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Ace of Spades

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Devil's Tower RPG

Location:

Sundance, Wyoming, United States

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Character Profile

Name: Ace of Spades

True Name: Tyler Vance

Gender: Male

Age: 21

Birthday: November 30, 1999

Greatest Ambition: For the Mountain Lions to have complete control over the entire city.

Physical Description: Ace is 6'2" and weighs approximately 160 lbs. He works out more than he actually works, so he's quite muscular, but in a very athletic sort of way. There's nothing that might be called soft about Ace's appearance. He has a square jaw and chiseled features. He has dark hair, a rich complexion, and penetrating dark brown eyes. His teeth are bright white and of course flawlessly straight, something that becomes obvious whenever he flashes a vicious or mischievous grin. He keeps his hair relatively short and neatly styled. Ace dresses extremely well, preferring clean cut and well tailored clothing. The current situation has forced him to dress more practically than he did before, but he still tends to look more like a GQ model than anyone who might do an honest days work.

Distinguishing Marks: A scar below his left knee, where a certain girl kicked him when they were children. (Actually, the scar is so faded that it's nearly invisible, but he knows it's there.)

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Single or taken: Single, more or less

Best friends:

danni_cat,

winged_death, &

whoa_slick

Personality: Ace is well mannered, well educated, and well spoken. He's also witty, charismatic, and athletic. However, none of that takes away from the fact that he is first and foremost greedy, arrogant, and malicious. He can be quite charming when he wants to and he has all the smooth confidence of someone who is used to getting what he wants, but when things don't go his way he deals with it very badly, quickly becoming angry and unreasonable. He will often obsess about even the smallest of perceived slights, especially if he is bored. Holding grudges and seeking revenge is something like a hobby for him.

He's always been more than a little bit cruel and tended to take things too far. When he was younger, he was the kid who didn't know the difference between throwing rocks at a stray cat and lighting it on fire. Later, he was the sort who wasn't content with just tormenting another student who had offended him but would find a way to get them expelled or arrested. Since that sort of behavior was generally unacceptable, he managed to hide his ruthless tendencies behind manners and culture, behaving perfectly in front of the people that mattered, but taking it out on anyone else. Since the virus though, those tendencies have become more of an asset than a liability and he doesn't have to hide them. Ace has no problem with doing whatever he has to do to get ahead and to keep his tribe on top. He does the things they all know need to be done, the things that even his friends may not have the stomach for. Azrael may have given the orders for the worst of the Mountain Lion's actions, but it was Ace who always saw to it that those orders were carried out.

Ace thinks very highly of himself and sees everyone else as lesser and unworthy, with the notable exception of his friends. He acknowledges Danni, Azrael, and Slick as equals and he is completely loyal to them to the point that there's nothing he wouldn't do for them. When he's alone with his friends, Ace can seem like a completely different person, someone who is friendly, funny, devoted, and even sweet.

Personal History: Tyler Vance was born on November 30, 1999, nearly a full month early, in the lobby of a renowned hotel in Paris. His early arrival was only the first of many ways he would be seen as an inconvenience by his globe-trotting high society parents. For the first years of his life Tyler lived in presidential suites and penthouse apartments, on yachts and in the guest rooms of the finest houses. He was toted around and shown off luncheons and dinner parties, then quickly handed off to a nanny.

Eventually he was sent off to New York to live with his grandmother. Not a typical grandmother, Evelyn Vance was the head of both the Vance family and the powerful Vance corporate empire. A shrewd and ambitious woman, she had been the one to renew the Vance family fortunes and had actually made the family far richer than they ever were before. She had little time to devote to a small child, but she had some affection for her only grandson and settled him into a wing of her New York apartment with a staff of nannies and tutors to look after him. It was her intention to raise the boy well enough to take her place as head of the family since it was clear that her son, Tyler's father, had neither the interest nor the ability to deal with that position.

When Tyler was five years old his grandmother made the surprising decision to move them to Sundance, Wyoming. This decision became far less surprising when news got out that vast amounts of copper had been discovered in the area, and naturally the Vance Corporation owned a controlling interest in what would soon become the nation's largest and most profitable copper mine in a region suddenly rich with resources.

Although the Vance's were the first and biggest investors, there were a many other families who also found ways to increase their fortunes in Sundance. There was suddenly an influx of families of a certain level of income. Of course while there were those with the money to support the mining, there were also masses of those without money arriving to actually do the mining. The small town quickly grew into a very large town, even a small city. Obviously that city would have a place for families like the Vances, areas where no one with an annual income of less and a million could hope to fit in, where prestigious private schools and luxurious country clubs sprung up to meet the new demand.

