[OOC] - Squad 914: Beyond - Rebooted

[HachiRoku]

The 'old person reminiscing' concept is interesting, akin to that of Saving Private Ryan. I'm only concerned over the cliche this might turn into and the implications of such a scene. Or maybe I'm just over-analyzing.

[Jeep Wrangler]

@HachiRokuThat is why I am likely to change that. The starting post was supposed to leave the mystery open to whether or not Squad 914 succeeded in their mission, but were still remembered either way. It's a lot harder to pull off nowadays, but I might include it early on in the RP instead of in the post.

[Wildman13]

Good to be part of the team.

[mickilennial]

Was there an application in PMs or something? I didn't get to review anything.

[Wildman13]

Was there an application in PMs or something? I didn't get to review anything.

@Inkarnate

I sent it to the Gm via pm sorry for the confussion.

[Carlyle]

I'll have a post up later this week. Maybe by Thursday-Friday, if not.

[Jeep Wrangler]

Ei Yu, Chinese Liberation Front

“When one man is ready to risk his life, ten thousand men cannot defeat him.”

Ei Yu, reciting a Chinese idiom

Personal Dossier

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_Name

Ei Yu

_Age

29

_{Date of Birth}

December 28th, 1919

_Gender

Female

_Origin

Nanjing, Republic of China

_Appearance

Ei Yu can slip into a Chinese crowd with little difficulty – her appearance being that of a common poor Chinese woman of adult age. She stands at a full 5’2”, the stock average of her gender among her fellow eastern and southeastern Asians. She’s well-toned after a decade of fighting and conditioning against Japanese Imperialists and keeps up a martial arts regimen in order to keep herself “centered” and ready for anything. Her hair is a dark brown-black and she has brown eyes with an unassuming appearance that is often made even moreso with the choice of clothing that is more reminiscent of a dǒulì-toting rice farmer than the resistance soldier that she is.

_Personality

Ei Yu inherited a broad intelligence and self-oriented philosophy from her father, often believing strongly that despite her role in traditional Chinese society the only way things were going to be done correctly was with her directing them. Given her particular struggles as a member of the Chinese Resistance this has been a trait that has only been affirmed throughout nearly eleven years of struggle and experience. This isn’t to say Yu thinks people are incompetent, but rather they lack the emotional stability to think logically and efficiently when it comes to a problem. In many conflicts this has arisen to Yu maintaining a level head and subverting her own emotions to get the most optimal result. It’s hard to disagree with Yu when she’s survived as long as she has against the Japanese forces that intend to dominate her culture, people, and the Chinese way of being. But at the end of the day, Yu isn’t as emotionally mute as she would lead her comrades to believe.

The Rape of Nanjing has scarred the deepest, oldest memories of Yu’s mind; the event causing an emotional instability that leads to huge waves of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, guilt, hatred, fear, and obsession. Yu’s focus is only to cope with the dark emotions that remain deep within her heart and soul. From her perspective it is a productive thing to ignore her feelings, especially considering the traditions she was born with consist of quiet resilience and stoicism as primary values. Sometimes she is candidly blunt and othertimes she is simply being “objective” regarding her hatred and concerns, but in the end she’d rather swallow a bullet than admit her own anxieties, fears, and speak of the guilt she has on surviving Nanjing.

_Background

Ei Yu was born to a small Chinese family in Nanjing in 1923 during a perilous time in the Republic of China.

Yu’s father, Ei Zhong, was a Chinese Capitalist and Nationalist who served as one of the most influential men in Nanjing prior to his death at the hands of the Japanese when the Sino-Japanese War reached its climax as foreign soldiers sacked the capital of the Republic of China. Ultimately, what this meant for Yu was that her life was built to inherit great wealth and to propagate alliances throughout the capitalists who both opposed the fascist beliefs of Chiang Jieshi and the socialist contemporaries that opposed him. Those who knew Zhong often warned him that the “American” and “French” sensibilities he believed in would be his undoing if the civil war that was brewing didn’t create a casualty out of him first. It is only ironic that his death was not from his politics or from civil unrest but rather a Japanese bullet.

