Hello, Dear Echo! Sorry if my backstories seem a bit precise- I've done some serious backstory collaboration on them, as you know! Also hello fellow humans. Please message me about backstories I love them they're my favorite. [hider=Larke Sterling][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/ButC3f2l.jpg[/img][/center] [center][b]Full Name:[/b] Larke Charles Sterling [b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Songbird [b]Age:[/b] 27 [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Gift:[/b] Healing & regeneration via life force transfer; flight (artificially imposed) [b]Loyalty:[/b] Erubescan, Prisoner (formerly Acolyte of Medicine) [b]Description:[/b] Standing a few inches over six feet tall, Larke has a medium athletic build and broad shoulders. More prominently, however, are his dusty-blonde, feathered wings, which extend several feet above his head and touch the floor at their tips, expanding to a full wingspan of over four times his height. His short, tousled hair is the same sandy shade as his wings, though it has grown more unkempt in his time as an Ash prisoner. His facial features are gaunt but not harsh, featuring soft blue-green eyes, and a broad jaw. [b]Personality:[/b] A smooth talker, but with a genuine heart of gold. He wants to see the good in the world, and will look the other way when the truth says otherwise. Despite being a prisoner, he does not feel wronger by Erubesco, and stands by the Kingdom and the principles for which it stands. [b]Skills:[/b] Medical training, basic combat skills, flight, practiced liar and socialite [b]Weaknesses:[/b] No elite combat training, overly trusting, addictive personality, voted most likely to bring a lawyer to a gun fight [b]Brief History:[/b] Larke was born into an aristocratic family of healers, and sent to medical school to become a doctor like his parents. He went alongside his childhood friend and high school sweetheart, Mina, who graduated at the top of his class. He could not handle the stress of emergency room and wartime casualties, however, and found himself turning to prescription painkillers to take the edge off. Once discovered, he was kicked out of the Citadel Academy, and disinherited. He turned to harder drugs and manual labor to maintain the expenses of his habit, but a series of tragic events led to the death of his father, the loss of his friends and family, and a hefty prison sentence with a stipulation of reduced time for working in the Erubescan labs. His first "job" was serving as a glorified lab rat, and he was sorted into the "Avian Initiative" by a lab official with a particularly ironic sense of humor. Funded by a wealthy socialite who had always wanted wings, the project aimed to modify the DNA and bone structure of a Gifted to produce functional wings. Performing the surgeries on someone with regenerative capabilities saved money on paying a healer, and so, Larke Sterling got wings. His next post involved actual lab work, where he served as a technician under Commander Green and Alchemist Oren Kovalenko in the laboratory morgue. While working under Green, Kovalenko was dispatched to retrieve Green's kidnapped daughter, Helena, from an Ashland terrorist group. When Kovalenko was also taken captive, upper command refused to waste another Knight going after her. Not worth much, and under the sole command of Green, Larke pleaded with Green for an opportunity to go and bring Helena and his friend, Oren, home. Such is the story of how Larke Sterling, former heir to the Sterling Estate and Lordship, came to be a prisoner of both Erubesco and the Wanderers. He now resides wherever the Wanderers are, kept under supervision and awaiting questioning regarding the nature of Helena's peculiar condition, as well as the inner working of the Erubescan labs. [b]Other: [/b] Have another art, by [@lorellequips] [img]http://i.imgur.com/dOcFSbbl.jpg[/img][/center] [/hider] (I don't know why this specific hider isnt't woking.) [hider=Mina Aldridge] [center] [img]http://40.media.tumblr.com/66c6976cde4922c82d872db004794b40/tumblr_nsqmpayFta1uc1e40o1_500.jpg[/img] [b]Full Name:[/b] Doctor Mina Louise Aldridge [b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Doc, The Good Doctor [b]Age:[/b] 28 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Gift:[/b] Fine bioelectrical manipulation/suspension (Control over the micro-level electrical impulses in living things, able to be used for slowing bodily function to a "suspended animation" state, and stopping and starting the heart and other organs) [b]Loyalty:[/b] Wanderer (formerly Erubescan) [b]Description:[/b] 6’0”, with a lean-muscled figure and tawny skin. She has toffee-brown eyes and gentle, graceful facial features, framed by extremely long and often untamed natural hair. Her hair is typically tied back at her neck, but still difficult to keep a handle on. 

She most often wears a T-shirt, running shoes, and Erubescan military-issued pants. Hailing from the territory formerly known as Georgia, Mina speaks with a thick Southern accent. [b]Personality:[/b] Calm and collected, with a natural desire to nurture and care for others. She has no tolerance for nonsense, however, and it would be amiss to take her kindness for weakness. Also may fight you over your (wrong) opinion on sweet tea. [b]Skills:[/b] Medical doctor specializing in trauma care and field surgery, Erubescan schooling, basic military training, skilled markswoman. [b] Weaknesses: [/b]Gift requiring physical contact, strong moral code, severe post-traumatic stress disorder, which makes her prone to flashbacks and impulsive behavior during stressful combat. [b]Brief History:[/b] Mina moved into Citadel city and lived with a host family (the Sterlings) at a young age, partaking in an accelerated medical schooling track. She graduated as an M.D. at 25 and was promptly assigned to a military regiment as a front line doctor. 

She quickly found the work to be less noble than she had hoped for, and defected mid-mission after serving over two years on the front lines. Her life in the aftermath consisted of wandering the Wasteland with her stollen medical kit, tending to refugees and the factionless while raiding bunkers and abandoned settlements for further supplies. 

 She ran across the Wanderers several months ago, and was accepted into their group after her quick thinking and medical training saved a member of their group from life-threatening injuries that would not respond to gift-healing. While her positive demeanor won her favor amongst most of the group, her behavior during a recent attack left several wondering about the real nature of the good doctor’s past. She is close to many members of the little "family," and has taken up a semi-romantic relationship with Dutch Dalton. She vouched for Larke's medical training and argued in favor of his life when he was captured, but has avoided interaction with the prisoners, as well as the subject of interrogation. [/center] [/hider] [hider=Jimmy Barnett] [center] Full Name: James Carson Barnett Nicknames/Aliases: Jimmy Age: Four Gender: Male Gift: Metal manipulation Loyalty: Mommy Description: Curly black hair and brown eyes; toddler-y; probably has something in his mouth Personality: Really likes puffy cereal, and also really likes dogs. Jimmy is very good at hiding from strangers, as well as really, really liking dogs. That is, quite likely, his most valuable personality trait. Skills: High-speed biscuit eating; can melt most metal things; sometimes can also make those metal things into marbles and/or lumpy dog statues. One time, made a spoon into a toy car. Weaknesses: Cannot unmelt said metal things; also sometimes still has "accidents," but is working on it. Brief History: Jimmy was born in Liberty. His daddy and two older brothers left to go somewhere that Jimmy and Mommy and his other brother, Elli can't visit. Jimmy and Mommy and Elli and Doggie all left a while ago, and lived Outside in a hole with Crissy and Lydadada. Then some really bad men came and stole Elli and Mommy and everyone else went somewhere else, so Jimmy lives with Dog, now. He is learning how to be a good dog, too, but he still misses his family a lot. Dog is a pretty good dog, though, and she makes sure he has food. He ate a rabbit this one time, too. It was pretty exciting.[/center] [/hider] I'll add my factioners tomorrow, if that's alright! Just a Lulu and a Beretta, probably.