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[LIAM JAMES MADDOX]

LIAM JAMES MADDOX

Full Name: Liam James Maddox
Nicknames: Not really 'nicknames' but he does have may other aliases and false identities. The one he goes by most commonly is Liam Maddox but other commonly used aliases are; Leo Mason, Jason Keller and Matthew Knox. His real name is Liam Redferne.

Age: Twenty Seven
Birthdate: 10/12/1985

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual
Occupation: Con artist

Borough: Southwark

Description: 
Liam is 6'0" tall and has a lean but muscular build due to him keeping himself fit and in shape. His skin is mid-Caucasian in complexion and on occasion his usually clean-cut jawline can be seen with light stubble, he has a few light scars across his body from his “childhood” though they are barely noticeable and can only really be seen on closer inspection. The young man’s eyes vary from a cold wintery blue to stormy grey depending on the day and lighting but they seem to always be void true emotion and his hair is dark brown, seemingly black in dim light but you can see lighter shades when the sun catches it.

He often wears branded suits; John Varvatos, Paul Smith, Hugo Boss, Armani, Prada, Band of Outsider shirts, all of which are complete with a vintage tie. Though it's not uncommon to see him in jeans with plain tees, crew necks, polos, and button-ups when he's painting in his apartment or just out and about casually. He has also been known to wear a dark hoodie and/or black leather jacket if playing a certain character or in a rougher area of London. He often wears black framed glasses when reading and occasionally black Ray-ban sunglasses when outdoors.

Play-by: Matt Bomer

Personality:
If you were to meet him, you can never be entirely sure if the man that’s in front of you is the real Liam or if he is just a character the man is playing. But, to those who know him when he’s not playing a role, as a con artist Liam is an intelligent man that lives his life by thinking logically over impulse, emotion and ‘feeling’ and he uses his intelligence in order to be cunning, manipulative and deceiving. The young man always seems very serious and rarely seems to really smile when out of character or laugh or joke and comes across as a cold and emotionless man who would not hesitate to severely harm you if given proper reason to. Though, despite these characteristics that may seem unappealing to some, Liam behind it all, deep down is a good man. He’s just a good man doing bad things. Liam seems emotionless, but he is human so he does have emotions, they’re just suppressed and he finds it very hard to show true, honest emotion to those around him but he can be compassionate sometimes. Liam also finds it hard to emotionally attach himself to others and even to those who have managed to worm their way past his defenses, he can still be cold towards but when you’ve earned his “friendship”, trust and respect there is arguably no one more loyal than this man. To have his full loyalty would mean he’d kill for you. Genuinely. If he cared, respected and had a shared trust in you, if you were to ask him to kill someone for you, if he thinks it’s a logical decision he would not hesitate to do it.
Though there is very few people in his life he really cares about, likes and may even be called 'friends' and there's even fewer people that are close to him, once he does care about you the emotionless barrier can sometimes come down for a short amount of time and he can become "normal" but he always returns to his neutral state of impassiveness. With these people he cares about fiercely protective and in a situation where they are threatened his emotionless barrier can once again slip and that violent side of him will emerge .

He can be incredibly irritating and annoying in the way he is sometimes. Not only is he seemingly emotionless and cold but he can also be rather blunt (though he’d never purposely hurt anyone’s feelings- he just never realizes what he says can hurt people), over-confident to the point where it crosses into arrogance, a ‘smart arse’ and isn’t very irritable at all. He’s very patient and he’s not someone you can easily annoy enough to ‘lose his temper’ and some may say he’s got no temper to lose but he does- it's just very hard to provoke him, but the best way to do it is threaten someone he cares about or mess up his current 'job' in some way.

The young man is observant and has a very keen eye for detail, is very precise, strategic, calculative and quick thinking which has developed from his talent in forgery and theft. He is arguably one of the world’s best forgers and because of it, is on the top of many of the world’s countries most wanted lists but surprisingly, no one has ever caught him and lately no one really knows where he is due to him keeping a very low profile.
Liam is a man that always is three steps ahead of you and always thinking of the next move. He often in his mind thinks of each of the different scenarios and situations, weighs up their advantages and disadvantages and comes to the logical decision of how to handle a situation and how to come out on top.

