Bruce

*"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."*
—Bruce quoting Albert Pike
**Bruce** is a high-profile tactical agent of the EPF and member of Clark Flat's team, the **Delta Dogs**. Bruce deeply believes in justice, at least his version of it.

## Biography

### Early Life

*"I was born without my consent."*
—Bruce
Bruce was born to an affluent family. At a young age, he picked up on mechanical skills, and became skilled at deceiving the family butler. His father contributed to his interest in gunmanship, and would regularly bring him to the woods for target practice. As he aged, he spent many of his evenings at a training gym.

Bruce's father was a businessman, who was the CEO of an enterprise worth $97 million. wrote a book on the key to success. In high school, Bruce's hatred of geometry led him to memorize his father's book, rather than study. Lines from the book that resonated with him include the following: *"To get the best out of people, you need to get to know them on a personal level."* *"We need to bond as a unit."* *"A boss can't be afraid to look human."* *"Problems are just opportunities dressed in work clothes."* Lastly, the main quote that stuck with him was *"Winners are just losers that don't accept defeat."* Bruce also played basketball in high school.

One of Bruce's father's chauffeurs was an ex-Navy SEAL. Bruce convinced him to teach him to fight. He also studied Asian martial arts in Japan.

After high school, Bruce attended the EPF Academy of Operations, where he put his already-honed skills with firearms to use, but also became adept in advanced hand-to-hand combat.

### EPF Career

#### Delta Dogs

Bruce joined the covert kill squad, the Delta Dogs, led by Clark Flat. He developed a close friendship with Flat, and often worked out with him.

#### Coffee Clash

On January 2, 2017, Bruce was attacked in a coffee shop by rogue Marine Corps soldiers, known as the Killer Kings. He fended for himself for a small while, but was forced to flee the moment the soldier Jackson withdrew a Barrett M99 sniper rifle.

#### Meeting the Arcadian Rebels

Months later, Bruce accompanied Clark's vigilante friends, the Arcadian Rebels, on a mission. He joined them and a unit of BluDroids to a garage, and assisted in the defeat of a group of Goonies.

## Personality

*"I got enough misplaced morality to handle."*
—Bruce
Bruce is very determined and dedicated to his work of crime-fighting agentry, sometimes employing illegal and morally dubious tactics while fighting crime with the Delta Dogs, but ultimately for good. He is a very angry, rough, and physcal man.

Bruce possesses great disgust and anger towards criminals and supervillains, and therefore struggles with the lethal force conflict significantly more than most others, seemingly on par with Lance White. He makes use of rubber bullets as much as he can, but often seemingly has no regard for the safety of his enemies.

Like Jason Kade, Bruce developed a no-kill rule to abandon contrast of himself to criminals. However, he became considerably more hardcore in his approach to fighting crime after numerous encounters that caused him to question his strong moral code. This caused Bruce to view his former methods as too lenient, and to decide that he was better off letting his enemies die than allowing them to return and cause more harm.

His involvements with the deaths of criminals are more like manslaughter, which are obviously caused by his enemies themselves while trying to hurt him, with him only using lethal force against them in response to them using it against him first. Therefore, Bruce never has actually killed anyone in the eyes of the law. In moments of deep anger, Bruce abandons his no-kill rule and becomes more ruthless in his actions and happy to kill any criminal that gets in his way.

However, he suffers from the soldier's heart and often indulges in vast quantities of alcohol.

## Physical Appearance

Bruce is a tall (north of six feet) Caucasian male with dark and imposing figure, short black hair, dark brown eyes, square jaw and an athletic build. His height is 6'4", his weight is 210 pounds, his biceps and neck are 16.75 inches, his chest is 47.75 inches, his quads are 24.75 inches, his knees are 16 inches and his foot size is 13 inches. In his youth, he was lean and smoothed his hair back.

## Abilities

*"Precision under pressure is everything."*
—Bruce
Agent Bruce is an exceptional martial artist, combat strategist and a brilliant detective with access to advanced technology, gadgets and weaponry from the EPF. From years of operating as an agent, Bruce has become a formidable combination of intelligence, skill, and strength. He could be described as a high-tech prowler.

