Conner (Conner Lee McDuff)

CONNER

Strike Out Member

Age: 19

Status: Criminal

Powers: None

Special Skills: Conner has studied heavily in medicine due to his parents being surgeons. He had access to medical books from a young age and took advantage of it.

Appearance: Conner has spikey blonde hair and brown eyes. He is often in civilian clothes and only wears the Strike Out uniform when on mission or during training. He is usually seen with a watch on either hand (One to communicate with the team and the other to tell time). When not in uniform, he typically dresses in a white shirt and jeans.

Personality: Conner is said to be a very laid back guy. He is not quick to action. He is generally sympathetic and understanding. He likes order, but is not obsessed with everything being perfect. Conner's rather quiet in most cases, because he generally doesn't speak unless spoken too or trying to find out what's wrong. He's often seen as a background team member, meaning that's he's there but he doesn't participate in the fronting actions or banter. He's very smart but tends to talk over people's head when explaining things. Because of his caring nature, he is often the one the team volunteers to go talk to members when they are having problems. He is a peacemaker and his presence is generally described as calming.

Background: Conner grew up with both his parents and was taught at a very young age that studying was important. Since his parents both worked as doctors, there were lots of medical books in his home. He took advantage of them and studied medicine with his parents at a young age. However, despite the caring persona his parents put on at work, they often mistreated Conner, becoming verbally and sometimes physically abusive in his later years with them. Conner didn't have many friends growing up and even fewer as he hit his teen years. At 16, a fight with his parents went out of hand and Conner fled from his parent's house to a friend's house for a few nights. After that, Conner tried living on his own for a while, but he lost his job and became homeless. Conner begin stooping to petty thievery to survive. And these turned into Conner becoming a full fledge criminal. He learned of the underground city where the black market was and started getting associated with other criminals in the city. He still didn't have a place to sleep, but he was able to preform jobs for other criminals that gave him money to survive off of. One day Striker and Conner happened to be in the same alley way as Striker was observing damage done to his foot from a rusted nail. Conner had read in his medical books that rusted metal in the blood stream could give people tetanus. He tried to convince Striker to go to the hospital, but Striker refused claiming he couldn't. Conner wasn't sure the reason behind it, but he knew Striker need treatment. Conner convinced Striker to give him money and food in trade for his help. He then cut himself with rusted metal so that he could go seek treatment and find out what kind of medicine Striker needed. Once he learned what they treated that kind of injury with, he took Striker to the underground black market to buy the medicine doses for him. Striker seemed impressed by Conner's knowledge and offered him a spot on his criminal team. Conner accepted and joined Strike Out.

Other Facts:

*Conner has the highest reading level on the Strike Out team.

*Conner is not a good hand to hand fighter, but can stalk people and gather information easily.

Fears:

*Conner is afraid of spiders. He just doesn't do well with any creepy crawly really, but spiders are an absolute no-no.

*Conner has an irrational fear that someone's going to split up the Strike Out teams into rooms where there's only written instructions on how to get out and therefore only half the Strike Out team would be able to get out of the rooms while the other half who can't read would be trapped forever. He often has nightmares about this scenario.