Profession: United States Army Ranger
Name: Genevieve Alleron "Aera Cura"
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Appearance:Backstory:Born on the west coast to immigrant parents, Genevieve Alleron began her life seeking a very different career than the one she now lives. Her school years were rather unremarkable, scoring average marks in all curriculum, and taking part in few extracurricular activities. The one field she did excel in, however, was dance. As a child, Genevieve loved to dance, and spent most of her free time listening to music and dancing through the choreos, as well as making her own steps. In time her passion would pay off with a scholarship for a college of arts that held partnerships with several dance studios. At the age of 18, she made her way towards starting a wonderful life, support by two proud parents and eager to make a name for herself. What greeted her was a series of downturns that slowly dulled her love for the arts. Sterilized rote and ceaseless practice of the same routines drilled into her began to make her cynical of the arts. She longed for the freedom of being able to dance as she wished, in whatever way suited her. Her tutors disagreed, claiming that only through repeated practice of established routines would she be able to understand the more fluid forms. With barely a year into her study, Genevieve dropped out and looked for work within the city, taking various odd-jobs and what few dancing commissions she could get from local clubs(Not that kind! She's a classy lady).
One night, on her way home after another of these dancing jobs, Genevieve was confronted a trio of patrons from the bar who were quite clearly drunk and agitated. After several unsuccessful advances, the trio became hostile and attacked her, where she would later awaken in the hospital a day later. Her spirit had been broken by the encounter, and she no longer held the same view of the world she once did. The world now seemed ugly and violent to her, and as she thought more of it, the more bitter she became. When she left the hospital a week after the attack she was spiteful towards the world, angry that her efforts had been for nothing, and that she had been powerless to stop the attack. Once home she began to glance through her mail from the week she had been away, tossing the bills and caring nothing for the voicemail left by friends and family. She came to feel that the only person she could rely on was herself, and that to lean on any other would only result in her misfortune again. It was then that she came across a recruiting letter from the US Army, one of the many letters issued out to natural-born citizens when they reached 18. Taking up what few belongings she still cared about, she left for the nearby recruitment office and turned her back on everyone she knew for good.
Despite the brutal physical requirements of Basic Training, Genevieve knew that this was now the only way forward, pushing herself to her limits in order to prove herself the equal of any other in Basic. This sheer determination would pay off when she enlisted into Infantry School and was shipped off to Fort Benning, where again she pushed hard to keep herself at top of the class. Inevitably, however, she would reach that glass-ceiling, and she knew that the stubbornness of Army command was infamous in their denial of women in combat roles. Though she was refused repeatedly, she continued to press at command, proving herself capable of going through the 100 hours of hell and then some, until finally command relented and signed her over to Ranger School under strict orders of classifying her file. She was told that despite earning her way into the Rangers, she would now have to portray herself as a male, lest the higher-ups find out and throw her from active-service. Grudgingly, she obeyed orders without question, and masqueraded as a male throughout training until she was given service orders and shipped out.
The next three years would take her around the world in various missions that would test not only her physical mettle, but also her mental endurance as she stubbornly held to her false persona. Finally, in the forests of Vietnam during a classified assignment, her identity was found out when the mission went tits-up. Captured by militant groups in the jungle, she was not only tortured by her captors, but shut out by those she had served alongside for the last three years. Once more she turned inwards, finding that solid core of resolve and vowing to cut her way free. Three months of agony passed until she finally found the opportunity she had been waiting for. One of the guards had been careless, and had determined that he was to take advantage of the female prisoner, only for her to take liberty of his carelessness and liberate his throat from his neck. Silently she took down the three other guards on night-shift, and set to work trapping the encampment for when she would release her fellow Rangers. As the team escaped into the night, a series of explosions set off when investigative guards went searching for the prisoners, setting fire to the forest and covering their escape with not only a distraction, but thick cloud cover to hide them from the moon-light. With safety reached, Genevieve looked towards her former comrades, expecting the same distaste they had previously shown, but instead found equal parts gratitude and shame. Putting their initial reception of her behind them, the team once more accepted Genevieve into their ranks, this time as a true equal.
