Colin King is a social chameleon, able to blend in to any social circle at a moment's notice. He may seem charming and caring, but in truth, Colin rarely displays any true emotional reactions. Any feelings Colin displays are artificial, and any attempt to prod emotional responses are only met with deflection and disdain. Colin seems incapable, or at least unwilling, to impart any simple truths about himself, and he avoids any close contact with others as much as he can. Questions about his childhood are especially deflected, using distraction and digression in order to avoid the subject. His hard shell exterior serves as a protective mechanism, and his inability to trust makes getting any real psychological read on him nearly impossible. All of this, however, is designed to betray and belie a true, deep empathetic side to him. Colin desperately wants to belong and to have honest attachments, but for a variety of reasons, he is incapable of allowing them to form. He does tend to be the life of the party, though.
| Super Spy |
| Colin King was born the son of British intelligence operatives, and grew up surrounded by that life. As a result, Colin himself drifted into the intelligence business at an early age and proved to be a natural. Well before learning the skills that would place him in MI-6's venerable Ninja Programme, he was a highly skilled espionage agent, trained in disguise, forgery, acting, and intelligence gathering. With these skills, he was able to secure his position with MI-6, and start tracking some of the most ruthless assassins wanted by Her Majesty's Crown. He still holds each and every one of those skills today, and has even honed them to perfection. Colin is a man of many faces, able to slip between assumed identities and forge whole new identities with minimal effort or time needed. |
| Body Supremacy |
| Under the "tutelage" of a mysterious, silent figure known only as "The Undead Monk" Colin King was a broken man, both spiritually and physically. During his training in this remote monastery, Colin was able to forge a connection with his own physical being in a manner that borders on the superhuman. He has an acute awareness of every nerve in his body, and a form of control over his own cells. This gives him an unerring sense of his physical presence and unparalleled muscle control. Colin is not only a near perfect acrobat with an uncanny sense of balance, but he is also a skilled contortionist, able to dislocate joints and compact muscle in strange and unusual ways, allowing him, in essence, to escape from bonds such as handcuffs with ease, and fit through holes as long as his head will fit. |
| Self-healing |
| With Colin's hyper awareness of his own body, he has also learned how to heal himself through a form of zen meditation. By focusing on his bodily functions, he can will wounds to clot, and fresh blood to mend broken bones and seal wounds much quicker than the normal human body is capable of. By using this method, Colin is even able to consume poisonous compounds with little to no ill effect. While this is by no means a healing factor on the level of Wolverine or Bloodshot, this does allow Colin to recover from debilitating (and even truly crippling) injuries in a fraction of the time it might take another human being. It also increases his longevity, and he has an effective lifespan that measures into the hundreds of years. |
| Marksmanship |
| Colin is a world class marksman, proficient with both projectile weaponry as well as ballistic. He is capable of using most modern small arms with an exceptional degree of accuracy, having even won some championship shooting competitions in his teen years. As well, one of Colin's favorite weapons is, of course, the shuriken, which he has put to great use. He is able to throw multiple shuriken in one throw, and target a large number of targets with frightening accuracy, as well as to ricochet shuriken off of objects to strike around corners and at odd angles. Don't let the man near a billiards table, if there is money involved. |
| Super Ninja |
| Colin is one of the world's most skilled shinobi, due to his extensive training under The Undead Monk. He is a master of all eighteen skills of the ninja, which include hand to hand combat (his style fuses taijitsu with a variety of other martial arts), mastery of melee weaponry, archery, thrown weapons, as well as infiltration, stealth, concealment, lockpicking, sleight of hand, and misdirection. His mastery of these skills is at the peak of what is humanly possible, making him one of the most versatile and adept shadow warriors the world has never heard of. |
| Physical Mastery |
| Colin has trained his body extensively, to the point of being akin to an Olympic decathlete. His speed and agility are such as to be on the verge of superhuman, allowing him to react to and avoid gunfire, as well as make near-impossible leaps and aerial maneuvers. While his strength and endurance are amazing on their own, his mastery over his own nervous system allows him to surpass his standard limitations by effectively "turning off" those natural blocks that his body might otherwise put on him due to pain or physical stress. The cost of this, however, is that Colin may injure himself while performing prodigous feats of strength or pushing himself beyond the limits of his stamina. |
| Ninja Senses |
| Colin's advanced relationship with his own nervous system and cells, coupled with extensive training, have amplified his primary senses to be extremely acute. He is able to pick out subtle or minute visual details in objects, discern and locate sounds, even when surrounded by background noise, as well as smell trace scents in the air with enough precision to track their source. His sense of touch is exceptionally keen, allowing him to feel with every part of his body with the same level of accuracy and detail as he can with his fingertips. |
| Incredible Intellect |
