[hider=Miracle] [hider=My Hider] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/498637840306012160/673010806006349834/it_ain_t_me_by_jcm2_damph07-fullview.png[/img] [/hider] [b]Name[/b] Miracle Morgan (Formerly Bian Nzuyen) [b]Gender[/b] Female [b]Age[/b] 23, born April 1st 1936 [b]Sexuality[/b] Closeted Gay [b]Nationality[/b] American, from Little Rock, Arkansas [b]Appearance[/b] Miracle takes much more after her father than her, his dark hair, pale skin and freckles all being passed down to her. Most people assume that she's purely Caucasian, a mistake she never corrects. The only real trait she inherited from her mom was her height. Standing under five feet tall it's very easy to dismiss her as not much of a threat, an assessment she's always very happy to prove wrong. Underneath her clothing is rangy body made lean by her early years of hunger and toned by working out with her dad. Her strength is shown whenever she;s on patrol, carrying her anti-tank rocket and machine gun as easily as some men do their rifles. When in the field Miracle wears the typical olive drab fatigues and webbing, decorating her helmet with slogans and patches picked up from various places. When at the FOB or preparing to go into the cramped rat tunnels she forgoes the jacket and helmet, choosing to wear just a tank top, pants and her holsters. [b]Height[/b] 4'9" [b]Personality[/b] Overall, Miracle is best described as angry. Angry at the US government for sending her into some stupid war, angry at the VC bastards hiding in the trees and laying traps along the jungle floor, angry at her superior officers making her crawl around the rat tunnels with some CS gas and a pistol, angry at her parents for bringing her into this world and herself for not taking the easy way out. She handles all this anger by self-medicating and keeping her issues to herself, letting them build and build until she inevitably explodes. Her default expression is a bitter scowl, softening to a grim smirk or a cold snarl as needed. Her complicated relationship with her parents and her ancestry has left Miracle with a intense dislike boiling on hatred of the locals she has to deal with. ARVN regulars are seen as nothing more than disposable shields, civilians are informants to be bullied for information and loot. Her knowledge of the language is used to sling insults and shake people down, all in an attempt to conceal her heritage from other members of her squad. Her sexual identity is hidden just as well, locked up out of fear over how others would see her. The only time she can reach a state resembling relation is when she's high. A fascination with weed and prescription medication as a teen morphed into a full blown addiction. Six months of combat forced her to branch into other narcotics, picking up cocaine, heroin and LSD from the many unscrupulous servicemen with stateside connections. [b]Rank[/b] Private First Class [b]Role[/b] Switches between Heavy Gunner, Tunnel Rat and Translator as needed. [b]Equipment[/b] [hider=Heavy Gunner's Kit] -[url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/battlefield/images/e/e9/M60.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100110045508]M60[/url] -[url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/1e/94/7c1e9486013b9a31c560305baee7211c.jpg]Standard Issue Webbing[/url] -[url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/FN_Hi_Power.jpg/300px-FN_Hi_Power.jpg]Browning Hi-Powered[/url] -[url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ka-bar.jpg/200px-Ka-bar.jpg]Dad's Ka-Bar Fighting Knife[/url] -[url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/M72A2_LAW.png/799px-M72A2_LAW.png]M72 LAW[/url] [/hider] [hider=Tunnel Rat's Kit] -[url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Uzi_of_the_israeli_armed_forces.jpg]Uzi[/url] -[url=https://i.redd.it/c1xt1yyuq4i31.jpg]Colt Python[/url] -[url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/39/73/913973df0eb38af30b37880b338865f1.jpg]M17 Gas Mask[/url] -[url=https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/QUycA14SmkHrg_WPWKQlO-x_k-tHOcnmfRk8rxcSWJxSCx7PyNXp65iDcUeyIan9DJWdOLbeeZYh-dN5uxV1EyGg6-uM-LQ7r8u6GFc99aA2]M7 Riot Grenade (x3)[/url] -[url=https://www.factslides.com/imgs/c4.jpg]C4[/url] -[url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ka-bar.jpg/200px-Ka-bar.jpg]Dad's Ka-Bar Fighting Knife[/url] [/hider] [hider=General Kit] -[url=https://www.12fret.com/wp-content/gallery/fender-strat-sb-1955-cons/fender-strat-sb-1955-cons-full-front.jpg]1955 Stratocaster[/url] -[i]Various stashes of cigarettes and other drugs[/i] -[url=https://static.keymusic.com/products/249758/XL/fender-custom-shop-1955-telecaster-journeyman-wide-fade-2-color-sunburst-5.jpg]1955 Telecaster[/url] -1000 American dollars and 1000 Vietnamese Dong, in cash. -Dice and playing cards [/hider] [b]Biography[/b] Miracle