Cerice

Cerice Hannah Binks is a gun-slinging mercenary and bounty hunter from Texas, she is one of Volt's best friends and often accompanies him on missions both private and with VALER where she is starting to train a team of armed solders for overseas work with VALER. She is the older sister of Drathary Binks and daughter to Binkco Oil tycoon Carson Binks and gun-for-hire Cassandra Nieves.

Cerice is a member of the NRA.

### History

Born in San Angelo, Texas, Cerice was firstborn of Cass, from a young age before Drath was born, Cerise was caught between her mother and father’s tussles, growing a hate for her father who was never there for her and had learned to be independent by 7. When her parents were presumed dead she grew strongly protective over her young brother who was born months before Cassandra’s disappearance.

While she was raised in her teenage years by Roman Yevenski, one of Cass’ long-time friends, underground informant and confidante who owned a Guild lodge, the Gene Pool bar in Hell’s Kitchen,  New York.

She grew up around guns and her mother and Roman had taught her the basics of gun control from a very early age before she supposedly died.

Cerise has a focused and perceptive attitude in battle able to quickly analyse situations and adjust them accordingly, but can be somewhat intense and sometimes is personified as being overly ‘macho’, despite her skinny frame; she has been described, often by Volt, as having ‘no ladylike qualities whatsoever’.

She is relatively strong for a woman of her age and fitness and is a lot tougher than she appears. Like Volt she shares his somewhat sociopathic outlook on life, but often lacks his humour and has a much shorter fuse than him.

She is, nevertheless extremely loyal, protective to her friends and has been a close friend with Volt for a long time, even after he destroyed the Gene Pool that she took over from Roman.

#### Powers and Abilities

While Cerise has no superhuman abilities, her strength, endurance, reflexes and reaction time are considered peak for a woman of her age and build due to intensive training and exercise. She has spent countless years honing her marksmanship to fine degrees and is considered better with a gun than fully trained military personnel.

**Skills and Talents:** Cerise was taught by her mother, from a very early age, how to handle a gun, since she has developed an array of skills regarding all kinds of firearms and explosives.

* **Small arms expert:** Cerise’s primary skills are of that regarding pistols and handguns, particularly in the use of duel guns, specifically her trusty modified 9mm CZ 75 SP-01’s, she can wield two small weapons with unparalleled skill and swiftness and will sometimes even double up weapons that are rather difficult to use in duel form such as a pistol and a shotgun or her mothers particularly powerful magnums, the use of which one-handed is dangerous.

* **Assault rifle expert:** She is skilled in the use of machine guns and assault rifles of varying calibres, from AK-47’s to her own favoured modified and suppressed FN P90 and M-4 hunter or M16 rifle.

* **Shotgun expert:** Although not favouring shotguns, she is nevertheless an expert at wielding them, especially the Remington 870.

* **Gun assembly and disassembly:** She is an expert at assembling and disassembling any of her guns, with her pistols she can dissemble and reassemble the weapon in 19 seconds, with her bigger weapons such as her M16 41 seconds.
* **Firearm modification and maintenance:** Cerice can fix and upgrade weapons to a professional degree.

* **Grenade and explosives expert:** She is skilled in the use and construction of explosives and home-made grenades, revealing a surprising knowledge of chemistry.

* **Knife fighting skills:** Although not a trained expert, and rarely used, she can defend herself with a knife if need be.

* **Taijutsu and Boxing Expert:** Like her knife-fighting skills, she rarely engages in serious hand-to-hand combat, but nevertheless is very skilled in limited kickboxing, street boxing, judo and karate, enough to floor most street-fighters with ease.

* **Mechanic:** She knows how to fix and maintain bikes, cars and other civilian vehicles to a professional degree.

### Weapons and Equipment

To date she owns an impressive arsenal of weapons with the ammunition cashe to match, currently stored at VALER's HQ in Washington; she regularly maintains and sometimes upgrades and personalises these weapons when she can. She also likes restoring older weapons in her spare time.