Yu’s mother died in childbirth and was effectively raised by her extended family including her father’s second wife, Qiao Xuefeng. Given Yu lacked significant knowledge of her mother this didn’t effect much of her perspective growing up, though she often felt like her father valued her less for being born the “wrong” gender as many female Chinese often did. Yu kept her discontent to herself, though there was often an unspoken, quiet ambition in her since she was a young girl. This was clear enough when Yu decided to study at the Jinling Women's College in 1936. Unfortunately, this admittance to a higher education would be temporary as one year later Yu found herself hiding in the college as Japanese machine-guns echoed in the streets of Nanjing; The invasion of Nanjing had begun. The American missionary and educator who ran Ginling College, Wilhelmina Vautrin, attempted her very best to keep the safety of her students in mind and Yu would go on to remember the American fondly due to her efforts to protect the Chinese women who looked at the school like a sanctuary and safe haven against the Japanese soldiers that had begun occupying Nanjing.

As much as Yu wanted to find her way home, she knew it was ideal for her to stay at the college; her time there did not end how she wanted it to.

When Japanese soldiers stormed into the college and demanded “comfort women”, Yu saw a side of the Japanese she had only heard about from the other women who were using the college as a safe place away from the fighting. Yu saw firsthand an experience that made her uncomfortable, swearing that she would rather die than meet such a fate. Fortunately, several women offered themselves – sex workers of Nanjing who had taken refuge – instead of the students and children that sat in the school wondering in fear. A situation that Yu appreciated to an extent but at the same time realized the so-called honor of the Japanese was circumstantial and the longer she stayed at the college the sooner she’d be waiting to wonder when the school would run out of enough “comfort women” for the Japanese. She decided she would leave [and carefully so] the first chance she got. She didn’t realize at the time it would be her genesis of becoming a member of the Chinese Resistance.

When Yu found her way home through the war-tattered streets of Nanjing she came home to an empty household. Her father’s body cold alongside her half-brother, Ei Ruiyuan. Her family had been as she feared and she did the most impulsive thing she could think of, swiping the pistol from her father’s dead hands and sought out trouble. A few hours later she was looking down the barrel of an Arisaka 38 and would’ve joined her family in heaven if not for the intervention of a man she would come to know as her mentor and friend, a man named Liu Jingyi. Jingyi would “foster” the young Chinese girl and soon he would introduce her to the movement to oppose Japan. The rest is history.

Attributes & Other Information

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_{Classification}

Designated Marksman

_Equipment

Arisaka 38 Bolt-Action Rifle
Model 26 Hammerless Revolver

Writer's Note: Alternative loadouts are relatively likely for Yu once she gets supplied by coalition forces held by the Soviets and remaining Allies in British Raj. She will most likely find the Lee Enfield and Mosin-Nagant as superior rifles to the Arisaka 38 she has grown used to using. In combination with her experimental equipment, this suggests Yu is flexible and holds no favoritism toward her weapons.

_{Experimental Equipment}

In addition to the standard experimental equipment provided, Yu has been issued a filterable scope based on the Zielgerät 1229, a prototype acquired by the Soviets after a German laboratory was seized in Eastern Europe. Named the Хельсинг as a joke by soviet scientists, the name has stuck though Yu herself has no idea what it means.

To explain the Хельсинг is pretty simple. The filtered scope can be applied to any rifle (or even a machine gun) with little issue or detrimental weight. Much like the Zielgerät 1229, the Хельсинг allows the shooter to have a multiple range of options when approaching a firefight including night vision, infrared vision, and electromagnetic vision. The development of such a weapon can turn the tide of a battle, though only a small handful have been developed since the prototype was developed. It is likely that the one issued to Yu is one of the only models designated to the Asian Theatre. Such things will allow the 914 better awareness and mobility in their missions throughout Eastern, Southern, and Southeastern Asia.

_Experience

Yu was nearing her eighteenth birthday when the Imperial Japanese Army attacked Nanjing, an event that she considers the one thing that changed her life. Eventually she found herself involved within the Chinese Liberation Movement, a group of freedom fighters that represented China much like how the French Resistance had done so for France [albeit unsuccessfully]. The date she “officially” joined is hard to say, but it would have to have occurred at the earliest in 1941, around four years after the massacre. Though Yu herself considers Nanjing as the day of her “recruitment”.

Her induction into the cross-faction “experimental” squadron, the 914, has come from a decade of experience, though most veteran soldiers would consider Yu’s experience as representing more of skirmishes and ambushes rather than a true field of battle. There are exceptions with a decade of fighting, of course, but being a female soldier comes with its share of prejudices and misconceptions.

▪ Chinese Liberation Movement (1938- )
▪ Coalition Against Imperial Japan (1948- )

_Relations

Ei Zhong (1895-1937)
Yu’s father and a victim of the Rape of Nanjing.

