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"Get the bloody hell outta my way, mate."
Name: Shamus Gordon E. Doncliss
Rank: Squadron Leader
Serial Number: 885-796-43
Date of Birth: June 7, 1913 (falsified by guardian)
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia
Physical Appearance: 5'10, thin black hair, gaunt, lanky yet muscular frame of about 150 lbs. Dark brown eyes.
Aircraft: Spitfire
Callsign: Ghost Leader
Psychological Evaluation:
Subject is generally cold, calculating, and self-serving in nature. He holds a subdued disdain for authority, and finds it difficult to establish long-term personal relationships with his peers. Subject exhibits several symptoms of moderate clinical psychopathy, including a lack of empathy for both friend and foe and difficulty in experiencing or expressing emotion. However, subject does not pose an immediate threat to comrades.
Subject is not especially patriotic nor holds treasonous political views; in his own words, he ‘just flies the plane’. Subject’s goals in life are to mainly rise through the ranks in the service and gain more flight victories.
Subject barely believes in a God and does not think He is omnibenevolent. His personal outlook on the universe is one that is heartless, ignores humanity, and has no sense of justice or closure. When asked about a certain code or mantra that governed his being, subject indicated that the closest things he had to such a mantra were the writings of Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Subject did not believe virtue had any place in the universe and the highest characteristic of a human being was his will to survive in a ruthless existence.
When questioned on the existence of aliens, subject remarked on the futility of man in his exploration of the stars when he has not even conquered the depths of his own mind. In his own words, “if they’re out there, why shouldn’t they be down here?”
Subject is more than able to comprehend non-Euclidean geometry and was able to attain a class of AA-3 in the written examination.
Subject appeared to have a minimal reaction to the graphic and harrowing mental stimuli, and offered theories onto the possible origin of the pictures to potential real-world happenings. Subject was soundly rebuffed, though he may hold his own doubts.
As a clinically diagnosed psychopath, subject does not appear to have any irrational fears or phobias. However, through induced hypnosis, subject expressed a slight discomfort with being totally abandoned, physically or socially. Though he dislikes close relationships with people, he finds using them to his own advantage the optimal method to ensure his own safety.
History:
Shamus Thenn was born to unknown parents in Melbourne, Australia in June 1913, and abandoned at Christy Warner Memorial Orphanage a few days after his birth. When he was eight years old, he was adopted by Gordon E. Doncliss, a local fishery owner, who changed his new son’s surname to his own. Although Doncliss soon grew to become a modestly respected upper-middle-class Melbourne businessman who ensured that his six children attended private schools, Shay was a bit of an oddity. All throughout his adolescence, Shay was expelled from several schools, frequently got into physical fights with his peers, engaged in minor criminal offenses like pickpocketing and vandalism, and was remarked on by a private tutor ‘to be destined to have no respectable station in life’. Gordon seriously threatened to have his son sent back to the orphanage several times, and on one occasion it almost worked, if not for Gordon’s quick thinking of an alternative - the military. Gordon Doncliss was an officer aboard a dreadnought in Gallipoli and decided that the regimen of military life would beat some sense into his prodigal son. As a gift on his eighteenth birthday in the summer of 1931, Shay Doncliss was enlisted into the Australian Navy.
Shay did particularly well in basic training and showed affinity for mechanical maintenance and repair of equipment aboard ship, gained from a childhood spent on the docks of Melbourne and occasionally accompanying his father into routine business inspections. Shay also had severe discipline problems and was kicked out for assaulting a drill instructor, but not before being advised to pursue a career in a different branch - the air force. Shay joined the Royal Australian Air Force in the winter of 1932 and quickly gained a reputation as a skilled, yet ruthless and vicious fighter pilot. Shay was transferred to the UK in preparation for Project Turin in 1939.