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Chasing Away Shadows - near future military sci-fi RP (Metal Gear inspired)

Is it just me, or does the first name 'Sabine' sound familiar?

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I'm pretty sure someone chose to be a helicopter pilot instead of a mech pilot in the last incarnation of the RP, so it may be a possibility. You'll have to check in with Silver about it though. He's a pretty open guy, so I think your chances are pretty good! ;)

Chasing Away Shadows - near future military sci-fi RP (Metal Gear inspired)

I'd guess it'd be the same level of things you'd see in MGS. I think the maximum level of tech would be something like MGS4-period Raiden.

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Very nice, Silver, as usual.

Anyway, I was looking over the characters and I found that Milkman's character also has a 403 on the appearance. Might want to look into that.

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Friendly bit of information, you've got a 403 on that character appearance image, buddy.

Chasing Away Shadows - near future military sci-fi RP (Metal Gear inspired)

Reserving a spot. I'll put my character sheet here when I'm done with it.

EDIT:

Character Name: Lawrence "Larry" Charlton

Age: 30

Appearance:

Facial Appearance

Larry during a deployment in the Middle East, two to five years ago. Exact date unknown.

Personality: Larry is a simple man. Someone tells him to shoot something, he will probably do it. However, he is certainly not a stupid man. While he once had a reputation of being a loudmouth, he is a careful planner and always thinks before doing, aside from when speaking. He usually takes a "underling" role in whatever group he is in, mostly due to habit and not due to actual stress. As for likes, he enjoys traveling, contemporary literature, war-movies, spy flicks, general cinema, walking, cooking and technology. Larry is a positive man, and as such he is open to most ideals and things, not especially disliking certain items.

Regarding his outlook on life, Larry, as aforementioned, is a simple man, preferring to look towards the future, keep an eye on the present and not dwell on the past. It is in this way that he doesn't really have an opinion on the changes regarding war, simply adapting to survive in the new world. He does get quite sentimental when it comes to his old team, the Desert Wolves.

History: Lawrence "Larry" Patrick-James Charlton was born to a middle-class United States west coast family when the Cold War was coming to its end. Growing up watching Vietnam War movies, spy flicks and fighter pilot films, his parents were both active duty soldiers in the Marine Corps, his father being a AV-8B Harrier II pilot and his mother as a radio operator, and thus neither spent much time at home. Larry spent most of his evenings staying up late watching aforementioned movies and shows and took an interest at a young age in war. He had a modest school life, not too bad but not very good either. He joined the United States Army shortly after graduation and after a successful basic training he was immediately deployed for the recently started War in Afghanistan.

Shortly after arrival he was assigned to FOB Chapman, however, while en-route, their transport was shot down by a SAM. Fortunately for Larry, he was able to survive the crash with little injuries. However, most of his team was severely injured, leaving only two others to proceed onwards to FOB Chapman. The group soon met a problem in their journey. The two others preferred to leave the four injured in the face of advancing enemies. Larry instead decided to stay with the injured. He managed, despite only possessing limited supplies, to bring one of the four men back on his feet and save both others from blood-loss. The man who he had brought back on his feet was one First Sergeant Jeremy Thompson and this saving of his life would begin a long and close friendship between him and Larry. The pair managed to bring back both injured after a weeks journey on foot, evading Taliban troops and enduring sweltering conditions. Upon return, these actions would award both Distinguished Service Crosses and earn the team all four created together, the Desert Wolves, the Presidential Unit Citation. Jeremy Thompson, a CQC expert, decided to teach Larry the arts of hand to hand combat and the pair trained daily, creating a strong bond between the two.

After a relatively short deployment in Afghanistan, the Desert Wolves were sent to Colombia to take down guerrilla forces. They were met with good success, earning them favor among the higher ups and within a year or two, the Desert Wolves became an official special forces unit, despite only being composed of four men. Their success continued until 2015 when an incident ripped the team apart.

The Desert Wolves had been redeployed to Afghanistan to participate in the killing of a particularly important Taliban leader. The details are unclear, but something happened between their deployment to northern-Afghanistan and Larry's solitary return to Bagram Airfield, haggard, dirty and with a troubled expression. He has refused to reveal the details to this day, but the mission was labeled a failure and the three members of the Desert Wolves, including Larry's close friend, Jeremy Thompson, were put as MIA. Shortly after, Larry was given an honorable discharge and he became a soldier of fortune, travelling the world and fighting for the highest payer. These "adventures" continued up until the present day when he was recruited for the Blaze Unit.

