John

## History with VERS

John was discovered by Dr.k in the alleyway, having been found with healing wounds from his sudden drop off in stasis by the g-man. Seeing him of some use for testing he is captured. Realizing his immunity to the pale virus and event the latex assimilation, Dr.K hires him, seeing him as a possible expendable security officer, only to realize: he was a bit of a trouble maker.

John isn't much of a security officer and more of a light troublemaker, with the slight feeling of bloodlust and bad relations with the factory, experiencing the torture of having his body torn apart by shade himself, has driven him almost to the point of insanity, using the drive to his advantage to easily dispatch any opponent he sees hostile towards him or certain people. Even going along the lines of once tearing off the arm of mercy, slaughtering latex creatures and even VERS security guard clones of Richard J. Langley. For an unknown, John will be seen carrying a shovel, modified to be around 8ft long, with the metal edge of the shovel sharpened and used as a melee weapon of sorts. Using this and the portable improbability drive, when wanting or needing to travel at high speeds, he will occasionally tunnel through the ground, the long steel handle seen sticking out of the ground as John and it travels.

## History before VERS:

### Late 19th century America

Born in 1875, John was a normal human. Around his age of 23 while hunting, John was attacked in the middle of the night by a man wolf creature, killing it dead yet suffering the injuries and curse to come in the later nights. Through his later life, he began to realize that ever since that night, he had not seemed to age, while also noticing how quickly his wounds would heal, a cut on the finger would heal within seconds.

During the early 1900's and the united state's entering the first World war. John had enlisted into the army, having no parents to come home through, he proposed the idea of serving for his country. Fighting through the first World war, coming home to the stock market crash and living through the depression, watching new friends come and go.

Years later, in the 1940's during the second World war, John is critically injured on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. While attempting to regroup with his allies, is captured by German forces, rather than being sent into a prisoner of war camp. He is sent to "The Giant" facility in Berlin. Undergoing element 115 testing by group 935, the group hopes to achieve the goals of creating a super soldier as a last effort to push back the allied forces, adding their thought of "defeating the enemy with its own troops". The project fails, believing that they can continue it in the future. John is forcefully put into stasis inside a cryopod.

Years later in the Vietnam and cold war era, the "der ries" facility is taken apart by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. By yet another stroke of luck, John is discovered by United States Marines and taken back to Washington.

## The United States "Last stand" project

Discovering the inhuman qualities of Him. The Pentagon authorizes an order to the broken arrow group to place John back under similar element 115 testing done to him by the German Reich. Sending him to the laboratory in area 51, Nevada U.S.A. After numerous experiments, exposing his body, and blood to element 115, he experiences major memory loss, this is further extended by brainwashing to make him into a super soldier, serving only as "Last stand" for the United States if the U.S.S.R had become to great for it.

## Nevadan Portable Improbability Drive Phase

Still contained in Nevada, John is brought to another facility, under authorization of the C.I.A and Pentagon. This is a facility under control by the A.A.H.W. The Auditor is struck a deal by the C.I.A: a portable reality bending device be implanted into John's skull and brain for element 115. The deal is accepted, the device is implanted, and the madness starts now.

## The Black Mesa Incident

Late, in the last assault wave, obtaining the rank of commander, John is sent in as an H.E.C.U. Marine. The osprey at a certain point is shot down, killing everyone inside. With the P.I.D implanted into his head, John is revived by it, crawling out slowly to fight with little men that were left behind in black mesa, new Mexico. With no hope of evacuation, the C.I.A black operations are sent in, and the nuke is detonated, with John, still within the facility, seeing him as an expendable agent or employee, the G-man or "Strange man" as John described him, places him into stasis until the events of the pale virus outbreak...