Agent North Dakota | Andrew Engelsen

Name: Marti
Age: 40+
Contact: texelations
Timezone: EST
Other Character(s): n/a

Name: Agent North Dakota
Door: Submissive

Canon: Red vs. Blue
Canon Point: As he is being attacked for his AI by the Meta. North is also a CRAU from Sanctums.

Age: Unknown | [estimated at around 31]
Appearance: North is 6’7” (200.6cm), pale, and blond, with blue eyes. He’s muscular from his line of work, though that’s a bit diminished from his time on the run. He has a few scars from being shot, and from his wild teen years when he had a lip ring.

History:

Red vs. Blue is a Halo fanfiction machinima—its creators would probably dispute my use of the word ‘fanfiction’ there but fundamentally, that’s what it is. As such, it uses many elements from Halo canon, although it deviates at many places as well. Its seasons are set out of order; the first five seasons deal with the simulation soldiers in the canyon known as Blood Gulch, but later on the viewer learns that these soldiers are there for training purposes for the agents of Project Freelancer. This program was created to test the use of AI in partnering with its agents, but as they were only allowed one AI for their experiments, they took drastic means and tortured the AI into splitting into pieces. Eventually the whole program fell apart, and North was one of the casualties of this.

This background is in chronological order, although the events shown in the actual program are not.

An AI scientist named Leonard Church loses his wife in the midst of securing his education in the field. He then raises his daughter alone, but manages to get his PhD in artificial intelligence.

Meanwhile, the leadership of the UNSC Earth Government has been seeking a “magic bullet” solution to ending the war with the aliens, which has been raging for over 20 years. Because of this, Dr. Church gains funding for Project Freelancer, and begins to be known as the Director. Although he is intending to partner all the agents with AIs, he’s only granted funding for one. He decides to use his own mind as a basis for the AI, naming it Alpha. During its creation, however, the memory of his wife splits off as its own entity. This causes him to realize he can torture the AI and cause other fragments to split off. His employee, known as the Counselor, begins to help with this.

Simulation bases are built, allowing the agents to train while interacting with real, if incompetent, simulation soldiers. In the process of setting up the Project, the Director hires his own daughter to be an agent in the program. She is designated Agent Carolina. He assigns the memory of his wife that had split off of Alpha as an agent as well, putting her in a robot body and designating her Agent Texas.

Agent Texas is active during several missions, during which the Project kidnaps a Huragok alien, which can repair any type of technology. The Director uses this alien to further his research in splitting AIs via torture. North is assigned the childlike AI fragment, Theta, and the two are seen to be a competent pairing when it comes to soldiering.

Eventually Agent Connecticut defects, having delved into the Project's files and realizing what is going on. She leaves the evidence behind for Agent Texas to find. Texas finds the evidence and also defects, leading a break-in to attempt to rescue Alpha and Agent Carolina. North is part of the team that defects with her, and he acts as the inside man during the break-in. The mission fails, and the spaceship that is functionally working as the Project’s headquarters crashes into the planet where the simulation bases are headquartered.

Agent North and his sister South leave, running away in order to rescue his own AI, Theta, from the entity known as the Meta. The Meta is the team of Sigma and his host, Maine, who begin gathering the other AIs so that they may be reassembled and become a full human. Eventually, the Meta attacks North in pursuit of Theta, a position that South had placed him in.

CRAU details: During the time he is fighting the Meta, he is suddenly transported to the planet Zeus, which is the site of the city of Proles. The city is encased in a dome in order to protect the population from a contagion outside known as dysthrophy. The corporation in charge of the city, Bifrons, was in total control of the city; NPCs in charge of Bifrons included a compliance officer (the Coho) who would hypnotize or torture characters into cooperating with their efforts. Characters would first awaken in game with a row of ports having been implanted down their spine.

North arrived in Proles to find several people he knew being under the dome, including York, a humanized Delta, and Carolina. His sister, South, arrived not long after.

