Mangas - The Monstrous

Mangas

BIO
Playbook: Monstrous
Looks: Almost human, bestial aura, street clothes
Almost 7 ft tall, broad shoulders, very hairy face, arms and back hairy as well. His hands are very large and strong. 



STATS
Charm: 0
Cool: -1 0
Sharp: +2
Tough: -1
Weird: +3

STATUS
LUCK
Okay [X] [X] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Doomed

HARM
Okay [X] [X] [X] / [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Dying
Unstable [ ]

MOVES
- Unholy Strength: Roll +Weird instead of +Tough when you kick some ass.
- Immortal: You do not age or sicken, and whenever you suffer harm you suffer 1-harm less.
- Shapeshifter: You may change your form (large grey/brown bear). You gain +1 to investigate a mystery when using an alternate form’s superior senses.
-  Tune In: You can attune your mind to a monster or minion. Roll +Weird. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 1. On a miss, the monster becomes aware of you. Spend one hold to ask the Keeper one of the following questions, and gain +1 ongoing while acting on the answers:
• Where is the creature right now?
• What is it planning to do right now?
• Who is it going to attack next?
• Who does it regard as the biggest threat?
• How can I attract its attention

 CURSE
Pure Drive: Anger - Whenever you have a chance to indulge that emotion, you must do so immediately, or act under pressure to resist.

NATURAL ATTACK
Fists: Base: fists (2-harm hand)
Extra: Add +1 harm to a base

GEAR
- Shotgun, Shotgun (3-harm close messy)


HISTORY
- Sophia: You fought together against the odds, and prevailed. Sophia was hunting a warg, followed it to a clearing in the forest and got close enough to fight it,only to realise it was part of a pack. Mangas had hunted two other wargs of the pack and it came to a showdown were Sophia was almost encircled by the pack with no way out and Mangas stormed onto the clearing towards them. Some wargs fled and together they managed to fight off the rest.
- Eshe: You lost control one time, and almost killed them. Ask them how they stopped you. Mangas held Eshe aloft, arm raised to deliver what would have been the killing blow.  Her body grew limp in his grasp, and then her eyes snapped open, casting a faint, milky grey light.   Transfixed by excruciating pain, he had received a vision: he was meant to guide the young woman whose life he was on the verge of ending. The gods thought it would be funny to send her to him without preparing either of them for the encounter.
- Mathew: They tried to slay you, but you proved you’re on the side of good. Ask them what convinced them. Mathew was on an assignment to "neutralize" a possible entity, and had Mangas lined up with my 9mm, when he was attacked from behind by the real bad thing in the area. Mangas managed to take it out and save my life.
- Daphne: They saved you from another hunter who was prepared to kill you. Ask them what happened. When Mathew had Mangas in his crosshairs, ready to put him down, Daphne talked to him about Mangas human side and managed to stop Mathew.


IMPROVEMENTS
XP: 0/5
[ ] Get +1 Charm, max +2
[X] Get +1 Cool, max +2
[ ] Get +1 Sharp, max +2
[ ] Get +1 Tough, max +2
[X] Take another Monstrous move
[ ] Take another Monstrous move
[ ] Gain a haven, like the Expert has, with two options
[ ] Take a natural attacks pick
[X] Take a move from another playbook
[ ] Take a move from another playbook

//after 5 advances, you can choose these too//
[ ] Get +1 to any rating, max +3.
[ ] Change this hunter to a new type.
[ ] Create a second hunter to play as well as this one.
[ ] Mark two of the basic moves as advanced.
[ ] Mark another two of the basic moves as advanced.
[ ] Retire this hunter to safety.
[ ] Free yourself from the curse of your kind. Your curse no longer applies, but you lose 1 Weird.
[ ] You turn evil (again). Retire this character, they become one of the Keeper’s threats.
[ ] Get back one used Luck point.

BACKGROUND
Centuries ago somewhere on the Mongolian plains a man and his clan were roaming the endless grass lands with their herds. One night a big commotion woke the man and when he came to the herds he saw an enormous bear wreaking havoc. Fearless the man ran towards the bear and tried to fight him back with nothing but a spear he had grabbed on the way. It was an unfair fight, alas the man managed to make the bear turn and scamper off. He was the hero of the clan, having saved the herds and with them the clan itself. But the man was injured. Not badly, but the wound would not heal. The shaman used all her knowledge and skill on his wounds and only after weeks, the wound got better.
But the man changed. At times he felt not himself. Dark thoughts kept creeping into his head and the smallest thing annoyed him. It wasn't long that the former hero was not welcome in the clan anymore. Too aggressive and too unpredictable he had become.
The man noticed how he changed more and more and it took all his willpower to not slip into complete darkness.
With time the man also realised his physical changes. Her grew taller, standing taller than almost all around him and his shoulders broadened and he became stronger. Much stronger.
And his hair grew. His beard and hair became bushy, he grew hair on his back and arms.
Despite him fighting his inner demise, he could never stay long in one place until people wished him away. Mangas they started calling him. Monster.
Years passed and Mangas realised that his changes stopped. His body did not change more, not even with the years. On the contrary. When he got hurt, the wounds would often heal very fast. Much faster than they normally should.
Mangas started roaming the country and later went further than that. He knew, one day his iron will would crumble and he would slip into the darkness. Become a real monster. But until then, he decided to use his anger against the monsters in the world. He began to hunt.

I have a few questions:

1. What makes Mangas angry?

2. How did you manage to avoid attention over the centuries? A 7ft tall hair-trigger guy is going to have a hard time blending in.

3. Not so much a question as a point. When you use Unholy Strength, it will be obvious that something is... off. People cued in to the supernatural will know something supernatural is happening. People who aren't will know that this isn't normal.

1. Basically I picture him barely controlling the rage he would feel constantly as a werebear and thus he is always one step away from raging. So anything that would annoy a normal person or insult him even a little bit is enough to be the last drop in the bucket.

2. By moving around a lot, sticking to rural or small places. Mostly in the northern countries where tall people are not uncommon. Whenever he felt he drew too much attention, he would move on.

3. Ok, good to know. Whenever he had a freak out, possibly violent one, he'd move on anyway. Maybe in the past some people tracked him. Maybe he got hunted and maybe even attacked. I'll flashback these things whenever I feel like it. Bottom line, noone killed him yet and he outlived his followers.

What the others know:

The others will know the looks of Mangas, that he has anger issues and tends to extreme outbursts then. But otherwise he is grumpy, but nice and friendly even. They see he is struggling with an internal conflict. But they don't necessarily know what is it that he's fighting to not becoming.
They know he is old, but not how old. Or that he is immortal.
They do know about his strength as soon as they spent some longer time with him and that in fights he tends to come out less harmed than might be expected.

Picked Shapeshifter for 5 XP.
Mangas can shift into only one form, a large shaggy grey/brown bear. The bear shows a lot of scars, the most remarkable across his left eye.

Picked +1 Cool for 5 XP

Picked Tune In from the Spooky playbook for 5 XP.