The Shark

* The Shark
* Beta Shark

**The Shark** is the character played by Daniel Greene in Rustage's Isekai D&D Streams. He originally comes from Chicago, Illinois, USA during the Prohibition era of the 1920s-1930s.

## Appearance

The Shark is introduced as an old yet snarky man sporting silver white hair with rough features. He is seen wearing a black gray striped suit, pants, and vest coupled with a big red tie on his white collar shirt. The Shark also has scars riddled across his face from his nose to his chin. His nose seems to be bent or broken a little bit to the right.

He carries a big deep brown bat decorated with nails and chains with bandages across it's handle; using it as his weapon. After getting isekai'd, he received padded armor under his suit and a shining orange pendant with a sword engraved on it, it tasted like an orange.

After his change of heart, and after burning off all of his hair, the Shark changed his name to "Pitbull" and donned a robe typically worn by the clergy of Corpus' religion.

## Personality

The Shark is very ruthless, doing everything he can to empower the Gotti Family. However, he's more of a follower than a leader and may be willing to change his ways if presented with different company.

He also seems to have somewhat of a moral code as he stated he "draws the line at children" and frequently gets angry when someone acts like a racist, because of his Italian heritage. However, he seems to be fine with selling children into slavery, as long as he isn't directly responsible for their death.

He shatters other people's knees as a coping mechanism since he has a bad knee.

The Shark seems to be a person with a tendency to use violence to solve any problem, as he is willing to brutally torture people until they give him the information he wants, forcing his teammates to hold him back before he goes too far. His attitude extends to that he was willing to use a close ally's corpse as a weapon to get the job done. The Shark seems to feel little to no guilt or doesn't worry about what he does as long as it benefits him. However, despite this, he has proven to be more intelligent and perceptive than he seems to be at first, and when he is not collecting loans from people, he can behave like a well-mannered and polite person, presenting a perfect façade of a business man.

## Abilities / Powers / Equipment

#### Overview

"The Shark" has the Tavern Brawler feat making it so he can use improvised weapons like his baseball bat. He's quite strong, stronger than he was pre Isekai, being able to completely vaporize someone's knees and now he can completely heal his wounds after a good night's rest.

Baseball Bat The Shark was isekaied with his baseball bat which was a reskinned longsword that does a d8 damage one handed and a d10 damage two handed. In episode 15 his bat was converted to a light weapon with the stats of a short sword so he could use his bonus action attack with it which was flavored as him taking off the chain in his bat to make it lighter

Tommy Gun After defeating Ratatatat he got a Tommy gun so he could shoot opponents at range. In Episode 13 he named his gun Father Styx's.

#### Improvised Weapon Master

Being a Variant Human and experienced Chicago goon, The Shark has experience in many types of weapons, making weapons out of normal objects

#### Second Wind

Being a Fighter and having decades of experiencing long battles, he can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + his fighter level

#### Fighting Style

The Shark has Two-weapon fighting, allowing him to add his ability modifier to the damage roll of the bonus attack if both weapons are light

#### Combat Maneuvers

﻿As a Battle Master, The Shark possesses four superiority dice, which are d8s. He regains any spent superiority dice after finishing a short or long rest. The Shark may spend these superiority dice to execute several special combat maneuvers, listed below.

### Trip Attack

When the Shark hits a creature with a weapon attack, he can expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the target down and add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, he knocks the target prone.

### Disarming Attack

﻿﻿When the Shark hits a creature with a weapon attack, he can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of his choice that it's holding and add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw.

### Riposte

When a creature misses a melee attack towards the Shark, he can use his reaction and expend one superiority die to make a melee weapon attack against the creature. If he hits, he can add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

## Relationships

### **The Party**

#### **Norman**

He and Norman seemed to get along as fellow members of the party. Like Tony did, he relies on Norman's anime knowledge. When he got 2 tommy guns he gave one to Norman. After Old Tony death, the shark considers Norman as his best friend.

