Post by keijimaeda on Nov 19, 2013 0:35:28 GMT
Authorization(s):
Expert Engineering Skills
Intermediate Knowledge of Combine Technology
Expert CQC and H2H
Advanced Firearm Skills
Advanced Melee Skills
Basic Survival Skills
Name: Keiji Maeda
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Rebellion
Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
From a young age, Keiji was not known for being too spectacular at much. Growing up, he was slower than other kids his age. He was never too enthusiastic, his grades were always mediocre, and he never knew what he was going to do when he got older. Throughout elementary school, Keiji would always get in trouble for never finishing his work. He was always tardy, tried to create any excuse not to go to school, and if it didn’t work, it’d be a rinse and repeat day of the same old story coming from the same teachers about how he never tried hard enough. He knew they were right, but still never tried. He was lucky that the schools ‘Buddy System’ allowed him to pass no matter what. It was relatively the same for him entering High School, until he realized that he HAD to do at least some work to pass. So, that’s all he ever did, just enough to get by. It would be the story of his life when he got out of High School.
Speaking of that, let’s move on to that then…after High School, Keiji had no idea what he wanted to be. He never tried, was never interested, nothing. He could barely hold a job, still had to live with his parents due to the fact he could never have enough money to even buy food for himself, let alone pay rent, bills, utility, all that fun stuff in the real world.
Keiji was only 3 years into post-secondary education when the 7 hour war happened. He had the same story as everyone else’s; went into hiding, was found, put in one of the City’s, and went from there. He spent his life in City 45 regretting his past life, wishing he learned something important to make himself an asset to those who he was friends with in the P3 District, when the Castle ruled over the bar. It was at that time he wished that he had made something of himself before. He decided it was time to learn something, and he finally mustered up the initiative to do so, savaging around for books, magazines and newspaper articles on previous professions and trying to teach himself from there. He used whatever small free time he had to look into what he might consider learning, and after trying to understand and comprehend each skill even basically, one called out to him: Engineering. He would boost himself by understanding that he was still young and had lots of potential. A prospect, he would call himself. He would read old books on computer parts and specs, reading up on how to put together and take them apart, he would read magazines on Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles, and how their parts looked and operated, and would read on old articles about people putting ads on about selling their old washers, driers, fridges, computers, motorbikes, etcetera. Things went well for a while, but he knew he would never get better just by reading, he needed something more.
Then good luck thrust itself upon Keiji. After leaving with Greg, Fenian and the others from City 45 to the Outlands, Keiji was able to seize the opportunity once again. Whenever the leaders were out and the group didn’t have much to do, Keiji would go scavenging for old computers, bringing them back to wherever he may reside for the night. He would find abandoned cars, visiting them day after day to make sure they were still there and hadn’t been touched. Keiji went through this process of preparing himself, readying himself to try out his knowledge on actual works of machinery. After the Castle had been destroyed and the group split up, Keiji found tons of free times on his hands, and capitalized on yet another presented opportunity. All his time of reading and researching enough to understand the basic concept of how machinery and electronics paid off, and he put the newfound knowledge into work, finally cracking open the old beat up computers he found and cracking open the hoods of the abandoned cars he found, searching through them and experiencing the newfound knowledge from there. After stopping at TOTO to purchase himself a toolbox, Keiji would work day in and day out, taking apart these old computers and stripping apart these old cars, not stopping until he understood what each part did and how to successfully remove it safely, inspect it and do whatever he could with it with whatever he had, then properly replace it back in said computer or car with ease. This process took him days and days of work, taking up countless hours of his day. He would sometime put 18 hours a day into taking apart an old computer, sometimes refusing to even stop to eat. This was the most productive and persistent Keiji had been about anything, and he loved every second of it. After teaching himself for hours, days, weeks, he had learned his profession and continued to master it in any which way. But he wasn’t done there- Keiji wanted to go further, bigger. He wanted to learn more.
