Post by Chase Lonehart on Jul 12, 2015 8:33:05 GMT
Name: Chase Lonehart
Age: 36
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Profession: Arkhunter/Historical Salvage Expert
Weaponry: (Frequently used)
-Primary: FRC SAW with Radioactive Rounds
-Secondary: FRC Matchlock Boomer
Physical Description:
-Build/Physique: Athletic
-Skin: Light
-Hair: Brown
-Eyes: Blue, often described to have a "naturally sad look"
-Features: Beard
-Armor/Clothing: Currently: Defiant Few Recon Gear helmet and a Riveter Outfit.
-Previously Worn:
-- Top-Notch Mechanic's Uniform and an Old Faithful hat.
-- A baseball cap with the word LAW on it, and E-Rep Peacekeeper Armor
Mental Description: Sane, Compassionate, Emotional (depending on the topic), Argumentative (depending on the situation), Friendly and Protective. Currently, suffering from episodic memory loss.
Background:
Born in 2011, Chase has no memory of the world as it was before or the war that resulted in the change in everything. He grew up in Freedom, Alabama (formerly Pensacola, Florida before everything east of Panama City became the Quarantine Zone and everything west of Panama City was absorbed into Alabama), raised by Jebediah Lonehart and Cynthia Lonehart. After the war, when some Votan races turned up into the town, Jebediah formed "The Cowboys", a group dedicated to Arkfall and historical salvage (recovering items from the past from buildings that had been swallowed up by the Earth), which Chase eventually joined into at the age of 19. Cynthia Lonehart passed away due to a heart valve problem when Chase was 21. But the moment that would eventually change Chase's life was when he was at the age of 27. While performing a routine historical salvage, The Cowboys stumbled across a female Indogene named Iri Sewuel (pronounced "Airy Say-well") who was being chased by Hellbugs. During the rescue, Jebediah was killed. After that, Chase relinquished control of the Cowboys to his father's second in command and left Freedom behind, the Indogene female going along with him.
He headed North, dropping off Sewuel at the University of Alabama along the way, and ended up staying a year in the town of Defiance due to reports of the work prospects in the mines. After a year of saving enough scrip up, he moved on. At the age of 28, he eventually made it to the Columbia area, sold his Dodge Challenger and started working with a clearing crew to clear away damaged old Earth buildings to make way for new ones. It was at age 35 when fate would screw Chase over once again, being approached by a Von Bach Industries "talent scout" who heard of Chase's work with the Cowboys and looking for Arkhunters and hired guns for a job in the Bay Area, figuring that his skills as a historical salvage expert would come in handy. Chase's gut told him not to accept the offer, but he thought it was going to be a cakewalk and a good amount of pay.
After the crash of the stratocarrier, Chase struggled to work as an independent Arkhunter, but felt more comfortable working with others, saving enough to buy a vehicle he was familiar with: a Dodge Challenger Hemi, orange in color. From there, he would go on group missions that were available. He avoids Top-Notch because of Eren Niden reminds him too much of the female Indogene he met years ago, despite running into her during group missions. He parked at what he considered the "top of the mountain" in the Mount Tam area when he slept.
During a mission to Tampa with a group of Arkhunters that were his friends, Chase reconnected with Sewuel when they passed through Freedom once more. Due to the leader changing her mind and going on her own at the last minute, Chase lead the group to Panama City and rented a boat to get to Tampa in hopes of beating her there. They got to an underground bunker, but it was too late. Due to damage to the bunker, Chase shoved two of his fellow Arkhunters out of the way to save their lives from being crushed by debris. Due to his EGO unit being destroyed and his arm pinned under a concrete slab, his teammates assumed her was killed in the collapse. A couple of hours later, he awoke in the rubble with no memory of who he was or how he got there, being dragged out of the bunker by the leader of the group and taken back to Panama City to get medical attention. After being dropped off, his episodic memory (everything of who he was and everyone he knew) didn't come back, though he still retained the semantic (general knowledge and language) and his procedural knowledge remained intact.
