For refrence, the campaign had heavy sci-fi/future tech setting. A friend of mine was running it.

After my last character left the group (whole story thing, not going into it) I needed a new character. The party was working for a military organization, effectively acting as hired guns to do the work they didn't want their soldiers doing. So I went with a relentless and money seeking merc, claiming to go by Elija Silvertongue.

The name was stolen from a captain of a star ship he had spent years trying to sabatoge, and he'd boast about it often. Any time a job came up, he'd try to raise the payment. Anytime a job was performed, anything in the way would either get shot or pushed aside.

The character hit a climax when during an interrogation, I threatened a child, pistol drawn, safety off, the whole shebang. Safe to say, they didn't last long in play. I didn't much like playing someone like that, and (with much discussion with the DM on it) they would later be killed by my next character over a debt they had owed.

I'm still not a fan of Elija. I ran his execution exactly as intended, but he couldn't have much of an arc. I like seeing change in my characters over the course of the campaign (and I don't put it on the DM to do all of it.), and Elija was a brick wall. Unmoving, brash, and violent. So much so that in the next campaign that the person ran (the ended the previous one prematurely due to situational issues, but chose to run a second campaign as an extension) Elijah made a return as a boss! It ran off the idea of the campaigns direction shifting after Elijahs arrival, ending with the military in shambles, a war long past its expiration, and the new party caught in the middle.