Appearance

Physical Description

Cody is large and well-built but suffers from a poor constitution due to being born too early.

Body Features

Cody has no prominant scars or other physical features, he has been quite lucky to avoid such so far.

Facial Features

A thick handlebar moustache and scruffy beard.

Identifying Characteristics

His signature weapon, a unique Colt 45.

Physical quirks

Walks with a (sword) cane that has an oriental dragon motif.

Apparel & Accessories

Cody dresses well in brown, grey and tan clothing while favoring white and green shirts and various colorful accessories, typically with widely varying motifs acquired during his many travels.

Specialized Equipment

Cody possesses a unique Colt 45, it is a breech loading revolver with five chambers, not six. It is made out of a unique red-gold material and is covered in strange markings and symbols. Although no better than other 45's he calls it "The Colt Patterson" and is very possessive of it.

Special abilities

Cody can see well in the dark and is resilent to the horrors that man inflict on other men, being able to forget and move on quite quickly.

Mentality

Personal history

The above story is a lie.
 
That is the story of his birth-mother and his half brother Cody whom he tracked down just before the war where he found her in Salem in Oregon Territory, dying of syphilis. Several weeks before his arrival Caroline had shot her husband Bartholomew Blackstone dead as he beat her son in a drunken rage when Cody, age 11, tried to stop him from beating his mother. She comforted her son as he bleed out and had him buried in the local Church there in Salem, Bart’s body was left to rot in the fields and was consumed by nature unshriven. Cody has a number of sketches of it as it decomposed. He stuck around Oregon and let his mother call him Cody due to her worsing mind until she died a few months later, her last words were "I can peacefully go into Heaven knowing what a good son I raised, I love you." He buried her next to her son and later he would adopt their tragic story as a cover identity as an homage to their lives.
 
In fact Cody grew up as Samuel Caldwell Colt, the adopted son of his uncle Samuel Colt, in the lap of luxury. He attended the finest of schools, trained at the most prestigious academies and knows the finest of people from the highest ranks of society, including being a personal friend of the current President, his old boss Ulysses S. Grant. He was studying at college when the Civil War broke out. And after the death of his father and issue with the will found himself no longer interesting in living among those who tried to disposses him of the inheritance so he changed his name to Carlton James Colt and left.
 
Unlike so many others among his rank in society he volunteered and participated in the Second Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas to those dirty Confederates). The picnic basket he and his friends brought with them was finished off that day by the man who would become his nemesis, a confederate cavalry soldier by the name of Wilber Smithers.
 
The slaughter of the war changed him and he lost interest in mindless battle, he began to lie, cheat and steal his way across the battlefields, and he was good at it. He ran into Jasper Curtis, AKA Maskelyne the Magnificent, an agent for the Union who saw potential in him and thus he began his career as a Union spy. He gained some fame for his activities as a spy for the Union working with Ulysses S. Grant, Kate Warne, Harriet Tubman and his mentor Maskelyne the Magnificent. With Maskelyne he, as Cody Caldwell the Conjuror, travelled across the border freely performing shows of magic and prestidigitation, while supposedly on the side selling Confederates highly desired smuggled goods, particularly salt, cotton, rum, coffee, sugar, gunpowder and quinine as well as other blockaded items.
 
The Confederate authorities ate the lie up along with the vituals, meanwhile the pair’s reports along with those of their allies, sympathetic locals and other agents on Confederate troop movements, planning and other information were instrumental in turning the tide in numerous campaigns. They were so well regarded and trusted the Confederates even sometime used them to mail military correspondences, all summarily steamed open and read naturally, before being delivered! Also, by being able to cross the border freely they managed to aid the Underground Railroad in smuggling freed slaves to safety in the north.
 
Thus Cody spent the war lying, stealing, cheating and otherwise “inconviencing” the Confederate forces, which often ended in a touch of violence, more than a few stabbings and not a small number of explosions.
 
The pair were never uncovered until the end of the war when they blew up a train with the last of the Confederate Gold stores that Wilber Smithers and his friends were taking to the west to “restart the Confer’acy in Injun lands” just as hostilities ended, most of it went to the Union treasury, not all, but most. With that and the profits he got from double-crossing the Southerners for years and his own resources the pair was comfortably set up.
 