Morgan was originally named Bian Nzuyen, the daughter of two immigrants. Her father Gael was a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and Marine with a fondness for drinking, gambling and women. Her mother Hau was a frightened new arrival from French Indochina who worked as a washerwoman and errand-runner. How they met was never explained but the result was a half Vietnamese, half-Welsh bastard whose father wanted nothing to do with her. Before she was even born he was gone, leaving behind some money and instructions for Hau to never contact him. Bian spent the first decade of her life in poverty, wearing second and third hand clothes until they fell apart and eating only what could be bought in bulk or for pennies. There was no money for anything but the bare essentials, nothing was wasted. Nearly every meal consisted of rice, bread and whatever meat was left over at the butcher's shop. The rationing of World War 2 actually improved their diet, the Emergency Price Control Act allowing Hau to buy things like coffee and sugar for the first time. Despite taking more after her father in terms of looks, Bian was still very distinct from her peers. Her mother's thick accent stuck with her for her early years, something she was mocked for in school. There was often little difference between the Japanese and other Asians in her classmate's eyes, and she quickly became known as "Jap" and "Zipperhead". The teachers did little if anything to stop it so she took it upon herself, scrapping with any and everyone that had a problem with her. It was a tendency that would follow her throughout her life. By late 1944 Gael had returned to the States, sent home by one of the coveted million dollar wounds. To the surpise of both Bian and her mother he wanted to take custody of her after years of little more than letters and postcards. Hau refused at first, desperate to hold onto her little girl. But Bian was a child who couldn't help but feel like her mother had failed her, dressing her in too big clothes and being unable to protect her from the abuse she suffered at school. She choose the man who had done nothing to help her, following Gael and leaving Hau broken hearted. Gael was certainly able to provide a better home and a better standard of living, but he was certainly a worse parent. Within the first month of her arrival it became clear that his personal biases and trauma were not going to make it easy to raise his half-breed bastard. She had a habit of singing to herself in Vietnamese before it was beaten out of her, Gael letting her know that he "hadn't gotten myself shot by some slant-eyed fuck only for my daughter to refuse to speak properly." And she didn't just stop speaking Vietnamese around him. She worked hard to lose her accent and present herself as something more familiar, asking him to give her a new name. Miracle was chosen out of a phone book. Gael had wanted a boy and her set about raising Miracle as he would his son, pushing her into sports and shooting and other traditionally male pastimes. She was short but vicious, able to hold her own on the scrimmage line and in the boxing ring. When Gael opened a moving company she would come along to assist, building her strength with every couch and fridge she helped load into the truck. The better food and emphasis placed on physical activities like hiking or wrestling made Miracle much healthier than she had been before. Physically. Mentally she was suffering under the weight of desperately trying to change what she could about herself and hide what she couldn't. Gael's casual usage of slurs was picked up by Miracle and intensified, spewing all sorts of harsh language at people who gained her ire. When she was fourteen she cautiously broached the topic of her burgeoning attraction towards other girls only to be quickly and resolutely shot down by her father. So she did her best to write it off, going through a string of boyfriends through her teen years to try and prove it was just curiosity. She had no luck. By the end of high school she was smoking weed and abusing prescription medication, and it only got worse when she entered college. When she visited her mother Hau could see that she was falling apart at the seems and pleaded with her to get help. But every warning was brushed off with a dismissive non-answer or flat out ignored. Miracle had decided she was going to be what her father wanted her to be or die trying, and to that end choose to leave college for the Marine Corps in hopes of finding pride in herself there. [b]Affiliations[/b] -Gael Morgan (Father)t -Hau Nzuyen (Mother) [b]Relationships[/b] An optional segment that can be updated as it goes along, though most of the time this can just be merged into the affiliations tab. [b]Character Theme[/b] Not necessary, but can be used if wished. [/hider]