| Colin is a genius on par with the world's greatest minds. He is an inventor, having fashioned most of his own gear within his workshop by making use of his engineering and applied sciences skills. He is a polyglot, speaking a vast number of the world's most spoken languages, and knowing all Western European languages and East Asian languages and their numerous dialects. He is knowledgeable on a variety of medical and scientific subjects, with a keen interest in biology, anatomy, chemistry, and computer sciences (read: hacking). Where Colin's genius really, truly shines, however, is in his keen analytical and tactical mind, which can sometimes make it seem like he has precognition, as he's able to adapt and seemingly be prepared for any situation or foe that he faces. |
| Neville Alcott |
| Neville Alcott is a high ranking analyst and officer of the British Foreign Intelligence Service known as MI-6. He is a good man, and a hard working one who keeps his finger on the pulse of the world to keep track of Her Majesty's enemies. Officially, he is Agent Ninja-K's handler, who puts in requests and arranges payment in exchange for Ninja-K's services. Unofficially, Neville is the closest thing that Colin has ever had to a true friend. The pair will and have gone to great lengths for the other, and trust in one another implicitly. Neville, meanwhile, acts as a source of intelligence, funneling vital information to Ninja-K on his missions, but also as a tether for Colin. It is through Neville and Neville's relationship with his family that Colin is reminded of what it could be like to be a normal person. |
| Contacts |
| Colin has friends in both high and low places. Colin King is connected to the upper crust of society, a charming and posh billionaire socialite that is a bit of a rogue within the community. He has just enough of a rebelious streak to make him interesting to the elite, but not enough to keep him in the tabloids. Through his work with MI-6, he has forged connections with secret agents both foreign and domestic, and there is nary an intelligence agency in the world where Colin doesn't know someone that he can press for information or favors, should he find himself in need. Finally, through a series of false identities and fronts, Ninjak has ties into the criminal underbelly of the world. From weapons cartels to the urban fight club, Colin can likely get enough information about who is moving what and when, should he find himself needing to put on a new face. |
| Filthy Rich |
| Colin's father came from a family that was already "old money", and even had a family estate. Combine that with both of his parent's high demand in the world of freelance intelligence operatives, and the Kings lived much like their namesakes. They even had a castle. Now, Colin has inherited all of that wealth, and that castle as well as a palatial manse in France. His net worth is in the billions, and he has all the fancy toys that come with the territory, like private jets and fancy cars. This lifestyle is sustained through the exorbitant sums of money he receives for each mission he takes on, which in turn, gets used to help him develop and fabricate an ever increasing arsenal of new, cutting edge tech toys. |
| The Jet |
| Ninjak has a unique, custom made stealth fighter that also serves as a mobile base of operations. This jet has a cargo hold that can double as a personnel/passenger chamber, or a medical bay with emergency surgical equipment and supplies. It also sports a small, but cutting edge tactical center just behind the cockpit where Ninjak has a number of computers and other equipment, including a holographic display center. The jet is capably of supersonic speeds, and nearly reach suborbital flight. Its most notable feature, however, is the enhanced stealth suite, which noticeably diminishes the sound of the engines by creating a "counter" soundwave. Photo-reflector technology renders the plane nearly invisible, and it is designed with state of the art capabilities to reduce its detection via radar, infrared and radio-frequency based means. |
| The Tools Of The Trade |
| Ninjak is a one man army. His suit is a state of the art, all purpose battle suite with nearly everything he could need built into it. Contact lenses provide a HUD overlay connected to his private database, feeding him tactical information and intel, including if someone he sees has powers or not. The mask contains a micro-filter gas mask, communicator and audio amplifier, voice obfuscation filter, and a cyanide distribution system. The chest is made up of a titanium impact resistant cage, with ballistic grade micro-paper armor lining, and includes a built in heart defibrillator. His gauntlets consist of Haptic gloves preprogrammed with basic hack routines, and contain joint strength enhancers, augmented tactile input, and a high-speed wrist-activated poison dispersal needles, some of which include sodium amytal (Truth serum). The boots contain a reinforced exoskeleton and adjustable fore-kick blades. Both the boots and gloves use a Hex-Weave Smart technology to allow Ninjak to climb walls and stick to ceilings, and the suit itself is equipped with micro-photo reflectors to provide him with near invisibility. His utility belt is where he stores most of his gadgets and smaller weaponry, including poison, tranquilizer, explosive, and ensnaring shuriken. The disks on his belt house mini-drones which he can pilot to observe an area or highlight targets of note, with the drones feeding him audio and visual information as needed. Lastly, Ninjak uses a pair of ultra high frequency katana swords, composed of a Tri-silk alloy super metal. This metal is significantly stronger than steel or titanium, though not quite on the level of such metals as Adamantium, Vibranium, Nth Metal or Uru. However, the vibratory phase oscillator sends reverberations along the edge of the blade, increasing its sharpness and cutting power tremendously. |
| Redacted |
