[OOC] ParaCom: Adversary Inside

[LokiLeo789]

Ubermensch said
After reviews, I'll put them on the list.

Can I give the trio a team name?

[Ubermensch]

LokiLeo789 said
Can I give the trio a team name?

It's optional, but go right ahead. Be my guest!

[LokiLeo789]

Call them...
LOP

[Ubermensch]

Also, when the worst case scenarios kick in, we have robotic soldiers or Anthroids. They are ParaCom's equivalent to the SHIV from XCOM. With Anthroids in play the enemy will have only three seconds to comply!

[Muttonhawk]

*clomp, clomp, clomp, clomp*

[New soldiers have arrived at ParaCOM HQ]

I present to you, team DysFam (Dysfunctional Family):

Anya

Name: Anya Arbogast
Country of origin: Belgium
Speciality: Support
Appearance:


Bio: Anya and her brother, Luc, are Belgian-born soldiers brought up by strict parents and a British secondary boarding school. Only being a year of age apart added to slip-ups with impartiality between their parents resulted in the two being at each others' necks for most all of their lives. Anya is the younger, and while she grew up, she was more often the less successful of the two siblings. This meant that their parents often favoured Luc over her, and she would have to make her own progress.

When they hit career age, Luc joining the military meant that he was elevated even further in their parent's books. Rather than disappearing into disappointing obscurity, Anya followed in his brother's footsteps with the intention of surpassing him. So the race continued through all of two NATO deployments. In the military, the treatment of recruits made something of a refreshing equaliser, but Luc was still the one who did slightly better. He was always the badass compared to her.

By the time the aliens came down and the ParaCOM project came forward, Anya had seen what these otherworldy creatures were capable of. She saw it as an opportunity to set herself apart from her brother and make her own success. Her volunteering quickly boiled up a seething anger when she found out that Luc had volunteered as well.

Personality: Under normal circumstances, Anya is sociable enough, seemingly intelligent, if rather opinionated. However, she has a low threshold before her feelings start to affect her decision making, causing her to take occasionally unconsidered risks and become stubborn to a fault. Raised voices are not uncommon if a situation isn't turning out in her favour. "Friendly" reminders from commanding officers quickly put her back into line, though.

Living in the shadow of her brother has built a resentment towards him and partially to her mother and father, but more than anything she wants to be put into a position where she is no longer compared to Luc. Unfortunately, this revelation hasn't dawned on her yet and, in her eyes, the only way to get recognition that she seeks is to become better than Luc.

Luc

Name: Luc Arbogast
Country of origin: Belgium
Speciality: Heavy
Appearance:

Under his mask, Luc has brown hair cut short, blue eyes and a clean-shaven face with thin features that gives off a sort of sly intelligence. He often wears a cocky half-smile without even noticing it.

Bio: Anya's older brother and highly regarded soldier, Luc grew up always having opportunities to better himself opened up right in front of him. Before joining the military, he was something of an egotistical brat, expecting things to go his way and having the social skills and the physical prowess to make it happen. He was even guilty of bullying other boys in his secondary school years in the UK, but that behaviour tapered off before he graduated. Still, it took boot camp and no-nonsense drill officers to beat common respect into him.

Once deployed into the Belgian army as a fully fledged infantryman, Luc discovered that even though he no longer had a penchant for treating people like dirt, he had kept an air of confidence which gave him steady enough hands to be trusted with explosives. Soon enough, Luc was trained to handle heavy ordnance. He'd defused so many IDEs by the time he completed his second deployment that he joked he should be re-purposing them for the Belgian army. He made use of enough official ordnance to make him think he had better ideas for saving military cash.

Throughout his career, Luc was separated from his sister and didn't really talk to her much. He didn't know just how little he knew about Anya until she had a session of shouting at his face for signing up for this multinational ParaCOM thing. He feels like he would make an effort to console her, but his ego is currently blocking sight of what's causing the issue in the first place.

Personality: On and off the field, Luc has this cool confidence about him that some find impressive, but most find rather irritating. His razor sharp wit is only rivalled by his complete ineptitude at reading other's thoughts and feelings. If he makes people upset, he's often genuinely dumbfounded as to why. Far from being a sociopath, he doesn't like the fact that he's hurting people in that way. This flaw, as he sees it, often has him shut his trap completely when addressing higher-ranking personnel, even on casual grounds. In contrast to his sister, Luc seldom loses his temper at anything and is reasonable about most things. His relationship with Anya is cordial at best, mostly because he feels that just being around her makes her angry. Not far from the truth.

Angus

Name: Angus McConnachie
Country of origin: New Zealand
Speciality: Support
Appearance:


Bio: Angus is originally an English expat of the UK, having moved to New-Zealand after marrying the love of his life in her home country. Though a year and two years older than Luc and Anya respectively, Angus' family happened to be a family friends with Anya and Luc's family, even over the channel. They went to the same school, often saw each other in family events and generally grew up together.

Unlike the strictly military-focussed Arbogast family, Angus actually took a few years to train as a chemist before moving to New Zealand. His military vocation came from necessity, as New Zealand happened to not recognise Angus' qualifications when he moved there due to a quirky technicality in medical academia. The New Zealand navy still made use of him as a combat medic after some redundant training. However, in his combat training, Angus displayed an as yet undiscovered talent with weapons and tactics. He was quickly highly regarded and recommended for the ParaCOM project when the monsters invaded. Angus thought it a wonderful twist of fate that he should find Anya and Luc there, having hardly changed at all since he last spoke to them.

