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OOC INFORMATION Name: Abi Contact Information: dragonpunch Personal Journal: rocketfalls Age: 23 Characters Played: Zilch. IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION Name: Agent Washington Fandom: Red vs. Blue Age: Early 30s Canon Point: Latest canonpoint available as of applying, which would be Season 13, Episode 2. Original Universe or Alternate Universe? OU. Personality: "Hmm. Aggressive, paranoid, and a little melodramatic. . . You must be Agent Washington." Felix, Season 10 Episode 16 Wash is a great example of how much someone can change the more awful, awful shit happens to him. A long time ago, Wash was part of Project Freelancer and seemed completely out of place in the company of hardened soldiers and spec ops agents. Naive, overly trusting, and the butt of everyone's jokes, he was nonetheless well-liked and treated sort of like the little brother of the group. He always considered himself the weakest soldier out of everyone there, but somehow still managed to remain hardworking, dedicated, and loyal almost to a fault. He didn't see the other agents as his comrades, but his friends, and the Director was a man he looked up to immensely as someone who'd given them all a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a difference. Wash was always dismissive about some of the rumors and gossip that went around, about the idea that the Project might be hiding some terrible secrets under the surface, but, well. One day he didn't have the truth so much revealed to him, as he did have it shoved down his throat for him to choke on. Epsilon was a combat-assistant AI that was assigned to Wash at some point in the project -- except Epsilon turned out to be just a fragment of an original AI. The Alpha AI was apparently subjected to constant, excruciating torture, forced to fragment itself in a desperate attempt to maintain sanity. This particular fragment just happened to be the result of the Alpha shedding itself of every memory of every awful trauma that it had been subjected to, trying to forget in order to keep itself together. Epsilon didn't grow slowly, steadily, insane, it was created insane, and went on to literally commit suicide while implanted in Wash's mind. Imagine someone practically sharing your consciousness, and that someone happened to be going completely mad. You can't help but listen to it, your thoughts mixing together until you can't tell which voice is your own and which is the AI and which are the awful echoing memories of screams and screams, can't help but let yourself get pulled down along with it as it tears itself apart, and. Well. The AI was eventually removed from him, thank god, and Wash was eventually designated Unfit for Duty due to the program's concerns about the long-lasting effects that the incident might have had on his mental stability.. He got better, though. At least, that's what he'll tell you. The person that Wash became after that was cold and calculating, distant and ruthless with a penchant for paranoia. Burdened with the knowledge of all that the Director had done to him and the people he still thought of as his friends, Wash became consumed with the idea of revenge. Still haunted by the memories of everything he'd endured, Wash tended to lash out at everything and anything around him, and he only learned to loosen up ever so slightly when he was forced to endure the company of some less-than-competent soldiers. People around him had the odd tendency to tell him he was crazy or insane, and Wash was always very, very quick to correct them, perhaps a little forcefully -- no, he's perfectly completely sane, thank you very much, still completely in control. Loyalty is a sore spot for Wash -- when someone betrayed his trust, he didn't hesitate to shoot them point blank in the face the next time they met. He eventually got his revenge against the Director in a way, but as vengeance is wont to do, it didn't actually really solve anything, and his frustration and anger at all the horrible things he'd been through drove him to betray the Reds and Blues. Ultimately, he finds himself on their side again, and their willingness to embrace him back among their ranks even after he turned his back on them catches him by surprise. That simple act of kindness, whether genuine or not, slowly sets Wash on the road to some much needed self-healing. While the role he ends up playing with the Blues is fairly complex, he ends up caring for them deeply, and he's willing to do anything to keep his new friends safe. Wash is still a hardened military operative, and this makes up the core of who he is -- when you're in the army, when you're in the army special ops, and especially when you're in the army super-top-secret-special-ops-unit-which-pushes-the-boundaries-of-war-ethics, being a soldier is something that becomes part of who you are. He takes war, violence and fighting in his stride, and in fact feels very at home on a battlefield. Years of training have taught him to be ruthless and deadly, alone or in a squad, and while he was never the best of Freelancer's operatives, he's still capable of taking out an enemy squadron by himself without breaking a sweat, maybe even a missile-launching helicopter or two. The military is probably the source of his tendency towards efficiency, organization and protocol, but he's learned to lighten up a little on that -- mostly