[centre][h2]PC/Important characters[/h2][/centre] [hider=Lauren Jones] [centre][h1][color=7ea7d8]Lauren Jones[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/V5S8qks.jpg[/img] [color=7ea7d8][i]I'll just follow your lead, if that's alright.[/i][/color] [/centre] [color=7ea7d8][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] 'Law' (shortened from Lauren, nothing to do with [i]the[/i] law) [color=7ea7d8][b]Age:[/b][/color] 13 > 15 > 18 [color=7ea7d8][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5' 1" > 5' 5" > 5' 8" [color=7ea7d8][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 90 lbs > 115 > 160 lbs [color=7ea7d8][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] Born into a military family, of sorts, Lauren always had the notion that she would enroll one day as per the family tradition. Her father, a large and brawny man with a gentle nature, worked as a doctor specialising in injuries and was often one who tended to the survivors the Scouts brought back from their forays beyond the Wall. Her mother was a low ranking officer in the Garrison who was posted on the walls surrounding Shiganshina facing out towards the land dominated by Titans. This was still a low danger job as no Titan could reach them on top of the walls and there was no need for them to attack the Titans clawing at the walls, unless the Scouts were coming or returning. Due to the location of their work, Lauren's family moved into Shiganshina shortly after she was born and lived well. Lauren was dimly aware that she had other family somewhere past Wall Rose but had never met them, having spent her entire life up until now in the small town. After the Titans broke through Wall Maria, Lauren fled with her wounded Pa, Mora, Jade and the little boy whom Cain (Mora's deceased brother) rescued, Atticus. In the two years between then and signed up to join the Cadets, Lauren worked as a medic in her father's stead and has become very capable in the field. She has grown closer with Jade and Mora, the latter especially, and feels the need to look out for them for both have developed strong and stubborn personalities which she fears will land them in trouble. Unknown to anyone else, except perhaps her Pa whom she is sure has his suspicions, Lauren has turned to alcohol to help her through harder times, especially when turning in for the night. She feels shame in her reliance on spirits but sees no other way to cope with the loss of her Ma and the other horrors she saw in Shinganshina. After three years of training in the cadets, Lauren has a toughness which she had never possessed before. She had confronted her alcohol dependency and renewed her focus on her mother's last orders, to return to Shiganshina one day. Her relationship with Mora remains an awkward friendship but also something more, never truly realised but enough to give her hope. As she grew closer to Mora, however, her friendship with Jade became from fractious, the younger girl jealous unspoken bond forming between the two older girls. Now that Mora and Jade had been ordered to the Northern districts, Lauren has chosen to focus on the task at hand; resolving to survive and retake Shiganshina one day, for them if not for herself. Then, finally, they might return there together and turn the clock back to before that fateful day. [color=7ea7d8][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Lauren's always been the quiet type, she dislikes being in the limelight and prefers to follow others. By no means is she unable to make her own decisions, she merely doesn't feel comfortable making them for others. She's open to other people but rarely makes the first move to engage them, just as comfortable being lost in her own thoughts as being surrounded by friends. During the day, and especially when with others, she prefers to be doing something active rather than sitting around and talking but she'll go with the flow of things most of the time. After the escape from Shinganshina, Lauren has learned responsibility through her work as a medic alongside her Pa. She tends to mother groups of people, especially her close friends Mora and Jade, and is forever concerned with others' welfare. That is not to say that she's turned soft, for there is steel within her and she doesn't pamper her patients. [color=7ea7d8][b]Stats[/b][/color] • Physical Strength: 8 • Speed: 15 • Teamwork: 10 • Leadership: 2 • Skill (gear): 15 [/hider] [hider=Jayden Weber] [centre][h1][color=a2d39c]Jayden Weber[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/fpMyV5r.png[/img] [/centre] [color=a2d39c][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] Jay [color=a2d39c][b]Age:[/b][/color] 18 [color=a2d39c][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5' 11" [color=a2d39c][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 180 lbs [color=a2d39c][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] Jay speaks little of his life before the cadets and is often prickly when pressed. The little he has revealed is of his parents, weavers working in Shiganshina in the shadow of Wall Maria, who were killed in the town's fall. Their house was near the gate which the Colossal Titan breached and so there was no chance for