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agent north

some things are harder to face than others

Court: Seelie: Summer
Room: 205
Roommate: Damen of Akelios

Character Information

Personal:

North is a soldier from a war-torn galaxy that has been fighting aliens bent on humanity's destruction for over 25 years. North has known nothing else in his life but the conditions of war.
North has a twin sister, who was assigned the matching codename to his—so for a long time into the project, North Dakota fought with South Dakota by his side.
The headcanon name I have given North is Andrew Engelsen. Unless and until I get a South in game, his sister may be referred to as Alexis.
North has zero problems sharing his real name with potential friends, and will give people the option of calling him either by the moniker North or by his real name. He doesn't like nicknames, though; he is Andrew, not Andy or Drew.

Canon:

Though North comes from a comedy canon, it can be kind of dark in places. Themes that are present in North's canon include genocide, war, ethics, sacrifice, and torture.
The method and results of Alpha's torture are always with North, as he received the childlike Theta fragment as a partner. Theta is likely to speak up in any thread, and may express curiosity or fear about whatever is going on.

Physical:

North is tall, and it's obvious that until he became a soldier he was rather gangly. Thankfully, he has become well-muscled, and he maintains his physique despite the two years he recently spent on the run from the Project.
Vital statistics:

◦ Height: 6'7" (200 cm)

◦ Weight: 249 lb (113 kg)

◦ Hair: Blond

◦ Eyes: Ice blue

◦ Gender: Male

◦ Race: European
North speaks in a fairly neutral standard Midwestern American accent. The beginning of this video contains a good sample of his speaking voice. North is the one in purple armor.
North has several remnants of a wilder childhood, such as the lip ring scar on his lower left lip.

Abilities:

North is a trained sniper, and can use a sniper rifle almost as adeptly without a scope as he can with it. Adjacent to this, he's got unmatched patience, being willing to sit and wait for his quarry for hours without moving and without complaining.
North is a physical powerhouse, though he's not as adept at hand-to-hand fighting as some of his teammates. There's a reason he consistently ranked around sixth on the leaderboard, after all. However, if you're interested in your character sparring with or fighting against North, please discuss the outcome with me.
North is also skilled at vehicle repair and equipment maintenance.

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🦋 OOC Information

Name: Marti / Data
Contact:

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Age: 40+
Other Characters: N/a
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🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Agent North Dakota | unknown (I use the name Andrew Engelsen for him)
Age: Late 20s
Canon: Red vs Blue
Canon Point: As he is being attacked for his AI by the Meta
Character History: Here
Canon Abilities: What is your character capable of doing in canon?

North has been recruited into an elite force of mercenary soldiers. As such he is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, self-defense tactics, shooting, and survival. His specialty is the sniper rifle; he’s nearly as accurate shooting without a scope as he is with it. In the confrontation with his sister, he’s seen dual-wielding sniper rifles, one in each hand.

North is good at calming people down, helping them compromise, helping them feel better, and suggesting things that will help them feel comforted. Given his skills in dealing with Theta it would seem he would be excellent with children, should he find himself around any.

North is incredibly patient, a skill that helps him both in his role as a sniper and his attempts to help others.

Inventory:

His power armor (purple with green accents), his rifle, and Theta, an AI that has been implanted in a chip at the base of his skull.

🦋 Personality

Option 1: Answer the following questions. Elaborate on the answer, especially your characters thoughts and feelings surrounding the answer. For Canon Characters, you can choose four questions. For Original Characters, you will need to choose six questions. Keep the word count to 150-400 per question.

Has your character always believed in magic? Do they have something influencing their perspective on the supernatural/metaphysical/spiritual from their past? How do they feel about magic?

North has never really believed in magic, having been raised in an era of logic and reason and science. The AI the Project created to pair him with is evidence enough for him that the things that seem impossible all have scientific explanations; even the enemies humankind has been fighting since before he was born were aliens from other worlds. I headcanon that by the time Halo and RvB take place (in the 2500s, 500 years from now), farie tales are told with a large dose of skepticism, a sense that this is mere fantasy, even around small children. After all, farie tales are stories that only distract from the day-to-day reality that humanity is at war, and a devastating war at that. And ever since he's had Theta to act fatherly toward, or at least brotherly toward, this tendency has only been solidified. If someone tried to tell him magic is real, he'd likely quietly disagree, but not make a big fuss about it. After all, it takes time and patience to change someone's mind about a fundamental belief like that.
If your character could ask for one wish, and it's going to be magically granted without any consequence, what will it be and why?

