UFO character profiles

[The Veteran]

Nice one JFish, you've done it again!

[Alitorious]

Good work JFish!

 

You know, the descriptions seem to take up a lot of space, and it's hard to find who's in which squad.

Maybe have it where the names of the guys are links to the discriptions.

 

I was thinking something like a condensed list that looks like this:

 

Squad|Callsign|Name|Position|Character|Mortality

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...

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And have links to the bottom, where we have the full versions of the character bios.

 

This would make it easier to see what characters there are, who's in what squad, et cetera.

 

What you have is great, though! Looks nice! Is loads of help anyways!

[JellyfishGreen]

Well, it took a few hours and strained my scant knowledge of HTML, but thanks to Netscape Composer and the Word spellchecker, I present

 

Link: XCOM Characters with Description Index

 

Spelling and grammar have been corrected. British/American spellings have been left untouched. Jennings has been given a first name. Armoury sergeant now named. The remaining security, medical, technical, administrative, and janitorial personnel are and will remain anonymous unless called upon.

 

JFG

[Zager]

New guy:

 

Major Ivan Tolstovich

Callsign: The mad Russian

Background: Ivan Tolstovich was born and raised in the Soviet Union. He enlisted in the Red Army at the age of 19, and served for twenty-three years, reaching the rank of Major. He saw combat many times, and was considered to be an extraordinarily good soldier both by his superiors and by the soldiers he commanded.

 

In 1989, as the Soviet Union was coming to an end, Ivan was one of the soldiers who had to be fired, due to increasing budget problems. He drifted around Russia for a few years, before going into mercenary work. He shattered records, racking up a high kill rate, and Ivan soon became somewhat famous within mercenary circles.

 

His locations during this time are unrecorded, and mostly hearsay. His next confirmed location was when he turned up working for the CIA, leading one of their black ops teams, and then later training them, when he decided to leave field duty.

 

It was from the CIA that he was recommended to the X-COM project. Upon being briefed, he accepted the offer, at his standard salary of course, and went to serve in X-COM as the head of training.

 

Personal Information: Ivan is about fifty-two years old. He has black hair, which is starting to turn gray, and blue eyes.

Character's physical Statistics

Strength: Above Average

Speed: Average

Agility: Above average

Mental condition: Stable

Psionic Potential: Average

Bravery: Insanely high

Character's controller: Zager

[Spaceman42]

"who had to be fired" - you mean RIF'd?

[Alitorious]

Wow, that looks really good JFG! Nice job!

[Loonie]

Heh heh. Why O Why Zager do I get the impression that I've seen that name once before....Ivan Tolstovich....hmmmmm.

 

Though I think you'll have some trouble posting roleplaying in XCAS without attending sims since at that time you get to know the other characters a lot better you know.

 

But still. Some extra forum activity is always appriceated in XCAS.

[JellyfishGreen]

Are we to assume Ivan is taking over ground troop operations from Genega, and directly oversees our three training corporals? I can understand Genega wanting to delegate more duties in the expanded operation, but he's still going to want to see his soldiers personally now and then to get a feel for the battles. Will Ivan be leading any missions on the ground, or is his role purely training, or what?

 

I haven't played Red Alert - is that where he's from?

[Zager]

Nope, he's not from Red Alert.

 

Ivan is purely for training. He may take part in ground missions later on, but that's doubtful.

[Hankosha]

Ok. I've edited my char, and now you have background on how he got his nick.

[Ego Terrorist]

Two new characters all in the Intel Department

 

Intelligence Analyst

 

Val Deacon

 

History She's young for a person in her position but is smart and has a sharp eye and is a little timid and nervous, though eager to please. She was originlly a CIA Intelligence Analyst where she rose through the ranks rapidly by proving her worth, until she was transfered to X-INV and placed under Pickering's Command, with the disbandment of X-INV and transfer of resources to X-Com, Pickering brought her along to be part of the new Intel team.

 

She's 27, and has short brown hair, with a slim build and is around 5 foot 2 in height.

 

Skills:

 

An excellent analyitical mind, and a sharp eye for details.

 

Physically she's only taken basic self defence classes and so has a low rating in hand to hand combat.

 

Gun handling skills: She's has below average skills with pistols.

 

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Encyption Specialist

 

Paul Johnson

 

Paul's a man who's worked with computers all his life, he has excellent mathmatical skills, he's worked for the goverment on a contractual basis where he's taken part in developing encryption protcol's for military communcation use, as well as this he's able to hack and get past computer security systems.

