Player Section
Steam Name: Suttreetoadvine
Age: 21
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): Seven years
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: Two to Three months
Character Section
Authorization(s):
Basic hand to hand fighting skills
Name: Taishi Wu
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Affiliation: None
Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
Taishi grew up in Pyongyang, a skeleton of a city in North Korea. At the time, North Korea was controlled by a tyrant named Kim Jong-il whom had ruled in the wake of his passed Father. The harsh Communist regime of North Korea strictly regulated every imaginable aspect of Taishi’s life. Gendered roles were selected, with woman being expected to work laborious hours with little to no nutrition while raising children of their own. Most North Korean infants were born underweight and died early out of the womb. Many whom survived lived with life-long disabilities.
Taishi spent her childhood with an older brother, named Dongha. Dongha was protective of Taishi. He had been sent to China many times as a teenager to receive education in what Taishi’s parents described as “a more opportune world”. While Taishi and Dongha had been born into the divided Koreas, her parents had seen the era when the country was united and whole, before entire families were forced to fight against one another; some never seeing each other again after the DMZ was established.
Dongha used to tell Taishi stories about the triumph of Communism in China. They would sneak out into the farmlands and stare at the night sky where stars hung in the blackness like the great cities in the distance, so beautiful, and out of their reach. Dongha would tell Taishi stories of the red guards in China under the incandescent moon. Her brother taught her Chinese and would read “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” to her by candlelight. The stories of fearless warriors like Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Xu Chu, and Dian Wei would entice her. She was captivated by the legends of loyal generals such as Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia, and especially Jiang Wei. Taishi dreamed of visiting China one day
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Taishi’s teenage years consisted of attending school, learning basic English and rudimentary propaganda on a daily basis. She was taught that Kim-Sung destroyed an American tank with a pine cone. And she was taught that the heavens themselves opened up when her current despot leader was born. When she asked her parents about Kim Jung-il, they would only respond with distant frowns.
Taishi’s parents were not wealthy, but they had close relatives in China who pulled as many strings as they could, but no amount of favors could fix the famines of her homeland. Taishi received the chance to join the military upon graduating high school. Her parents urged her to go, fearing for her chances of surviving the famines that came and went beyond the government’s seeming control. It was her wish to join the medical corps, but North Korea wanted a show of it, and most women were selected based on their beauty. Taishi was rather ugly, a fact that had always shadowed her. She was segregated into the artillery branch as an officer of the Korean People's Army Ground Force, thank to her family in China, and although it had hurt her very much to have been rejected into the medical branch, her parents couldn’t have been prouder.
In 1993, Dongha returned to Korea from China. He and Taishi climbed to the top of a mountain overlooking the vast farmland covering the plains like a checkered quilt. They stared at the innumerable stars glowing in the darkness and watched as the fire-lit agrarian countryside disappeared, field by field. Dongha began speaking of reforms in China, something about private enterprise and self-run businesses. He spoke of luxury and wealth and education that supposedly had taken root in China. He seemed optimistic. He tugged at Taishi’s military jacket and told her to escape with him to a better world. She cried. That was the last time she would see her brother.
In 1994, after Dongha had returned to China, another famine broke out. Food was extremely scarce. Cannibalism had taken route through the corners of the countryside. Even some in the military had started to kill one another to free up room for promotions and to survive. Taishi stood at her military post, day after day, guarding the looming M-1978, or KOKSAN Howitzer overlooking the DMZ. At night she could see the distant cities pulsating with vibrant lights like another world entirely. Some of the time with her unit was spent training in hand to hand combat and small firearms, but their real jobs were scavenging for food, collecting bits of rice from abandoned farms or sometimes, even fallen comrades, and desperately trying to stay nourished. Taishi became scared of the officer’s insignia on her shoulder, fearing that she would be mistaken for somebody with real status and killed for her food.
The Combine’s assault on earth was fast, too fast for the backwards government of North Korea to even respond. The citizens were in a state of shock. Nothing changed for Taishi. Her nation had traded one tyrannical government for another. It was only when the segregations came that her parents were sent away. The organic vessels of the Combine loomed overhead like angry gods of past civilizations, arriving to cleanse the people of their fallacies. On the train to unknown destinations she sat quietly, this was her first time on such a transport. The other captives joined her in mutual silence. The moans of the rails echoed throughout the car. Some were visibly unnerved, others cried. The train came to a halt.
What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
Advantage when fighting other citizens in hand to hand combat, (not CCA)
Small arms basic training and understanding of cleaning and operating (Only looking for this auth in Outlands)
Defects
Will be of little use against CCA (CCA have armor, training, and Taishi is malnourished from supplements)
What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
Defend myself when attacked. Heading to outlands. This are for self-defense not marauding.
Will anyone else need these auths? (If so, list OOC and IC name(s))
No.
Which server does this apply for?
City (hand to hand) Outlands (both auths)
Extra Notes (optional):
I have edited the story slightly to include small arms training.
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