Character Sheet: 
[b]Name[/b]: Donny "Dong" Yang (Dong was the nickname he was given during training. It's on his dossier now)
[b]Species[/b]: Human
[b]Age[/b]: 24
[b]Gender[/b]: Male
[b]Appearance[/b]:
[img]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/8169/2182327-sleeping_dogs_story_trailer.jpg[/img]
[b]Weapons/Equipment[/b]:
[b]Primary[/b]: Storm Shotgun I

[b]Secondary[/b]: Kessler Pistol I

[b]Explosive[/b]: Cain Trip Mine

[b]Armor[/b]: Light Mercenary Armor IV

[b]Supplementary[/b]: Military Grade Ariake Omnitool IV

[b]Personal Effects[/b]: [url=http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img208/9519/bbc053kb6.jpg]A tribal knife[/url] (Donny calls it "Grandpa's Knife")

[b]Skills and Abilities[/b]:  Donny is a well trained Vanguard for the System Alliance. He's put a  lot of focus on honing his biotic powers, though he is also handy with a  shotgun. He has access to Biotic Charges, Nova, Pulls, Shockwaves, and  keeps a good Fitness. He also makes use of Cyro Ammunition to immobilize  his targets. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat Donny is also quite  capable, augmenting his strength with his biotic powers as well as  utilizing various melee weapons. He has a particular fondness for knives  and axes.

Outside  of combat however, Donny is a stickler for rules and laws. While he  lacks the cunning to bend the laws like a lawyer, he could make for a  decent officer of the law if he wasn't prone to acting on his own  either. And while he follows the rules well enough, he has the sense and  willingness to ignore them when necessity demands, as well as uphold  them when he must.

Donny  also has various skills in arts and crafts, largely stemming from his hobby developed during college. Donny also has skills playing the saxophone as he was once part of his highschool and college jazz club,  though he hasn't really picked up the instrument since he joined Systems  Alliance military. 

[b]Background[/b]:  Donny had a legacy to uphold. A fairly minor one, all things  considered, but for him and his family it was an important one. His  grand father participated in the defense of Earth during the Reaper  Wars, becoming one of the many heroes who were willing to lay they lives  on the line to defend their home. He served as one of the men who  volunteered themselves to stem back the tusk of reaper controlled  minions, holding the line long enough not only to survive that  nightmarish day, but to see the future that Commander Shepard had made  for humanity.

After  the war, Donny's grandfather quickly retired due to the massive PTSD he  received. But he was able to recover long enough to have children.  Donny's father was the youngest of four, and Donny himself the youngest  of four children from him. From a young age, Donny's father was proud of  his father's accomplishments as a soldier, but his grandfather refused  to let his son join the System Alliance or the military. He didn't want  his children to face the same thing he did. But even so, Donny's father  did his best to uphold his father's legacy. And he did so by joining the  Ariake Technology firm, which he was able to do thanks to the extensive  network of friends and contacts he made during college. By the time  Donny was ten years old, his father had managed to get himself to the  position of manager.

The  combination of his father's own wealth as well as the accomplishments  of his grandfather made sure Donny was born with a silver spoon, but  also underneath a huge shadow. Growing up, Donny was never really  motivated to "Excel". He did live with the future expectation that he  was going to take care of his parents, just as his own father took care  of his grandfather and grandmother (In Donny's family, the youngest son  takes care of the parents when they are too old to work for themselves),  but as far as personal ambitions went, Donny was fairly simple minded.  He enjoyed slacking off more than he enjoyed working, even when he only  had to work with problems that were, all things considered, easy. He  wasn't exactly spoiled, but that didn't mean he wasn't lazy when it came  to work. he felt that it was more important to appeal to his family  than it was to appeal to his education. But even so, he continued to disappoint.

Growing  up Donny lived under the shadow of not only his father and grandfather,  but by the rest of his family. His mother was much better at public  relations than his own father was; while he could crunch numbers and  make sure the deliveries happen on time, his mother was more-or-less leading the commercial and marketing division. Donny's older brother  became a doctors who would work as an equal amongst the likes of  salarians. His sister became a politician and potential candidate for Prosecutor General.  Even Donny's little sister was going to be an aspiring artist, and was  already part of a popular video game developer, publisher, and  distribution company working as one of their magic graphic designers. As  for Donny himself...

Donny  lacked any aspiration but to hopefully be able to take care of his  parents. Even when he had very little idea of "how" he was going to take  care of them, considering that he never even bothered to learn the  family business. He had very few accomplishments under his belt that  wasn't dwarfed by the achievements of his siblings. His only true saving  grace is the fact that out of the four siblings, he has the best  relationship with his grandfather. Years after the reaper wars, Donny's  grandfather, after the death of his wife and Donny's grandmother, lived  the rest of his life making knives, much like the one he used in the  reaper war. Donny was interested in his grandfather's hobby and learned  much from him, listening to his stories and talking to him about current  events. They compared Donny's naive interpretations to his grandfather's wizened experience. It was those time that Donny built the foundation of  his childish ambitions. He wanted to become someone like his  grandfather; a hero.