Depending on the day you ask him, if you were to ask him why he is a con artist you might just be able to crack a smile out of him and if you were to ask him if he would ever leave this world? At this moment in time he’d tell you no because truth be told, he has nothing to leave it for.
Being a ‘crook’ that he is Liam finds it hard to settle into normal living. It’s the one and only thing in his life he struggles in self-discipline with. His brain is hard-wired to be always looking for the next con, searching for the next mark and thinking up his next moves can’t and like most con artists; Liam really can’t resist an opportunity when it presents itself. So, it’d take something significant and life changing for Liam to change his ways because now, lying, thieving and forging is in his nature and even if something or someone were to change him, a leopard cannot change his spots no matter how hard he or anyone else tries.

Likes: 

• Challenges
• Chess
• Art
• Painting and sculpting.
• Reading
• Music
• Playing the piano
• Being kept busy

Dislikes: 

• Being wrong
• Losing
• Laziness
• Talking about his personal life and past
• Unnecessary cruelty
• Dependency on technology
• Guns or the use of any weapons during his cons.
• When people think they're better than they actually are.

Strengths: 

• Intelligent
• Forward thinker
• Self-discipline
• Patience
• Forgery
• Thieving
• Acting
• Streetwise

Weaknesses: 

• Finds it hard to emotionally connect with others and because of it fails to understand peoples feelings and how he can upset people.
• Competitive
• Arrogant
• Over-thinker
• Perfectionist
  
• High self-expectations. A weakness because if he feels like he's messed up, let himself down and/or done something incorrect it'll eat away at him and he'll be annoyed with himself.
• Somewhat technologically ignorant. It annoys him but he's really bad with computers. He's fine with other forms of technology (though still not the best) but with computers he only knows the very basics.
• Scared of flying. Well, it makes him anxious and on edge and he always has to keep his mind busy when on a flight.

Fears: 

• Becoming like his father 
• Losing his mind
• Failing

Secrets: 

• His real background/his past.

Habits & Quirks:

• He often verbally corrects what people say and write if he picks up on them using the wrong word or contradicting themselves. He has been known to literally explain the definition of words to people in order to prove his point on their 'incorrect use'. 
• Rubs the back of his neck when feeling uncomfortable and/or out of his comfort zone
• Refuses to have pots and pans cleaned by the dish-washing machine. He thinks they should be cleaned by hand (he thinks it's more thorough).
• Goes for a run at least once a day.

Birth Place: England, London
Family:

James Redferne - 60 - Father - DECEASED
Amelia Redferne - 58 - Mother - DECEASED
Daniel Redferne - 30 - Brother - Convicted criminal serving life in jail
Elodie Redferne - Sister - 25 - DECEASED

Significant Others:

Charles Hunt - 54 - "Friend" - Conman
Trent Jamison - 30 - "Friend" - Conman
Aaron Monroe - 27 - "Friend" - Conman 
Vivienne Lawless - 24 - "Friend" - Thief, smuggler and fence.
Joshua Dawson - 19 - "Friend" - Hacker


Pets: None.

History: 
Liam James Redferne was born in Hammersmith, London on the 10th of December 1985 to James and Amelia Redferne two years after his older brother, Daniel’s birth and three years before his younger sister, Elodie’s birth.

His father, James Redferne also known as ‘Jimmy’ Redferne was a man born into a rich ‘old money’ family and with no brothers or sisters he had inherited his father’s vast wealth when the old man died in 1989 but it was soon all spent on an alcohol addiction. James was never a normal man, he never seemed to show care or love towards anyone in his life and had very little empathy and kindness inside of him. As a child, he would do sick and cruel things to animals whether it be holding a litter of kittens under water and drowning them or ‘operating’ on hamster. Jimmy Redferne’s mind was a twisted, messed up place and many that knew him would swear he was a sociopath. Some say this was due to him witnessing his father beating his mother and then her eventual suicide at a young age.
As he grew older it seemed he tried to conceal his darker side, he tried to be an ordinary citizen of London, got a well-respected job, met a woman by the name of Amelia Sandston of whom he eventually married. Everything seemed well at first. Until he started to beat his wife and harming her in ways that were just…sick and threatening her that if she told anyone, he’d kill her.

