<strong>Name: Allen Sinclair<br/>Template: Champion of God<br/>High Concept: FIRST OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR<br/>Trouble: Has a Mission, Not a Life</strong><br/><br/>Background:  Allen grew up as the kid of middle-class, multi-generational Americans, who had been living in the US since the mid-19th century (historical records show the first notable Sinclair in Allen’s family line to have served on the side of the Union in the Civil War, so it is assumed his family came to the US around this time).  Like all of the Sinclair men before him, Allen was raised Catholic, taught to believe in a good and loving God, who made all things – good and evil – work together for a greater purpose.<br/><br/>That belief did not survive Allen’s education.  Like all middle-class kids, Allen went to public school (though his belief might’ve expired faster if he’d seen the ruthlessness of private schools – something he was to see later in life as an adult).  There, he saw the rampant bullying that happened in the classroom, the cafeteria, the halls, and the schoolyard.  Unpopular snubbed by popular, weak tormented by the strong, dumb ridiculed by the smart.  Allen was fortunate – he was somewhere right in the middle, so he was never bullied, or expected to bully.  The same could be said of his friends, or rather, the friends he chose to have.<br/><br/>Allen detested the bullying he saw, and he wanted to stop it – but not himself.  He knew that anything he would try and do would just redirect the bullies’ attention onto him.  He spoke to his parents, his teachers, anyone at the school in authority who would listen – and he always got the same answer:  “Kids are cruel.  They’ll work it out of their system.”  In Allen’s opinion, they weren’t working it out – they were working it in, getting used to a life of taking what they wanted from others – and getting a degree wouldn’t stop them.  No, it’d make them better at what they did.<br/><br/>So, quietly, Allen finished the rest of his high school and college education.  But he never stopped watching, never stopped feeling the guilt that he did over the fact that he could do nothing.<br/><strong><br/>Phase Aspect: Watcher’s Guilt<br/></strong><br/>Rising Conflict:  After college, Allen went to law school.  “If the parents won’t stop them, and society won’t stop them, then I will stop them, when they’ve gone too far, bullied their last victim, stolen their last dollar,” was his rationale.  Law school suited Allen, he graduated, got his law license from the Bar Association, and set up shop as in the District Attorney’s Office.<br/><br/>That’s when he learned, though, that there was law school…and there was the real world.  It enraged Allen to no end, watching criminals of all stripes, going free because of the flaws in the justice system – con men walking loose because no one wanted to admit they’d been swindled; gangbanger murderers going free because their gang buddies had either intimidated or silenced any witnesses; rapists that he could not charge because the victim was ‘in love’ with their rapist; and more.  Despite what he saw, though, he managed to endure what he saw – until one case broke his heart.<br/><br/>The case was a triple homicide – three parents with kids.  The case itself was open and shut; there was no question of being able to prove that the perp was guilty, or even that they were sane.  And Allen’s boss made it quite clear that there were to be no deals with this one.<br/><br/>The circumstances of the murders were, to Allen’s mind, over a petty thing that was aggravated by pride and ‘sophistication.’  The defendant, one Linda Reynolds, was the mother of one Donny Reynolds, son of a powerful family who came from old money.  Donny was expected to be able to attend one of the area’s prestigious academies, which started in middle school, went through high school, and then offered several advantages into getting into Ivy League colleges.  Donny, however, had been put on the waitlist for said school.  The reason for this was unknown.<br/><br/>But what was known was the reaction of the Reynolds family – specifically Donny’s grandmother, Kendra Reynolds.  Except for Donny and Linda’s husband Walter, the entire clan blamed Linda’s ‘poor heritage’ – the fact that she wasn’t a snobbish blue-blood like them – as the reason that Donny had been waitlisted.  Kendra had tormented Linda day and night, taunting her ruthlessly, driving the poor mother mad.  Mad enough to pick up a weapon and gun down three parents – of kids either at the school, or on the waitlist – all to help Donny be admitted.<br/><br/>Allen hated the case, all of it, from the very beginning.  None of the Reynolds, except for Donny and Walter showed up to support her.  The Reynolds’ family retained lawyer did not represent her – while Walter hired a good lawyer, it was not the family's lawyer.  To top it off, Allen felt the wrong person was on trial here.<br/><br/>And although, to his relief, the jury didn’t find her guilty of murder – they had agreed that Linda was suffering from extreme emotional distress, and downgraded murder to manslaughter – she was still found guilty, and sent to prison for a term of eight-and-a-third to twenty-five years.  This day, the day of sentencing, was the one day that the whole Reynolds clan turned out to the courtroom.  To see one of their own go down.<br/><br/>It angered him, to not be able to touch Kendra Reynolds for what she had done.  Linda may have pulled the trigger, but as far as Allen was concerned, Kendra had loaded the gun, and put it into the hands of an emotionally desperate woman.  That day, something changed inside him.  And a driving, obsessive goal was born – to, at least once in his life, make the Kendra Reynolds of the world pay for their crime.<br/><strong><br/>Phase Aspect: There Is the Law, and Then There’s Justice</strong><br/><br/>The Story:<br/><br/>When a new drug that turns its users into raging psychopaths hits the city streets, Assistant District Attorney Allen Sinclair is assigned to the case.  Trying to turn the dealer against his masters, Allen finds out that there’s more to this case – and the world itself – than meets the eye.  Now pursued by a pack of vampires and their ghoulish servants, and armed with powers he doesn’t understand, does Allen have what it takes to clean up the streets?<br/><strong><br/>Story Title: First Witness<br/>Phase Aspect: Sword of the Templars</strong><br/>Guest Starring: (Hairy & Sessha's characters, though I haven't seen Sessha...)<br/><strong><br/>Guest Star: High and Dry</strong><br/><br/>When a young man named Seth al-Kahir Andallus crosses the path of the District Attorney's Office, Allen is handed the case.  While on the surface, it seems that the poor soul is guilty of murder, ADA Sinclair isn't so quick to assume the whole story.  He digs, and in the process proves his innocence, and gains a friend from the rougher side of the tracks.<br/><strong><br/>Guest Star Phase Aspect: Lawyer With a Conscience</strong><br/><strong><br/>Guest Star Redux: A Stitch in Time<br/></strong><br/>Tracking rumors of vampire activity within his city, Allen encounters the White Council Wizard Antonio Moroni, and just in time for a showdown with a Black Court nasty, and a handful of ghouls.<br/><strong><br/>Redux Phase Aspect: God's Own Anti-Son-Of-A-Bitch-Machine</strong><br/><br/><br/>Skills:<br/>Great (+4): Conviction, Scholarship, Weapons<br/>Good (+3): Discipline, Presence, Rapport<br/>Fair (+2): Athletics, Endurance, Investigation<br/>Average (+1): Alertness, Intimidation, Lore<br/><br/>Powers:<br/>Bless This House (Must, -1)<br/>Guide My Hand (Must, -1)<br/>Holy Touch (Must, -1)<br/>Righteousness (Must, -2)<br/>Item of Power: Sword of the Templar (-1, Item Discount Applied)<br/>---Unbreakable<br/>---It’s a Sword<br/>---Lethal Blows (+4 Stress, from Supernatural Strength Power)<br/>---Sword against the Dark (+1 Weapons when wielded against the supernatural)<br/>---Finely Tuned 3rd Eye (Lore Stunt, +2 when detecting supernatural)<br/>Wizard’s Constitution (-0)<br/><br/>Mental: OOOO<br/>Physical: OOO<br/>Social: OOOO<br/><br/>Final Refresh: 2<br/>Starting Fate Points: 2