Jeep Wrangler

~ Cystra City - The Art of Sound ~

Remember when I said I would post today?

Yeeahhh, I'll have to take that back and post tomorrow. I promise this time. Goodness, school and my mother are both running me ragged.

@Polaris North

Nah, it's cool. Take all the time you need.

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

@caliban22Your character, as seen, would be 15 maximum of age. Was this intentional? If this is sorted out, I'll accept it.

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

Otto Mallaye

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Name
Otto Mallaye

Gender
Male

Age
25 - September 21st, 1910

Race
Gallian - Ryben Hill

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Appearance
A moderately built man of his age, Otto doesn't hold much to brag in the terms of his physical appearance, which isn't something he would do as a person anyway. Whilst some of the other subordinates for other Squads contain hard-faced and rugged veterans of either the Town-watch or previous conflicts, Otto bares a smooth complexion only roughened by a stubble around his mouth and chin. Both the stubble and his natural hair are both of an oak brown, not being too dark to mix him with a Darcsen and not too bright to relate to most youth-soldiers within the Militia. His eyes are glossed with a bright aqua-blue tone that stand as a defining addition to his facial structure. Though it would have seemed he'd been unscathed from the war as of yet, Otto still retains a bullet trail stretched across his left cheek where a scout had struck him weeks before his assignment to Squad 11.

As a choice of attire, Otto has made a few additional changes to his issued uniform. A red-and-black chequered scarf rests around his neck and over his right shoulder, in a scaled-down poncho style, as a symbolic reminder of where his origins came from within the town-watch. The only additional plating added was all that could be found; a single metal knee-cap placed onto his right knee respectively. Due to the shortages in armour during the formation of Squad 11, there could only be the handout of the single plating. This, in time, is what Otto hopes to add to in his spare time, but that takes resources and the only place to gather those are on the frontlines, providing he survives long enough to get that far. Fairly new patches of rank and insignia of his role are placed with almost pinpoint accuracy onto his uniform, as if the man had spent more than an hour sewing them to perfection. A sheathe for the standard Gallian blade is fitted to his chest-webbing for emergency requirements. Off-duty, he has kept mostly what he would've worn underneath the standard-issue clothing within his town-watch, as a way of commemorating the town that had eventually been lost.

Height
6' 1"

Personality
If there was one thing that Otto was taught at a young age, it was that comradeship would always strive in any situation. Whilst this sticks to him as a motto for life, he wasn't originally great at up-keeping what he believed in. Otto found difficulties socialising at a young age, and that sometimes has carried out into his current state. Though it is safe to say that Otto's ability to talk amongst his team and command has excelled since his time of conflict began in the town-watch. His caring mindset puts himself behind everyone else in the squad. But with all these small precautions to look out for within his upbringing, Otto strives to talk and get to know as many of his comrades as he can, just as he believes in. One of his main strengths is vitality in the horrors of war. Through early depictions of what battles could bare, Otto has found himself as a prepared, though not fully, individual for facing the eyes of the enemy, someone he's prepared to fight in the defence of his friends, homeland and self.

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Rank
Sergeant

Role
Shocktrooper

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Biography
Born in the town sat upon an isolated hill, Otto grew up accustomed to the small variations in tradition that Ryben Hill had to offer, such as small festivals and the grand scheme of a well-built community. The hill that the town had gained its name from was surrounded by a great forest of tightly-compacted trees, which made tradesmen from truck and horse-back a somewhat difficult predicament to come by. Through a dedicated 'Runner' system, which set fast individuals back and forth to nearby settlements and larger towns, which sometimes could take up to several days of travelling, in order to grab up and make use of resources unobtainable from within the town's geographical emplacement. The town itself held history, apparently serving as an Eastern outpost during the First Europan War. It's symbolic nature of defence and over-watch gave the town a name quite recognisable amongst the Gallian map, despite its size. No bigger than a large village, the town was restricted by the size the hill's peak could give them. To make up for the size of the town, an old collection of tunnels remastered and revamped from years before still are used as a form of an underground market and additional home space. Some say the tunnels were once used by the engineers of EWI.

Otto was brought up by a father, and a father alone. His mother's whereabouts was kept disclosed from his ears for years, and still it remains that way, as his single-parent felt too ashamed to talk about what happened during his spring-youth days. It must've happened shortly after he was born, or around the time he was too young to even collect memories, considering how little Otto knew of the event. His father ran the 'Runner' business, so it only made sense for his only son to get involved within the family, and local, business that kept the town running and connected with the closest settlements. This itself gave Otto his early taste in comradeship, where communication was a vital system to keeping the trails fresh for 'Runners'. This allowed Otto to gather the ability to hold friends within a working environment, though outside of work it was quite difficult to maintain such relationships. According to his father, the Runner business was also inspired by what both Otto's uncle and father were appointed to during their service. Tasked with delivering messages and supplies whilst under-fire, it had a ring of honour to be under such business.

