Hey! You might not remember me, but I am the guy that asked you about the nationalistic operator (a week ago...). I was a little bit busy since I had to get ready for my high school graduation. I know you are kind of filled, but I made a W.I.P. I would like it if you could check it out and tell me if have a shot at joining.
Name
(Yes, he doesn't have a name yet...)
Operator Alias
Two-Niner
Age
32
Gender
Male
Nationality
Latvian
Birth-date / Location
May 4, 1986 / Riga, Latvia (USSR)
Special Forces Group
Latvian State Police
Counterterrorism Unit
OMEGA
OMEGA is Latvia's main counterterrorism unit. It is one of the most secretive units of the Ministry of the Interior and is the elite of Latvian Special Forces. Created in 1992 by the Interior Ministry as a means to protect aircrafts from hijacking, the unit quickly grew both in size and tasks under its commanders - seasoned veterans of OMON and KGB Spetsnaz. While originally the unit was under the control of the Security Police, in 2003 it went over to the jurisdiction of State Police (specifically Criminal Police). Their usual objectives are releasing hostages, disarming of explosives, as well as detaining particularly dangerous criminals, killers, armed robbers, drug traffickers amongst other high-risk tasks. The unit is part of the ATLAS police network.
Appearance
In the field, Two-Niner wears the same weathered gear he used while serving in OMEGA: a black combat uniform, FAST helmet with a skull balaclava and MSA Sordin headset, black bulletproof vest with groin and deltoid protectors, Oakley Pilot gloves, tactical load bearing belt, knee pads and black LOWA Zephyr boots without mentioning the countless pouches, patches and other gear.
Back at base, what Two-Niner wears depends on whether he is training or just lazing around. If it’s the former, then most of the time he will wear his worn-out combat uniform with either the regular combat shirt or a black T-shirt that has the word POLICIJA (Police) in bold yellow on the back and his LOWA boots. If it's the latter, then most of the time you will find him wearing shorts with different T-shirts or polo shirts and a pair of sandals.
Psych Profile
Two-Niner is a troubled moralist who is obsessed with doing the right thing, but also acknowledges from experience that it isn't always possible, or viable. When hardship finds Two-Niner, he clenches his teeth and goes forward since he has a simple, yet strong motivation - do a good deed.
Two-Niner's fight with the Taliban and the Russian mafia has very clearly left him with psychological scars, such as PTSD and insomnia. He hides these cracks well with dry eastern European jokes and cynical monologues, but they may be reaching towards the foundations of his mind. While he isn't a ticking time bomb and won't be one in the near future, it is unknown how his mental state will develop further on as he takes on the White Masks.
His smiles, although frequent, appear as quickly as they disappear, with another common expression being a thousand-yard stare.
When in the field, Two-Niner tries to work and co-ordinate with his teammates as much as possible, because, as he believes: "An operator should trust his team more than he does himself." This belief causes him to particularly dislike the Schwarzenegger and Rambo types who tend to work solo. He knows that what he signed up for is risky business and can eventually get him killed, but he has no problem dying if it means saving innocent lives.
Two-Niner has a mixture of both liking and mistrust of the latest gear and technology used by Rainbow, while he acknowledges that it is a necessary force multiplier, he is also afraid that under the right circumstances it could very badly backfire for the operator and the team. He wants to be sure that every operator's performance wouldn't be heavily hindered if they had to work without them, or as he would like to say: working analogue.
He spends a good part of his free time on the base training and keeping his body fit to make sure that there would be no hiccups in the field. The rest he spends either studying as much as he can about the White Masks to understand what drives their organisation and maybe even be able to predict their next moves or socializing and spending time with other members of the Rainbow Team.
Relationships
This can be simple as each character eventually interacts with them, but this will be updated more in detail as the RP goes along.
Stance in Combat
Either Attacker > Defender, Attacker - Defender or Attacker < Defender. Their advantages in fighting, essentially.
Operator Equipment
The dossier of guns, equipment and any additional pieces of armament they might utilise.
Operator Ability
This will be thoroughly checked by me to see if it is plausible, but you can be creative with what you see. Requests for tweaks in its design may be asked for. Provide an image if possible, if not a good description of it.
