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Character InformationCharacter: Frank Castle
Canon: Punisher S02E01
Age: 38
History: LinkPossessions: One bullet-proof vest; you know the one. His wedding ring on a silver chain.
Weapon: One M40 standard issue scout sniper rifle.
Powers/Abilities: These are the abilities from his wiki page, and are all technically unremarkable abilities within the standard human realm, but they're also busted as hell to the extreme, so probably worth mentioning:
master combatant
knife and firearms mastery
master assassin
master tactician
master interrogator
field medicine
Application Questions
Who is the most important person in their life and why? What might be different if this person hadn't been around?
Frank's dead ass wife and kids β technically without his wife he'd have no kids, so if we're narrowing it down to just one person, we'll go with Maria Castle. Within four months of knowing her, she was pregnant, and they were engaged. Frank literally rewrote his entire life and his definition of himself around her; a husband, a father, these identifiers were equally (and eventually more) important traits than his status as a marine. They became the reason he kept fighting, kept surviving, even through impossible odds. When she was taken away from him, it devastated him so thoroughly, he became what he is today.
The Punisher only exists because Maria Castle existed. He still sees her almost every night in his dreams, still hears her voice calling to him when he's at his limits, and at the time of his canon point, he still visits her grave for hours at a time to speak to her headstone. She may be dead, but her memory is very much alive, and still a guiding force in his life. Without her, not only would he never have gone vigilante, it's incredibly likely he would've died overseas in combat.
Is there an event in your character's life that they'd do differently? How so and why?
The events that unfolded in Kandahar echoed out in ways that extend beyond just the resulting death of his family, though obviously that's the most significant and noteworthy consequence. Because of his participation, and because it was filmed, Frank and his family became targets destined for an arranged hit by Rawlins and, to a certain extent, Billy Russo. It isn't only about what Frank lost, though, it's also about what Kandahar represents: his time as a soldier, as a marine, something he could be proud of, being tainted and corrupted by evil men in positions of authority. It represents the ruination of his military career, the ruination of his trust in the government, and the straw that finally broke the camel's back, helping make the decision to retire it to return home to be a family man for good.
The guilt he feels for assassinating a good man in cold blood still haunts his dreams. Ruthlessly and unquestioningly executing Ahmad Zubair is something Frank lives with every day. If given the chance, despite the consequences it would inevitably bring down on him, as squad leader he'd have changed the mission parameters for his men midway through the op, and he'd have turned the gun on Rawlins rather than just punching out one of his eyes afterward. Undoubtedly it would've ended with Frank in military prison, but at least both his family and Zubair would still be alive. Spending the rest of his life behind bars would be worth it.
What's the greatest challenge you foresee your character facing in the setting?
The challenge Frank will face in Diadem is the same challenge he faces every day already back home: social connection. Frank is deliberately and actively anti-social, born both out of a mistrust and general sense of paranoia, and out of just extremely shitty mental health. His depression and his grief make him act like an asshole, and he refuses to care what other people think about him. He pushes people away with intent, either to protect them from his lifestyle, or because he knows they wouldn't agree with his ethics in terms of killing people who deserve it β and he doesn't have the patience or the give-a-shit required to justify himself to others.
If someone's going to get all high and mighty about him putting a bullet in a murderer, he simply doesn't have time to entertain their philosophies or their guilt-trips or their preaching. He does not care. He will not change his mind. He will simply write them out of his life, so he can continue to do what he does. Given the presence of antagonistic scavengers or raiders in the setting, this is likely going to continue to be relevant with his newly forming connections in game. Maintaining and fostering CR that can overcome this will be challenging, but also deeply compelling, and part of the appeal of playing him to be honest.
What's the easiest thing you foresee your character adapting to in the setting?
The violence, full stop. Not only is Frank a soldier and an entire war personified into a man, the canon Frank comes from is uniquely appropriate to prepare its citizens for the setting. Frank lives in New York. Frank is in the MCU. If anything bad ever happens in the MCU, it happens in New York. Aliens, androids, wizards β all of the above. New Yorkers have seen all the shit ever, and cosmic storms are kind of just a Tuesday at this point. Surviving it, gearing up for attacks or horrors beyond human comprehension, and hunting down people who take advantage of that chaos to hurt others? That's pretty much his whole deal. Diadem is just MCU New York if they moved New York to Florida and the city started doing bath salts. He's good. No Problemo.
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