Liu Jingyi (1874-1943)
A survivor of Nanjing and a former member of the Chinese Resistance – Jingyi was probably the closest thing to family that Yu has left. The two are unrelated, but Jingyi’s fostering of Yu can be said to have been that of a second father. A veteran of the Dungan Revolt, the Boxer Rebellion, and a multitude of other conflicts, Jingyi would direct Yu’s life within the Chinese Liberation Movement. Due to his involvement in the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang he had a strong distaste for communists and Russians in general; a trait that has influenced Yu’s way of thinking.

Liao Xuefeng (1921- )
A male soldier within the Chinese Resistance and a close friend.

_Theme

San Nien by Li Xiang Lan

@Inkarnate

Accepted my duuuude.

[HachiRoku]

If the 1948 US Presidential Election hasn't taken place yet, I assume it'd be Truman going up for re-election against some Republican candidate- either Eisenhower (SHAEF general, nationalist), Dewey (domestic policy, IRL nominee), or Taft (conservative, anti-New Deal). It's a tangled mess when considering the politics of our universe's America, but if you ask me, it's possible Eisenhower comes close (assuming he doesn't leave the Army) or maybe Taft, in a neck-and-neck with Truman.

[Carlyle]

If the 1948 US Presidential Election hasn't taken place yet, I assume it'd be Truman going up for re-election against some Republican candidate- either Eisenhower (SHAEF general, nationalist), Dewey (domestic policy, IRL nominee), or Taft (conservative, anti-New Deal). It's a tangled mess when considering the politics of our universe's America, but if you ask me, it's possible Eisenhower comes close (assuming he doesn't leave the Army) or maybe Taft, in a neck-and-neck with Truman.

@HachiRoku

Eisenhower instates a military junta, colorized 1948.

But yeah I'd probably be leaning towards Eisenhower if I was an American during this alternate Ww2.

[Xandrya]

PS, depending how long our characters have to wait outside of the train, don't hesitate to interact with Milena. Just cause she looks like she's in her own world doesn't mean she's unapproachable.

[ReusableSword]

@Xandrya was going to say something while talking to the other guy

[Xandrya]

@ReusableSword go for it.

[HachiRoku]

Alright, done my CS form.

Dan Wright

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Photo

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"

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Name
Daniel Stanley Wright

Age
19

Gender
Male

Birth-date
August 16, 1929

Birthplace
Lachine, Québec, Canada

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Appearance
In the looks department, Dan checks off as any other Caucasian male- when necessary, that is. Messy brown hair, apple green eyes, and a fairly young, light-toned face, although his expression and mood can be portrayed differently depending on his current task. Standing at 174 centimeters, Dan is a bit under-average for his background and gender, although he does stand out when compared to others with shorter mean heights, such as Japanese. At 62 kilograms, he is slightly thinner than ideal, although he is still rather lean and healthy, out of necessity as a fighter for the Allied cause.

The clothes Dan wears are very much dependent on his mission. If needed, he can pass off as unemployed hoodlum, or an dashingly handsome stock broker in an English suit. His official SOE uniform is drab with touches of red, including a beret. However, at the moment, he has it packed away safely for formal occasion. As a undercover agent, he does what is necessary to hide in plain sight. To him, a dark grey trilby, shirt & tie, blazer, and pants do the trick.

Personality
Socially, Dan tends to be a personal extrovert, confident and charismatic. His applications of such a nature tend to involve gathering information and/or compelling others to sympathy, be it providing help in his mission or fighting a common enemy.

His outlook on the world as a whole is, in a word, observant. Growing up in a world where he had to work hard to succeed, he was keen on just that. More of a pragmatist than an optimist, he tends to lean towards keeping things in realistic terms; for instance, he would prefer to capture than massacre a company of enemies, out of caution against an even more violent retribution.

When considering nature and means, Dan puts rationale over emotion. Always trying his best to stay a step ahead, this sometimes manifests in long-winded preparation for a key event, spending meticulous hours to make sure the end result is the way he wants. Especially due to his undercover persona, he tends to hide his feelings, and see efficiency as more important than cooperation in general.

Despite this, Dan enjoys the thrill of thinking on the fly and keeping his options open. As a by-product of his former passion in acting, he is at this stage quite good at improvising and spotting opportunities. A core part of this is his belief that inflexibility crashes hard- preferring instead to be a flexible, relaxed nonconformist.

