Elijah Bainbridge

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Elijah Emilio Bainbridge


^{"So we coulda just shot him, but then Desmond just blows the guy up..."}

NAME Elijah Emilio Bainbridge ALIAS Eli AGE 25 DATE OF BIRTH 14-04-2557 GENDER Male

PLAY BY Liam Hemsworth SEXUAL ORIENTATION Heterosexual AFFILIATION None OCCUPATION Former Military Paratrooper/Merc PLACE OF BIRTH Canyon Bluff, Haven

HEIGHT 6'3" WEIGHT 196 Lbs. HAIR Light brown short messy hair EYE COLOR Blue-gray

PHYSICAL BUILD Athletic, fit, muscular DISTINGUISHING MARKS None as of yet GENERAL APPEARANCE Elijah walks upright as is expected of most who have served and lived around the military their whole lives.  CLOTHING STYLE Elijah is commonly seen in ragged common clothes. Older rim styles seen on Haven. That said with the right occasion you might just find him dressed up and looking decent.

LIKES Wide open spaces - Having spent time as a paratrooper on Haven along with all his time spent on the family land he likes the wide open spaces.  Small groups - Hey, Haven has only 125k people and lots of space for them to be in what do you expect. Small groups make for better conversation anyway. Adventure - Elijah spent his childhood growing up listening to stories of adventure from his father and especially his grandfather and now it is his turn. DISLIKES The Core worlds - There are many reasons for this. He has heard the stories of the Alliance, there are too many people and too many rules. Rain - Haven isn't known for its rain and the thought of being on a planet that rains all the time just ins't his thing. Young Children - Elijah just isn't good with kids and prefers to keep his distance from them. QUIRKS/HABITS Elijah can't sleep unless he is facing to door in the room. Elijah carries a picture of his grandfather's ship with him everywhere he goes. FEARS Will never live up to his father's and grandfather's legacy.

STRENGTHS Trusting Loyalty Unbreakable Will WEAKNESSES Patient Technology Socially oblivious TALENTS/ABILITIES Ambidexterity Incredible eyesight Very observant SECRETS Only known by his best friend, he wants to rebuild his grandfather's ship some day and explore the 'Verse. ASPIRATIONS Make a name for himself and continue the family legacy

OVERALL PERSONALITY

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Elijah may not be the biggest fan of large groups but when he is with a small group of friends he becomes a true social butterfly. Even if it is strangers, so long as it is a small group he can manage to do pretty good as well socially. He is not afraid to take charge of a situation if there is a lack of leadership. When he is put in the position of leading he is the no bullshit, straight to the point type. Elijah has always been one to trust his friends and gain the trust of others through his dedication. Once he has made friends with a person there is no question of his loyalty to them through thick or thin. One could always assume he will be there at their side even if they are in the wrong. Of course this can be considered a good and bad thing and has more then once landed him on the wrong side of an argument. Including one occasion where a fun little trip out to the bar landed him a night in the brig and nearly his Corporal rank while he was in the service. Even with that though he did not turn and blame his friend for what happened but continued to stand at his side. 

When it comes to work Elijah is very dedicated as well and will push through any situation to the bitter end never relenting on his goals. That said though he is far from perfect and is not the most patient person when things do not go his way. He can lose his temper and god forbid you put him in front of a computer to try and figure something out. Elijah and the simplest computer can turn him into a multilingual dictionary of every foul word, saying, or phrase still in use, and even a few long forgotten ones.

FATHER David Emilio Bainbridge Born 08/09/2520 Age: 61 MOTHER Melissa Nicole Bainbridge Born 11/11/2523 Age:58 Maiden name: Ashdown SIBLINGS Alexander Reid Bainbridge Born 23/01/2554 Age: 28 Spencer Joel Bainbridge Born 17/12/2556 Age: 25 OTHER NOTABLE RELATIVES Sidney Alexander Bainbridge Born 06/19/2484 Died: 02/26/2573 Age: 88 (at time of death) Relation: Grandfather Chris Joel Bainbridge Born 07/25/2521 Age: 60 Relation: Uncle Brian Alexander Bainbridge Born 12/19/2555 Age: 26

SIGNIFICANT OTHER None at this time CHILDREN No children at this time OTHER SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE Tristram Kelly Born xx/xx/25xx Age: 22-23 Relation: close friends / work partner Kalli Ann Bernett Born xx/xx/25xx Age: 21  Relation: Best friends from early childhood / like a sister Born: 01/21/2558 Ryker Eugen Pruett Age: 24 Relation: fellow Haven Defense Force Paratrooper and friend Rylie Allen Cox Born: 08/02/2550 Age: 31 Relation: Fellow Haven Defense Force Paratrooper and sergeant in charge of Elijah's squad. PETS

BACKSTORY

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Elijah was born April 14th, 2557 to David and Melissa Bainbridge as the third male child and last in the family. The Bainbridge clan had a long history of having male children for many generations. Like his brother, his father, and his father's father, Elijah was born on Haven, a small unimportant moon that is easilyover looked in the 'Verse. The same of course can not be said about the Bainbridge clan.

