[OOC] Valkyria Chronicles: Lions of the South

[Zarkun]

^literally my life.

@Lennon79

At least you have a life...

[Ashifili]

“Wonder how she’s doing…”

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Name: Zeal Ashart
Gender: Male
Age: 20ish
Appearance: Zeal stands at 5’6, and ardently believes that he’ll hit puberty and stop being a midget. He has a lanky build that, at a distance, makes him look taller than he is, and his legs are toned and muscular, from all the running and sprinting he does. Outside of that, there’s nothing else too special about him.

Oh, right. He always packs a seven-inch hand cannon with him, if you know what he means.

Rank: Private
Class: He once was a Scout, before he took a reorganization to the knee and became a Shocktrooper. More shock and less trooper though, because he runs like the wind, but doesn’t take bullet fire too well.

Weapons and Equipment

Mags MXX – Because spray and pray works well with run and gun.
Ragnaid – His last commanding officer forced him to take it with him everywhere, so he can’t complain about sprained ankles and get out of the battlefield.
Instant Camera – A memento from the time when he used to be a Scout. Runs on the plot-substance that is ragnite, and can develop pictures almost instantly. Used mainly for snapping shots of enemy formations and barricades, but as a Shocktrooper, doesn’t have quite as much use.
Binoculars – Another memento, which helps a lot in avoiding large clusters of enemies. What sort of Shocktrooper would willingly run into a storm of bullets, eh?

Personal Potentials

Bug in a Rug - Safety first.
Coward - Zeal ain't no one man army.
Panicky - Just because he has abs doesn't mean it's made of steel.
Runner’s High - At least when it comes to running away.

Personality: Zeal Ashart, despite what his name may imply, is not a devoted soldier with a penchant for using a flamethrower. Really, he’s just a cowardly little shit who was too stupid to become an Engineer and too prone to panic to become a Medic. On the battlefield, he has a ton of nervous ticks, from tapping the ground with his feet to chewing his lower lip until it bleeds to pinching singular hairs off his head. Zeal is constantly afraid of death and injury, with little to no self-esteem in his ability to fight or protect. There is no secretly badass side of him when he enters the battlefield. All he’ll do is try to follow orders as best as he can, while avoiding as much of the conflict as possible. Of course, even if he’s prone to running away or hiding behind cover, Zeal still has his manliness…which pretty much makes him refuse to shoot any female, even if they’re coming at him with a knife and the intent to castrate him.

Off the battlefield, however, Zeal is a fun guy to be around, one who makes the most out of his free, bloodless time. He’s on the perverted side of things, with his risqué jokes that aren’t even that funny, but he’s rather innocent as well, having lost all chances of a romantic life after getting moved to a different division. Always willing to help out with non-combat stuff, he’s a multi-talented midget-ikemen who would have been perfect if he wasn’t totally trash at live combat.

Bio: Being the only son of a middle-class family in Gallia had made Zeal a person who could fully appreciate how nice it was to have a peaceful, ordinary life. He was always a weak child, smaller than the rest and skinnier, but he was good at running, and thus, no one made fun of him. The fastest in the school, his first dream was to become an athlete and compete against the athletes of the Empire in the international Spartakaide.

Of course, he wasn’t THAT talented, and at the age of twelve, abandoned that dream for another one: to get a cute wife.

In order to maximize the amount of travelling he could do, and thus increase the amount of beauties he can encounter, Zeal became a mailman, travelling around the town and neighboring villages to deliver mail. He didn’t really make any connections that way, of course, but at least he knew that cute girls DID exist in the general vicinity. With that in mind, he worked hard at his job, stockpiled money, and was going to try to get lucky…when he got tossed in with the rest of the children his age to compulsory military education, in which his lack of education killed his chances of doing paperwork or other ‘easy’ tasks. Trained as a Scout, due to his legs, he was supposedly meant to be the skirmisher of the company, running up away from everyone else to land consecutive headshots on a singular target, before hoping that he doesn’t get spotted and killed on the spot.

Instead, however, Zeal just ran back and did what his job description was: to see where enemy troops were and report those movements to his superior. He even got a camera to do all the reporting for him, and scored relatively high marks in agility tests.

He didn’t really think that he would have to do anything with his training though, and after military education was done, went back to his skirt-chasing, mail-sending normal life.

