Athena: Fall of Europe (OOC | Closed-ish)

[Vacif]

....Lol. Also gonna edit my app history a bit because I just realized (After a nice snack!) that my guy went from PFC to 2nd LT in three years....(He's still gonna be an officer, but at least it'll make a bit more sense)

[Senkaku]

Class / Role:*Officer- Spec Ops/intelligence*
Name: Arkady Pyotrivich Semyanin
Rank: лейтена́нт (Lieutenant)
Age: 28
Experience: Arkady served for two years, starting when he was 18, in the Strategic Rocket Forces, before one his superiors noticed him an had him recommended to and then transferred to the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). Arkady was trained for HUMINT operations and has served as an operative abroad and in Russia, and directed a Spetsnaz rapid-response team to counter small alien landings in Siberia for a time before being brought back to serve as a Russian liaison and deployment to the international force fighting in Europe. (2 years SRF/SMT, 6 years GRU overseas, 2 years GRU/FSB domestic, 1 year of which was counter-ET ops)
Height and Weight: 5' 6", 158 lbs. Arkady is not large.
Appearance: Short, fairly muscular. Arkady is as pale as the snows of the Motherland, with bright blue eyes and brown hair.
Bio:
Arkady was born in a poorer suburb of Moscow. His father had fought in Chechnya and was haunted by PTSD (and dealt with it by drinking), and periodically had outbursts of rage towards Arkady, his older brother Leonid, and especially his mother Maria. Arkady dealt with his turmoils at home by studying extremely hard in school and playing hockey, but later shifted to gymnastics. His brother got a good job working for Sukhoi. Arkady, driven by a misplaced desire to somehow win his father's approval and the rigid patriotism instilled in him in his childhood, networked through a friend of his physics teacher to secure placement in the Strategic Missile Troops when he joined the military upon graduating.
After completing his training and operating Topol-M ICBMs for a little over a year with the 27th Guards Rocket Army, Arkady was noticed by one of his superiors for his intelligence and was recommended to the GRU. After a few tests, he was admitted, and shortly thereafter posted to the Washington, DC rezidentura. He later served in Beijing, Cairo, Bangkok, and then in Paris, before being shifted back to Moscow to work on counterintelligence operations.
Arkady had not been in Moscow for the first alien attack and was not read into the events until after being shifted back to Moscow two years ago. When he was, it was because the GRU wanted him to direct a Spetsnaz rapid response team to counter the small alien landings that were being detected (and suppressed and covered up) across Russia's vast territories. This was Russia's Special Operations Department, or OSO, specifically designed to protect the Federation from alien threats (though thanks to ATHENA they were few at this time).
Following the massive assault on Denmark, Arkady was sent to the Netherlands to serve both as part of the Russian liaison team and also as the GRU's eyes and ears in the international command. Russian forces had also been committed, albeit in fairly small numbers, so Moscow sent a team along to oversee their interests and coordinate with the rest of the world's military forces.
This meant, of course, that Arkady was present at the alien breakthrough through the Fulda Gap and a hundred other points on the defensive line, and cut off with many others when the alien forces successfully destroyed NATO command infrastructure in the Low Countries.

Personality: Quiet and withdrawn, and often cold with people he doesn't know. For those who do know him, he remains enigmatically quiet, but occasionally shares some dark, dry humor and some of his sincere thoughts.
Weaknesses: Arkady is gay, but since he's a Russian military/intelligence officer, he's completely repressed it (with unhealthy mental consequences and issues in his personal life). He's also deathly afraid of spiders (and has been written up several times at the GRU for using his sidearm to kill spiders in his office), dislikes heights, and binge-drinks infrequently (but has needed to have his stomach pumped several times). He is also obedient to a fault when given orders, something that he has previously been able to deal with at the GRU simply by working extremely hard when given instructions that might compromise him or the like.
He also smokes marijuana fairly regularly to help himself unwind a little, especially in social situations.
Skills: Arkady is still a very competent gymnast, which can come in useful in hand-to-hand fighting or various silly acrobatics to surmount obstacles. He's a decent ice skater (not very useful, but still), and he's an extremely good shot with handguns and other small arms like submachine guns (about average with heavier weapons like assault rifles). Good at math, and also a highly trained spy with tradecraft skills and the like.
RP Example: Recent and MT! More can be provided if necessary. Many, many more.
Likes: Arkady has always enjoyed athletic pursuits like gymnastics, as well as more intellectual pursuits (chess and cards).
Dislikes: Spiders, failure, and social situations, in descending order from most to least repulsive, are three things Arkady has never and will never be fond of.
Hobbies: Chess, cards, gymnastics
Theme Song: Farewell of Slavianka
Discipline: 9.5. Arkady would charge directly into machine gun fire over an open field, alone, if his superiors told him to (or at least, probably).
Devotion: 8. Arkady is devoted to saving the world, but more specifically devoted to saving the Russian Federation (and while he understands that saving everyone is more important, it's hard to resist letting the aliens kick a little more shit out of the West).
Riskiness: 5. He is generally conservative and prefers to do things slowly by grinding away at them, but is willing to be innovative when the situation calls for it.
Languages Spoken: Russian, French, English, Chinese (his Chinese is poor)
Family: His parents (now divorced and estranged), his grandparents, his brother, his sister-in-law Nadezhda, and his niece Nina.

