John

## Early Life

John Sketch by Alpha

Born March 10th 1954 of Arthur, a Sergeant First Class in the US Army, and Carol, a woman of the night. Born in Rats Dens during the middle of its original construction period, Johns father fell on hard times. Unable to hold a job due to extreme PTSD during his time in World War II, Johns mother used her unique skills behind Arthur's back to provide for the family, though it was rarely enough.

As john entered elementary school he took to inventing, though without money or funds to continue his hobby, he took on part time work doing labor or repairs, and when that wasn't enough he would frequently steal electronics to work on in his spare time.

As life at home continued to worsen, John would spend more and more time away from home, dedicating himself to electrical and mechanical engineering, having built a fully functional, light railgun at the age 12 for the purposes of self defense in lower Rats Den.

When John was 13 years old, he came home after school to discover His mother dead in her in bed, alongside the corpse of another man who was not his father, and later found Arthur, having committed suicide. With no police in Rats Den, and no where else to go, John had a burial for his parents and continued to live in the home, taking odd jobs once again to provide for himself until his 18th Birthday..

## Service

On his 18th Birthday, John left Rats Den to join the USMC.

Through record breaking performance, having achieved the highest possible score on the ASVAB, and PFT, as well as showing exceptional leadership skills.

At 21, John was selected from the 0311 MOS infantry community as a Corporal to participate in the marSOC prep course. having received a perfect score on the PTF, he was invited to phase 2, and passed with flying colors, and was then selected to attend the ITC.

After ITC, John joined the Marine Raider Battalions and designated CSO and awarded the MOS 0372 Military Occupational Specialty, and later awarded the PMOS of 0370.

During this time John met Jaxon Walker. Walker quickly became close friends with John as they operated together in various theaters for over 8 years. Over the course of this time, John and Walker discovered deep seeded conspiracies and cover ups that ran to the highest levels of command. Having had enough, John and Walker took it upon themselves to eliminate all who were involved in the corruption, to which they almost succeeded. With corruption running as deep as some of the highest offices within the white-house itself, it was a loosing battle. As part of the cover up, and to avoid jailtime for their actions or worse, assassination, John and Walker were dishonorably discharged for their actions.

## Blackwood PMC

Having been discharged, and being distrusting of the states promise to not peruse him, John returned to Rats Den and received an invitation from Conor Blackwood to join Blackwood PMC. John agreed and found Walker to have been similarly invited. Now no longer abiding by the rules of the US armed forces, John was able to use his custom weapons and armor. The guns he used fired a supersonic Plasma based projectile that was highly effective against hard and soft targets, and the armor he built for himself made the man a walking tank. John later developed a set of gauntles to be used in hand to hand combat that also utalized sonic projection to maximise damage in close quarters. He gifted these to Walker, who later took on the name "Shellshock" because of them. together John and Walker worked for the private military group for an additional 5 years.

During his time with Blackwood, John found himself working with Bella, a French mercenary also under a 5 year contract with them. During the duration of their contracts, John and Bella become close and eventually engaged near the end of their time.

Over the years, Conor had been insisting john develop weapons and armor for the rest of the men and women of Blackwood, john denied him for several years, stating that the technology was too dangerous to be given to anyone.

## Origin

John and Bella left Blackwood after Bella had become pregnant, with only 1 year left in their contracts, Blackwood agreed to release them early. John became a family man, no longer needing money he dedicated his life to raising his daughter. John and Bella had plans to move from Rats Den, though setbacks and unforeseen circumstances kept them there for too long. January 3rd, 1990, John and Bella's daughter, Camilla, is born.

Blackwood had grown spiteful, and wanted johns technology for his PMC. Blackwood bankrolled one of the many organized crime groups within Rats Den to kill his family and to capture john, and force him to build weapons for Blackwood.

On April 10th, 1996, an organized crime group by the name of Scarlet Cross attacked john and his family in his home. Killing his wife. John, outnumbered and caught off guard was captured. Scarlet Cross had made a deal with another member of Blackwood, they reported that Camilla had also died, but instead sold the girl to the Blackwood insider, who later sold her on the Chinese black market.

For 1 year, John was tortured and forced to produce weapons for Scarlet Cross, slowly building their trustt in him until he could ask for more extreme components to use. Eventually, John had gathered everything he needed to build a high yield explosive.

John waited until the leader of Scarlet Cross and other high ranking members of the crime group were present, and then detonated the explosive. Causing permanent damage to his throat and Right knee, john managed to escape their capture.

Over the next 20 years, John (now 63 years of age) took it upon himself to purge rats den of crime through vigilante justice, taking no prisoners. John become a ghost store and an urban legend to the gangs in Rats Den, his legend eventually leaking outside the border of the city and attracting the attention of Prehistoric Kid.