Hoodie/History

## Background

Not much is revealed about the life of Hoodie before "the betrayal"—even to his amnesiac self. All that can be presumed is that he had joined the **Special Tactics Assault Garrisons** of the **Hyperion Police Department** sometime in the past and gained the bulk of his skills during his service in the elite tactical organization. He does not seem particularly interested in it himself, either, executing his old squadmate **Private Briggs** before the trooper was able to say Hoodie's true last name.

### The betrayal

In 2696, the **220th Special Tactics Assault Garrison** was dispatched to western **Arcadia**, specifically in the region of **District 12**, to augment the security details of the HYPD's **Internal Affairs Bureau** investigation into the local precincts. Several high rank officers in the western precincts Arcadia were assumed to be involved in corrupt and criminal activities at the time, protecting and furthering the interests of syndicates that were using the island as a nexus between the larger continents of **Albion** and **Destino**. Unbeknownst to the IA personnel investigating, many troopers in the 220th were already paid off by these corrupt officers to orchestrate an accident; those who weren't able to be paid off, such as Hoodie, were to be killed all the same. Hoodie was one of these inconvincible men, even though he still can't remember why.

During the IAB personnel's visit to a local precinct station, a prominent local gang known as **Snakes Entwined** was rallied to siege the building, helped by a deliberately stalled police reaction. The corrupt STAG troopers involved feigned their defense of the building as their leader, **Captain Adolphus**, baited and executed the internal affairs officers near the emergency exit of the building. Seeing this, the then-normal Hoodie attempted to apprehend his superior, and was shot in the head by the Captain in response. Still somehow standing and attempting to shoot Adolphus, he was riddled with a barrage of flechettes by his compatriots, **Sergeant Bando** and **Lieutenant Rygg**, sending him falling to the floor. They saw that the man was still alive through his live medical display, and nevertheless went forward with their plans.

The precinct station was burned to the ground by the Snakes Entwined after the STAG and HYPD officers inside doused the building's interior with fuel. Hoodie avoided the worst of the fire's wrath by his power armor, but as its systems shut down as a result of a damaged power core, his skin eventually succumbed to the heat outside, having the man that would become Hoodie roast alive before the building collapsed.

### Survival; becoming Hoodie

Hoodie was the only one to survive the precinct burning to the ground, in spite of his grevious injuries. He was extracted from its ruins "as it still burned" and subsequently taken off-site to be augmented into his current form.

Some time later, the man awakes and is first addressed by the **Voice in the Wall** within his new apartment. He is told about his new augmentations and is gifted the clothing that he would become iconic for. After donning them, he is given the eponymous nickname, **Hoodie**, and discovers a lockbox with a **FINEL heavy combat knife** and **RANCOR MH8 8-gauge shotgun** with ammunition inside. When the Voice tells him that it is time "to pay fire with fire", Hoodie picks up the weapons and looks up at the roof, heeding the instructions that follow.

### **West Arcadian police killings**

Hoodie—on the information that is fed to him by the Voice—proceeds to embark on a rampage throughout West Arcadia, slaughtering the officers of the HYPD involved in the corruption and, thus, his maiming. It would go down in history as the West Arcadian police killings as Hoodie kills his targets one-by-one in brutal fashion, sending the local precincts into high alert. Noticing what the pattern is building up to, the corrupted survivors of the old STAG unit reconvene alongside HYPD elements to bait, corner, and kill Hoodie; the Voice warns him of their plans, and he converts this ambush into his own personal playground of terror.

The Hotel Santana Rampage in northern Arcadia occurs as Hoodie fights his way through the eponymous hotel, killing and maiming any officers he comes across. The Voice displays some degree of intervention as it hacks the police's network and confounds their ability to coordinate against the rampaging man. He eventually kills all of his former STAG comrades in brutal fashion before leaving the hotel as heavily-equipped HYPD units arrive, not knowing what their corrupt brethren are doing.

He tracks down the last member of the corrupt police officers, precinct commander Edward Lyle, as the latter attempts to escape with his family towards Port Bremerton to leave the planet. Cornering him at a rest stop, Edward begs for Hoodie to spare his family's life; after getting his head eviscerated in the rest stop bathroom by Hoodie's shotgun, the man leaves the family alone and returns to his anonymity.

## *Events of Midnight Animals*

In *Midnight Animals,* Hoodie is sent to the metrozone of **Maogang** by the Voice to wipe out the local branch of the **Camaraderie**, a loose underworld organization of contract killers...

## Battles

 Hoodie vs. Sergeant Bando, Lieutenant Rygg, Captain Adolphus, Corrupt STAG and HYPD
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 Hoodie vs. The Quintuplets (Ming, Tian, Xiao, Li)