Maskelyne retired and Cody was able to travel extensively overseas after the war spending time in Europe, Latin America, across the Middle East and in Japan during the Meiji Restoration. He has since returned to America and has been knocking about since then. Eventually he was contacted by Rupert Hennessy and joined his Agency to try and find some way to make sense of an increasingly senseless world and deal with the tedious boredom of daily existence in a world slowly sinking back into bigotry and oppression.

Education

Cheshire Academy, Brown University, the School of Hard Knocks, the Street, the Carnival, the War, the Ravaged Land afterwards,

Accomplishments & Achievements

During the Civil War Cody worked as a double-agent for the Union spying on Confederate forces and rescuing slaves while working as a travelling entertainer and merchant.

Failures & Embarrassments

Cody has yet to end the life of one ex-confederate named Wilber Smithers, AKA "Reb Greyson" a sadly prominent KKK member and outlaw wanted for his many crimes against man, nature and God.

Mental Trauma

Cody suffers from PTSD due to his involvement in the Civil War, primarily Traumatophobia, a fear of being injured, he is also a pathological liar, kleptomaniac and cheat.

Intellectual Characteristics

Cody appears to be not all that bright, not particularly unintelligent, just kind of average, but it is all a facade. He is exceptionally quick and intelligent picking up new ideas easily and capable of extraordinary complex calculations quickly as well as being an "out of the box" thinker.

Morality & Philosophy

Don't touch me, I'm special.

person.sexuality

Proud Sodomite

person.gender_identity

Male

Taboos

Mistreating innocents.

Known Languages

English (fluent), Greek, Japanese, Arabic (transactionable)

Personality

Motivation

Cody wants to help the innocent and honest stay that way by protecting them from the true and terrible nature of the world. He wants to help others make meaning of life and events that he believes are truly and utterly meaningless. He wants stories told and myths made and belief in meaning to perist and thrive in a world growing ever more shallow and base.

Quotes & Catchphrases

Huh, you don't see that everyday.
I'm bored, lets go cause trouble.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

An expert liar, gambler and stage magician and a good eye for spotting things out of place. He is a decent shot with his pistols and thrown knives and has a knack for picking up a wide variety of skills ranging from art, to architecture, languages, linguisitcs, cryptography, accounting and psychology. He is an amateur actor and knows how to apply basic disguises also.

Likes & Dislikes

Cody gets bored easily and seeks out the strange, unusual and interesting places. He dislikes the tedius boredom of everyday life, farming and the bucolic pastoral life.

Virtues & Personality perks

Affable, friendly, protective of others, loyal.

Vices & Personality flaws

Easily distracted, lies an lot and gets into trouble when bored, kleptomaniac.

Personality Quirks

Laughs at things others find horrible.

Hygiene

Alternates between being extremely comfortable in the dirt and soiled conditions of the era and extreme fastidiousness about his appearance, hygeine and dress.

Social

Birthplace

New York City

Current Residence

Kansas City, Kansas

Contacts & Relations

His adopted father Samuel Colt. his carnival teacher Maskelyne the Magnificent, his detective mentor Kate Warne, his war time boss Ulysses S. Grant and ally Harriet Tubman, his personal hero Walt Whitman, his nemesis Col. Wilber Smithers AKA the outlaw “Reb Greyson.”

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Lt. Carlton James (C.J.) Colt of the United States Army, honorable discharged.

Wealth & Financial state

Cody appears to be of average wealth and resources but he is in reality quite wealthy and is able to afford the finer things in life. He can spend $150 daily and up to $25 on specific items and has assests of $12500 in various stocks, bonds, bank accounts and deposits.

Family Ties

The Colt Family of Hartford Conneticut.

Religious Views

Agnostic.

Social Aptitude

Depends on the situation, Cody tries to fit in with the local crowd and not appear to be too different. Being different gets you killed.

Hobbies & Pets

Artwork and storytelling. He sells his stories and drawings as Penny Dreadfull "news" to Eastern Newspapers. And they lap it up.

Speech

Cody affects a Western/Southern style accent but his normal speech is very Eastern and proper when he is speaking normally.