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[color=ff2020][b]Scarlet "Venom Bean" Rubashka[/b][/color]
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[sub]Homunculus   [b]|[/b]   25   [b]|[/b]   African American
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Single   [b]|[/b]   ♀   [b]|[/b]   Bisexual (Female-leaning)
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Implanted Education   [b]|[/b]   Non-OMR Contractor
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[color=ff2020]Physical Profile[/color][/sub]
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[sub][b]//Basics:
	• Height[/b] | [i]5'-8"  (1.73 m)[/i]

	[b]• Weight[/b] | [i]180 lbs. (81.6 kg)[/i]

	[b]• Build[/b] | [i]Toned, Slightly Curvy[/i]

	[b]• Hair Colour[/b] | [i]Dark Brown[/i]

	[b]• Eye Colour[/b] | [i]Dark Brown[/i]

	[b]• Face Claim[/b] | [i]Aiyana Lewis[/i][/sub][/hider][CENTER][SUB][color=ff2020]Tactical Bag of Holding[/color][/sub]
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[sub][b]//Weapons:
	• [url=https://images2.imgbox.com/dd/a3/CIt2m4h0_o.jpg]Steyr AUG A1[/url][/b] | [i]The iconic bullpup that captured the hearts of many rifle owners since its appearance in the first Die Hard movie. With a decent barrel length, good ammo capacity and an integrated scope, it serves well as Scarlet's main service weapon. Has various accessories for it, including suppressors and various ammo types. Chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO.[/i]
	• [b][url=https://images2.imgbox.com/0c/95/oXtpiMiw_o.jpg]Barrett M90[/url][/b] | [i]A bolt-action anti-materiel rifle. With the advent of magical weaponry and armor, the need for larger rifles grew. Scarlet is out of practice with this weapon, but has used it in a few deployments. Managed to get her first headshot with it when fighting against a hostile biker gang during her service alongside the OMR. Comes with a scope that's equipped with a magically enhanced rangefinder. Chambered in .50 BMG, multiple ammo types.[/i]
	• [b][url=https://images2.imgbox.com/b7/b8/ZaDQrq5F_o.jpg]Glock 21[/url][/b] | [i][b]The[/b] law enforcement pistol. Used the world over by just about everyone and their mother, the Glock is a trademark heard in the news, and in rap songs for good reason. This particular model chambers the powerful .45 round, the orc-stopping caliber often associated with 1911 pistols. Slightly customized with larger magazines, an improved grip and an internally threaded barrel to fit a custom suppressor, this serves as Scarlet's standard duty sidearm. Gen 2, chambered in .45 ACP with multiple ammo types.[/i]
	• [b][url=https://images2.imgbox.com/bd/a1/0UI4cj4a_o.jpg]Stun Rod[/url][/b] | [i]A magical non-lethal tool used to stun targets. Charged from ambient energy over time (as well as from a charging station), the rod can deliver a painful jolt that could knock a target as large as an Orc down within a second. However, it can only be used so many times before needing to be recharged. It also doubles as a flashlight.[/i]
	
