In-Character Benjamin Bermin

[joe moter]

Benjamin Gabriel Bermin

Spoiler: Don't believe this image looks like Bermin?

You are unfortunately wrong.

My upbringing​

Spoiler: "Yes, I had a very privileged childhood, you ever heard of Ramaz in New York City?

I don't remember my earliest years. Nor do I care to, they are unimportant nothings from when I was a babbling toddler, I was born November 10th 1983, that's all I care to know about my upbringing- other than some familial reminiscing I have been spoken to about. My juvenile years were spent in Ramaz School, one of the most prestigious Orthodox schools around, my wealthy financial industry father had no trouble getting me in financially (as if he wasn't all ready a well respected alumni). My classes were extremely small compared to the average American classroom, and I enjoyed that, from what I have heard from others not from such an upbringing, the classes in the publicly available schools were disgustingly loud and were filled with very rude students. As you should know, I lived lavishly and enjoyed my lifestyle until the age of twenty when the portal storms began in United States. The world was being ravened and luckily I was studying abroad in Geneva, now a ruin of what it once was under the name City 24. After that hell struck from above in the form of metal machines moving down from above. Eventually, Earth Surrenders, and... You should know the story from there. I do not know what happened to my mother or father, I believe they are dead.

The start of Combine occupation

Spoiler: "At first I thought... They thought nothing of me, sending me to this- place... Yet I realize that this is my reward for all my work!"

Scared, afraid, and barely an adult, I stumbled around the districts of City 24 for years doing nothing of value other than trying to work on my missed religious studies under a rule that doesn't exactly love religion as many should. Trade enough on the black market and you'll find yourself a Torah, get beat with a rusted metal club in the slums afterwards by some hoodlum for "a quick loanski" and watch the book you've spend so much time and effort on get covered in a murky muddy liquid ruining the pages and making it worthless. You sit and stare being as worthless as possible to society not even performing workshifts because of your crude injuries from Civil Protection and living off rations and odd-jobs just so you could afford another Torah. That's when I lost the privileged view of my life, nothing but survival and religion studies mattered now and it was a race to the finish line. Many years later, you have your Torah and just enough money, you look nice enough to be considered a loyalist... The coupon prints in year 2021... The grand beacon of City 24 awaits me because of my rise, fall, and rise again! My destiny in some good job in some loyalist building is coming! Yes! ... Are you kidding me? Industrial 24? Do they think I'm some kind of factory worker? I threw my Torah out at the train station seeing the large search line.. Failure is what I first saw, God gave me something different in reward for my torture and study.

Revitalization​

Spoiler: "Yes, I'm the head of the SEZ committee which is dedicated to making the slums a better place."

I breath my breath of relief after the search before I stare in to the ruin of a city before me. Walk around, learn the place, stay away from the slums for now. I see a vortigaunt who looks beat and scuffed enough to be a local around here, I ask "Would you happen to know where I could find some work?" He says a forgettable answer before I say something in Hebrew (at the time I was practicing my Hebrew as I had long forgotten it since my fundamental years, man doesn't exactly have time to remember Hebrew when being strikes are falling apon them). Wondrously like a shift in it's head it got rather excited and asked if I was apart of the chosen people. Naturally I of course said yes, and the vortigaunt pointed me towards a shop 'Mayer Credit Union', the vortigaunt's name was Rabbi and he was soon to be the one who would do black market dealings for religious texts, I didn't even know vortigaunts could be religious, and to choose the right one too? The man I would meet at the bank would be the man to get me up in the tiers of Combine loyalty and in the ranks of Combine wealth. George Mayer was the boss' name, and as soon as I spoke Hebrew he lit up and began speaking about how Adonai has brought him many gifts recently, apparently our suffering is once again being rewarded as a whole. Skip ahead about a week and the security council meeting after Wyatt Callaway's death began, the cops outside scolded me telling me I needed to be loyalist to get in. Two minutes later they were sucking up to me as if I were better than them calling me "sir" and treating me with respect for the first time in my life, the reality was; I was and I always would be better than them. The man without an armband walked in to the loyalist meeting ever casual and they stared with upmost confusion. Once Erama knew my name I began creating posters for him (which allowed me access to the ISD offices allowing me to print four Torah's, one with the cover of Communist manifesto "The Enlightened Revolution"), because of my work with the posters, after N-28 got passed I acquired a job at the SEZ committee, after Cross misread my position I was promoted to it's head. Eventually I was in talks with both Erama and Cross, both Mayer aptly nicknamed Vice-▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ and Consulate-▓▓▓▓▓▓▓.

If Ben finds you important enough, I'll add your character.
Sorry for the long, long, speech. Please correct any inaccuracies in my characters lore (if you are the researching type),​

 

[Processed_Grain]

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[Deek29]

Destroying the combine with facts and logic