Amadeus Deckard

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Expressive Database

File #22 Feb 2018 23:26

Summary

Name Amadeus Deckard Aliases Status Unregistered Expressive Ability Housecat Telepathy Gender Male Birthdate June 16 1986 Age 31 Height 6'0 Build Athletic Eyes Brown Hair Brown Residence Rising Phoenix Dojo Employment Amateur Martial Artist Parents Lucy Valentine (Pronounced Valenteen), Flint Deckard Siblings Jordan Baxter Marital Status Single Children Naaahhh. First Scene Deadbeat Last Scene Profile Amadeus is a scoundrel and general petty criminal, but these days he's also an aspiring amateur martial artist, who wants to use his Jeet Kune Do expertise to go pro. The dojo that he trains with is in a ridiculously deep debt to Wenzhuo Zhao, who for years has been showing up, beating Amadeus' ass, and raising the debt. He's not totally sure what Zhao's motivation is, but he's pretty sure that it has something to do with their apparent mutual feline telepathy. Basically his life is a clusterfuck like any Deckard's and sometimes he drinks and gambles or sleeps in front of some woman's door a lot.

portrayed by Alex Gaskarth

Background

During the beginning of the Civil War, Amadeus tried to get as far as humanly possible away from the conflict, and ultimately ended up stopping in front of a dojo when he straight up found himself running out of gas in Phoenix Heights. He sure as fuck wasn't going to try and get gas in that chaos. There were a few people in there, students and teachers, anyone who didn't feel like they could go home in the midst of all hell breaking loose.

Eventually things got so bad that they finally locked the door and hid in the basement. He got to know the people a bit, but after a few days, they ran out of what little food they had any access to. So, Amadeus, with his ability, agreed to go out and get food. With the local cats, he could scout a clear path for himself to scavenge.

They didn't have much to offer him in return, so to pass the time, they started teaching him martial arts. He wasn't the most disciplined person in the universe, but there wasn't a hell of a lot else better to do, so he stuck with it, took it seriously. But occasionally they'd have to hide in the basement, the dojo got raided once in a while during the war, but Amadeus used the cats as a sort of warning system, so that they could hide themselves away when needed.

After the war, things were still a bit of a mess, but local crime started to get back on track a bit. Things changed a lot when Wenzhuo Zhao returned to the neighborhood. There may have been a war, but there were still debts. Normally some grunts would get sent, but something piqued Zhao's interest. He stepped into the dojo himself, and immediately assaulted Amadeus' mind. They were both telepaths of a similar variety: The feline variety.

This would be the first time Zhao would fight Amadeus. While the much younger telepath had been practicing martial arts for a year, he was nothing like Zhao, Amadeus only had the foundation of the art down. And his masters, they didn't dare raise a hand against someone like Zhao. He warned, he'd return and raise the debt for each defeat of Amadeus. Why? He didn't make himself particularly clear on that.

Amadeus tried to leave, but Zhao just beat him and raised the debt anyway.

Not seeing any other choice, his masters started training him very seriously. Amadeus started taking things much more seriously as well. He didn't want this to fall on his masters or the young students, all people who welcomed him. Somehow he didn't feel the urge to be a piece of shit and just try to leave, plus, well, Zhao seemed to have a thing where he could just find Amadeus wherever the hell he went.

Zhao showed up roughly every six months. The fights became increasingly competitive, and at the end Zhao would always make a point to assault Amadeus' mind.

By the time around five years passed, Amadeus was settling into doing some petty crime again, though he still remained dedicated to martial arts. He still prepared for Zhao's semi-annual arrival. By this point, Amadeus could call himself a master of Jeet Kune Do, even taking on many of the philosophical teachings, and reading a little, unlike in his younger days. By this time, he started to consider how the hell he'd pay the debt back, that was now astronomically high.

Even if he could beat Zhao, it wouldn't magically make the debt paid off. But still, he started getting involved in underground cage fights, something that wasn't exactly hard to find even before the Civil War. With his training, he was pretty damned good at kicking people's shit in. He at least managed to sort of put a small dent in the debt, but it still wasn't enough.

Present day, 2018, Amadeus is still with the dojo, there's still a debt, but now he's trying to become a legitimate martial artist. He's training to try and get involved in official amateur fights, with the intent to try and go pro, but only time will tell with that. He has a surprising amount of talent for it, but with Zhao and his ridiculously aggressive motives, possibly trying to force Amadeus to feel no choice but to join him as a debt slave, who knows where the young Deckard will end up.

