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daestwen
» CONTACT: daestwen on plurk, daestwen#6257 on discord
» AGE: 32
» CHARACTER(S) IN-GAME: none yet
CHARACTER
» NAME: Alex Kamal
» CANON: The Expanse (TV Series)
» CANON POINT: End of Season 2, Episode 13: Caliban's War
» AGE: Mid-thirties to early forties (not specified)
» SETTING: 2350, humans have colonised most of the solar system. Earth and Mars as the 'Inner' planets, but several asteroids and moons have colonies as well, and are called 'the Belt'. Hard Sci-Fi, natural gravity, and some very disturbing new signs of alien life. Alex himself is a Martian, but has been living as a ship pilot in the belt for the last five years. Season 1. Season 2.
» SHORT DESCRIPTION: Caring, Empathetic, Driven, Wander-lust, Good Humoured, Determined
» INFLUENTIAL EVENTS:
HONOURABLE DISCHARGE > FAMILY DESERTION: Martians have a culture based entirely around service to the community, both professionally and personally. Alex served his tour in the Martian military as he was meant to, married as he was meant to, and had a kid. But after getting his discharge from the military he found himself longing for space- so he took up a job out past the asteroid belt, mining ice in the rings of Saturn. It tore his marriage apart, but staying on Mars was tearing him apart, as he realised that he just couldn't be happy if he wasn't out in the stars.
DESTRUCTION OF THE CANTERBURY: Alex was one of five crew from the Canterbury to investigate a distress signal from a ship called the Scopuli. On oard they found no survivors, only a very creepy blue goo that had wrapped itself around the drive core. Unfortunately, the distress signal was a trap, and a stealthed gunship appeared from nowhere and nuked the Canterbury, leaving Alex and the four other crew of the shuttle the sole survivors. They did not come out of the destruction unscathed - shrapnel tore through the shuttle and destroyed the airlock, forcing them to live on dwindling air reserves as they repaired the ship and tried to signal for rescue. Alex would have died during this if Shed, the ship's medic, hadn't shared his air supply and saved him from asphyxiation. Alex, a patriotic Martian, refused to believe that the Cant was destroyed by Mars - even if they were the only ones in the solar system with stealth technology. The destruction of the Can't signalled an end to the life that Alex had built for himself - and the beginning of a very dark time in human history.
DESTRUCTION OF THE DONNAGER / GAINING THE ROCINANTE: Though losing the Cant cost Alex his former life and a lot of his friends, the destruction of the Martian flagship The Donnager impacted Alex far more deeply. Initially resumed by them, Alex was given a uniform and was brought to remember his place in the Martian navy - greeted as one of them despite the rest of the crew being held in tight suspicion. He feels justified and vindicated to learn that Mars did not destroy the Cant. But when that same enemy comes for the Donnager, when Shed is killed and he and his friends nearly die (again), Alex is given the reason to fight that he never really had. The Martians give their lives to ensure that he and the other Cant survivors get off the ship, by sending them in a Martian gunship, which becomes the crew's new home and the true love of Alex's life, the Rocinante. But the Dinnager seals the situation for him: this is not something he can run from. He owes it to every man and woman aboard that ship to find out what happened to them and ensure it doesn't happen to anyone else, and he makes damn well sure that none of the rest of his crew forget who died for them.
EROS: Eros is where the world - no, the system - went to hell. Chasing the breadcrumbs of the mystery that they'd been caught up in led them here, to the asteroid station in the ass crack of the Belt, to find the only surivor of the Scopuli. Instead of a survivor, however, they found patient zero - and an alien protomolecule that repurposes everything it touched. Someone was trying to build the protomolecule into a weapon - and sacrificed everyone on Eros to do it. Though the Roci escaped, Alex never forgave himself for the fact that they didn't save enough people. That those they saved they did so by accident, when they could have saved so many more. The absolute horror of what happened on Eros illustrated just how low the depths of humanity could go, to Alex, and he knew that stopping anyone from using it was the most important thing any of them could do with their lives. Unlike Holden, however, Alex still recognizes that in order to do that, he needs to keep this little family he's found together - that's the only way they are going to win anything.
THOTH STATION: Alex's first fight as a true gunship pilot. The odds of them coming out of the battle alive had been slim - he'd run dozens of simulations before hand and lost the ship in every one. During the battle itself, he fares far better, but has to make a devastating choice: either sacrifice the life of one of his crew, Amos, who is doing repairs in the bulkhead and not strapped in - or sacrifice the lives of 20 people in a breaching pod, who can only be saved if Alex does a high gee maneuver to get to them in time. He chooses to save Amos, who is part of his crew and who he considers family. But he beats himself up for the choice for weeks, after that. He gets obsessed with running simulations of the battle over and over again until he can pilot through it without losing a single person. As he tells Holden, the next time? He's gonna save them all.
» FIT: Alex has worked and lived in space his whole life. Even when he was living planet-side with his wife and son, he dreamed of getting back out into space. The type of tech that exists in the Expanse is fairly similar to Reverie (save for the replicators, of course, the closest thing they have are 3D printers) - and would find himself pretty at home on the station. He also comes from a space horror show - and has unfortunately been witness to some pretty Fucked Up Shit (TM) thanks to the protomolecule - including turning children into monsters, and an asteroid into a space ship. So he's already starting to get used to the Fucking Insane, thanks.
