Night Marshal

Night Marshal, AKA Detective Jack Carpenter.

Description
As Night Marshal: This man looks like a modern-day high-tech cowboy. He stands about five-nine, and looks fairly muscular. He's wearing a pair of leather pants and rugged hiking boots. His arms are covered in some layered metal plating which shifts to allow movement but provides a fair amount of protection. It's a safe bet that other portions of his body are protected similarly, but the armor might be covered by his clothing. On his torso is a simple blue leather vest with a marshal's star pinned to the left breast. He wears a cowboy hat, and a simple black mask that has a glowing red eyepiece over one eye.

Strapped to his thigh is a revolver in a gunslinger's holster.

As Carpenter: Detective Jack Carpenter is a clean shaven young man with a crewcut, making him look like he might be ex-military. He stands about five-nine, and looks relatively muscular for a police officer. He's dressed in what must be some kind of regulation attire for police detectives: He's wearing white dress shirt, black tie, dress slacks, and a tan trenchcoat.

Origin
Jack Carpenter had been a police detective for more than a decade. He had seen heroes come and go during that time, many of them being as ephemeral as newspapers once were. But there was a common thread: The heroes had a tendency to really only trust themselves. They were loose cannons that were destructive and quite frankly, uncontrollable. It was impossible to have enough influence as a mere detective. Some heroes would listen to him, but others just consistently got in the way. He finally came to the conclusion that the only way to really put criminals behind bars was to leverage the metahuman community's ties by becoming one himself. He gathered a fair amount of gear and fashioned the identity of the 'Night Marshal', at least partially influenced by the pulp stories of the 1930s and 40s. If his identity gets out, it'll cost him his job, most likely. But it's a risk he's willing to take.

Powers
Jack Carpenter is a normal human. So, his only 'powers' really stem from his equipment. He carries a number of gadgets and weapons with him in his new war on crime.

Personality
Jack is affable, but at the same time, he's driven to bring criminals to justice. He'll make a wry comment, but it doesn't indicate that he takes things cavalierly. He's a little world-weary, and responding in the way he knows how: by focusing on his job.

Relations
Jack is a police detective with the CBPD. So, he's subject to orders from them, though he needs to keep his identities separate. He has a tendency to get into trouble, as has been evidenced by some of his recent cases. Those cases had him running afoul of local metas, who he believes don't show enough restraint.

His moonlighting at the Night Marshal has brought him into conflict with Pride's Triad a couple of times, and they'd like to see him gone. And he has a bit of a professional rivalry with a former detective, Captain Hannah Landry. She also was his former partner.

His current partner is Detective Celia Harris, who is new to dealing with meta-related crimes.

History
Jack grew up in Colonial Bay. He attended CBSU as a Criminal Justice major, and went on to join the police academy. He made Detective quicker than normal, after only two years instead of the typical four or five. This caused some friction with other members of the department, including his own partner, Hannah Landry. Hannah was more politically savvy than Jack, and she moved up in the ranks, eventually making Captain. Meanwhile, Jack is still languishing as a Detective, stuck at that position with no immediate sign of a promotion forthcoming. It feels like a dead-end job, but one that is of import.

Rogues Gallery

 * Dolly Dark


 * The Judge