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A bad-ass has a moral code of their own that need not conincide with those of anybody else. This is why people like ninjas, samurai, pirates, etc are often considered bad-ass.
A bad-ass is prepared (mentally and physically) for anything. Their emotions can be guarded and hidden as quickly as a six-pack on prom night, but are strangely empathic when it comes to a relatively innocent person's plight. You do not want to play poker with this person; they can bluff easier than they can be honest and know how to make you keep betting even after you've lost all your chips. You could pull a knife on them and their eyes would not dilate nor would their pulse go up. You, however, might not walk away with all ten fingers in the order they were in when you pulled the knife, since you threatened them for nothing.
A bad-ass is skilled in many fields (preferably with field experience over book learning). They know how to take life just as well as they know how to save it, but lean towards the latter if anything. They can improvise the use of tools and materials, they can plan on a dime or just adlib their way through anything, or they can decide the best way to solve the gordian knot is with a quick downward motion of a knife.
A bad-ass does not like to bother themselves with fighting with others, it may even be against that self-set group of morals. But, if they must, they prefer to do it with their hands. If a weapon is used, it is a knife, not a gun. To wound somebody with a knife is an intimate thing, guns are not the tool of a true bad-ass. They don't like to fight, but will fight dirty when the fight is forced. Anything to end the fight as quickly as possible.
A bad-ass can swear like a motherfucker, but generally restrains themselves around women and children. They often have some kind of generalized pain underneath their callous surfaces, and almost always have a problem with society, but they don't burden other people with their beliefs. It is enough for them to know what they believe and be satisfied with that.
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