out of necessity, since trying to hold the Blues to the standards of an actual military squad is enough to drive anyone up the wall. On the other hand, his practice with trying to teach them anything at all has made him a surprisingly effective teacher, in the right circumstances. He's learned to curb his aggression somewhat among his own men, but he's still the kind of guy who yells when he gets frustrated ( something that happens a lot when you're with the Reds and Blues ) and is maybe too quick to jump to pulling a gun on someone as a viable solution to a problem. He's not as emotionally distant as he used to be, though he still keeps most people at arm's length, but he is however still pretty emotionally crippled in that he tends to find himself at a loss when it comes to talking about things or really any social situation that demands something out of him other than the capacity to obey or give orders as required. His interactions with people sometimes come across as stiff, and otherwise mostly defined by cynicism and a very, very dry sense of sarcasm that some might find off-putting. After everything that's happened, Wash is never going to be the same happy and naive little kid that he used to be. He'll always be haunted by the memories of the Project and the memories of even his own actions, but he is finally starting to grow and learn from the past instead of struggle with it and refuse to let any of it go. He is at his core driven by the desire to try and do some right after all the wrong he's experienced and all the wrong he's done, and for someone who went through as much shit as he did, he's still managed to come out the other end as someone who is, so far, a pretty decent guy. Just a little bit messed up. Or a whole lot messed up. Depending on who you ask. Is this character immune? Yep! Background: Washington on the RvB Wiki & Overall Plot Summary on the RvB Wiki. Other Notables: "Washington" is of course a codename, but it's still the name that Wash prefers to go by -- he does happen to have a canon first name, David, though no last name has ever been given. None of the characters in RvB have any real canon age, either, but it can be pretty safely assumed that Wash was part of the Freelancer Project in his mid twenties, and is probably in his early 30s by the canon point I'm taking him from. In terms of his abilities, Wash isn't in any way superhuman. Wash always consistently ranked 6th among Project Freelancer operatives, and that pretty much makes it sounds like a big old whopping "meh". He was definitely considered mediocre -- but with a little context, mediocre as compared to some of the most ridiculous supersoldiers around still lands him pretty far above average. He's a trained spec ops agent, knows how to handle a wide variety of weapons, and even with such stiff competition he was still unmatched when it came to his favored weapon, the battle rifle. While clearly specializing in firearms, Wash is also proven to be very effective when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, and shows surprising skill when it comes to knife fighting. He's a pretty capable leader and a more than able tactician, but he does have the tendency to let emotion cloud his judgment. It should also probably be noted that waking up in a hospital gown after having weird things done to his body against his will is probably Wash's absolute worst nightmare. Inventory: At the canon point I'm taking him from, he will have on his person: 1x Set of Freelancer MJOLNIR armor, gray with a yellow trim, equipped with his armor enhancement -- a portable EMP charge. 1x BR55HB SR Battle Rifle 1x M6G Magnum Sidearm Nerf, remove and do what you will! I'm anticipating the in-built EMP of his armor to be replaced with a function that just yells "emp" whenever he tries to activate it. Actually, if he gets to keep his armor, I would really like it if that was how his EMP was nerfed. Just sayin. SAMPLES NETWORK SAMPLE: [ Silence, and then a burst of static, softer then louder and eventually replaced with just the distant sound of someone's breathing. Whoever it is sounds a little like they've just run a marathon, like they're struggling for every raw and ragged gasp, and it takes a few long moments for that breathing to start to steady itself. This is one Agent Washington freshly woken up and trying to digest everything he's just been told, trying to evaluate how much he should believe and how much he should take with a grain of salt, trying not to give in to the crawling dread that comes with waking up in the cold of a hospital room, knowing that something's been done, something, something, please god help please make it stop don't say goodbye, I hate goodbyes -- ] This is -- [ His voice shakes slightly, but mostly there's static that keeps bursting between his words. ] -- Washington, requesting -- [ static ] -- don't know what they did to me. Repeat, reqesting -- [ STATIC STATIC STATIC STATIC ] . . . SWITCHING TO TEXT . . . | Request for any UNSC personnel in receipt of this message to respond with status and location. Be advised that network appears UNSTABLE and INSECURE, voice comms UNRELIABLE. Location currently unknown. [ a long pause, and eventually, he finally finishes the transmission: ] Immediate response requested. LOG SAMPLE: Here. This sample is fairly old, but it's what I have, and I completely understand if I should be required to write a new one as a revision.