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Wayne is multi-ethnic and hard to classify; with the right clothes and bearing he can pass as Asian, Hispanic, Native American, or Middle Eastern, but he does not claim to be of any particular ethnicity. He changes clothes to suit the "job" he's currently on, but on his "own time" or when it doesn't matter he wears biker gear, either armored racing or classic leathers as the mood strikes him, but always with heavy steel-shod biker boots and fighting gloves. In states without a helmet law he wears bandanas to keep the wind off his head, otherwise a small half-shell helmet. Wayne is heavily armed and keeps a variety of weapons stowed about him on his large custom cruiser bike in concealed hidey holes worked into the frame; when on business he carries two Desert Eagles in thigh holsters, a stubby sawed off double-barreled shotgun on a combination bandolier-harness over the right shoulder, and a machette over the left shoulder...which combined with his signature wearing of face concealing bandit-style bandanas have led some to refer to him as the "gun-ninja".
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Wayne pursued becoming an FBI agent after graduating college at age 20 with a degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in Philosophy. He easily passed all aptitude tests and was accepted into training at Quantico. However his psychic nature, unknown even to himself, was detected during the screening process and Wayne soon found himself removed from the standard training program and seconded over to what he eventually came to know of as Section M. Wayne was partnered with a veteran, Special Agent Lane Parker, and found himself in the field in short order.
Per Section M standard procedure Wayne was slowly ramped up to full awareness of the supernatural, working up from running down leads across the country which mostly turned out to be bogus or to have mundane explanations, to investigating occult groups for possible Accords violations, and other such scut work. Agent Parker would tell Wayne only what was necessary to facilitate the current investigation, right up until Wayne experienced an actual, full on, no two ways about it Supernatural Encounter a little bit shy of six months on the job, when a routine investigation into a "esoteric brotherhood" resulted in a head to head confrontation with summoned imps and a few actual spell casters. Unfortunately, Agent Parker did not survive the encounter...partially due to a mistake Wayne made based upon his lack of knowledge as to what they were really dealing with, triggering a magical glyph of warning that just looked like squiggles to Wayne.
Wayne managed to kill the remaining sorceror after Agent Parker was killed, and was brought back to Quantico afterwards whereupon he was finally fully briefed on the Supernatural, the Accords, everything...including his own Psychic nature. Wayne was facinated, but also highly pissed and feeling more than a little guilty about the death of Agent Parker whom he genuinely liked. Disgruntled with the FBI's handling of him and what he regarded as a rather cavalier attitude towards the death of an Agent, Wayne mulled it over while on psych eval leave (standard procedure following the death of a partner), and decided to leave the agency. But not to slink off and try to pretend that the mundane world he had thought he was living in remained intact...that would be impossible.
Instead Wayne became a Hunter, solo at first but eventually teaming up with a group operating out of Denver, where he also met and fell in love with a fellow Hunter named Vicki McCalley. Wayne and Vicki became increasingly close and were heading towards wedding vows...but then of course tragedy struck. The team was hunting a devious master vampire, and in the course of the hunt things went badly. The vampire realized that he had been found out and was being surveiled by the Hunters from an apartment across the street from his current lair. The vampire snuck up on the surveillance post and managed to turn three of the Hunters, including Vicki, without the rest of the team realizing it. Wayne killed Vicki himself later that evening when she came back to their hotel room, after she surprised and attempted to turn him. The shit got ugly after that, and in the aftermath the surviving three members of the team disbanded. Wayne set out on the open highway...even more determined to Hunt, and looking for a new team to do it with.
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Wayne is intensely driven almost to the point of seeming to have a death wish. But he's just supremely confident in his ability to adapt to almost any situation and thus operates devoid of nerves or fear of failure.
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"...I'll see what I can do about that..."
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Wayne has the subconscious psychic ability to rapidly assimilate just about anything. He can copy physical movements, but can also integrate them into a larger context and "freestyle" variations. He can become proficient at almost any skill, sometimes within seconds. He is good at pratically everything he turns his hand to, and often times can learn something from an expert and then almost immediately surpass the person he learned it from. His ability is strongest in the realm of physical, vocational, learned behaviors, and weakest at purely academic pursuits, but nevertheless he can learn languages in minutes and conduct shockingly fast research as he is able to both absorb information rapidly but also to extrapolate from that information to make reasonably probable guesses about the subject via inductive reasoning.
As a Hunter, Wayne has turned his native ability towards a practical end; he has watched countless hours of taped bouts of real fighting, innumerable martial arts movies, and sampled advanced classes at hundreds of dojos across America and has become a living exemplar of fighting prowess, able to shift from one maneuver to another in a bewildering display of eclecticness. He also has not yet encountered a vehicle he couldn't figure out how to drive or pilot, or a weapon he could not quickly master.
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Wayne is a competent front-line Hunter, able to add firepower to a Hunter team expecting action. But he's not just a trigger-puller. He has the ability to adapt to the needs of any given Hunt, and can be relied upon for investigation, surveillance, demolitions, piloting, and even research.
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