Zach Evans

## Zach "Flash" Evans

Zach sneaking while wearing his HDI suit without Stalker gear.

### Occupation

Field operative of the Whistleblowers in the Chernobyl Exclusion ZoneRecruiter of Whistleblowers operatives

## Physical description

### Eye color

Green

"Aye, thas some fancy info ye got 'ere, mind if I stol'em ?"

*-Flash, whispering a taunt as he's stealing sensible intels from a place he ghosted through.*

## Personnality

### Background

Back in 2014, Zach was nobody. He just got a work as cameraman in a big TV channel, searching for some kind of line of work in this sector.

Everything changed once the journalist he was working with got kidnapped in the middle of a war report. Being the only one near, Zach place down his camera and did his colleague job. And he was pretty good at it too ! Getting close to the information, no extra bullshit, never got caught. That kid was golden.

After this event and when his colleague got freed, Zach became the posterboy of that channel, young, dashing, fearless. Women wanted him and men wanted to be like him (or him, it's 2015, let's be open minded). And that's exactly what happened, a young student in genetic fell in love with him, and so did he with her. They became inseparable (Well, minus when he was going back to he's job as war reporter that is).

Then, one day, after Julia's PhD, she got approached by her country's scientist council, they wanted to send her to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, he knew she wouldn't hesitate the moment the greenlight was given. And she didn't, and he was proud of her, she did what she dreamed of for years.

After returning from another war report work (turns out the world really just love firing stuff at himself), he felt... alone, to an uncanny level. Therefore, he took it upon himself to join his fiancee if she couldn't come. Left his job, got some money prepared, launched his own journal with friends and made his illegal trip to the Zone.

Which resulted in getting caught instantly by the Ukrainian military, dragged into a secret prison and tortured/poorly treated for months. Until he managed to find an opening, an occasion, a moment long enough to flee, leading him right into the Zone.

From that point, his objectives were simple. Find his fiancee, learn how to survive in here.

Make the Army and every shady organisation pay.

And so he did, on the way, he attracted a weird group, the Whistleblowers, big fish, they had tools, ressources, peoples, everything : Their goal ? Break truth out. Well, it's probably more complex then that, but forced to admit, every time he worked with them, they didn't backstab him, and he could reveal groundbreaking news after groundbreaking news on his journal. They gave him access to some fancy tools and spy techniques, making him an absolute ghost when needed. And even more importantly, information about Julia... and what she's done.

Now, he's just working for the Whistleblowers to reveal things, and still following his fiancee's trail, hopefully finding her again...

### Faction Relations

Whistleblowers are by nature, both unknown and ennemies to every factions in the Zone. No one wants to be spied in here after all.

However, Flash hides his faction through the usage of multiples covers : Patches, PDAs, Whistleblower tech, anything can help him pass for someone of another faction (minus the obvious one impossible to infiltrate, such as Monos and SIn).

## Set of Skills

### Strength

#### A Knack for FUBAR

Zach is pretty inventive when things go south. Makeshift tools and weaponry are a common thing for him. And when there is no way out, you can bet your arse he's gonna find one somehow.

#### Whistleblower field training : Athletism

Climbing poles and parkour has never been this easy. Zach got access to a wide range of movement athletic abilities, allowing him to be in places where we least expect him.

#### Whistleblower field training : Phantom

Now you can't even go to the shitter without having a spy in the corner, waiting for a move. Zach became really good at moving silently and in the dark, making spotting him an actual challenge.

#### Whistleblower field training : Combat

He may be not that good at shooting, but punch is punch. Zach got some basics of CQC, enough to knock out someone unalarmed and defend himself vaguely in melee against humans. Still the thing he needs to train the most out of all the three.

### Weaknesses

#### Killshot is NOT his name

Man sucks balls at guns, more at 11. No, but really, Zach lacks the experience with gun handling to be really good at it. Longer reload, poor accuracy, you get the idea, if it's moving fast and the mag is empty, shit's going bad

#### Not a Powerhouse either

Man suck balls at stopping boolets with bones, more at 12. Zach really isn't rather on the more lightweight side of the Zone, Which helps for his job and his fast styled CQC, but still makes him a lightweight even his fiancee could lift with one hand.

#### Missing finger

A big problem in pubs. Zach lost his middle finger on his left and and piece of his ring one.

### Gear

#### HDI Suit

Covered under the regular zone gear that are gasmask, weapons and all the stuff that comes with that, is a sneaking suit known as the HDI, for "High Danger Infiltration" suit. It allows flexibility with limited noises making as an integrated PDA with extra features such as a light meter and a noise meter (Yes, Zach is an entire cope out for Fischer in his kit shuddup)

#### Side NVGs

Flash got access to a side headset that slides in place on his eyes when he needs them. These got Night vision. They're really just fancy NVGs.

#### Trusty Camera

A handheld camera with decent quality, practical for when you need to record and move fast. It doesn't have anything fancy, it's just Zach's camera, and he went through hell with it, so he's not gonna drop it now.

#### MP5S and FiVe-7even

Self explanatory. Both suppressed firing subsonic rounds.