Dan's motivations are based around one thing: his father. Every mission, operation, and confrontation, to him, is just another step in defeating the Japanese Empire and finding his father. In the ideal world, he is reunited with his father, and can return to a happy, peaceful life in Canada. However, he knows this is seldom the most realistic case; Plan B is his expectation. If he finds his father, if his father is alive, if his father is in one piece: if none of these factors hold true, he intends to swiftly and quietly eliminate whomever did such a thing to his old man.

Team Relationships
N/A

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Classification
Dan's specialty is not, in fact, combat. Although he has trained and engaged in shootouts in the past, he prefers to get behind enemy lines, and keep his head down. When it comes to making the kill, he would prefer to do so in a discreet, contained fashion, with a revolver shot to the head. However, if it comes to it, he is far from a coward on the battlefield, eager to use whatever he can to the best of its ability, in order to subdue the enemy as efficiently and quickly as possible. Even though he is more than accustomed to sitting back and taking orders, when the time comes, Dan is not afraid to lead others into the fray behind him, using his charisma or even multilingualism to his advantage. On that note, his linguistic extent reaches English (fluent Canadian/Midwestern/Australian accents), French (fluent Québécois/French accents), basic Russian, and limited Japanese.

Experimental Gear

Stechkin APS

To the untrained eye, the APS is just another Soviet pistol. To the cabal of Soviets aware of this top-secret development, it hallmarks the next step in special operations firearms. The demand for such a firearm arose when KGB and Spetsnaz agents required a pistol stronger than the Tokarev, yet smaller than a more cumbersome submachine gun. In simple terms, a stronger, Russian-based machine pistol, along the likes of the Mauser M712.

The APS is a machine pistol fed through 20-round 7.62x25mm Tokarev. It features a three-position lever. The first position, "PR", is the safety. When pointed downwards to "OD", semi-automatic fire is enabled. Finally, the rearmost "AVT" position puts the APS in fully automatic mode. A selective-fire machine pistol, the APS is the balance between a compact pistol and a gun with a high rate of fire.

When equipped, Dan employs a Stechkin pistol in action. In nearly any scenario, his revolver is enough to do the trick, due to his low profile and efficient rate of fire. However, in the event that things get hot and he is the only member of the group left without a primary weapon, he can utilize the APS' automatic fire to unleash the equivalent of a submachine gun's power from his own pockets.

Equipment
1× Stechkin APS (8× 7.62x25mm 20-round magazines)
1× Colt M1917 (12× .45 ACP 3-round halfmoon clips)
1× NR-40 scout knife (hidden in ankle)

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Background

1929-1946: Formative Years

Daniel Stanley Wright was born in Lachine, a town on Montreal Island, on August 16, 1929. The son of a determined pink-collar worker who immigrated as a baby, Dan grew up without much money to throw around, so he learned from a young age to work hard and save what he could. As a child, he never really cared much for politics or military, spending his free time hanging out with friends, or listening to Canadiens games on the radio.

When war broke out between the Allies and Axis, the entire atmosphere around Dan had changed. The ball started rolling with the enlistment of his father in the Royal Rifles of Canada, 22nd Regiment. The last time 12-year-old Dan ever saw his old man was at the train station, while the 22nd Regiment departed for Hong Kong. With a hug and a wave goodbye, Dan finally realized that things were changing. Later that year, this would truly resonate, as the news broke that Hong Kong had fell, and that the Royal Rifles had surrendered along with it.

Emotionally scarred, Dan went into depression upon news of his father's surrender and capture in early 1942. Having to take a part-time job to help support his mother and sister, and having to deal with several other issues in his personal life, he nearly committed suicide by jumping off the Sun Life Building, sneaking out at night to head downtown. A stroke of luck drove him to bump into his uncle Ernest, arriving home from a play. With one last chance to vent his issues, Dan was rewarded with an invaluable piece of advice: to try his best, and never surrender. As it had turned out, his father Stanley was caught in the exact same situation as a young adult, and those principles pushed him through. Dan returned home, determined to live up what his father would have expected of him.

Fast-forward to 1946. Daniel Wright stars as the titular male protagonist in Collège Sainte-Anne's production of Romeo and Juliet. With a talent for acting, some say Dan is destined for Broadway or Hollywood. His family, faring rather well now, is extremely impressed by Dan's charismatic and strong-willed nature, earning the respect of many. But from his own eyes, he is not a career actor nor a hit with the girls. His primary interest in school and the future is criminology, out of a desire to protect his community and deliver justice to anyone who dares ruin a nation already afflicted by war. Both of these factors pique the interest of the Special Operations Executive.