From an early age until the upcoming uproar of the Second Europan War, Otto kept running with his comrades and town. As he got older, his tasks became more and more tricky and lengthy. This built the stages of resilience, sometimes having to continue on a journey for several days before even reaching the town he needed to contact. Whilst out on one of these job assignments to a further settlement named 'Poal', Otto used as much stamina as he could to return home upon hearing the great news. War had broken out in Europa once more. This could only mean one thing for Gallia: there were threats that may lurk in the next months and weeks.

Otto was quick to return home. Gallia itself was not in a state of war, but after what had happened in the previous continental conflict, it was only wise for people like his father to suspect a repeat in history. Gallia once again was on a back-foot in comparison to the Atlantic Federation and the Autocratic Eastern Imperials that were fighting the war so far. A slight hatred towards the Imperials from what had happened during EWI had left a reinstatement of the town-guard in order to act as a policing and first-hand method of apprehending possible threats towards the town and forest. No declaration of war was initiated, but the walls of the town began to feel the weight of its settlers depending on it to withstand another possible conflict. From persuasion from his father, and the worry of being ambushed by a possible spy-patrol whilst on a job assignment, Otto was quick to sign up for the Ryben Hill town-watch. This was the decision that would have saved his life when the real conflict started.

And as dreaded, the news flyers from nearby towns suddenly began to rush in. War! War they cried! The Imperials had launched a major offensive against the Gallian border, and the military weren't strong enough to defend it to its fullest. People began to fear, some even left the town before giving the war a chance to change courses. Yet the citizens of Ryben Hill held some resilience. They had survived the bloody encounter of the 'Hilltop Offensive' during EWI, which had lasted more than three months before the Imperials were successfully repelled. Both the hilltop positioning and surrounding forest made the town an excellent staging position for counter-offences on a regional scale, as well as applying the well-known town with an incredible amount of defensive measures given by nature itself. This was the hope and determination that the town was being burdened with.

The Imperial giants were apparently spotted in nearby towns and the gates to Ryben Hill were sealed tightly. The time had come to prepare for a bloody engagement, one that the town watch, and Otto, had presumed would be something manageable. There were going to be no threats of tanks nor vehicular movement, due to the steepness of the hill and the additional forest, which meant only an infantry-based offensive could be acted upon. But what the town watch lacked in comparison to the Miltia and Military back in EWI was manpower. Otto would find himself about to be plunged feet-first into hell.

The first shots were fired at dawn, where a flash of automatic fire from sub-machine guns were able to cut down the first few unfortunate members to be watching over the walls. Families still in the town began to run out into the crowded streets, heading down to the tunnels for the emergency evacuation procedure. It took two hours to see every civilian leave the walls from the back tunnels, and shortly after the town-guard found themselves in a state of encirclement. It was as if constant rifle and machine-gun fire was being concentrated on every possible angle from down the hill. The advantage of height gave the town-guard the edge over their inexperience, and it was the second day of fighting that Otto had claimed his first hostile life. In attempt to save himself and a fellow watchman from the spray of automatic fire, he managed to impact the Imperial within the chest, knocking him back into the bushes and shrubbery below. Whilst it definitely saved himself, it did not save his comrade.

Day after day, the town began to crumble in strength. The battle itself drew out longer than the Imperials had suspected, and the increasing number of troops began to be exposed to the defensive struggles of the town watch, as well as civilian mothers and fathers who volunteered to fight alongside them before evacuating. The annoyance to the Imperials made it seem like the town itself was defended heavily by the military itself, not including the civilian-soldiers taking arms. It was on the ninth day of the Battle where the gates were finally breached by explosives, and Imperial shocktroopers began to pour in and suppress anyone in their eyesight. The town-watch could only expend the use of semi-automatic or bolt-action rifles from nearby larger settlements. Despite this, an old EWI Stationary Machine Gun was at their disposal and was set up in the entrance to the tunnels within the town. A final stand, and an order given from Otto's father, gave Otto the chance to leave despite his hysterical intentions to stay.

