[hider=Hadnagy Kouyialis][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/AgxRgbS.png[/img][/center][h3]Character Description[/h3][indent]
[b]Name:[/b] Markos Kouyialis
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Age:[/b] 32
[b]Nationality:[/b] Mittelander
[b]Appearance:[/b][indent]
Standing at 5’4”, fairly average for the country, Markos is about as well-muscled as he can for being under the somewhat meager rations of the Royal Army of Mitteland. He has gotten by, though, and has developed a personal regime of physical training far separate to the normal infantryman. Markos keeps himself well within the regulations, with short, curly black hair and a moustache, alongside his very prominent nose. His uniform, standard Mittelander issue, is kept fairly well with several discrete patchings and fixed sections.
[/indent][b]Personal Effects:[/b][indent]
.405 [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1895]Mitteland Model 95[/url] Carbine
11” Bayonet
.44 [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_3]Mitteland Model 1[/url] Revolver
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd%27s_axe]Officer’s Fokos[/url]
Infantryman’s Kit[indent]
5” Utility Knife
Entrenching Tool
Metal Canteen
Mess Kit
[/indent]Personal Kit[indent]
Sketchbook w/ Pencils
Sewing Kit
[/indent][/indent][/indent][hr][h3][b]Background[/b][/h3][indent]
[b]Occupation:[/b][indent]
Hadnagy (Lieutenant), Royal Army of Mitteland
I Division, III Signals Corps “Központ”
[/indent][b]Backstory:[/b][indent]
Born in the border regions of Mitteland with the country of Quinia, Markos’s early life was fairly agrarian. Growing up as a shepherd, he would grow dissatisfied with the life, wanting to see more of the larger cities, the bigger world compared to just that of Mitteland. His parents, both of more Quinian ancestry, would find the idea of their son going to Mitteland as less-than-ideal; they were far more interested in him going across the border to Quinia, to work in the Royal Quinian Navy. They were so invested in the idea that his father would travel across the border to Trefgodwig - this proved ultimately a poor choice, though, the enlistment office would deride the Mittelander as a foreigner. 

And so as a result, Markos traveled to the local army office and would join up. The initial training would prove fairly easy, all things considered, as he had been used to living off the land for days at a time as a shepherd, though the tasks of marching and to a lesser degree marksmanship would prove difficult to say the least. Despite this, he would be able-bodied enough that he qualified towards an officer project. While Mitteland was a country infested in pedigrees and nobility of all stripes and classes, the sheer miasma of such had given rise enough towards the more common ranks to be able to find themselves a place in the officer ranks. 

While this took a great amount of effort at the Tiszti Akadémia at Elvesland, Markos would take the opportunity immediately. The following few years would be even more difficult than his enlisted training, especially as he would be given education in mathematics, the theories of electricity, and in the principles of command, but he took these lessons on with the same attitudes as he had in the fields and mountainous terrains of his homeland. With a forward-thinking, lead by example method, Markos would graduate as a Hadnagy - a Lieutenant - and assigned to the III Signals Corps at stationed around Elvesland.

Since then, Kouyialis has experienced a bare minimum of actual action, with the occasional field exercises and methods to rapidly set up telephone lines for military operation. He has instead grown into a routine of maintaining the numerous Army telephones around the capital city, supplementing his army income with a steady work of sewing for a number of Army units there.
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