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> PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Rea
PRONOUNS: she/her
AGE: 25
CONTACT: NearTheHeart

> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Worick Arcangelo; formerly Wallace Arcangelo
CANON: GANGSTA.
AGE: 35
CANON POINT: Volume 8, chapter 49.

HISTORY: This wiki article offers a brief summary of Worick's childhood.

Picking up where it leaves off, Worick (still Wallace at the time, he seems to change his name sometime in his 20's) and Nicolas leave the Arcangelo Estate for Ergastulum, a city built to be a quarantine for Twilights. Twilights are humans whose bodies have been supernaturally enhanced through addiction to a drug called Cerebret, and Nic is one of them. Upon arriving in the city, the two boys live on the street for some time. Eventually Worick turns to prostitution, working at a brothel called "Pussy" where he becomes like a son to the brothel madam "Big Mama". At some point, Worick attracts the attention of the girlfriend of a member of the Monroe Family, one of the city's mafia families. The guy and a few of his friends corner Worick and beat him up, only for Nic to get revenge by single-handedly beating Monroe's toughest men. Daniel Monroe, head of the family, is so impressed by Nic's strength that he takes the boys in as members of the family for a period.

Eventually Worick and Nic have enough clout in the city to open up their own business, Benriya. They become known as the "Handymen" who are a neutral force, like the police, allowing them to take jobs from any of the mafia families and other big forces within the city. Worick continues his gigolo business on the side as a freelance gig, seemingly for fun, but potentially also as an additional way to gather information from his clients. One day they're given a job by police officer Chad Adkins to exterminate a pimp named Barry and the rest of his gang. Among his gang is a prostitute, Alex, who Worick has seen working around his apartment frequently. After making Chad agree they can take whatever "booty" they want from the job, Worick goes to Alex to warn her off returning to Barry. Returning to Nic to finish the job, he doesn't expect Alex to follow and reach them right after they've killed everyone. Seeing that she has nowhere to go, he offers her a place to stay, much to Nic and Chad's chagrin. He even makes Alex Benriya's secretary of sorts. When Alex goes through withdrawal, Worick finds her in the ally and tries to help her snap out of it, refusing her advances, and finally headbutting her into an alert state.

As the members of Benriya go about their daily lives, there is a current of unrest happening throughout the city. Twilights are being slaughtered in a way reminiscent of the past when a group of superpowered normals (non-Twilights) called The Destroyers went on nightly murdering sprees. Worick and Nic are given a job by the Cristiano Family to protect the way for escaping Twilights to make it to the Cristiano's brothel unharmed. The brothel is eventually attacked by the murderers, one who turns out to be a lost Twilight child, Erica, who everyone thought had died. While the fighting commences, Worick goes to the roof and fires a flare, alerting the Paulklee Guild, a guild of Twilights, to the danger. After the fight, Worick helps the police identify all the dead bodies. Eventually Worick is goes to the Monroe Estate to help out and is informed by Daniel's right hand, Miles Mayer, that the Destroyers have returned and are on the move. Learning that Daniel is in his office with one of his members, Ivan, Worick begins piecing together evidence that Ivan may be working with the Destroyers, and posing a threat to Daniel. They storm into his office and find it empty, only to be alerted immediately that the estate is under attack by a member of the Destroyers, Striker. Worick and Miles work together to defend the estate, but Striker escapes and Worick is injured in the fight.

While he's recuperating, Nic and Delico go on the hunt for Erica, only to reunite with Worick at the clinic in the aftermath, with Nic severely injured and Delico in shock. Worick tries to help Nic through his convulsions by holding him down, but is pushed aside by Alex, who takes over in calming him. With no one being in a state to explain what happened, Worick begins to piece things together himself. When Miles comes to the clinic to check on Delico and Yang, Worick confronts him about Daniel, figuring out that Daniel Monroe has betrayed them all and has been working with Twilight-hating family, Corsica to bring about the slaughter of Twilights. Worick leaves the clinic, followed by Miles. Later on he goes to Pussy, a Corsica run brothel, looking for an audience with Big Mama. He tells her that he would like to see the head of the family, Uranos Corsica, and holds up a bag with Miles' head in it. The body is later discovered in his apartment, along with cash and a note left for Alex telling her to run. Worick eventually meets with Corsica and the other leaders in his family. They discuss whether to make him an ally, under the moniker "Storage" that Worick has been going by when doing jobs that require his memory. Corsica finally asks Worick what he wants and Worick replies with "to kill them [Twilights] all".

PERSONALITY: Worick is very much a ‘what you see is only the tip of the iceberg’ kind of guy. He assumes a very friendly, carefree, flirty persona by default that is in equal parts genuine and an act to keep people from examining him too closely. It is also highly helpful regarding his professions (a handyman and a gigolo) because he is essentially the businessman portion of his duo with Nic and has enough social grace for the both of them. But Worick keeps a lot of things bottled up, particularly things that affect him on an emotional level. He never talks about what happened to his family, even with Nic, and whenever he’s asked about his damaged eye, or his past, he deflects with a joke or a come on. Most of what Alex learns about him comes from outside sources: a newspaper article about his family massacre, explanations from Granny Joel about how Worick can't be seen to have a girlfriend due to his job as a gigolo. Often in the series new details about Worick get thrown out there only when it becomes impossible to avoid them, and that very much keeps with how Worick operates, never giving away anything unless he has to.