He decided to take a break from human machinery, instead readying himself to set out along the nearby areas, knowing well the risks that would be taken and making sure not to travel too far from Ineu Pass, so as to keep contact. trying to find whatever means of Combine tech he could. With his trusty Toolbox and the help of radio communication, Keiji was able to stay relatively informed and safe while travelling along these nearby areas, searching buildings for whatever he could find. Due to his lack of survival skills, Keiji could only travel for 5-6 hours in the day time, making sure he was back in Ineu before it hit night time. Keiji continued to repeat this process, until one day he striked luck. An old, red garage, enough the size to fit 3 cars, was Keiji’s next target, and a good find it was. Inside were a few consoles, ones he had only seen a few times on his travel from City 45 to the Outlands. Intrigued, he cautiously entered the building with his Axe in hand; assuring himself it was safe after a brief 2 minute search of the abandoned area. After convincing his conscience to keep calm, he eagerly visited each of the three consoles, scanning them over quickly one by one. Keiji then proceeded to walk outside, noticing the sun was beginning to lower past the tops of the trees, refusing to take the chance. He marked the area as he head back by putting small landmarks made of wood or stone, knowing his only hope they stayed would be if nature’s course allowed them to be left there. Upon returning to Ineu and sleeping the night, he left early morning to return to the old garage, knowing he could have a good 8-9 hours if all went well. He worked on the first console for 6 hours, only managing to be able to find out how to take the exterior off and knowing which cords on the inside went where. Other than that, he was clueless, and knew he would need more time and the hopes that the place would remain intact long enough for him to learn. He would return every day, each day working on one of the three different consoles, slowly but surely learning what each one did and even attempting to tinker around with the insides cautiously, seeing what he could take apart and put back together.
This would go on for another few weeks, as Keiji’s knowledge of Combine Technology would increase as days went by. Though not as all knowing to Combine tech as he was human tech, he taught himself just enough to know he could continue farther in the future, and that was exactly what he intended to do.
Keiji was able to master his ability of Engineering and tech to the point where he became almost obsessed with it. He spent a lot of his time fixing, repairing and tinkering with whatever he could find, occasionally asking around to see if others needed anything of theirs to be fixed. He constantly set out to prove himself an asset when it came to this field, but yet, it was still not enough. Although he did prove himself in the eyes of some, others had different plans, plans that involved ridding of Keiji entirely. After having found out about said info, Keiji knew it was time to take action. He needed someone who could teach him how to fight, how to defend himself, how to retaliate when someone wants to push Keiji around, so he sought help immediately.
Keiji wasted no time, going to the man he knew most in the ass-kicking business- Beans. After a short discussion, he was able to make a deal with Beans: Beans would teach Keiji how to properly defend himself, shoot a gun and swing an axe in return for whatever means of supplies he could scrounge up for Beans’ car. Keiji accepted graciously, starting as early as possible to get his training going.
Beans being the man he was, didn’t have as much free time as Keiji would’ve. But whatever hours in the day he could offer, (which was usually around 4-6 hours) Beans would take Keiji over to his cottage and teach him some practical Close Quarters Combat and Hand-to-Hand, throwing in a Sparring Match ever now and then if Beans felt confident that Keiji was progressing well. There would be a few times were Beans could train Keiji for a good two, maybe three days in a row, but other than that, it would be off days for Keiji, as something big would pop up that Beans would have to go take care of. The training, however, lasted a good three to four weeks, until Keiji was able to hold out against Beans in a hand-to-hand match for a solid hour.
Keiji’s training would then continue thereafter, beginning with firearms training. The time Beans would be able to give per day was almost exactly similar to that of his previous training. Beans started by showing Keiji how to properly hold, handle and reload a gun. He would test him by seeing how long he could hold up a rifle before the weight became too much, how quickly he could snap his gun up and down without hitting himself with it, and seeing how fast he could reload. After being impressed with the results after a week, Beans would then have the two men sit on one side of the cottage’s lake, placing targets on the other side in the shape of random pieces of lumber or fallen pieces of bark, using a spray paint can to draw on circles. Occasionally he would hang a large piece of branch off of a tree, using that as a moving target. Being careful to conserve ammo, Beans was very strict on where Keiji had to hit his target, smacking him upside the head if ever he didn’t get near or in the bulls-eye’s he made on both the moving and non-moving targets. This would go on for the duration of a good, solid month and a half until Keiji would be able to place three bullets in the middle of the bulls-eyes.
