Name: Bill Kent

Codename: Sir Shotgun

Gender: Male

Orientation: Straight

Species: Raccoon

Age: 33

Personality: Serious and straightforward. Cunning and creative. Gruff, but caring. Deeply loves his home and community and will fight for it with little thought for his safety. Can be prideful of his tools and over reliant on his firearms. Ultimately a good soul with a rough exterior, but is the type of man to take you out to drinks after a brawl.

Abilities:

Military Experience: Bill served a lengthy period of time in the U.S Army, seeing action in the Middle East multiple times and coming out mostly unscathed. He kept up his training after his discharge which keeps him in excellent shape and capable of using multiple firearms, though he solidly prefers shotguns, pistols, and knives.

Magical Talent: Bill's family has dwelled in Sable City for generations, which has granted him the potential to use magic. As with any denizen of the Ash District, his arcane potential is focused on charms, rituals, and symbols meant to ward off and repel harmful forces. Furthermore, Bill is especially studied in various superstitions that can be used against hostile supernatural forces.

Martial Artist: As one of the Ash Knights, Bill begrudgingly trains in the modified Shaolin Kung-Fu of the Hilltop Monastery, and has been granted knowledge of advanced Ki-techniques that grant him superhuman strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. However, due to his preference in using his firearms, blades, and knowledge of superstitions he only properly uses these techniques as a last resort or to keep from being rusty.

Weaknesses: Due to his primary reliance on his firearms and blades, he can be brought down by attrition making him run out of ammunition and his tricks. From there, one need overwhelm him beyond what even his Shaolin Kung-Fu training can get him past, as his underuse of it has given him little experience with being creative. Should he encounter anything his knowledge of charms, wards, bindings and repelling or slaying does not cover or affect, he is essentially helpless. Finally, he is ultimately mortal and can be brought down the same as any other.

Profile:A lifelong denizen of the Ash District, Bill Kent only properly left his home city to join the military, and later to use the G.I Bill to get a degree in metallurgy from Advent City University. His was a long line of military men and steel workers at Sable City's steel mill, and he chose to walk both paths. He long knew the supernatural was real given his upbringing, and decided to make practical use of his military training, love of firearms, and metallurgical knowledge to help protect his home instead of hiding behind his wards like most of the district did.

So he crafted multiple custom rounds to deal with multiple supernatural forces, crafted what knives he could from the same metals or other substances, and set out at night to fight. Three nights in, after meeting Gladiolus and the recently joined Moonbeam, he was formally inducted into the Ash Knights by Old Mother Pemma. While glad to no longer be fighting alone, he wasn't too pleased to be made to take up training at the Hilltop Monastery, though he made a surprising friend with none other than Master Shiryu, the Dragon of the Hill, through their shared love of firearms.

At present, he is proud to be one the city's first responders to the mystic threats that crawl out of the Ash District's dark spaces, and thanks to Old Mother Pemma supplying him with a potion that gives him eight hours worth of rest with only a half hour's sleep, he can operate on a nightly basis so long as he did his duties the night before he takes one.

Art by  sparksstars