Christopher Clearwater

Christopher Clearwater

50 || Straight || Male || Hero

PERSONALITY

POSITIVE
✔ Kind
Willing to compromise
Loving to those close to him
Fatherly
Compassionate

NEGATIVE
✖ A little old fashioned
Stubborn
Quick to act
Doesnt think before he talks sometimes
Overprotective

LIKES
✔ Birds
Fishing
Training
Being with his family
Watching young people learn new skills

DISLIKES
✖ Villains
People who assert their will on others
Fakers
Sweets
Bullies

PERSONALITY

Christopher Clearwater is seen by most as a bubbly and happy outgoing personality. He developed this personality as a way to coop with his fathers sometimes cold nature. But he feels that it has helped him out in life to have known both sides. From a young age it was obvious that Christopher was someone who valued all life, even those of people who did him wrong. He enjoyed the company of people who think differently then himself, enjoying the talks that can happen from such mixing.



When it comes to dealing with those he knows on a personal level, he is as caring and big brotherly as he can be hoping to help them with any issues they may have. He tends to spend a lot of time fishing in the mountains or far beaten paths that others havn't gone to before, hoping to catch a massive fish. While he enjoys his moments alone, he is far more at home in a crowd, with other people around him. His favorite past time to relax is actually to train. A side effect of his fathers constant training of him at a young age. 



During battle Christopher believes that Violence Should be a last Resort, used only when innocent lives are threatened. He would rather use his hardened transformed body to give him time to speak to his opponents and get them to surrender without fighting. However, if innocent lives are threatened, Christopher will act swiftly and without compromise, taking out any threat to those lives with Gusto. 

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 1.524 Meters (5'9 Feet)
WEIGHT: 69.85 Kilograms (154 Pounds)
HAIR/STYLE: Short spiky, Mustache.  Beard. White in color.
SKIN/SCARS: Fair skin color, tons of scars on his arms. 
EYES: Regular human shape, Blue
NOTABLES: N/A

Christopher can be seen wearing just about any outfit. But his most common place one is a standard business suit and tie worn in a loose fashion. He does his best to try not to appear to business like, but he also tries to appear professional when he can. 

he doesn't wear a mask or hero costume, believing Heroes should not hide behind such things unless they have too, or if it helps in their abilities.  "A hero must be one who wears that status proudly, If you cannot show the world that you are there to protect them no matter the risk to your own life... then how can you expect them to trust you with theirs?"

HISTORY

The Clearwater Family Stretches back nearly 300 years in Germany and European history. The Clearwater’s built their family fortune through Black-market Dealings and managing their own affairs quite well. Christopher’s Father raised his Son to eventually take over his fathers’ business, teaching him how to fight and defend himself as well as business skills. By the time he was 10 however, Christopher began to develop an ideal separate from his fathers own. He began an intense friendship with a young girl who worked for his family’s estate. Each night he snuck off to meet her and they would play in the forests near his family home.



However, one day, his father caught him sneaking out and punished him by having the girl and her family removed from their estate and sent to another country. Christopher, at this point 13 years of age, was furious with his father. He and his father argued for hours, his mother trying to calm the two down. When His father struck his mother however, Christopher lost control and assaulted his father, hitting him clean across the jaw and breaking it. He ran out into the storming night before his father or mother could stop him. He ran from home, with no money, no cloths and nothing to help him in the world besides the skills he had learned from his father.



Christopher spent nearly 3 years wandering the countryside’s of Europe taking random jobs and doing anything he could to survive. After his 14th birthday, he began to notice his skin take on a Stone line appearance on his arm and legs, similair to a stone scale.  He was horrified, but luck would be there for him on his 16th birthday, as the young girl he had been friends with saw him as he was about to steal an apple from a nearby market cart. She paid for it for him, and took him in. Her parents having died shortly after they had been forced to leave. Another stain caused by his family name he had thought, but she told him that she didn’t blame his family, or him. That things happen for a reason and that it was fate that they met again as they did.



She offered him a place to stay and sleep, if he would help her in her small business. He happily agreed, eager to finally have a roof over his head again. The first thing they did was take him to the doctors, who examined his skin and misdiagnosed him with a form of Alligator like skin, with effects that showed themselves more as stone then scales. There was no cure as far as they knew beyond taking care of his skin and trying to avoid hurting himself. But Christopher didn’t feel sick, and he had spent years getting hurt and damaged, and never seemed to worsen. But he was thankful to know what it was finally, even if he felt deep down it was wrong.


When the Discovery of quirks was made, Christopher was cast aside by everyone, his jobs, his friends, even those few family he had managed to contact. it was like having the plaque. But Serena did not abandon him. She defended him even as other burned down their shared home. She was by his side the whole time. She did not care what he was, for she loved him. Christopher began to realize that she was someone he could depend on for his entire life. He realized that no mater how harsh the world was, she would be there for him. 



