The Punisher

[blurb here regarding the Punisher]

Background
Born to a simple Italian family in Italian Harlem, Frank Castle was a boy who grew up doing things you did in New York City. He learned the tricks of the street, running the trains, and living off whatever he could provide himself as any true lower middle-class survivor knows how. This was a time in his life he enjoyed and ultimately learned a lot about as he grew older. As Frank went from being a teen to become a man he attended college and graduated with a degree in History which led him to a crossroads, his job prospects weren't good with his degree and thus he took the road less travel, he joined the United States Marine Corps. With a degree in hand the young man was ushered towards officer candidate school down south at Quantico, Virgina, notably Camp Brown. The man was offered the opportunity to jump from airplanes, earn airborne wings and ultimately, after rather strenuous training, be called a United States Marine with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. When the towers fell and there were people to kill, the time to put into practice everything he learned came to pass. Franks's initial deployment to Afghanistan was a lesson learned as he came face to face with the realities of mountain warfare and what it meant to truly be in the middle of nowhere. Constantly the man looked up at the stars and wished he was back home with the bright, beautiful lights of NYC and as far from this grim reality as he could be. After fifteen months the man was given the chance to return to Camp LeJeune where he was informed that he would be a part of a small group of scouts being sent into dislodge entrenched Republican Guard in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the newly started war in Iraq. Frank was promoted to 1st Leuitenant and he jumped into the desert from a C130 ready to do bring hell to those Iraqis who went looking for trouble. After another 15 month deployment the man was returned to LeJeune and offered an assignment with a unit going back to Iraq to do jobs that not any regular military units were touching. At this time Frank's idea of home and away seemed to have flipped, home was now those austere environments and away was sitting in North Carolina watching the sunset on the trees. Frank agreed to go along with the black operatives and thus began his time serving the military in something other than a uniform. It was during this time away from the war zone that Frank met a woman that would change his life and perspective on things. Her name was Maria and she stole Frank's cold heart and battered soul from everything he had seen and done in the Army. Nothing mattered to Frank and thus before he was ever able to attend to his job as a black operative, he resigned his commission and went about deciding what he would do with his post-military life. The couple of Frank and Maria relocated from rural North Carolina back up to New York and Frank was offered a job as a uniformed officer with the NYPD. Frank served his job faithfully and was offered multiple promotions to do undercover work, which Maria pleaded with him to resist. He resisted until just after he and Maria were married and she became pregnant. Frank offered her a deal that he would go on an undercover job for the first part of her pregnancy and then he would be here everyday for the second half. She agreed and Frank went about his work, leaving Maria alone for the first few months. The undercover operation went as expected and Frank returned home only to find Maria bleeding out on the floor of their Manhattan apartment, bleeding from her stomach and neck. Frank held the lifeless woman until the paramedics arrived and then went about piecing the situation together. As it turned out Frank had been compromised early on in the operation by one of the other officers in his precinct who felt Frank was getting jobs he didn't deserve. This information led to a hit being put out on Maria and her death being a product of Frank's work against a crime family while undercover. Frank waited for the investigation to end and saw the wheels of justice being jammed at every turn, finally one night the same people who came for Maria and their unborn child came for Frank and he was waiting.... The gunfight was short and to the point as Frank felled four attackers in the first few moments, leaving one bleeding on the same floor his wife died. Pinching the man's artery that was spurting blood, Frank asked who leaked the information and was informed of the truth, that his true identity was turned over by another cop. Frank released the pressure on the artery and waited for the police to arrive. After the events in his apartment, Frank went to the police with the information he had gained from the dying man and was rebuffed time and time again... Frank left the NYPD at this point and disappeared into the night only to resurface as a supposed ghost in the night, a man to be feared, a man ready to offer his service to the world, one that will make a difference for those who don't, punishment delivered. As we stand today, Frank Castle is a ghost that hangs over top of criminals worldwide. There have been copycats, there have been deaths associated to this Punisher character that were nobodies... Frank Castle is an enigma, he goes where he wants and fights based on an honor code no one seems to understand except the very few who have lost it all. At this point the body count may very well be in the thousands as the man has trekked across the world, working over evil and darkness the best way he knows how, via punishment and death.

Personality
After years spent out in the deserts and mountains of Iraq and Afghanistan, the man that was Frank Castle had become someone who had a very rough and tough exterior. The man was always on the offensive and his idea in any conflict big or small was to apply maximum firepower and break contact. Since the death of Maria and his unborn child, Frank Castle is cold. He's a man who had his wife and and unborn child die before his very eyes. The man has seen his fair share of death and destruction and at this point the world is his playground in those matters. There's not a day that goes by where the man isn't thirsting for true justice. Whatever it takes to attain an equilibrium between bad guys and what it means for the world to filled with goodness and no longer a need for punishment. In addition to his cold demeanor, Frank is someone who is unlikely to find goodness in even the best of people. Everyone has a dark side in Frank's mind and thus there isn't a soul on Earth who can be trusted or isn't a possibility for punishment