But despite the awful childhood he’s had, first under his father’s abuse, and then living on the streets, Worick is at his heart a very charitable and sympathetic person. Aside from the shadier aspects of his and Nic’s business as handymen, they also take jobs helping locals with odd jobs, such as repairing roofs. And when they are tasked to murder Alex’s pimp and his entire crew, including her, it’s Worick who decides to keep her alive and allow her to work as their secretary. Worick does not take to people on a personal level easily, he has too much guard up for that, but when he does, he does so fiercely. For example, he's highly protective of his partner, Nic. He has been seen going from zero to a hundred in angry and threatening on another prostitute for calling Nic unkind and derogatory names. He also has a pen-chance for picking up strays: Nic, Alex, and a stray black cat he names "Black Beauty".

However, all this by no means should paint Worick as a ‘good guy’ because he is not above lying, cheating, stealing, or straight up letting Nic torture some guy for information when the need arises to do so. His morals are pretty shaky, and he is absolutely on board with using violence in order to get what he wants. He threatens to shoot a guy's dick off in order to get information out of him. And he also seems to get a bit of pleasure out of killing his targets, as he can often be found smiling while he does so. Ultimately he's very casual about violence and killing. However, a majority of the people Worick kills are killers themselves. He is, in most of the canon, more likely to be found on the side saving women, children, and Twilights from harm then the one causing it. While he is not a 'good' man, he still clearly, at least at one point, had morality lines that he wouldn't cross.

Worick is a very analytical person. Having not only been born with hyperthymesia, allowing him to remember everything he sees and hears, he was also surrounded by books throughout his childhood. Isolated from the rest of his family because of being his father's bastard, books were the only thing he had to do when not being tutored or beaten. He had no other friends, until Nicolas, and so a lot of knowledge he absorbed as a child was through books. Due to this, Worick grew up relying a lot on his mind and its capabilities. It's through seeing, picking up on, and analyzing people that Worick has become so adept at reading them. Likewise, he has an amazing ability to piece information together quickly, such as when he figures out Ivan is apart of the attack on the Cristiano brothel, and when he uncovers Daniel's betrayal on his own. His extremely quick thinking is also what allowed him to get a leg up on Striker during their fight, despite Striker being much stronger and the better fighter.

His relationship with Nicolas is the most important, and also the hardest to explain, as several elements play a part in it. Worick and Nicolas, as they appear to people in general, are best friends. They've lived together for over twenty years and know each other by heart. They bicker like an old married couple and share clothing. Worick is protective of Nic, often having to stop him from overdosing on Cerebret or otherwise finding trouble. They've always looked after one another, often carrying each other to the clinic when the other was hurt or sick. Nicolas is the most important person in Worick's life, and possibly the one he hates the most. Nic's standing both as a Twilight and the one who murdered Worick's family gives major friction to their relationship. Worick is still effected by the death of his family, often remembering the massacre in his nightmares. His responsibility as Nic's "Master", the human in which a Twilight is bound and must follow orders for, sits heavily on his shoulders. Many times he has expressed his view on his and Nic's relationship as a "friendship" only to be reminded that Nic is bound to him. Worick always responses bitterly to the reminder. Their relationship is complicated, but Nic is also the first person Worick ever trusted, the first friend he ever had, and the first person he ever tried to save.

Speaking of saving, Worick's relationship with Twilights as a whole is another complex situation, but one that impacts his life and his choices. Despite once telling Delico that he hates Twilights, and joining Corisca into order to exterminate them (though signs point to him being a double agent), his actions do not match his words at all. Flashbacks of when he's younger catch the moments when Worick tries to do his best for Nic and other Twilights. The best example of this is a flashback Big Mama has after Worick comes to her to join Corsica: she remembers finding a young Worick after he stabbed a Twilight slaver to death. She tells him "Even if you kill all of them, it doesn't mean you can save the Twilights". And his reply is "I can...Somebody's got to do it". The inconsistency between his words and deeds seems to point to the fact that even Worick is confused on his feelings. Or that he has other reasons for misleading others.

Alex is someone else who is important to Worick. While he remains a puzzle to her in certain aspects, he's learned everything about her. While deciding to spare her might have been a spur of the moment idea, once she's in his care he does his best to give her some kind of life. He offers her the secretary position to make her feel useful, and once he learns she can sing, he tries to get her a singing position at the Cristiano brothel. Meanwhile, he works with Chad to try and track down her family and potentially send her home. Despite having his guard up somewhat, Alex is someone he can be at ease with because they have an understanding not to push each other for answers. Worick will playfully grope and flirt with her, but they both know it's all in good fun. When things take a bad turn and Worick decides to turn to Corsica, it's Alex that he leaves a note and money for, hoping she'll find her way home.
CRAU: N/A

SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: Half body reference, Tattoo reference.
SKILLS:
• Basic cooking skills
• Expert marksman
• Fluent in sign language
• Hyperthymesia, a condition likened to having a photographic memory. He remembers every face, name, detail, and piece of information he sees or hears. This ability in canon has allowed him to help the police identify mutilated corpses, and learn sign language simply by flipping through the sign language dictionary he owns.

NEW POWER: Seductive Magnetism. At his starting level he will have the abilities linked: an aura of attractiveness that subtly lifts the inhibitions of the affected, making them attracted to Worick as well as seek his favor. They will also be resistant to the idea of harming him. However, "all affected targets remain fully themselves" and he cannot force anyone to do anything they have no desire to do with his abilities; but he can entice people into doing things to win his favor that they might not have done without his influence.
POWER REASONING: In canon Worick is a popular sex worker (gigolo), who attracts tons of positive attention from women and envy from other men. He knows how to use his looks and skills at seduction to get what he wants. This power would only be a supernatural extension of a talent that he already has and uses commonly; i.e. seductive allure.

> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: TDM Top Level
SAMPLE TWO: Bakerstreet Thread