Editing John Stiles (section)

==Abilities and Art==
Physically pretty strong,<ref>The intense looking guy broke away from the other conversation. He marched across the clearing, toward the goblins, who were too preoccupied to notice.  He scooped them up and pulled them apart with apparent ease, despite the fact that tooth, nail, and stomach-spikes were hooked into one another.<br><br>''Strong'', Lucy noted. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]</ref> although not superhumanly so.<ref name=":1" /> What makes him dangerous derives from his great familiarity with weapons and tactical soldierly mindset, combined with a sleepless untiring nature.<ref name=":2">“It’s more accurate to say I’m many fragments adding up to a whole.  If I’m good at what I do, it’s because it’s more or less ''all'' that I do.”<br><br>“So when you can improvise bombs and think those three or four steps ahead,” Lucy said, “it’s because-”<br><br>“It’s because that’s the way I think, when I have a free moment to think.  I’m ''this'', twenty-four seven, seven days a week.  I don’t sleep, I don’t ever fully relax.  If I do find distraction, it’s only a small share of me that’s distracted.  The rest is ready.”<br><br>“Are you entirely made up of Canadian soldiers?”<br><br>“No.  Canadian, American, ANA, armed citizens, others.”<br><br>“Why Kennet, then?”<br><br>“I think the part of me that thinks of ‘home’ came primarily from a man that thought of Kennet or a place very much like it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/23 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.5]]</ref> Has related skills in things like woodcraft<ref>[Avery] peeked, and saw John walking through the woods at a quick march, ducking under a branch, and using the length of the rifle to push another aside.  He was strong enough to maintain a good foot pace despite the barriers the branches provided, and no wood or twigs broke.  He left no trail. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/28 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.5]]</ref> and moving silently being a soldier.<ref name="jog" /> Importantly [[Guilherme]] considers him a peer in combat,<ref>“John can match me in serious confrontation,” Guilherme said.  “And you lasted considerably longer than four seconds against him there.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/15 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.8]]</ref> and John seems to have little trouble when stripped of his supernatural powers.<ref>John took that as his cue to move.  He walked without making noise, circling around the car.<br><br>Sharon reacted to the movement in her peripheral vision.  She turned, and he caught the barrel.  He wrested the gun from her, then hit her in the face with it.  He caught her before she could fall all the way down, and smashed her head into the handle of the door with enough force it flew off and bounced halfway between John and Verona.<br><br>Sharon dropped to the ground, forehead split open, unconscious.<br><br>“She does.  But I don’t need what she takes from me.  Are you okay?  I heard the shot.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/10 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.3]]</ref>

Possesses all the [[Dog of War#Abilities|standard abilities of a Dog of War]], i.e. he's an immortal, skilled soldier with a sense for the location of weapons. He is an advanced specimen given his ability to pass as a human.<ref name=":3">“What can you do, exactly?  You come back when you’re killed?”<br><br>“More like I don’t die in the first place.  I can always keep fighting until I’m badly wounded enough that nobody would believe I could keep fighting.  If I get obliterated, you wait a couple days, I’ll show up again.  I get stronger with every life I take.  It clarifies me.  I and the other ones like me began with no names, no real faces.  Just… uniforms.  Piecemeal, like each part of the outfit was taken from one body.  After one very bloody, prolonged fight, I and two of my squadmates took on handles.  Then names.  Then specializations.  Skillsets.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/23 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.5]]</ref> He is noted to be a standout example though.<ref>“Careful.  There’s a lot of power driving that one forward,” Musser said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.8]]</ref> After returning from the Blue Heron Institute he gained the ability to see better in the dark.<ref>"Did you-" Lucy started. She hesitated, then didn't finish the question. Stupid, impulsive.<br><br>"I did," John answered. "Quite a bit, actually. Among other things, clearer sight in darkness." - 
[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/20 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.4]]<br>[...]<br>John had a bit of Alexander’s eyes, now, maybe.  He got something from everyone he killed.  Clear sight, even in conditions like that.  It made sense. - 
[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/23 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.5]]</ref>

He had some degree of ability to perceive [[Spirit]]s,<ref>“She had a shadow about her,” John said.  “Around her head.”<br><br>“She could have looked too deep at something dark,” Matthew said.<br><br>“Good,” Lucy muttered.<br><br>“It wasn’t there when we confronted her the other night.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/14 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.1]]</ref> as well as senses that help him get the drop on people.<ref>He’d waited, used extra senses, about war and conflict, to determine the moment Alexander might be most distracted, or have the most senses turned away.  Then he’d fired. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.x]]</ref> He is also very perceptive and can not be slowed down by a [[Connections#Block|connection blocker]].<ref>“I was just checking in.  I didn’t want to bother you so I used a connection blocker.  It burned out fast, there.”<br><br>“I wouldn’t be very effective at what I do if it was that easy to blind me to you.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/28 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.5]]</ref>

He is able to hot wire a car.<ref>He knew how to hotwire a car, and this car was old enough that the wiring wasn’t very protected.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/07/break-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8546 Excerpt] from [[Break 2]]</ref>

He is an okay singer and is learning how to play guitar.
===Tools===
Used to have the [[Hot Lead|remains of a bullet]] that he'd used to kill a fire [[elemental]], which was imbued with some of it's energy. Gave it to the [[Kennet Trio]].

Generally armed, as previously stated, with grenades and even rubber bullets. Has some money set aside as well.<ref>“You trashed my truck?” Matthew asked.<br><br>“I scraped the side,” John said.  “And left it by the side of the road about a half hour up the road.  I’ll fetch it as soon as this situation is resolved, and I can cover the costs.”<br><br>“You have money?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“I take it off the Others I kill.”<br><br>“Do Others have that much money?” Verona asked.<br><br>“I don’t spend much,” John said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/14 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.1]]</ref>

His ability to appear behind those who throw one of his squads dog tags down is a [[Summoning]] act and something he can't normally do.<ref name="jog">“Goblins definitely,” Verona said.  “John maybe?  When you scouted out his place the other day, did he teleport?”<br><br>“No,” Avery said.  “Jogged after, I’m pretty sure.  Caught up while I was fixing my diagram.  He was still pretty fast and good at tracking, though.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/08 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.8]]</ref>