Allen Tyler Daughtry

Background

[/b] Born at the heart of July, a young infant christened Allen T. Daughtry became the first and only child of two common parents – Timothy Daughtry, a College Professor of Philosophy and Modern World History, and his most beloved student, Liana Gibbons. The two were of differing lifestyles, personalities, ages and commitments, yet they had, somehow, found themselves attracted to one another, and once found themselves in bed, creating a love child in the process.

Allen’s father had been in his early thirties when he was born, and his mother in her late teens. She came from a family of substantial wealth, enough so that there was no fear in the two supporting the child, however, still not enough to convince her parents to allow the maternal student to drop out of the university. Continuing her education at Oregon State University, the majority of the parenting responsibilities fell on Tim, who still had to continue his occupation as a popular and directing seat Professor. The mother moved in to the father’s apartment, and there the child was raised.

The boy’s younger years, without much consciousness, were truthfully not too turbulent. While Tim constantly evaded his egotistical in-laws, who constantly criticized his lifestyle, his lover – as the two had yet to marry, a reason why the grandparents were a pain – gave comfort. Growing up to the age of seven was no problem, and Allen has distinct memories of fondness between his mother, his father, and himself. Yet, even as a toddler, social skills were not shown; he seemed a withdrawn, introverted child from the start.

It was when he turned eight years old that life began to change. His mother, who had been in the Oregon University thus far for the entirety of his childhood for her Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s, and Doctorate was finally able to join society, and gained an occupation at the State of Maryland as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Baltimore County. Timothy, now the spouse of his junior love, was comfortable with the long move, and quickly gained a transfer as a Professor of History to the Baltimore division of the University of Maryland. Allen was fine with the move as well, since the youngsters he was surrounded by at elementary school were not terribly bound to him. The major obstacle, however, were the grandparents; they hated the idea of their own “baby” being on the other side of the country, especially in the “turbulent” times the world was in. Whether true or not, their selfishness would not hold back their daughter and her husband, who moved east without hesitation. This would begin years of strife for the family that would eventually tear them all apart.

Five years passed with a noticeable affect on Allen’s persona. He had, seemingly, accepted his habit as a quiet, withdrawn youth, strongly reinforced by the nights he had spent listening to his father’s discussions of philosophical ideas of individualism and liberty, and brought the boy to care less for what society deemed for him, and more for what he deemed to himself. Often not liking or desiring the attachment to friends, Allen instead spent his time reading or indulging in people that were interested in him; non existence game characters. His parents’ relationship was still stable, however the stress of their schedules was tearing at the weak seams that had already been in place, mostly because of the rushed wedding, burden of a child, and the significant age difference. It would not make a difference in twenty years, but the fact that Liana was in her sexual prime and Tim was leaving his own was beginning to show considerable strain on their love.

Around this time, Allen discovered the “fad” of Parkour, the art of flight. It was a fitting ability to him, considering that its philosophy was based upon avoiding or merely substituting combat with escape. The fourteen year old Daughtry had never been a fan of the fights that occurred at school, and now that he could learn to efficiently escape them, he would feel more comfortable. An “acquaintance” of the teen offered to teach him the various methods, and his father was willing to pay the slightly older youth for the sporting. So, for the next year and a half, a junior by the name of Juan educated Allen in the basic skills of efficient acrobatic and bodily movements. This would bring some, yet not much, social ability into the youth, yet most of his experiences would allow for him to become the experienced Parkour “thief” he is known for today.

By the end of his Parkour training, his parents had reached their boiling point. Tim was beginning to suspect that his younger wife was having an affair with her superior, and was soon proven correct when the woman arrived home late with a friend pointing her to a “date” earlier that evening. The two had an argument so fierce, Allen grew upset with the two, threw on his clothes – regardless of the fact it was the middle of the night – and ran off into the dirty streets directly in front of them, catching the two off guard. Furious with his parents, specifically with his mother, Allen decided not to come home for two weeks, avoiding detection and “rescue” by the local Police through his skills in Parkour, and scrounging up food, water, shelter and clothing by experimenting with thievery. This period played out as a major turning point in Allen’s life. Being alone in the dark world of Baltimore’s ghettos made his conscious pass on to a new level of observant thought. He began to grow obsessed with the idea of overseeing the details, the lifestyles, the way of the Human Race, and understanding exactly why they worked the way they did, and how they ticked. It was not a disturbing hope by any means; in a way, it was noble, human in itself. He was a Cancer, after all; he desired to find his place in existence. He found it as its subtle, silent observer, far away with a telescope.

This period would also be the point where the Qi inside of Allen began to grow. Curious of his neighbors, Allen found himself staring like a dog at those that slept in their homes while he crouched at their windows, originally intending to break in and steal a few things, but soon finding himself enthralled with their waving bodies, the breath that left their forms, the shade of their flesh. Finding himself fall into a near-meditative state at these points, Allen’s conscious was literally growing capable of concentrating its own intellect, knowledge and energy into “estimating” the status of the person he overlooked. Allen, at this elementary level of the Qi that he would eventually title as “The Keyhole,” allowed him to “detect” medical irregularities, heart rate, perspiration, muscle mass, etc. It was nothing tremendous, but since he could use the skill for doors, objects, and lock picks as well, it definitely came in handy.

