John Preston

==Summary==
John Preston is the highest-ranking Cleric of the Tetragrammaton, an organization in a post-World War III future in which emotions are outlawed and chemically suppressed. Preston's duties included hunting down "sense offenders," individuals who did not suppress their emotions. One day, he accidentally dropped his vial of Prozium, the substance which anesthetizes emotions, and his eyes were opened to the tyranny with which he was aligned.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher with weapons
Name: John Preston, Cleric John Preston
Origin: Equilibrium
Gender: Male
Age: Late 20s or early 30s
Classification: Human, Grammaton Cleric
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Physical Characteristics (Preston is a first class Grammaton Cleric and was trained his whole life), Master Martial Artist (Cleric Andrew Brandt stated that Preston is always practicing his skills and that he is the best at what he does, he can easily subdue and disarm his enemies, including fellow officers), Weapon Mastery (Preston is a master of dual-wielding pistols due to his training in Gun Kata, he is also proficient with rifles, shotguns and he is a master swordsman), Acrobatics, Stealth Mastery
Attack Potency: Street level, higher with weapons (Preston can take down more than a dozen insurgents with his dual pistols)
Speed: Athletic Human with Superhuman combat speed (Preston moves extremely quickly in a fight, he also has good reflexes as he stopped Cleric Andrew Brandt from shooting Mary O'Brien, he was able to avoid getting shot by Sweepers, he stopped O'Brien from stabbing him)
Lifting Strength: Above Average Human (Preston easily broke an officer's fingers, as well as slammed another man on a table and sent him through a wall)
Striking Strength: Street level (Preston easily dropped an officer with a clothesline and broke another officer's leg and arm with his strikes)
Durability: Street level (Preston withstood strikes from Brandt with a wooden training sword as well as physical strikes)
Stamina: Athletic
Range: Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters with firearms
Standard Equipment: Beretta 92FS (Grammaton Clerics wield highly modified pistols, featuring firing mode selectors and agazines with protruding studs for pistol-whipping, the pistols can be deployed from his sleeves which also reload them), sword, 1992 Cadillac Seville
*Optional Equipment: Smith & Wesson Model 10, M16A2, Beretta AR-70/223, Heckler & Koch G36, Benelli M3
Intelligence: Gifted (Preston is a senior Cleric, the highest-ranked of the Tetragrammaton. Vice Counsel DuPont was told that Preston is "very nearly a prodigal student" because he knows almost instantly if someone is feeling, and of his own admission he has a good record because he is able to sense how an offender thinks. Similarly, Cleric Andrew Brandt said he was intuitive. Preston was able to outsmart Brandt when he was accused of aiding the Underground by framing the latter for his activities via switching their designated weapons.)
Standard Tactics: As a Cleric, Preston would apprehend and interrogate sense offenders.
Weaknesses: Standard human weaknesses.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Gun Kata: Preston is a master of Gun Kata, the martial art of the Tetragrammaton. Students learn that the positioning of enemies in a gunfight is a "statistically predictable element." According to a computer presentation, "The Gun Kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire." Hence, Preston can use his pistols for both melee and projectile fighting without his enemies touching him. He can pistol-whip his enemies to prevent gunfire being traced back to him.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Adults
Category:Gun Users
Category:Humans
Category:Live-Action Characters
Category:Male Characters
Category:Martial Artists
Category:Movie Characters
Category:Primary Protagonists
Category:Protagonists
Category:Weapon Masters
Category:Weapon Users
Category:Equilibrium