About Hunter McBannon
Hunter McBannon
Virtue: Loyalty
Vice: Deception
Attributes:
Mental
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 2
Resolve : 2
Physical
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 3
Stamina: 2
Social:
Presence: 2
Manipulation: 3
Composure: 2
Skills
Mental
Academics: 1
Craft: 1
Investigation: 1
Occult: 1 (Appalachian Folklore)
Physical
Athletics: 3 (Soccer)
Brawl: 2
Firearms: 2
Larceny: 2
Stealth: 2
Social
Empathy: 1
Expression: 3
Subterfuge: 2 (Misdirection)
Streetwise: 1
Merits: Resources 1, Fleet of Foot 3, Fast Reflexes 2, Contact (Soccer Team) 1, Closed Book 1
Willpower: 5
Integrity: 7
Size: 5
Speed: 14
Health: 7
Initiative: 8
Defense: 6
Born in rural Elkin, West Virginia, Hunter McBannon always dreamed of escaping--somewhere, anywhere, as long as it was outside of the nowhere town he had spent his whole life living in a trailer park with his mother and two older brothers. Both of his siblings had gotten stuck in town, and Hunter figured that would be his eventual fate as well. It might have been, except that Hunter was pretty good at soccer--really good, in fact, and his junior year his high school team won the state championship--Hunter realized pretty quickly that soccer could be his way out of town.
So when Hunter got an athletic scholarship to attend a university in far off New Hampshire, he jumped at the chance, even though Romney wasn’t the big city he had always dreamed of. Regardless, anywhere was better than Elkin, and he adapted pretty easily to life at college so far from home, even though he had to balance being on the soccer team, working, and going to class full time. Hunter picked his major pretty soon after arriving at college--art. It was something that he had always had his heart set on--whenever he had a little extra money back in Elkin he had always bought paper and occasionally paint, and now he had an opportunity to really do something with it.
Aspirations: Short Term: Decide what to paint for his final project/Come out to someone
Long Term: Find out what happened to Ricky.
Worst Thing He’s Ever Done: Back in Elkin, he once helped his brothers rob one of the nicer houses. They told him that they were getting back something that they were owed in the first place but Hunter knew that wasn’t what they were doing--but money had been tight so he went along with it anyways. They didn’t get caught, though the police did show up at their trailer--the McBannon clan always did have a little bit of a reputation in town, after all, but Hunter wasn’t known to be a criminal and he convinced the cops that they had all been at home that night.
Worst Thing He Can Imagine Doing: Hunter can imagine lying about pretty much anything if it was necessary. It’s not really wrong as long as you’re just doing it to protect yourself--as long as you aren’t lying to hurt somebody else, it’s okay, which is admittedly a pretty thin distinction that Hunter tries not to think about too much.
Worst Thing He Can Imagine Someone Else Doing: To Hunter, this seems like a pretty obvious one: murder, for any reason, is about the worse thing one can do. Anything else, a person can go on living--but once you’re dead, you’re dead, after all.
What He Has Forgotten: Hunter thinks he’s never met his father, but that isn’t actually so. Three times he has a particularly vivid dream of a man in a black suit, soaking wet and blood pouring out from his neck. His mother didn’t keep any pictures of his father around so he’s never recognized the man in this dream--he’s always at his window or at the door, tapping at the glass and holding his neck, trying to say something but unable to do so.
What’s the Most Traumatic Thing to Happen to Him: When Hunter was about thirteen his mother decided that it was time for him to be born again, just like she had been and his brothers had been, since she was worried that maybe he was starting to go down the wrong path, whatever that meant. So she drove him down to church--it wasn’t one of the ones in town, it was up in the hills somewhere, down a back road--and took him to be baptized. Hunter had never seen any of the other churchgoers before--he didn’t recognize anybody there except for his mother--and the pastor who took him into the water was the strangest looking man that Hunter had ever seen. And when he held him under the water, Hunter thought for sure that he was going to die--he held him under there for far longer than he should’ve, and Hunter eventually blacked out. When he came to, he was in his mom’s car, being driven back home--she didn’t take him to the hospital or tell him what had happened, but he was fine after that, and she stopped bothering him about going to church.
How Does He Know Ricky Thompson: Hunter was a couple years below Ricky; they met in an International Relations course that Hunter took as an elective. They became fast friends--and pretty soon, more than friends, though Hunter insisted on keeping it a secret--he was pretty far away from Elkin, but you never know how quickly word can travel nowadays. The day that Ricky disappeared he and Hunter had planned to meet up at a local club--and Ricky never showed up. When the police began investigating Ricky’s disappearance, he was questioned, but he was never a person of interest and he didn’t admit to their relationship.
