[center][b]Everett Gilman | The Liberator[/b] 
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6’0” | 220 lbs [/center]

[b]Age:[/b] 38

[b]Nationality:[/b] American

[b]Noble Arm Name & Appearance:[/b] [i]Liberty’s Knuckles[/i] 

Everett’s Noble Arms take the form of two golden knuckle dusters that are usually worn over his suit’s gauntlets. They’re themed after an eagle with its wings spread, with the body of the eagle being in the centre and the wings serving as the main “impact surfaces” of the dusters.

[hider= Rank A]
Power: A- 
Speed: B+ 
Range: A-
Persistence: A (?)
Precision: B
Potential: G

[b]Noble Arm Type, Element, and Range:[/b] DPS/Tank Hybrid | American Superiority | Variable Range

[b]Noble Arm Abilities:[/b] 

[i]Air Force One:[/i] Everett’s attack speed and agility scales proportionally to his enemies’ as long as he is actively focusing on them. His max travel speed hasn’t been properly measured, but is estimated to be massively hypersonic at its peak, although his Noble Arm artificially decelerates him to a top speed of 60 mph in active conflict zones if he isn’t locked onto anyone. Lastly, he can alter his own momentum, making him able to achieve and brake from incredible speeds on a dime.

[i]America’s Constitution:[/i] Everett’s body is much tougher than most other Arms Masters’. He can lift a Ford-class carrier overhead, survive nuclear bombardment, and hold his breath for a day while also requiring elephantine amounts of highly potent drugs to knock out. Furthermore, his senses are sharp enough to filter individual persons, sounds, or smells up to 20 kilometers away, with x-ray vision that can see through anything that isn’t lead-lined. However, his senses are so fine-tuned that it is fairly easy to overwhelm them with sufficiently advanced crowd control weapons like sonic devices or high-powered strobes, as they cause him enough pain to render him unconscious within 3 turns of exposure. 

[i]Freedom’s Beacons:[/i] Everett has heat vision that is effective up to his visual range limit of 20 kilometers. It is laser-accurate and can cut through almost anything, but can only be fired for 3 turns before requiring a 5-turn cooldown. He can alternatively recover a charge of heat vision in exchange for 1 full turn of non-use in order to avoid the lengthiness of a full recharge. [/hider]

[b]Misc Abilities:[/b] 

[i]Home Cook:[/i] Everett is well-versed in cooking numerous types of foods from the southern United States. He's particularly good with a grill, with a talent for making barbecue good enough that some think it should count as a superpower in and of itself. 

[i]Car Guy:[/i] Unsurprisingly, the American superhero knows a lot about cars. More than most people, at least. He's no mechanic, but his engineering background and hands-on experience courtesy of his father makes him able to perform diagnostics and repairs that are outside of the skillset of most laymen.

[i]All-Star:[/i] Having played American football, soccer, and volleyball in high school, Everett knows his way around most ball sports. His specialty is football, as he managed to get good enough to represent his school at the state level when he was a teen.

[b]Personality:[/b] Everett is a pragmatic humanitarian when he's on the job. While he thinks in terms of what would be the quickest and cleanest solution to a problem, he additionally weighs the fallout of it in ways most other military men neglect- where they see statistics, he sees hurt or dead people he could avoid if he took another route, and will oftentimes adjust or modify what he needs to do in order to minimize collateral. He will also comfort distressed people where possible in the interest of keeping the peace. It's hard to imagine him as a powerful Arms Master when he's in civilian garb, though. He allows the Liberator 'persona' to dissolve when he's living as a human, and tends to be quite pleasant and more 'real' when speaking as a result because his statements aren't overanalyzed. Most of the time, he enjoys talking about programs he enjoys or books he's read, with a penchant for making pop culture references and terrible jokes. He's a solid man, all things considered, though his age is definitely notable.

        [b]Likes:[/b] Interesting people, cats, pasta.

        [b]Dislikes:[/b] Arms Master supremacists, sadistic terrorists, wasabi peas.

        [b]Fears:[/b] Dying in a stupid or embarrassing way.