Then the Empire attacked, and he was drafted, given a gun, and told to shoot down some god damn Imps. There went his peaceful, bloodless life! The only light in the tunnel came from the fact that there was a cute Darcsen sniper girl in the team, whom he befriended after taking a bullet in the arm for her…but even that romantic flag was torn apart when, due to the lack of Shocktroopers in the army and the surplus of Scouts, Zeal was sent back to camp, torn away from his friend that was a girl, and forced to don the heavy armor and submachine gun of a Shocktrooper.

His legs, luckily, were still useful, allowing him to get to cover much faster than others…but all that training in ‘facing death in the eye and spitting at it’ had simply made him extremely paranoid about open spaces.

It was as a veteran coward and a newbie Shocktrooper that he was soon tossed into the 12th Company as a much needed meatshield. A meatshield who excelled at dodging.

RP Sample: Just gotta believe, mang.

[Raven_Operative]

Another male!

[Ashifili]

You should be happy that such a powerful wingman has occurred. All the other males will literally look like saints around him.

[Lennon79]

Holy fuck, he's gold. Accepted, into the CHAR tab with him. I must sleep, but I'll update the roster in the morning.

[Raven_Operative]

Holy fuck I just read it all the way through, that's hysterical!

[BytheSpleen]

I'm gonna bump up Emmaline to 6 feet flat, so we don't have an army of midgets. :<

[Raven_Operative]

*looks at time*

Fuck. It's 2am and I still haven't posted.

I'll try to get one up tomorrow or the next day, but if some of the new recruits could make a quick little post about what you're doing at Fort Breda (milling about the mess hall, practicing on the range, getting yelled at by a superior, etc), that would be good. Then I'd have something to go off of instead of just writing that Evan did the recruit roundup and drove back to town.

[Zarkun]

(who is gonna be Hunt, let's not beat around the bush. Only person qualified)

@Lennon79

It suddenly occurs to me why you agreed to my character's back ground on several levels.

[Slypheed]

I'm gonna bump up Emmaline to 6 feet flat, so we don't have an army of midgets. :<

@BytheSpleen

Made me realize that I forgot to specify Skye's height. Skye ain't short and stocky. Not by a long shot. Height is a little over 6'2

Brenna isn't too short either. Standing at 5'9.
However, Celeste is short, somewhere between 5'3 and 5'2.

@Ashifili I see ship potential between Zeal and Brenna XD
But being serious, I am actually a bit jealous.

[Ashifili]

@SlypheedJealous of what?

[Slypheed]

@Ashifili Detail.

[Zarkun]

Detail?

[RavenxVoid]

I saw interest check, open or?

[Zarkun]

We're full. I think. Pretty sure.

[Slypheed]

Well. I have two options in terms of posting.

A. Get a post pre-typed and post it during one of the connection spikes we're getting right now.
or
B. Wait till the technician fixes the internet on/after Tuesday.

[Ashifili]

Well. I have two options in terms of posting.

A. Get a post pre-typed and post it during one of the connection spikes we're getting right now.
or
B. Wait till the technician fixes the internet on/after Tuesday.

@Slypheed

A is the better choice, obviously. Waiting is just a waste~

[Slypheed]

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A is the better choice, obviously. Waiting is just a waste~

@Ashifili

Ah, but you have to realize this is a problem that I'm having. Internet connectivity is complete shit at the moment and thus two options are up. Also why I didn't put "Get a post pre-typed and post it during one of the connection spikes we're getting right now." as the only thing.

Along with the fact that I'm currently posting with my phone. And It doesn't like making multi-paragraph posts(or hell, anything over 4 lines big). I do have a post in the works on a notepad, and will transfer and attempt posting once it's finished. Though should it not work, then Plan B kicks in. Wait for technician.

Also. I think you forgot someone @Lennon79.
What happened to Fina? Atomic had her riding along in the APC with the rest of the squad before he left.

_{P.S. Success! It's a post if it's anything. Though any major edits will have to wait till Tuesday or after.}

[Lennon79]

Sorry @RavenxVoid, but for the moment we are full. Keep an eye on the thread though, as a place may open up at some point.

Yeah, not sure what to do with Fina. Might have @Raven_Operative use Carn to ship her back to the base.

[Raven_Operative]

I'm in the middle of typing up a post which will sorta be railroading the new characters straight to the rest of the squad in the interest of getting everyone off the ground ASAP.

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BUT FIRST! LET ME TAKE A MOMENT TO INFORM THE REST OF YOU THAT MY FAVOURITE THING IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: THE IG NOBEL AWARDS HAS JUST RELEASED ANOTHER BATCH OF WINNERS!

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Fuck I love these things. It's science for the sake of science. No practical purpose, just pure insanity and proof that you can get a paper published on just about anything.