Screene

> Ow- hah. That didn't hurt, but I mean I should probably get healed just in case. Pre-emptively or somethin'. Cant have the best runner on this team getting hurt. Not that I am hurt. But just in case, y'know?
>
> Screene, convincing his team that he needs healing

**Julian Gene Jackson Thorn**, more commonly known to others as **Screene**, is a hivemerc played by Greene.

Screene is the Scout for the Hivemind's RED team. He is best skilled at running close to enemies and getting a few hits in with his aluminum bat. When it comes to guns, however, he has terrible aim, so to compensate for this he throws his homemade milkshakes at opponents, freezing them and slowing them down.

He has a very upbeat and in-your-face attitude, always ready with a comeback. He hasn't quite found his role within the Hivemercs yes and for the most part stays in the Base, listening to music on a strange device he calls a phone. When the time comes to fight, however, he is almost always the first one out the gate.

## Early Life

Unlike the other Hivemercs, Screene started off on the BLU team- and in a different universe. Born in 1995 in Boston, MA, he grew up with his mother and several younger siblings given to him by his mother's various off-and-on boyfriends. At the age of 16 he took his first driving test, resulting in a crash that killed the instructor and got him expelled from school. He moved out soon after to look for a job, now that he would be unable to support his mother with an education.

From there he moved to North Carolina, where if he wasn't desperately trying to hold down an odd job, he was cheating and stealing to make ends meet. Through a special technique he liked to call, "Bat 'em in the head n' run", Screene made enough money to take a second driving course. Yet again he crashed the vehicle, sending the instructor (and several teeth) through the windshield, and leading him to run away yet again. He cut contact with everyone, including his mother, before finding an ad in a discarded magazine for a mercenary job located in Teufort, New Mexico.

He joined the BLU team as the scout, using his speed and melee skill to make quick attacks on RED enemies. He worked there for three years, saving up money to send to his family back in Boston. However, despite living there for so long, he never really got to know his team, as he mostly stayed in his own quarters aside from the occasional excursion to the common room to "socialize", or drink a milkshake and draw while only sometimes speaking to the others. He only ever bonded with the Sniper, who was friendly toward him from the beginning, and the Soldier's three small children, due to his previous experience raising his own siblings.

On July 18, 2014, Screene was hit by the RED Soldier's rocket, exploding and killing him in an intense, extremely dense explosion. The power of this explosion, however, spread his remaining consciousness across several parallel dimensions, one of which being the Hivemind.

## The Hivemind

Screene appeared in the Hivemind, in 1972. He took the previous Scout's place on the team, as he had vanished three weeks prior. He has not yet been in any battles and has only just arrived.

## Somberverse

As well as the Hivemind, Screene also appeared in the Somberverse in 1968, immediately clashing with Zip, the current scout. Despite having been on the BLU team previously, the RED team seemed to take to him fairly quickly, finding his and Zip's constant arguments amusing. After his first excursion onto the battlefield, he and Zip became reluctant friends, singing Tom Jones's "Sexbomb" together on the roof of the RED base. The peace was not kept, however, as immediately afterward a BLU sniper shot Screene in the shoulder, paralyzing his arm. Thanks to the medic, Moreau's medicinal ability, Screne's arm was repaired- shortly before mutating and turning Screene into a human-feline hybrid, due to the medic's cat contaminating a large amount of the medical equipment.

## Trivia

* Screene's nickname comes from his old team, in which they would refer to him as "Screen" due to his near-addiction to his phone
* Screene lost his four canine teeth in his second car accident.
	+ However, he claims he lost them in several fistfights.
* His name, Julian Gene Jackson, comes from the fact he could not pick one name when changing it, so he gave himself all three.
* He took his death as a chance to reinvent himself, and so in the Hivemind and Somberverse Screene is much more outgoing than he was in his original universe.
* He takes pride in his BLU uniform hoodie and despite joining the RED team in both universes he ended up in, kept the hoodie as a token from his old world.
* Screene can sense major changes to his parallel selves. For example, the Screene in the Hivemind could feel it when the Screene in the Somberverse became part cat
* Like all scouts, his favorite musician is Tom Jones and he has a tattoo reading "sexbom" below his collarbone, on the left side of his chest.