Player (Black Ops III)

The Player is the main and playable protagonist of Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The Player is customizable, this includes: The gender, face, outfit, and helmet. The Player's name is also never revealed at all in the game. The Player is a cyber Black Ops agent working for the Winslow Accord. The Player receives his/her cyber augmentations after taking severe injuries from an NRC Grunt (G.I.U.).
The Player is voiced by Abby Brammell (female), and Ben Browder (male).
==Background==
Both Hendricks and the Player embark on stopping John Taylor and his squad from spreading Corvus, but when Taylor and his squad are eventually killed, Hendricks falls under Corvus' control. The Player tracks him down at the Coalescence facility located in Zurich, Switzerland. Once the Player reaches Hendricks he has Sebastian Krueger held hostage. Hendricks ends up shooting Krueger, causing the Player to shoot him in response. The Player then commits suicide to stop the spread of Corvus.
The Player then wakes up in a Frozen Forest where he/she sees Hendricks telling him/her to let go. Corvus is then revealed. The Player is then met with Taylor. Both the Player and Taylor attempt to defeat Corvus. The Player then loses him/herself only to awaken back in the facility. Corvus tries to stop the Player, but Taylor comes to help hold him off. Once the Player purges his/her DNI stopping Corvus, he/she ends walking out of the facility, only to be met with a ZSF soldier asking who he/she is. They respond by saying "Taylor".
==Black Ops III==
The Player joined the Winslow Accord, and was a new member of Jacob Hendrick's rescue team, and first participated in saving Prime Minister Said. After rescuing the prime minister, they also Zeyad Khalil, who aided Hendricks in stopping an uprising in Egypt. The Player and the team meet with John Taylor and his team, a group who are augmented soldiers, who guide them to extraction. Despite the success of saving the prime minister, the Player is brutally maimed by a Grunt robot, ripping off the Player's arms and leg before being saved by Taylor.
The Player was taken a Coalescence hospital to be given a Direct Neural Interface (DNI), but died from their injuries. Taylor attempted to interface with the Player, causing him to be infected by a reborn Corvus, a artificial intelligence created from a black operation that was left in the destroyed Coalescence facility that killed many people.
===Simulation===
Despite the Player's death, they lived through the DNI, being confined to an immersion or dream sequence by Corvus from parts of Taylor's memories. Corvus used Taylor's memories of stopping his former ally, Dylan Stone, and his team to learn of it's creation. To the Player, they succeeded in their augmentation and passed with the help of Taylor's team members, Sarah Hall, Sebastian Diaz, and Peter Maretti. After waking up, Taylor stood over the Player, and saw Hendricks going through augmentation himself.
The Player manages to defeat Taylor and his team, but Hendricks succumbs to his DNI infection (in reality Hendricks decided to confront Krueger for his actions), and the Player decide to stop Hendricks and Corvus.
===Stopping Corvus===
During the mission "Life", The Player succeeds in killing Hendricks, but decide to stop the spread of Corvus by killing themselves. Afterward, The Player awakes in the Frozen Forest, where they are greeted by Hendricks, who introduces Corvus to them. The Player rejects them, and later meets up with Taylor, and the two decide to destroy Corvus. The Player later returns to the Coalescence building, and commits the purge of the DNI, allowing Taylor to regain control of his body.
==Trivia==
*The Player's title rhymes with Taylor, foreshadowing their connection.
*The Player appears to be a smoker, as they are shown doing so in the campaign menu, and in the mission "Hypocenter".
*The Male Player's model is used for Dr. Maxis in zombies, except that he is bald.
*The Male Player's hair color was originally light brown during development of Black Ops III but his hair color was changed to dark brown when the game was released at the time.
*The Male Player's hairstyles were originally going to be a grown out buzz cut, crew cut military hairstyle like Jacob Hendricks, and combed forward hairstyle but when the game was released the only hairstyles for the The Male Player was a bald buzz cut, combed forward hairstyle, and a bandana covering his bald buzz cut.
*The Male Player's current and finished default appearance bears a striking resemblance of Commander John Shepard as both have a small design fades on their heads as Shepard has a buzz cut and five o'clock shadow and Male Player has a bald buzz cut and goatee with little scruffs on the sides.
*The Male Player's original default appearance was with a combed forward hairstyle and clean shaven but when the game was released his default appearance was changed to a bald buzz cut with a goatee and little scruffs on the sides.
*The Male Player's prototype outfit is different in the trailer and the create operative screen his prototype outfit has the Winslow Accord logo onto it but in game appearance it has a H-54 number on it like Donnie Ruin Walsh.
*The Male Player's rogue outfit is similar to Taylor, Diaz, Maretti and Hendricks combined all together.
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