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Casper Gunvor
Republic Colonel
Republic Colonel
I used to be so full of my confidence,
I used to know just what I wanted and just where to go.
More than ever I could use a coincidence,
But now I walk alone and talk about it when I know.
Hey, oh yeah, how long?
I guess I ought to walk away,
Hey, oh yeah, so long...
What you gonna do today?
I don't wanna have to, but I will
I used to know just what I wanted and just where to go.
More than ever I could use a coincidence,
But now I walk alone and talk about it when I know.
Hey, oh yeah, how long?
I guess I ought to walk away,
Hey, oh yeah, so long...
What you gonna do today?
I don't wanna have to, but I will
COMPOSITION AND APPEARANCE:
Casper is a tall, lanky man, with almost no muscle to speak of. Though such things cannot be considered his fault for he goes to the gym fairly often. His build can make him out to be rather un-important, but his gait is equal to that of royalty, as he once was a noble.
His facial features also seem to help him blend into the crowd. He has a crop of brown hair atop his head, which he tries to shape into one style or another. This effort often meets with success, but when it doesn’t you can normally find Casper wearing a hat. Below his hair he has two blue eyes placed squarely in his head and a stubbled beard to top it all off.
When he is on duty Casper always wears the garb of Republic Major as that is the rank he holds in the Republic military. When off duty Casper can be seen wearing fairly simple clothes, such as a plain t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Though whether he is on or off duty he always keeps his blaster pistol in its holster on his right hip.
PERSONALITY:
Casper is not used to taking orders as in his past life he only listened to himself. This carries on to his new career and now and then he had the tendency to disobey his superior. Casper is also considered a very headstrong person and does whatever he feels when off duty.
Casper’s intelligence is average at best, but once again that is not from lack of trying, for he is a rather persistent fellow. When on the battlefield he is required to make quick choices and often does so with great efficiency. Though when making a battle plan it often takes quite a long time for him to cook one up.
Even though noble born and bred, Casper is a horrible public speaker feeling nervous when having to speak to more than five people at once. This however does not does not take away from his leadership skills and that is one trait he prizes highly. Though one trait of being a noble he still carries with him is valuing honor greatly, and dealing with attacks to it swiftly.
To his friends Casper is very loyal and is unlikely to leave any of his men behind or sacrifice them. He will go to extreme measures to protect or save on of his friends even if it might mean death for him.Despite all this if someone makes him angry, he will do whatever he can to spite them.
Since his self-imposed disowning from the Belial family, Casper hates everything about them, and even at the mention of them he will be thrown into anger. He often has nightmares about them, since it was he who had finished their linage by changing his name, and after his father's death their was no one else left to carry on the Belial name.
LIKES AND DISLIKES:
Casper feels at home in a bar with his friends, but lounging around is also fine with him. He is a man of simple needs, unsuited for the life that was set before him and all he really wants is something to drink and some friends to help him finish off the rest of the case.
Casper was born into the rich life, but it is that same life that he now despises. He often gags at the names of nobles who sit around and fight about politics or how to best send their boys to death. He is also starting to hates parts of the society that he has sworn to protect.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Being a man of the military, Casper is at home with a blaster large or small and behind the controls of a star fighter. His skills with such things can lead him to be cocky at times and even disrespectful. Casper also is adept at making quick decisions on the battlefield and if anything goes wrong while on his watch he will often kick himself for it later.
Casper is very headstrong and once an idea enters his head it would take a hammer to smash it out. He will also do anything for his friends, even going to the point of death to defend them. These traits often leave him in trouble, but if he pulls through he normally thinks it was worth it. Another weakness of Casper’s is that he is adamant in his hatred often letting it blind his normal reasoning.
HISTORY:
Casper Gunvor (born Casper Belial) was born to a family of nobles on the planet of Alderaan. As a young boy he was a very cheerful lad, not caring about a thing, tottering around the palace with no idea of the world around him. Casper’s parents on the other hand were always worried about their status and about the amount of money in their pockets. To advance their status and their wealth they would do anything, backstab friends or even turn to pirates. And because of such acts they were known throughout all the social classes in Alderaan.
