Jericho Costa

Jericho Costa


"Getting away with murder!"

I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil

[/color]:[/b] Jericho Costa
Nickname/Alias: Jer
Gender: Male
Character Type: Hitman
Country or Country of Origin: Venice, Italy
Canon or Original: Original
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When I look into all of your stupid faces

I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust

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Hair: White
Height and Weight: 6'3/205
Other Distinguishing Features:
Both arms have half sleeve, dragon tattoo from back to right pec, kanji saying "kill or die" on left rib and a few others. Twin scars on his face and throughout his body.

Overall Appearance:
Always dress depending on occasion. If there was a formal occasion or he wanted to go to the club he would of course dress for the part. A nice shirt, some slacks, maybe a fedora if he were in the mood. Be it a casual thing, like going to the beach or going out to hangout with some friends, whatever he could find laying around. While on the job he wears a mask hiding his face from the nose down while wearing a very nice black and white suit, of course doing his being to keep it clean and professional as best he can. But with the current situation either wears his hitman suit or rags to blend in with the crowd around him. But much like his father he usually has a stern look on his face when he’s alone or when he is thinking to himself even when he is probably thinking of something that makes him happy. He has light brown hair, short hair, that is either shaggy down while wearing a hat or spikes it up with gel. But with gel being hard to come by he has a spiky look with just water but when his hair dries is poofy.

Jericho stands at six feet and three inches, weighing at two hundred and five pounds. He is athletically build due to his martial arts training, lean but muscular arms with six pack abs complimented with strong legs, his body exceptionally evened out. Although it is hardly noticeable his right leg his slightly bigger than his left, again it‘s so hardly noticeable that he doesn‘t notices it. Has a soft skin with a slight tan going on with a decent looking face to boot, chiseled chin, button nose, the works. His body language speaks in two ways. In one way he stand tall revealing his true height, and his back straight showing off his broad shoulders, looking like as it he has good and high confidence. In the other he slouches his body looking lazy or bored making himself look small and shorter than he really is.

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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!

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-Sweets; especially chocolates
-Blades; Sharp objects are cool especially when it’s in someone you hate or just someone annoying.
-Smoking weed and hookah; Who doesn’t like to kick back and relax?
-Drinking while sniping; A relaxing factor while shooting.
-Athena, his partner; She has good moments, sometimes. But it’s really fun to mess with her.
-The feeling after finishing a work out; I work out!
-Dogs; most loyal things in the world.
-Watching cartoons and other childish things; every modern day badass has a dorky side.
-Weak spot for girls who remind him of his sisters; sorry for the girls that do, sister zoned.
Dislikes:
-Cats; the buggers are evil, alive or dead.
-Overly loud noises; Car alerts and sniper rounds are annoying as hell.
-Children; They’re gross and couldn’t believe I was one.
-Other people’s blood; Yes, being a hitman you get to see a whole lot of it doesn’t mean you have to like it.
-Seeing targets do awkward things; Sniping a person while picking his nose is one thing, sniping a dude while banging his secretary is just plain nasty.
-Losing to Athena on kill count;….She likes to rub it in.
Strengths:
-Extremely skilled in hand to hand combat: He has taken many different martial arts from striking styles like Ninjustu to Muay Thai and grappling styles such as Brazilian Jiu-justu to Judo. Making him a very deadly adversary alive or otherwise.
-Skilled in using melee weapons especially with the sword: His mastery with varies weapons comes from his martial status doing kendo and other weapon oriented martial arts. He especially excels with the blade or any other light bladed weapons using speed and accuracy for a fast kill.
-Agile: From his studies from ninjustu and parkour, his is not only fast but swift enough to go from building to build without making a lot of sound very usual for dodging horde of enemies and crazied people if he’s outnumbered.
-Skilled with the sniper rifle and pistols: Although he isn’t much for guns and other loud weapons, he knew it would be needed for varies tasked such as assassinations among other things. But if had to break out guns the sniper and pistol combination would be his choice of weapons. The sniper for long ranged shooting to protect not crazy people while the pistol for quick shots to the head. As such Jericho is a head hunter with these weapons making for quick kills.
-Patient and levelheaded: It takes patience to make the perfect kill, as such he applies it to socializing with others as well. He can keep a level head in the most dire of situations whether it’s life or death or having to face off with other people’s drama. Or the worse of the worse, having to deal with an angry crying child that won‘t ever stop.
-High pain threshold and High stamina: For a job as a hitman, Jericho needs to be able to take a hit, get stab, or even shot and still be able to make an escape when needed. He has great stamina which really helps him keep away from enemies.
-Intelligent: He is highly intelligent when it comes to varies things mainly due to his experience as a hitman having to bandage wounds, how to maneuver around groups undetected, and he studied psychology in his free time. It’s also a factor of his of his surviving ability, he knows how to hunt and what plants that could be used to poison people or stop infection.
-Leadership: Jericho utilizes everything he has available to achieve an objective or goal, this inculdes people. Whether or not they see their own potential, Jericho will see it and use if necessary will use it to their upmost ability.
Weaknesses:
-Weak points: Every fighter has their weak point or have a spot that they leave open. His is when he gets overconfident or relax with fighting someone. When he punches with his right hand strong but at the same time lazily or slobby he leaves his body open for an attack. And although rare, it does happen if he gets tired when fighting he slightly drops hands leaving his face open. But makes up for it with dodging and if he’s faced off against and good fighter a good tactic would be trying to pin him against a wall.
-Not quite the runner: He isn’t exactly fast nor is he exactly slow. He is an average speed runner but doesn’t tire very easily and makes up for it with his agility. But if faced in an open plain with little to give him cover or something that will help him maneuver away. He stands little chance against something that is much faster than him and with high stamina.
-Gets bored when sniping: When he’s in a good and safe distance away from everyone, he tends to space out when he’s shooting in order to deal with the loud bang his gun makes. Can be caught off guard if no one is watch his back.
-Hauling around suitcase and other gear: He has two swords, two pistol holsters around his legs and two around his body, body armor, and a suit case with his sniping rifle with a lot of ammo. It gets cumbersome on several occasions.
Fears:
-Hearing about a death of a comrade
-Snakes
Secrets:
-Really likes anime.
-Actually like french people, when says he doesn't
-Easily flustered around women he is attracted to but hides it.
Any Quirks/Habits:
-Talks to himself when he’s bored or alone.
-Makes slurping noises to tease and gross out Athena.
-Pokes close friends constantly when he wants something.
-Scratches his left ear with his right hand to make sure he’s focus, a very odd habit to have but needs it.
-Fake coughs when he feel awkward.

