XCOM: Enemy Within, Enemy Without (WIP. YUP)

[lovely corte]

Two Possibilities Exist:
Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying.
- Arthur C. Clarke

"That's what you are, Rookie. Best and brightest that Earth in all of her cosmic greatness has to give. Maybe you're the best G-damn soldier to ever strap on his big boy boots and hike up his khakis, the smartest scientist to have ever flopped open a book and jerked off to Einstein or maybe you invented a self-fornicating pineapple that squirts its own hand lotion.

Rookie, E.T doesn't give two flying fornications for what you are. You ever seen a Muton rampaging through the streets of Japan? No? Thought so. You ever see a Sectoid pack, crawling around in all of their grey-skinned, heathen-loving, man-killing horror rip a part an entire squad of former Navy SEALs?

I have.

So trust me when I say, Rookie, that when you fill out that registration, when you get that XCOM Vigil on your shoulder, it doesn't mean squat to me. As your Drill Sergeant, Field Officer and Squad Leader, unless you spontaneously grow nuke throwing, sword dual-wielding, Love of God blessing cannon arms, you have about a twenty-five percent chance of surviving your first mission."

- The Immortal Words of Sergeant Daniel H. Merryweather, Professional Rookie Wrangler and Wife Fucker Extraordinaire

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AGE: (Must at least be above 18)
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SPECIALIZATION: (Heavy, Sniper, Assault, Support or Scientific Field/Other)
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Note: XCOM is a very, very death heavy game. While I won't go out of my way to fuck your characters shit up, death is very likely if you put yourself in that position, as is gruesome wounding that will otherwise affect your characters.

Maybe make more than one character or risk it with one. I can't tell you what to do. I'm not your mother. Although, sometimes I'd like to be.

[Adlai Stevenson]

[lovely corte]

NAME: Sergeant Daniel Heather Merryweather.
AGE: 48.
GENDER: Male.
APPEARANCE: Http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/bittersweetmika/gk40.jpg Face.
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PERSONALITY: Sarcastic, brutal in his honesty, unflinching in his actions and resolute in his combat prowess, Daniel was born to lead. He was a bit of a womaniser before his dick, and the rest of his body, was blown off in a firefight, albeit this hasn't put a dampener on his spirits.

He is somewhat of a bigot, especially when it comes to race and homosexuality, but he does genuinely care about his soldiers, his very nature put to purpose to prepare them for the stress of combat with the aliens.
SPECIALIZATION: MEC Trooper.
BIO: Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Daniel is first and foremost a father to two children, a husband (albeit a terrible one), a grandfather and a former Commander in the United States Marine Corps, having served with 1st Recon, most recently in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He was one of the first recruits to the XCOM Project, forming the skeleton crew that would later expand once the first alien spaceship started taking pot-shots at satellites. He commanded troops in the field in some of the first attacks, most notably in Australia, Japan and India.

After an attack by a Muton grenade whilst on reconnaissance in France during Operation Fragile Empire which earned him the Defender's Medal, the International Service Cross and the Urban Combat Badge, his lower body was completely blown off, with most of his upper body with it.

Surviving the attack, he was adapted to a MEC Basic Augment after intensive surgery and now operates at a squad level from the confines of a MEC-2 Sentinel, refusing promotion past the XCOM ranking of Sergeant, because he feels as if the level of impact would be greater at the mission level. Plus, there's no room for his mechanical ass anymore anywhere else, where he prefers to be in the field, an intellectual with a sound mind for strategy.

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[JW%]

Work in progress. I intend to roll up several characters. I've played X-COM... one unlocky shot...


NAME: Brian Jones PhD
AGE: 38
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE: tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/3/3e/Drjonesdw.jpg Which is to say a rather pale Caucasian male with possible Asian blood mixed in, dark hair and a tight goatee. His build is average for a man his age who has regular, but not stressful, exercise(IE he passes military fitness tests, even the XCOM tests, but only just barely).
PERSONALITY: Doctor Jones is devoted to his work, driven even. He is egotistical, even arrogant, within his established field, but rather humble outside of it. He is friendly and jovial, ready with a laugh or a joke or a flirt, but doesn't always know social boundaries and may cause awkward scenes because of this(somehow I DOUBT he will, at least relative to everyone else).
SPECIALIZATION: "Scientific Field/Other"(?)
BIO: Doctor Jones was working on research and development projects for the government to build more advanced military grade hardware since before he had earned his first PhD. He is driven to excel at scientific fields in applied energy physics and other similar areas, and managed to keep extremely good contacts and social networking within the industry. Unfortunately, while he has his own brand of charisma, he can be extremely annoying to his peers and commanding officers as well as ignorant of a life outside of building and tuning things that punch holes in other things. He often forgets about events going on outside of his work, anywhere from forgetting his own birthday, to forgetting the existence of his own girlfriend, to forgetting to eat or sleep until his normally quite fit body collapses under him. This is not actually forgetfulness, but rather focus on matters important to him to the exclusion of other things. It is believed that he may have some sort of high functioning aspbergers syndrome, though tests are inconclusive on the matter and he resents their implications. Regardless, he just doesn't seem to think like other people or notice social cues with any regularity, cracking off jokes, laughing at inappropriate things, and sexually harassing(in the most minor and excusable way possible) his co-workers. The fact that he has a girlfriend, and is, if it were to ever come up, quite loyal to her, is a shock to most who work with him, and a mystery how he could ever attain one. Not just because of his limited social skills, but also the time frame involved means that he, since he has managed multiple PhD's and acquired a good degree of wealth for himself through his stock portfolio, he likely gives her very little attention.

NAME: Airman Timothy Grayson
AGE: (Must at least be above 18)
GENDER: Male
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PERSONALITY: Airman Grayson has a sizable chip on his shoulder and is constantly out to prove to himself and the world that what he says is true: He's the best of the best of the best. This means that he comes off as quite an arrogant jerk to others and tends to live a lonely, spartan, life.
SPECIALIZATION: Support?
BIO: From the abuse he received at an early age, Grayson has been driven to prove himself for acceptance. He did not, initially, know of XCOM, nor did he initially sign up for it, instead he was transferred due to his exemplary piloting record and skills from the Red Arrows of the RAF. He now serves XCOM as air support and long range transportation pilot, though he takes great pride in his assertion that anything one of the ground troops can do(short of special training/equipment) he can do just as good, if he wasn't already doing something even more important.

[Fiery Firefly]

NAME: Faith Antonia Cisneros
AGE: 30
GENDER:Female
APPEARANCE: 31.media.tumblr.com/c55666c81977b4e1dfbf914cee648fcd/tumblr_n4po72bY9U1t0m5hfo4_250.gif
PERSONALITY: A very personable and sweet woman, if a bit on the oblivious and ditzy side. Absolutely fascinated by aliens, and in her studies of them, to the point its off-putting, especially to those who have alien induced trauma.
SPECIALIZATION:Scientific field
BIO:

WIP might make more characters, since we're a little science heavy at the moment.

NAME: Madison Gallagher
AGE: 20
GENDER: Female
APPEARANCE:
PERSONALITY: Very much a loose cannon, basically destined to be cannon fodder. She is a huge risk taker and very daring, and also is the most likely to be insubordinate to her superiors.
SPECIALIZATION: Assault
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NAME: Ricardo "Rico" Dominguez
AGE: (Must at least be above 18)
GENDER:Male
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SPECIALIZATION: Sniper