[b]//Misc:
	• Strike Plates[/b] | [i]Always worn when on duty, these interceptor plates are often worn within plate carriers. The plates themselves are capable of absorbing most physical attacks and some magical attacks due to the material they are made out of, but they aren't infallible. The plates themselves are lightweight and are often worn in conforming and overlapping configurations.[/i]
	• [b]Flashbangs[/b] | [i]Small grenades meant to non-lethally incapacitate targets. Carries a magical effect that both temporarily blinds and stuns creatures within a room, or in a 30-feet radius.[/i]
	• [b]Bomb Defusal Kit[/b] | [i]A kit built to defuse most bombs, some magical. While Scarlet isn't an expert in using it, she has it on hand just in case.[/i]
	• [b]Thieves' Tools[/b] | [i]Lockpicks, slim jims, handheld mirrors and the like can be quite handy when trying to get through doors.[/i]
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[indent]Scarlet can best be described as an African American woman with bronze skin, complete with freckles that dot her face. Other than usually looking sleep deprived, she has two small scars on her right cheek, as well as a larger scar on the left side of her forehead. She also has a blade scar on left side of her neck. She has a few more on her back and arms, with many more on her legs and some on her sides. Recently gained two bullet-wound scars on her left shoulder, entrance and exit. She has some defined muscles that make her look a little tougher than most women her size, being at 5'8". However, the only muscles on display are often her arms as she wears basic black T-shirts and skinny cargo pants that match whatever environment she is in. Her feminine curves share their prominence with her musculature, enough to be noticeable but in no way hindering. She normally has her hair in a ponytail of sorts, but she can change her dark brown hair to whatever suits the occasion. When on the job, she often wears gaiters, face paint, caps, and dark tactical clothes and armor in order to help her blend in with the night, and to prevent her from being identified. Her 'work wear' may vary from job to job, but almost always she dons on her soft body armor to allow faster movement, and to protect her from basic street-level attacks. [hider=Full Size Images (Current State and Healthier State)][img]https://images2.imgbox.com/8e/19/Zd52QxQD_o.jpg[/img]
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[sub][b][color=ff2020] Personality[/color][/b][/sub]
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[INDENT]While she's got a big enough heart to do good things when she can (or at least when they're convenient), most of the time the 'nerd' side of her personality takes center stage. With her fixation on movies and video games, she tries to use her knowledge of them to her advantage to read out situations and recognize patterns. Her knowledge gained from her military deployments have given her plenty in the way of using her brain for coming up with logical solutions to any given problem, whether it would be in the form of tactical operations or fixing a faucet leak. She tries to be casual and easy going, but often finds herself a bit nervous in large groups and a litany of other social situations. Her awkwardness stems from her propensity for being rather lonely, as well as a hopeless romantic. She often struggles with her slightly hazy past, as well as the fact that she's a failed experiment, but she tries her best not to let that get her down. When the going gets tough, she tries to make light of the situation by making jokes and references, but when all else fails, she becomes more cold and distant. She doesn't react too well to fear either, often masking it with lame quips and maybe a lot of cursing. With that being said, she does have a huge soft spot for cute critters and she is rather gentle with children and animals.[/INDENT]
[/cell][/row][/table][sub][b][color=ff2020] Biography[/color][/b][/sub]
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[indent]Scarlet was not always Scarlet. 25 years ago, she was born as a man named Mitchell Shephard. As Mitchell, she grew up in a rather unloving household. Much was asked of her, and she was always held up to high expectations. She coped mainly by watching cartoons and going through her massive library of VHS tapes, pretty much growing up behind a CRT screen. She got above average grades in school, and lived an otherwise boring life. However, she didn't apply herself as much as much in school as her parents wanted her to, as she believed that she had no future with the Abomination lurking beyond the stars. She grew up wanting to be an actor, wanting to be some kind of action hero that would save the day, but she had a feeling that it was a pipe dream. The existence of the Abomination put her in a state of depression and had her pursue a life of true hedonism, as she believed that with the world ending, there was no point of pursuing her goals anymore. Scarlet turned 19. The world didn't end. She was just as surprised as almost everyone else when it turned out that the abomination was defeated. Her parents celebrated, but Scarlet felt empty and almost dead inside for quite a while. She continued on her routine, not even bothering to put in the effort to change her gender presentation when she learned that she was actually trans. She worked a shit job, got shit pay, and lived life for another two years. Shortly after she turned 21, she got absolutely [i]wasted[/i], and rode on the back of a motorcycle being driven by another drunk. Needless to say, she was killed in an accident shortly after. 

Her unloved upbringing, while traumatizing, also turned Scarlet into a kind soul. The moment she got her state ID (and later her Driver's License), she listed herself as an [i]Organ Donor[/i]. Just about every part of her body was used for those who needed it. Typically, brains are cremated with the rest of one's remains before being buried. However, as per Scarlet's own request on her organ donor form, her brain was to be donated too. A company, who was working on all kinds of medical magic and technology, purchased Scarlet's brain for pennies on the dollar and revived it. After probing her head a bit, they learned of her ideal body, her rather nerdy interests, and her wishes to become an action hero. And so the company, through the use of magic 3D printers, created her ideal body, and implanted her brain with corresponding muscle memory and knowledge on the use of vehicles and firearms. She was drilled military discipline into her unconsciousness. What happened in her previous life was made foggier by attempts to erase it. Her brain was properly transported into her new body, and she was brought back to life. Scarlet woke up, and felt a sense of joy and euphoria once she found out what kind of body she had. After getting a feel of her new body, Scarlet answered numerous questions given to her by the scientists in charge. After hours of diagnostics and questioning, the results were in. Scarlet was a [i]failure.[/i] Of what, she wouldn't know. But the company kicked her to the curb, and told her "good luck". Scarlet is now a homunculus, and she was on her own now.

From then on, Scarlet had to find her own way around. She initially had to crash at her friend's place until she got back on her feet, but as she got used to her new body and did some odd jobs, she found out that she was really good at fighting, shooting and driving. This led her into a criminal lifestyle of sorts, having to turn to unscrupulous work just to keep the lights on. The nerdy parts of her past life gave her an edge, as she was able to recognize patterns and irregularities in her environment. In that time, she got herself a new forged ID, with her new name "Scarlet Rabushka", based on the [url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedShirt]Red Shirts[/url] she's seen in her VHS collection of [i]Star Trek[/i], having felt almost as disposable as they were. It wasn't until 2 years after her reawakening that she found out that she could be a licensed contractor, in which she can do these 'odd jobs' that involved fighting, shooting and driving but in a more legal manner. She easily qualified for such a license (having a forged ID with no criminal records helped), and got her start doing security work. Every now and then, she got to be the action hero she dreamed of, but for the most part, it was mostly just boring patrol work. In that time, she earned her codename "Venom Bean", based off of an inside joke regarding Sean Bean and the Metal Gear games. Her exploits in smaller jobs got her contracted in places other than the United States, ending up in places like South Africa and Australia. With more experience under her belt as well as a few new expensive toys in her tactical bag of holding, she made her way into Bosnia on a NATO contract to extract some VIPs before they were slaughtered by Serbian death squads. Her mission was a close shave, but successful. Having used her quick thinking and all of her skills, she managed to keep the VIPs alive through the entire harrowing trip. She was well compensated, but she was still in debt from all of the investments she's made earlier in her gear. She could easily pay it back if she took on easier contracts for the next six months. 

