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Mr. Handler
Aliases: Mr. Handler; Mr. Al Taajir ("The Merchant"); Mr. Marchand; Mr. Gould; Mr. Grau; Mr. Sage; Mr. Berryfield; Mr. Kaplan; William Martin; Charles Calthrop; “Joe”; “Blondie“; “The Devil”; “The Vampire;” “The Djinn”; multiple others.
Real Name: Unknown

Species: Canine; unknown hybrid
Gender: Male
Orientation: Bisexual
Age: Unknown (Estimated mid-to-late 30s)
Accent: American (most often); region, speech-pattern and vocabulary varies depending on to whom he is speaking.

Appearance:

Fur Color: Tan
Body Type: Athletic, with a balance of mass and agility
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5'11"

Costume:

Civilian clothing selected or tailored to: conceal his build; conceal any body armor or weapons; provide freedom of movement; and give the desired impression. Doesn't like to wear neckties, unless he has to, for practical reasons (fighting) and prefers two piece suits, at most, for formal wear.

If leading paramilitary operations he will wear tactical clothing and full body armor matching his personnel.

Backstory:

For five years, the man known as Handler has overseen the corporate espionage and clandestine operations of Alexandrite Tanzanite, as well as acting as a liaison with the criminal underworld when Tanzanite cannot afford to be seen with them. He also serves in the legitimate side of RiteNite in the Staff Resources department as a recruiting “headhunter” and in resolving employee disputes. In the latter role, he has a surprisingly positive reputation among RiteNite personnel.

During his time as an intelligence officer, he was given the nickname “Mr. Handler” by always seeming to know the right way to spot, approach, recruit/turn or motivate an asset. His other specialties were extraordinary rendition, interrogation, and paramilitary action. He moved into the private sector for better pay and where his more “unusual” behavior would be better tolerated, but decided to keep the name (assuming it isn’t his real one).

While people often mistake him for an attorney, accountant, or other suited “errand-boy” (exactly as Handler wants them to), many have learned too late that he is aptly capable of delivering *any* kind of message from his boss.

Though often seen working alone, he is backed by a personally selected staff of operatives, analysts, hackers, paramilitary operators, pilots, and other specialists. In addition to his direct personnel, he is served by numerous outside assets and informants; some contracted, others compromised.

Abilities, Skills, & Gear:

Genius/Near-Genius Level Intellect and Post-Graduate Level Education: he is fluent in multiple foreign languages and conversant on a wide variety of topics, from popular culture to hard science. He has a particular aptitude in psychology, and has a photographic memory.

Peak Physical Condition: Handler possesses the strength, endurance, and agility of a professional athlete or elite soldier in his prime. He is trained in technical climbing, skiing, high-altitude parachuting (including wingsuiting), undersea diving, and helicopter rope suspension techniques.

Master Martial Artist: He has trained since childhood in modern and classical unarmed fighting styles and close-combat weapons. Because he is often in situations where he must surrender a weapon (or not carry one at all, for the sake of appearances) he excels at disarming, finishing, and sentry removal techniques. Handler will normally only carry modern combat knives, extending batons, and/or reinforced gloves and footwear, but is adept with more archaic and unusual weapons, as well as improvised ones.

Intelligence Tradecraft: Handler is a master of surveillance/counter-surveillance, surreptitious entry, clandestine communication, disinformation, and other intelligence collection, counterintelligence, and covert action techniques. As mentioned, he was given the name for his ability to recruit and run spies.

Disguise: another aspect of tradecraft at which Handler excels is disguise. His ambiguous heritage and linguistic ability enable him to pass as being a mix of different species and nationalities with changes of accent, along with facial markings, tail appliances, shoe lifts, and scent-masking chemicals. He uses prosthetic makeup and more advanced technologies at a minimum. Along with altering of speech pattern and voice pitch, he has managed to convince many that “Mr. Handler” is a shared alias when that name is used more than once.

Interrogation: Handler’s methods are most often psychological, sometimes physical, and nearly always successful.

Advanced Tactical and Firearms Training: While in civilian clothing, Handler normally only carries one or two handguns (a primary and backup; not twin weapons), but he is more than capable of using shoulder-arms, infantry support weapons, and explosives. Marksmanship, small-unit tactics, survival, and fieldcraft skills are on or above the level of a Tier 1 special operator.

Vehicle Training: evasive/pursuit, convoy/close-protection, and off-road/combat driving (military/intelligence); small boat handling (military/intelligence); fixed-wing and helicopter pilot (civilian/private)

Personal Resources: significant wealth from salary, investments, and other assets in addition to connections and contacts across the globe. Multiple identities, vehicles (including armed/armored ones), homes, and safehouses, along with an extensive arsenal of weapons and tactical/surveillance equipment.