1946-1948: Covert Agent

Peggy and Dale Wright constantly received letters from Upper Canada College, the private boarding school in Toronto that Dan was supposedly staying in for senior year, on a scholarship. In reality, he was spending 6 months in Special Training School No. 103, or 'Camp X', an SOE training facility 60 kilometers northeast. He shared a room with 3 other trainees in their late teens; Aaron Ward, a Saskatchewan farm boy and outstanding Army Cadet, Joanna Nathans, Aaron's childhood friend and expert at martial arts, and Kazuto Sobu, a Japanese nisei from Vancouver. Over the course of the next few months, this group of four grew into a tight-knit team of friends.

On a chilly December night, all seemed silent, as usual. In the middle of the night, Dan awoke to an empty lower bunk beside him- Kazuto had sneaked out. On a search to find his friend at 0100 hours, Dan eventually caught 'Kaz' in the files room, stealing confidential information to transfer to other Japanese double agents in Vancouver. After a long chase, the confrontation ended when the commotion woke Aaron and Joanna, who helped apprehend their betraying comrade.

In recognition of the group's valor and resolve, they were graduated early and sent on their first special operation, related to their previous encounter: Operation Arquebus. Dan, Aaron, and Joanna had developed new identities, and were shipped off to Australia to serve as counter-intelligence agents.

Dan, rather, Michael Hudson, was a 23-year-old criminology graduate student from Ohio. Aside from his SOE and personal gear, which he kept safe, all his outfits and markings said so- his Ohio State degree in criminology (acquired via a scholarship due to hard times, as his father was involved in the Akron rubber strike of 1936), Cleveland Indians personal items (going so far as rooting for them over the radio, listening to them win the 1948 World Series), and clothes, all of which were purchased either in Australia or Ohio. His flat was beside 'Johnny Stargell' and 'Erica Robinson', two dating criminology students from Seattle. Although they considered eloping, a mission was at hand: posing as students under a suspected Japanese spy, teaching as a professor.

Their extended vacation in Brisbane came to a dramatic conclusion on the transport ship SS Katoomba, where 'Professor Umeda', actually named Ryosuke Seita, was boarded to link up with Japanese agents on New Caledonia. Disguising as Australian field medics (using their daily experience in the country to formulate passable accents). Aaron and Joanna waited until night, then confronted Seita alone, in the middle of a radio call. A shootout ensued- and although Joanna was shot in the arm defending her love interest, Seita soon collapsed to the floor, a round in his skull, Dan's revolver smoking behind the dead operative.

With Operation Arquebus complete, Dan's rise in the ranks took a new step. The SOE had a special agreement, and ordered him to simply meet with a 'Mr. Zubkov' in Moscow. After a few weeks studying basic Russian and the layout of Moscow, Dan bade farewell to Aaron and Joanna, and boarded the plane to Russia. Once he arrived, and was escorted to a base of what seemed to be KGB officials, who had him perform interviews & biometric tests. Then, following months of training in their means of espionage, weapons, and language, he was presented with his own Stechkin APS, and directive to a 'Squad 914'. Although he was unsure of its end goal or practical application to the Allies, it beat sitting in the green room of a Montreal theater, thinking of how he could have rescued his father.

Experience
September 1946-January 1947: Camp X
December 1946: Confrontation with Kazuto Sobu
January 1947-June 1948: Operation Arquebus
June 1948: Confrontation on SS Taroona
July-October 1948: Squad 914 Training, Moscow
October 1948-: Squad 914 Deployment

Family
Father: Stanley Wright - 38 - Captured, location unknown
Mother: Peggy Wright - 37 - Alive, Lachine
Sister: Dale Wright - 16 - Alive, Lachine

Theme Song
LA Noire - Main Menu

[Jeep Wrangler]

Alright, done my CS form.

Dan Wright

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Photo

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"

---

Name
Daniel Stanley Wright

Age
19

Gender
Male

Birth-date
August 16, 1929

Birthplace
Lachine, Québec, Canada

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Appearance
In the looks department, Dan checks off as any other Caucasian male- when necessary, that is. Messy brown hair, apple green eyes, and a fairly young, light-toned face, although his expression and mood can be portrayed differently depending on his current task. Standing at 174 centimeters, Dan is a bit under-average for his background and gender, although he does stand out when compared to others with shorter mean heights, such as Japanese. At 62 kilograms, he is slightly thinner than ideal, although he is still rather lean and healthy, out of necessity as a fighter for the Allied cause.