While there, at the advisement of Doctor Marcus Reagan, who had to replace his dead arm with a mechanical one (a PDK-82 mechanical arm that was used during the Pale Wars), Chase gave himself a new name to be called. He chose Tom Cody, naming himself after a film character he saw in an old Earth movie while in the medical facility in Panama City. After his dead EGO unit was removed and replaced with a new one, which he dubbed McCoy, he was released from the facility and stayed with Doctor Reagan for a few weeks until he found an generic acceptance letter from Von Bach Industries about the New Freedom mission to San Francisco. Donning a Riveter outfit and a Defiant Few Recon helmet in order to hide his face and his mechanical arm, he purchased a Dodge Durango and began to head West in pursuit of who he was. After arriving in the Bay, he slowly moved up from Silicone Valley to the Paradise area. He eventually was discovered by his fellow Arkhunters and Iri Sewuel (who had come out to the Bay to finally accept her loss of Chase) to be alive and well, informing him of who he was. Though he originally went on a mission with the group, he had to bow out and returned to the Bay with Iri. He goes on Arkfalls and Expeditions while Sewuel spends her time isolated in one of the spare rooms at Top-Notch in an attempt to find a way to restore his memory. Chase often listens to many genres of pre-war music on his VBI Player unit, slowly trying to get back into historical recovery of old-world items in between various missions, Arkfalls and Expeditions, amongst other things.
Misc. Facts:
Note - Most of these are pre-memory loss facts.
The Dodge Challenger that Chase original drove during his time in Freedom, Alabama was a 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T, originally red in color. He sold the car after getting to Columbia, as the place he was staying at didn't have any parking, storage of the car would have been too costly and the city had a reliable city transit system.
During his year in Defiance (aka old St. Louis), Chase ended up visiting Doc Yewll several times within the first couple of months. Being frustrated with having to constantly patch up Chase, only for him to injure himself again multiple times in the McCawley mine, she gave Chase the nickname of "Mr. Painintheass." After he finally got used to how to work in the mines, he didn't have to visit the Doc (as much). Mayor Nicolette Riordon tried to hire him to locate and recover The Kelavar due to his experience with Historical Salvage, but he refused because he was "retired."
Chase had read quite a lot when he was younger. His favorite novels were Earthbound by Richard Matheson and The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. His favorite short story was The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. In his teen years, he got into comic books, his favorite title being Xenozoic Tales.
Was, and probably still is, afraid of watching zombie movies at night, fearing that they'd inspire zombie nightmares.
He accidentally shot himself in the foot during his third Arkfall with the Cowboys.
His best friend was a Bioman named Odysseus, called Odie for short, who worked with the Cowboys.
His favorite color is dark blue (though he doesn't mind navy blue).
The young Indogene female that Chase's father rescued, which resulted in his death by Hellbugs, was named Iri Sewuel (pronounced "airy say-wel"). This was the same Indogene Chase agreed to take to the University of Alabama, due to her extensive knowledge of biomechanics, when he left town. She served on the Biodyne project as an assistant to Lev, Doc Yewll's lover and was the one who found her body after her suicide. Amid their trip, during their stay at a motel, they inadvertently ended up having sex due to Chase's face brushing up against her head while they were huddled up for warmth as they shared a bed (the rooms at the motel had no heat, the temperature outside dropping into the high 50s). Chase, after dropping her off, hasn't spoken to her or seen her in years. Iri was Chase's first full sexual experience with a member of the Votanis Collective, only have had relations with human females and making out a couple of times with an Irathient woman in Freedom prior to his father's death (this does not include the recent experience Chase had after getting drunk one night).
However, despite the above, seeing other Indogene females keep reminding him of the day his father was killed, a burden which he still carries on his shoulders. Though it was a Hellbug that killed Jebediah Lonehart, Chase felt it was his fault due to his gun jamming when it was desperately needed. It is because of that moment that Chase feels that he needs to atone for his father's death, constantly trying to do the right thing in an unending quest for redemption, despite the times his gut warns him about how certain tasks he takes may end up going south real quick or how many times he does good deeds.