INFO! Player Name: Stanwick Contact: dm or Stanwick
Character Name: Cal Zabo/Dr. Winslow/Cal Johnson Canon: Agents of Shield/MCU Character Info:
Cal has no memories of the many many many people he's killed. As far as he knows he’s always been Winslow, a veterinarian who has murdered zero people. He’s recently opened his own practice in the city (it's going to be a magical place) and things are going great for him. Adoptions are every Tuesday. Everything is fine. Nothing is amiss.
The truth is a lot more complicated than that, obviously. Winslow is in fact a bandaid stretched over the tattered remains of Cal's psyche, manufactured by SHIELD in attempt to offer him a humanitarian alternative to life in prison at the request of his daughter. Rehabilitation was always a tricky prospect for Cal. He has a good heart under all the murder but he also has a trauma induced hair trigger temper that makes him generally unsafe to be around. The goal of creating Winslow was to let the best of Cal's personality take the lead and plaster over all the trauma and neurological damage that made him so volatile.
The problem is this memory erasure/implanting process has a history of failure.
It might be helpful to think of Cal as a gothic horror character that got misplaced in a world of superheroes. He’s the MCU's take on Mr. Hyde. A kind hearted doctor turned mad scientist, drinking down strange homebrewed elixirs and going on murderous rampages in the name of revenge for his wife and long lost daughter.
Also he uh, brought his wife back from the dead and it was not a pretty or painless process. Fun fact! Zabo comes from the word for tailor in Hungarian.
PLOTTING! Monster Ideas: Draugr or Cerberus would be such good fits for him. I want him to be undead, to really experience the pain Jiaying felt after he brought her back from the dead. She had to kill a lot of people to sustain her own life and it scarred her deeply. And a prey animal like a deer suits Cal. He was a doe eyed sweetie once upon a time.
On the other hand he is SO dog coded, and essentially was his wife's attack dog for years when they were murder rampaging together. And I love the idea of giving him one calm head and one snarling head that holds all the trauma and rage.
I actually commissioned a design like that years ago too. Though I’m leaning towards Draugr as of writing I gotta show it off!
Vehicle Ideas: The van his daughter, Daisy lived out of when she was a homeless hacktivist, a 1983 GMC Conversion Van. Complete with little dancing hula figure on the dashboard.
Game plans: He is going to be so confused. He’s just a normal guy! Why is this happening to him? As the pressure mounts and he’s exposed to more violence and trauma those fake memories will start to show their cracks as his memory is jogged. An extreme identity crisis will ensue. I want these two personas to really have to contend with one another. Can they coexist?
He has extensive knowledge of human and animal doctoring, which I think will be really helpful on the road. He's a very talented surgeon. Also he can cook up methamphetamines and other drugs if given the proper facilities.
Desired CR: At his best Cal is nurturing, and very dorky. He just oozes Dad Charisma. I think it goes without saying that he’s a natural father/uncle figure type of guy. He even had a whole gaggle of teens under his care at one point. (It might’ve been a cult lowkey tbh.) But I’d also love for him to have friends who are a little more on his level. He was on the run, spree killing for 25 years and he’s missed out on all sorts of relationships. Also I’m not opposed to romance, he’s a cute guy with a big heart and a lot of love to give. But there's a lot of baggage there. He was absolutely dedicated to his wife even after she left him and carries the guilt of resurrecting her, effectively turning her into a monster. There’s a lot of pain there.
As for negative CR? It’s possible, even if he’s trying to behave! Cal despises SHIELD and any kind of surveillance state agency in general. If your character was part of a group that kept tabs on powered people and heaven forbid locked them up he will not like you.
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Player Name: Stanwick
Contact: dm or
Character Name: Cal Zabo/Dr. Winslow/Cal Johnson
Canon: Agents of Shield/MCU
Character Info:
Cal has no memories of the many many many people he's killed. As far as he knows he’s always been Winslow, a veterinarian who has murdered zero people. He’s recently opened his own practice in the city (it's going to be a magical place) and things are going great for him. Adoptions are every Tuesday. Everything is fine. Nothing is amiss.
The truth is a lot more complicated than that, obviously. Winslow is in fact a bandaid stretched over the tattered remains of Cal's psyche, manufactured by SHIELD in attempt to offer him a humanitarian alternative to life in prison at the request of his daughter. Rehabilitation was always a tricky prospect for Cal. He has a good heart under all the murder but he also has a trauma induced hair trigger temper that makes him generally unsafe to be around. The goal of creating Winslow was to let the best of Cal's personality take the lead and plaster over all the trauma and neurological damage that made him so volatile.
The problem is this memory erasure/implanting process has a history of failure.
It might be helpful to think of Cal as a gothic horror character that got misplaced in a world of superheroes. He’s the MCU's take on Mr. Hyde. A kind hearted doctor turned mad scientist, drinking down strange homebrewed elixirs and going on murderous rampages in the name of revenge for his wife and long lost daughter.
Also he uh, brought his wife back from the dead and it was not a pretty or painless process. Fun fact! Zabo comes from the word for tailor in Hungarian.
PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas:
Draugr or Cerberus would be such good fits for him. I want him to be undead, to really experience the pain Jiaying felt after he brought her back from the dead. She had to kill a lot of people to sustain her own life and it scarred her deeply. And a prey animal like a deer suits Cal. He was a doe eyed sweetie once upon a time.
On the other hand he is SO dog coded, and essentially was his wife's attack dog for years when they were murder rampaging together. And I love the idea of giving him one calm head and one snarling head that holds all the trauma and rage.
I actually commissioned a design like that years ago too. Though I’m leaning towards Draugr as of writing I gotta show it off!
Vehicle Ideas:The van his daughter, Daisy lived out of when she was a homeless hacktivist, a 1983 GMC Conversion Van. Complete with little dancing hula figure on the dashboard.
Game plans:
He is going to be so confused. He’s just a normal guy! Why is this happening to him? As the pressure mounts and he’s exposed to more violence and trauma those fake memories will start to show their cracks as his memory is jogged. An extreme identity crisis will ensue. I want these two personas to really have to contend with one another. Can they coexist?
He has extensive knowledge of human and animal doctoring, which I think will be really helpful on the road. He's a very talented surgeon. Also he can cook up methamphetamines and other drugs if given the proper facilities.
Desired CR:
At his best Cal is nurturing, and very dorky. He just oozes Dad Charisma. I think it goes without saying that he’s a natural father/uncle figure type of guy. He even had a whole gaggle of teens under his care at one point. (It might’ve been a cult lowkey tbh.) But I’d also love for him to have friends who are a little more on his level. He was on the run, spree killing for 25 years and he’s missed out on all sorts of relationships. Also I’m not opposed to romance, he’s a cute guy with a big heart and a lot of love to give. But there's a lot of baggage there. He was absolutely dedicated to his wife even after she left him and carries the guilt of resurrecting her, effectively turning her into a monster. There’s a lot of pain there.
As for negative CR? It’s possible, even if he’s trying to behave! Cal despises SHIELD and any kind of surveillance state agency in general. If your character was part of a group that kept tabs on powered people and heaven forbid locked them up he will not like you.
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