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Senior Member
Name: Aaron Jones
Age: 28
Occupation: Military Mechanic
Appearance Description: (You can replace this with an animated/drawn character picture. No real face claims.)
Personality:
Aaron is in some ways your typical Texan; laid back to the point of being horizontal, loud, brash, and to the point. He is an amicable enough fellow, and given the recently depleted state of humanity is always happy to find someone who isn’t out to feast upon his living flesh. Despite the ever constant struggle for personal survival, Aaron has a propensity to put himself in danger to try and help those in need and unable to help themselves, its part of the reason that he’s stayed away from city, afraid that his good nature will end up getting himself killed in the end. He is an eternal optimist, rarely down and generally has a smile on his face.
His most treasured possession is a number of Classic Rock tapes that were lying in the bottom of the rucksack that he grabbed from the workshop, having salvaged/put together a tape deck in his free time on base. It is one of the things that has kept him sane during his cross country journeying and subsequent isolation from the wider world..
Background:
Aaron was born in Texas, the Lone Star State. Aaron, his mother and father and two brothers lived on a ranch north of Houston. It was by no means an easy upbringing, they were expected to work, and work hard in order to keep the family business running, whether this was working the fields, running errands to town, or repairing the numerous semi functioning machinery about the place. It was the latter that Aaron took to, and was clearly head and shoulders above his brothers, and even parents. Once he took something apart, it was as if he could see every connection, every fitting, and where something could have gone wrong to break the delicate mechanics and systems. Despite his intrinsic mechanical skill, more academic subjects did not come easily to him, and as a result he dropped out of school age 16 and took at apprenticeship at a car carage in town, setting most of his wages aside for the running and wellbeing of the family ranch. After a couple of years however he was chomping at the bit for a new challenge, having spent 2 years servicing the same vehicles, owned by the same people, with the same problems. That's what pushed him into the Army, it didn't take much for the recruiter to persuade this bored high school drop out that a better life could be just around the corner.
That was the next 9 years of his life, working in the Army Motor Pool, serving with the 3rd Texan Mechanised Division. Army life came easy to him, wake up when ordered, sleep when ordered, work when ordered. He enjoyed the work and he was good at it, becoming a valued member of the squad and the team. Though serving two tours of Afghanistan, he didn't actually see any frontline action, considered far too valuable an asset to put on the frontlines, and as a result spent his tours in the (relative) safety of base camp, oil stained and normally elbows deep in an engine. His most recent posting was at a motor pool in Virginia, a rather cosy job, Richmond was a short drive away with all the amenities that it had to offer. Two months in a request came down, delivery of a humvee to a base on the other side of the country, would mean a few days of driving down the highway, a weeks posting at the other depot, and then a flight back. He jumped at the offer and later that day set off from the base, 4 Jerry cans strapped to the exterior of the unarmed camo green Humvee, a few changes of clothes and enough MREs and water to last 4 days. He pulled into the outskirts of Aurora on the afternoon of the 16th October 2018.
Proficiency:
Mechanic: If it has an engine, wheels, or to be honest any moving parts, Aaron will be able to strip it down, fix what's ailing it and get it in fully working order with little more than basic tools and whatever materials he can find to make sure that it can function for a few more hours/miles, hopefully for longer but quality spare parts are something of a luxury these days.
Physically Strong: 6 years worth of hard labour in the military had left Aaron in damn fine physical strength. Obviously this helps in the movement and removal of bulky and heavy objects, but it makes him an absolute threat against the walking dead (or living) that cross his path when he has a melee weapon in hand.
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