Screene

Julian Gene Joseph Thorn, more commonly known to others as Screene, is a mercenary played by Greene. He is one of eight mercenaries on the Blue team in his home dimension, best skilled at getting close to enemies and getting a few hits in with his aluminum bat. When it comes to guns, however, he has terrible aim, and tends to stick to close-quarters combat.
He has a very upbeat and in-your-face attitude, always ready with a comeback. He is rather socially inept and oblivious to most peoples' annoyance with him. However, he enjoys the thrill of the "Game" and is always prepared to kill enemy mercenaries.
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==Biography==
=== Early Life ===
Born on March 14, 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts, Julian grew up as an only child with his mother. Despite her low income preventing him from seeing many luxuries in his lifetime, he did his best to make the best of his childhood. He tried playing various sports in desperate attempts to impress his mother. He hated every sport he participated in. The only one he stuck with for any significant amount of time was baseball, which he still hated, but slightly less so than any other sports he tried. 
The most significant point of his early childhood was at ten years old, on August 30, 2005. This was the day Julian was able to go to a show in punk band Green Day's American Idiot World Tour. This experience gave him the love of punk rock that he holds to this day, as well as giving him the ambition to pursue a real hobby-guitar and singing-for his own gain, and not for his mother's sake. 
His life remained rather uneventful, though Julian began to slowly grow bored of his repetitive, dull, life. He craved something more than the same routines at the same school in the same city. What he needed was a chance to get out. 
=== Running Away ===
This chance was given to him in the June of 2011, shortly after his 16th birthday, during his drivers' education test. Merging into the highway, Julian was unexpectedly cut off. He rammed into the back of the other car, the sudden stop causing his instructor to slam into the dashboard and die instantly. Julian himself was also badly hurt, with his arms heavily scarred, nerve endings severed, and jaw broken and crooked. As soon as he recovered, he vowed to run away from home and to not come back until he had repented for the death he believed he'd caused. 
He ended up taking a train to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he lived on the streets due to his lack of job experience. The little money he did make came from busking on street corners, usually doing covers of popular punk songs. He also took this period of time to almost entirely reinvent himself; he went from his soft-spoken, eager to please demeanor to a loud, brash, in-your-face and take-no-shit personality. He also began covering up his Bostonian accent; not just to fit in, but also because it was so thick that many had a hard time understanding his words. 
After three weeks in Charlotte, Julian ran into 18-year-old Amanda Winters, a girl who also happened to be striking out on her own. She took pity on his situation and allowed him to move in to her apartment. The two became very close friends, and Amanda was the one to give Julian the nickname of Screene, due to his affinity toward his phone-when he wasn't asleep, playing music, or eating, he was on the device. 
Eventually, he once again grew tired of the monotony, and tired of the lack of funds in his wallet. How could he pay for what he had done if he couldn't even pay rent? Upon finding an advertisement in a magazine for a mercenary job, Screene knew what he had to do. He said his goodbyes to Amanda and left for Teufort, New Mexico, where his new opportunity laid. 
=== The Blue Team ===
Upon arriving at the MANN Co. applications office, Screene was assigned to become a mercenary for the Blue team. He quickly grew close to many of the other members, such as Paulina Sheppard (the team's engineer and leader), Ethan "Will" Cameron (sniper and amateur filmmaker), and the closest friend he'd make on the team, Pico "Perry" Mendoza (pyro and local idiot). Will, Perry, and Screene were inseparable, often performing dumb stunts ending in severe injury or death.
Screene quickly lost any fear of death he once held, thanks to an injection of radioactive material which allowed him to be revived every time he died. He grew even more reckless and overconfident than he'd been before joining the team, though he still had quite an aversion to outright killing any of the mercenaries on the enemy team. He preferred incapacitation through his childhood baseball bat, feeling too guilty about his instructor's death to take another life again. 