Overall Personality:
-With the general public: He is seen as a very professional person with a very mean persona. He usually has a stern look on his face to make a person consider him untrustworthy or scary. Which is something he needs for his profession. He can switch his mentality very quickly able to sway the masses for him to get jobs from one point, he can seem like, a stated, scary. But if a person wants to make a contract with him he can switch his persona to adjust to how his client’s personality is. If they’re friendly or timid, he would play the nice guy or if they were in need of a serious professional he would keep his usual stature. But being a stranger to him if anyone tries to order him around like a dog without anything he can gain or want from them. Most things he can stay level headed about but that is something he doesn’t tolerate.
-Blunt: He is actually an honest person despite his ability to quick change his mentalities. But that isn’t exactly a good thing. He says what he honestly feels about a person if they ask him and most of the time it isn’t really good. With the majority of people, from a personal stand point, fake or dumb. Whatever the initial impression made be, it mostly with be bad with him.
-Mentality changes: He has three main mentalities he can switch from almost instantly, his friendly state of mind, his killing state of mind, and this deep thought. A technique he trained himself to use to keep his sanity with all the people he has killed.
-Friendly: To those who can withstand his initial impression and actually stay around him or don‘t try to control him, might actually be able to see his more friendly side. Where he actually jokes around or poke fun to pass the time, so friendly and out-going to the extent where if they don’t already know his profession will forget that he is even a hitman with how friendly he can be.
-Killing state of mind: It’s obvious what he does when in his killing, no mercy to his target or targets. It’s his fight or flight mode, no matter the chance he has whether it be a fast in or out kill, he always thinks there is a chance for him to die, so he can always keep up his guard. No matter who the target is he will take them out, the only exceptions so far to this state of mind are his sisters and his partner Athena.
-Deep thought: This the time where he usually like to get high when he take time to reflect about fights he has been in and of to clean up his skills. Or reflect on the people, he has kill and the emotions he felt with each person. While in this state he is usually spacey or stops listening to person even if they were in a middle of a conversation.

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I'm the hero!

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-Birth to 5 years: Jericho was the born on Halloween night in the year 1987 in Venice, Italy. He was the first born child to Tony and Rachel Costa, where he was raised lovingly by his parents. Although he was quite the active child and in order to quell his energy they put him into martial arts by the age of five. Jericho quickly took a liking to it young and live happily with is family.

-Age 6-10: In school he wasn’t exactly the most popular student in school, he was often picked on my his fellow students but believing in the creed of the martial arts he refused to do anything to any of them. But instead keep a level head and focus on his studies. Jericho continued his studies in the martial arts and found that he was naturally talented in it, taking winning state in his division at the age of 10.