them to escape, the initial blast or the ensuing Titan attack ending their lives. Jay escaped, having been away from home at the time and escaped the disaster. He spent the following years as a cutpurse and a thug, travelling around various towns within Wall Rose before being picked up by a recruiter drumming up support for the cadets, enticed as he was by the promise of a steady pay cheque. [color=a2d39c][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Confrontational and blunt, Jay makes few friends. He's loyal to those around him but does not work well in a team and comes across as rude and ready for a scrap. [color=a2d39c][b]Stats[/b][/color] • Physical Strength: 15 • Speed: 10 • Teamwork: 5 • Leadership: 5 • Skill (gear): 15 [/hider] [hider=Alice Hart][centre] [h1][color=8882be]Captain Alice 'Al' Hart[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/TKMhrs1.png?1[/img][/centre] [color=8882be]Age:[/color] 24 [color=8882be]Height:[/color] 5' 5" [color=8882be]Weight:[/color] 130lbs [color=8882be]Short Bio:[/color] Captain of the Special Operations Squad of the Survey Corps and reputedly the fastest and most skilled user of the gear, Alice's more humble origins make her reputation all the more remarkable. Born into an orphanage from where she moved immediately into the military at an extraordinarily young age, having approached her current height at the age of eleven, she is one of the youngest cadets to have made it through the Training Corps' strict regime. She quickly showed great promise, in particular with the Gear, and came top of that year's graduating Cadets but spurned the promise of a luxurious career in the Military Police in exchange for a role in the Garrison. Stationed in Shiganshina at the time of the attack, Alice came face to face with the true horror of the Titans. She had seen them from atop the Wall, seen the Survey Corps returning battered and defeated time after time but nothing had brought the reality of a Titan's power, their sheer appetite for humanity and the seeming inevitably of death at their giant hands like he arrival of the Colossal Titan and the subsequent destruction of the town. She immediately requested a transfer to the Survey Corps and rapidly worked her way up to Captain having shown no real appetite previously for advancement or any real motivation beyond simply surviving. [color=8882be]Personality:[/color] Deadly serious at all times with a burning rage towards Titans always simmering below the surface, Alice can often seem like a bomb ready to go off at the slightest touch. She is fiercely protective of those under her command but is aware that sacrificing herself would be a detriment to humanity, more so than the loss of any other skilled soldier currently in the Survey Corps. She is not unkind but rarely interacts on a deeply personal level, encouraging those struggling with negative emotions to simply work through them without engaging herself. She is a fighter rather than a leader, choosing to command a small team of elite soldiers who support her more than work with her, allowing her a free hand to fight as she wills. [color=8882be]Stats[/color] • Physical Strength: 2 • Speed:25 • Teamwork: 1 • Leadership: 2 • Skill (gear): 20 [/hider] [hr] [centre][h2]NPC/Meat Shield characters[/h2][/centre] [hider=Russell Heisner] [centre][h1][color=1b1464]Russell Heisner[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/JtoCS3A.jpg[/img] [/centre] [color=1b1464][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] 'Rusty' [color=1b1464][b]Age:[/b][/color] 19 [color=1b1464][b]Height:[/b][/color] 6' 3" [color=1b1464][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 230 lbs [color=1b1464][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] Heralding from the northern regions within Wall Maria, Russell and his family had plenty of time to evacuate after the breach of Maria. Like many from the largely farming communities from which they originated they sound found that their skills were in large surplus. Most of the refugees were put into the fields for manual labour, regardless of skill or knowledge and there was no space for a family who had lost everything to rebuild their life on a new farmstead. His parents were both sent out to 'take back Maria', the disastrous expedition that's only success was to allow those who remained to have a decent meal once a day. Left with his sister, only a year younger than himself, and no work to support them, Russell enrolled in the cadets to earn a steady pay check of which all he sent back to his sister, Margaret. He always had a tough body from years working in the fields and it served him well in the hand to hand combat training and the endurance exercises but he struggled with the gear to begin with and even now is a little slow in its use even if, technically at least, he's an accomplished user of the device now. [color=1b1464][b]Personality:[/b][/color] No-nonsense, serious and desperate to live but not a coward - he just hasn't given up yet. [color=1b1464][b]Stats[/b][/color] • Physical Strength: 18 • Speed: 5 • Teamwork: 10 • Leadership: 5 • Skill (gear): 12 [/hider] [hider=Helen Weissman] [centre][h1][color=f49ac2]Helen