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About six-foot-two or -three, with a slim, narrow-shouldered build, muscular but not bulky. Likely in his early forties. Black hair starting to grey at the temples, trimmed above the ears. Narrow-set greenish-blue eyes set in a slightly lantern-jawed face; naturally tanned skin, sometimes seen with a hint of a stubble moustache. Speaks with a soft-spoken baritone voice, often with a hint of slightly snarky lilt (It's said that it will be a *very* dark day when Reese raises his voice). Usually seen wearing a black suit jacket worn open over an open-collared white or grey silk shirt, black dress slacks and rubber-soled black ankle boots, often topped with a open, loose-fitting black topcoat. Personality He's been described as an introverted extrovert, very guarded around people, keeping them more or less at arm's length till he can size them up. But with someone he's protecting, it's not unusual that he'll let them get close enough that they feel at ease with him, without giving himself away. He tends to be harder on himself emotionally than he is on others: he's aware that his job of hunting monsters has made him into a monster and he's atoning for this as best he can. But if he knows someone has wronged another person, particularly a woman, a child, or someone who's otherwise powerless, he will go Papa Wolf on them. Even in a fight, he's very precise, avoiding wasted shots or blows and needless killing (to quote him in the pilot episode, "I don't particularly *like* killing people, but I'm good at it..."), but he's also known to knee-cap a target before moving in for the kill: it's not clear if this is done out of mercy or to make them twist a little; he can be a bit sadistic (using by messing with people's heads rather than by physical cruelty), but only when the situation calls for a little precision strike nastiness. He's a deadpan snarker most of the time, and he also has a bit of a twisted sense of humour (case in point a moment where he squicks someone out by lovingly describing ...an advanced version of dealing with an attacker by poking them in the eyes). Underneath this, he is really a very loving, even kind and gentle man, but one has to get past all his defences. He really wants to be a conventional, "normal" person with a less exciting life, but he considers himself too damaged for this to work, and his past is too full of enemies for this to be possible. His trust is very tricky to earn, though, but if someone can succeed, it will be worth the trouble.
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