Special Talents or Skills: Larry isn't especially special by himself, except for being a crackshot and being proficient with many types of weapons, armor, survival techniques, CQC styles and even aircraft. A veritable jack of all trades, master of none.

Personal Weapons & Equipment:
-HK416 (5.56x45mm NATO) Carbine (personal favorite, used during the time of the Desert Wolves). Used with a EOTech Holographic Hybrid Sight, foregrip, laser sight and occasional suppresor.
-SIG Pro SP 2022 (9x19mm Parabellum), a gift from a French GIGN operative after Larry aided them in a raid. The story goes that during the raid, Larry's own pistol jammed and he was forced to fight with a knife against a group of five gangsters. Complaining that the jammed pistol was "cheap Chinese crap", he was given the pistol by one of his allies, who had been using it ever since it entered Gendarmerie service in 2002. He continues to use it to this day. Has support for a suppressor and Picatinny rail accessories. Larry also owns a Glock G17 Gen4, though it is practically stock due to not finding much need to customize it.
-KA-BAR combat knife, usually used in tandem with the SIG Pro for close quarters combat, following the principals of CQC.
-SOG SEAL Pup Elite boot knife, used in situations where Larry doesn't have access to his preferred KA-BAR.
-MultiCam ACU, in either Standard, Arid, Tropic, Alpine or Black patterns, depending on mission. Has a Desert Wolves insignia on the right shoulder, USA flag on the left.
-Shemagh scarf, in the same color as his ACU of choice.

Personal Theme: (subject to change)

Theme

(direct link if video doesn't work)

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Also, deciding on a favorite color is really hard.

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I did. I'm probably just blind and stupid though, so could you humor me and tell me what it is?

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

What am I missing? I get the free built in weaponry (which I didn't put since I thought that it would go without saying), but I don't see much else wrong.

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Character Sheet

Character Name: Raisa Yurievna Biryukova (first name, patronymic name and surname, respectively)

Age: 22

Species: Corsac Fox

Appearance: Raisa is rather short, like most others of her kind. However, there are some key differences between her and others of her kind. While others might have a kinder expression, Raisa's facial expression can be quite intimidating, with a sharp glare and a straight face, despite not especially wishing to scare those around her. She keeps a straight posture at all times, however in regards to womanly figure, she is somewhat lacking, to her chagrin. She wears a pair of thin rimmed glasses.

Personality: Despite appearances, Raisa is kind of heart and tries to be at least somewhat friendly with those around her. She can be slightly hesitant in regards to social interactions at times though.
Raisa has a positive view on life, though she sometimes gets worried when it comes to thinking about the "big picture", wondering if all that she does is for naught or if it serves a purpose. She has a somewhat neutral perspective on war, deeming it a natural state of living beings though she certainly doesn't support it, condemning it for the huge losses of life and material it brings. Even with this unsure opinion on the subject, she feels that in a morbid sort of way that she is 'at home' on the battlefield, but she certainly doesn't share this opinion with others.
Other than these personal opinions, she is rather intelligent, but she tends not to rub it in other's faces.

Personal History: Raisa Yurievna Biryukova was born in a small independent state, called Iyuli, that made most of their money off of state owned weapons designs bureaus. Her own father, Yuri Yakovich Biryukova was a head designer in one of the premier bureaus in the state, the Sukhoyan-Ilyushevich Design Bureau, primarily responsible for GEAR related developments. Spending much of his time away from home either working on a new design or demonstrating one of his designs at shows and expos throughout the world, Raisa thus spent most of her time taking care of her mother, her two younger sisters and her older brother who was born a cripple.
For most of her childhood, Raisa had to play a juggling act of taking care of her family and attending school, leaving her little free time to make friends or attend extracurricular activities. Instead, she occupied her free moments by reading through her father's personal library, filled with books not only on GEAR engineering, design and use but also on famous battles, told through eye-witness accounts and interviews with veterans. It was in this way that Raisa built an interest in soldiery and began aspiring to becoming a GEAR pilot after an acquaintance's uncle, a military recruiter, convinced her that the pay earned would be enough to keep her family afloat for many years.
At the age of sixteen, she entered her country's military academy where she became adept in many different facets of warfighting, such as the basics of shooting, CQC, survival but also of advanced GEAR piloting.
Shortly after graduation, she served a short five year service with the Iyuli military, during which she participated in prestigious activities such as parades, group training and patrols. Searching for a more exciting fate, she requested a transfer to Landren to join as a foreign volunteer. After numerous tests, which she passed with flying colors, she was assigned to the 101st Tactical GEAR Unit of the LDF Landcruiser Parvan's Claw, "Roughriders".