Serena was there for him the whole way. She was kind beyond her years to him. they spent nearly 4 years together, before Christopher finally made his move and asked her to go on a date with him. To which she agreed. The two of them spent nearly 2 and a half years dating before she finally asked him when he would propose, to which he did so the next day, she agreed without hesitation. The ceremony was small, as neither had any family to invite. But they could not have been any happier.


However, that was not the end of it. As a group of young men who felt that serena deserved to be punished for marrying a quirker. They attacked her one night as she was making her way home from work. They left her beaten and bruised but alive. She called for an ambulance. When Christopher learned of this. He was Furious. Beyond furious as to what had befallen his Serena. As she slept in the hospital, Christopher went out to find the men who hurt her. He found them alright. Christopher is a kind mind to most. Even those who have wronged him he is always kind to. But the men who hurt his wife... They were not seen from or heard of again. What few cops who know of the event in the small European town will give a cold shoulder to it. answering simply with "No one Knows what happened to those men. But The worlds better off without them for what they did." or somethign similair along the lines.


Christopher and Serena soon had their first of 6 children. By child 4 however, he began to grow homesick and wondered what ever happened to his father and mother. He soon learned however, as thanks to modern technology, that his family estate had been destroyed in a fire. he became Depressed, saddened by this news that he would never be able to apologize for the harsh words and harsh actions he had left his family with that night. But once more Serena was there to comfort him, as were his children.



As his wife grew pregnant with his 6th child, Christopher and she were taking a vacation to a remote village in China, looking to perhaps find a place to retire to when they grew too old to work. The recent discover of those with quirks was still fresh in the worlds mind, as well as in Christopher’s. While there in the small village, his wife went into sudden contractions, and as she began to give birth, Christopher had to rush her to the nearest hospital. But along the way a massive storm opened upon them, an as they passed an elderly woman’s house, she called out to them and invited them in as if sensing their urgent problem. She got right to work.



After nearly 17 hours of contractions, and nonstop storming. Christopher’s 6th child was born, although… it did not live long. Its body was ill formed, a side effect of its quirk. Serena did not make it through the child birthing either. Christopher was alone, in a place he did not know, having lost both his wife, and their new born child. A sadness took hold of him, and he held his wife and child close as he cried, his tears and howls and anguish blocking out the sound of the storm outside. After returning home, he had them buried in a small grove near their home, a place she would take her children when they were old enough to learn the importance of nature.



It wasn’t until Christopher was nearly 45 years old and his hair had already begun to turn white that he learned of his own quirk. He had moved to Japan, hearing of a man there who was a scientist in the study of quirks. He had hoped to learn if it had been his fault for his wife’s death. The guilt still haunted him, even after nearly 18 years. But as he made his way toward the lab, he saw a villain committing a crime, a robbery. Even as the cab driver begged him not to, the older man left the cab and ran toward the scene of the crime. Using his fighting skills, he launched into the fray.



Thanks to his training, he was able to beat back the villain into a corner. The villain, thinking fast, did the one thing he thought would allow him to escape, he targeted a nearby child, using his quirk to send shrapnel at the child like a hail of bullets. Christopher, in a moment of do or die threw himself in front of the attack and found that it bounced helplessly off the now rock-hard surface of his skin. He had transformed into a statue like visage. The quirk itself springing from his stone like scaling he ahd suffered from at a younger age. The shrapnel bounced harmlessly off him, and with a mighty punch Christopher dealt the finishing blow to the villain.



From then on Christopher began to use his powers for good, even telling his children that he would be staying in Japan for a while longer, to assist in the issues arising there, and to help a new school that had begun to form. A school for those with gift like his. But before he did he returned home one last time to make a promise to his wife and still born child, a promise only they know. As of now, Christopher is known to the Public as Sentinel, the Walking Goliath. 


Upon moving to Japan, Christopher decided he would open a sports gym to keep himself in shape and with money to spend if need be. He found a relatively low cost old warehouse like building and Began to refurbish it. But about halfway through the project, a group of three hoodlems decided to trash his equipment, not realizing that he lived in the building as well having already finished that segment. He apprehended them with ease and laughed as the three begged for forgiveness. He told them he would cut them a deal, realizing they were just idiot 20 year olds causing trouble. He could either call the cops and have them arrested, or they could get to work helping him fix the damage they had done. 

They readiliy agreed and by the end of the first night of work, he had managed to get them to promise to come back. he trusted them after seeing them work. The following sunrise Christopher was working as usual when the first of the three young men arrived and began to help, soon followed by the other 2. This went on for nearly 2 months, along the way, Christopher showed them the basics of boxing. he began to enjoy their company, feeling reminded of his family back home. After the refurbishing was done, he asked if they would like to stay to learn, and maybe even keep helping around the place, all three agreed without hesitation.