Name: Michael Sheridan
Age: 33 (born April 10, 1985)
Affiliation: Assassin
Appearance: Michael is a caucasian male who stands at 5’9”and weighs 195 with a muscular build. His brown hair is cut in a buzzcut and he keeps his beard neatly trimmed. Michael wears corrective lenses
Everyday Clothing: Michael wears a simple ball cap with either a black hoodie or a black leather jacket complete with a hidden pointed hood over jeans and a t-shirt.
Archeologist: While working on a dig site he wears a brown leather jacket with a hidden pointed hood over a white short sleeve button down and tan pants.
Formal- In formal occasions Michael wears black leather trench coat with a hidden pointed hood over a black button down, dark purple tie, and a black vest, black slacks, and a black fedora with a purple band
Field Work- During field missions he wears black cargo pants, combat boots, and a black combat shirt with purple trim and a pointed hooded under a combat vest.
Ceremonial: For ceremonial occasions Michael wears a variation of Altair robes that are white with a purple sash.
Personality: Michael is an extremely sarcastic individual who often cracks jokes in stressful situations. He does this as a defense mechanism in order to fight off the Bleeding Effect that is triggered by intense stress. While many might find his attitude off putting, no one claim that he is not loyal as he is willing to sacrifice himself for the cause.
Favorite Weapons:
Berserk Dart Launcher
Pivot Blade
Strengths:
Fluent speaker and reader of the Russian, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Arabic, and Ancient Egyptian languages.
Expert knowledge of History
Psychometry through Eagle Sense
Weaknesses:
Suffers from random flashes of the Bleeding Effect
Crippling fear of the Animus
Average parkour skills
Background/Biography: Michael Sheridan was born April 10, 1985 and was raised by a single mother in the middle of Illinois. He would display spontaneous bouts of Eagle Vision as a small boy that allowed him to see things no one else could. The bizarreness of this would compel him to keep this ability a secret, a fact that would cause him to grow up lonely and with only his books for friends. He would become obsessed with reading history books and would eventually develop his obsession into his destiny.
This obsession would result in him attending Harvard to study history, archeology, and linguistics at Harvard. He would unfortunately be unable to finish as he was abducted by Abstergo and forced to be a subject of the Animus project. The 21 year old, would spend weeks being forced to relive the memories of his Assassin ancestors under the watch of Templar Marcus Cullen. This would cause Michael to seemingly begin to lose his mind as he suffered the Bleeding Effect.
He would eventually free himself when the Animus would reveal that Cullen was not only his torturer, but in fact a former Assassin and his father. A confrontation with Cullen would reveal that the Templar had subjected Michael to the Animus in order for him to see the “truth” about the Assassins and take his place with the Templars. A furious Michael would attack his father and be savagely beaten down by the much more experienced man. His life would only be saved by the coincidental assault on the facility by a young French Assassin, Nicole Bonnet, would take pity on him and bring him back to base.
Over the ensuing month, Nicole would help him regain his sanity while teaching him how to utilize the skills he had absorbed. The duo would fall in love during this time and sparked a romance that is still going to this day. With him seemingly in control of his own mind once again, Michael would be inducted into the France based team as its historical expert. This entailed him conducting research while Nicole worked field operations.
It would be during one such bout of research that he discovered a reference to a Piece of Eden. Over the next year, Michael would pursue the P.O.E. in secret and eventually discovered a crystal ball that activated upon his touch and brought his consciousness to the Nexus. It was there that she informed him that he was the Scholar, the one who was responsible for safeguarding the true history of the world. To aid him in this, she granted him the “gift of seeing what no one has seen for generations”.
Michael would reveal this to his teammates and they would task him with researching further P.O.E.s. Unfortunately, he would not have a chance to do this as a fellow Assassin would turn on them that night. Michael and a now pregnant Nicole would be the only survivors of the ensuing massacre and would retreat to Ireland. Once there, he would dedicate himself to hunting down the artifacts of the Assassin’s history.
Calendar