#### **Old Tony**

He considered Old Tony his best friend. When Tony got upset over Shakespeare's death, he couldn't understand why. He then has made an effort to not upset Old Tony again. After some time they were back on speaking terms.

#### **Cody**

He and Cody seemed to get along as fellow members of the party.

#### **William Shakespeare**

The two of them seemed to get along just fine. However when Shakespeare accidently attacked Tony, Shark thought he betrayed them and attacked him. After his death, he then used his corpse to fight his opponent which caused Shakespeare's corpse to be unrecognizable. Even after the battle was over, he didn't feel bad about his death. The last thing he did was name a drink after Shakespeare.

### **Allies**

#### **Broken Wing**

He was shown to be sexually attracted to Broken Wing. He left Phynn in Broken Wing's care when he and the party temporally left The Peak.

#### **Phynn**

The baby Shakespeare found after he was summoned to the other world. He seems to like The Shark, who chose to care for him and nurture him to follow in his footsteps as a loan shark. He learns quickly as he has learned many Loan Shark terms in a matter of days. However, he will find ways to avoid taking responsibility when the situation requires it.

#### **Rippa**

He was shown to be sexually attracted to Rippa.

### **Family**

#### Jacque

The Shark had a brother who died in the trenches while they served in WW1. As shown in Episode 32 while The Shark had a PTSD flashback.

#### Gotti Family

Nothing specific is known of The Shark's relationship to the Gotti Family, but he's very loyal and will do anything to see their success.

#### Daughter

The Shark has a daughter that has not been named but further knowledge says that the two seem to have a unstable relationship; as shown in Episode 12, The Shark has a daughter who he hasn't talked about and is told that he doesn't treat his daughter right.

#### Friends

All of The Shark's friends and family have left him due to his one track mind in serving the Gotti Family.

## History

The Shark was born in 1885 and after having a tough childhood with a strict father that never said he loved him he became a member of the Mob where he specialized in being a Loan Shark which often involved him breaking someone kneecap, this profession is where he got his nickname from. During his many years as a member of the mob he gotten shot and stabbed many times which resulted in all of his scars that he is proud of as he think they look cool. When The Shark was in his late thirties to early forties he fought in World War 1. It is unknown when he got married or when he had his daughter but it was stated that he was a terrible father and he even admitted that she was probably better off without him. While in a gang fight The Shark used his wife as as a bullet shield. It was stated that Shark at some point legally changed his name to The Shark. While he was trying to reclaim money from someone he lent a loan to him after breaking his knee he took his wallet to look inside it for money he got sucked into the wallet and transported to another world

## Trivia

* The Shark has currently broken a total of seven knees.
* The Shark has a bad knee that occasionally hurts and prevents him from running very fast. Despite this he has the mobile feat.
* The Shark thinks sex involves breaking someone's knees.
* The Shark fought in World War 1.
* The Shark was originally able to read but in Episode 5 this was retconned to him being illiterate.
* The Shark has an 8 inch dong but he is very sensitive about it for some reason and lies about it saying its 11 inches.
* The Shark is not a big believer in dual wielding so when he acquired 2 tommy guns he gave one away to Norman.
* The Shark is canonically bisexual as he was stated to be married but was shown to be attracted to Broken Wing.
* The Shark likes Post Malone songs which he heard from Norman singing in his sleep.
* The Shark bought tickets for the Hindenburg.
* The Shark’s signature is a drawing of a shark holding a gun.
* Daniel Greene said that the Shark real name was his actual middle name (Brenner) but he reckoned it shortly afterwards.
* The shark is sexually attracted to weapons, guns specifically.
* The Shark served in World War I along side Cody's great grandfather.
* if The Shark wasn't isekai'd he would've most likely died in the Hindenburg disaster.
* The English word for shark is actually derived from the Dutch word "schurk", meaning villain or scoundrel. In other words, loan sharks are not named because they remind people of sharks, sharks are named because they remind people of loan sharks.
* The Shark has never actually given out a proper loan in the campaign due to him never actually giving the money he promised
* A popular fan theory about The Shark is that he's actually from modern times and he is just insane which Daniel Greene has supported.
	+ Although the legitimacy of this is questionable considering Daniel Greene has retconned facts about The Shark before such as his real name being Brenner and him being able to read.

