Name: Terence Jean-Balfourt

Appearance: 

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[i]Pvt. Jean-Balfourt of the French Foreign Legion on tour in Afghanistan, 2005.[/i]

Gender: Male

Age: 33

Occupation: Geologist

Nationality: American-French 

Personality: Terence is a disciplined, intellectual man, shaped by his years in the military and in the field of geology. He is incessantly interested with his work, and has the ability to babble on and on about any subject in geology mentioned in conversation. He can relate with soldiers because of his experience in the military and knows how to use firearms. He has a simmering hate for the kaiju and it would not be considered prudent to turn that simmer into a flame.

Brief Bio: The outcome of an adventurous private in the Legion and a Parisian banker, Terence grew up in Paris. His family home was a short bus ride away from the Catacombs of Paris - the famed underground tomb where rows upon rows of skulls sat on racks. Besides the history of the place, Terence was also intrigued by the decay of the rock the tomb was made out of. He loved studying it and taking home small chips of rock to experiment on with his school's scientific instruments. His mother also made a pretty euro as a banker, and when Terence's father was on leave the whole family vacationed to ancient ruins all across Europe. Terence was most fascinated with the old castle ruins in Britain, fascinated by the variety of rock the ancient and medieval Britons used to build their fortresses.

Terence graduated from the University of Paris in 2003 in geology and minoring in history. However, this was also around the time that Terence's father was killed in action in Afghanistan. Terence felt it was his responsibility to remember his father by carrying out the same duty to his country. When he enlisted, he was miraculously put in the exact same regiment as his father, in Afghanistan. By 2005, he had fifteen kills to his name. However, Terence was wounded by a grenade in the same year and a piece of shrapnel found its way into his left leg. He was told by his surgeon that unfortunately he would have a permanent limp and had to be discharged from duty, which Terence did not take lightly.

Terence finally found a job which he was really interested in - as a geologist working for a mining company based in Brittany. He made a generally comfortable living for four years and sent money to his mother in France. Until one day, when he got himself separated from a group inspecting the deeper parts of a mine, he found a mysteriously very faintly glowing green rock about the size of his palm. He finally was reunited with the group, but he never told anybody about the mysterious rock, experimenting on it in secret. He was shocked to extract living cells made of unidentifiable DNA from the rock! The day after, he was contacted by an organization called Monarch, telling him they had answers. Terence resigned from his job (claiming he had been invited by his mother to work in Paris) and joined Monarch in secret. He was told that the mysterious living cells extracted from the rock belonged to the eggs of a MUTO, probably displaced as a result of a high biological signature.

Terence's aging mother was vacationing in Las Vegas when the MUTOs struck and was not found among the survivors. Terence grieved incessantly, and swore revenge on the MUTOs and vowed to kill at least one of them somehow. Godzilla did the dirty work for him, but Terence sensed that there could be more and payed even more attention to his work. Terence volunteered to be transferred to Japan last month because of certain scientific tests he wanted to carry out in Fuji.

Beginning Location: Conducting seismic tests on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji.
 
Other: Is also a devout Protestant Christian and an amazing soccer player (his favorite team is Real Madrid).