* **Peak Human Condition:** Bruce, as a highly skilled and experienced agent, is in peak physical condition, north of six feet with an athletic build. Stemming from his violent nature, Bruce is in prime shape and is shown to be very muscular. In his youth, he trained to be in excellent shape through powerlifting, calisthenics, bodybuilding and martial arts. He was also a talented basketball player. Now, Bruce undergoes extremely intense exercises to strengthen the maximum number of muscles beyond the limits of human potential and vastly increase his endurance and resilience, which, combined with his agent escapades have granted him his peak human conditioning and also allowed him to maintain this physical condition. Bruce also regulates his diet to maximize his physical well-being, with 8% bodyfat. He would often engage in training sessions with Clark Flat when the latter was his Colonel in the Delta Dogs for six days a week, adding muscle to his body to be as strong as possible.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** Bruce is capable of lifting 764 pounds/346 kilograms (over three times his bodyweight), has a punch force of 1,420 pounds/645 kilograms/6,316 newtons of force and a kick force of 5,873 newtons/56.6 psi. He can ragdoll his enemies like they weigh nothing, send his enemies flying back by punching them with his well-executed punches, and casually generate the pressure necessary to break their bones (150 MPa/21,755.7 psi). Some of his workout regimes are pulling or dragging an extremely heavy (600 pounds) truck tire from a considerable distance, hitting the aforementioned tire very hard with a huge sledgehammer numerous times, performing many pull-ups with extremely heavy weight plates chained to his dipping belt (390 pounds including his bodyweight), bench-pressing, easily performing complex presses with extremely heavy dumbbells, pushing an already extremely heavy cart loaded with dozens of large weight plates (360 pounds) for a large distance, dumbbell front squats, deadlifting, drop sits, squat to kicks, and the lateral hollow rock. He was able to physically overpower the likes of two Marines simultaneously, despite their respective intense training. His leg strength, stability, and flexibility allows him to effortlessly carry and support his agent equipment.
	+ **Peak Human Durability:** Bruce is extremely durable by human standards due to his intense training having made his skin, bones, and muscles far denser than an average human. As a healthy male adult, Bruce's ribs should be able to take about 450 pounds of pressure before they crack.
	+ **Peak Human Speed:** Bruce can run a mile in four minutes and 50 seconds (12.4 mph), whereas the average man runs 5.84 mph, meaning he is 52.9% faster than the average man.
	+ **Peak Human Stamina:** Bruce is able to exert himself at his peak capacity for several hours without tiring or slowing down and also recover extremely fast from injuries and fatigue due to his training. Hence, he routinely performed extremely intense workouts with Clark without tiring much, despite his extremely muscular build.
	+ **High Pain Tolerance:** Bruce is trained to withstand extreme pain and torture.

*"Getting the upper hand isn't about size. It's about decisiveness and speed. You have to commit."*
—Bruce
* **Master Martial Artist:** Bruce is a tremendously skilled hand-to-hand combatant, an infamously formidable master of a vast array of martial arts (including Boxing, Jeet Kune Do Kung Fu, Eskrima, Judo, Muay Thai, Professional Wrestling, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, Krav Maga, several disciplines of Ninjutsu (Taijutsu, Shurikenjutsu, Kayakujutsu, Shinobi-iri, Bajutsu, Sui-ren, and Intonjutsu), Aikido, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Silat, and combat shooting) with years of experience in the EPF making him one of their most superior field combatants, enabling him able to even contend with Marines from the Killer Kings. He has studied Asian martial arts in Japan and been trained by a Navy SEAL and the EPF. His fighting also incorporates and takes full advantage of his proper use of physical forces, momentum and leverage, as well as his knowledge of anatomical weaknesses and pressure-points and his nigh-superhuman strength, executing it all at very high speeds. However, he is often brutal to his enemies and will often attempt to disfigure or even cripple them. Regardless, he is one of the agency's most talented, effective, and brilliant fighters.
	+ **Knife Skills:** Bruce is proficient in wielding a switchblade. He is also skilled in throwing knives; he puts his weight on his back foot and brings the knife back evenly, then shifts his weight to his front foot has he swings his arm forward, like chopping down a branch.
* **Master Spy:** Bruce is an immensely formidable master of stealth and infiltration, capable of breaching high security facilities without being detected, which is all the more remarkable and impressive, given his large muscular frame.