Organizational Resources: access to the personnel, equipment, vehicle fleet, funds, and facilities of the RiteNite Corporation and its affiliates.

Personality:

Positive Traits: Intelligent, disciplined, polite, and articulate. When on the job, he approaches it with a dedication bordering on obsession. He would not tolerate (or be less lenient with) certain behavior in direct subordinates within his organization that he would in third-party assets. This is partially because he needs them to be more reliable, and partially because some behavior genuinely disgusts him. He acknowledges and accepts responsibility for his own mistakes and corrects them. Handler looks out for his subordinates and also will deliver as much as he can afford to on his promises to assets so as to preserve his reputation with them.

Negative Traits: a hardened cynic and pessimist, as well as a calculating liar who will adopt an appropriate persona, say, or do almost anything to manipulate a target. Arguably worse, he will also tolerate or even *enable* any of their abhorrent behavior/beliefs as long as they are useful, even if it repulses him. When he no longer has to tolerate someone he hates (or an asset’s negative behavior reaches a point where it diminishes their usefulness) he will dispense with the relationship, often violently, sometimes personally, and circumstances warranting, sadistically.

Likes: reliable things and people; work-life balance; film and television; recreational travel; kinky sex; the suffering and misfortune of people he dislikes.

Dislikes: lack of discipline; bigotry; ignorance; stupidity. Having dealt extensively with religious extremists over his life and career, Handler also dislikes anyone who claims to be, be descended from, chosen by, or to personally do/know the will of a god. He believes they’re delusional and/or just looking to get power, money, and sex.

Relationships: Alexandrite Tanzanite (employer); Regina Russell (colleague and friend); Dr. Naughton Biggs (colleague and friend); RiteNite Security and Corporate Intelligence Personnel (subordinates); various informants and deniable assets (employees; knowingly or not); Toshiro Toshiyuki (hired assassin)

Affiliations: RiteNite Corporation; unknown US intelligence agency / military unit (formerly)

This character differs from most of my other ones, in that he's actually a co-creation of mine and ToonTorment's. I came up with a storyline-collaboration proposal for him, which resulted in ToonTorment conceiving the character of Handler. I had a little hand in developing Handler, but the majority of it was done by ToonTorment, who created a rather fascinating character in this mysterious canine! He even typed up this whole bio for him.

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Description
Mr. Handler
Aliases: Mr. Handler; Mr. Al Taajir ("The Merchant"); Mr. Marchand; Mr. Gould; Mr. Grau; Mr. Sage; Mr. Berryfield; Mr. Kaplan; William Martin; Charles Calthrop; “Joe”; “Blondie“; “The Devil”; “The Vampire;” “The Djinn”; multiple others.
Real Name: Unknown

Species: Canine; unknown hybrid
Gender: Male
Orientation: Bisexual
Age: Unknown (Estimated mid-to-late 30s)
Accent: American (most often); region, speech-pattern and vocabulary varies depending on to whom he is speaking.

Appearance:

Fur Color: Tan
Body Type: Athletic, with a balance of mass and agility
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5'11"

Costume:

Civilian clothing selected or tailored to: conceal his build; conceal any body armor or weapons; provide freedom of movement; and give the desired impression. Doesn't like to wear neckties, unless he has to, for practical reasons (fighting) and prefers two piece suits, at most, for formal wear.

If leading paramilitary operations he will wear tactical clothing and full body armor matching his personnel.

Backstory:

For five years, the man known as Handler has overseen the corporate espionage and clandestine operations of Alexandrite Tanzanite, as well as acting as a liaison with the criminal underworld when Tanzanite cannot afford to be seen with them. He also serves in the legitimate side of RiteNite in the Staff Resources department as a recruiting “headhunter” and in resolving employee disputes. In the latter role, he has a surprisingly positive reputation among RiteNite personnel.

During his time as an intelligence officer, he was given the nickname “Mr. Handler” by always seeming to know the right way to spot, approach, recruit/turn or motivate an asset. His other specialties were extraordinary rendition, interrogation, and paramilitary action. He moved into the private sector for better pay and where his more “unusual” behavior would be better tolerated, but decided to keep the name (assuming it isn’t his real one).

While people often mistake him for an attorney, accountant, or other suited “errand-boy” (exactly as Handler wants them to), many have learned too late that he is aptly capable of delivering *any* kind of message from his boss.

Though often seen working alone, he is backed by a personally selected staff of operatives, analysts, hackers, paramilitary operators, pilots, and other specialists. In addition to his direct personnel, he is served by numerous outside assets and informants; some contracted, others compromised.