Tyler was enrolled in one of those private schools, with high expectations and even higher tuition rates. His first day at that school would shape the rest of his life. The very first person he happened to meet there was a little girl his own age named Danielle Mathers. She kicked him in the shin with her favorite pair of tap shoes. It left a scar and Tyler fell in love in that naive yet curiously lasting way that lonely children sometimes do. They were both taken to the office, where they happened to meet Jesse and Nell, the other two members of what would soon become a close knit group. Throughout their school years the four were as thick as thick as thieves and just as treacherous.

He was a decent student, though if he'd focused on his studies he could easily have done better. Instead his energies were always spent elsewhere. He found both a chance to show off and an outlet for his aggression in school sports and he became a star athlete seemingly effortlessly. Still, Tyler wasn't quite a typical jock. He went through practices almost mindlessly and while he enjoyed the games, especially when their well funded expertly coached teams got to crush and humiliate their opponents, he was even more interested in the power and special status it seemed to confer upon him off the field. All late assignments or minor indiscretions were forgiven simply because he made the school look good on the field or the court. In a school full of the richest and the smartest he'd found another way to prove he was superior.

After graduation his grandmother wanted him to attend Harvard or Yale or Dartmouth, but Tyler had no such desire. He was sick of academics and responsibilities, so he made a deal with his grandmother. If she gave him a full year to do as he pleased, he'd go wherever she wanted and study whatever she thought best. Although she wasn't entirely happy with the arrangement, she agreed and gave him the money for a year abroad. He lured Jesse into going with him and together they set off around the world at a whirlwind pace. Remarkably, no matter where they were the world seemed to be made up mostly of hotels, night clubs, parties, and pretty girls.

All of that carefree pleasure came screeching to a halt though when he found out that his grandmother had fallen ill. She had been one of the privileged few to take the virus in it's initial form and thus she was one of the first to die from it. His parents, mysterious and rarely seen figures in his life, also fell victim to the virus in the first wave. He felt no responsibility towards his parents and instead rushed home to Sundance to be with his grandmother, bringing Jesse back with him. Only two weeks after they had returned home, all of the residents over twenty five in their wealthy side of the city were dead. Having spent their money to live a little longer, those people were instead the first to die.

After the virus had run it's course, Tyler and Jesse were reunited with Danni and Nell. The group knew what needed to be done. They were privileged in that their families had left them with control over the keys to the city: the lodge, the mine, and the power plant, and they would be foolish to waste that advantage. They quickly took up the reins of the city. Taking in old acquaintances and anyone who might be useful to them, they began building a new community with themselves firmly in control.

Birth Location: Paris, France

Blood Family: All deceased, and he barely notices on a day to day basis.

What tribe do they belong to if any?: Mountain Lions

How long have they been with that tribe?: Since the beginning

Personal Strengths: Physically strong, intelligent, charismatic, confident, determined

Personal Weaknesses: Arrogant, unwilling to admit when he's wrong, cruel, vindictive, obsessive

Personal Skills and Training: Fights better than most, knows several languages, has a natural talent for spotting other people's weaknesses

Job that they have in the tribe or whatever they do to keep themselves alive if they’re alone: Second in Command, Enforcer

PB: Ed Westwick

Plot ties
Plot tie 1: His best friend and the leader of the Mountain Lions (

winged_death)
Plot tie 2: The girl he's been obsessed with ever since they were children (

danni_cat)
Plot tie 3: His grudge against the Wolves

Schools:

None listed

Friends:

	34:	_bookworm_, _ryder_, aceofspades, alexblaze, bishop_in_black, carbonite, danni_cat, devils_towermod, getting_lost, goddessofearth, hawk_feather, jed_wax, just_dez, kestral, lena_lily, minmouse, moonshine_moe, novalicious, peri, psych_man, rabbit_, rebel_jace, ruby_red, runner_up, sensei_san, shadow_sam, shypup, sniperwolf007, verilydarkflash, wander_darkstar, wattage, whoa_slick, winged_death, wolf_leader
	2:	devils_tower, devils_towerooc

Friend of:

58: __cardinal, __fox, _bookworm_, _frankie, _link, _ryder_, _seven_, _wicked_, aceofspades, alexblaze, aryn_gibson, ash_, bishop_in_black, burn_brighter, carbonite, chance_, danni_cat, devils_towermod, englishml, evening, flyingsolo, getting_lost, goddessofearth, grrriffin, hawk_feather, jed_wax, just_dez, kestral, key_keeper, lelaria, lena_lily, minmouse, moonshine_moe, noangel, novalicious, peri, preacher_man, psych_man, rabbit_, rebel_jace, roachclip, ruby_red, runner_up, saintdoyle, sensei_san, shadow_sam, switchy, tawny_e, thedrifter, tyr, verilydarkflash, wander_darkstar, wattage, whoa_slick, wilting_flower, winged_death, wolf_leader, zalen

Member of:

3: devils_past, devils_tower, devils_towerooc

Account type:

Free Patient

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