Personal Weapons and Equipment:
-Iyuli GEAR Pilot Gear, with helmet, survival tools and sidearm.
-Locket with photos of family.
-Laminated photocopy of her father's company ID card, used as a sort of ornament in the cockpit of her GEAR.

Personal Theme: Putting this as a direct link in case the QQCode Youtube function doesn't work.

Favorite color: Blue

Mecha Sheet
Main GEAR:

Gear Name & Serial Number: Sukhoyan-Ilyushevich SuI-27 Flanker

Appearance:


Role: Close Quarters Enemy Engagement & Combat Superiority (CQEE&CS), Anti GEAR combat.

Normal Loadout:

1x Avto-15 fifteen millimeter anti-infantry machine gun (built in, on right wrist next to missile pod). Miniaturized version of the Avto-30 full sized thirty millimeter autocannon, available as a hand-held weapon for the Flanker and Fulcrum.
2x Wrist missile pods, non-removable. Capable of using different kinds of missiles (HEAT, anti infantry, anti air...). Despite being non-removable, the missile firing system can be switched out to instead be used as an extending and retracting wrist blade for close quarters combat, though only on the left wrist due to the presence of the machine gun.
2x Mounting points for various weapon types on the shoulders (extra rocket pods, cannons, extra anti-infantry machine guns)
The hands of the Flanker, like most other GEARs, can use GEAR sized personal weapons (assault rifles, combat rifles, large scale shotguns...) and melee equipment.

Other Systems & Equipment:
-Iyuli designed combat computer, including radar, various sensors and a simplified ECM and anti-ECM suite.
-Standard comms systems.
-Mounting points on the legs for tools and carrying items (infantry supplies, extra ammunition...)
-Anti-missile flares.
-Parachute mounting points for air drops.

Other notes: Info such as the background of the GEARs design and purpose, or history of the design in LDF service, as well as any personal info about the GEAR.
The SuI-27 Flanker is the newest GEAR built by the Sukhoyan-Ilyushevich Design Bureau and is currently being proposed to militaries such as the LDF and a few have been bought by the Iyuli Ground Defense Force. Despite being specialized in anti-GEAR combat, it is also effective in many roles, though it is more effective in the aforementioned role.
Raisa's Flanker is the only GEAR of its type currently in LDF service, serving as her own machine while she is working as a foreign volunteer for the LDF. Aside from serving as her own combat machine, it is also used as an indirect advertisement from Sukhoyan-Ilyushevich to the LDF. Raisa calls her own Flanker "Sanya" after her older brother.

Spare GEAR:

Gear Name & Serial Number: SuI-29 Fulcrum

Appearance:


Role: Multi-role.

Normal Loadout:
1x Avto-15 fifteen millimeter anti-infantry machine gun (built in, on right wrist next to missile pod). Miniaturized version of the Avto-30 full sized thirty millimeter autocannon, available as a hand-held weapon for the Flanker and Fulcrum.
2x Wrist missile pods, non-removable. Capable of using different kinds of missiles (HEAT, anti infantry, anti air...). Despite being non-removable, the missile firing system can be switched out to instead be used as an extending and retracting wrist blade for close quarters combat, though only on the left wrist due to the presence of the machine gun.
2x Mounting points for various weapon types on the shoulders (extra rocket pods, cannons, extra anti-infantry machine guns)
The hands of the Fulcrum, like most other GEARs, can use GEAR sized personal weapons (assault rifles, combat rifles, large scale shotguns...) and melee equipment, though it is limited to lighter weapons than the Flanker.

Other Systems & Equipment:
-Iyuli designed combat computer, including radar, various sensors and a simplified ECM and anti-ECM suite.
-Standard comms systems.
-Mounting points on the legs for tools and carrying items (infantry supplies, extra ammunition...)
-Anti-missile flares.
-Parachute mounting points for air drops.

Other notes: For the last ten years, the SuI-29 Fulcrum has been a main-stay of the Iyuli Ground Defense Force, despite its light weight. Easy to produce and highly reliable, it is planned to remain in service long after the introduction of its larger brother, the SuI-27 Flanker.
Only a few were bought by the LDF, and this one serves as Raisa's replacement GEAR in case of emergency. Despite its size and age compared to the Flanker, it is a superior GEAR outside of anti-GEAR combat, capable of better performing reconnaissance and anti-installation interdiction. Raisa used this Fulcrum for a long time before switching to the Flanker and has something of an attachment to the machine, naming it after her youngest sister, Rozaliya.