Vigilante

Adrian Chase is a much publicized senior District Attorney who is often at the head of organized crime cases.

Vigilante is a mysterious crime fighter. He doesn't seem to have any powers but is a good fighter and carries guns.

Background
Adrian Chase was born to be a lawyer. His father was a lawyer, as was his father before him and so on. He grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and a debutante on his arm. But after he graduated law school with honors, he decided he wanted something more fulfilling than the Country Club scene, and so against his father's desires he went into Criminal Law. Getting a job with the District Attorney's office, he quickly started to make a name for himself as one of the DA's top prosecuting attorneys. He was smart, he was passionate, and most importantly, he was incorruptible. He took great pleasure in ignoring bribery offers from the mob and instead putting the thumbscrews to them, determined to break organized crime once and for all.

He was doing far too good of a job at it in fact. When the Scarpelli family decided that he was becoming too much of a pain to them, a contract was put out on his life. A burglar broke into Chase's apartment and planted a bomb. Adrian arrived home with his family, and a few minutes later the hitman detonated the bomb. The apartment erupted and it was expected that everyone inside had been killed. But as firefighters worked their way through the rubble putting out the flames, Adrian was found, still alive.

After a shorter time in the hospital than his doctor was happy about, Adrian was back to work, determined to find the people responsible for this and make them pay. The police weren't having a lot of luck finding any leads, and the hours that Chase was putting in aggravated his still healing injuries. He was ordered by the DA to take some time off.

Adrian couldn't remain in town or anyplace familiar without thinking of his wife, Doris, or his son Adam and daughter Drew, so he decided to try to go someplace where there was nothing familiar to remind him. He traveled to Tibet and joined a remote monastery there. His body healed and he learned the secrets of martial arts and meditation. He tried to use them to heal his mind and heart as well, but it seemed that was permanently scarred by the tragedy. After two years in the remote mountains, Adrian decided it was time to go home.

When he got back, he found nothing had happened with the bombing case. A couple of low level mob heavies had been brought up on charges and crooked judges had set them free again on flimsy reasoning. He worked on cases but started to wonder about the futility of it all with how many cops and judges were in the mob's pocket. Remembering a bright young kid named J.J. Davis that Adrian had worked with earlier after J.J. had been accused of theft and it was discovered that the device in question had been stolen from him first, Adrian went to talk to him about an idea.

Soon afterwards, a new figure appeared on the streets. The Vigilante! Using information from years of investigating the Scarpelli family, Vigilante started leaning on people for information, using tactics and means that police weren't allowed to. Finally he worked his way up to Anthony Scarpelli himself who confessed to ordering the hit. But when Adrian was trying to get him to give himself up to the police, Anthony pulled out a gun and shot Vigilante in the arm. Vigilante fired back, but his aim was better.

Adrian Chase found that it didn't quell the pain in his heart. It didn't really change anything. Anthony was gone, but someone else would take control of the Scarpelli family tomorrow and it would be business as usual for the mob. Judges would still be paid off, cops would look the other way. Innocent people would be hurt or killed. He had misgivings about going around the legal system, but it was inherently diseased at this point. If things were to get better, then the streets needed someone like The Vigilante.

Personality
Adrian Chase is a very commanding sort of man. There's an aura of confidence and self-assuredness that surrounds him. In the courtroom it helps to give him the feeling to the jury that he feels everything in his case is complete and factual without any doubts attached. He can seem sort of cold and calculating in his personal persona and extends that also to his dealings with his father, which seem to make him feel constantly on the defensive and like he is in the midst of a judging where every movement and word choice is carefully calculated.

To his friends, he allows his guard to go down. Doubts start to creep into his mind and the pain of his lost family becomes evident in his thoughts. Because of the losses he's already suffered, he's all that much more protective and loyal to his friends, keeping them from harm at any personal cost it takes.

He has an obsessive quality to his personality that once he's started something, he has to see it through to the end, and he gets very upset if it doesn't end how he had expected. This goes for the courtroom and for his cases as Vigilante. He will push himself beyond where his friends think he needs to, doing without sleep and skipping meals unless someone puts them in front of him and orders him to eat. Because of this, he also disdains the idle rich life of his childhood friends and Country Club companions. There's far too much else that could be getting done while people are out skiing and yachting and networking at parties. He attends some of these functions out of necessity and for family duty, but takes no pleasure from them.