After he finished learning his firearms training, he continued to move onwards to Melee training, which didn’t take all too long. Beans would show Keiji how to get the most strength in his swing, where he should typically aim for, and how to be accurate in doing so. He would test Keiji by seeing how quickly he would be able to chop through a huge piece of log with an axe and how accurate he would be with each hit, and also testing him by throwing random items such as empty cans, bottles, etc and seeing how many Keiji could hit in mid-flight. Keiji found it quite simple how to properly swing an axe or a bat, only finding difficulty in being accurate in where he hit, which he was quick to master within a three week duration.
Beans then took a final week to refresh on everything he taught Keiji, and Keiji passed with flying colors. It was at that point Keiji felt confident he would be able to protect himself, and was ready to uphold his end of the bargain.
After two days of preparation, Keiji and Beans both agreed to set outside of Ineu Pass for three days, bringing only their weapons, and attempting to survive off the land in hopes of teaching Keiji how to handle himself away from help whenever he goes out to look for supplies. The travel started simple, with Beans and Keiji having one final “meal” before taking Beans’ car and heading out 15 kilometres from Ineu Pass. It was there that Beans made quick work in setting up a temporary camp, showing Keiji how to use the environment around him to make a small shelter, a fire, etc. Two days passed as Beans continued to teach Keiji where to properly find food, how to boil the water you have to make it drinkable, what plants are good or bad, etc. before their “vacation” was cut short. They had been out collecting water only to return to a camp infested with 4 Antlions that were blocking their path to Beans’ car. Keiji and Beans took quick action, making a quick plan of attack behind a rock. Keiji would sneak around to a pile of logs opposite where Beans was. Beans would then fire a round into an Antlion and divert their attention. As they began to head towards Beans, Keiji would pop up and do the same with his gun, effectively picking the two of them off. When the attention was back on Keiji, Beans would come out behind his cover and slice open and Antlion, focusing the attention back on him. Keiji would then come out behind his cover and slice open the final Antlion as the tow of them would then make a run for his car.
The plan worked perfectly.
The two of them made the quick five second jog to Beans’ car and took off. Just in time, as well, as more Antlions came around at the sight of their dead kin. After a few moments of laughter and bragging, Beans commemorated Keiji on how he handled himself followed directly after by threatening him to hold up his end of the deal. Keiji gave his promise to keep his word, and the two headed back to Ineu with only a few words exchanged thereon.
Expert Engineering Skills
Intermediate Knowledge of Combine Technology
Expert CQC and H2H
Advanced Firearm Skills
Advanced Melee Skills
Basic Survival Skills
Name: Keiji Maeda
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Rebellion
Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
From a young age, Keiji was not known for being too spectacular at much. Growing up, he was slower than other kids his age. He was never too enthusiastic, his grades were always mediocre, and he never knew what he was going to do when he got older. Throughout elementary school, Keiji would always get in trouble for never finishing his work. He was always tardy, tried to create any excuse not to go to school, and if it didn’t work, it’d be a rinse and repeat day of the same old story coming from the same teachers about how he never tried hard enough. He knew they were right, but still never tried. He was lucky that the schools ‘Buddy System’ allowed him to pass no matter what. It was relatively the same for him entering High School, until he realized that he HAD to do at least some work to pass. So, that’s all he ever did, just enough to get by. It would be the story of his life when he got out of High School.
Speaking of that, let’s move on to that then…after High School, Keiji had no idea what he wanted to be. He never tried, was never interested, nothing. He could barely hold a job, still had to live with his parents due to the fact he could never have enough money to even buy food for himself, let alone pay rent, bills, utility, all that fun stuff in the real world.
Keiji was only 3 years into post-secondary education when the 7 hour war happened. He had the same story as everyone else’s; went into hiding, was found, put in one of the City’s, and went from there. He spent his life in City 45 regretting his past life, wishing he learned something important to make himself an asset to those who he was friends with in the P3 District, when the Castle ruled over the bar. It was at that time he wished that he had made something of himself before. He decided it was time to learn something, and he finally mustered up the initiative to do so, savaging around for books, magazines and newspaper articles on previous professions and trying to teach himself from there. He used whatever small free time he had to look into what he might consider learning, and after trying to understand and comprehend each skill even basically, one called out to him: Engineering. He would boost himself by understanding that he was still young and had lots of potential. A prospect, he would call himself. He would read old books on computer parts and specs, reading up on how to put together and take them apart, he would read magazines on Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles, and how their parts looked and operated, and would read on old articles about people putting ads on about selling their old washers, driers, fridges, computers, motorbikes, etcetera. Things went well for a while, but he knew he would never get better just by reading, he needed something more.