| Colin has a number of false identities with complete paper work in tact, records, trails, the works. But when one digs in to Colin King himself? There is little to no fingerprint found. Any files containing personal information has been redacted extensively, leaving mostly nothing but black streaks to read. No personal history, no fingerprints or DNA on file. The files on Agent Ninja-K are even more heavily redacted, with no last name listed, no place of birth, outside of England. His date of birth, his known associates, and a large part of his history is just a black sea of nothingness. This makes it hard for people trying to dig into Colin, or Ninjak's history and gain intel on him. |
| Broken Home |
| Colin King may have grown up as a child of privilege, but that did not spare him from a traumatic childhood. His parents were jetsetting super spies in the service of the Crown. They were rarely, if ever around, leaving young Colin in the care of Alain, the butler. Alain was an extremely abusive man, mentally, emotionally, and physically, often beating Colin for the smallest infractions or slights. The abuse got so bad that Colin even made a few attempts on Alain's life, which in turn only served to fuel more abuse at the hands of the man. When Colin's parents were home, they were largely disinterested in the boy. Their marriage and family was little more than a cover story for the two spies, and Colin's mother even went so far as to tell him that she wished she had an abortion. Because of this upbringing, Colin has extreme difficulty with forming and maintaining long lasting, healthy emotional bonds with others. He tends to keep himself closed off, and even when he seems friendly and charming it is nothing more than an act with no real depth to it. He bounces from relationship to relationship, hurting and being hurt, but rarely is able to overcome this self-destructive behavior. This makes it hard for Colin to make real friends, and even harder still to hold on to them when he manages it. |
| Secretive |
| Colin tends to keep important information to himself, and operate as a lone wolf. Often, he'll take a mission off the rails as a result of this, sometimes as far as being considered going rogue. This leads even the few friends he has to consider his allegiance in question, and causes more than just a little friction between he and his allies. In the end, Colin only trusts himself, or he believes that he's the only one who can or should handle the burden of having such knowledge. |
| Cocksure |
| Colin is a very confident man. He believes in himself more than anyone or anything. He knows that he is often the most intelligent, talented, skilled, and deadly people in any given room he enters. He relies on his quick wits and cunning intellect to adapt and overcome any situation that he might find himself in. With this assurance, Colin can be a bit on the arrogant side, having too much faith in his own ability. This can assuredly put him in some tight spots when faced with someone who meets or exceeds his ability in some way. This also causes him to sometimes come across as an annoying prat. |
| Enemies |
| Colin has enemies everywhere. If there is a shadowy, villainous cabal, a terrorist sect, or criminal organization, Ninjak is most likely on their list of targets to be killed on site. Some, like the Shadow Seven, actively seek out Ninjak's blood. Were his various cover identities exposed, Ninjak would find the entire world a very dangerous place to live in, as he'd have people gunning to kill him in every nation in the world. |
| British |
| Self-explanatory. Colin comes from the UK, and deals with a lot of European stuff, so if you have ties to Europe or the UK, there could be a connection. |
| Socialite |
| Colin is a wealthy socialite in his daily life. He runs in the wealthy circles, both new and old money. Those with money tend to know no borders, so it doesn't matter really if you're American, or Asian or Middle Eastern, or what have you, chance are we run in the same circles. |
| Ninja Superspy |
| Colin exists in the shadowy world of intelligence operatives occupied by the likes of SHIELD, Checkmate, Task Force X, and their counterparts in Hydra and such. Maybe our characters met on a job in Guam once upon a time? Bolivia? Perfect connection for those globe-trotting spy/assassin types. |
| Martial Arts |
| Colin is a super ninja, trained in a number of styles and having traveled the world to study under different masters. As such, he's involved in that world, as well, the kind of world occupied by the likes of Iron Fist, Batman, Richard Dragon, Lady Shiva, Shang Chi, etc. |
| Super Science |
| Colin is an inventive genius, and in some circles, his extreme intelligence is well known. This puts him in the wheelhouse of characters like Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, Lex Luthor, Reed Richards, Doom, etc. |
| Mystic Mumbo Jumbo |
| Despite being a man of science and a stout skeptic on things of a mystical nature, Colin gets involved in a LOT of stuff that is mystical in nature. He's dealt with spirits and supernatural creatures, magical artifacts, immortal beings and undying monks, and necromancers and geomancers. He travels to other realms like the Deadside enough to have familarity with them and evenbuild equipment specialized just to operate in their environment and face their unique dangers. This can give him connections to characters that deal in the magic side of things, like Constantine, Xanadu, Zatana, Dr. Fate and Dr. Strange. He even has a few Voodoo pals. |
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| Colin has faced off against interstellar invaders and is known as an enemy to a few of said alien baddies. This might have led to a past team up with space faring types like Lanterns, or Guardians, or Novas. |
| Hellfire Club |
| Colin has recently been seen gallivanting around the Hellfire Club, hobnobbing with the rich, the famous, and the decadent. Perhaps we'll run into one another in the club, if you're also a member? |
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