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On July first, 1999, six operatives under the codenames "Thanatos", "Aera Cura", "Hyperion", "Cerberus", "Charon" and Task-Leader "Erebus" were tasked by SOCOM and the CIA with undertaking a mission into the depths of Brazil to take down a rogue element of Brazilian military that had seized control of sections of the Amazon. Codenamed Operation Still-Waters, the mission saw the operatives inserted deep into hostile territory by way of stealth helicopters, and following this they were to rendezvous with a tribal guide connected to the rightful Brazilian military command. Mission did not proceed as planned, as it is believed that intelligence within the Brazilian military tipped off the rogue militia, leading to a firefight within the village which resulted in eight enemy kills, one wounded member, and six civilian casualties. Without a mission plan to proceed on, Task-Leader issued a new plan of action that would have the task-force push deeper into the jungle along a parallel to roadways. Utilizing specialist survival training, the team set up for a period of six-weeks in deep enemy territory, while the Brazilian government continued to cover-up the rogue militants. Once confident that the task-force had been believed dead, or pulled out of the Amazon, Still-Waters was once more a go, and the team executed a series of lightning-raids against the militants under cover of night. With the jungle to cover them, as well as a numerically smaller force allowing them to dissipate faster, the task-force was able to move quickly and sever elements of militant command without loss. Operation Still-Waters was concluded when the militant second-in-command returned to Brazil to face court-martialing and report that the militant group would face judgement for its actions. Upon returning to the United States for debriefing, task-force Still Waters was returned to active duty.
In September of 2001, task-force Still-Waters was called into service once more, this time in the line of domestic defense under protocols regarding bio-terror threats. Given limited supplies and information, Still-Waters was to respond to changing scenarios in the event that the nation had fallen. Code-named "Black Winter", this group consisted of numerous classified and unclassified operatives who would test the security and defenses of the homeland, a test that would fall short in more than one way. The mission for Still-Waters in particular was to be able to infiltrate and recover high-level government personnel or information, and rendezvous with remaining SOCOM elements in a secured location. Task-force orders were varied depending upon scenario, though it was imperative that operatives exercise caution and try to prevent as many civilian casualties as possible. Despite thorough planning on part of SOCOM, it was found to be a failing in the defenses of the CDC and Department of Homeland Security that ended the potential of Black Winter in 2001. Following this failure, the president signed into order Directive 51 which created cells of operatives trained in the execution of Black Winter, for the express purpose of keeping continuity of government.
After their involvement in Directive 51, task-force Still-Waters spent a period of five years in Afghanistan supporting the war through specialist actions. In March of 2005, Still-Waters was given mission orders to infiltrate a series of villages along the Pakistani/Afghan borders. Once infiltrated, the operatives were to seek and destroy elements of Al Qaeda command, as well as sever lines of resupply to the Khyber Pass. Within a week the mission was compromised, seeing operatives "Thanatos" and "Hyperion" killed in action, and operative "Cerberus" in enemy hands. Remaining elements of Still-Waters were given directives to fall-back and regroup, however it is believed that communications were breached and any effort to fall back would result in total loss. Without choice but to continue the mission, Task-Leader amended mission directives to secure operative "Cerberus" and regroup at safe-zone Delta/9. With limited time before the enemy would dispose of Cerberus, Still-Waters dispersed to seek out the location of their captured operative and enact stage two of the amended mission. Once located three miles south of Cerberus' last known location, Still-Waters attacked the village covertly during the night, executing fifteen enemy combatants without raising the alarm, and successfully retrieving their operative. With their operative secured, the task-force then doubled-back to complete the mission by executing the remaining threats that had been found across the border in Pakistani tribal lands. Completion of mission lead to the team being withdrawn from the war and put on leave in recognition of their service and their losses. Despite the mission being classified, each member was awarded with the Silver Star and the unit was given the Valorous Unit Award, while their fallen operatives were also given the posthumous Purple-Heart. Upon declassification of these missions, the recipient's names will be published and the physical medals will be handed over.
Following the succesful operation of Seal Team Six, task-force Still-Waters was called into action once more, though this time it was acting abroad. Under the codename Operation Orchid the team was to insert themselves in the Guangxi region and investigate potential threats from the communist nation towards the homeland. For nearly four years the team operated along the Li River and the mountains of the region, integrating with the local population and finding out what they could of suspected acts on the part of the Chinese government. They would find mostly rumours at first, of entire villages simply disappearing and supposed curses of historical rulers coming true. It was only towards the end of the operation when they would become involved in the spreading infection across the nation, and very nearly become another statistic. Through quick-thinking and selfless heroism, Task-Leader "Erebus" acquired a river boat from local fishermen and was able to get the team to the emergency evac-point in the Gulf of Tonkin before all contact was lost.
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Three weeks before the virus hit, Genevieve arrived in St Louis under orders to await re-activation for her unit. Taking up residence in the apartment on the sixth floor, she began looking for consultation jobs around the city, and generally acclimating herself to the region. She had recently begun work with a security firm when the virus hit, seeking to keep her skills as honed as possible until re-activation, and the very likely deployment in the face of this new threat.
