Name: Quy Phan
Gender: Male
Nationality: Vietnamese
Ethnicity: Vietnamese
Appearance: Quy, 19 years old, is barely above 5'5" tall, thin and well toned from working on the family rice farm growing up. He has a scar across the bridge of his nose from a fall, but otherwise lacks any real identifiable features that one might link to him. He keeps his hair in a very short cut, whenever possible, mostly to keep it out of his eyes when he was working.
Uniform: Like most others, Quy wears his standard issue PAVN tan uniform. He keeps his sleeves rolled down, preferring to keep his arms covered whenever possible. Typically, Quy prefers a field cap that is the same color as his uniform, though will use otherwise if the need arises. He kept the sandles he wore from his time on the farm, mixing and matching it with his conventional PAVN uniform, preferring them over the issued boots.
Armaments: - Degtyaryov Machine Gun
- 6H2 Bayonet
Specialization: Light Machine Gunner
Personality: Quy is the kind of person who is honest to a fault. He speaks his mind, usually without regard to whether someone wants to hear this or not. This can work both in his favor and against it, since he will let someone know what he thinks without realizing it might be better to keep his mouth shut. Unlike the rest of his family, who did not want him to go off to war, having lost his father and an uncle to the French, he feels that if none of them go, who will protect their way of life? He sees war as a duty, something that he is obligated to due for the good of his family. The PAVN might as well be an extension of said family, the way he sees it, so he would feel disgraceful if he didn't stick his neck out for his family. Whether this will weather the first firefight, or not, remains to be seen, but he is a determined young man if nothing else, and has no interest in quitting or backing out early, which could make retreat actions difficult to swallow.
History: Quy Phan, and his twin brother Tu, were not an unusual case in his village. Quite a number of the fathers and older men of the village had gone to fight first the Japanese and then the French, only to never return. It was considered fortunate that they ever got word confirming the death of Quy's father and uncle. This left him, and his brother, as the oldest men in the house, and having to learn the art of farming from neighbors and friends who had learned it from their living relatives as well. Growing up without his father was oddly easy, considering Quy never could remember the man, having been too young to really remember his face before he'd marched off and died. He remembers little of the past occupation his people had suffered, but he knew that he could not tolerate it ever happening again, he knew this in his gut even if he didn't say it out loud.
Politics were not something Quy was familiar with, having been a farmer's son and focused on learning just that, how to farm rice. But rumors and news did reach them. The idea that the South had chosen to ignore the accords and Americans were coming to help them do just that. In the eyes and mind of Quy, he saw them as little better than the French or Japanese had been, according to the stories of surviving elders of the village who had returned. Despite his mother's wishes, or indeed his younger siblings, he chose to take up arms and left the village. What surprised him was that his twin brother, Tu, chose to enlist with his twin. The two had always been close, so it shouldn't have been too much of a surprise.
Spending a year and a half in the PAVN, he is nearing his 20th birthday when word came down that, alongside Quy's comrades in arms, would be finally heading down to the South properly. Quy had been assigned an old DP-28, due to the fact that, while he wasn't a terribly good shot, he was strong enough to carry it around at a brisk manner and haul ammo as well. Tu had volunteered to help carry some of the ammo, keeping the two together to watch each other's backs. Coupled with enthusiastic application of fire, despite the lower RPM on the DP-28, made him a good, if not the most accurate, machine gunner.
NPCs:Tu Phan - Quy's twin brother, followed his brother into the army and carries several spare pan magazines for the DP-28 alongside his own AK-47. Much more soft spoken and introspective than his older brother, something that confuses those that were not aware of one twin's existence.
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