07-17-2018, 05:19 PM
*retro to injury*
Everyone dealt with trauma differently. There were plenty of people that pushed it to the very backs of their mind and tried to forget about it. Only to when they were reminded of it to have it brought back and act as if there had been an Earthquake in their brain. Having been basically in the military his entire life, it meant that he had seen others react differently. Reacting differently to when the person that they grew up with died in their arms after being shot. A reaction of someone exploding into nothing but bloody bits when a grenade got attached to them and they couldn't take it off. The horror that flashed in front of their eyes as they heard a squad screaming over the radio as they were burned with plasma from a vehicle that shot at them and burned them alive. War wasn't something that was pretty, but when it had been there for humans it had been a means to keep themselves alive from an alien race that wanted them dead. They weren't going to go extinct without a fight, and they gave everything that they got even if the enemy had better technology than they did.
It just meant that they had developed their technology a lot better and that led to several different military advances. Washington had his own sort of trauma, but none of the trauma carried over from the first couple years of fighting in the Great War. He had pushed it to the back of his mind because he knew what was going to be asked of him as a soldier and nothing but a soldier. He knew from the beginning that he was going to be an expendable force that wasn't needed and was going to be used in the front lines. Whether he died was up to his skills and what the enemy decided to do to try and fight them. He had watched those that he had started to actually trust thanks to their skills burn up in flames. He had watched troops run away in fear for their lives because they didn't want to die. Most of the kids that did join the military didn't exactly have the best luck considering that they didn't know what they wanted to do with their life and unluckily got drafted into the army. The draft having returned thanks to the war that was created for them to fight in.
At least the Great War united all the countries on Earth and all the other planets so that hey could fight back against the threat. When he was teleported here, Washington was pretty sure the War was still going on, hence one of the reasons why he wanted to go back. Everyone had a family, and he was pretty sure that his family was still alive. The current trauma he had wasn't even brought on by his own means. It had been when a failed experimental AI had been implanted into its brain, leaking all the memories of its torture and the horrible emotions that it went through. It nearly killed him. And the AI wasn't able to kill itself like it was trying to do. Everything turned into a shit show, and now after coming here, he was still dealing with the side effects of having it ripped out of his head. He was the type to hide the trauma that he was going through, the only one that knew what he was going through would be Carolina. He had seen how her mind had unraveled with the effect of having her own AI taken out of her head, but hers were willing to work with each other. His was trying to kill him and didn't care what happened to the user. The Freelancer didn't tell anyone what he was going through. He was a soldier. They hid their weaknesses, and in this strange world that he was no longer a human he could no longer trust the civilians that lived in the current outpost.
Right now he was on the lookout for those that were similar to them. The Freelancer had a reason to be upset and touchy right now, and that was because he knew that North and Theta were on the playing field, he just didn't know where they were and that was frustrating. The large armored smilodon went on his patrols during the middle of the day as that seemed to be where there was the most activity. He crash landed in this place, and that meant that there was a chance that another Freelancer could end up popping up just like he and Carolina did. Hearing him coming wasn't all that difficult thanks to the suite of armor that he wore that rattled with each movement that he made. He was the only almost fully armored animal that lived in the outpost. Something that others were usually immediately intimidated by when they first got a look at him. The helmet that he wore hid all of his facial features thanks to the one-way mirror visor that was with it. He couldn't rely on scents as his helmet prevented any from getting inside of his helmet, and the lights that were on his armor seemed to only be active when they were attached to his body.
Hearing voices usually meant there was someone waiting at the border. He had gotten the pattern there, but he would never really be the first to be on the scene. He didn't care after all. He had his mission and he was going to do it no matter who got in his way. The Freelancer didn't care about those in the outpost even if he pretended to be, faking on being on their side so that he could manipulate them for their supplies and information once they started to branch out more. The armored smilodon would approach the side of the group, having arrived just in time to hear Shining's introduction. Washington kept his distance from everyone else, keeping at least five feet between him and everyone else, even if he knew everyone here. No one he knew and that meant that it was again none of his business. The soldier didn't say anything as others welcomed him into the group, feeling as if there was something the other was hiding. That's how he felt with everyone though. Closed off and suspicious of anyone that made an appearance. The group still knew little to nothing about them and he planned on keeping it that way. "Agent Washington." The former human introduced himself with a calm deadpanned tone that he usually did. He said it curtly though, and the stance he had certainly done made him always look like a soldier. Washington looked prepared to walk off after his introduction unless the one in front of him had anything to say to him. "speech"
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