 

Age: 25

Black hair, short and spiked

5 foot 7 and has a average build

 

Has not taken any self defence classes.

 

Has not handled a gun before, but is aware of how to operate them, but most liekly has a very low skill with the gun.

[Hankosha]

Character's Name: John O'Malley

 

Character's Callsign: Patrick

 

Character's Background:An Irishman, O'malley shoots better when he's drunk, and is more rowdy as well, he has designed his own specialized weapons for combat, but was not allowed to use them.

 

Character's Personal Information

Height: 6"7'

Hair Color: Brownish-Black

Eye Color: Green

Character's Physical Statistics

Strength: Good

Speed:Average

Agility:Very Good

Character's Mental Condition: Sane.

Psionic potential: Average

Bravery: normal

Character's Controller:Hankosha

[Rasicar]

Character Name: Jack Donovan

 

Callsign: Eventually 'Ripper'

 

Background: Graudated Valedictorian in high school, he was offered a full ride scholarship to Westpoint Military Academy. Taking the opportunity, he applied himself full bore to his studies and his training. While there, he became Captain of the Cross-Country and Track squads. During military war games and drills he maintained a %100 kill ratio with whatever he targeted. He became specialized in assault rifles and known for his skill behind the scope of a sniper rifle.

 

Upon review of his personnel file from college, it became noted that in addition to making a %100 percent kill ratio he also had to most demerits and commendations at college. These were related to one another in regards to his unorthodox combat methods. It appears the subject has a habit of bending and stretching orders to the extreme, in order to complete mission objectives. The demerits and commendations were given simultaneously: demerits for his lack of listening and/or respecting his commander; commendations for battlefield ingenuity and quick thinking. While the subject the more then likely excel as an X-Com operative, there is some slight concern for his following orders and whether or not he will in fact break them at some point in time.

 

From the ages of 13-18 he trained in Shotokan Karate, attaining the rank of 2nd Dan by the latter part of his 18th year. Because of his training and marks, he caught the eyes of some of the secret recruiters for X-Com and was approached on New Year's also his early graduation night.

 

Personal Information:

Height: 6'1"

Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde

Eye Color: Green

Build: Athletic

 

Physical Statistics:

 

Strength:Average

Intelligence:Slightly above average, but nothing of specific note.

Speed:Exceptional

Agility:Exceptional

Mental Condition: Stable

Bravery:Average - Does what is called for, known to go above and beyond the call of duty when necessary if no one else will 'step up to the plate' as he puts it.

Psionic Potential: Due to martial art training, high defense, and average, if any offense.

 

Weapons Training:

 

Hand to Hand: Exceptional

Pistols:Below Average

Grenades:Average

Rifle:Above Average

Heavy Weapons:Below average due to strength

Noted Preferrances:Dominant training shows subject to excel with hand to hand attacks, blades and rifles. All other training appears of tertiary interest.

 

Character's Controller:Rasicar (after the first few posts, other people are more then welcome to add in, however I reserve the right to kill him off. Note: He MIGHT die, I haven't figured out the specifics yet.)

[Rasicar]

For those interested, I modified my characters background slightly to justify his actions during training, and to give him a little more personality. If anyone has any problems, please let me know.

[The Veteran]

That's fine Raz, just make sure he doesn't become too much of a pain... He's already starting to sound like a slightly more sane MadCap

[Loonie]

Heh heh. Actually MadCap was sane in his own sense. But due to his shady past nobody ever got to learn his true nature.

 

I notice another post for the sake of posting on the part of Hankosha. Not too comendable. :hmmm:

[Rasicar]

Completely understandable Vet. Don't worry, I'll watch it. I was just thinking about the character and what he may have done in the past. Since no character is perfect, I realized that some flaws, especially interpersonal/militarily should be necessary.

[The Veteran]

Sure thing Raz, the backgrounds important for people to be able to write for your character later on.

Loon, I agree with you but comments about the fic are for the discussion topic not the character profiles!

[JellyfishGreen]

Collated Character Profiles now up on my WWW. Organized by occupation and by squad. New guys added. We're up to 62 characters, I think - so no more until we see some attrition, mmm?