* In episode 31 The Shark admit that he doesn't even remember his real name.
* The Shark doesn't know what baseball is, he just thought his baseball bat was a very effective stick.
* The Shark considers Norman his best friend

## Quotes

* "I'll sell a child into trafficking, I don't care."
* "I look god-damn good!"
* "Who has money?"
* "I'm Italian, I know what it's like."
* "Do you need a loan?"
* "Take my photo!"
* "It's in color?!"
* "What else does the God Box do?!"
* "What is videogames?"
* "Hey, racism isn't cool."
* "The communist won!"
* "Please or I'll Break your fucking legs"
* "You are not baby birding me, motherfucker!"
* "He sustains it with his body!"
* "I touched him in ways you never will!"
* "I promise you on the life of this baby that I will bring you the grand Tommy Gun one day, for your people to rain down their supremacy from the sky!"
* "I have walked into alleys intentionally at night and nothing has happened."
* "Please don't fuck a bird."
* "I'm sorry we're capitalists. You fuck."
* "Where I come from, the world burns. Every day we strip away everything natural to keep us cool and relaxed. It's beautiful, and I've been wondering why God brought me here. Why remove me from this beautiful industrial world to come to this dirt shit pile. I think he wants this world to burn too. He brought me to industrialize. And the first step of that is gonna be killing you."
* "So my name is The Shark. this is Old Tony. Cody and Norman you sent some people to us that we've killed we've spared your son. I hope the favor is appreciated."
* "So how are we going to talk about you paying us back for the workers that were slaughtered, the baby that was put in danger, and quite frankly just giving me some bad days."
* "You know what I can do with a rat a torch and bucket?"
* "Yeah, I am an apex predator, you are a bad stage of life!"
* "That's a giant fucking dinosaur and I am good."
* "Thus always to tyrants, I'm a Virginian."
* "NONE OF IT'S REAL!!!"
* "WELCOME TO THE SCHOOLYARD MOTHERFUCKER!!!"
* "I had a lot of gang members; a lot of friends; a lot of companions. Rarely have I met a man so willing, in such a horrible situation, to put their own worries aside to look out for those at his shoulder. This is a loss unlike anything I've felt as a man." -Shark's memoriam to Old Tony.
* ”You can make a gun a melee weapon if you swing it hard enough.”
* ”There are marts with walls?”
* "Rippa, when did you start looking so fuckin good?"
* “Ask Jesus to sell his weed!”
* ”No- uhh.. yes.. uhh,, What does the word ‘disciple’ mean?”
* BABY!
* NO KNEES!
* KNEES!
* "Yeah your world's pretty shitty!"
* "His magic makes your's look like shit" -Shark comparing Anthony's tech to Norman's magic.
* "Norman, I know what heartbreak feels like. When I was in the trenches, I made eye contact with a man across No-Man's-Land and he just kept staring, and I thought I found the one. Days went by, gun fire exchanged. It wasn't for two months that I realized he was just a corpse with his eyes open."
* "That is when I became that destroyer of deadussy."
* "It's cold out here tonight."
* "And that's the damned problem of it. No matter were I go, no matter where I fight, the same thing happens. I end up siting here, surrounded by people who don't understand, soaked in blood. You as gods are no better than me, you've also committed the same crimes. Its as if these acts are somnolence with sentience."
* "Don't go chasing waterfalls."
* "Grrr, Stop."
* "Good day, Sir Worm."
* "How much money to make this all fuck right off?"