[hider= Biography]Everett’s life was fairly normal until around 16 years ago. After graduating valedictorian from his high school and receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, he made the choice to try out for the U.S. Army Special Forces by way of an 18X contract at 22, allowing him to simply drop into their highly-selective pipeline. He passed all required courses with flying colors, emerging from the grueling trials with the right to call himself a Green Beret. However, despite the harsh and lengthy process that proving himself turned out to be, the worst would prove to be far from behind him. His first couple of deployments were nothing special; he dismantled paramilitary cells, executed terror group leaders, and trained his detachment in the use of various foreign and domestic weapons platforms. But these organizations, however dangerous, were all led and staffed by mundane humans; a fact that made each mission painfully boring to him since all he had to do was calibrate a given weapon, aim it, and push a button once his squadmates gave the okay. All in all, he considered it a very uninvolved and slightly cowardly affair.

This would change once he was authorized to join deployments that involved (and targeted) Arms Masters directly. Suddenly, he was given systems enhanced by the OPL– tech so hot off the presses at DARPA that the rest of the world took another decade to catch up with the formation of the Paragons. During this time, he’d also find out about the existence of numerous Arms Master-led organizations and receive debriefs on their at-the-time most dangerous group, the Hammer of Masters. Said experiences planted a small fear of Arms Masters in his mind, which translated into an extremely cutthroat attitude when performing his duties in the field; to him, enemy Arms Masters were walking, unregulated time bombs, whereas allied ones were always potential enemies that needed to be closely monitored. This was exacerbated when he was assigned to one of the first OPL-enhanced mech squadrons ever fielded– a decision that cost the Americans a very sizable chunk of intel due to his tendency to outright kill enemy Arms Masters unless specifically instructed otherwise.

Unfortunately, his very palpable prejudice against Arms Masters alienated him from some of the most influential members of his detachment because they considered him rash and overly paranoid, which resulted in his squad leader requesting his reassignment in late 2015. However, they wouldn’t get the satisfaction of seeing his career crumble alone, as come 2016, the new President had every military asset abroad pulled from their posts and reassigned to domestic affairs. Troops moved back home, military bases were closed down, and the nation that had once been the World Police unexpectedly began looking inward. Normally, this would’ve been a career-ender, with Everett stuck in reserves writing books about his experiences. But someone– or rather, a group of people, watched him carefully during his deployments as part of something far greater than a single SF detachment. 

The data they collected made him stick out to exactly the right people in his local chain of command, and so, he was chosen to be a test subject for DARPA’s Project Hoplite only a few years after the US’s new isolationist policy began. Hoplite was an experimental Noble Arm-related black project that finished field testing in late 2018 after a 30-year development period, and was based on experimental OPL-enhanced alloy technology that managed to produce an amorphous, ‘blank’ proto-NA made of ‘living’ metal. The core mechanic of Hoplite was that the blank NA would tap into a prospective wielder’s soul through its OPL-enhanced matrix to force a manifestation event that would identify the proto-NA as the its willpower conduit, causing the ‘template’ to assume the shape and abilities desired by it. Once completed, the project was to be used to create 4 artificially-made Arms Masters in total as part of an experimental super-soldier program that would slot them into different detachments across all SF branches in order to further bolster American military dominance.

What made Everett different from the other candidates was the unique power suite his soul manifested. Even though Hoplite had no rank-dampening flaws, his abilities were measured as having the highest potential out of all the other subjects by a long shot, effectively shifting the project's focus away from the 3 other subjects and onto him specifically. He was initially extremely resistant to the idea of being labeled an Arms Master, but after the government promised him a sorely-needed increase in pay that'd lift him out of "struggling" and into "well off" territory, he acquiesced. What followed was four years of image-building through a carefully-curated debut that included a flawless first save, an impeccable speech after the fact, and continued top-tier performance where the margin of error was razor-thin and lives were at stake in the hundreds or thousands.

As a result, he became a top-tier domestic asset that was eventually called upon to serve overseas when the President realized America was getting way too much negative PR; largely because Everett was essentially a walking solution to the dilemma of sending his own countrymen to die for foreign interests. After all, someone as powerful and trained as him would only be able to fall due to extraordinary carelessness. He was thus ordered to tend to the ASEAN War; specifically to help the coalition while they were busy recovering after a notable victory against the Chinese. Everett has since been transferred to Task Force Obsidian to aid in this endeavor due to their high concentration of powerful Arms Masters, making it even more likely in the American President’s eyes that he’ll help them recover their long-lost image as the world’s premier military and industrial powerhouse.[/hider] 

[b]Current Goal:[/b] To salvage whatever’s left of America’s international reputation.

[b]Military or Civilian Rank:[/b] Arms Master General (N-10, RL Equivalent to O-10)