The clothes Dan wears are very much dependent on his mission. If needed, he can pass off as unemployed hoodlum, or an dashingly handsome stock broker in an English suit. His official SOE uniform is drab with touches of red, including a beret. However, at the moment, he has it packed away safely for formal occasion. As a undercover agent, he does what is necessary to hide in plain sight. To him, a dark grey trilby, shirt & tie, blazer, and pants do the trick.

Personality
Socially, Dan tends to be a personal extrovert, confident and charismatic. His applications of such a nature tend to involve gathering information and/or compelling others to sympathy, be it providing help in his mission or fighting a common enemy.

His outlook on the world as a whole is, in a word, observant. Growing up in a world where he had to work hard to succeed, he was keen on just that. More of a pragmatist than an optimist, he tends to lean towards keeping things in realistic terms; for instance, he would prefer to capture than massacre a company of enemies, out of caution against an even more violent retribution.

When considering nature and means, Dan puts rationale over emotion. Always trying his best to stay a step ahead, this sometimes manifests in long-winded preparation for a key event, spending meticulous hours to make sure the end result is the way he wants. Especially due to his undercover persona, he tends to hide his feelings, and see efficiency as more important than cooperation in general.

Despite this, Dan enjoys the thrill of thinking on the fly and keeping his options open. As a by-product of his former passion in acting, he is at this stage quite good at improvising and spotting opportunities. A core part of this is his belief that inflexibility crashes hard- preferring instead to be a flexible, relaxed nonconformist.

Dan's motivations are based around one thing: his father. Every mission, operation, and confrontation, to him, is just another step in defeating the Japanese Empire and finding his father. In the ideal world, he is reunited with his father, and can return to a happy, peaceful life in Canada. However, he knows this is seldom the most realistic case; Plan B is his expectation. If he finds his father, if his father is alive, if his father is in one piece: if none of these factors hold true, he intends to swiftly and quietly eliminate whomever did such a thing to his old man.

Team Relationships
N/A

---

Classification
Dan's specialty is not, in fact, combat. Although he has trained and engaged in shootouts in the past, he prefers to get behind enemy lines, and keep his head down. When it comes to making the kill, he would prefer to do so in a discreet, contained fashion, with a revolver shot to the head. However, if it comes to it, he is far from a coward on the battlefield, eager to use whatever he can to the best of its ability, in order to subdue the enemy as efficiently and quickly as possible. Even though he is more than accustomed to sitting back and taking orders, when the time comes, Dan is not afraid to lead others into the fray behind him, using his charisma or even multilingualism to his advantage. On that note, his linguistic extent reaches English (fluent Canadian/Midwestern/Australian accents), French (fluent Québécois/French accents), basic Russian, and limited Japanese.

Experimental Gear

Stechkin APS

To the untrained eye, the APS is just another Soviet pistol. To the cabal of Soviets aware of this top-secret development, it hallmarks the next step in special operations firearms. The demand for such a firearm arose when KGB and Spetsnaz agents required a pistol stronger than the Tokarev, yet smaller than a more cumbersome submachine gun. In simple terms, a stronger, Russian-based machine pistol, along the likes of the Mauser M712.

The APS is a machine pistol fed through 20-round 7.62x25mm Tokarev. It features a three-position lever. The first position, "PR", is the safety. When pointed downwards to "OD", semi-automatic fire is enabled. Finally, the rearmost "AVT" position puts the APS in fully automatic mode. A selective-fire machine pistol, the APS is the balance between a compact pistol and a gun with a high rate of fire.

When equipped, Dan employs a Stechkin pistol in action. In nearly any scenario, his revolver is enough to do the trick, due to his low profile and efficient rate of fire. However, in the event that things get hot and he is the only member of the group left without a primary weapon, he can utilize the APS' automatic fire to unleash the equivalent of a submachine gun's power from his own pockets.

Equipment
1× Stechkin APS (8× 7.62x25mm 20-round magazines)
1× Colt M1917 (12× .45 ACP 3-round halfmoon clips)
1× NR-40 scout knife (hidden in ankle)

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Background

1929-1946: Formative Years

Daniel Stanley Wright was born in Lachine, a town on Montreal Island, on August 16, 1929. The son of a determined pink-collar worker who immigrated as a baby, Dan grew up without much money to throw around, so he learned from a young age to work hard and save what he could. As a child, he never really cared much for politics or military, spending his free time hanging out with friends, or listening to Canadiens games on the radio.