But  Donny's own father wasn't quite so accepting to this idea. Largely due  to the fact that his own grandfather did not allow him to become a  soldier, he made Donny go to college to learn how to manage the business  with Ariake Technologies. But Donny had no desire to maintain his  studies at the college. He barely attended for more than a year before  Donny flunked out. His father was enraged and demanded Donny to return  to college, but by this point the young boy was now a young man. He had  resigned from college to join the System Alliance, using his family's  credentials to earn him a place amongst the military. Since than the  relationship between Donny and his family had become strained, and he  doesn't even know how his grandfather feels about this turn of events.  But Donny had only one ambition, and for once, he wanted to feel like he  was more than just their "son". He wanted to be great. He wanted to  think that he was capable of more than just upholding a legacy, but  making one himself.

Training  with the System Alliance was certainly harder than college however.  Donny was beaten, broken, and tossed aside (metaphorically speaking, but  it happened literally a few times as well), but unlike in college Donny  had the drive to continue onward. Basic training went by quickly but  painfully. During that time he also discovered his latent biotic abilities. When Donny came to the realization of what he was capable of, he jumped on  the opportunity without any forethought of what sort of pain he was going through. Since he lacked the conditioning from youth, the lessons he underwent to hone his biotic abilities were harsh and brutal, along with the standard course for his regular military training. It was not BAaT, but with how much damage Donny was doing to himself one would  think they were bringing the practice back. But no, Donny simply allowed  himself to suffer the pain and torment of his training to achieve his  childhood ambition. His naive and thoughtless desire to become some  concept of a "hero". But first he had to become a soldier.

Donny  spent a good portion of his "Military Career" training, largely due to  his lack of previous experience with his latent biotic powers. From the  age 19 to 23, he spent drilling and honing his biotic abilities with  military efficiency. He made very few friends, and those who did either  dropped out or graduated due to having more innate abilities than he  did. But he did not allow himself to quit. He felt that he had given up  the only thing he had already. He had thrown away the honor of his  family to pursue this desire of his, and he couldn't bare the thought of  returning to them defeated. He'd sooner take his own life than to  betray his ambitions. Within four years he was deemed competent enough  to be allowed to officially serve as a System Alliance soldier. 

It  was a great moment for Donny, one of many he hopes to have in his life.  To him, the door to being the hero he imagined that his grandfather had  become was finally open to him. It was a road full of risk, failure,  and disappointment. But for once Donny did not dwell on those negative  aspects. He only saw what he could accomplish, and vowed to make good  use of what he was now able to do.

It  wasn't long before Donny was given his first assignment, and a fairly  big one at that. He was to accompany a of soldiers with a System  Alliance to provide military assets, along with protecting one of their  diplomats on a new colony. Donny had never left Earth before, and now he  was going to travel to the far reaches of the universe to find a new  planet where he could potentially live. It was a big step for him. Big  enough that, for once in the last four years, he contacted his family. 

The  first person he spoke to was his older brother. They had a fairly  decent understanding of one another, brotherhood and all, which allowed  him to get into contact with his sisters. His elder sister worried  greatly for him due to her knowledge of the colony and warned Donny not  to hurt their relationship with the alien colonist. His little sister  was annoyingly casual about it, asking him to bring back souvenirs. But  she also expressed the desire for him to come home, which he was able to  pick up amongst her requests. Next was his mother, whom he barely was  able to speak to due to the tears she was practically shedding through  the phone. But she wanted to tell Donny that she forgave him for  quitting college and that she would still love him regardless of what  path in life he chose. His father was "Unavailable" at the time, though  he didn't pry further to discover if he simply didn't want to talk to  him or not. And than there was his grandfather.

Donny  would have three days before he would board the ship that would take  him to the new colony. Within those three days he visited his  grandfather while the rest of the family was out. There he and Donny had  a talk about the path he was on. His grandfather explained to him the  horrors he faced before he even fought the Reapers. His time against a  horde of krogan shocktroopers, the horrors of the heretic geth and their  reaper-empowered servants, even the slaughter that happened when a  thresher maw of all things made planetside right on top of an outpost he  was stationed at. He warned Donny against joining the System Alliance  and told him that he could pull some strings to get Donny to at least  stay on Earth. But Donny told his grandfather that he was going to go.  He was going to keep the promise he made to himself to be a hero, and he  can't be one here. He had to go out into the world and be part of that  change, not just wish and support it with words and ideals. His  grandfather solemnly accepted this, knowing that his grandson was dead  set. So he gave Donny something that would help him: his combat knife he  used to great effect during the Reaper War. It was not a standard issue  design, but rather made by Donny's own grandfather using military grade  composite metals. A blade worthy of a the Spectres.

But  that wasn't the only gift Donny would receive. The last day before he  would leave to the new colony his father had delivered him a gift: An  advanced suit of armor and an Omnitool, both from Ariake Technologies.  There was no letter or message with them aside that it came form his  father, but Donny understood why he gave him these things. He wanted his  son to be alive. He wanted him to come home one day. Despite not being  standard issue, Donny donned his father's armor and Omnitool, gathered  his equipment, and took his first step off Earth and into the brave new  world.