Everything in North's life has gone astray because of the actions of Leonard Church choosing to torture the ALpha AI and split it into multiple component AIs. Although he has a great deal of affection for Theta and appreciates the AI for its personality and talents, if he could have one wish granted he'd likely say he wishes the actions Church took in administering the Project and its AIs had never taken place. In the case of something like this, however, it would take wishing that Church had never gone through the experiences that he had gone through that inspired him to create the Project in the first place—the death of his wife, and even the war itself, are causes North can't see any way to be able to prevent. So it would take changing the way Church viewed his own role in the war and his ethical lapses in working with soldiers and AIs in the unethical ways he was willing to do.
If there's one person your character would follow to another realm, who would it be and why? If there's no one, state that and explain why.

North would follow his sister, South, no question. In my headcanon, North's family was poor and he and his sister shared a bedroom with a rickety bunk bed in it in a 3rd floor apartment. Despite their poverty, and their parents trying their best to raise their twins, the two ended up spending much of their time after school hours alone. North's more mature and responsible nature clashed with South's impulsivity, so he often intervened when South would do things like scrap with older teens on the basketball court and the like. However, he was also very defensive of her, so he was just as likely to enter the fray if someone was being particularly cruel to her. He became used to being her defender and intervening in situations she had gotten into, despite her protestations that he wasn't required to do such things. He sees himself as being needed in her life because of her brash decisions, and if the faeries carried her off for whatever reason he'd want to be the one to help her in the situation she had found herself in.
What is your character's most outstanding personality trait, and why?

North's is definitely his nurturing nature. This was so noticeable that when Theta split off of Alpha, and was obviously a child fragment of its personality, North was chosen to host him. He's often seen trying to mentor others and talk to them about their issues, though the fact that he seems to see himself as some kind of father figure makes him come across as condescending as a consequence. He's unfortunately a bit passive-aggressive in the way he communicates when he thinks someone should be acting differently from the way that they are, which shows especially in the fight scene where he and South are working in sync to escape a situation where she set the alarm off—he keeps trying to tell her, a capable fighter, what choices she should be making in the fight. On the converse side, he tends to believe the best out of people, including the Project leadership, and it takes him a lot of time and convincing to realize the agents of the Project are not the good guys.

🦋 Fae Court

List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

Summer

Autumn

Spring

Ability:

3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.

🦋 RP Samples

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🦋 Player

Name: Marti or Data

Active Times/Pace: EST – times vary as I'm an insomniac with a very inconsistent sleep schedule. I try to tackle tags no farther apart than every third day, but ideally every day. I do get in boomeranging moods, though!

Brackets/Prose: Prose preferred, but will match.

Offensive Subjects & Triggers to Avoid: Noncon/rape. Otherwise, I don't really have any triggers, though I am uncomfortable with elaborate descriptions of gore and such. Putting a cw in the subject line for anything upsetting should cover me.

🦋 In Character

Physical Affection: North will take this as a cue that a greeting hug upon every encounter is welcomed, so be sure you want to set the precedent.

Physical Violence: North is skilled in hand-to-hand and shooting, so your character may find him a formidable opponent. Check with me before initiating anything.

Relationships: North is demisexual panromantic, so with proper build-up and initiation of a friendship, this is possible.

NPC Interaction: cool

Psychic & Psionic Information: North has an implanted helper AI in a chip implanted in his brain, so use of psionic powers on him will feel familiar in that sense. However, he has no way of fending them off or anything.

Magical Information: N/a

Medical Information: North has a chip implanted at the base of his skull that bridges between the AI and his mind. Touch there may be somewhat sensitive. A blow there would be devastating.

Offensive Subjects & Triggers Associated with This Character: Though North comes from a comedy canon, it can be kind of dark in places. Themes that are present in North's canon include genocide, war, ethics, sacrifice, and torture. North himself is a caring dude, but he will smother you if you let him. He can be codependent, also.

🦋 Out Of Character

Backtagging: I prefer to play out what I can of a thread in a fairly timely manner. If it's looking like what is happening between our characters is going to have a major impact on their CR longterm, I'll keep backtagging for some months, but for the most part if it's beyond the current plot and it's not going much of anywhere I'm liable to lose interest.

Threadhopping: I'm all for this in network posts as long as things are open (i.e. there's no indication the transmission is private). For logs, I'd like to be advised you're going to do this, but will most likely be open to it.

Facetwins: I use Jude Law as a PB when North's paid is active. Please touch base with me before initiating.

Fourthwalling: Please touch base with me before initiating.

Not Interested In: N/a

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