And it was at that time that Otto found himself down the Last Run of Ryben Hill. This was a run that was no longer for the benefit of the town, but the benefit of himself. Given an order to retreat with several others, they scattered after hearing the sounds of gunshots and close-quarters-combat within the tunnel system behind them. And yet, on this final run, Otto would face one last horror of the battle. Upon making his way to the next settlement, where the recent arrival of the Gallian military gave a rendezvous point for evacuation, Otto came across many of the civilians that had tried escaping days before, now blood-stained in the Forest. Upon his brief time and stunned hysteria when facing these corpses, he retrieved a small red scarf found upon the body of an elderly woman. He recognised her, but not greatly. An old baker from the centre of the town, known for delicious provisions. It was all he could spare the time to scavenge, as the now war-born young man made his way for the future.

It was his debrief given by Gallian Military officers posted in the nearest reinforced town that gave him slight commemoration. The gratitude, alongside two more Town-watchmen who'd survived the battle, were offered a place in the Militia. Truly, this was an excuse for the universal conscription, but they offered to write a report, stating that a high rank could be initiated if the right words were chosen. Whilst the other two, a man and women, named Iden and Yralith, who would go on to becoming Squad 8 and 4s ICs in the Militia, Otto didn't actually feel he was worthy of any military pride. He hadn't felt he contributed enough to the battle nor had done anything majorly heroic. Despite this, he joined the militia, declining the ideas of being placed as a Squad Leader. However, upon joining the forces, he eventually found himself being placed as the Squad Subordinate for their IC, Lando Tankreith, for what their commander saw in him. Battle experience was what gave almost all the NCOs in the squad their positions, so Otto was going to follow suit anyway...

Affiliations
Kristoph Mallaye - Father [Unknown Status - Lost contact after the Battle of Ryben Hill]
Lieutenant Iden Askia - Friend/Fellow Survivor [Alive - Squad 4's Officer]
Lieutenant Yralith Ottoneman - Friend/Fellow Survivor [Alive - Squad 8's Officer]

Relationships

Relationships
To be updated as the Roleplay progresses.

Character Theme

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

Finished my cs.

@caliban22

I believe there was a mispelling of 'Sergeant' as what I could only pick out. It might have moved, but I cannot look over it again. I'll let @Jinxer have the final word on it.

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

Otto Mallaye

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Name
Otto Mallaye

Gender
Male

Age
25 - September 21st, 1910

Race
Gallian - Ryben Hill

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Appearance
A moderately built man of his age, Otto doesn't hold much to brag in the terms of his physical appearance, which isn't something he would do as a person anyway. Whilst some of the other subordinates for other Squads contain hard-faced and rugged veterans of either the Town-watch or previous conflicts, Otto bares a smooth complexion only roughened by a stubble around his mouth and chin. Both the stubble and his natural hair are both of an oak brown, not being too dark to mix him with a Darcsen and not too bright to relate to most youth-soldiers within the Militia. His eyes are glossed with a bright aqua-blue tone that stand as a defining addition to his facial structure. Though it would have seemed he'd been unscathed from the war as of yet, Otto still retains a bullet trail stretched across his left cheek where a scout had struck him weeks before his assignment to Squad 11.

As a choice of attire, Otto has made a few additional changes to his issued uniform. A red-and-black chequered scarf rests around his neck and over his right shoulder, in a scaled-down poncho style, as a symbolic reminder of where his origins came from within the town-watch. The only additional plating added was all that could be found; a single metal knee-cap placed onto his right knee respectively. Due to the shortages in armour during the formation of Squad 11, there could only be the handout of the single plating. This, in time, is what Otto hopes to add to in his spare time, but that takes resources and the only place to gather those are on the frontlines, providing he survives long enough to get that far. Fairly new patches of rank and insignia of his role are placed with almost pinpoint accuracy onto his uniform, as if the man had spent more than an hour sewing them to perfection. A sheathe for the standard Gallian blade is fitted to his chest-webbing for emergency requirements. Off-duty, he has kept mostly what he would've worn underneath the standard-issue clothing within his town-watch, as a way of commemorating the town that had eventually been lost.

Height
6' 1"

Personality
If there was one thing that Otto was taught at a young age, it was that comradeship would always strive in any situation. Whilst this sticks to him as a motto for life, he wasn't originally great at up-keeping what he believed in. Otto found difficulties socialising at a young age, and that sometimes has carried out into his current state. Though it is safe to say that Otto's ability to talk amongst his team and command has excelled since his time of conflict began in the town-watch. His caring mindset puts himself behind everyone else in the squad. But with all these small precautions to look out for within his upbringing, Otto strives to talk and get to know as many of his comrades as he can, just as he believes in. One of his main strengths is vitality in the horrors of war. Through early depictions of what battles could bare, Otto has found himself as a prepared, though not fully, individual for facing the eyes of the enemy, someone he's prepared to fight in the defence of his friends, homeland and self.

