Name: Thain Rowland
Age: 18
Gender: male
Appearance: Thain is a rather large teenager, coming in at 7 feet tall weighing a massive 320 pounds. His frame, needless to say, is one of a person who is built like a tank. He is thick, heavily muscles, and looks like a body builder. Each of his muscles is heavily defined and the muscle mass burns off almost all of the fat in his body. Enjoying being outside, the youth possesses a deep tan from hours spent laboring or running about. His hair is rather simply explained...there isn't any. Being a rather simple and straightforward man, he shaved it all off early in his life so he wouldn't have to deal with it swirling around his head during any kind of movement. His brows are a dark brown and are very thick and pronounced. His face is formed to look as if it was chisseled from stone and forces the young man to appear threatening. His brow and jaw are especially noticeable. Along with this, his nose is slightly broader than usual, but only by a small margin. His eyes are a stone gray-blue. For his size, it is odd that Thain has no facial hair at all, but he does not and keeps his face clean-shaven. Because of his past, this gentle giant is forced to bear the scars of his father's abuse and the brawls he would get forced into.
His nose has been broken uncountable times, giving it an odd shape, and he has a horizontal scar above his left eye. It slants downward slightly on the left side. In addition to this, his hands are those of someone who uses them a lot and they bear a myriad of crossing cuts and slices. His fingers have been broken tens of times. Thain also possesses a long scare on his right cheek, which descends almost completely vertical. Remarkable, he possesses very few other scars or marks of combat; most assume that it is because Thain is as immune as a rock. This giant's hands and feet are rather large, as would be expected of anyone of his size.
Thain enjoys wearing military fatigues as they give him a sense of purpose; even as a child he wore camo (darker shades of green and black) pants tucked into black combat boots. covering his torso is a form-fitting white tank-top that exposes his arms. The pants are held up by a thin black belt with a simple buckle. He rarely wears anything else...preferring to stick to his common garb. It is almost impossible to get him to dress up in any kind of nice clothing; he isn't used to it at all. If his camo pants aren't available, he will throw on some jeans and a white t-shirt and call it good.
The uniform he wears is quite simple, considering he wears the lower portion of it at all times. The boots are shined, black, steel-toed combat boots. He tucks his military fatigue pants into them. The pants are dark green shades mixed with black. He wears his thin black belt as well. The pants have many pockets, in order to carry a variety of things: a pocket on either thich, and 2 on the sides. There is also a pocket on the left side right beneath the other thigh pocket. On his torso, he wears a long sleeved camo shirt (matches his pants...color coordination) with the sleeves ripped off. Beneath that is a plain white t-shirt. It bears an insignia, but that is it. Occasionally, Thain will wear a plain black pair of sunglasses if it is sunny.
Faction: People's Liberation Front of Earth.
Rank/Class: 2nd year/Heavy trooper
BioMods: Enhanced Strength, enhanced endurance, multi-purpose limbs.
Bio(Optional): Thaine just happened to be the unlucky child who was the son of a alcoholic father; due to the situation of his old man, he was subject to frequent beatings and abuse as a young kid. Making matters worse, his family was not particularly wealth, being lower class and barely scraped by. Despite all the troubles that they had, Thaine's mother was a caring, loving parent who made sure that her son had the best that he could. Due to the influence of his female parent, he grew up as a gentle giant; however, people often mocked him for his size as they knew he would not fight back. The broken nose and scars on his face are the result of many brawls with other kids that beat him up...he never fought back. One time, he was cut with a knife, the source of the scars.
Although his life was rough in the slums, Thaine managed to look at the better things in his life (primarily his mother), and was able to become at least reasonably happy. However, this was not to last. On a friday night when Thaine was 12, his father and mother both died instantaneously in a car crash; without his mothers guidance, the family had no choice but to take the child in. The kid's uncle was an outspoken opponent of the USE and a member of the People's Liberation Front of Earth. Growing up amongst the rebellious side of his family, he quickly came to slightly dislike the USE; however, he was not one to desire a war over who got to sit on the thrones. Still retaining his peaceful attitude and gentle ways, Thaine never became an activist against the U.S.E despite his uncle's teachings. As the young man continued to grow, the others around him began to realize his potential as a weapon and intimidator. Wanting to improve their new toy to the max, he was subjected to biological upgrades to improve his own strength and endurance. As a final gift from his uncle, who was rather wealthy for a rebel, he was given the cybernetic right arm; even at an early age, he was trained in the larger weapons, able to carry them effortlessly.
Through a vast network of information manipulators, he was allowed into the Academy with no one knowing of his background. Unlike many of the People's Liberation Front, he does not wish open war and will befriend anyone, no matter who they are. Thaine tends to sit back and let things happen, not involving himself in world affairs. For such a large person, he is softspoken and has not made a friend at the academy despite being a second year.
Extras:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning_machine_gun#Design_details. This is his main weapon; however, due to real world issues with its statistics, I am asking permission to modify certain aspects of the weapon. The barrel (normally 45 inches) would be cut down to a useable size. Between it and the stock, the weapon would measure roughly 3.75 feet or so. Also, rather than the normal grip used in real life (the M2HB is always mounted and has a 2 handed grip), it would be modified to have a one handed grip with the second hand supporting the gun along the barrel. It can fire on single-shot, semi auto, or fully automatic depending on the setting and can fire as long as ammo remains in the ammo drum on Thain's back. It has the normal metal sight rather than a telescopic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M9_pistol. Thaine has this on a standard holster on his left side. It is carried all the time but only used when he can't blow something up with the M2HB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA-BAR. Thaine also wields a combat knife on his thigh. It is hardly ever removed since stealth isn't exactly Thaine's specialty.
Thaine's right arm is actually a cybernetic replacement to the original. It contains a feeding mechanism that pulls the magazine from his ammo drum and continuosly feeds it into the M2HB so that Thaine doesn't require another person to do it for him.