So Manticore is your stereotypical evil big company. It will serve as the first arch villain, having employed several supervillains and lackeys to try and stop the heroes from countering their world domination plot. Of course it's a world domination plot. Why wouldn't it be?
Anyways, here are mercs:
Name: Isam Hajjar
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Personality: Isam was a serious, all business kind of guy. He was a born leader: cool under pressure and level headed. But at the same time, he won his friends loyalty and trust with the softer side of his personality. He cared for his friends, what few he had, and it showed. They were the closest thing to family he had. He would have gone to ends of the Earth should one of
them disappear, which is what inspired the other two's fierce determination to get him back.
Skills: Knew his way around a gun, spoke several languages, was very good at reading people, and was pretty mean in a fight.
Other: Was the understood leader of the group. Is currently missing.
Appearance: Isam was 5'6" and muscular. His hair was black, curly, and shoulder length. It was often unbrushed and unruly, sometimes worn back in a ponytail. He often sported facial hair. His skin was a medium brown, and his eye were dark brown. Isam's body bore extensive scarring, most of it from his years in the war. His fashion choices were hardly that; Isam was a utilitarian by nature. He wore army pants, earth tone t-shirts and tank tops, and combat boots almost every day of his life.
History: Was born in a small village in Iraq. When Isam was young, war broke out in his country. Soldiers stormed into his village and took every male old enough to hold a gun, forcing them to enlist and fight for their country in the war that never seemed to end. Isam had been 12 at the time. He spent the next 11 years in the military, and during that time, he was captured by enemy soldiers, was tortured, escaped, blew up several enemy camps, was severely wounded during Operation Desert Fox, learned several languages, became a translator during interrogations of enemies, was captured a second time, escaped again, and decided that he'd had enough.
Isam left the military and Iraq behind. His whole family had been killed by city bombings, the country was in shambles, and there was nothing left for him there. However, war was in his nature. Isam was raised a soldier, and he found that he couldn't just walk away from it. He tried.
Isam moved to France to find refuge. There, he suffered from anxiety and paranoia left over from the war. He turned to alcohol and bar fights as an outlet, which eventually landed him in a French prison for a few weeks until somebody came and paid his bail. Isam was met by an older, rich white man that was gathering a small team of mercenaries to work for him. Isam wasn't interested at first, but the man had bailed him out of prison, and he felt as though he should at least humor the guy. The man, who went by Whitmore, was the head a large, American weapons company that was under fire for supposedly shipping weapons to enemy countries. Whitmore needed the three mercenaries as bodyguards, to protect him from the many people who wanted his head on a silver platter.
While working for Whitmore, Isam met Sasha and Fen. It was the start of beautiful bromance. Eventually, Whitmore was found guilty of his crimes and taken to prison, but the three mercs decided that they would form a team and continue working together. Several years down the road, they were hired by a company called Manticore to guard one of their small bases. Manticore is a company that pioneers in genetic sciences, and a lot people have mixed opinions on them. Their work in medical sciences has saved millions, but at the same time, there are rumors floating around the web that they preform experiments on live test subjects. The nastier of those rumors claim they use humans.
The mercs didn't know what the company was up to, nor did they care. All they knew was that they got paid to keep nosy treehuggers out of the base. All was well until one night, when Isam saw something within the base that he wasn't supposed to see. He was taken away to be kept quiet, and other two haven't seen him since. They don't know where he is, why he was taken, or if he's even still alive. They dropped their contract with the company and began systematically attacking their bases in search of their friend. While they've been at it, they've found a few interesting files laying around. Stuff about super soldiers, human experimentation, and things that would make a weaker man's skin crawl. It became clear that Manticore wasn't the shining pinnacle of innovation that it claimed to be. They had plans for something much more sinister.