Eventually, Allen returned to his family, to find that his mother had actually decided to leave town on the “advice” of the boy’s grandparents, leaving Tim to find the boy he had “driven off all on his own.” Depressed and angry with the woman he had loved, Timothy consoled in his star child, who had been like his mirror, his pupil. Packing up and moving out of Baltimore County, the father and son immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Allen’s father gained a job as a Professor at Penn State. Yet, a year later, Tim was offered a job to become the head of the Social Studies Department at Mugen University, and as his son had already been attending Public High School #381 prior to the new occupation, it was not a difficult move.

Time at Mugen Hall: On the first day of school, Allen Daughtry and the other "Mugenites" were exposed to the school's staff at a school orientation in the campus' amphitheater. The junior watched quietly as a handful of professors, the Dean Ms. Valentine, and Direct Xing introduced themselves in detail. Near the end, Allen came face-to-face with the school's head of security, Alter Mann, before the orientation's end.

For a month after the semester's start, Allen simply went to his classes and casually met with other students on the school grounds, mostly keeping to himself, observing the world around him. He didn't make any friends, but he did meet his roommate - Gabe Ember, in the dorm room he deemed "The Bunker." In the month after orientation, however, Allen had been researching other schools of the Corporal Punishment System that had been in the headlines when he slipped across a note from a passerby he briefly spoke with that talked about a secret meeting in the amphitheater. When he arrived that night, Daughtry found the front aisle filled with several faces he recognized, including his roommate. Through a series of discussions and problems brought up, Allen Daughtry was offered to become the school's "Keeper of the Peace," one of the Pillar positions under the Collective Captain, whom would be Gabe. While a part of him felt reluctant, the situation's dire need eventually led Allen to accept the title.

And so, for about three months Allen casually leads his position as a defender of the school, coming to meet several students of the various schools in the process, including his ally Gerald Taku and the rather passionate Lynn Fordeen, but as the new year begins to arrive, a crisis begins to threaten Mugen Hall: a business owner in the rap industry, named Kelvin Roberts, begins to threaten the school's music department for the survival of his own record album. When requested to attend a meeting by Gabe Ember, however, Allen finds more problems, as one of the other school leaders appears to be going rogue from the student hierarchy, most of the school's staff appears uninvolved in defending the campus, and one of the professors in attendance seems to have connections to the dangerous Alter Mann. Thus, after the meeting's completion, Allen is severely concerned about the school's safety, and he and Taku venture off to meet Gabe at The Bunker to discuss the issue.

Shortly thereafter, Allen's social life began to pick up. He started to meet new people, such as Drake Anderson, and formed alliances that, even he knew, had the potential to grow into friendship. He participated in a Valentine's Day "Male Auction," that aimed to collect funds for rebuilding the school's destroyed gymnasium from a previous crisis the year before by "selling" the participating boys to their female counterparts for a night at the school's Valentine's Day dance, of which Allen was "purchased" by Sapphire Firestorm. Besides taking the girl to the dance, Allen spent a casual night on the town with her, and went on to meet other women in other situations, such as Brooke Skyiths in school and the mysterious "Relic" on a dark and cloudy urban street. He would also go on cross paths with other students, such as a strange man in a cafe (Hiroshi), and Ryu Hayabusa, a dangerous transfer that engaged him in a fight.

Yet, as the month of April neared, an unfortunate situation in Gabe's life forced Allen's Captain to abandon his post and the school itself, with Daughtry and a handful of Ember's other allies fighting the men pursuing them in a fight to the death, where Allen first made contact with his future rival, Alain Kruger. After the men were defeated, Gabe took his leave, and Allen lost his title as Keeper of the Peace with him. Worse, a dark side of Sapphire Firestorm's past threatened her life as well, and through a series of events, Allen tried his best to save her. However, no matter what result came from anything in his environment, Allen's own personal life went haywire, as his secret profession as a hired thief dropped him into the lap of a local crime family.

One night, after having stolen a pair of knives for his pawnbroker Joey Jefferson, Allen Daughtry returned to his shop to find his fence being muscled into submission by a number of dangerous men in suits, and when Allen attempted to escape, he was knocked unconscious by a baseball bat wielded by an unseen assailant. Waking up at an unknown hour later on, Daughtry watched as Jefferson was executed before his eyes for reasons he knew nothing of, and feared for his own life when he was cut free and placed in front of one of the family's bosses.

The older man, in his own way, explained to Daughtry that the family knew about his skills as a thief, and hoped to have him use his skills to assist one of their family's branches on the west coast of the United States, in San Francisco, where they needed someone to "clean up" some of their competition. The boss was essentially forcing Allen to become an indentured hitman for their family in the west, an enslaved assassin, and if he didn't comply, than all those he loved would be killed. Allen, while unconvinced that the mafia discovered his true identity, agreed to their terms for the time being, and was released under the watchful eye of two hustlers.

