Sleight of Hearts

Sleight of Hearts
Player: @OhHaiMac
Origin:	Natural
Archetype:	Stalker
Security Level:	Confidential
Personal Data
Real Name:	Saul Elwood Bishop
Known Aliases:	Sleight of Hearts, Slim
Species:	Confidential
Age:	25
Height:	6'
Weight:	170 lbs
Eye Color:	White
Hair Color:	Blue
Biographical Data
Citizenship:	Confidential
Occupation:	Confidence man, Producer
Place of Birth:	D'Iberville, Mississippi
Current Residence:	Confidential
Marital Status:	Single
Known Relatives:	Jane Ruxton (Mother), Richard Bishop (Father)
Known Powers
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Known Abilities
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Equipment
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Footnotes
Beautiful Saul Turtle was drawn by @Cenes.

"Sex with love is the greatest thing in life.

Our story begins, like so many others, with a drunken romp in the backseat of a station wagon. Nine months later our hero, Saul, was born to the unwed couple of Jane Ruxton and Richard Bishop. Upon seeing the child, Jane broke a promise she made to Richard and decided to keep the baby. Her decision led to Mr. Bishop packing up his things and leaving Jane with nothing but her son.

Jane spent the next ten years working a series of jobs, and no less than two at a time. She was diligent and adamant to provide for her son, who who took his first bite of food, said his first word, and took his first steps at various places of his mother's employment. She eventually took loans to pay for Saul's education, and when she couldn't find a way to pay them back, she put herself on the street.

For a while, Jane was good about covering her bruises and keeping her son in blissful ignorance. They didn't have any excess, but life for Saul was what Jane wanted it to be: decent. Until, of course, Saul found out. He was fourteen by this point, and was caught in a dilemma. He drop out of school and help his mother pay off her debts, or he could keep her years of sacrifice from going to waste. Young, determined and foolish, Saul did both. At school, he ran a card table where he did some basic guessing games and earned fists full of lunch money that he returned to his mother at home. As time went on and his skill developed, he was dealing Blackjack and never losing. Jane was close to paying off her debts. She was almost free.

Word got around that Saul was unbeatable, and most everyone accused him of being a cheater. Which was right, but they had no evidence. Saul's reflexes were impeccable, and he had remarkable sleight of hand. He eventually started cheating at small casinos in the area. Then, he moved up to the big leagues. Saul found himself working the entire chain of casinos in the Pascagoula area and making it big. Mother was off the street, Saul got his high school diploma, and the two lived in a pair of hotel suites, right next door to each other.

Saul was a hit. Women loved him, men hated him, and casinos hated him more. They'd kick him out, but he'd find his way back in. He even pulled a switcheroo and slipped out of the grip of a couple security guards by replacing himself with another gambler. He was on a black list with most gambling halls, and was surprisingly easy to spot, since there was never a moment that Saul wasn't smoking a Virginia Slim. Subsequent, 'Slim' was someone that casino security kept their eye on. By age twenty, he'd bought more silk suits and slept with more women than he could keep track of. Life was good in Pascagoula. But good things? Good things never last.

Enraged casino owner Red Wapinski hired a group of thugs to keep Saul off of his property. Their first methods didn't work, since their brute force and big threats consistently resulted in Saul laughing and running away with an armful of poker chips. After two weeks of that, they captured his mother. The only way they'd let Saul see his mother again is if he paid back all of the money he took from the casinos. Wapinski didn't just want what Saul had stolen, either; he wanted all of the legal winnings, too. The total was in the upper six figures, and if Saul was even seen in a casino, Jane Ruxton would be killed.

Unable to gamble the money back, Saul turned to his second-best set of skills, and charmed people into 'lending' him money. The people he requested the money from include, but are not limited to blonde women, brunette women, redheads, single women, widows, divorcees, married women and trophy wives. The time he requested the money... Well, Saul is pretty persuasive to women he's slept with once or twice. Asking for money was usually pillow talk, and it worked. It wasn't long before Saul had boned his way to victory, for his mother (who wanted nothing more than for her son to be successful, and not have to lead the kind of life she did). Unlucky for Saul, the last woman he slept with was the trophy wife of Red Wapinski. When Wapinski came home to find a half-smoked Virginia Slim in his wife's bed, he wasn't happy. Mrs. Wapinski put on a convincing show, and said that Saul attacked and raped her.

It was a mild winter in 2010, and Saul had collected the money he needed to free his mother. He met Wapinski and his goons on the coast of the Pascagoula Bay to trade the money for his mom. Red put a gun to Jane's head and had his thugs beat Saul within an inch of his life while he cussed him out for raping his wife. The hammer on the gun was pulled back, and Saul did the only thing he could. He used his natural ability as a deceiver to switch places with his mother. With a gunshot to the head, Saul Bishop was murdered on December sixteenth, 2010, at 24 years old.

Nobody ever found out how a handcuffed, gagged and traumatized Jane Ruxton made her way out of there alive, and nobody ever found out who killed Red Wapinski and his men. There were six of them including Red, all done in by the same fifty calibre rifle, and only four bullets were used to kill them. When Saul woke up in the middle of a frozen wasteland, it was all explained by the phantom that redeemed him:

Web, The Son of Encouragement, was in town on 'business' and happened to hear the gunshot that killed Saul. A dead man, six gunmen and a crying woman made it pretty clear to Web who the bad guy was. So, in a second or two, Red Wapinski and his men were dead. Web snapped Jane's handcuffs off and carried her fainted body to cover under the pier. Then, he took Saul's body to the hospital, where he was bagged up and sent to the morgue to be officially declared dead.

Web doesn't usually take souls he didn't get by contract or through routine shipment, but when he saw Saul make the sacrifice he wished he could make his entire life, he had to offer Saul a second chance. Saul now exists as a demon in Web's employ, hunting entities that have escaped their hell, and sending them back.

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