Biography
Born in 1986 and growing up in one of the poorest districts of Latvia's capital, Two-Niner was a witness to the rise in crime and lawlessness that struck the newly independent Baltic republic in the early 1990s. As a young child, this made him hope of one day becoming a police officer that would bring order to the chaos. As he matured, however, his dreams and interests changed, but his morality and ability to differentiate between right and wrong remained.
His life took a sharp turn when he turned 18, in the form of a knock on his door. Opening it, two men in army fatigues stood in front of Two-Niner and he found himself drafted into the Armed Forces. Latvia had joined NATO the same year, but the military conscription would still go on for two years. After finishing basic training, Two-Niner was stationed in Camp Ādaži for the next two years. Though he made for a passable soldier in the beginning, with the help of a officer who took a liking to him, Two-Niner eventually trained to become something of an example for his peers. It was also in Ādaži where Two-Niner befriended the woman who would eventually become his fiancée. As his two year mandatory military service ended, he decided to continue working in the Armed Forces under a professional contract with paid higher education. It was also around this time that his son would be born, with his new family moving into a house in Kadaga.
Two years later, the 2008 financial crisis would hit and the fastest growing economy in the European Union would quickly become its poorest one. Unable to support his family with his current wage, Two-Niner would need to quickly find a way to earn more money. Instead of leaving the military like many of his colleagues and trying to find a better paying job in the unstable job market, Two-Niner went for a pay raise by joining the now thinned Special Forces - the Special Tasks Unit (SUV).
In April of 2010, Two-Niner went to Afghanistan for 8 months as part of a Latvian Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) for ISAF. His unit was stationed alongside troops from US army's 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan's infamous Kunar Province.
While most Latvian soldiers would talk about how they went to Afghanistan to help the civilian population against the Taliban (which really was what they were doing), in reality most of the soldiers that volunteered for the high-risk missions did it for the high pay raise for participating in such international missions. Not knowing this, most of Two-Niner's family, including his wife, supported his decision to go to Afghanistan, except for Two-Niner's father - a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War.
Back in Ādaži, they had simulated and played many possible scenarios that could occur in Afghanistan, both with the civilian population and the Taliban. However accurate and realistic these imitations were, they could never truly prepare a soldier for they would actually face in Afghanistan.
The Kunar Valleys location next to the Pakistani border, especially Khyber Pass, made it a popular Taliban smuggling route for weapons and fighters. Because of this, attacks on the base were a weekly and sometimes even a daily occurrence. This had forced Two-Niner to get used to a banal routine of being ambushed or attacked at any given time - be it while patrolling in the mountains, walking through a local village or sleeping in his underwear at the base.
It was in Kunar where Two-Niner realised what war really was - a separate world where all of his morals and everything that he once learned in peacetime would be put to a reality check. Of course, everything was true, but there were nuances. And it was these nuances that were the most valuable things that Two-Niner gained. Now he knew what was what and had his own opinion about how things should look like and how much they would all cost.
Two-Niner returned to Afghanistan a few months later, now against the wishes of his wife who noticed that something in him had begun to change. This time he found himself in Zabul Province, serving under the command of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force's elite unit Aitvaras as part of an agreement between Latvia and Lithuania. In Kunar, Two-Niner's unit’s main objective was to help the Afghan Army defend a critical road for the NATO, but here the Lithuanians were on the offensive by hunting down any Taliban forces they could find. This perfectly suited Two-Niner who wanted payback for all the innocent civilians and his American friends that the Taliban killed in Kunar. They famously used dirt-bikes to cross the rocky mountains and perform hit and run attacks on known Taliban positions during night-time. This earned them fear from the Taliban and the nickname "Hells Angels" by the Americans (that and all the infractions they earned for dangerous driving inside the base).
Overall, he spent two tours with the LITHSOF in Afghanistan that caused a heavy falling out with his wife. He soon left the Armed Forces, hoping that he could mend the relationship with his spouse, but it was all in vain and soon his wife filed for divorce. Two-Niner knew from the very beginning that it was clearly his fault for how he mistreated his family with long absence in Afghanistan. His little "war on terror" had resulted in nothing more than piles of countless corpses in Afghanistan and him losing the one he cared the most for.
He spent the next year in rebound, working at a shipyard in Riga and eventually began dating his former childhood sweetheart (they broke up not long before Two-Niner joined Team Rainbow).