Then good luck thrust itself upon Keiji. After leaving with Greg, Fenian and the others from City 45 to the Outlands, Keiji was able to seize the opportunity once again. Whenever the leaders were out and the group didn’t have much to do, Keiji would go scavenging for old computers, bringing them back to wherever he may reside for the night. He would find abandoned cars, visiting them day after day to make sure they were still there and hadn’t been touched. Keiji went through this process of preparing himself, readying himself to try out his knowledge on actual works of machinery. After the Castle had been destroyed and the group split up, Keiji found tons of free times on his hands, and capitalized on yet another presented opportunity. All his time of reading and researching enough to understand the basic concept of how machinery and electronics paid off, and he put the newfound knowledge into work, finally cracking open the old beat up computers he found and cracking open the hoods of the abandoned cars he found, searching through them and experiencing the newfound knowledge from there. After stopping at TOTO to purchase himself a toolbox, Keiji would work day in and day out, taking apart these old computers and stripping apart these old cars, not stopping until he understood what each part did and how to successfully remove it safely, inspect it and do whatever he could with it with whatever he had, then properly replace it back in said computer or car with ease. This process took him days and days of work, taking up countless hours of his day. He would sometime put 18 hours a day into taking apart an old computer, sometimes refusing to even stop to eat. This was the most productive and persistent Keiji had been about anything, and he loved every second of it. After teaching himself for hours, days, weeks, he had learned his profession and continued to master it in any which way. But he wasn’t done there- Keiji wanted to go further, bigger. He wanted to learn more.
He decided to take a break from human machinery, instead readying himself to set out along the nearby areas, knowing well the risks that would be taken and making sure not to travel too far from Ineu Pass, so as to keep contact. trying to find whatever means of Combine tech he could. With his trusty Toolbox and the help of radio communication, Keiji was able to stay relatively informed and safe while travelling along these nearby areas, searching buildings for whatever he could find. Due to his lack of survival skills, Keiji could only travel for 5-6 hours in the day time, making sure he was back in Ineu before it hit night time. Keiji continued to repeat this process, until one day he striked luck. An old, red garage, enough the size to fit 3 cars, was Keiji’s next target, and a good find it was. Inside were a few consoles, ones he had only seen a few times on his travel from City 45 to the Outlands. Intrigued, he cautiously entered the building with his Axe in hand; assuring himself it was safe after a brief 2 minute search of the abandoned area. After convincing his conscience to keep calm, he eagerly visited each of the three consoles, scanning them over quickly one by one. Keiji then proceeded to walk outside, noticing the sun was beginning to lower past the tops of the trees, refusing to take the chance. He marked the area as he head back by putting small landmarks made of wood or stone, knowing his only hope they stayed would be if nature’s course allowed them to be left there. Upon returning to Ineu and sleeping the night, he left early morning to return to the old garage, knowing he could have a good 8-9 hours if all went well. He worked on the first console for 6 hours, only managing to be able to find out how to take the exterior off and knowing which cords on the inside went where. Other than that, he was clueless, and knew he would need more time and the hopes that the place would remain intact long enough for him to learn. He would return every day, each day working on one of the three different consoles, slowly but surely learning what each one did and even attempting to tinker around with the insides cautiously, seeing what he could take apart and put back together.
This would go on for another few weeks, as Keiji’s knowledge of Combine Technology would increase as days went by. Though not as all knowing to Combine tech as he was human tech, he taught himself just enough to know he could continue farther in the future, and that was exactly what he intended to do.
Keiji was able to master his ability of Engineering and tech to the point where he became almost obsessed with it. He spent a lot of his time fixing, repairing and tinkering with whatever he could find, occasionally asking around to see if others needed anything of theirs to be fixed. He constantly set out to prove himself an asset when it came to this field, but yet, it was still not enough. Although he did prove himself in the eyes of some, others had different plans, plans that involved ridding of Keiji entirely. After having found out about said info, Keiji knew it was time to take action. He needed someone who could teach him how to fight, how to defend himself, how to retaliate when someone wants to push Keiji around, so he sought help immediately.
