Ennis Tarry

:"Don't try it, ball-boy, or I'll serve you next." - to an over-enthusiastic Wingz.
Ennis Tarry, or Power Parry to the UNWD, is a former tennis champion and current combat agent, tasked with wielding an experimental mesh in his racket that can deflect any projectile.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Tarry is a tall, athletic man with blonde hair and tan skin. He normally wears a white and fuschia t-shirt over black under-armour, black joggers, fingerless gloves and a headband with the UNWD logo. His eyes are gold, and he typically wears red sunglasses.
===Personality===
He is extremely proud of his power, arrogant and combative. He believes that success should be grasped by any means necessary and tends to prioritise winning over fair play, public image or collateral damage. He has little patience for other agents, tending to form reasons why he's better than them or how they're holding him back, but will drop pretenses and put his neck on the line to defend them from projectile danger.
He can be very cavalier about his own safety, also, leading him to accept experimental treatment to potentially improve his capabilities. He also rather strongly believes that he is more innately talented than any powered agent, as using powers is a crutch.
===Skills & Abilities===
He is a phenomenal tennis player, with quick reflexes and great stamina allowing him to serve back and forth for extended periods of time, and he has a cybernetic implant in his ear, wired into his brain, that sharpens his reflexes even further using electrical impulses (courtesy of Dr. Dogbrain).
The tennis racket he wields uses a special UNWD-designed mesh that can deflect any projectile, absorbing and redirecting its force to deliver a wicked volley. Tarry uses this to return any threat thrown at him to its sender, capable of parrying bullets, arrows, lasers, debris and explosives as if they were tennis balls. He cannot parry shuttlecocks, however, as they are from the wrong sport.
==History==
A rising star from Trindlebun Green, Tarry made up for poor school performance with outstanding athletic skills. He won his first tournament at sixteen, which was the same year that he was expelled from school. He worked as janitorial staff in the Trindlebun Sports Center while training to become a professional athlete.
Despite a successful athletic career that spanned over a decade, moving from Trindlebun to across the country, Tarry was ultimately banned from play for his aggression on the court, with fans giving him the nickname of the Trindlebun Tiger. He would, if frustrated, purposefully return serves directly into the nose or chest of the other player so hard that they couldn't block them, and at one point scared an opponent so badly they fainted. The final incident was when Tarry, in a fit of unsportsmanlike rage, lost his grip on his racket and it became embedded in the wall of the stadium, where it now serves as a towel rack.
Following his expulsion from the sports world, the UNWD scouted him to test their new experimental mesh which could, theoretically, allow him to parry any projectile. After negotiating with this 'bunch of nobody losers', Tarry agreed to test it, and his excellent field performance convinced Gordonson to offer him a full-time position, which he sneeringly accepted.
During the Zopran invasion, he was positioned in Sydney, where his primary role was to assist Captain Wizard in landing her various spells and hitting tricky targets. However, when Wizard took to the highway to aid in the evacuation attempts, Tarry instead opted to purposefully draw Zopran fire by insulting their leadership in the most colourful language possible, then returned the volley of lasers and bombs in a vicious rally. This act of idiot heroism resulted in many trashed robots, but also a torn shoulder, a lot of collateral damage and a complaint from the city, leading the UNWD to suggest that Tarry lie low for a while.
==Relationships==
===Jonah Gordonson===
:"You're a doughy guy in a cheap suit. Don't know what you've got over everyone to boss them around, but it isn't workin' on me."
Despite agreeing to work with Gordonson and getting many opportunities handed to him by the man, Tarry shows very little respect for him, primarily out of a belief that Jonah's role is purely bureaucratic and does not involve any combat or field work. However, he will default to Jonah's leadership when push comes to shove, and accepts that his is the final word.
===Agent 47===
:"... Unreal. There's no way. You're not a normo."
Although Tarry is confident in his ability to defeat any other agent on the court (and if he can't, he blames it on them having powers), Agent 47 consistently bests him for reasons he can't grasp. This has led him to believe that 47 is not the elite normo she claims she is. 47 doesn't mind the occasional sparring match with Tarry, but far prefers her rivalry with Orthetz, who doesn't start every match by insulting her, and doesn't end every match cursing conspiracy theories about her being a robot.
==Trivia==
* His name is a rhyming pun on 'tennis parry'.
* The most dangerous objects he has parried during his UNWD career have been a motorcycle and Sarky.
Category:Males
Category:Elite Normos
Category:UNWD