When war broke out between the Allies and Axis, the entire atmosphere around Dan had changed. The ball started rolling with the enlistment of his father in the Royal Rifles of Canada, 22nd Regiment. The last time 12-year-old Dan ever saw his old man was at the train station, while the 22nd Regiment departed for Hong Kong. With a hug and a wave goodbye, Dan finally realized that things were changing. Later that year, this would truly resonate, as the news broke that Hong Kong had fell, and that the Royal Rifles had surrendered along with it.

Emotionally scarred, Dan went into depression upon news of his father's surrender and capture in early 1942. Having to take a part-time job to help support his mother and sister, and having to deal with several other issues in his personal life, he nearly committed suicide by jumping off the Sun Life Building, sneaking out at night to head downtown. A stroke of luck drove him to bump into his uncle Ernest, arriving home from a play. With one last chance to vent his issues, Dan was rewarded with an invaluable piece of advice: to try his best, and never surrender. As it had turned out, his father Stanley was caught in the exact same situation as a young adult, and those principles pushed him through. Dan returned home, determined to live up what his father would have expected of him.

Fast-forward to 1946. Daniel Wright stars as the titular male protagonist in Collège Sainte-Anne's production of Romeo and Juliet. With a talent for acting, some say Dan is destined for Broadway or Hollywood. His family, faring rather well now, is extremely impressed by Dan's charismatic and strong-willed nature, earning the respect of many. But from his own eyes, he is not a career actor nor a hit with the girls. His primary interest in school and the future is criminology, out of a desire to protect his community and deliver justice to anyone who dares ruin a nation already afflicted by war. Both of these factors pique the interest of the Special Operations Executive.

1946-1948: Covert Agent

Peggy and Dale Wright constantly received letters from Upper Canada College, the private boarding school in Toronto that Dan was supposedly staying in for senior year, on a scholarship. In reality, he was spending 6 months in Special Training School No. 103, or 'Camp X', an SOE training facility 60 kilometers northeast. He shared a room with 3 other trainees in their late teens; Aaron Ward, a Saskatchewan farm boy and outstanding Army Cadet, Joanna Nathans, Aaron's childhood friend and expert at martial arts, and Kazuto Sobu, a Japanese nisei from Vancouver. Over the course of the next few months, this group of four grew into a tight-knit team of friends.

On a chilly December night, all seemed silent, as usual. In the middle of the night, Dan awoke to an empty lower bunk beside him- Kazuto had sneaked out. On a search to find his friend at 0100 hours, Dan eventually caught 'Kaz' in the files room, stealing confidential information to transfer to other Japanese double agents in Vancouver. After a long chase, the confrontation ended when the commotion woke Aaron and Joanna, who helped apprehend their betraying comrade.

In recognition of the group's valor and resolve, they were graduated early and sent on their first special operation, related to their previous encounter: Operation Arquebus. Dan, Aaron, and Joanna had developed new identities, and were shipped off to Australia to serve as counter-intelligence agents.

Dan, rather, Michael Hudson, was a 23-year-old criminology graduate student from Ohio. Aside from his SOE and personal gear, which he kept safe, all his outfits and markings said so- his Ohio State degree in criminology (acquired via a scholarship due to hard times, as his father was involved in the Akron rubber strike of 1936), Cleveland Indians personal items (going so far as rooting for them over the radio, listening to them win the 1948 World Series), and clothes, all of which were purchased either in Australia or Ohio. His flat was beside 'Johnny Stargell' and 'Erica Robinson', two dating criminology students from Seattle. Although they considered eloping, a mission was at hand: posing as students under a suspected Japanese spy, teaching as a professor.

Their extended vacation in Brisbane came to a dramatic conclusion on the transport ship SS Katoomba, where 'Professor Umeda', actually named Ryosuke Seita, was boarded to link up with Japanese agents on New Caledonia. Disguising as Australian field medics (using their daily experience in the country to formulate passable accents). Aaron and Joanna waited until night, then confronted Seita alone, in the middle of a radio call. A shootout ensued- and although Joanna was shot in the arm defending her love interest, Seita soon collapsed to the floor, a round in his skull, Dan's revolver smoking behind the dead operative.

