07-11-2018, 08:04 PM
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Hostile was a relative term when it came to Washington's experience of what could be considered hostile. He had gotten used to thinking that everyone that he met was hostile until proven otherwise. And now with his increased paranoia, he doubted that even if they didn't show themselves to be hostile they were always hiding something. Washington had no reason to think that anyone was just nice for a reason. There had to be a catch for something that they wanted and Washington wasn't one to really find that out. Hence why he refused to have others get close to him in any shape or form. He liked having his helmet because there was always that barrier he would never have to worry about breaking. It was comfortable for Washington to not associate anything with those that he came into contact with. He remembered several instances of his life where he didn't think that someone was actually hostile. They had just been hiding their true intention, leaving several either injured or dead in their wake.
Something that Washington didn't want a repeat again and constantly had his guard up, even with someone like Carolina. The Freelancer still didn't have a complete reason to trust her, although her presence was at least somewhat good to be around. There had been several moments during the early portion of his military career that he got used to seeing aliens that they were killing quickly surrender. It wasn't like they had a place to put the aliens when they surrendered, and so that created some problems that they needed to communicate with their fellow soldiers. It had been in that moment when Washington was talking to his commanding officer off to the side that two soldiers had their heads sliced off as the alien hid a sword behind his back. They hadn't instructed the alien to drop his weapons, as they didn't think that they were capable of listening to what they were saying. They couldn't speak English after all, as they spoke their own language when communicating with one another.
As soon as the alien killed two of their soldiers, Washington and the rest of the platoon were quick to kill off the enemy. That didn't make them feel any better as their friend's bodies bled out from underneath them and there was nothing they could do but take their dog tags and give them to their next line of kin. It was from there that they quickly learned their lesson, but the situations became even more difficult when he joined Project Freelancer, that program has been the longest time that he had spent in a military career compared to the time he spent in the UNSC. Because instead of dealing with the aliens which were easier to kill because they were trying to kill them to extinction, dealing with humans was something new for the rookie Freelancer. Washington had to debate whether or not he was going to spare someone that was basically begging for their life. It was during this time that Washington didn't know that he was on the wrong side of the fight and that he was basically the bad guy in the situation.
He had hesitated once when he first joined the program and that had been the last time he had hesitated to kill someone. Washington had cornered someone that was cowering during a raid to get the objective. Carolina and Maine having moved on already. The Freelancer listened to the words of the soldier. He had a family of course. He didn't want to die and he didn't have any weapons on him. Washington had lowered his weapon and had been about to let the other go when he looked away again when he felt pain radiate through his shoulder as a bullet went through his body. The bullet was shot close enough to him that it had shattered a hole through his shoulder blade. It hurt, but he was used to getting shot, and Washington was quick to shoot the enemy right through the head. When his team asked him what happened, the Freelancer didn't want to talk about. Any mercy that he had from that point of being a rookie gone completely as he wouldn't hesitate to actually kill those that he came across. There were plenty of animals that were capable of being hostile given the chance to do so, Washington was the same as well.
The only reason he was calm around others was that he wanted to get some form of their trust so that they wouldn't think he was constantly up to no good. Which was working so far so good albeit it was taking a little bit more time to get used to. He still didn't like talking to those that he did come across because he always felt like he was wasting his time anyway. Agent Washington was still trying to figure out if there was any Freelancer technology that was around that they could use but had yet to find a single scrap. At the same time, he was on the lookout to find Carolina's armor since she didn't have any like he did. When he had first approached the tiger, Washington thought that his presence would make the other already nervous than they already were. He was fairly intimidating, and his gaze had looked over toward Carolina where she was sitting. It seemed like she was taking a break for a little bit, and Washington himself wasn't going to stay around here very long because he had to rest of his patrolling to do. He had a schedule to upkeep after all. He didn't say anything about her comment, knowing that was basically what they did all day. There weren't any threats for them to worry about from what he could gather.
Other than the places that were considered Warbound but he hadn't heard anything about them. He flicked one of his ears inside of his helmet as others approached and waited for the tiger to speak. Washington was around the same size as the tiger, being technically a saber-toothed tiger, but he was still a little bit shorter. The Freelancer listened to the tigers named and relaxed a little bit. Since Carolina had arrived without her armor there was a chance that it was another one like them and they could never be too careful. The other certainly had an interesting name and a name that wasn't exactly human. Foreignersgod. There was probably some sort of symbolism with said name. Washington flicked his shortened tail before he began speaking himself. "I'm Agent Washington." The Freelancer would introduce himself curtly and in militaristic tone. That wasn't his real name of course, but he hadn't said his real name in years and had chosen to adorn the new name that was given to him years ago. Washington didn't bother to introduce Carolina, the leopard more than capable of speaking her own name without any likes of his help. The armored smilodon would wait for a couple of seconds to see if the other had anything interesting to add if they didn't then he would walk off to finish his patrolling. "speech"
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