Keiji wasted no time, going to the man he knew most in the ass-kicking business- Beans. After a short discussion, he was able to make a deal with Beans: Beans would teach Keiji how to properly defend himself, shoot a gun and swing an axe in return for whatever means of supplies he could scrounge up for Beans’ car. Keiji accepted graciously, starting as early as possible to get his training going.
Beans being the man he was, didn’t have as much free time as Keiji would’ve. But whatever hours in the day he could offer, (which was usually around 4-6 hours) Beans would take Keiji over to his cottage and teach him some practical Close Quarters Combat and Hand-to-Hand, throwing in a Sparring Match ever now and then if Beans felt confident that Keiji was progressing well. There would be a few times were Beans could train Keiji for a good two, maybe three days in a row, but other than that, it would be off days for Keiji, as something big would pop up that Beans would have to go take care of. The training, however, lasted a good three to four weeks, until Keiji was able to hold out against Beans in a hand-to-hand match for a solid hour.
Keiji’s training would then continue thereafter, beginning with firearms training. The time Beans would be able to give per day was almost exactly similar to that of his previous training. Beans started by showing Keiji how to properly hold, handle and reload a gun. He would test him by seeing how long he could hold up a rifle before the weight became too much, how quickly he could snap his gun up and down without hitting himself with it, and seeing how fast he could reload. After being impressed with the results after a week, Beans would then have the two men sit on one side of the cottage’s lake, placing targets on the other side in the shape of random pieces of lumber or fallen pieces of bark, using a spray paint can to draw on circles. Occasionally he would hang a large piece of branch off of a tree, using that as a moving target. Being careful to conserve ammo, Beans was very strict on where Keiji had to hit his target, smacking him upside the head if ever he didn’t get near or in the bulls-eye’s he made on both the moving and non-moving targets. This would go on for the duration of a good, solid month and a half until Keiji would be able to place three bullets in the middle of the bulls-eyes.
After he finished learning his firearms training, he continued to move onwards to Melee training, which didn’t take all too long. Beans would show Keiji how to get the most strength in his swing, where he should typically aim for, and how to be accurate in doing so. He would test Keiji by seeing how quickly he would be able to chop through a huge piece of log with an axe and how accurate he would be with each hit, and also testing him by throwing random items such as empty cans, bottles, etc and seeing how many Keiji could hit in mid-flight. Keiji found it quite simple how to properly swing an axe or a bat, only finding difficulty in being accurate in where he hit, which he was quick to master within a three week duration.
Beans then took a final week to refresh on everything he taught Keiji, and Keiji passed with flying colors. It was at that point Keiji felt confident he would be able to protect himself, and was ready to uphold his end of the bargain.
After two days of preparation, Keiji and Beans both agreed to set outside of Ineu Pass for three days, bringing only their weapons, and attempting to survive off the land in hopes of teaching Keiji how to handle himself away from help whenever he goes out to look for supplies. The travel started simple, with Beans and Keiji having one final “meal” before taking Beans’ car and heading out 15 kilometres from Ineu Pass. It was there that Beans made quick work in setting up a temporary camp, showing Keiji how to use the environment around him to make a small shelter, a fire, etc. Two days passed as Beans continued to teach Keiji where to properly find food, how to boil the water you have to make it drinkable, what plants are good or bad, etc. before their “vacation” was cut short. They had been out collecting water only to return to a camp infested with 4 Antlions that were blocking their path to Beans’ car. Keiji and Beans took quick action, making a quick plan of attack behind a rock. Keiji would sneak around to a pile of logs opposite where Beans was. Beans would then fire a round into an Antlion and divert their attention. As they began to head towards Beans, Keiji would pop up and do the same with his gun, effectively picking the two of them off. When the attention was back on Keiji, Beans would come out behind his cover and slice open and Antlion, focusing the attention back on him. Keiji would then come out behind his cover and slice open the final Antlion as the tow of them would then make a run for his car.
The plan worked perfectly.
The two of them made the quick five second jog to Beans’ car and took off. Just in time, as well, as more Antlions came around at the sight of their dead kin. After a few moments of laughter and bragging, Beans commemorated Keiji on how he handled himself followed directly after by threatening him to hold up his end of the deal. Keiji gave his promise to keep his word, and the two headed back to Ineu with only a few words exchanged thereon.