Character-Hornet

Character Details

Character Details
Real Name:	Shankhar Rajib
Birthplace:	Mundhela Kalan Village, Dehli
Specialty:	Assassin
Team Affiliation:	R.I.O.T

Character Biography

The Hornet remains a man of mystery, even through his close relationship with Eagle Force operative Kayo.

When Shankhar Rajib was young, a R.I.O.T. conflict in his small town in New Dehli killed both of his parents and many other family members who had built the town from nothing and made it a site of relative importance in their part of the world. Pinned down inside their house, isolated from the rest of the village, Rajib tried valiantly to defend his home, actually killing three R.I.O.T. Shock Troopers. However, in the end, he couldn’t prevent his parents’ deaths and even though Eagle Force swept in and saved the day, the young man was left in his home with his parent for several hours.

After pushing R.I.O.T. from their stronghold, Eagle Force swept the village and Kayo came upon Rajib, coaxing him out of his home with the promise of making sure R.I.O.T. was punished for their crimes. The young man was hesitant at first, having a hard time distinguishing the Eagle Force operatives from the ones who had just executed his family, but eventually he agreed to come with Kayo.

Kayo still had obligations with Eagle Force, so he helped situate the young man with a foster family, promising to come and visit often.

Rajib did not have an easy life, resenting the situation he was in and electing to begin investigating some of the more arcane styles of fighting arts, finding that his only mental reprieve was when he was training his body and mind. For many years he spent all of his free time studying combat, training himself, and swearing to himself that he would never allow an organization like R.I.O.T. to kill people he cared about again.

Except he was slowly learning that he no longer had people he cared about. He had no family, no real friends, and his foster family used him as a laborer, and not much more.

Rajib stayed in touch with Kayo throughout the years and when Eagle Force disbanded, he returned to the young man to take him under his wing. Kayo was pleasantly surprised when he heard that Rajib had spent the past years studying martial arts himself, and he showed a deep interest in learning more, so Kayo agreed to start training him. The young man was angry, this much was clear, but Kayo worked hard to take that anger and focus it into a more functional combat technique. The young man excelled, swiftly elevating his skills and actually going toe-to-toe with Kayo himself after only a year of training.

But Rajib continued his own self education even when he was not training with Kayo himself, learning about the mysterious Sinanju scriptures of the lost Wa Cult, an ancient team of assassins who had mastered the more mystical arts of unarmed combat. Becoming infatuated with the Wa Cult, Rajib and Kayo began drifting apart as the young man became obsessed with using his skills to attack, strike, and even kill without leaving a trace. Kayo did not approve and the two had a dramatic falling out, with Rajib eventually retreating from Kayo’s dojo entirely late one night and vanishing.

The two lost track, though Kayo maintained his own training, he withdrew into solitude, often reflecting upon his failure to appropriately shape Rajib into the man he wanted him to be. One evening, several years after they had separated, the enigmatic Thule Index was on display at a Tokyo museum, and knowing its potential attraction to thefts, Kayo secretly stood guard.

Sure enough, a potential burglar broke into the museum and headed straight for the Index, though Kayo was able to intercept him. They fought, and the infiltrator actually overcame Kayo, striking him down and came very close to killing him on the spot, though he held his sword and withdrew into the darkness.

Though Kayo had no proof of this, he often suspected that this would-be infiltrator was Rajib.

Meanwhile, the young man was developing quite the underground reputation. Calling himself The Hornet, he had successfully developed his combat skills to the point where he could infiltrate, execute, and escape, leaving corpses in his wake with no indication of when or even how they had died. Always leaving a trademark behind, his Hornet icon quickly grew to legendary status among the intelligence and mercenary community. Along with his trademark, The Hornet began wearing a unique uniform that glowed bright yellow just before he killed his victims, and also generated ambient light, allowing him to navigate the darkness. This unique look joined the hornet icon in its place of respect and honor among the mercenaries he worked alongside.

Shankhar Rajib, an orphan of R.I.O.T. used his resentment, determination and focus to become an engineer of death, and several years after this same organization took his parents from them, he agreed to work with them as their personal assassin, a devastating and lethal human weapon who lived only to take his next victim. To this day nobody really knows why he agreed to work with R.I.O.T., whether his mind was twisted over the years into believing that Eagle Force was to blame for his parents’ deaths or whether he did it out of some perverse form of self-punishment for failing to save his mother and father’s lives all those years ago. Whatever the reason, the internationally infamous mercenary assassin now acts as R.I.O.T.’s instrument of death and he longs to meet Kayo on the field of battle once again to prove who is the superior warrior.

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