Personality: Compared to Anya and Luc, Angus is probably the easiest to befriend. In fact, he could probably befriend a Paranormal creature if he could talk to them, he's just got that kind of warm personality and knack for nice conversation. This means that he is something of a bridge to understanding Anya and Luc as individuals, rather than the back and forth they think of each other. He knows that they want an understanding from one another that seems impossible to negotiate between themselves, but he prefers not to stick his fingers in such issues. On the battlefield, Angus is prompt, somewhat tense and utterly professional. He is in ParaCOM because he wants both himself and his wife to live long enough to raise a family, and the best way he sees to do that is to make use of his talents.

[Ubermensch]

Adorable, a sibling pair! Reviewing....

And accepted! Adding to the list.

[Derpestein]

Porting over William with some changes to his sheet.

Does he keep the same rank?

[Ubermensch]

Oh yes. Be my guest, Derpestein.

[Derpestein]

HELL YEAH! SERGEANT WILL IS BACK!


Underneath the helmet, he has black hair and brown eyes. Seems like he never smiles and his face almost gives people a solemn feeling.
Name: William Burkley
Country of Origin: England
Speciality: Assault
Bio: William had, besides going to a military boarding school, a fairly normal upbringing. He, after some long, gruelling years at the school, was drafted into the military. He'd been through drills and tests many times and did well most of the time.

when he was first deployed, he thought he would get out of it unscathed, as he had done well in the tests and the drills. While he had physically come out with no major physical injuries. he wasn't in perfect health mentally.

Last of his squad up against a group of six, ambushed. He couldn't hear anything above the sounds of gunfire. Flanking, trying to survive. He had come out, alive and his squad was avenged. Great.

While he felt satisfaction, for he had just avenged his squad, a dawning realisation came to his mind. Those men and women were all men and women who were drafted in, just like him, who had families to come back to. He had taken them away from the world, but they had taken away his teammates, so it was justified.

That was what he told himself.

He didn't see much combat after that, only a few more battles, but he was great at flanking and going up close and personal with a blade and shotgun in those battles, even if he hated seeing the faces of those he was about to kill.

After which, he was drafted into the ParaCom project to fight paranormal forces with his skills as an Assault and was promoted after around four missions.

Personality: William has a high disdain for combat against living beings. Needless to say: William would much rather go up against zombies, skeletons and vampires rather than another human being. He is sympathetic and empathetic to a fault and would gladly put himself in danger to save a friend, civilian or squad-mate, no matter how much of an asshole they've been.

Looking back...

Yeah.

The CS was crappy. I made some slight revisions to make it less crappier than the original.

He was actually promoted to sergeant in the RP and after around four missions. :D

[Ubermensch]

So far, so good! Adding to the list.

[Derpestein]

Ubermensch said
So far, so good! Adding to the list.

Nice.

Assassin will (ba dum tish) be nice to RP as again.

[Ubermensch]

I'm considering getting the RP running on full throttle either Friday or Saturday this week unless majority wants more immediate action.

[Ubermensch]

Bumping to see if there is a consensus. Although I have plans for either Friday or Saturday, I would like some input for suggestions or recommendations. I hate leaving my players hanging or behind.

[Avanhelsing]

Your choice. I'm fine either way.

[annalynne_d]

Hey there :) So I'd like to submit a cs, I've got an idea in mind that I'm working on. I, like some others may not be able to post quite often, but I'll certainly do my best. This will be the second rp I'm working on, Uber, thanks for telling me about it :)

Anna (Pezz)

[Ubermensch]

annalynne_d said
Hey there :) So I'd like to submit a cs, I've got an idea in mind that I'm working on. I, like some others may not be able to post quite often, but I'll certainly do my best. This will be the second rp I'm working on, Uber, thanks for telling me about it :)Anna (Pezz)

Be my guest. If you have any questions, ask me. I'm also adding you to my list of interested players.

[annalynne_d]

Name: Ezri Aksynova
Country of Origin: Russia
Specialty: Support
Appearance:

Bio:
Ezri was born in Russia, but moved with her family to the United States at 5 years old. When they came to the states, her father continued his practice as a doctor, her mother tended to house chores and caring for her and her younger brother Bryon. Ezri tended to get into trouble a lot, trouble with authority, ran away from home a few times, so it wasn't until her mom fell ill that she started taking her role as elder sister and daughter of a medical professional serious. She enlisted in the army as a medic right out of high school, and despite her bad girl motif, she did rather well. When the attack happened in New York City, she quickly enlisted into whatever forces were organized to stop such a threat.
Personality: Ezri usually lights up the room with her larger than life personality. She loves to laugh, but when it comes down to business, she works just as hard as she plays. She has a saucy side, which sometimes comes off as awkward, but her big heart and habit of talking too much is endearing enough to make up for her shortcomings. The bad girl in her hasn't completely gone away, but she looks for a group to fit in with, and with times as they are, it has proved somewhat difficult.

[Ubermensch]

Adding to the list soon! Now Alina Ivanova isn't the only Russian woman here.

[Muttonhawk]

You might have better luck with those images if you uploaded to imgur or something else, Annalyne. Dropbox doesn't always play nice.

Edit: Nevermind, you beat me to it!

[Ubermensch]

Before the RP starts, if anyone has further questions, give me a shout. If not, be prepared!