Agent Hunter

:"Hunting's not meant to be nice, child. A ma can live without her young, but not the other way 'round."
Agent Hunter is a semi-immortal human man originally from the late 15th century. Cursed for his thoughtless culling of wildlife, he must live a day in the life of every creature he has killed before he can ascend to his next life and rest, free of the animal spirits haunting him. He is also an agent of the UNWD.
==Character==
===Appearance===
He is a muscular man with tan skin. His dark hair is streaked with grey and pulled into a ponytail; he has thick eyebrows and a beard. His eyes are deeply shadowed and his face is lined with black streaks, as are his hands. He wears a furred cape and loose hunting attire. His trousers are ripped from activity and he doesn't wear shoes, instead opting for foot wraps.
A UNWD tag hangs from the fastenings of his cloak. He has intense yellow eyes. Although it is most often obscured, he has a small white fawn's tail at the base of his spine.
===Personality===
Despite his appearance and legacy, Hunter is remarkably gentle with others: he is gruff and tired but has come to deeply love the world and its inhabitants, and has high empathy for others. He looks after others as if they were newborn cubs, and is quick to warn them, though he can be stubborn and dislikes mincing words. He is pragmatic and likes to consider the needs of a situation, but is often the first to put himself on the line to save another.
He is highly spiritual and values the lives of every living being, though he is somewhat uncertain regarding robots and AI.
===Skills & Abilities===
He can transform into any animal whose life he has taken (but can only transform into each individual animal once - so if he has killed two deer, he may transform into a deer twice on seperate occasions). This lasts for 24 hours, or until he is killed in his animal form - once 24 hours are done, his animal form dies and he emerges from its pelt.
His ability to turn into various wildlife makes him a popular choice as muscle, tracking or transport when on missions. He is also a keen-eyed hunter, hence his name.
==History==
Originally a hunter many centuries ago, he killed and trapped beyond his needs, mostly for sport or out of spite and envy. Because of this, he was cursed to go from hunter to haunted, plagued by terrible dreams and waking nightmares of the lives he'd taken, as well as an eternity of pain and solitude. To escape this and reach the next life, he would have to live a day in the life of each animal he had killed.
Over years of trying to repay his debt, he came to empathise with the animals, living through their lives and experiencing their bonds and hardships. He would transform into an animal, live as it lived for 24 hours, then spend days in sorrow and mourning as he realised his folly in hunting so carelessly.
He voluntarily joined the UNWD shortly after their proper establishment, having covertly seen agents ? and Blond performing a mission to recover dangerous material from a reservoir in rural Scotland. Tracking them down, he demanded to be made an agent so that he could honour the lives he'd taken, through using the animals' forms to help others.
He is currently tracking down and dispatching of Zopran units in Norway, in the form of a panther.
==Trivia==
* He does not remember his own name, but when undercover he goes by Paul E. Moriff, a play on polymorph.
*According to discussions with Alkaev, part of his initial curse was a vision of what lies beyond his life - though vague, he initially believed it to be a reward for his hunting prowess that he could achieve again if he doubled his hunting efforts, but he now understands it to be what awaits him if he works away his penance and puts every life he took to rest.
**The vision he described is an "endless calm and shapeless splendor" before being reborn into any shape of his choosing, honoured and glorious.
* According to his own tally, the animals he has left to live through include 8 wolves, 12 deer and elk, 2 lions, 3 tigers, 15 falcons, approximately 51 fish and 67 small birds, 54 snakes, 5 horses, 7 cows and bulls, around 83 rabbits and mice, 46 sheep and an unknown number of insects.
** Although he dislikes killing humans, if he must, he will retreat to an isolated location to spend 24 hours as that person before returning to base.
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Category:UNWD
Category:Males
Category:Transformers