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[Inbred Chocobo]

Name: Ivan Nikon
Age: 36
Former/Current Occupation:Ex Mercenary
Areas of Expertise/Skills: As a mercenary, he has done loud and proud things as driving a tank into government buildings during a revolution, while standing ontop of the tank waving the revolutionists flag, and quiet and private things as assassination of key figure-heads. He has bodyguarded, tested security, broken security, steal stuff, steal stuff back, caused revolutions, stopped revolutions, well, you get the idea.
Common Tools/Weapons: Pretty much any military weaponry that he can get his hands on he has done something with. Improvised weapons tend to be good to.
Personality and Quirks: Ivan speaks with a thick Russian accent, and tends to not exactly be a quiet one. He is a bit blunt, a bit unruly, and is scarily focused on a task once he has a payment in his bank account.
Biography and Personal Achievements: A normal life is something that Ivan has never had. His father was part of the KGB, his mother was killed in an attempt on his father's life at a young age. His childhood was weird in a sense that his dad moved around a lot and took him along everywhere, so Ivan was never in one place. His only connection with someone was his dad, and it wasn't long before he started figuring out what his dad was up too. Instead of trying to make up excuses, in the end his dad did something that he probably shouldn't have, and told him what he really was, and taught Ivan exactly what would happen if someone found out what his father was. So Ivan soaked it up, got quite a few lessons in general sneakiness and such from his father, and when Ivan was old enough, he decided enough was enough that he joined the military.

He ended up first going recon of sorts. He did well, though he had marks against him about attitude and not exactly following orders. It was during his years of recon that the letters from his dad stopped showing up entirely. He tried getting a hold of him, but nothing came up at all. Ivan really was never sure what happened to his old dad, figured that the many lies that he kept up finally caught up to him.

After about 5 years or so, during a recon mission in Southern Africa he just up and left, disappeared entirely. His squad mates didn't even notice he was gone, but realized quite a bit of supplies disappeared with him. Search team was sent out, and after over a month of investigation he was declared dead, as apparently his body turned up at the bottom of a river half eaten and most of the equipment that was stolen there and recovered.

Then, 3 years later, a revolution occuring in South America had someone of Ivan's description crashing a tank into a government building, planting the flag of the revolutionists in the head of state's body that was drug out of the rubble. 6 months later, a group of terrorists grabbed ahold of a building in england, holding hostage a few government officials. A special squad of the government that no one has heard before was deployed, and a man looking like Ivan's twin lead the group, and managed to rescue the hostages and kill the terrorists.

People by his description showed up occasionally, but always in the weirdest places. Of course, no one really knew that he had formed a Mercenary group, grabbing random people from all over the globe that really didn't have a home to tie to, then sold their services for jobs that... well... let's just say that they were jobs that needed to be done by people that didn't really need to exist, or by people they really didn't mind losing.

Couple years ago, a job went sour, real sour. They had been hired to protect a truck going through some hostile territory. Turned out that it was an agent from a government they had caused a lot of problems for in the past. They wanted the group eliminated, hired them on the job, and planted a bomb on the truck they were protecting and tried to wipe them out. Ivan managed to survive due to dumb luck more than anything, but the rest of his crew was dead. He decided that after that, maybe it was time to pick a side and stay with it, rather than be freelancing and make a lot of enemies, he would just have a set to worry about.

Additional Notes: No one is really sure just how wealthy of just how much money Ivan has, nor how much gear or what he has access to. Being a successful Mercenary with KGB influence on managing funding accounts along with well over 100 governmental relationships have made it a hard time picking out exactly what this man has and where.