And I Have Become Death... (Aussie & Taaj)

[The Australian]

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

2190

It has been over a century since Humanity extinguished itself in atomic fire. What led to it, remains a mystery. But, what is known is that the resources that the nations needed began to become depleted, and they fought a world war over it. Countries that were once allies now turned weapons on each other over trivial things like oil.

Then, on one spring morning, the seventh of April, in the year of 2075, a nuclear missile was launched. Then another. Soon, the entire world was lit in nuclear fire, and what survived was horrific. Entire cities were snuffed out existence. But, humanity endured, like it always had. Some survived in underground bunkers, built by governments the world over in preparation for this, whilst other survived through sheer ingenuity.

The survivors on the outside and their descendants carried on a tradition of pragmatism and survival. Some formed communities, but many just became wanderers, going wherever the wind took them.

The underground Fallout shelters could last for centuries. An automated system was implanted on the American ones, instructing the commander of it to wait until the All Clear to send out the entire population, but was advised to at least send out a recon team at least twice per commander. Many of these shelters opened early, whilst others stay locked up tight, seemingly forever.

But, in this new world, it is survival of the fittest, and can the people from the shelters survive in this hellish world?

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[The Australian]

Name: Reginald Carswell
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Appearance:


Weapons:
M1903 Springfield (Given to him by his father)
Glock-22 (Taken from a police officer's skeleton, who obviously didn't need it any more)
Other Gear:
Geiger Counter
Watch (Again, given to him by his father)
A backpack filled with an assortment of maps, a blanket, all of his food that he carries, and a book.
Canteen.
Biography:
Reginald Carswell was born to wanderers of the wasteland. His mother was a caravan merchant. She took pack mules and went down the old roads to barter supplies to the towns. His father was her guard. When he was born, they took a short break from the travels at one of the towns that was on their route. As Reginald turned eight, they continued back on their route, with Reginald in tow. He grew up on the back of a mule, observing the sights of the wasteland.

They never went near the city of Boston, which was tens of miles away, but he heard stories of it, and how beautiful it was before the bombs fell. His wish was that he'd get to see that city. When he was 16, his father died of radiation poisoning. His dying wish was that his only son should go see the world. Reginald inherited his father's personal effects, and helped his mother go on the caravan routes.

As he turned 19, his mother became old, and couldn't make the journey any more. She retired in the same town she took her short maternity break in, and Reginald set out into the wastes, to find some vestige of the old world, and trying to forget the past.

[Taaja Hart]

Name: Olivia Wathen
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Weapons:
Jericho 941 (borrowed from her commander)
Hunting knife (personally owned)
Other Gear:
Canteen
Radio
Bio: Born and raised inside the Fallout. Her father was a major general and part of a recon team before he was killed above grounds when Olivia was 13. Olivia's mother was often preoccupied with her own affairs, and saw her child as more of a burden than anything else. Olivia was mostly raised by her aunt and uncle, especially through her teen years. When she was 18 she moved in with her lover, Adam, who was a well known and generally liked member of one of the training recon teams. When he went missing during a drill, Olivia decided to take his place, joining the squad and continuing to living in general solitude with little to no communication with any of her remaining family members. She has a general hatred of the outside world, but sees it as her duty to do what she can to defeat it.