FC: Desperate Alliance

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Character Name: Joshua Danem
Character Race: Human.
Character Homeworld: Skopje
Character Personality: Despises the flood, with great fervor. He puts the eradication of the flood above all else. He's intensely focused on his goal of destroying the flood, but remains approachable most of the time. He's a master of unconventional weaponry, able to continue fighting with just about anything he can get his hands on, desperately if need be. He's fiercely loyal to the brotherhood, and dislikes the empire and covenant remnants, but is willing to put aside their differences to deal with the flood. He will not attack non-infected beings unless extremely provoked.
Relevant Character Backstory:

Joshua was known as a "Flood child". A child who grew up after the flood outbreak of 2568, never knowing anything beforehand. As a child of a brotherhood soldier, he grew up being taught their word is law. He was trained and taught to combat the flood, being trained in all forms of combat, taught to think tactically to inflict massive casualties on the seemingly infinite parasite. At 14 years old, aboard the Solon class ship "Veer not to darkness", He had his first encounter with the parasite. The carrier was ambushed by flood controlled ships while transferring civilians between two world, and while it's captain was able to valiantly outmaneuver and destroy the ships, the flood had already gotten on board and was spreading fast. Everyone was filing towards the escape pods, and it was a slaughter. Joshua realized that there would be no making it to the escape pods through the crowd, and headed towards the hangers. Sprinting down the hallway to the hanger, he watched a swarm of infection forms charging. Two brotherhood soldiers yelled at him to run, and turned to fire at them. Joshua ran- towards the guards. The guards opened fire with their assault rifles, cutting through the throng of pods, unfortunately for them, several broke through. Soon, several pods latched onto one of the guards. Joshua tackled the infected guard, pulling his sidearm in one motion and firing at a pod that leapt for the other guard. He scrambled to his feet, falling back and firing. The other guard followed. He was armed.

Sealing the door behind them, Joshua watched as the infested guard rose, and felt revulsion. He backed away from the door, and raised the pistol, hands shaking. He was snapped out of it by guard, who yelled at joshua to follow him. He ran in a daze, dodging flood forms and looping around to the hanger. The longer they were out there, the more combat forms there seemed to be. Then he began recognizing people, the colonists that not even an hour ago he was having a conversation with. These hellspawn did all of this? no more. He would stop this. He fired, till his clip was empty, flood forms falling all around him. They ran for so long.

They were almost at the hanger, when joshua felt something slam into his side. He was thrown into the wall, and felt his left arm snap from the force. Above him stood a combat form, which had charged him from around a corner. He raised his pistol, and with horor realized it was empty. He had nothing. Assault rifle fire blasted into the combat form, knocking it off of him. The guard stood defiantly firing at it. He scrambled up, running. Infection forms charged around the corner, with a carrier in their midst. He looked around for something, anything. He smashed the glass around a nearby fire extinguisher, tossing it down the hall and onto the floor. He looked back, seeing the guard busy fighting off several combat forms. He reached for the guards pistol, whipping it back and firing into the carrier form. It popped, spewing infection forms out. He fired a round into the fire extinguisher, the pressure slamming it through some nearby infection forms and popping them. an assault rifle clattered to the floor near him, an arm still attached. He rolled to the side, picking up the assault rifle and ripping the arm off. he watched a combat form skewer his guard ally with its tentacles, and infection pods overwhelm the position. He Ran down the hallway, running off adrenaline.

3 infection forms lay between him and the hanger. he opened fire, missing most of his shots, two went down. click. the pod leapt, and he threw the assault rifle into it, knocking it to the side. He ran into the hanger and sealed the door. There was one pelican left, brotherhood guards retreating into it, firing at a threat he couldn't see. He ran for it, and made it in as the doors were being closed. flood forms leapt for the pelican as it sped out into the darkness of space. Escape craft littered the area, with nowhere to go. He watched as infested pelicans followed the escape craft, boarding them. Fire roared out from the carrier, and an explosion was triggered in it's engine compartment. A self destruct. The ship veered suddenly, firing at a nearby pelican and disabling it. All hope seemed lost, when several Rift ships appeared and began cleaning up the infected craft. He wasn't sure what happened after that, he went into shock.

Ever since then, He's been determined to become the hunter, not the hunted. He enlisted in the brotherhood in 2583, and quickly became renowned for his tenacity. He volunteers for any missions with flood engagement, no matter the difficulty. He's survived an unprecedented 16 encounters with the flood, 4 of which were "successful" engagements. unheard of by any member of the Rift alliance. He's escaped 5 flood attacks on Rift territory, made 3 excursions to claim forerunner tech, one of which succeeded. He's taken part in 8 rescue attempts, 3 of which succeeded in rescuing over 50% of the trapped Rift members. In 2587, he's now 19 years old, artificially aged by the stresses of his job, he seems almost 30. He was placed on a list for spartan augmentation at the end of 2586, and is undergoing the augmentation as of the time of the start of our story, and is to be transferred to the RAS class "song of heaven". As he falls into a deep sleep, doctors peering down at him, he only longs to awaken, stronger than ever before, and ready to destroy the flood.

Character Skills/Combat Role:

General Infantry/explosives expert. He's deployed as a soldier on the front, and over the course of his engagements, has become a master trapper, laying ambushes, and explosive traps for the flood to trip. He's known for thinking outside the box, trying to maximize casualties of the flood. After enlisting, he aquired formal explosives training, and now carry's quite a fair amount of them on him at all times.

very good at using unconventional weaponry when in a desperate situation.