Two years of this torturous marriage Amelia’s worst nightmare came true. She fell pregnant. During her pregnancy she was anxious, terrified but Jimmy seemed to change back to the man she first met. He only laid a hand on her once whilst she was carrying Daniel but it was in the early stages but after Daniel was born, the abuse started again. The abuse of Amelia sometimes led to the neglect of Daniel. When he would cry, needing his diaper changed or to be fed, Amelia often couldn’t care for him due to her husband.
When she found out she was pregnant with Liam, she almost went to have an abortion before Jimmy could find out but, he ended up catching her and smacked her around when was told. Not too severe so she would lose the baby, but enough to ‘teach her a lesson’. Jimmy stayed away from her during this second pregnancy and she tried her best to care for Daniel during the period. Though, at this stage she was becoming more and more a wreck and was struggling to keep away from dark thoughts.
Liam’s birth brought about less attention for Daniel and less emotional comfort it seemed. Jimmy never gave any of his children emotional comfort and Amelia saw her motherhood more as a job or chore than anything personal. She couldn’t help but feel less attached to her children due to their father and the hatred she grew towards the man.
It was actually shortly after Liam’s birth did Amelia turn to drugs in order to cope and keep herself together and Jimmy never cared. In fact, he almost encouraged her growing addiction because eventually it became yet another way to control her.

At the awfully young age of three years old, Daniel experienced his father’s violence first hand when he awoke from a nightmare scared and crying, sought out comfort from his parents. He woke his father up and in anger, Jimmy beat the boy much to Amelia’s horror because even though she didn’t feel that attached to her children, she still had that motherly instinct towards them but she was helpless. Daniel wasn’t taken to the hospital but it wasn’t too severe. Amelia treated her sons wounds and instead of giving him soothing words, verbally scolded him for angering Jimmy.
That night was not the last of the child cruelty, nor was it the worst but during the next few years it wasn’t as severe as it would be in the future.
Three years after Liam’s birth, Amelia fell pregnant again with Elodie. However, due to complications in labour, Amelia died shortly after bringing her daughter into the world and the worst person possible to care for the three children now had full custody of them.
For some reason Jimmy did care for his children though he never loved them and as they grew older they were subject to his abuse which grew much worse when the man had developed an alcohol addiction.

It was clear that the three children growing older had very different personalities. Daniel was a lot 'tougher' more harsh and brutal in demeanor and was as a child a bully in school. Taking out his anger and rage on the much 'weaker' kids. He didn't care about school and because of it didn't turn out too educated and from as early as his young teens, he became one of those stupid youths that was often in trouble with the authorities. Of course, Daniel hated his father but he did seem to love his younger siblings but there was a dislike sometimes towards Liam that was mainly due to a deep-rooted anger of his mother when he was younger putting baby Liam before poor neglected Danny and also due to Liam being clearly much more intelligent than he. But, he still did have some love for his younger brother and his love for his little sister was very strong.

Liam was quieter. Often seen with his nose buried in a book. He even soon began to take his father's beatings in a strange silence. From a very young age, he was very intelligent for his age. As he grew older he developed a knack for out-smarting, finding loop-holes and the very thing he would one day became renown for; forgery. At the young age of  twelve he even created the first fake ID he ever made for his older brother. An ID that was used often and frequently by Daniel and never discovered to be a forgery. At the age of fifteen, Liam forged a painting that was pretty much exactly the same Van Gogh's Sunflowers apart from the lack of aging of the painting due to not having the right materials. It was also during his young childhood did he get involved with the hustling scene. When he was ten, on his way home from school, he'd often stop by a pool bar which was full of hustlers and the place he first learned learned to play the 'art' of pool, mastering the different techniques and learning  how hustle and it was his time in this place was what led to him self teaching himself how to pick pockets, pick locks, scam and con others by using his intelligence and knowledge from experience as well as books. He would never say he and Daniel were close because they weren't and often clashed though he adored Elodie and if the two brothers ever had anything in common it was this love they shared for Elodie. They were both very protective of her, often trying to take their father's beatings for her and sheltering her from their dad.

