Alice Blackbourne

## Early Life

Born to an American mother and a Canadian father, she moved to Grand Rapids when she was 10, and became famous as the Mountie for her distinctive Canadian RCMP hat she had worn to school till the day she graduated high school. She was initially eyeing a career as a policewoman, following in the footsteps of her father, but chose to work as an MP in the U.S. Army as a change of pace; becoming the first woman in the family to join the armed forces. She described her parents as the "typical Canadian liberals" and were overly protective of their only child, going as far as to restrain her from moving out at the age of 18 and even forcing her to stay in the very same room since she moved to the United States. Remaining so long indoors and at home, she hungers for adventure.

## Military Career

She had joined the U.S. Army in 2006 against the wishes of her parents, both of whom were vehemently against Bush's war in Iraq and general Republican politics. Unfortunately for her, she had joined the Army just as the Iraqi civil war has reached its peak. Unlike what she had expected from her two deployments to Iraq, which included running and gunning, she mostly probed at checkpoints and hassling fellow soldiers for the mildest of misdemeanors. Towards the end of her first deployment, however, she had been on a coffee break when her relief, was blown up alongside a few others in a suicide bombing at her checkpoint. Her second deployment was described as oddly blissful, as Obama's withdrawal efforts have picked up the pace, and she had enjoyed her second deployment which was certainly less tense and more fun among the locals. She was discharged formally in 2012 and returned home as a hero to her family.

## CIA Career

Shortly before the end of her contract, she recruited by the CIA initially as an informant from within the U.S. Army to report them of any curiosities. After her contract had expired, she joined the Foreign Service and was dispatched to the east into Japan, as agreed with her CIA recruiter. It is here where she would be engaged to CIA R&D worker named Luke Falley. Despite largely working a miniscule role at the American embassy in Tokyo, she would become legendary among special operations in the coming war, mostly working as a field agent masquerading as a reactivated U.S. Army soldier.

## Personality

A dutiful and good-natured woman, she risks it all purely for the service of the United States. She is overly idealistic, often optimistic in scenarios which would require a realistic approach. However, she is weak-willed, and at one point, genuinely contemplating on deserting the Army in her initial deployment after having such a close brush with death and being outright fooled by a suicide bomber. After her second deployment, which was calmer, she regained some of her idealism but was largely terrorized by the incident and largely swore to never return to combat environments. Her recruitment into the CIA was not coincidental with the timing, as she had agreed to the job since she still never wanted to return to her parents' home and was also too lazy to go back to college to finish up a degree. She, in her mind, didn't want to be a normie and languish on a 9 to 5 job nor to make obscene amounts of money, and felt that she was a front against the new materialistic, and greedy American.

## Trivia

* She is 5'6
* She was salutorian of her high school graduating class
* Her favorite anime is Dragon Ball Z
* She is fluent in English, French (Quebecois), Arabic, and Japanese