Desmond Flynn

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Desmond John Flynn




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Full Name - Desmond John Flynn
Nicknames/Alias - His callsign, Harlequin Actual, or just Harlequin
Age - 31
Date of Birth - October 26th
Gender - Male
Sexual Orientation - Heterosexual
Affiliation - Alliance
Occupation - Commando Team Leader, rank of Major

Play-By - Sullivan Stapleton
Build - Muscled
Height & Weight - 6'2", 200 lbs.
Hair - Brown, Scruffy
Eyes - Blue
Unique Features - N/A
Dressing Style - Desmond is rarely ever seen out of his standard BDU, which consists of a black shirt covered by a bulletproof vest with combat webbing, black combat trousers and a black cap.
Other - Standard equipment:
Rifle

Submachine gun (for subtle operations)

Pistol

Knife

Likes - Sparring, quiet, reading, sarcasm, relaxing when he can.
Dislikes - Rebels, idiots, being disorganised, people messing up on missions, Operatives
Quirks/Habits - Constantly buttons and unbuttons pockets on webbing when not doing anything.
Fears - Death by space
Secrets - Has a bastard child somewhere in the 'verse
Strengths - Physically strong, quick on his feet, intelligent and good leader
Weaknesses - Not good with authority, susceptible to attractive women, has a soft spot for children
Talents/Special Abilities - Accurate with guns, good with knives, tactically minded
Aspirations - To keep himself and his men safe.
Overall Personality - Desmond is a fairly friendly person, at most times, if incredibly sarcastic. Outside of missions, he is usually very talkative, and willing to crack a joke or seventeen with anyone willing to talk back. During missions, however, he becomes cold and somewhat distant, only focused on his objectives. He generally doesn't get angry, having been on the receiving end of quite a few insults and attempts to annoy him in his time, along with the trauma of his parents dying, but if something were to anger him, it would be a very good idea to get out of the way. In general, Flynn has a bit of a problem with authority outside of missions, constantly disregarding rules such as the possession of alcohol aboard ships.

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Father - John Flynn, deceased
Mother - Marian Flynn, deceased
Siblings - N/A
Other Significant People - Casper Nordgard, Adoptive Father, former Alliance Commando, Alive

Sylvia Nordgard, Adoptive Mother, Alive
Pets - N/A
Your History - Desmond was born on Ariel to a special forces father and nurse mother. The early years of his life were fairly standard, with his mother being the main person to raise him whilst his father was away on deployments. Another constant in his life were the Nordgards, long-time friends of his parents and almost a second set of parents for the young boy. When Marian was working in her hospital, Sylvia would babysit the young Desmond for her.

However, when Desmond was only 5, his father was on leave between deployments and took the family out for drive, but it soon ended in disaster. A truck smashed into the side of the car at a junction in a road, killing both parents but leaving the child alive. After the crash, Desmond was stuck in an orphanage for a year before the Nordgards were able to adopt him and give him a better place to live. Due to the accident and the trauma of seeing his parents dead in front of him, he needed years of constant therapy until he was around 9 or 10, but he definitely did not come out of the other side of it completely unharmed.

After that, he had a fairly normal life again before the age of 17, when he started to attend a military academy. Both his father and adoptive father were Marine Commandos, and that's exactly what Desmond wanted to do as well. He excelled academically, but when it came to behaviour... Not so much. He eventually became disciplined, but it took a while. Outside of school, however he was, in a word, mad. He was around 19 when he had a one night stand and accidentally got a girl pregnant and didn't contact her afterwards out of fear.

Once he graduated at 21 and earned his officer commission, the young man was assigned to a fleet of ships that would soon lay siege to the Independent fortress of Du-Khang and was put in charge of a platoon when the actual battle started. Throughout the 9 months of the siege, Flynn showed exceptional abilities in leading his men and making sure that most of them came out with their lives and all of their limbs. His superiors were impressed, and a year later he was with the same fleet as they made their way towards the colony of Hera and what would become one of the bloodiest battles of both Desmond's life and the war as a whole.

Amazingly, Flynn survived that as well, whilst many of his own men didn't. but the amount of officers above him that were killed made him a Captain and in charge of many more soldiers than he was used to, but he rose to the occasion and made sure that most of the men under his command alive. Due to this, and his previous actions at Du-Khang, he was able to keep his new rank and was given a medal.

The rest of his career was fairly uneventful, or at least as much as a soldier's career could be, before he went into commando selection when he was 25. It was incredibly grueling, but Flynn pulled through, and eventually found himself in the training programme itself. After around a year or so, he was finally put into a squad of other commandos and was sent off to do missions with them when he was 26. He took part in a large number of operations during his time there, and after 3 years he was allowed to take charge of his own squad after his old squad leader stepped down.

Flynn's presence during the Universe Battle was what caused his dislike of Operatives in general, due to the man with no name who was in charge of the whole operation. He even witnessed what a rogue psychic could do when he breached a wall in the broadcasting station that was infested with Reavers and a crew full of wanted men and women. Afterwards, he continued as normal until recently, when he and his squad's transfer to the Penumbra Dawn was finalised.

What should we call you? -Ollie/Duck/The Young'un
Roleplaying Experience - I don't know
Where did you find us? - I was from the 'Verse
Prove Yourself - Shiny
Post Script - absolutely anything else you would like to mention about your character should go right here.
Other characters - Daniel Bruce, Shane Dempsey
How we should contact you - PM or Skype if you have me
Roleplay Example - Desmond stacked up on the door to the suspected rebel hideout with his rifle in his hands and his squad standing by. He looked around for a moment to make sure that the rest of the street was clear before smiling to himself and turning back to the task at hand. The operation was taking place at night, meaning that all of the commandos were wearing a pair of night-vision goggles in order to see clearly. They had been waiting for a call from Command that their target was definitely in the building before they could move in, as it wouldn't be worth putting a team of highly trained, special forces soldiers in danger just to bring down a few insurgents and not nab one of their main men.

He then heard a crackle in his earpiece before a voice on the other end said, “Harlequin Actual, target is confirmed to be in the building. Operation is a go.”

Immediately, Flynn keyed the transmit on his radio and replied, “Roger that,” before saying to the squad member who was on the outside fuse box, “Lights out, Boxer.” Right on cue, the lights that had been shining through the windows of the one story building blinked out. Amid a chorus of confused yells from inside, the squad slipped in with guns raised. Desmond entered first, and was met first by a man wielding a pistol, who promptly received two rounds to the chest from the commando's rifle. The next was a woman with a shotgun who seemed to have been blinded by the bright muzzle flash from the gunshots. She was put down by a bullet to the head.

The rest of the house was cleared just as methodically and clinically. None of the squad were injured, and they were able to find their target. As he was paraded out of the door in handcuffs, Flynn said over his radio to the man overseeing the operation, “Inform Theta that we have his man. Extracting now.”

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