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Sgt. Rico | Killzone Series

[fireymouth]

Personal Information
Name: dark
Age: 28
Personal Journal: N/A
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: johnslaura7@gmail.com- email, redscribbles- plurk
Current Character(s): (List the characters you currently play in the Wake, if applicable!)
John Connor
Character Information
Character Name: Sgt. Rico Velasquez

Fandom: Killzone Series

Character History:
Rico is born on November 1st, 2329 to a family of 11. Out of 9 siblings, he is the oldest brother. His family lives on the poorer side of Vekta City in the slummy part. Even though he is on the poorer side of Vekta City, His parents are a mix of African American and Latino. To keep things going smoothly, Rico’s parents would run the best known restaurant around Vekta City with their famous food in Northern Vekta. Rico pulled his own weight in kitchen until he was an older teen.
Times were rough for the family of 11. To support the family of 9, Rico’s parents would run their own restaurant while both Vektans from the planet all over would eat there. However, this was during a time where Vekta was protecting itself from a war against the Helghasts. The Helghasts were a constant threat to the Vektan way of life so Rico grew itchy to join the ISA. However, that would have to wait as Rico would continue to work hard in the restaurant to help his parents to get full time staff. At 18 years, he left the family and became independent, unfortunately got himself with the wrong people.He decided to turn his life around and join the ISA for the challenge.

Basic training in Vekta would prove to be difficult for the young soldier. Rico was known for his aggressiveness and toughness and this would prove to carry him through his training for a good chunk of years as he made it through and graduated with high honors. He was promoted right away to Sergeant of the H-squad.

During his first mission with the H-squad, which was a squadron full of rookie soldiers, Rico and his team were assigned to defend the Vektan City tram station. On the other hand, Jan’s team was looking for General Bradley Vaughton who was captured in the building nearby. Being the only one left from his team, Rico found Jan’s team and helped them by clearing out a full area of Helghasts.

Accepting a mission given to him by General Vaughton himself, Rico accepts this and joins Jan’s team. Jan’s team consisted of 2 others such as himself, Luger the Shadow Marshall and now Rico. As Jan and the others fought to find Gregor Hakha who was a half Helghast and Vektan spy that wanted to help the ISA any way he could. As soon as Hekha shows up in the picture, Rico finds himself getting angry at the man and pushing him around, causing a tense argument between himself and Hakha due to his team being all out slaughtered by the Helghasts. Rico forced himself to stand being pulled back to have his attitude adjusted due to problems with Hekha being half Helghast. Being distrustful of Helghasts, Rico almost made another attempt on Hekha, where Luger and Jan stopped him from doing it.

Fighting through Helghasts, Jan finds out General Vaughton was betrayed and killed himself by General Adams, another top level ISA man. After Jan gives a angry motivating speech to everyone after Luger stops Rico from trying to kill Hakha, things seemed to improve if only a bit between the team.

The Security Keys that go to the SD Platform so that the Earth platoon could back the ISA were the main mission but since General Vaughton had the keys, but the keys were hidden enough to given to Jan himself.

After Vaughton was killed, Jan decides and lets Hakha hack into the mainframe to see how General Adams was trying to get into the SD platform.

Turns out General Adam’s computer was under control by the Helghasts.

Jan decides the best course of action is to find the traitor, Adams and get up to the SD platform. Jan faces off against a insane Adams who gives him and the ISA a warning. But Jan and his team are able to stop Adams and the Helghast from gaining control of the SD Platform by blowing it up.

But in losses, the ISA lost a nuclear ship called the Red Dust. Jan and the others fly away and the Earth Platoon makes it up to back up the ISA.

Rico, Jan, Luger and Hakha had now received the “Silver Sun” in their brilliance in saving the day.
This was a high honor for doing what they did.

Rico was recommended to lead his own strike team named the Hellhounds. They were full of experienced soldiers requested by Rico himself. The Hellhounds mission was to hold off a new leader of the Helghast named General Armin Metrac who had taken by force control of a lot of Southern Vekta. Quickly overwhelmed by the Helghast at the base he was trying to hold, Rico meets up with Jan Templar, a old friend of his. They both fight off the Helghast where a sniper got a aim at Rico where Jan was able to heal Rico quickly. After reaching the base, Rico and Jan slip off via boat exit.