-Age 11-13: Being in the same school with the kids who bullied him for the major of his school career began to take it’s toll on him. But for the sake of his younger siblings he does everything to hold back his anger and grief and allow it to build and funnel it through his martial arts. Jericho grows wary for plain karate tournaments and steps up it by joining other dojos with other styles of training. He trains in harder styles such as Muay Thai, Ninjutsu and Brazilian jiujutsu. Already he know the significant difference between the other arts and wants to learn more and sees if can take it out to the streets.

-Age 14-18: Now in high school in the top of his class at the age of 14 he continues to be bullied and gets sick of it and beats up four of the bullies at once. Although free of his original bullies, it was made apparent that they were part of a gang. The gang not happy to hear about their boys getting beat set their sights on Jericho. A week after him defeating the bullies they chase him into an alleyway and beat him into a bloody pulp, barely made it out alive, he wanted to become more skilled. After a two weeks healing in the hospital, he trains harder in every art he could find everyday for at least for five hours a day. After a year of constant training and studying, his rage continued to boil to take out the gang who messed with him so. He also took up the weapon oriented martial art perfecting his skill with weapons especially with the blade. At age sixteen the heat of rage, he was feeling finally cooled down when he found his first love, Lily. After six months of being with her the same gang from two years age jumped the two of them while on a date and forced him to watch as they had their way with her and killed her. Being enraged to the fullest degree he attack and killed two of the gangsters causing the rest to run away in fear. Then a man from the darkness who witnessed all of that saw his potential and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. The man made use of Jericho’s abilities and put him through special training while maintaining his education. Once graduating at the top of his class at 18, he cut all ties with his family in order to pursue the life profession of being a hitman. He gets trained in using the sniper rifle and pistol and meets his partner Athena.

-Age 19-27: He continues to do the bidding of the man by the name of “masked godfather” believing he is doing the world a favor by taking out corrupt individuals and other icons. Of course being paid handsomely for each of his kills. In this time his merely hones all of his skills from his hand to hand combat, ground combat, weapon skills, his athletic abilities, his aim and shooting. While doing so took other contracts with other people of people to take out among other things. Doing so, he caught wind of what was suppose to be known as the “miracle cure”. A contractor wanted a sample and was willing to pay 25 millions dollar for the safe secure of the cure. Of course that was a good deal of money and would have him set for life, so he travels to London.
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You've got it backwards! Backwards!

Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!

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"Your moves are too predictable!"

Jericho yelled out at one of the attacking students. The student charged at him with everything the fighter got, hoping to get Jericho with that single punch. The elder wolf slowly and relaxed took a single to the side using one hand to parry the strike and with the same hand backhand the back of the fighters head. Jericho shook his head and waved the fighter to take a seat. After a grueling two hour training session it was now time to spar student to see where they were at. The students huffed and puffed gasping for air besides four. He called out for four fighters to come up all experienced fighters and new to his dojo, unaware what he could do. Jericho cracked is knuckles and stretched out his body to warm it up a bit. He took a deep breathe in and exhaled slowly and took a look around seeing the the girls were finished up and going to the spa area. Before speaking the terms of this fight he noticed the students all turned their eye to the women. Jericho smirked.

"Do whatever you can to get a hit on me. If you get a single hit on me you will get to relax in the spa instead of doing the remaining training. Fail, you all do double the workout. No handicaps and I will use fifty percent. Be ready."

Jericho called out as he stood in the middle of the four. The fighters smiled and laughed at how cocky Jericho seemed to be. His student's knew otherwise, he was psychologically testing the mentally toward this fight. From their looks Jericho knew was what in their mind, obviously get the goal and relax in the coed spa. From their stances it seemed that they all had their own ideas, he wondered how it would be. The wolf took a moment to choose which style he should use. He was skilled in a variety of style which he used for battle and war not just for entertainment and sports.

Boxing.

Jericho will be using only his hands this time, he raised his hands to guard his face with elbows down to guard his body. He spotted their stance to be regular style rather than southpaw. So he switched his stance to southpaw boxing stance. He had to expect that their strong leg was their right and expect either fast left hook, wide right hooks, and strong elbow strike from the right. He though of all the commonly used combinations and possible rare attacks that could be used. He was going to act defensively to learn each way they fight and how they're going to fight either as a team or individually. He began to bounce in place turning slowing round and round looking at their eyes then feet. Eyes to show where they were aiming and if looking at someone other than him it would mean they might go for a double team. He looked at their feet to see which one was inching up first and to see their stance and quickly speculate their style.

"Fuck this! I got this! I don't need you losers!"

One of the fighter called out bouncing and waving his hands in the circular and fluent motion. He started with a shovel punch to his face, Jericho parried and side stepped. The fighter caught on and moved to do a reverse hook kick aiming for Jericho's face, spinning to add more speed to his kick. Jeet Kune Do, Jericho quickly analyzed. He took in a deep breathe instead of dodging to avoid the hit he duck and stepped into the fighter's thigh to stop the momentum and pressed foreword with his shoulder and drove foreword to keep him off balance. Jericho continued on and did a swift jab, cross combo to his side. When the fighter fell he finished him by punching into his solar-plex hard to knock the wind out of him.