[Rasicar]

Character's Name: Seamus O'Riork

 

Character's Callsign: N/A

 

 

Character's Background: Seamus graduated the top of his class in college. His accolades include Bachelor of Science: Biochemistry, Biology. Masters: Genetics. Ph.D: BioGenetics. Was approached by X-INV, now known as X-Com after he created a synthetic organism which breaks down petro-chemicals present in crude oil spills and industrial accidents.

 

He could easily lead a successful research team of his own, however his personality prohibits his getting any any leadership position.

 

Character's Personal Information: Seamus displays signs of obsessive compusive behavior regarding his resarch and work. He himself suffers from a severe introverted personality which makes him have trouble trouble talking to people, especially his superiors. Spends his free time, what little he has, reading, drinking privately, and as he puts it, 'blowing the holy hell out of terrorists' in Counter-Strike.

[Bomb Bloke]

A rookie, why not? Excuse me if I stereotype, I gotta start somewhere.

 

Name: Jack Howitz

Callsign: Bomber

 

Statistics -

Strength: Slightly below average

Agility: Above average

Speed/stamina: High

Mental strength/stability: Above average

Accuracy: Very low

Age: 24

 

Jack is a demolition expert, good at running into and out of hot situations leaving some sort of explosive charge behind him. Although he can't handle any "real" weapons, he doesn't slow down, and he can throw a grenade on a dime. And bounce it onto another. Has been in the military a while, and while exceptional in his skills, is not officer material. But that's fine, as responsibility is not his dream. Tends to stare into space when left alone. Has an unnerving habit of juggling grenades.

[Fatigue]

Sad me, just looked at the date on it and well.. im a little late lol..

[Fatigue]

Character's Name: Greg Conner

Character's Callsign: "Ghost"

Character's Background: Joined the United States Army at age 18, he quickly moved up the Special Forces branch. From Boot Camp to Ranger School, to 75th Ranger Regiment, to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment- Delta ( Delta Force ). Hes performed countless missions; Long Range Patrols in ******, Assassinations, Recon, Hostage Rescue, Search and Destroy, and Bodyguards for Ambassadors. He's trained in First Aid, Scout/Sniper, Close Quarters Combat, Tracking, HALO/HAHO Freefalls, and Scuba. He's also fluent in German and Thai, and English as his main language. Acquired his Callsign for his slick infil/exfil of a Terrorist Camp and CQC (Knife) assaassination of that Camp's leader.

Character's Personal Information: Is approx. 5'9, 190lbs. Black crewcut hair, light tanned skin. Has a tattoo of broken Angel wings on his shoulders. Usually found at the shooting range with his custom Car-15.

Character's Physical Statistics

Strength Above Average

Speed Average

Agilty Average

Stamina Excellent

Intelligence Average

Accuracy Excellent

Bravery Extremely High

Controller Fatigue

[The Veteran]

So when are we going to see Ghost in the action then? Feel free to write any time! Just be sure to read the guidelines first

[Pumpkinhead]

I'm not sure if anyone's interested, but I'm currently attending a series of screenwriting seminars, and we were given a "Character Growth Chart" which is used to define a character. I thought it might be useful to you all in the creation of your fanfic characters:

 

NAME:

AGE:

HEIGHT:

WEIGHT:

COLOR OF-

..............Hair:

..............Eyes:

..............Complexion:

POSTURE (WALK):

APPEARANCE-

..............Physical distinctions:

..............Dress distinctions:

MAIN CHARACTER TRAIT:

SECONDARY CHARACTER TRAIT:

AMBITION-

..............Desires:

..............Goals:

OCCUPATION:

NATIONALITY:

SOCIAL CLASS-

..............In childhood:

..............At present:

IQ:

EDUCATION:

HOME LIFE-

..............When growing up: (attitude toward parents, grandparents, siblings & friends)

..............Present attitudes toward above and toward a loved one:

AMUSEMENTS, HOBBIES, PLEASURES:

FAULTS:

RELIGION:

MORALS:

SEXUAL DRIVE:

FRUSTRATIONS, IRRITATIONS:

INNER CONFLICTING FRUSTRATIONS:

TEMPERAMENT:

SUPERSTITIONS:

IMAGINATION:

UNUSUAL AND/OR HABITUAL GESTURES:

CHARACTERISTIC MANNER OF SPEAKING:

VOICE (sound):

FIRST IMPRESSION ON OTHERS:

POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS:

OTHER:

CHARACTER GROWTH: (What happens in the story to make this character - or persons around him -different from the impressions they gave us in the beginning of the story?)