Matis Tamara

== About ==
Matis Tamara (full name: Matis Titas Tamara; February 9th 1968 - December 17th 2062) was a former military police officer of Pelkian-Bistonian descent. He was part of the 208th Military Police Battalion which was part of the New Shingleton National Guard, and served from 1988 to 1990. His unit was responsible for guarding, and protecting civilians, following a series of attacks which was blamed on the Crimsonians, which planted sleeper agents to cause further chaos following the attack on the Crimsonian embassy. Matis Tamara can be seen in New Shingleton 1989, and is one of the only few characters that could be interacted with throughout the entire game.
== Early life and background ==
Matis Titas Tamara was born on February 9th 1968 in Goldfield, Hainesbend. His father was of Pelkian descent, while his mother was of Bistonian descent. Matis spent his childhood being raised in a farmhouse, until they were evicted from their farmhouses in 1975 amidst the chaos of the Federation War. The family moved to Belvidere, but struggled to find a job and subsequently the country fell into civil war by 1979. Matis worked odd jobs throughout the 1980s, and dropped out from his highschool in 1984. He attempted to find work as a translator, but failed. Because of this, he had no other alternatives and joined the military, where he was recruited into the 208th Military Police Battalion, which was part of the New Shingleton National Guard, and based in the city of Tinkeraton.
=== Events of November 15th 1989 ===
Matis, like many of his colleagues in the 208th Military Police Battalion, were assigned to guarding New Shingleton International Airport, following a series of terrorist attacks which were partly blamed on Crimsonian saboteurs. At around 12:35 AM on November 15th 1989, him and his colleagues were at full alert when they had witnessed an aircraft plummeting into the ocean. Around an hour after the crash, Matis attempted to stop a large crowd from breaking through the windows from the left side of the terminal, minutes before his battalion was given the orders to fire at civilians. A few hours after the massacre ensued, Matis witnessed as trucks hauled away bodies in the morning. After the attacks and the massacres which unfolded, Matis was put on break, but by that time, the Hadshellad Revolution was setting the country ablaze, overthrowing the military government and establishing a provisional government.
== After the incident, personal life, and death ==
Matis was given an honorable discharge in February 1990, along with the entire 208th Military Police Battalion, due to their role in committing the massacres which unfolded just 3 months ago. Matis moved back to Belvidere, where he lived with his family, managing to find work at a foundry in 1993 until only a year later, when he left the job after sustaining minor injuries in an accident in the foundry which he worked at. Matis continued to work odd jobs, until managing to find full-time work at an adult theater. He lived in obscurity up until 2019 on the 30th anniversary of the New Shingleton Incident, when a list of names from the battalion was revealed to the public for the first time in decades. Groups of people, with some of them who were the grandchildren of the victims, actively hunted down and tracked down the people responsible through the list. Matis was soon discovered in February 28th 2020, where he had recently celebrated his 52nd birthday. Over the past 20 years, he had already managed to find a job as a contractor, having already married and had 2 children. When his role in the events were revealed, he denied to the public that he had killed anybody when the massacre occurred. When confronted about it, he refused to respond to any messages regarding his role in the incident.
After the controversial statement, Matis began living in obscurity for decades afterwards. He retired from his job somewhere in the 2030s, moving to Montrois. He divorced his wife in 2055, and by 2057 had already moved to a retirement home due to his declining health. He spent the rest of his life in a retirement home in Montrois, before dying of natural causes on December 17th 2062.
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