GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Josemaria "Josem" Solomon
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Loyalty: Phalanx
Unit: Caput Mortis, I Legion, I Century
Rank in the Military: First Lieutenant
Role in the Military: Commissioned Officer
APPEARANCE Josem is a short man standing at five-foot-six. His small eyes and well-kept hair are a dark shade of brown and his skin is of a warm undertone. Unlike some of the men under his command, he always wears his uniform. The few times his comrades see him outside of combat, he would be wearing drab-coloured clothes. He always looks irritated, scaring some people when they approach him. However, he has a lean figure, owing to years of living off scraps.
PROFILE Having been brought up in the far reaches of the mountain province of Magno, Josem can be considered socially conservative, but not in the traditional sense. He despises people who abuse their freedom, as he has seen many friends going to the cities, earning wealth, and overindulging in pleasures a farmer's life could not afford. In his youth, he was deeply envious of those friends, wishing to spend his days drinking, but this would later change. He would return to the morals of his parents, refusing to fall like his friends did. He would be later radicalised by the Brihadians, but when the Phalanx came, it was easy to see why he joined their cause.
As a soldier, he is a pessimistic and careful tactician, especially since he commanded a very lightly-armoured force. He relies on stealth, cunning, and silence, as well as psychology. However, when he decides to fight, he does so with a ferocity that many feared. In his brief stint as a soldier for the Republic before the civil war, he was known as the Brihadian Headhunter for his terror tactics and fierce attacks. In everyday life, he is more of a realist than a pessimist. In a sense, one might consider him a misanthrope who wants to see Dzhalus burn. Yet, deep inside, he wants to see the fire reforge his society into something better.
BIOGRAPHY Josem was born at the foot of the Magno Range to a loving couple who were employed as farmers working a small plot of land for their employer, a rich landowner with connections to one of Magno's ruling families. They were paid unfair wages, and were not given the land promised to them by the government. As a child, Josem would see their employer's children, running around without a care in the world. He would be envious of them. He would be even more envious of some friends he met in the farm whose parents could spare to send them to state schools in the city. Josem's parents could afford an education in a state university, but old as they were, they needed all the help they could get. If the family could not keep any of their produce, Josem would be sent to the mountains to hunt for animals with only a revolver and an old rifle. Here, he would be taught by family friends who were experts at mountain-climbing. There, they would be able to accumulate wealth that farmers could not. Instead of establishing themselves and supporting their families, they preferred debauchery and overindulgence. They soon fell into debt, with some even being murdered. Josem's envy had settled, leaving only resentment for his former friends for betraying their families. Eventually, his parents allowed him to finally go to school. As much as he wanted to, he did not want to leave his parents alone. He loved them as much as they loved him. It was clear that they could not support themselves, but after careful deliberation, he decided that in the city, he could accumulate enough wealth to help them.
The moment Josem entered the Capital Region, he saw the clear class divides in society. The poor were left on the streets while the rich would do nothing but indulge. He would soon see that the poor were not helped by the fact that they spent on their own debauchery. The moment Josem entered university, he would be radicalised by the Brihadians. He became an activist who clamoured for land reform and extremely progressive tax reforms. He joined the rebellion as an engineer, employing his knowledge of mountaineering to devise his own equipment and science regarding mountain warfare. One night, after fighting a local militia funded by the government, he received word that his parents, as well as his family friends, were all killed when a rebel contingent from the Magno Range descended from the mountains to steal supplies.
Angered and filled with grief at the death of the people who raised him, Josem appealed to the Brihadian Party to be just and punish the rebels who killed his family. However, the Party never responded to him. Still filled with scorn, he would leave the rebellion, no longer believing that their cause was just. He tried returning to the farm to see if it still existed, but it remained burnt down and unpopulated. He spent weeks roaming the countryside with nothing but his uniform, sackcloth, rifle, and revolver. With nowhere left to turn to, and with no loved ones left, he almost turned to suicide multiple times. This was when he learned that the military was giving pensions to surrendering rebels enough to allow him to survive in the streets. He went to the military camp in the city of Acradil, where he was accepted.
In a twist of fate, he realised was being hunted down by the military because of his known involvement with assisting the rebels in giving them ease when travelling through the mountains and attacking military personnel. Their target surrendered. Military higher-ups wanted to have him imprisoned, but some men like Arnold Fliess, who was looking for more men to help him in his campaign against the rebels in the Magno Range, wanted him. After half a week in jail, he would be informed of this. Josem accepted the general's offer. Now, not only would he be paid; he would also be able to get his revenge. He was trained in the armed forces and was commissioned as an officer. He joined the military in its attempts to destroy the rebels. He would get his revenge. In the midst of his rampage, he became known as the Brihadian Headhunter for his ferocity in fighting the rebels and using terror tactics such as launching the heads of their dead comrades into rebel camps by using makeshift catapults.
He disdained Auven and his platform since before he was elected, and was further angered when the newly-inaugurated President Auven decided to extend olive branches to the Brihadians. His crusade of vengeance was only halfway done. When the political climate grew hot as the Phalangites attempted to impeach Auven, Josem joined the Blackcoats in support of the decision, officially joining the Phalanx as Party Member 502932. When the civil war erupted, he fought as a guerrilla, holding back the Republican advance through the mountains. As a part of Arnold Fliess' pet project involving highly specialised units forming an entirely new military corps, he was pulled back to be trained further in the art of war. He saw combat as a relief force when the Republicans attacked Acradil's 500-man garrison. His training would be furthered and his platoon integrated into the First Century of the very first Caput Mortis Legion.
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