In June, Two-Niner signed up as a candidate for a position at OMEGA, Latvia's premiere counter-terrorism unit. The selection lasted for three days and was open to anyone up to the challenge. However it was extremely tough to everyone who came: civvies cracked under the pressure, the police officers didn't have the necessary physical ability while the soldiers usually failed the psychological tests. There were 18 candidates and just 7 free spots. Despite this, only 4 men passed the selection, Two-Niner was one of them. However, to get into OMEGA was one thing, but to survive there was a whole other ordeal. It took 2 years of retraining and specialisation before Two-Niner would be put into a team and taken to operations. It took months of hard work just to earn his teammate's trust and respect. With that came his final test: a mock simulation of a terrorist attack on the Riga HES. Eliminating the terrorists and stopping the attack, Two-Niner passed the test with flying colours. This earned him the coveted Green Beret and a permanent position on OMEGA's roster.
Although OMEGA was a counter-terrorism unit first and foremost, the lack of terrorist acts on Latvian territory (3 in the last 20 years) made the unit focus on other high-risk situations: apprehension and elimination of highly dangerous threats, hostage rescue, execution of high-risk raids, searches, arrests, protection of VIPs, etc. OMEGA's "clientele" usually included armed psychopaths, serial killers, bank robbers, small gangs and, most prominently, the Russian Mafia. The Mob had its hands in everything from document forgery and protection rackets to drug, arms and human trafficking. Worst of all, many times their men were veterans from Afghan, Chechen, Yugoslav, Georgian and even Ukrainian conflicts, some of them being former members of the Spetsnaz, which made them a much more dangerous threat than what Two-Niner had previously faced.
If the Taliban had showed Two-Niner how horrible and destructive mankind could be for a belief, then the Bratva had showed him that they even less humane for money which motivated him on a much more personal crusade against the organisation. Unlike Afghanistan where there were bad bad guys and "our" bad guys, here Two-Niner clearly knew who the good and the bad guys were, who was in the wrong and who was in the right - there was no gray zone in the middle and Two-Niner knew that he was doing the right thing.
The appearance of White Masks whose motivation was unknown and did not discriminate who their victims were was the primary cause of why Two-Niner accepted the invitation to Team Rainbow after the Bellagio Hotel incident - to make sure that they could not live long enough to perform an attack on Latvian soil.
Training and Experience
Where did they study, train, fight and gain the attention of Six?
Family
Self-explanatory
Theme Song
Just a bit of fun, really. Optional at most.
Name
(Yes, he doesn't have a name yet...)
Operator Alias
Two-Niner
Age
32
Gender
Male
Nationality
Latvian
Birth-date / Location
May 4, 1986 / Riga, Latvia (USSR)
Special Forces Group
Latvian State Police
Counterterrorism Unit
OMEGA
OMEGA is Latvia's main counterterrorism unit. It is one of the most secretive units of the Ministry of the Interior and is the elite of Latvian Special Forces. Created in 1992 by the Interior Ministry as a means to protect aircrafts from hijacking, the unit quickly grew both in size and tasks under its commanders - seasoned veterans of OMON and KGB Spetsnaz. While originally the unit was under the control of the Security Police, in 2003 it went over to the jurisdiction of State Police (specifically Criminal Police). Their usual objectives are releasing hostages, disarming of explosives, as well as detaining particularly dangerous criminals, killers, armed robbers, drug traffickers amongst other high-risk tasks. The unit is part of the ATLAS police network.
Appearance
In the field, Two-Niner wears the same weathered gear he used while serving in OMEGA: a black combat uniform, FAST helmet with a skull balaclava and MSA Sordin headset, black bulletproof vest with groin and deltoid protectors, Oakley Pilot gloves, tactical load bearing belt, knee pads and black LOWA Zephyr boots without mentioning the countless pouches, patches and other gear.
Back at base, what Two-Niner wears depends on whether he is training or just lazing around. If it’s the former, then most of the time he will wear his worn-out combat uniform with either the regular combat shirt or a black T-shirt that has the word POLICIJA (Police) in bold yellow on the back and his LOWA boots. If it's the latter, then most of the time you will find him wearing shorts with different T-shirts or polo shirts and a pair of sandals.
Psych Profile
Two-Niner is a troubled moralist who is obsessed with doing the right thing, but also acknowledges from experience that it isn't always possible, or viable. When hardship finds Two-Niner, he clenches his teeth and goes forward since he has a simple, yet strong motivation - do a good deed.
