Protagonists describe themselves (ideas)

Harvey Chapel: I'm not some kind of detective or troubleshooter. You don't call me to solve cases or find out truths for you. If you're coming to me, you want someone or something as gone as gone can get. You call me when you want to send messages, stop plans and make people and places disappear. You call me when you want destruction and chaos without a trail that leads back your way. You come to me, and I'll find anyone you want and make them pay out the nose.
But that's not the -only- reason you call me. Because I'm not just a hell-on-wheels assassin; I'm a man with supernatural power. And every so often, I get a job that's above and beyond what the other mercenaries and would-be killers are equipped to deal with. The world has no shortage of people that guns can't touch, but I've got the means to bring them down.
So take the warning. I'm no fixer. I'm a problem. And if I get a call from someone you've pissed off, I might just happen to you.

Michael Salem: Stories like to paint magicians as fancy-asses in robes who can read spellbooks and play Merlin every Tuesday without fear or remorse. They don't tell you what it's really like. They don't show you what it takes to sling that abracadabra bullshit, or what kind of consequences come from diving too deep into those leather-bound grimoires. They don't hammer home how much world-class pain and suffering is riding shotgun with the Harry Potter fever-dream you've been chasing ever since you were six years old.
History has shown that you burn us at the stake every time you meet our kind. So you never see us. We live and die in secret. We stay just out of sight and out of mind, meeting terrors and fighting madmen in the shadows.
I've learned how to live the life, how to walk the walk in a world that wants to see me lie down. I've taken out monsters and driven back demons, survived horrors that would leave most men tattered and torn on the sidewalk.
Count yourself lucky that you're not me. If you were, you'd never want to play Dungeons & Dragons again.

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