FORTY-SEVEN

[nico nightingale]

I'M THE HEAD SHREDDER
that's better

FULL NAME: 640509-040147
KNOWN AS: Agent Forty-seven, Mr. Forty-seven, Ghost.
AGE: Thirty-eight.
DATE OF BIRTH: September 5.
NATIONALITY: Romanian.
STATUS: Forty-seven is officially single and has been trained to remain so. Personal attachments are liabilities and distractions. However, there is this girl, Nika Bornonina. She has seen his face, she should be dead. And she’s not. Forty-seven even gave her a vineyard.

WEAPON OF CHOICE: A pair of customized AMT Hardballers and Silverballers.
NUMBER OF HITS: 163.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: A bar code tattoo on the back of his head with his number.
CLOTHING STYLE: Italian black suit, black leather gloves, white striped dress shirt and blood red tie.
QUIRKS: Buys magazines for the advertisements. Looks out the window of any new room he's in.

I'M YOUR PRIZE
cut you down to size

LIKES: Getting the job done quietly, his AMT Hardballers, Italian suits, preferably a shaved head, Nika Boronina, hot water, sniping, birds, balconies, opera.
DISLIKES: Talking, messes, airplane food, slow technology, the Organization, drawing attention to himself, raising his voice, Nika interfering, the smell of vinegar, being contacted by his employers for something non-related to work.
STRENGTHS: Marksmanship, stealth, focus.
WEAKNESSES: Icy demeanor, ruthlessness, Nika Boronina.
FEARS: Nika Bornonina and the potential she has to break his focus. That she will get harmed or killed.
GOALS: Forty-seven is not exactly driven by dreams. A long time ago he made peace with the fact that he will never be able to do anything else with his life.
SECRETS: Everything really. Forty-seven doesn’t talk much about his past, about himself, about his feelings. His biggest secret as of now is Nika Boronina and the fact that he’s let her live.

PERSONALITY: Disciplined; he’s dedicated to killing his targets, stays away from distractions of any sort and never has more than one glass of whiskey (three ice cubes to help dilute it somewhat). Cold; he favors stealth over brute force when appropriate and is willing to eliminate the innocent when they pose a liability. Compassionate; on rare occasions, he’s been known to show a warm side to his personality, he spare individuals whom he has not been specifically ordered to kill and sometimes will offer assistance to those in need -. Resourceful; he’s able to disguise himself in multiple settings and use his environment to perform his assignments without drawing attention. Calm; in his natural setting he almost always speaks in a calm, formal manner, rarely shows anger, can work efficiently under pressure and never shows any signs of fear or anxiety (or any positive feelings either) even when completely surrounded by enemies which allows him to avoid suspicion. Introverted; he’s a no-nonsense individual, usually seen alone and trusts practically no one.

WHEN THE FUN BEGINS
are you ready for the sting?

RELATIVES: His birth parents might still be somewhere out there but Forty-seven has been stripped of any remote desire to know them.
RELATIONSHIPS: N/A.
BACKGROUND: -His date of birth is set as September 5, but Forty-seven has no information about the event itself; he doesn't know the name of his parents, background, anything.
-His earliest memories are of the International Contract Organization in Romania, which uses and trains orphans and rejects, who are considered 'expendable', into professional assassins.
-Forty-seven was trained from youth to kill efficiently. He was instructed in the use of firearms, military hardware, and more classic tools of assassination. He can wield virtually any weapon with ease and he is also capable of operating most types of vehicles, from automobiles to aircraft.
-During his training, he was noted for his exceptional marksmanship and rebellious attitude towards his trainers and Organization staff.
-Forty-seven is finally ready, disciplined, skilled, taught to kill anyone he has been assigned to assassinate without any hesitation and with no exceptions.
-In no time, he rose to become the Organization's most effective and most requested employee, often requested by name from clients. He starts to receive the largest and most difficult assignments and becomes one of the most expensive contract killers.
-His stealth and cunning become legendary and he's regarded as an urban legend. Very few know of his appearance.
-His assassinations have come in the form of bombings, poisonings, sniper deaths, strangulations, 'accidentals', on top of numerous more specific other public killings. But no high profile killing is authorized until payment has been made.
-On his last contract with the Organization, he was assigned a hit on the Russian president, Mikhail Belicoff. But the day after Forty-seven snipes him, the man was giving a speech on the news.
-Forty-seven was then told that a witness was left and, when he went to eliminate her, realized that she had no idea who he was. A civilian immediately gets killed right next to Forty-seven and it was revealed that he was set up.
-He demands to know who the client was only to find it was Belicoff himself. However, Forty-seven was sure that he murdered the right person.
-His controller, clandestinely, informed him that his position had been compromised and that there were FSB and Interpol agents at his hotels; he managed to escape.
-After he kidnaps the supposed witness from before, Belicoff's whore, and interrogates her, he learned that the president had doppelgangers, one of them having spoken after the hit at the behest of a cabal of Russian hardliners who do not want political change. He takes the witness, Nika Boronina, with him.
-Forty-seven is intercepted by other hit men from the Organization, ordered to eliminate him for failing his hit, and by the Interpol. He kills the assassins and injures the agents as he flees with Nika.
-Forty-seven made a deal with Agent Smith from the CIA, who wanted Belicoff's brother, Udre, dead.
-He kills arms dealer Price in order to take his place to get to Udre and kill him. This way, he is able to know where Belicoff's double will be when he attends his brother's funeral.
-On board a train, he parts ways with Nika, the two having grown fond of each other.
-At the funeral, Forty-seven kidnaps FSB agent Yuri, who was in on the set up, to have his own agents kill Belicoff. Forty-seven is still forced to kill the false president, however, and after he does, he allowed himself to be taken into custody by the Interpol.
-Agent Smith, meeting his part of the deal, distracts the agents so that Forty-seven can escape.
-Finally, and to give matters a rest, he visited Interpol agent Whittier, who had been after him for a long time, to present him with a dead body which was to be passed off as Forty-seven. He threatened the agent to kill him and his family if he didn't accept the deal. Hey, he could have just done that, but he didn't.
-Forty-seven purchases a vineyard for Nika as she had told him about her dream of having one and her father having owned one when she was little, before being sold into slavery. He stays around to protect her since there is still a hit on her.
-After the betrayal by his employers, Forty-seven leaves the Organization and is soon recruited by The Central.

GONNA WASTE THAT THING
now don't you cry

_{Lyrics: The Hitman by Queen}