Photo Study #25: Finn Curry, Agent of SHIELD

A friend of mine sent me this picture and had hinted - in no uncertain terms - that this would make a great photoshoot. We went back and forth on the apparel and we both figured it out it was a SlickItUp Sport Suit.

Luckily for me, I had all of the materials in the picture with the exception of the SHIELD patch - and that was easily remedied via a search on eBay.

The slightly harder portions of prepping the shoot involved which mask to use for the character and what would be his backstory.

I settled on my ginger Chiseled for the mask, and then started to develop his history. I'll be the first to admit that the entire SHIELD TV-series franchise has not been on my radar screen, but the general idea is a clandestine agency that is co-extant with the Marvel universe of Captain America, Hulk, X-Men and Avengers.

Enter Finn Curry. Finn is a highly trained black-ops commando, with amazing hand-to-hand combat skills, as well as being a crack shot. Curry has a fiercely independent streak and is in frequent trouble with authority, but is extremely loyal to members of his team and will do anything to keep them from harm.

In another lifetime, this wisecracking ginger was a Quinjet fighter pilot (which also gives some justification to his free-wheeling attitude) and is the captain of the team's Zephyr command ship. He never leads from behind, and often places his former wingman (and long-suffering co-pilot) in charge of the command jet while he joins his team on their various sorties.

Finn is about six-foot-two-inches tall (far taller than your normal throttle-jockey) and has a physique model's powerfully sculpted build. In addition to being inhumanly strong, he has lightning-fast reflexes and always moves with a catlike grace and stealth. The running joke is that he needs a bell around his neck since he has the uncanny ability to just "appear" in a room apparently without anyone seeing or hearing him enter. Rumor has it that these capabilities stem from either mutant or Inhuman DNA, but those assumptions have yet to be admitted... or substantiated.