Elodie was a very sweet girl and due to her older brother's protection and sheltering she never really knew the extent of their father's abuse. She was just a kind spirit. Caring, compassionate, loving, positive. She was the one person that could bring a proper smile to her brother's faces and get them to show love towards her. Though, as they all grew older and Daniel and Liam were out more often, she soon became subject to their father's abuse also but she kept it a secret from her brothers not wanting to upset them. But soon, the mere smacks turned into something much more twisted and disturbing when Jimmy began to sexually abuse his daughter. Elodie's sweet, innocent nature became corrupted and her mind distorted. She still tried to keep it a secret from her brother's though because she knew they'd beat themselves up over not protecting her from it but also because it wasn't something someone could easily talk about.
It became all too much for Elodie though in the end and after falling into a deep depression and needing an escape she ended up taking a knife and slicing two deep wounds in her wrists. Liam, was the one who found her at the age of seventeen. He came home and that was actually the first time he cried since he was a little boy as he held her in his arms. When his father came, Liam shouted at him, raged at him, letting out seventeen years of anger out at his dad and demanding to know what he had done to make Liam's little sister do this. When his father told him and showed no remorse Liam couldn't hold back any longer and finally gave the beating his father gave to his children back to him but it was when Daniel came home did hell break loose.
Daniel saw Elodie's body and was shocked to the core before the shouting began again. Liam explained to his brother what happened and in a blind rage, Daniel kicked his father's head in and actually turned against Liam too. Taking a bat a swinging it across Liam's head for not being there for Elodie, causing Liam to fight back briefly before being knocked out by his brother.
Luckily, the police arrived in time before Daniel could've killed his brother also. Everything was a blur from there on but in the end Daniel was convicted for murder among many other crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment. Daniel after being apprehended and when his mind had cleared had stated his brother's innocence so Liam wouldn't have to serve time. During the time of this tragic incident it was printed in the press and televised up until a couple of months after Daniel was sentenced due to the tragedy and drama surrounding what had happened. It was one of the reasons that led Liam to making his second fake identity- Liam Maddox- a name that he would soon adopt as his main identity.

Ever since, Liam has bottled himself up and completely cut himself off from his emotions, choosing not to feel because the emotions inside of him after everything that had happened were negative and affected his mind too much. He instead, devoted all his time towards the skills he had developed as a young con artist and avoided thinking about the past by doing con after con after con and keeping himself busy. He even traveled a few places over the years, Europe and America mostly and became relatively well-known for his skills but has been incredibly good at evading being caught/charged by the authorities.

Extra notes
Other aliases:
Liam Maddox. Liam goes by this name pretty much always. He created this identity when he was nineteen. Hardly anyone knows his real name is Liam Redferne. This is the name he's most known for in the criminal world as one of the world's best forgers and an art thief.
Leo Mason. Created when he was fifteen. Now used for an alias that has a background as an art expert, collector and dealer and has many connections in the art world under this name.
Jason Keller. Created when he was twenty two. An alias with a background as a successful, well-informed business man that is knowledgeable in the the current stock exchange. He has many connections in the business world as well as a resume that states he has worked for multiple companies that have given him outstanding references, although a handful of these are companies that have never really existed but he's put in place the necessary background to make it look like they did.
Matthew Knox. Created when he twenty five. An alias that has a background as a security analyst; checking and testing a company or organisation's security systems and safety precautions and assurances.
He has several other names he has used over the years but these are the ones he uses the most.

OOC Name: Tof

How long have you been RP'ing for?: I actually don't even know. I don't keep track.
Timezone: GMT

Contact: Pm. Or email/aim: [e-mail] or skype: tof.fee.ish

Secret Answer: Mail (LOL YOU GOT MAIL. WHAT? I DON'T EVEN KNOW)

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