After completing her contract in a German NATO safehouse, she found herself with an equally lucrative contract from the Organization of Magical Regulation. While she has worked a handful of contracts for organizations like NATO and the CIA, she never worked a contract for OMR before. It wasn't long before she ended up signing on contract to fulfil the duty of [i]Armed Security[/i] and [i]Crisis Response[/i]. Not everyone in the OMR was an armed combatant, so when the chips went down, it was up to her to throw hot lead and bring everyone out of the fire. If Scarlet played her cards right, she could pay off all of her debts and then some. And if they kept giving her contracts like this, she won't ever have to worry about money ever again. But the investigation she was attached to turned up beyond the ordinary...[/indent]
[sub][b][color=ff2020] Abilities & Skills[/color][/b][/sub]
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[INDENT][b][i]Badass Normal[/i][/b] | Scarlet has no special abilities of her own, other than her imprinted memories on the operation of various weapons, vehicles and equipment. From criminal to contractor, she can pick locks, field strip most firearms and reassemble them, drive most vehicles at high speeds with precision and skill, perform CQC, and do other tactical stuff. Since most of these memories were imprinted, however, she doesn't have perfect form when it comes to performing them. Since it is simply imprinted muscle memory, she's slightly 'rusty' when it comes to moves she's done before in her career, and will be awkward when it comes to things she [i]hasn't[/i] done before. Regardless of style, she has a lot of skills in that kitted out brain of hers.

[b][i]Tactical Bag of Holding[/i][/b] | Scarlet always has a small bag of holding that she has on her persons at all times. What looks like a brown leather fanny pack on her right hip is a large storage of weapons and equipment that she can use to her advantage. The bag itself was far from cheap, but it has given her an edge in almost every situation. It is made out of good quality leather, and thanks to the artificing involved, it is resistant to most types of damage. While the bag can be destroyed and Scarlet could lose access to all the items stored inside, she did pay extra for a warranty rune that would transfer the bag's contents to another in such a case. In one moment, she could look like an unassuming tourist, and in the next, she's a commando out for blood.[/INDENT]
[sub][b][color=ff2020] Likes and Dislikes[/color][/b][/sub]
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[sub][b]Likes[/b][/sub]
[indent]• Movies (particularly of the action variety)
• Sports cars (particularly with pop-up headlights)
• Modern firearms
• Playstation 1 games, like Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot
• Personal Computers
• Tomboys
• 80s Guilty Pleasure Pop Hits
• [url=https://audio.com/embed/audio/1765898123318756]Pizza Pizza Pizza[/url]
• Singing karaoke[/INDENT]
[sub][b]Dislikes[/b][/sub]
[indent]• Higher Gods (she believes that they're a little pompous)
• Bigots
• Rich People/Politicians ("Powerful Assholes" as she calls them, has assassinated 2)
• Macs
• Alcohol
• The Abomination
• Her parents[/INDENT]
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[hider=OOC Notes and Changelog]
This is created from an old template sheet. Feel free to let me know if there are any changes that need to be made! Also, this sheet will always be updated and changed as I work through my 2 years worth of rust. The changelog is below.

Also, I know Venom Snake wasn't called Venom Snake until Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain came out. But let's pretend that Hideo Kojima called Venom Snake Venom Snake ever since he made the first Metal Gear games in this continuity. lol

[sub][b]Changelog[/b][/sub]
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8/22/2021 - First creation of sheet.
8/23/2021 A - Added metric conversions to physical height and weight.
8/23/2021 B - Merged changelog with OOC notes for better consistency.
8/24/2021 A - Changed some species references to classify Scarlet as a homunculus. Also changed her sidearm into a Gen 2 Glock 21 for historical accuracy.
8/24/2021 B - Changed Scarlet's main service weapon from the M-16A2 to the AUG A1, due to its practicality and in-character reasons.
1/14/2022 - Restored missing images and removed the SPAS-12 Shotgun from Scarlet's inventory.
1/18/2022 - Updated Scarlet's FC picture for something more realistic and representative, basically taking a color version of the original photo and adding a few battle scars and sleep-deprived eye rings. Updated appearance description to match.
2/18/2022 - Updated the description of Scarlet's Tactical Bag of Holding.
5/14/2023 - Added a photo of Scarlet that shows her off in a more healthy state. Updated personality to better reflect the Scarlet shown in-game. Updated appearance description with a much more realistic quantity of scars to reflect her profession, and added scar from the last firefight. Added some details to her weapon descriptions. Revised her backstory to give her more period-accurate hobbies, to include her service in Bosnia, and to clarify her motivations for signing on as a contractor for the OMR. Cleared up her likes and dislikes, and added gag link in the likes section. Updated the number of scars in images.
10/29/2023 - Removed outdated link.
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