Growing up though Casper had no idea of his parent’s treacheries, for he lived a very sheltered life. He was home schooled by teachers picked by his parents and wherever he went outside the house he was accompanied by bodyguards. He was also was only allowed to play with boys and girls that were from the few families to the Belial family.
At the age of 22 the year he would have graduated from college, he was to take a tour around the galaxy as all young Alderaanian nobles did when they reached his age. He was to go on the trip with some of the friends he grew up with and would not have to be accompanied by bodyguards for the first time in his life.
The first stop on his journey was to be the galactic capital itself, Corscant. Apon landing they were directed to one of the lower level platforms for they wanted to experience a real Corscant nightlife. At nightfall they went to the club that one of the locals had told them was the one true bar in Corscant, but in fact it was just cheap propaganda and the same as the rest. At the bar the deeds of his family had spread even this far, and instead of the night of his life he thought would happen he got a quite different version of it.
Seeing the world with new eyes the next day he compared the quality of life between himself and these people and was appalled. Ending his trip short, he raced back home and demanded an explanation. Not able to give him one, he packed up and left. With so many thoughts racing through his head only one seemed clear to him… regain his honor. And the only way he could see that happening was to join the military and fight the Alsakan threat he had heard about only days earlier.
Going down to the nearest sign-up office he enrolled in the army with a new name Casper Gunvor for his favorite ancient hero. It has been 19 years since that fateful day, and now at the age of 41, Casper is a Major in the Republic Military. And to this day that is what he does, all he wants is to regain his honor and prove himself to his fellow officers.
Upon enlistment into the Republic Military, Casper was sent to the academy, instead of boot camp, as a last piece of unwelcome influence from his parents. At the academy Casper was at first treated to be above the rest by his teachers, but he quickly put a stop to this by making a public statement over the loudspeaker, when breaking into the headmaster's (general) office. He received normal disciplinary actions, but proved to his peers that he was just one of them.
After that incident he was able to become a normal student there receiving the necessary military and leadership training. He was accepted by his peers, and for the first time since his departure he felt a sense of belonging. Casper graduated after a year at the academy, at the middle of his class and was awarded with the rank of private, along with his first assignment.
The assignment was to be part of the bodyguard for the senator of Alderaan, not an experience he came away from with any feeling of satisfaction. The senator treated him poorly because of his family background, even though Casper insisted that he had started a new life. He begged HC for a transfer, but for five years was not able to get it. But upon the time he did receive a transfer he was promoted to the rank of corporal.
But unfortunately for Casper his transfer was to a remote planet on the outer rim to help deal with pirates. In his first year there he received a promotion, to help keep him there because he asked for a transfer off the rock once a month. But obliged to stay he helped lead patrols keeping a handful of systems out of the pirates' grasps. Whenever an encounter with pirates occurred, Casper had the occasional tendency to disobey orders.
This was a reputation that carried with him for the rest of his career.
When he finally did receive his transfer he was assigned to a tour of duty on Corellia to help put down a small rebellion, but it turned out to be anything but small. The destruction of the enemy required the abandoning of two cities so that the rebellion could finally be exterminated. For his unwilling part in the campaign Casper was once again promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
Not out of the fighting yet, he was put on duty to help quell some pirate raids and his streak of disobeying orders kept up and he was eventually court marshaled having a short jail time and then put back onto the field. Determined to redeem himself, Casper worked even harder than before and helped track down the pirate base and eventually destroy it. Do to his accomplishments during the fighting he was promoted to the rank of captain. Then after more service time, at the age of forty-one he was promoted to the rank of major, and was assigned to more patrol duties.
During a planetary revolt on Tholatin, Casper was assigned to a strike team to make sure a datachip caring important information on republic tactics was recovered. The strike team was led by Lieutenant Brendon Hurely and even though Casper wanted to save the command bunker, that had just come under fire at the time of their landing, Lieutenant Hurely reminded him of the mission and Casper grudgingly agreed. Running into little resistance they discovered that the revolt was caused by the local garrison. They were able to save Sergeant Katarr and find the datachip. Also during the mission the command bunker was liberated by Lieutenant Marthias and the group scheduled themselves to go to Corscant.
KILLS: None
DUELING RING MATCHES: None
GRAND TOURNAMENT MATCHES: None
ROLE-PLAYS:
Saving Sergeant Katarr
The Ticking Revolution
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