There’s a new mission where the ISA VIPs are coming and Jan and Rico have to protect them. Jan goes one way and Rico another way. Rico finds out that two of them made it but one of them died. Rico goes off to find medical supplies, but is captured by the Helghast. General Stratson, on the other hand is wanting Rico to play a double agent pretending to inform the Helghast to learn of their plans.

Rico is interrogated but Metrac fails to change Rico’s siding. Evelyn, one of the ISA VIPs are being tortured for the nuclear codes and she doesn’t tell the Helghast. Rico was set up all this time to look like the traitor instead of looking good out there. ISA troops are going to bomb the base and everyone gets out. Rico is blamed for things gone wrong but he tells the ISA multiple times that Stratson was the traitor after all.

Evelyn is saved by Templar, and Stratson is arrested for crimes against the ISA and being a traitor.

Months later in January 2358, Rico and his Hellhounds are sent on a mission to receive more key vital information on a Helghast ship but when the Helghast begin to retreat from Vekta, they are planning one more huge attack on Vekta. The nuclear ship Red Dust is in the Helghast’s hands except without the key codes. Rico was very well decorated for everything he had done for the ISA but experiencing betrayal over and over does big things to a person and Rico began to distrust the ISA officer class and he became aggressive over trying to be trained back into the ISA army.

After everything settled, Jan was now promoted to Colonel of the Fleet and Jan started to pick special force teams.

Rico, a now Master-Sergeant was one of his first choices for his own squad named Alpha squad, which featured Shawn Natko, and Sergeant First Class Thomas Sevchanko and Dante Garza.

By 2360, Jan’s fleet moved out to the Helghast planet, Helghan. As the fleet left for the planet, the first wave got destroyed so the second fleet was lead by Captain Narville to capture Visari at the Helghast capital, Pyrrhus. Rico is rather infamous for his anger and Evelyn warns him about it and he ignores her.

Rico’s squad is assigned to protect Narville and his men and is met by heavy resistance by the Helghast and the Arc towers. The squad splits up and goes to try and take down the arc towers blasting ISA convoys out of the skies.

As Rico’s squad and Captain Narville push through Helghast by Helghast to get to Radec Academy, Mael Radec is observing from above and watching and waiting to trap the ISA squads in a mess of Helghasts before they reach Visari square. Radec’s squad injuries and wounds Garza killing him.

The team, especially Sev doesn’t take this well.

The whole squad does a lot but the Arc pillars knock isa troops still out of the sky with a dangerous material called Petrusite.

But the huge impact is when Radec and the Helghast appear on the New Sun, and kill Evelyn and Jan Templar upon boarding. While downloading the codes, Jan barely survives and sends the ship plummeting toward the power grid. Rico is horrified by this act and tries to save Jan but is held back. Private Richards and Rico are arguing and Richards insulted Jan’s sacrifice and Rico begins to beat him to death because of this.


Visari fires Red Dust on his own people trying to wipe out the ISA, failing only killing most of the ISA and Helghast troops. Radec orders his troops to try and kill everyone else, however. After Sev and Rico fight through the other Helghasts, Radec kills himself instead before he is captured.

Sev and Rico go to find Visari and arrest him. Rico having enough of things, shoots Visari in front of Sev learns that the Helghast fleet had arrived just in time.


Character Personality: Rico is a angry and impatient soldier. He may even been viewed as an idiot sometimes on the outside. He swears a lot like a sailor. Rico’s resentment, even hatred for the Helghast comes from the killing of his entire squad in front of him. He doesn’t see anything can be solved without violence but anything like spying and anything like it won’t solve anything because it's time consuming. However, he isn’t always gruff, angry and mean. He is extremely loyal to those who respect him and will make sure they are protected to the end. This is one of his greatest strengths AND weaknesses.

He cannot handle climbing or building but he can handle heavy machinery and much more. However as time changes, Rico is slimmer and more calm. He still is prone to anger outbursts at Narville and much more.

Rico hates people making fun of Templar and his sacrifices. In fact, deep in his mind this still bothers him.

Powers and Abilities:

Rico is a regular soldier able to handle heavy equipment and guns. He also is a ISA and a normal human here.

Marksmanship- Can handle guns
Fights unarmed and armed- He knows how to use a weapon in fights and in a fist to fist fight.

Samples
TDM posts, links, and examples for posts from other communities are not accepted.