On New Year’s Eve, a computer virus infected the software that is being pushed from Bifrons to each residents’ ports. Known as the Thanos virus, it made the residents irritable and easily angered. South disappeared during the time the virus was still at work, and an anonymous source sent North a video; she had been taken to Bifrons headquarters and never emerged through its doors again. Due to the virus, a friend of North’s gathered some friends to help him attack the tower that contained the mayor’s office. North decided to help because he thought he might discover what happened to his sister there.

Bifrons sent Wrath, the lieutenant of Wrath platoon of the Ghost Wolves, to fight them off. Wrath ran North over with her hoverbike and defeated the team. However, Carolina knocked Wrath off the top floor of the building and caused her tremendous injuries.

After this, Wrath’s commander, Hob Ravani, who is also Callsign Victor, contacted him over the public network to discuss him joining the militia. The Coho picked North up before he got a chance to visit Ravani, however, and convinced him not to help her. Ravani had to convince him once again, but in the end, he did decide to join the militia.

Ravani told him to visit Wrath in the hospital. He wasn’t really very interested, since she had been the one to run him over with a hoverbike, but he did so. He found her to be different from what he expected, and the two hit it off.

Another default in the port software caused people to be able to see alternate universes in reflective surfaces, and North and York saw one in which they had been in love. York and North end up in bed because of the memories that they were confronted with. Despite this, York encouraged North’s budding relationship with Wrath.

North received his challenge coin at the end of his training for the militia and became Pride lieutenant of the Ghost Wolves. He then continued to visit Wrath in the hospital daily, one time intercepting compliance officers who were attempting to drag her from her bed.

A new default in the port software caused a shared dreamscape. Unaware at first that it was all a dream, North and Wrath solidified their relationship. Later on they agree they meant it, however.

Later, Wrath was released from the hospital and North helped her pick out a new house.

Ravani’s plans in having the Immune join the militia came to fruition and the Callsign program was eliminated, causing the militia to become the Proles Free Army. Upset at the change, the population of the Dome rioted.

After the transition was complete, North’s monogamy conflicted with Wrath’s polyamorous outlook, and the two broke up.

Not long before North disappeared from the Dome, North and Maine worked out army rotations to guard the new dock that would allow people to leave the Dome.

Personality:

+ nurturing + North’s ability to care for others is well-established in the show, with the Counselor in particular referring to North’s “nurturing nature” as the reason he was assigned the AI fragment Theta. Though perhaps nothing in life has given him cause to learn how to calm and mentor others than his relationship with his twin sister, South. She is rash and impulsive, often mouthing off when something upsets or irritates her. While he seems unwilling to call her out on her outbursts in front of other people, he usually goes to find her in the aftermath to calm her and talk her through what’s upsetting her.

- condescending - North knows better than you and is willing to show that he thinks so in the way he talks to others and the way he behaves. At one point he’s seen dictating to South what she should do during a mission despite the fact that his prattling on in her earpiece could distract her. He also doesn’t take her into his confidence after deciding to act as the inside man during Tex and York’s defection. He ends up being forced to injure her during the fight for the ship instead.

- over-cautious - North tends to be overly concerned with the consequences of defying the status quo. He is wilfully blind to the deficiencies of the leadership of Project Freelancer, only admitting to himself that they cannot be “the good guys” after York brings up some of the issues with the way the last battle had gone. He’s slow to act even after this, and only ends up joining forces with Tex and York after the conclusive evidence that the leadership is in the wrong has been presented to him.

- passive-aggressive - North doesn’t tend to confront someone head-on when they’re doing something he doesn’t agree with; he comes at it sideways, or with passive-aggressive remarks. At one point after his sister begins to rant in AI class, North is seen giving a rueful little headshake, grunting in irritation. On another occasion, when York’s jokes are getting to him, he asks York “how many times we’re going to have to hear this story” in a low tone.

Powers and Abilities: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: A purple suit of Freelancer armor with green accents, his sniper rifle, and a pistol. His AI, Theta, will be missing.

Samples: Sample from Piper90
Sample from TDM