Abilities, Skills, & Gear:

Genius/Near-Genius Level Intellect and Post-Graduate Level Education: he is fluent in multiple foreign languages and conversant on a wide variety of topics, from popular culture to hard science. He has a particular aptitude in psychology, and has a photographic memory.

Peak Physical Condition: Handler possesses the strength, endurance, and agility of a professional athlete or elite soldier in his prime. He is trained in technical climbing, skiing, high-altitude parachuting (including wingsuiting), undersea diving, and helicopter rope suspension techniques.

Master Martial Artist: He has trained since childhood in modern and classical unarmed fighting styles and close-combat weapons. Because he is often in situations where he must surrender a weapon (or not carry one at all, for the sake of appearances) he excels at disarming, finishing, and sentry removal techniques. Handler will normally only carry modern combat knives, extending batons, and/or reinforced gloves and footwear, but is adept with more archaic and unusual weapons, as well as improvised ones.

Intelligence Tradecraft: Handler is a master of surveillance/counter-surveillance, surreptitious entry, clandestine communication, disinformation, and other intelligence collection, counterintelligence, and covert action techniques. As mentioned, he was given the name for his ability to recruit and run spies.

Disguise: another aspect of tradecraft at which Handler excels is disguise. His ambiguous heritage and linguistic ability enable him to pass as being a mix of different species and nationalities with changes of accent, along with facial markings, tail appliances, shoe lifts, and scent-masking chemicals. He uses prosthetic makeup and more advanced technologies at a minimum. Along with altering of speech pattern and voice pitch, he has managed to convince many that “Mr. Handler” is a shared alias when that name is used more than once.

Interrogation: Handler’s methods are most often psychological, sometimes physical, and nearly always successful.

Advanced Tactical and Firearms Training: While in civilian clothing, Handler normally only carries one or two handguns (a primary and backup; not twin weapons), but he is more than capable of using shoulder-arms, infantry support weapons, and explosives. Marksmanship, small-unit tactics, survival, and fieldcraft skills are on or above the level of a Tier 1 special operator.

Vehicle Training: evasive/pursuit, convoy/close-protection, and off-road/combat driving (military/intelligence); small boat handling (military/intelligence); fixed-wing and helicopter pilot (civilian/private)

Personal Resources: significant wealth from salary, investments, and other assets in addition to connections and contacts across the globe. Multiple identities, vehicles (including armed/armored ones), homes, and safehouses, along with an extensive arsenal of weapons and tactical/surveillance equipment.

Organizational Resources: access to the personnel, equipment, vehicle fleet, funds, and facilities of the RiteNite Corporation and its affiliates.

Personality:

Positive Traits: Intelligent, disciplined, polite, and articulate. When on the job, he approaches it with a dedication bordering on obsession. He would not tolerate (or be less lenient with) certain behavior in direct subordinates within his organization that he would in third-party assets. This is partially because he needs them to be more reliable, and partially because some behavior genuinely disgusts him. He acknowledges and accepts responsibility for his own mistakes and corrects them. Handler looks out for his subordinates and also will deliver as much as he can afford to on his promises to assets so as to preserve his reputation with them.

Negative Traits: a hardened cynic and pessimist, as well as a calculating liar who will adopt an appropriate persona, say, or do almost anything to manipulate a target. Arguably worse, he will also tolerate or even *enable* any of their abhorrent behavior/beliefs as long as they are useful, even if it repulses him. When he no longer has to tolerate someone he hates (or an asset’s negative behavior reaches a point where it diminishes their usefulness) he will dispense with the relationship, often violently, sometimes personally, and circumstances warranting, sadistically.

Likes: reliable things and people; work-life balance; film and television; recreational travel; kinky sex; the suffering and misfortune of people he dislikes.

Dislikes: lack of discipline; bigotry; ignorance; stupidity. Having dealt extensively with religious extremists over his life and career, Handler also dislikes anyone who claims to be, be descended from, chosen by, or to personally do/know the will of a god. He believes they’re delusional and/or just looking to get power, money, and sex.

Relationships: Alexandrite Tanzanite (employer); Regina Russell (colleague and friend); Dr. Naughton Biggs (colleague and friend); RiteNite Security and Corporate Intelligence Personnel (subordinates); various informants and deniable assets (employees; knowingly or not); Toshiro Toshiyuki (hired assassin)

Affiliations: RiteNite Corporation; unknown US intelligence agency / military unit (formerly)

This character differs from most of my other ones, in that he's actually a co-creation of mine and ToonTorment's. I came up with a storyline-collaboration proposal for him, which resulted in ToonTorment conceiving the character of Handler. I had a little hand in developing Handler, but the majority of it was done by ToonTorment, who created a rather fascinating character in this mysterious canine! He even typed up this whole bio for him.

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