At mid-strike another fighter took the chance to charge, he fakeda punch and moved to grapple instead. Jiu-jitsu, seeing this Jericho spun out to make space between him and the grappler. Keeping to boxing he bounce from side to side. Instead of keeping to defense, he actually keep the to the fast offensive. The grappler was able to parry a few strike but his reaction was slower than Jericho speed and after a few hits to the face and jaw he fell over dazed, waving his hand that he was finished and yielded. Catching on the other guys failures the remaining two decided to team up to strike against him. They looked at each other and nodded and moved to attack.

Although the two were attacking together, they weren't synced as a team. Jericho was going to take full advantage of that rather than having to analyzing their style he bounced around dodging their attacks. He continued to dodge keeping to himself that he was circling around them and waited to make a move. When the time came, one fighter was in front of the other. Not only did he keep the other fighter to strike, it gave Jericho his opening to end this. The striking fight charged with a superman punch, Jericho ducked under and from his angle pushed himself foreword punching the fighter in the guy and used the momentum to push him into the other fighter. With both down he continue his attack and began to pummel both of them until they gave up.

Jericho stood up, without a drip of sweat on him, he cracked his knuckles once more, his breath still calm and steady. "So double the workout, all of you start now. Jericho stated calmly and began teaching. "Your stance is sloppy!" Jericho shouted.

Hours later.

With the last of the members leaving for home, Jericho decided to allow Mei and Lilith take the night off and go ahead to the restaurant. Alone, Jericho cleaned the dojo, the spa, everything. Deep in his own thoughts, the elder wolf though about the the war the was only a couple years ago. But it continues to remain in his head. All the death, all the destruction, the loss of his father and mother. Still the name of Yamamoto wolf clan remains a strong influence in Japan, since the war ended in a stalemate where the wolves got the higher end of the stick. After the war Jericho made a home here in hopes to build a peaceful home. Thus far, it has been going much better than the other areas.

But how long will it last before another hunter came about wanting his head? Yes, even after the war he still had his enemies that wanted his head on a platter. Jericho's guard was always up no matter the situation a good thing too. The question asked earlier in mind was answered. With his enhanced senses he heard a click of a gun and light steps. A hunter. Manuvering quickly he was able to dodge her shots, the wolf moved to keep away from her fire. Jericho moved to an open area with lots of cover hoping she would follow him and she did. He quick took his time to evaluate his environment. He looked at a few things around him that he could use against since he knew she had a gun. Knowing the other hunters she might be well equipped with silver bullets and wolfbane. Which she might be more comfortable knowing that.


He had to make use to that, Jericho had a high tolerance against pain and wolfbane from the wars. Due to the limits of silver in Japan, the vampires use wolfsbane as the main weapon. Jericho at the time had a choice, do his best to tolerate it or die from the pain. Though he rather avoid that type of surprise attack, he would do so if he had to, a possible trump card. Jericho took a deep inhale of air then a long exhale, she had no scent. He won't be able to track her if she decided to retreat. It was a good thing he could see well in the dark otherwise he might of been in some trouble in that aspect. He stood up slouched a bit to hide his real height, so she could underestimate his reach though he still looked dark in the shadows. He looked at a ear by pallet and already thought of a plan.

But what was her intention for being her?

“Jericho Yamamoto, you've got some information I want – as well as that nice bounty on your head!”

So that was her intention but despite her words, when Jericho looked into her violet eyes with his red ones. He could see her mind wasn't entirely focused on the fight. Another thing we will have to use to his advantage. She needed information? What could he know that she needed? This hunter was seemed different from the rest. But for now, he wasn't going to show her any quarter as long as she was pointing that gun on him. He roars a wolfly howl to try to frighten, if not just disorient her hear with how loud his howl was. He then partial transformed his legs, to increase his speed. He grabbed the large pallet and tossed it at her, and side stepped to a trash can and did the same as the pallet and threw it at her.

But Jericho kept the top of the trash can and held as a makeshift defecting shield. It was obvious that the top would be pierced by the bullet but at the angle and speed he could slightly deflect only enough to dodge it but it all depends. Using those objects a distraction, he used his great speed to charge at her in a zig-zag style to keep from being a easy target. Then aimed to bash her hard enough only to disarm her. If disarmed he would question her and leave his mark but if she continues to retaliate he would have to fight back. If not, he would just continue to the attack the short hunter.

(taken from another site)
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!

You called?

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Timezone: MTN

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