There was a time that the Bainbridge family line was known for being criminals, thieves and the issue with modern society. That changed in 2506 with Elijah's grand father Sidney Alexander Bainbridge. With the Unification war starting back then Sidney lead the elite 217th forward tactical assault unit during the war. Though Sidney fought on the losing side of the war it led him down a path that would change the Bainbridge family line forever. 2520 Sidney would return to the battlefields this time on Beylix with a newly reformed 217th tactical forward assault battalion under his command just two months before his first son and Elijah's father, David, was born. 

Over the following years Sidney would continue the fight against the Alliance like he had done back in the Unification War. By the time Elijah's father had come of age he too joined the service and was part of the 217th. By that point the 217th was an entire brigade and part of an Multi-Planet Independent Defense Force. David like his father would fight against the Alliance over the years until in 2549 the 217th was disbanded as the wars against the Alliance ended.  He retired at the rank of Colonel like his father before him, but lets get back on topic here. 

Elijah grew up on Haven raised by a stay at home mother and a very busy military man. Young Elijah watched his father and all he did. The man was well known by so many at Canyon Bluff and even Haven itself. His father led one of the most well known military brigades in the war and since then had been a top commander of the moon's small defense forces.  The three brothers grew up pretending they were in the military themselves, reenacting the war stories of their father and grandfather. Elijah spent as much of his time as he could as a young boy with his grandfather Sidney. Elijah grew up hearing all of Sidney's stories of all he had done in his life when he was still young. Even showing him his old ship 'Trinity' that now sat in a field on Sidney's property. 

Elijah of course spent his time playing in and on the ship whenever he wasn't in school. Just after his 9th birthday a new family moved in to the house next door to them. The Bainbridge family became fast friends with the Bernett family. This friendship was most notable between Elijah and Kalli. Kalli and Elijah grew closer and closer as the years went on dreaming of someday being in a ship of their own in space doing everything Sidney told them about. Elijah of course being the son of a military man saw himself as some sort of space crime fighting hero like any boy would. Kalli of course had more down to earth ideas and focused on how she could work on the ships and keep them flying, along with trying to keep Elijah's dreams from being too grand. All the while the pair grew closer and closer till they were nearly like family. They had a special bond that seemed like it would only grow stronger as they grew into adults. 

A few months before Elijah's 16th birthday Sidney passed away causing Elijah to withdraw from his family and friends. Elijah had felt like he lost his best friend, a void he never thought he would feel. Over the next two years his focus shifted from playing with the ship and onto how he would live up to the life of his grandfather. A week after Elijah's 18th birthday he shipped off to basic training on the other side of the moon leaving his family and friends behind. 

Elijah took to military life right away doing everything he could to impress. Elijah left basic and went right into jump training for paratroopers. Every week throughout his training he received a letter from Kalli telling him all of what was going on back home and encouraging him in his endeavors in the service. After completing his training he to was sent off to the 7th infantry company as a paratrooper back in Canyon Bluff. His time back home was short lived when his unit was activated nine months after he got there and sent off to New Omaha fighting against corporate miners intent on tapping Haven's resources. Tensions between Haven and New Omaha had been growing as New Omaha continued to turn a blind eye to the miners using their moon as a base of operations against Haven. 

475 men were sent from Haven to deal with any forces that New Omaha and the mining corporation could put up and Elijah's squad would be the tip of the spear being dropped in from high altitude to secure a location to use as a base of operations for the fight. Though the majority of the fight between the two sides would be over within less than three weeks the entire force would spend the next seven months on the moon making sure they had cleaned up any remnants of the mining corp's hired mercs, the number of fighters being so small and the territory to cover being so very large. Slowly the forces were drawn down with Elijah and his company being the last to be pulled out after an additional thirteen months. 

When Elijah returned to Haven his friend Kalli had left to find work off the moon. Elijah would spend the remaining months of his time in service there on Haven with little of note to mention. Just over 22 when his time with the service ended. He could not see himself continuing in the service with there no longer being any grand reason to continue like his father and grandfather had before him. Elijah left home as well seeking a better future for himself than being stuck on the small moon of Haven he was raised on. Elijah went to the Georgian Federation where he would find jobs as a hired gun or bodyguard until he ran into his old friend Kalli who was now working for a merc outfit as the ship's mechanic. With no more then a few simple words Kalli got Elijah hired onto the company. 

For six months the ship would make its way through the 'Verse doing jobs that payed better than Elijah ever would have thought he would be able to make. From Persephone to New Canaan the ship and her crew did well making a profit at every turn. Every penny Elijah made was tucked away for his and Kalli's rekindled hopes of having their own ship. Like all good things though the business dried up and the company decommissioned the ship and let the crew go. It wasn't but a few weeks later that the pair had found their way to their new home aboard the Peerless as part of her crew. For the last year the two have spent their time on the Peerless growing accustomed to the larger ship and larger crew. With the larger ship came bigger jobs and if all goes well, better pay. 