Network:

[A strange man with almost semi heavy armor stares at the camera]

Listen here, citizens..

Let it be known i won’t be pushed around here.
[Huffs in anger]

[Rico is seen sitting in a chair, muttering]

“Damn Higs, luckily they aren’t here.


Third Person: Rico was bluntly described to have a giant machine gun on his back and he didn’t fucking care.

How did he get this giant machine gun here? Bending or some other source somehow?

Don’t ask…

Things were probably were about to get messy if you did ask, anyways.

Rico had to cover his eyes, shading it from the sun here in the city.

He did take in the scenery and observed that the place was technologically advanced than Vekta was but he could be wrong.

With a large thump, the machine gun was set down as you can see Rico rubbing the black gunpowder left on the gun off. He leaned against a tree and starting marking down things in a book of some sorts.

Whatever was on his mind, he was thinking of his team, Jan…

He missed Jan too much right now.

It was almost like PTSD of the situation grew too much for the ISA Veteran to handle and he began to scream in a panic of some sort.

Whoever saw this would piece together that Rico was having a little moment at the time and it wasn’t about to be pleasant.

There was no war here, meaning there was no such thing as Helghasts here, right? Rico took a breath in and pushed himself off the ground, almost taking a nap of some sort trying to calm down.
Anger is something he didn’t need but it would follow him around for a long period of time no matter what happened.

He was always told he was a idiot, but was he a idiot for being loyal to people? Or was he a idiot for being so loyal to a fault.

Days would go and nights would come, but it would take a while before he saw Vekta and the remaining parts of his team again.

[thewakemods]

Hello, and thank you for your interest in The Wake! Before we consider your application for approval, we'd like to ask for a couple of revisions.

Firstly we'd like some expansion on the personality section as it is very brief. Secondly, we'd also like to request a revision of the First Person Sample as currently it seems very reliant on action and doesn't give us much of an idea of the character from the words spoken.

We're also not sure whether the bolded text throughout was intentional, but it does make it a little difficult to read.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Revisions/ Personality and First person sample

[fireymouth]

Character Personality: Rico is described as a stubborn man who may not listen. This may stem from his childhood where he fought with many of his siblings as a kid, even to the point of fights in the house. Rico is rash at times, not thinking before seeing the consequences of his actions, to show this he rushes into action seeing others in trouble, not even thinking about what could happen to him.
At times, Superiors can see him as a airhead, one who questions authority orders without a second thought at times. He is shown to do many things against his superior officer’s orders. In short, Rico is angry because he is blamed for a lot of things gone wrong, both good AND bad. He tends to take these issues personally, causing him to lash out against the ISA higher-ups for telling him off and what to do. Rico usually doesn’t solve anything without violence, and usually does instead of plan. However, that gruff and tough exterior gives way to the softer side of Rico: He is extremely loyal to those who respect and care about him. He will go to great lengths to make sure they make it through in a fight. An example is how Rico took care of Hekha when the man was a Helghast. He is loyal to a fault and he will die for his men or Jan, his friend in the ISA.

Loyalty can be considered one of Rico’s strengths but also a giant weakness.

PTSD might be a factor in why Rico strikes out at everything. Rico is a strong man but he cannot climb buildings or climbing but he can lift a extremely heavy weapon and use it.

Over time, Rico’s hatred for the Helghast still burns however he has slimmed and slightly calmed down now thinking more rationally because he is a leader of the Hellhounds.

He has proved himself time and time again that he is a leader.

He gets mad at others trying to make fun of his friends.

Network:


[Rico gets off the ground]

Feels like I got up from a fuckin’ nap, now where’s those damn Higs?

Wait..

Jan?...

[Rico cautiously stares around ]

Hakha…?

Luger?

ANYBODY?

…

Shit…

Instead Rico went to punch a tree to get out his frustrations.

Boy was that a mistake, that hurt his hand probably to get splinters.

“Damn tree, damn higs..”

[Rico eyed the camera]

Any one of you guys seen my team?

If so, contact me any way you can.

Jan.. wherever you are.. Stay safe out there.

[thewakemods]

Unfortunately we will not be able to consider this character for application as the provided revisions seem rushed, and they don't provide much improvement for the information we had asked for.

We're also concerned about John Conner's activity as we have previously contacted you about. We would like to see him interact with other characters more and show that you can handle more than one character.

Thank you for your understanding.