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Rank
Sergeant

Role
Shocktrooper

---

Biography
Born in the town sat upon an isolated hill, Otto grew up accustomed to the small variations in tradition that Ryben Hill had to offer, such as small festivals and the grand scheme of a well-built community. The hill that the town had gained its name from was surrounded by a great forest of tightly-compacted trees, which made tradesmen from truck and horse-back a somewhat difficult predicament to come by. Through a dedicated 'Runner' system, which set fast individuals back and forth to nearby settlements and larger towns, which sometimes could take up to several days of travelling, in order to grab up and make use of resources unobtainable from within the town's geographical emplacement. The town itself held history, apparently serving as an Eastern outpost during the First Europan War. It's symbolic nature of defence and over-watch gave the town a name quite recognisable amongst the Gallian map, despite its size. No bigger than a large village, the town was restricted by the size the hill's peak could give them. To make up for the size of the town, an old collection of tunnels remastered and revamped from years before still are used as a form of an underground market and additional home space. Some say the tunnels were once used by the engineers of EWI.

Otto was brought up by a father, and a father alone. His mother's whereabouts was kept disclosed from his ears for years, and still it remains that way, as his single-parent felt too ashamed to talk about what happened during his spring-youth days. It must've happened shortly after he was born, or around the time he was too young to even collect memories, considering how little Otto knew of the event. His father ran the 'Runner' business, so it only made sense for his only son to get involved within the family, and local, business that kept the town running and connected with the closest settlements. This itself gave Otto his early taste in comradeship, where communication was a vital system to keeping the trails fresh for 'Runners'. This allowed Otto to gather the ability to hold friends within a working environment, though outside of work it was quite difficult to maintain such relationships. According to his father, the Runner business was also inspired by what both Otto's uncle and father were appointed to during their service. Tasked with delivering messages and supplies whilst under-fire, it had a ring of honour to be under such business.

From an early age until the upcoming uproar of the Second Europan War, Otto kept running with his comrades and town. As he got older, his tasks became more and more tricky and lengthy. This built the stages of resilience, sometimes having to continue on a journey for several days before even reaching the town he needed to contact. Whilst out on one of these job assignments to a further settlement named 'Poal', Otto used as much stamina as he could to return home upon hearing the great news. War had broken out in Europa once more. This could only mean one thing for Gallia: there were threats that may lurk in the next months and weeks.

Otto was quick to return home. Gallia itself was not in a state of war, but after what had happened in the previous continental conflict, it was only wise for people like his father to suspect a repeat in history. Gallia once again was on a back-foot in comparison to the Atlantic Federation and the Autocratic Eastern Imperials that were fighting the war so far. A slight hatred towards the Imperials from what had happened during EWI had left a reinstatement of the town-guard in order to act as a policing and first-hand method of apprehending possible threats towards the town and forest. No declaration of war was initiated, but the walls of the town began to feel the weight of its settlers depending on it to withstand another possible conflict. From persuasion from his father, and the worry of being ambushed by a possible spy-patrol whilst on a job assignment, Otto was quick to sign up for the Ryben Hill town-watch. This was the decision that would have saved his life when the real conflict started.

And as dreaded, the news flyers from nearby towns suddenly began to rush in. War! War they cried! The Imperials had launched a major offensive against the Gallian border, and the military weren't strong enough to defend it to its fullest. People began to fear, some even left the town before giving the war a chance to change courses. Yet the citizens of Ryben Hill held some resilience. They had survived the bloody encounter of the 'Hilltop Offensive' during EWI, which had lasted more than three months before the Imperials were successfully repelled. Both the hilltop positioning and surrounding forest made the town an excellent staging position for counter-offences on a regional scale, as well as applying the well-known town with an incredible amount of defensive measures given by nature itself. This was the hope and determination that the town was being burdened with.

The Imperial giants were apparently spotted in nearby towns and the gates to Ryben Hill were sealed tightly. The time had come to prepare for a bloody engagement, one that the town watch, and Otto, had presumed would be something manageable. There were going to be no threats of tanks nor vehicular movement, due to the steepness of the hill and the additional forest, which meant only an infantry-based offensive could be acted upon. But what the town watch lacked in comparison to the Miltia and Military back in EWI was manpower. Otto would find himself about to be plunged feet-first into hell.