*"Whoever you're shooting at is gonna be just as scared as you are. You take your time. Don't lose your head. Count your rounds as you fire. If you're calm, you'll count their rounds, too. The trick is making sure the other man has to reload before you do."*
—Bruce
* **Expert Marksman:** Bruce is an incredibly skilled marksman with experience in action shooting, a category within sports shooting which places great emphasis on movement, speed, and precision. He possesses grander proficiency in combat shooting; he can go from target to target, being accurate as possible, and has refined his technique for situations that would arise in combat. Hence, he has trained for long-range accuracy, movement, and transition between guns. He is normally seen sporting two twin pistols, and has been called "an incredible shot" by Almanac. One of his feats is shooting a Jerry can mid-air.
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Bruce possesses a high-level intellect and above average mental faculties. His intelligence extends to his fantastic tactical, detective, interrogative, mechanical, exploitative networking, and deception skills, the last of which making him a highly revered EPF operative. His intuition is nearly always correct.
	+ **Expert Tactician:** Bruce has been called "one of the greatest tacticians on the planet," and is a cunning strategist who would lead the Delta Dogs if Clark Flat was out of commission. He describes himself as "the type of guy who comes up with every type of situation in order to be prepared for anything," as he is an expert in planning and scheming. During missions, he will utilize his advanced knowledge of firearms to take charge against his enemies.
	+ **Expert Investigator:** Bruce is a formidable detective genius, capable of observation, forensic investigation, and psychological assessments, as well as both inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber. His observant abilities have impressed fellow agents and other people on multiple occasions, with him intuiting small yet significant details of situations.
	+ **Expert Interrogator:** Bruce is infamously adept in interrogation techniques. He is one of the sharpest and most efficient interrogators in the EPF. He uses various strategies to gather information, including law enforcement methods, intimidation, threatening, mental techniques, and even torture. Clark admitted that Bruce is the best when it comes to instilling fear into interrogation subjects.
	+ **Expert Engineer:** Bruce has been acclaimed as a skilled mechanic, having personally built and over time improved upon his various sophisticated gadgets, such as the Concussion Grenade, and he has also demonstrated the ability to modify firearms.
	+ **Expert Networker:** Bruce, as an experienced agent and interrogator, superbly uses a dense network of professional and social contacts to further his agent ambitions. This is notable through his influence of powerful intelligence agencies like the CIA or the ATF. Bruce is able to discreetly keep tabs on numerous people and things that interest him.
	+ **Skilled Musician:** Bruce can play the piano.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Bruce can speak English, Russian, Icelandic (one of the most difficult languages to learn), Indonesian, Spanish, French, Arabic, the Viking language, and Dothraki (the native tongue of the nomadic, war-mongering horse lords of Essos).
* **Indomitable Will:** Bruce is a man who will never stop fighting and never gives up, even in the most dire of situations. He is a brave agent and overall man, and is braver and bolder when united with his teammates. He heroically stood against the enemies of the EPF, such as two rogue Marines, as well as the enemies of the Arcadian Rebels, such as the Goonies.

## Equipment

### Attire

* **Field Suit:** The EPF developed a durable material for Delta Dogs uniforms. It is a thin Kevlar weave with reinforced forearm protection. The gloves have a faceted grip design to help Bruce cling to any surface. The whole uniform is extremely lightweight and bulletproof to impacts from ten feet or more. It comes with long distance radio communicators for Bruce to talk to the rest of the Delta Dogs. The pants come with Blade-Tech Tactical Thigh holsters.

### Weaponry and Gadgets

Bruce utilizes less-than-lethal rubber bullet clips, .50-cal rounds, and armor-penetrating rounds.

* **Colt M1911:** Bruce's sidearm is a 1911 Colt with a silver tint. He bored the chamber, customized the trigger and added a thread-on compensator, which reduces the recoil spread over time for rapid firing. Some other notable features are the Novak night sights, the *Smith and Alexander* extended magazine well, combat hammer and combat trigger, *Kings Gun Works* extended slide top and an extended slide release, as well as an *Ed Brown* Memory Grove beavertail grip safety and front cocking separation.
* **Glock 17:** Bruce's EPF service weapon is a second generation 9mm Glock 17, modified with a compensator, a red dot sight (a fiber-optic scope that provides a clear aiming point for all lighting conditions) and a mountable laser sight that increases hip fire accuracy.
* **Concussion Grenades:** A device that, when activated, scrambles the senses of anyone nearby.
* **Grenades:** Standard fragmentation grenades ideal for eliminating clustered assailants

## Relationships

	+ Delta Dogs
		- Clark Flat - Leader, Best Friend
* Arcadian Rebels
* Goonies

## Trivia

* The original character "Bruce" remains without a name, and the temporary page title comes from the character's creator roleplaying as Batman.
* Bruce is a fan of *Game of Thrones*.