Character Name: Jens Torgny
Age: 24.
Gender: Male.
Description: Standing at 5 foot 9, Jens is of roughly average height and a toned, trained weight suitable for military operation. His medical record states his blood type is A+ and that he should not be given penicillin due to a mild allergy. According to his passport photo, Jens is a man with green eyes, a plain face with a concave nose, clean teeth (though his right maxillary canine is missing the point-tip) and no noticable freckles or moles. His chin is slightly more pointed than angular and he has a slight scar underneath it from where he once fell as a child. His hair is light brown, perhaps a little on the blonde side, but quite short, free-flowing and casual. It doesn't particularly reach his shoulders, but can get in the way of his eyes.
Outfit: Wearing the standard issue clothes of an OD jacket, leather boots and cargo pants, Jens is quite unfashionable and relatively by-the-book when it comes to his clothes, though he'll occasionally don a black beanie cat for style and to help keep his hair out of his eyes.
Personality & History: Jens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a 16 year old couple and grew up there with his mother - hardly knowing his Father. Life in the inner city was quite rough, but he attended School - even Pre-School, like any other boy. If you are unaware of the Swedish education system, it is worthy to note that English is a compulsory subject and that he is fluent at speaking it. When he started the second stage of his education at around 11, that's when he fell in with a bad crowd. One day, he began to talk to an older boy, who offered him a considerable amount of Krona (or SEK, the Swedish currency) to deliver packages on his bike to an apartment across town. From there, he got involved in violent teenage Gangs and became a lookout for Dealers on the streets.
According to his mother, at the age of 15 he was forced to change Schools due to an incident in which he allegedly got into a knife fight, both him and the other boy ended up taking wounds; Jens a cut on his right leg and the other boy... An abdominal stab. Several month later, a shooting incident that ended in a fire caused Jens' mother to send him abroad to stay with his Father.
That country, to his great surprise, was Zambia - a large country in central Africa that shares much of its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo; a country ravaged with war at the time. His Father headed a small, local contractor group that often ran over the border into south-eastern DRC and when his Son turned up on his doorstep, he was in shock and awe. Jens' mother had neither told him or his father about this sudden arrangement and in fact, when Jens first arrived in the country he spent two days on the street of Kawambwa - lost and confused.
It wasn't long until Father and Son found each other, however, and given no other choice Jens was taken to stay at their designated "FOB" on the western edge of the city. Jens was 16 at the time, and Kawambwa was a United Nations refugee center for people fleeing DRC's conflicts. To the UN, the Second Congo War was a tragedy of Human Rights, but to a Private Military Company, it was a goldmine, because despite the war's status as 'officially over', heavy fighting continued in the east of the country.
Jens soon got to know his Father's fellow contractors and even volunteered to go out with them to help escort refugees back to Zambia - his Father's main source of contracts and income. As you'd expect, they initially refused. It took several months before his Father finally agreed and that was on the strict condition that he underwent drill sessions with them - for the threat of contact was very real when they crossed the border.
For the next year, Jens spent the first six months doing physical and basic self-defense training, including spending time at the range to learn how to shoot. The second six months involved the occasional trip across border, where he went unarmed and was mostly there as a humanitarian to offer aid to the refugees.
Contact with various hostile forces operating in the DRC was relatively rare, only once every five or six patrols and never for more than two hours. But during that time, Jens got used to the cracking of bullets, the zipping as they sliced through the air and narrowly missed him. There was one particular occasion where his Father ordered him to take a gun and return fire, which he often says was the transitional moment in his life where he went from civilian, to trained killer.
He soon turned 17 and slowly but surely, over the next year his combat role in these operations became more prevalent - he had even taken several lives.
When he turned 18, Jens approached his father to formally join the company. As an adult, Jens underwent a full two-year official training course under the team's licensed trainer, specialising in demolitions and explosives. After his training was complete, he continued to operate with this group for two years; in Africa for a while, then seeing action in the oriental countries, where he was inspired by east-asia's love for fireworks and tried to mimic that in his practical work. His father was killed in action when Jens was 21, then Jens left the group at 22.
A couple of years later, Jens had relocated to Maine, The United States, on recommendation from one of his father's old colleagues to join up with a certain Private Military Company in the area...
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Jens is a relatively laid back guy. He enjoys the thrill that came with being a Soldier, though to say he is an Adrenaline junkie may be a little innaccurate. When the time came for him to either 'get used to it' or 'snap', Jens did a little of both. One can never get used to seeing friends injured and killed, nor do the horrors of war ever truly fade; but like so many others, Jens developed a mental shield - an emotional visor to keep him sane.
He has a fascination with fire and explosives, which is often portrayed when the practical joker inside all of us takes ahold of him and gives him a rather violent sense of humour. He loves to scare people with small 'bangers', which rarely harm physically, unless fright-induced heart attack counts!
When it comes to work, explosives especially, Jens is a believer in not only practicality, but creationalist expressionism, improvisation and artistic value - he's a massive showoff, essentially. He loves to leave people in awe at his work!
Physical Condition: Like many soldiers, Jens is quite the athelete. He is fit enough to do his duty, strong enough to carry his kit and so far has lacked the injury to stop him from performing at his full potential. He is neither the fastest nor the strongest, but he can get the job done as well as any other man.
Strengths & Weaknesses: To ask him this question, he would likely say that his Strengths are his sense of humour, bravery on the field (though every time one faces Death, he feels a little differently) and his artistic ability with explosives. His weaknesses would be his fundamentally human nature and his fear of Snakes. Naturally, he is able to list more naturally visible "good points" than bad ones.
Training: Demolitions.
Bio-Boost: His selected boosts are the Combat Lifesaver and the Tranquilizer.
Equipment: Jens has no personal trinkets except for his Beanie Hat. His field equipment also varies, depending on the mission and what's available.