With Operation Arquebus complete, Dan's rise in the ranks took a new step. The SOE had a special agreement, and ordered him to simply meet with a 'Mr. Zubkov' in Moscow. After a few weeks studying basic Russian and the layout of Moscow, Dan bade farewell to Aaron and Joanna, and boarded the plane to Russia. Once he arrived, and was escorted to a base of what seemed to be KGB officials, who had him perform interviews & biometric tests. Then, following months of training in their means of espionage, weapons, and language, he was presented with his own Stechkin APS, and directive to a 'Squad 914'. Although he was unsure of its end goal or practical application to the Allies, it beat sitting in the green room of a Montreal theater, thinking of how he could have rescued his father.

Experience
September 1946-January 1947: Camp X
December 1946: Confrontation with Kazuto Sobu
January 1947-June 1948: Operation Arquebus
June 1948: Confrontation on SS Taroona
July-October 1948: Squad 914 Training, Moscow
October 1948-: Squad 914 Deployment

Family
Father: Stanley Wright - 38 - Captured, location unknown
Mother: Peggy Wright - 37 - Alive, Lachine
Sister: Dale Wright - 16 - Alive, Lachine

Theme Song
LA Noire - Main Menu

@HachiRoku

I am sorry to say, but I do not believe that there is any justification for Atyre or Stalin seeing a Canadian SOE operator who had little to do with them as a rightful candidate of Squad 914. Naomi has her explanation on point as she was a critical figure in Operation: Lovejoy and worked with the founding father of the Squad, giving her a temporal boost. Aleyev was obviously a Russian survivor of Leningrad, the Chinese and Vietnamese were closely working with the Soviet Union, especially Atyre. More to the point, those who never met Atyre straight away were introduced to Sih Bao, the recruitment driver for the Asian Frontlines and resistances prior to Squad 914's official activation. I do not really see how this can be justified when they were not an active member of the USSR without much importance.

As well as this, I do not believe he would have gotten his experimental gear prior to the implementation of Squad 914. And their specialization within SOE would not benefit the project. Naomi (I'm using her example as she is the more reasonable implementation of a Commonwealth Troop) was vastly trained in the field of conflict when working with the Polish Resistance, and the VDV that ended up finding her were impressed by her prowess on the battlefield. The type of gumshoe work that Dan would do would be better within the SOE than Squad 914, as they are highly likely to engage in jungle, mountain, urban and other forms of Guerrilla warfare whilst rallying resistance groups to fight Garrisoned German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish troops.

Lastly, Canada is a subject of the British Government and Monarchy, who are currently holding it dearly during the invasion of North America. With Japanese troops both in Canada and the Western Coasts of America, alongside the Spanish/Mexican pushes being made in the south and Quebec's desperate defence against recently arrived panzer, 1. Gebirgs-Division and Fallschirmjagers, it would not make much sense to have a member of SOE be deployed in Soviet Russia when their headquarters, homeland and last nation of the allies in the Atlantic. It just does not make rational sense. They would be far more useful, logically, within the confinements of Canadian borders, maybe Australia and New Zealand at the furthest.

[HachiRoku]

@LetMeDoStuff
Alright, that's a fair judgement, and I get your points.

Your explanation of 'link to the USSR' is pretty accurate and I guess that can be worked on. As well the whole 'military focus' makes sense so that's worth noting for me in the future.

If there's any further suggestion/advice possible it'd be appreciated, and if you don't mind, I'll try and make a more practical character sheet.

[Carlyle]

Back and still alive for now. Will have a post up later this week, likely.

[Xandrya]

Hey guys. So I'm gonna be flying internationally tomorrow until Tuesday. There's internet there, but I don't know how reliable the connection will be and I'm not taking my laptop, so by all means, go on without me. I may pop in to read here and there, and maybe get a few words in, but that's being extremely optimistic.

[Carlyle]

@Xandrya I'm sure if need be, we can write Milena into a NPC position if you find yourself completely unable to write for some time. Where are you flying?

On a side note, if anyone didn't see in the Discord, I made some avatar-like pictures of every accepted CS so far. Feel free to use them if you want. I personally think they could spice up the CS section a bit.

[Xandrya]

@Sola

I'm heading to Cuba, my motherland. But yes, she'll more than likely be an NPC until Tuesday.

Nice avatars, btw.

[mickilennial]

Taking me a little bit longer to figure out a post but it's still in development.