ROLEPLAY SAMPLE

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Forty-four men stood sweating in the cargo bay of the ship one after another in four rows. The room was hot and the tension and stress just made each and every one of them seem like a small nuclear reactor missing its cooling system. They were only minutes away now and soon the hatch on the back would open and they would be free falling onto New Omaha. Their landing zone had been code named Gaza Point. God knows where they came up with that name and why, but there it was just on the horizon of the moon if you looked out the tiny slit of a window on the port side of the cargo bay. Elijah was the first person in the line on the port side. He would be in the first four out the door and with the way he jumped likely the first to the ground as well.

He wasn’t totally sure if that was a good or bad thing. They would be jumping from 34,000 feet. At the upper most edge of the small moon's atmosphere. Their decent would start slowly as gravity began to take effect. Over all it would take them just over 4 minutes to reach the 3,000 foot target point of opening their parachutes. That would leave roughly 68 seconds of controlled fall for them to land. Elijah didn’t believe in being a sitting duck for that long and had made it a habit of waiting just over 1,000 feet and 20 seconds of controlled fall. Minimize your risk of being a target and you had a better chance of survival. Of course he had only practiced this in training and never in a live situation before. This was going to be the real test of how foolish he was for thinking that. The only saving grace was that Sergeant Cox and Private Pruett were of the same school of thought and he would not be the only one reaching the ground forty-eight seconds before everyone else.

Elijah looked over to Sergeant Cox and gave the best smile he could. ”Ready for this sarge?” He asked. Cox smiled bad, but before he could talk an alarm sounded letting them know they were 15 seconds out and helmets needed to be put on. The whole group quickly slid their helmets on and locked them in place, each person checking the man beside them. Cox checked off Elijah’s and he the same for his NCO. Cox simply gave him a thumbs up in reply to his comment a moment ago and grabbed onto the upper rail between their heads. The door cracked open and the air began to rush from the cargo bay. They were still up where the air was thin, almost nonexistent. Elijah looked up to the top of the cargo bay door at the red light. The second it turned green it was time.

All he could think was ‘what did I get myself into.’ And in a flash the light was green and he was running for the door. With a quick leap he was out of the cargo bay and everything was silent, at least for a time. Twenty seconds passed and all that could be heard in the suit was his breathing. Then slowly the rippling sound of the growing atmosphere began to sound. Elijah looked around, nothing. He looked down below him and still nothing. He rolled himself back as much as he could in the thin atmosphere and still saw nothing. Finally he flipped himself over to his back and could see it all. Everyone had drug off west and he had gone east. The distance between him and the others was nearly half a click already, except for what he could only assume was Cox and Pruett working their way as best they could toward him. They would all have to wait till the atmosphere thickened to redirect closer to each other and hopefully back toward the rest of the group. 

Player name/alias: The man they call Sid
Roleplay Experience: 10ish years
How You Found DoS: I am sure it was someone, most likely Wisper
Other Characters on the Site: None at the time
Preferred Method of Contact: PM
Anything else: Nope

Password: So crap I suck at this but bare with me ok. EDLQ Do I need to keep going.... FINE! EDLQEUKGJH.... I have no clue if I got that right but I tried right. 

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[Roger]

Spelling, format, grammar, blah blah, fixed it.

1) Haven is a moon not a planet. Both Haven and New Omaha orbit Deadwood.

2) Sid's death year does not match up with how old you say Elijah was. Sid died in 2567. Elijah turned 16 (Sid dying a few months before he actually turned) in '73. That's six years off, seven before I edited his birth year. Elijah's age needs to be adjusted accordingly or Sid needs to get a few years added onto his lifespan.

3) You note how Haven is very lightly populated. 125,000 people. Yet you talk up their military having elite units. When you say "1075" men were sent to New Omaha that is about the max number of soldiers Haven would have in peace time, about 1% of its population. You say the 217 is a brigade, which would mean that all of Haven's military is in the 217... unless it's REALLY under-strength.

What I think is a better idea is for the 217 NOT to be based off Haven EVER. It was an Independent brigade back during the Unification War. When planets began to break away, Sid reformed it as an international unit to fight and liberate the rest of the 'Verse. Later, his son also joined it and saw the later years of the Alliance retreat as his father saw to the beginning of that retreat (2520-48 in total). A few years after the Alliance returned to their original borders, the 217 then probably disbanded.

Thus, Elijah is just a part of the local Haven defense force, not some badass legendary unit. He's in their elite paratroopers but on the grand scheme of things it's not much and a really small group. He wants to follow his father and grandfather but he literally can't because there is no more 217 to join. Maybe that's why he quits after four years instead of staying in to reach Colonel like his dad and grandpa did before him and instead turns to merc work.

Or you could just pick a more populous planet and then come up with some other reason why this kid who loved the military and has this big military tradition decides to leave it all rather quickly.

[Roger]