turn out a little worse than a normal gun. They tend to lock up, and sometimes backfire, injuring him so he will have to continue working on the project even later to perfect the weapon.

What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
I plan to make my character a powerful force in the anti-civil world. I know that these authorizations that I have requested are often few and far between, but I feel that if I can be trusted with a Vortigaunt, I can be trusted with these. If Steven's persuasive nature is not enough to convince someone, these weapons will give him the ability to force them into helping him reach his aims. He will not use the weapons unless either as a last resort, in self defense, or if he has selected a target to murder, and put on display in the plaza for all to see.

Will anyone else need these auths? (If so, list OOC and IC name(s))
No.

Which server does this apply for?
Both

Extra Notes (optional):
Steven is an unpredictable, intelligent, and insane man. What he does with these skills will not be easy to pinpoint.

[FPSRussia]

You made this thread seem as to you want your char to be overpowered.

[Sectus]

He has several weaknesses and the process of gunmaking would take several OOC days for him, considering the lack of resources. I had no intention to make the character overpowered.

[FPSRussia]

He has several weaknesses and the process of gunmaking would take several OOC days for him, considering the lack of resources. I had no intention to make the character overpowered.

Some points I would like to point out is you stating you could make them to be as professional weapons. By all means, it is almost impossible to make a weapon near looking as professional and be as good as a professional weapon in these living conditions in HL2RP.

[Sectus]

He has several weaknesses and the process of gunmaking would take several OOC days for him, considering the lack of resources. I had no intention to make the character overpowered.

Some points I would like to point out is you stating you could make them to be as professional weapons. By all means, it is almost impossible to make a weapon near looking as professional and be as good as a professional weapon in these living conditions in HL2RP.

If you would like, I would be more than happy to adjust the terms so that the weapons would be common at best, if not more unreliable than normal weapons, such as having more of a chance to lock up, and so on.

[Sectus]

I fixed up the OP'd parts of the application, and I feel it is much more suitable now.

Spoiler for Hiden:

Change 1: From his time in gangs he learned how to fashion metals down to the bare parts of weapons, and turn even common house-toys into proper weapons that would fire bullets as efficiently as any regular gun would. Though his weapons were indeed useful, and very convienient, they had a higher chance of failing and locking up than other guns would. While they were not perfect, they did serve their purpose.

Change 2: -The guns he can make are never perfect, at best they turn out a little worse than a normal gun. They tend to lock up, and sometimes backfire, injuring him so he will have to continue working on the project even later to perfect the weapon

[Oh-Em-Gee]

+Support, you are a great RPer.

[Lone Wanderer <??"?]

I've seen great roleplay out of Sectus, and Ithink that these auths would be well put to use and not abused to the extent people worry about sometimes. I give my support (If it matters )

[garry :D]

I'll support this, but I honestly don't see the materials required for making a working gun something that would be readily available. I don't really see an MP7 factory being opened up either.

[The Joke]

But...you cannot auth for weapons? This is the second app that I have seen this o.o

[Sectus]

But...you cannot auth for weapons? This is the second app that I have seen this o.o

This is an auth for the ability to make weapons, not a weapon itself.

[FPSRussia]

Accepted,
You of course will not be Be to use these to get SWEPs as it is in the rules. You will be limited in a way as to how I see it due to it will be hard to find the parts to make these weapons and such. If you abuse, you will receive a ban and these authorizations will be terminated.

Have fun!

Accepted:Locked:Moved

Note from Purple: You are NOT to make or get guns/firearms. ONLY Melee.