However, Daughtry had other plans. After losing the two men with a use of his parkour capabilities, the boy warned his father of the situation, though uncertain of how the older man could hide away. He was surprised to learn, however, that Tim Daughtry was "more than able to stow away" thanks to an unknown source, and strangely enough, his son believed the story, and followed his father's orders to escape from Philadelphia as soon as possible. Taking the command to heart, Allen left to collect his things from "The Bunker," and from there, made a hasty beeline for New England, where he planned to hide away as just another student.

The two years that followed are sketchy at best. Records indicate that Allen Daughtry spent a solid six months in New York City as a high-stakes thief, collecting a handsome sum of credit from his criminal and corrupted marks. He was seen living as much of the high life as he could without drawing too much attention. However, it is later shown that Daughtry's assets crashed at the latter month of his stay in the Big Apple, before he made a hasty escape toward the West Coast. For the next eighteen months, Daughtry's identity rarely popped up on the radar, though sources in the thieving community suggest that he worked different jobs of varying size as he made his way across the United States and when he eventually arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here Daughtry spent the majority of his time as he purportedly rebuilt his funds through elaborate schemes and high-risk heists. Rumors also began to follow Daughtry's trail of a mysterious chain of deaths that targeted heinously criminal individuals - from gang leaders to alleged serial killers - though the connection between Daughtry and the mysterious assassin were never made.

Eventually, Daughtry's name left Las Vegas and arrived in Southern California, reportedly in an attempt to escape an even larger number of enemies for the thief. It is believed that he arrived in San Diego, California with a moderate sum of emergency funds, though he now lives light. Though it is uncertain what his intentions are, it is suspected that he will return to the Corporal Punishment System as a means to hide from those who want him dead. Application for the fall semester of a local state university confirms this, and it is believed that he has signed up for a janitorial position at the city's latest high school unification - Public High School #774.

From there, only time will tell what happens.
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Social and Occupational Information

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System: Seven point levels involving three positive, one neutral, and three negative positions. Labeled from top to bottom: Lover, Friend, Ally, Acquaintance, Hostile, Enemy, Rival.


Public High School #774

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Living Status Information

Roommate: N/A
Residence: Small San Diego apartment, downtown complex

Gang Information

Gang Membership: N/A
Position: N/A


Non-Player Character Information

Not Yet Listed


Job Title: Thief

Job Description: An occupation that strives to use non-lethal, evasive, and stealthy skills in order to steal or apprehend a particular object of interest from a specific target or location. While the title itself can be rather broad, from petty wallet grabbers to murderous robbers, Allen Daughtry likes to see himself as an "Artistic" or "Philosophical" thief that never brings permanent harm or imminent death to his targets, and never steals property that will cripple or jeopardize the victim. The goal of Daughtry is to guarantee that interest towards him is minimal, and the main product gained from the heist being experience and observation, much more so than the stolen object or its pay off. The various "operations" usually involve a tip from a "rat," a bit of Intel collection, a few hours of evasive maneuvering through streets or across roofs, and finally, surpassing the target's security to gain the targeted object itself. After a clean escape, Allen usually holds onto the object for a few days at a secret stash, then moves on to sell the item to a specific client, or to a pawnbroker that enjoys looking the other way for Allen to gain the specific item. In all, the job is to gain knowledge more than currency, even if the greenbacks aren't a bad thing at all to have.

"Work Hours": Allen typically keeps to his thieving business at night, when notice is minimal, and his targets are often asleep or away from home. These typically occur from nine o' clock at night to four o' clock in the morning, and over the weekends, depending on the job in particular. Allen only commits to thieving a few times a month as well, so to prevent notice from the authorities.

Job Equipment

* Apparel including - one pair of dark slacks, one dark turtle neck, on close-fitting dark hoodie, one pair of dark boots, one pair of leather gloves, one dark duffel bag, one thin black mask, one pair of shades
* A simple lockpick
* Simple infrared lenses
* Simple night vision goggles, tinted golden
* Simple contrast lenses, tinted bright blue
* A pair of home-made gas grenades, non-combat use
* Binoculars

More equipment and advancements in gear to come as Allen's skills and profits increase.

Scores: Allen's pay off can vary, and it usually ranges in small numbers, from fifty dollars to a couple hundred. This is to guarantee that Allen does not draw unwanted attention, however, if paid enough for a particular item, if the job holds particular interest, and if he likes the client, he'd be willing to steal a object of high value.

Clientele: At the current moment, Allen keeps to stealing for quiet, petty men and women, particularly a pawn broker in the southern sector of Philadelphia's suburbia. However, he is willing to take on all sorts of clients, depending on their reputations. (OOC Notice: I am willing to have Allen steal particular objects for any character on the board to help with character development, so long as the item is not in the hands of another roleplayed character. If you wish to have an NPC's item stolen, PM me for the details.) [/ul]