Psych Profile

Amadeus has grown a bit from his youth. He's still lazy and foul-mouthed when it counts, he's still a petty criminal and general all-around scoundrel, but he has more things and people that he cares about. He has a strong fondness for the dojo and the people who live there, and can't really stand the idea of leaving them high and dry. His duality as a scoundrel with a heart of gold can sometimes put him at odds with himself, as his first instinct is often "what is the easiest way out of this", and often he takes that way, but these days he's also prone to just beating the shit out of someone if that seems like a pretty viable option.

He's still a bit of a bastard, much like his father. Cheating isn't beneath him, neither is lying if he has to. He remains not particularly great at responsibility in areas of life that don't involve his martial arts. And, again, much like his father, he occasionally has bouts of failure where he just sort of drinks a lot and shows up at the door of some poor woman he's tied up with, or just gambling with money that he should pay the dojo's debt with, but sometimes he has moments of weaknesses where he thinks he can just go all in and pay it off faster.

He's more spiritual than logical, he believes in things like luck and fate, spirits, not so much karma really. If he believed in karma he'd be in trouble. He tries to use some zen philosophy but ultimately ends up beating someone's ass more often than turning the other cheek or practicing forgiveness.

Evolved Ability

Amadeus has a psychic connection to housecats. He cannot communicate with felines of species that veer too heavily from the common housecat, so no big cats and things like that. His ability allows him to communicate in a basic way with cats, his communication being very concept, emotion, and instinct, and visual-based rather than language-based.

Things that cats can generally understand rather than having conversations or conveying complicated concepts. He trades images from his head and receives images from a cat's head, having an open telepathic link with them. And along with those images is something like a feeling of intent, "Go to this", "is this familiar", "do you like this", etc. Not actual words, but -feelings- attached to those visual concepts. He can also just dig through a cat's memories, but it's less effort to try communication first.

He can ride inside the mind of a cat, and in fact used to get stuck as a child. Being inside the mind of a cat tends to have some psychological effect on him, as traces of that cat's mind always remain attached to his in some way. It primarily affects his instinct, and at this point it's become an integrated part of who he is. But if a cat is killed or very badly hurt in some way, it can be particularly traumatic for him to experience. He brings that experience back with him on a deeply personal level.

He can force cats to act against their natural impulses to do their own thing, though it's again less of a strain to try to communicate and get them to do what he wants on their own. If he needs a cat to be somewhere, instead of psychically compelling it, he's more likely to feed a cat the idea that there's food where he needs them to be, or a safe place to relax and hide, or poop.

He can only ride the mind of one cat at a time, he can only probe the mind of one cat at a time. But for things like basic communication or compulsion, that sort of thing can be done to however many cats are within range of what one would normally hear from someone who's trying to speak to a group of people physically around them.

Other feline or animal telepaths can likely communicate with him, though he has trouble doing it first. Once someone's communicated with him for the first time he can usually initiate it with that person no problem after that.

From Walking Disaster To Kung Fu Master. — Kung Fu Hustle Tagline

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Skills:

Criminal Skills

Amadeus has a wide variety of criminal skills from hundreds of criminal schemes and jobs dating back to his teenage years. He can hotwire a cat, steal cable, pick pockets, pick locks, grow pot, knows general pimping etiquette though has never been a full blown pimp. His criminal skills don't usually exceed petty crime, though these are the ones he's particularly experienced with. He's also good at mugging and generally stealing things, but he finds mugging too risky.

Baseball

He's very good at baseball. Even as a teenager he still played it with a few friends, when he wasn't busy being completely stoned. He's especially good at batting, but he can pitch too.

Combat

Amadeus is an advanced user of Jeet Kune Do, with a few things picked up over the years as he tries to make it his own. He can also shoot a few types of gun, but he's a rather poor shot.

Resources and Contacts

Amadeus has a lot of underworld contacts, and knows of people he's never even spoken to. He's never been particularly important, but he's gone from boss to boss, generally a freelance criminal. He's "in the know" when it comes to what's going in the criminal underworld, knows when jobs are open, or when there's rumors of in-fighting with a gang. Hell, he even knows about John Logan.

Cat Psychology

He has informal knowledge of cat psychology, which has caused him to make the assumption that cats are generally douchebags, from his use of cat telepathy. He's very adept at knowing why a cat is doing what, which makes him act more familiar with cats than a normal person should, despite disliking them.

Cat Palate

Also something from using cat telepathy. He's spent a lot of time in the heads of cats, eating out of garbage and devouring cat food. He has a taste for certain things, not to say that he's go seek out a can of cat food, he's just not very disgusted by eating things that would completely disgust a normal person.

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Relationships

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	Deckard - Laura Winslow Epsom Salts

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