Application
Section 1
Steam Name: ThomasK
SteamID: STEAM_0:0:120901350
https://steamcommunity.com/id/ThomasK110/
Discord Name & ID: ThomasK110#0550
Section 2
Character Name: Nicole Jackson
Do you own an OSF WL (for OSF only): Yes.
Role/Rank: Private.
Brief summary of character:
A soldier fresh out of basic training and no combat experience under her belt. She would die at war if it meant that she'd served the OSF and the Combine, but staying alive is preferable to her.
Character Backstory:
Nicole Jackson grew up during the Combine’s reign, being born in Astoria, Queens, NYC in June of 1996. She doesn’t remember much from this time period, except for some blurry images of seemingly random things: subway trains, police cars driving past, some rooms from her parent’s old apartment – completely unconnected snapshots of the 90s.
Sometimes around 2002 her mother just disappeared – this happened when she was about 6 and it changed very little in a world dominated by horror; there was simply no time to contemplate what could have happened when zombies were smashing their way into houses all around Astoria – hers could be next, it was just luck that her father used to be a Marine.
Then came the Combine, and with them, a major change in her life. Her father was found to be a former Marine and was given three options: join the Civil Protection, join the Conscripts, or die. The most appealing of these was number 2, but 3 was a close second. And then began the next chapter of Nicole’s life. Living on various military bases and being cared for by the soldiers who lived there became the norm for a few years to come.
After she moved from the Base to inner City 17, then to City 24’s remarkably shit District 8, she realised that partaking in Workshifts and waiting for something to happen was particularly boring. But out of nowhere, she stumbled upon a great opportunity for her: the Overwatch Standard Forces were hiring! She could follow in the footsteps of her father; she could serve the Universal Union (without being a dehumanised power-hungry dickhead in a gas mask). A couple of days writing an application then ensued, followed by intense (compared to civilian life, at least) training. Then before she knew it, she was a soldier and riding back to City 24 on the bus – already missing the 100% discount on Civil Protection presence that the base offered.