Matthew Martin

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* Character

**Matthew Martin** is a character role-played by FriendlyNeighbourhoodMan\_**.**

## Background

Matthew Martin, in 1972 was conscripted into the Australian military, where he was deployed to vietnam to fight alongside the NATO allies in the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. During the war, Matthew fought valiantly, using his extensive athletic ability from playing football back at home to be a leader within his platoon. After a brutal battle, Matthew  and his squad took a prisoner called Nguyen. Matthew would bring him food and drink while he was in his cell and play dice to pass the time when he was on guard for his camp. One night, after Matthew's squad suffered a significant loss, and he was on watch duty playing dice with Nguyen, he sat closer to the cell bars so he could hear Nguyen clearer. Matthew knew limited vietnamese, but he could still hold a conversation. At one point, the prisoner and Matthew got into a deep conversation about why they were fighting and their life at home, that was when Nguyen took Matthew's Browning Hi-Power pistol and shot him in the head. The bullet hit him in the left eye and came out of his skull just above his left ear. The prisoner took the keys from his pouch and let himself out of the cell, leaving Matthew wounded and unconcious.

After waking up in the hospital, Matthew could sense the taste and smell of gum leaves in the air. He could see nurses around his bed, crowding the ward treating the other wounded and disease ridden patients. Matthew was filled with a feeling of betrayal, dread and anger as he sat up in his bed, clutching his head as he began to be overwhelmed by a deafening whistle in his ears. He crashed back into his bed, looking for a bedside table to get some water from. He looked right, he didn't see any table, just a curtain, then he looked left, he just saw the light above his bed, he didn't see anything to his left. He was confused, he covered his right eye, he couldn't see anything, he was blind in his left eye. Luckily, after heavy therapy and treatment, Matthew was able to make a partial recovery from his injuries due to the bullet just grazing the inside of the skull.

After recovering, Matthew was exempt from enlisting in the military due to his now slightly impaired vision and hearing. Matthew had a friend who he knew who was a higher ranking member within the ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) and reached out to him with a letter. "Dear Thompson, I hope this letter finds you well. I have been discharged from the military, and therefore am no longer in vietnam. I was discharged because I partially lost vision in my left eye and am no longer fit for service. May we arrange a meeting so we can have a catch up and talk about our lives as we once did? Respectfully yours, Matthew Martin".

Matthew met with Thompson at a local pub, where they talked over a couple of beers. Matthew raised the prospect of looking for new employment to him, Thompson recommended he apply to be hired as an intelligence officer, he then applied. A few weeks later, he received a letter from the ASIS, requesting he come into their offices. Matthew entered the blindingly white and clean headquarters of the institution taken aback by the grand nature and setting of the place. As a consequence of Thompson heavily vouching for Matthew having a position at the ASIS, he was swiftly granted that position after a short mandatory interview.

**10 years later**

Not much is known about Matthew's career during the last ten years spanning from 1975 - 1985, however, it can be speculated he was highly respected amongst his peers after making a name for himself due to his hard work. It can also bo noted, that due to the horrors and terrors of his time in the war, and thereafter, he developed an extreme sense of paranoia, PTSD, general anxiety, and overall quirkiness which went undiagnosed, and therefore fostered within himself.

Matthew was tasked by his intelligence agency to infiltrate Los Santos to further investigate the drug epidemic. The intelligence agency conspired with multiple networks in the United States international security branch to construct a fake identity for Matthew, with his name being fabricated. Matthew Martin's birth name remains unknown to anybody else except the ASIS. Matthew -- through his extensive intelligence officer training -- knew how to appear as a regular on-the-down-low citizen in Los Santos by masquerading a fake high pitched voice which he has become accustomed to and has become his regular voice within the city.

## Today

As of this date (06/21/1985) Matthew Martin is employed by the Attorney General's Office of Los Santos as a State Prosecutor, with an officially obtained bar license granted by the Department of Justice. Matthew is heavily involved with the investigations of Methamphetamines within the large criminal organisations within the populus, and is privy to almost all knowledge as a result of his position within the government. Matthew has been constistently informing his contacts back in Australia about the information he has gathered in Los Santos, and hopes for action to be taken in the forseeable future.