The first shots were fired at dawn, where a flash of automatic fire from sub-machine guns were able to cut down the first few unfortunate members to be watching over the walls. Families still in the town began to run out into the crowded streets, heading down to the tunnels for the emergency evacuation procedure. It took two hours to see every civilian leave the walls from the back tunnels, and shortly after the town-guard found themselves in a state of encirclement. It was as if constant rifle and machine-gun fire was being concentrated on every possible angle from down the hill. The advantage of height gave the town-guard the edge over their inexperience, and it was the second day of fighting that Otto had claimed his first hostile life. In attempt to save himself and a fellow watchman from the spray of automatic fire, he managed to impact the Imperial within the chest, knocking him back into the bushes and shrubbery below. Whilst it definitely saved himself, it did not save his comrade.

Day after day, the town began to crumble in strength. The battle itself drew out longer than the Imperials had suspected, and the increasing number of troops began to be exposed to the defensive struggles of the town watch, as well as civilian mothers and fathers who volunteered to fight alongside them before evacuating. The annoyance to the Imperials made it seem like the town itself was defended heavily by the military itself, not including the civilian-soldiers taking arms. It was on the ninth day of the Battle where the gates were finally breached by explosives, and Imperial shocktroopers began to pour in and suppress anyone in their eyesight. The town-watch could only expend the use of semi-automatic or bolt-action rifles from nearby larger settlements. Despite this, an old EWI Stationary Machine Gun was at their disposal and was set up in the entrance to the tunnels within the town. A final stand, and an order given from Otto's father, gave Otto the chance to leave despite his hysterical intentions to stay.

And it was at that time that Otto found himself down the Last Run of Ryben Hill. This was a run that was no longer for the benefit of the town, but the benefit of himself. Given an order to retreat with several others, they scattered after hearing the sounds of gunshots and close-quarters-combat within the tunnel system behind them. And yet, on this final run, Otto would face one last horror of the battle. Upon making his way to the next settlement, where the recent arrival of the Gallian military gave a rendezvous point for evacuation, Otto came across many of the civilians that had tried escaping days before, now blood-stained in the Forest. Upon his brief time and stunned hysteria when facing these corpses, he retrieved a small red scarf found upon the body of an elderly woman. He recognised her, but not greatly. An old baker from the centre of the town, known for delicious provisions. It was all he could spare the time to scavenge, as the now war-born young man made his way for the future.

It was his debrief given by Gallian Military officers posted in the nearest reinforced town that gave him slight commemoration. The gratitude, alongside two more Town-watchmen who'd survived the battle, were offered a place in the Militia. Truly, this was an excuse for the universal conscription, but they offered to write a report, stating that a high rank could be initiated if the right words were chosen. Whilst the other two, a man and women, named Iden and Yralith, who would go on to becoming Squad 8 and 4s ICs in the Militia, Otto didn't actually feel he was worthy of any military pride. He hadn't felt he contributed enough to the battle nor had done anything majorly heroic. Despite this, he joined the militia, declining the ideas of being placed as a Squad Leader. However, upon joining the forces, he eventually found himself being placed as the Squad Subordinate for their IC, Lando Tankreith, for what their commander saw in him. Battle experience was what gave almost all the NCOs in the squad their positions, so Otto was going to follow suit anyway...

Affiliations
Kristoph Mallaye - Father [Unknown Status - Lost contact after the Battle of Ryben Hill]
Lieutenant Iden Askia - Friend/Fellow Survivor [Alive - Squad 4's Officer]
Lieutenant Yralith Ottoneman - Friend/Fellow Survivor [Alive - Squad 8's Officer]

Relationships

Relationships
To be updated as the Roleplay progresses.

Character Theme

Aaaaaand here is mine. In case anyone is stuck, use my own or the others' as templates to build your own.

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

I'll my epic up tonight :))

@DeadDrop

Good England

Attack on Titan: Somnium

<Snipped quote by LetMeDoStuff>

Then comes the super awesome duo Mateo and Marissa to help clean up the mess.

Oh, and Alice too.

@Poi

Oh fuck yeah. Will I make a post in Mateo's eyes in my next post or do I have to wait?

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

@Avant@Poi@Conscripts@SkylarAccepted all of you.

I am fighting to get the energy to do this CS, I really am. It's starting to get to me badly but I'll persist. Turns out rehab has harder hitting effects on my body strength and energy.

~ Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11 ~

Gonna be delayed by a day for my CS. Rehabilitation is starting tomorrow morning so I've got no time to stay awake. Expect activity to dwindle slightly for the next two weeks (not too much though)

~ Cystra City - The Art of Sound ~

I'll be posting soon. Had an idea for later on the RP as well, concerning the concert.

@Poi

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