» POWERS: no powers, normal human
» NOTES: N/A
» SAMPLES: open tdm thread || tmd thread with amos
» HANDLE:
daestwen» CONTACT: daestwen on plurk, daestwen#6257 on discord
» AGE: 32
» CHARACTER(S) IN-GAME: none yet
CHARACTER
» NAME: Alex Kamal
» CANON: The Expanse (TV Series)
» CANON POINT: End of Season 2, Episode 13: Caliban's War
» AGE: Mid-thirties to early forties (not specified)
» SETTING: 2350, humans have colonised most of the solar system. Earth and Mars as the 'Inner' planets, but several asteroids and moons have colonies as well, and are called 'the Belt'. Hard Sci-Fi, natural gravity, and some very disturbing new signs of alien life. Alex himself is a Martian, but has been living as a ship pilot in the belt for the last five years. Season 1. Season 2.
» SHORT DESCRIPTION: Caring, Empathetic, Driven, Wander-lust, Good Humoured, Determined
» INFLUENTIAL EVENTS:
HONOURABLE DISCHARGE > FAMILY DESERTION: Martians have a culture based entirely around service to the community, both professionally and personally. Alex served his tour in the Martian military as he was meant to, married as he was meant to, and had a kid. But after getting his discharge from the military he found himself longing for space- so he took up a job out past the asteroid belt, mining ice in the rings of Saturn. It tore his marriage apart, but staying on Mars was tearing him apart, as he realised that he just couldn't be happy if he wasn't out in the stars.
DESTRUCTION OF THE CANTERBURY: Alex was one of five crew from the Canterbury to investigate a distress signal from a ship called the Scopuli. On oard they found no survivors, only a very creepy blue goo that had wrapped itself around the drive core. Unfortunately, the distress signal was a trap, and a stealthed gunship appeared from nowhere and nuked the Canterbury, leaving Alex and the four other crew of the shuttle the sole survivors. They did not come out of the destruction unscathed - shrapnel tore through the shuttle and destroyed the airlock, forcing them to live on dwindling air reserves as they repaired the ship and tried to signal for rescue. Alex would have died during this if Shed, the ship's medic, hadn't shared his air supply and saved him from asphyxiation. Alex, a patriotic Martian, refused to believe that the Cant was destroyed by Mars - even if they were the only ones in the solar system with stealth technology. The destruction of the Can't signalled an end to the life that Alex had built for himself - and the beginning of a very dark time in human history.
DESTRUCTION OF THE DONNAGER / GAINING THE ROCINANTE: Though losing the Cant cost Alex his former life and a lot of his friends, the destruction of the Martian flagship The Donnager impacted Alex far more deeply. Initially resumed by them, Alex was given a uniform and was brought to remember his place in the Martian navy - greeted as one of them despite the rest of the crew being held in tight suspicion. He feels justified and vindicated to learn that Mars did not destroy the Cant. But when that same enemy comes for the Donnager, when Shed is killed and he and his friends nearly die (again), Alex is given the reason to fight that he never really had. The Martians give their lives to ensure that he and the other Cant survivors get off the ship, by sending them in a Martian gunship, which becomes the crew's new home and the true love of Alex's life, the Rocinante. But the Dinnager seals the situation for him: this is not something he can run from. He owes it to every man and woman aboard that ship to find out what happened to them and ensure it doesn't happen to anyone else, and he makes damn well sure that none of the rest of his crew forget who died for them.
EROS: Eros is where the world - no, the system - went to hell. Chasing the breadcrumbs of the mystery that they'd been caught up in led them here, to the asteroid station in the ass crack of the Belt, to find the only surivor of the Scopuli. Instead of a survivor, however, they found patient zero - and an alien protomolecule that repurposes everything it touched. Someone was trying to build the protomolecule into a weapon - and sacrificed everyone on Eros to do it. Though the Roci escaped, Alex never forgave himself for the fact that they didn't save enough people. That those they saved they did so by accident, when they could have saved so many more. The absolute horror of what happened on Eros illustrated just how low the depths of humanity could go, to Alex, and he knew that stopping anyone from using it was the most important thing any of them could do with their lives. Unlike Holden, however, Alex still recognizes that in order to do that, he needs to keep this little family he's found together - that's the only way they are going to win anything.
THOTH STATION: Alex's first fight as a true gunship pilot. The odds of them coming out of the battle alive had been slim - he'd run dozens of simulations before hand and lost the ship in every one. During the battle itself, he fares far better, but has to make a devastating choice: either sacrifice the life of one of his crew, Amos, who is doing repairs in the bulkhead and not strapped in - or sacrifice the lives of 20 people in a breaching pod, who can only be saved if Alex does a high gee maneuver to get to them in time. He chooses to save Amos, who is part of his crew and who he considers family. But he beats himself up for the choice for weeks, after that. He gets obsessed with running simulations of the battle over and over again until he can pilot through it without losing a single person. As he tells Holden, the next time? He's gonna save them all.
» FIT: Alex has worked and lived in space his whole life. Even when he was living planet-side with his wife and son, he dreamed of getting back out into space. The type of tech that exists in the Expanse is fairly similar to Reverie (save for the replicators, of course, the closest thing they have are 3D printers) - and would find himself pretty at home on the station. He also comes from a space horror show - and has unfortunately been witness to some pretty Fucked Up Shit (TM) thanks to the protomolecule - including turning children into monsters, and an asteroid into a space ship. So he's already starting to get used to the Fucking Insane, thanks.
» POWERS: no powers, normal human
» NOTES: N/A
» SAMPLES: open tdm thread || tmd thread with amos