He did make a good few enemies during this time. Namely, Gerard Amandes (the Blue spy), who held disdain for Screene from the moment the boy arrived, and D.J. Jones (the Red scout), who was just a prick in general. However, despite the low points, Screene holds the three years he worked with MANN Co. as the best years of his life. However, that was changed when, thanks to an experimental rocket, the Red team's soldier killed Screene-permanently. While the bits that were left of Screene's body remained in his own world, his consciousness was torn apart and placed into multiple alternate universes almost instantly. 
=== The Hivemind ===
One of the universes that Screene appeared in was the Hivemind, in 1972. He almost immediately took the place of the original RED Scout. He has only just arrived mere days ago and has done nothing of importance.
=== Somberverse ===
As well as the Hivemind, Screene also appeared in the Somberverse, in 1968. He immediately began to clash with the RED team's Scout, Phillip "Zip" Montgomery, the two of them constantly insulting each other. Screene seemed to get on the nerves of most of the RED team, due to his abrasive nature as well as a constant output of negative emotional energy which Screene cannot control, a side effect of his semi-immortality. Thanks to his obliviousness, however, he had no idea how much of a negative impact he'd made on those around him.
After a week, a few real conflicts began to arise. Most notably, after being shot, Screene was mistakenly healed with cat's DNA. This DNA reacted with his own irradiated, unstable genetics, and began to kill off Screene's human cells, replacing them with those of a cat's. This has spread to the point where the only human parts remaining are his face, left arm, size, and thought processes. His feud with Zip also came to a head in an explosive argument. The two have not spoken since then. 
== Appearance ==
=== Pre-death ===
Screene is relatively short, standing at 5'5". This is a point of embarrassment for him, as this makes him both the shortest and youngest on the Blue team. He has unkempt dark brown hair which often threatens to obscure his vision, and brown eyes. His jaw is visibly crooked and he is missing all four canine teeth. He has pale scars stretching the length of his forearms, a reminder of the crash which destroyed his life. Usually, however, these scars are purposefully hidden with bandages or athletic tape. 
Casually, Screene often wears band tees and sweatpants, with little variation. During the matches, though, he wears a blue hoodie, corresponding to his team's color. He continues to wear the sweatpants, however. He also has a pair of bubblegum-pink Converse sneakers that he wears regularly. He has a pair of black headphones almost constantly seen either on his head or around his neck.
=== Hivemind ===
He looks almost exactly the same as he did pre-death. There are only a few differences differences; a large scar where he was revived after his revival (the explosion sending him cross-dimensional killing him in the process), and a striped tee. His hoodie is tied around his waist. His shoes are visibly more scuffed and dusty due to walking back and forth across the desert.
=== Somberverse ===
Currently, Screene is a human-cat hybrid. He is covered in white fur except for on his face. His left arm is bare as well, thanks to the deeply penetrative scar tissue preventing the cat's cells from moving further. His legs are digitigrade, causing him to become very clumsy when walking. He has vibrant blue eyes, pointed fangs which tend to stick out from his mouth, and yellow-ginger ears atop his head. He has a thick mane of fur around his neck, alongside a puffy, white and ginger striped tail. He also has a ginger stripe running down the length of his back.
Screene wears his usual outfit; grey sweatpants and a blue hoodie, though the right sleeve of his hoodie has been detached, thanks to his right arm being severed and immediately grown back. However, he often removes the hoodie and roams the base shirtless, claiming the sweatshirt is far too hot to be in the desert with, especially now that he is covered in a thick layer of long fur.
== Personality ==
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==Trivia==
*The last 'e' in Screene's nickname alludes to the fact that Screene is not good at spelling.
*Screene lost his four canine teeth in his car accident. 
**However, he claims he lost them in several fistfights.
*His name, Julian Gene Joseph, comes from the fact he could not pick one name when changing it, so he gave himself all three.
*He takes pride in his BLU uniform hoodie and, despite aligning himself the RED team in both universes he ended up in, kept the hoodie as a token from his old world.
*His fake, "unaccented" voice, sounds near-identical to the voice of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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