Hoodie

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> — ***Private Briggs**, before having his head blown apart*
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## Employment information

### Former Job(s)

Hyperion Police Department* Special Tactics and Assault Garrisons

## Criminal details

### Weapon(s)

1 ✕ FINEL heavy combat knife
1 ✕ RANCOR MH8 8-gauge shotgun
1 ✕ AK-500 mod. 2610 assault rifle

## Physical attributes

### Height

6'5 *(195.6 cm.)*

**Hoodie** is the protagonist of the novella ***Midnight Animals*** and a tertiary antagonist in the ***Scarlet Suns*** series. A **Hyperian** hitman in service to the **Voice from the Wall**, Hoodie was previously a sergeant in the **Hyperion Police Department's** **Special Tactics Assault Garrisons** (STAG); however, the person that Hoodie once was disappeared the bulk of his unit turned on him and the few friends he had in 2696. What came out of the ashes of the fight in **District 12** was a half-burnt husk of a human, clinging to life only in a hazy desire of vengeance. With most of his body suffering massive burns and the left side of his head being gored by flechettes, such unfortunate circumstances would be exploited by the illusive figure known as the "voice in the wall". This figure, who had saved enough of Hoodie's body to be repurposed, gave the newly augmented man a small hovel of his own to work out of in western **Arcadia**. It spoke only through the walls of the home, grooming the now mentally disturbed man into doing its bidding.

Hoodie first appears in...

## Appearance

Hoodie is a very tall man with a relatively lean physique. Apart from this, nothing else can be gleaned about his physical attributes, as he always covers himself from head to toe in his signature outfit: all-black leather, from his jackets and gloves to his pants and boots. The hoodie he wears comes from a wool undershirt, and his face is entirely obscured by a black gauze wrapping. He also wears bulletproof armor beneath this outfit and as pads on his knees and elbows.

From what the Voice from the Wall says in *Midnight Animals,* Hoodie's entire body is a "cornucopia of flesh and metal"; rather than having clear-cut augment replacements, his body is instead constituted with makeshift implants and synthetic grafts that do not have any connection to the Hypernet. This helps him in avoiding firmware vulnerabilities and attacks from netrunners, at the expense of not knowing how it works.

## Personality and traits

Whether by his traumatic brain injury or the mental anguish of the betrayal itself, Hoodie's mind has been "scrambled like an egg" (as the Voice from the Wall puts it). He can barely remember who he was before being mutilated. Yet, he still retains the feeling of rage and a desire for revenge, clearly knowing who had wronged him—of which the Voice exploits for its own vague benefit. Compounding these problems is the fact that Hoodie is a mute, a result of the damage sustained to the left side of his brain.

He has an extreme aversion to seeing his burnt skin and the wound on his head.

He displays no inhibitions in violence, killing his targets in a fast, brutal fashion. For most of the targets that the Voice assigns to him, he kills with no emotion, dispatching his victims in quick order with whatever means necessary. However, his targets during the West Arcadian police killings often met more slow and gruesome deaths, drawing out their pain by disemboweling them (as seen with **Sergeant Bando**), burning them alive (**Lieutenant Rygg**), or dismembering them piece-by-piece (**Captain Adolphus**).

Hoodie displays a somewhat arbitrary moral compass. He has no natural urges to kill beyond those who have wronged him, yet also displays no qualms about murdering people if they are a target that was assigned to him by the Voice. As an example, when Hoodie is assigned to kill the entire family of the HYPD precinct commander of District 12, he does so without question; he dispatches the commander's wife and children quickly, yet takes his time with the commander himself due to being part of the betrayal.

## Abilities

Thanks to the implants that he has within his body, Hoodie possesses a much higher degree of strength than a normal human. This helps to augment the sheer force used in his melee attacks, and aids in holding blades as heavy as his signature FINEL heavy combat knife or guns with as much kick as his RANCOR MH8 8-gauge shotgun.

His burnt skin was kept in well enough shape to prevent it from sloughing off off his own body through a metallic mesh inserted during his surgery (which the Voice likes to call "ham netting") in addition to applied medical products to fight infection. The latter is routinely delivered to his house from an unknown sender.

His skills in shooting and close-range combat are very high, both as a result of his latent STAG training and further experience in murder. He has frightening reflexes and combat impulses, moving and dispatching those who he is fighting with an almost robotic precision.

He is shown to be extremely durable and ignorant of pain, as seen during the events of *Midnight Animals.* During his fight with **the Quintuplets** in the **Golden Ling-Ling** restaurant...

## Property

Hoodie does not actually own anything that he uses; everything, from the weapons he has and the clothes hiding his burnt flesh to the car and apartment he uses, were all given to him by the Voice from the Wall. Beyond these, he usually loots the corpses of those he has killed for whatever he wants in the moment (mostly weapons and their ammunition).

### Vehicles

To drive around Hyperion, Hoodie normally uses a black **Kanetomi Chōgenbō** that he found given to him alongside the Arcadian apartment.