* Several models of pocket pistol, one of which, a B-950 is owned by Drath as an emergency weapon.
* Several Glock variants.
* A Restored Beretta 93R
* 4 M1911's She favours on more intense missions.
* A Superhawk she admits nearly broke her wrist.
* Twin *"terrifyingly hardcore"* Deagles she saves for "special occasions", likes taking them out at Christmas and her birthday.
* 2 highly modified and personalised SC-75 she carries at almost all times and on light missions.
* Her mothers' twin, white handled Colt .45's, restored and improved.
* An "annoyingly *nice*" K100 Whisper with suppressor, that Volt brought her as a Christmas present.
* 2 Mac 10's
* 2 Mac 11's
* A MAC-11/9 with 32-round magazine and suppressor.
* 3 MP7's, two with suppressors and an extended magazine, one with a Zeiss RSA reflex red dot sight.
* 2 MP5's
* Two Tommy Guns, one restored original and an unrestored project.
* An unrestored M1 project.
* A supposedly Nazi-used MP 40 she recently restored, but admits it needs heavy fine-retuning.
* A PPSh-41 with both a drum and box-magazine augment.
* A broken Sa.vz 23 she hopes to one day restore.
* 12 models of Uzi in both carbine and pistol variants.
* 3 AK 47's "*When I'm feelin' especially nasty.*" The first dosn't function but was a memento of her mother's who supposedly got it when she shot a Bosnian in Las Vegas with just a pistol at 105 yards. It was apparently the shot that got Cassandra recruited as a mercenary and assassin by informant Roman Yevenski who was spying in Bosnia at the time for the US but already a friend to Cass.
* 3 MP-9's, one of which likely stolen from a Yakuza in Miami.
* 4 P220's
* 2 PM84's
* A BPX
* 3 Galil (AR, SAR and ARM)
* 2 IWI ACE A 32 and 52 that she considers some of her favourite guns.
* 8 models of M16 that she calls her "*All-American Justice*" and "*within my top 3 fave guns.*"
* An SA80 with detachable night scope.
* Her personalised FN-90 she considers her favourite.
* A "surprisingly badass" RK 95.
* 3 SG 550's, one with night scope, one with bayonet and torch and one a commando variant.
* 2 "super fun" variant MGL's.
* A broken RGP-40 she hopes to fix as it was her *"first grenade launcher"*.
* An MPi-69 that was her very first submachine gun from her mother who picked it up during a mercenary job in the Salvadorian Civil War, she describes as "*refreshingly dirty and simple, does the job without complainin' too*."
* 2 *"handy and powerful*" Škorpion she often uses on missions.
* 3 M-4 variants, some of which may be stolen military mods.
* Her father's antique revolving Colt carbine rifle.
* An old Coach Gun, also her father's.
* A Mossberg 500
* A Benelli M4
* A Remington
* Two RPG-7's
* An M1 Bazooka.
* Several variants of sawed-off and short-barrelled shotgun, one of which Drath owns.
* At least 2 miniguns, one of which has to be mounted on a tripod turret.
* 2 heavy machine guns, one of which is broken due to overheating, also with tripods.
* Countless handmade and manufactured grenades.
* Several types of combat knife and bayonets.
* C4 and explosive charges, including TNT.

* An unknown amount of ammunition types.

#### Vehicles

Cerice owns a number of vehicles she uses to get around, some of which have been modified for combat and general heavy use.

* **A 1978 Yamaha XS650**, one of her first motorcycles used throughout her early bounty hunting career, though she all but destroyed it during her and Volt's battle with Catalyst, she still owns the bike and since it has been heavily restored and modified to be even tougher and capable of carrying weapons in hidden storage.
* **A 1983 Harley XLX Ironhead Sportster**, fitted with pink coverings, she used this bike after the destruction of her XS650.
* **A 1997 Harley Davidson Dyna Softail**, also in pink and white, heavily modified, bulletproof and hidden storage.
* **A  1959 Cadillac Series 62 convertible**. Her "signature" vehicle, the car actually belonged to her mother, where it was a dull white, she coloured the car baby pink and much later had it made bullet resistant. Charlie provided tougher fabrics for the roof and like her bikes it contains many hidden spaces. The car's V8 has been highly modified and the vehicle as a whole strengthened.

#### Limitations and weaknesses

Despite being often surrounded by superpowered individuals, Cerise herself has no superhuman abilities whatsoever and is highly reliant on her skills at all times.

Cerice is hot-headed and has a short temper.