Two-Niner's fight with the Taliban and the Russian mafia has very clearly left him with psychological scars, such as PTSD and insomnia. He hides these cracks well with dry eastern European jokes and cynical monologues, but they may be reaching towards the foundations of his mind. While he isn't a ticking time bomb and won't be one in the near future, it is unknown how his mental state will develop further on as he takes on the White Masks.
His smiles, although frequent, appear as quickly as they disappear, with another common expression being a thousand-yard stare.
When in the field, Two-Niner tries to work and co-ordinate with his teammates as much as possible, because, as he believes: "An operator should trust his team more than he does himself." This belief causes him to particularly dislike the Schwarzenegger and Rambo types who tend to work solo. He knows that what he signed up for is risky business and can eventually get him killed, but he has no problem dying if it means saving innocent lives.
Two-Niner has a mixture of both liking and mistrust of the latest gear and technology used by Rainbow, while he acknowledges that it is a necessary force multiplier, he is also afraid that under the right circumstances it could very badly backfire for the operator and the team. He wants to be sure that every operator's performance wouldn't be heavily hindered if they had to work without them, or as he would like to say: working analogue.
He spends a good part of his free time on the base training and keeping his body fit to make sure that there would be no hiccups in the field. The rest he spends either studying as much as he can about the White Masks to understand what drives their organisation and maybe even be able to predict their next moves or socializing and spending time with other members of the Rainbow Team.
Relationships
This can be simple as each character eventually interacts with them, but this will be updated more in detail as the RP goes along.
Stance in Combat
Either Attacker > Defender, Attacker - Defender or Attacker < Defender. Their advantages in fighting, essentially.
Operator Equipment
The dossier of guns, equipment and any additional pieces of armament they might utilise.
Operator Ability
This will be thoroughly checked by me to see if it is plausible, but you can be creative with what you see. Requests for tweaks in its design may be asked for. Provide an image if possible, if not a good description of it.
Biography
Born in 1986 and growing up in one of the poorest districts of Latvia's capital, Two-Niner was a witness to the rise in crime and lawlessness that struck the newly independent Baltic republic in the early 1990s. As a young child, this made him hope of one day becoming a police officer that would bring order to the chaos. As he matured, however, his dreams and interests changed, but his morality and ability to differentiate between right and wrong remained.
His life took a sharp turn when he turned 18, in the form of a knock on his door. Opening it, two men in army fatigues stood in front of Two-Niner and he found himself drafted into the Armed Forces. Latvia had joined NATO the same year, but the military conscription would still go on for two years. After finishing basic training, Two-Niner was stationed in Camp Ādaži for the next two years. Though he made for a passable soldier in the beginning, with the help of a officer who took a liking to him, Two-Niner eventually trained to become something of an example for his peers. It was also in Ādaži where Two-Niner befriended the woman who would eventually become his fiancée. As his two year mandatory military service ended, he decided to continue working in the Armed Forces under a professional contract with paid higher education. It was also around this time that his son would be born, with his new family moving into a house in Kadaga.
Two years later, the 2008 financial crisis would hit and the fastest growing economy in the European Union would quickly become its poorest one. Unable to support his family with his current wage, Two-Niner would need to quickly find a way to earn more money. Instead of leaving the military like many of his colleagues and trying to find a better paying job in the unstable job market, Two-Niner went for a pay raise by joining the now thinned Special Forces - the Special Tasks Unit (SUV).
In April of 2010, Two-Niner went to Afghanistan for 8 months as part of a Latvian Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) for ISAF. His unit was stationed alongside troops from US army's 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan's infamous Kunar Province.
While most Latvian soldiers would talk about how they went to Afghanistan to help the civilian population against the Taliban (which really was what they were doing), in reality most of the soldiers that volunteered for the high-risk missions did it for the high pay raise for participating in such international missions. Not knowing this, most of Two-Niner's family, including his wife, supported his decision to go to Afghanistan, except for Two-Niner's father - a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War.
Back in Ādaži, they had simulated and played many possible scenarios that could occur in Afghanistan, both with the civilian population and the Taliban. However accurate and realistic these imitations were, they could never truly prepare a soldier for they would actually face in Afghanistan.
The Kunar Valleys location next to the Pakistani border, especially Khyber Pass, made it a popular Taliban smuggling route for weapons and fighters. Because of this, attacks on the base were a weekly and sometimes even a daily occurrence. This had forced Two-Niner to get used to a banal routine of being ambushed or attacked at any given time - be it while patrolling in the mountains, walking through a local village or sleeping in his underwear at the base.