Name: Sasha Belov
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Personality: Sasha is an interesting character. He's the type that gives everyone insulting nicknames, picks on people, and plays poker with anyone dumb enough to place a bet. He's loud, boisterous, and makes eyes at anything with a uterus. Essentially, the exact opposite of Isam. The two bickered back and forth for the first few months they were forced to work together, but they eventually bonded over their shared love for vodka. Sasha and Isam were best of buds, their personalities playing off of each other. After Isam's disappearance, Sasha stepped up to lead their now two-man group. He's still a loud asshole, but he knows when to joke and when to get serious.
Skills: Military background, excellent card player, very good strategist, intelligent, can drink half a bottle of vodka and remain conscious.
Other: Enjoys watching movies, old and new.
Appearance: Sasha is a large, muscular man. He stands at 6'2", has pale skin and dirty blonde hair that is kept in a neat buzz cut. His eyes are a gray-ish blue. Sasha has several tattoos, one being the simplified bird seen in the picture above. He may be big and scary looking when you first meet him, but that usually wears off as soon as he opens his mouth.
History:Sasha grew up in Kazan, Russia. His mother had been a drug addict, and overdosed when Sasha was 5. He was left to be raised by his father, who fell into depression after the loss of his wife. The man was an alcoholic, and a violent one at that. After Sasha's mother had died, his father had essentially lost interest in being a father. He would often invite his equally drunken friends over to watch soccer games, drink, and play poker while Sasha hid in his room and pretended not to exist. Sasha wanted to get out of the house as soon as he could, and joining the military seemed like the best option. However, Sasha had something of an authority issue when he was younger. His father's abuse had turned him into a rebellious little shit. After 6 years of service, his shenanigans finally got him dismissed from the armed forces.
But Sasha didn't give up easily. He was going to be a soldier whether the military wanted him or not. Maybe it was some inner need to make something of himself rather than turn into his father. He went into the mercenary business when he was 24. His job allowed him to travel the world, gathering skills as he went. Sasha slowly lost most of his 'punkass kid' attitude, but his personality remained as flamboyant as ever. He was approached by Whitmore at some point and got together with Isam and Fen to form a team. Then later, he worked for Manticore, and then even later, he began to work for himself.
Sasha loves his toys. He has far more weapons than necessary, so most get left at home while he's on a mission. He usually has a pretty hard time deciding which ones are the most practical to take with him.
M32 grenade launcher - 6 rounds
AK-47 - 30 rounds
m40a3 sniper rifle - 5 rounds
Glock 22 pistol - 15 rounds
Grenades - Several?
Gerber combat knife - He brings Stabby to any kind of fight.
Name: Fenrir "Fen"
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Personality: Fen is sort of a strange fellow. He's pretty friendly with strangers, and makes a good first impression, but the longer you know him, the more of his quirks you notice. Your first impression of him may be a meek and awkward man; he's terrible at speaking with people he doesn't know. He's a bit naive about culture, popular or otherwise. He's gotten better about it, having had several movie nights with Sasha, but there's still the occasional reference that he doesn't get. Or real world situation that doesn't go quite like he would have expected. You may not notice it at first, but every now and then, you'll see him curl his lip in a snarl at someone he doesn't like. He's not afraid to bite and claw during a fight. He'll have playful bouts where he wants to wrestle and spar. It takes a little getting used to, but he's a good guy at heart.
Skills: Fen is very proficient at wilderness survival; he can hunt, tract, and eat things that most humans would balk at. His senses are a little better than the average man's: he has a keen nose, sharp ears, good eyes, and can feel when someone is trying to sneak up on him. His sense of taste seems unaffected, if not worse. For a man his size, Fen is surprisingly strong. He's also very good with animals.
Other: May or may not be the product of genetic engineering. He also loves to read old literature.
Appearance: Fen is 5'9" with lean muscles. His hair is long and mousy brown. Fen has pale skin and light brownish-gold eyes. He often lefts his facial hair go for a while before shaving or trimming it. As for clothes, Fen only wears the most comfortable: loose fitting pants, sweatshirts, t-shirts, ect. At home, wherever that is this week, he often wears nothing at all. This goes with much complaint from Sasha.