Weissman[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/IuLwXlI.jpg[/img] [/centre] [color=f49ac2][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] None. [color=f49ac2][b]Age:[/b][/color] 15 [color=f49ac2][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5' 4" [color=f49ac2][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 115 lbs [color=f49ac2][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] From Orvud District and a relatively wealthy family, Helen is an unusual specimen in the cadets. Her family are merchants but her father, the current head of the family company, served in the Military Police from where he made his connections (and dubiously makes a great deal of his business) decreed that all of his offspring should have some experience of a soldier's life. This was not through any sense of duty, he merely felt that the harsh training would instil some backbone into his children who enjoyed a very plush an easy life, on the back of his success. Helen hated the cadets. She had never had to work hard in her life, especially not physically, but she worked hard and refused to admit defeat, eventually surviving the process of turning her into a soldier. Slight of build but fast and quick-witted, she excelled in obstacle courses and the use of the gear although she struggled with complex manoeuvres and has no strength to speak of. [color=f49ac2][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Stubborn when her back is against the wall but otherwise easygoing to the point of being lazy. Doesn't like to get her hands, or any part of her for that matter, dirty, if she can help it. [color=f49ac2][b]Stats[/b][/color] • Physical Strength: 4 • Speed: 20 • Teamwork: 8 • Leadership: 5 • Skill (gear): 13 [/hider] [hider=Gregory Findlay] [centre][h1][color=a36209]Gregory Findlay[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/owstrUR.jpg[/img] [/centre] [color=a36209][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] Greg [color=a36209][b]Age:[/b][/color] 17 [color=a36209][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5' 7" [color=a36209][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 150 lbs [color=a36209][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] Greg is a fairly effeminate young lad, with blond hair a little longer than most male styles and with angular cheekbones giving him a slightly feminine appearance. As a result he was often bullied and sought out protectors rather than friends although they often came in the same form. Away from Shiganshina when the attack happened, Greg lost his aunt whom he had been staying with but had enough inheritance to manage for a time without too much struggle. He joined the cadets since he had few other skills he could use and soon found he had some ability with the Gear. During the mountain hike he twisted his ankle and was unable to escape the avalanche. Lauren's intervention saved his life, her injury a direct result of his own and he still feels that he is in her debt. [color=a36209][b]Personality:[/b][/color] An eternal optimist and desperate to befriend everyone around him, Greg is a gentle person with little to no rage or anger within him. He does not hate Titans but choose to fight because of the threat they pose to others. [color=a36209][b]Stats[/b][/color] • Physical Strength: 10 • Speed: 15 • Teamwork: 10 • Leadership: 0 • Skill (gear): 15 [/hider] [hider=Fleur Seymour] [centre][h1][color=8882be]Fleur Seymour[/color][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/FpTeCFL.jpg[/img] [/centre] [color=8882be][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] None [color=8882be][b]Age:[/b][/color] 19 [color=8882be][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5' 9" [color=8882be][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 160 lbs [color=8882be][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] Fleur is the fourth female child of a well to do family from the capital. Due to the significant length of the line of succession she was expected to inherit nothing and so needed to find a career for herself. The usual solution for young men and women in her position was to push them into the cadets and then use connections to find them a place within the Military Police, regardless of their end of training rankings thanks to family connections. Fleur went as expected and joined the cadets but found the training, the will to fight of those around them and the joy of being something actually important of more interest than the political games of the rich families in the capital. Spurning her parents' attempts to move her into the Military Police, she graduated and plans to join one of the other divisions on her own merit. [color=8882be][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Determined to make something of herself and prove she isn't just another girl from a rich family, Fleur is focused on her goal of advancing and will fight as hard as any to survive. Although the hatred her fellows bear towards the Titans is not her own she has taken the emotion to heart and has assumed their dreams to retake Wall Maria. [color=8882be][b]Stats[/b][/color] • Physical Strength: 10 • Speed: 8 • Teamwork: 10 • Leadership: 7 • Skill (gear): 15 [/hider]