It was in Kunar where Two-Niner realised what war really was - a separate world where all of his morals and everything that he once learned in peacetime would be put to a reality check. Of course, everything was true, but there were nuances. And it was these nuances that were the most valuable things that Two-Niner gained. Now he knew what was what and had his own opinion about how things should look like and how much they would all cost.
Two-Niner returned to Afghanistan a few months later, now against the wishes of his wife who noticed that something in him had begun to change. This time he found himself in Zabul Province, serving under the command of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force's elite unit Aitvaras as part of an agreement between Latvia and Lithuania. In Kunar, Two-Niner's unit’s main objective was to help the Afghan Army defend a critical road for the NATO, but here the Lithuanians were on the offensive by hunting down any Taliban forces they could find. This perfectly suited Two-Niner who wanted payback for all the innocent civilians and his American friends that the Taliban killed in Kunar. They famously used dirt-bikes to cross the rocky mountains and perform hit and run attacks on known Taliban positions during night-time. This earned them fear from the Taliban and the nickname "Hells Angels" by the Americans (that and all the infractions they earned for dangerous driving inside the base).
Overall, he spent two tours with the LITHSOF in Afghanistan that caused a heavy falling out with his wife. He soon left the Armed Forces, hoping that he could mend the relationship with his spouse, but it was all in vain and soon his wife filed for divorce. Two-Niner knew from the very beginning that it was clearly his fault for how he mistreated his family with long absence in Afghanistan. His little "war on terror" had resulted in nothing more than piles of countless corpses in Afghanistan and him losing the one he cared the most for.
He spent the next year in rebound, working at a shipyard in Riga and eventually began dating his former childhood sweetheart (they broke up not long before Two-Niner joined Team Rainbow).
In June, Two-Niner signed up as a candidate for a position at OMEGA, Latvia's premiere counter-terrorism unit. The selection lasted for three days and was open to anyone up to the challenge. However it was extremely tough to everyone who came: civvies cracked under the pressure, the police officers didn't have the necessary physical ability while the soldiers usually failed the psychological tests. There were 18 candidates and just 7 free spots. Despite this, only 4 men passed the selection, Two-Niner was one of them. However, to get into OMEGA was one thing, but to survive there was a whole other ordeal. It took 2 years of retraining and specialisation before Two-Niner would be put into a team and taken to operations. It took months of hard work just to earn his teammate's trust and respect. With that came his final test: a mock simulation of a terrorist attack on the Riga HES. Eliminating the terrorists and stopping the attack, Two-Niner passed the test with flying colours. This earned him the coveted Green Beret and a permanent position on OMEGA's roster.
Although OMEGA was a counter-terrorism unit first and foremost, the lack of terrorist acts on Latvian territory (3 in the last 20 years) made the unit focus on other high-risk situations: apprehension and elimination of highly dangerous threats, hostage rescue, execution of high-risk raids, searches, arrests, protection of VIPs, etc. OMEGA's "clientele" usually included armed psychopaths, serial killers, bank robbers, small gangs and, most prominently, the Russian Mafia. The Mob had its hands in everything from document forgery and protection rackets to drug, arms and human trafficking. Worst of all, many times their men were veterans from Afghan, Chechen, Yugoslav, Georgian and even Ukrainian conflicts, some of them being former members of the Spetsnaz, which made them a much more dangerous threat than what Two-Niner had previously faced.
If the Taliban had showed Two-Niner how horrible and destructive mankind could be for a belief, then the Bratva had showed him that they even less humane for money which motivated him on a much more personal crusade against the organisation. Unlike Afghanistan where there were bad bad guys and "our" bad guys, here Two-Niner clearly knew who the good and the bad guys were, who was in the wrong and who was in the right - there was no gray zone in the middle and Two-Niner knew that he was doing the right thing.
The appearance of White Masks whose motivation was unknown and did not discriminate who their victims were was the primary cause of why Two-Niner accepted the invitation to Team Rainbow after the Bellagio Hotel incident - to make sure that they could not live long enough to perform an attack on Latvian soil.
Training and Experience
Where did they study, train, fight and gain the attention of Six?
Family
Self-explanatory
Theme Song
Just a bit of fun, really. Optional at most.