History:Fen's place of birth isn't really known. He believes he was created in a lab, hidden somewhere in the Alaskan mountains. He remembered being taught several languages, mathematics, sciences, literature, and other basics. When he was 9, he was drugged by his handlers, taken out into the middle of nowhere, and left to fend for himself. This was a true test of his abilities.
Fen woke up and began to do as he'd been taught to do in this situation: he scouted. He eventually found a small shack in the middle of the forest, equipped with food, water, clothes, blankets, ect. He lived there for a while, holed away. Every once and a while, an airplane would fly over and drop supplies near his shack. But after a couple years, the deliveries stopped coming.
Fen didn't know what happened. Maybe the company was shut down, maybe this was a new step in his testing, or maybe they just forgot about him. Whatever the case, it became clear that Fen would either have to hunt for food and water, or starve to death in his shack. He knew that wildlife lived in the area; he'd heard wolves not far from his home. If wolves were around, then there had to be food as well. He began by foraging: eating nuts and berries, and occasionally the left overs from the wolves' hunts. As he grew older, he became braver. Fen eventually set out to meet the wolves that lived in the area, and to hopefully befriend them. Or get torn apart, whichever came first.
He seemed to have a natural instinct when it came to animals. He knew when to back off, when to approach, and how to convey that he was a friend, not an enemy. After a few weeks of relentless effort, Fen managed to infiltrate the wolf pack. He started off as a loner that simply trailed behind them, then slowly began to join them on hunts and during meals. His intelligence, ability to make tools, and knack for hunting soon earned him a trusted spot among their ranks.
Fen was once a lonely boy in the middle of nowhere, but now he had a canine family. As the years went on, Fen's old clothes outgrew him, and as he became more feral, he eventually lost the need to wear them all together. During the harshest days of winters, he would still seek shelter in his shack, but the cold springs and falls didn't even bother him anymore. When he got bored, he would sit around and read his books to keep his literacy skills sharp. His favorite stories were about one of Norse god Loki's brood: Fenrir the wolf. He eventually adopted the name for himself.
When Fen was 18, he finally decided that he was tired of being a hermit. He wanted to get back into human society. So he said farewell to his wolf family and packed a bag of whatever supplies he had around his shack, and headed on a long journey across Alaska. When he eventually found a town and emerged from the forest, naked and half wild, he found that humans weren't as easy to get along with as his wolves had been. Fenrir had a strange nature that made it hard to live around other people, but he wasn't one to give up too quickly. Fen joined the military, thinking that his fighting skills would earn him respect among soldiers. That didn't work out so well for him.
Fen was picked on by the other men for his strange behaviors, and was punished when he attacked his hecklers. Eventually, he finished one too many fights and got himself kicked out with an dishonorable discharge. Fen was then approached by Whitmore, who wanted him to use his skills to protect him. Fen was hesitant, but it was the first real time someone had ever said they wanted him around. He then met Sasha and Isam and, despite his behaviors, he managed to befriend them. Their three man group was like a little wolf pack of its own.
Fen was happy to keep working with them even after their contact with Whitmore went down the toilet. And when Isam was kidnapped, Fen was willing to do anything in his power to get his friend and leader back.
Fen is more of a hand to hand kind of guy, but Isam was sure to teach him how to use a gun. Still, his supply is dwarfed by Sasha's.
m16 - 20 rounds
Glock 22 pistol - I don't feel like looking up another picture
Grenades - A few
Knives - His favorite type of weapon. He has several.
Bagh Nakh "Tiger claws" - His personal favorite. He crafted something similar (yet less effective) while in the Alaskan wild, to give himself a fighting chance against wolves, bears, and other animals twice his size. He can use them to climb, or as a weapon.
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