[Bentus]

Class / Role:*Officer- Spec Ops/intelligence*
Name: Arkady Pyotrivich Semyanin
Rank: лейтена́нт (Lieutenant)
Age: 28
Experience: Arkady served for two years, starting when he was 18, in the Strategic Rocket Forces, before one his superiors noticed him an had him recommended to and then transferred to the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). Arkady was trained for HUMINT operations and has served as an operative abroad and in Russia, and directed a Spetsnaz rapid-response team to counter small alien landings in Siberia for a time before being brought back to serve as a Russian liaison and deployment to the international force fighting in Europe. (2 years SRF/SMT, 6 years GRU overseas, 2 years GRU domestic, 1 year of which was counter-ET ops)
Height and Weight: 5' 6", 158 lbs. Arkady is not large.
Appearance: Short, fairly muscular. Arkady is as pale as the snows of the Motherland, with bright blue eyes and brown hair.
Bio:
Arkady was born in a poorer suburb of Moscow. His father had fought in Chechnya and was haunted by PTSD (and dealt with it by drinking), and periodically had outbursts of rage towards Arkady, his older brother Leonid, and especially his mother Maria. Arkady dealt with his turmoils at home by studying extremely hard in school and playing hockey, but later shifted to gymnastics. His brother got a good job working for Sukhoi. Arkady, driven by a misplaced desire to somehow win his father's approval and the rigid patriotism instilled in him in his childhood, networked through a friend of his physics teacher to secure placement in the Strategic Missile Troops when he joined the military upon graduating.
After completing his training and operating Topol-M ICBMs for a little over a year with the 27th Guards Rocket Army, Arkady was noticed by one of his superiors for his intelligence and was recommended to the GRU. After a few tests, he was admitted, and shortly thereafter posted to the Washington, DC rezidentura. He later served in Beijing, Cairo, Bangkok, and then in Paris, before being shifted back to Moscow to work on counterintelligence operations.
Arkady had not been in Moscow for the first alien attack and was not read into the events until after being shifted back to Moscow two years ago. When he was, it was because the GRU wanted him to direct a Spetsnaz rapid response team to counter the small alien landings that were being detected (and suppressed and covered up) across Russia's vast territories.
Following the massive assault on Denmark, Arkady was sent to the Netherlands to serve both as part of the Russian liaison team and also as the GRU's eyes and ears in the international command. Russian forces had also been committed, albeit in fairly small numbers, so Moscow sent a team along to oversee their interests and coordinate with the rest of the world's military forces.
This meant, of course, that Arkady was present at the alien breakthrough through the Fulda Gap and a hundred other points on the defensive line, and trapped along with many others following the attack on headquarters in the Netherlands.

Personality: Quiet and withdrawn, and often cold with people he doesn't know. For those who do know him, he remains enigmatically quiet, but occasionally shares some dark, dry humor and some of his sincere thoughts.
Weaknesses: Arkady is gay, but since he's a Russian military/intelligence officer, he's completely repressed it (with unhealthy mental consequences and issues in his personal life). He's also deathly afraid of spiders (and has been written up several times at the GRU for using his sidearm to kill spiders in his office), dislikes heights, and binge-drinks infrequently (but has needed to have his stomach pumped several times). He is also obedient to a fault when given orders, something that he has previously been able to deal with at the GRU simply by working extremely hard when given instructions that might compromise him or the like.
He also smokes marijuana fairly regularly to help himself unwind a little, especially in social situations.
Skills: Arkady is still a very competent gymnast, which can come in useful in hand-to-hand fighting or various silly acrobatics to surmount obstacles. He's a decent ice skater (not very useful, but still), and he's an extremely good shot with handguns and other small arms like submachine guns (about average with heavier weapons like assault rifles). Good at math, and also a highly trained spy with tradecraft skills and the like.
RP Example: Recent and MT! More can be provided if necessary. Many, many more.
Likes: Arkady has always enjoyed athletic pursuits like gymnastics, as well as more intellectual pursuits (chess and cards).
Dislikes: Spiders, heights, and social situations, in descending order from most to least repulsive, are three things Arkady has never and will never be fond of.
Hobbies: Chess, cards, gymnastics
Theme Song: Farewell of Slavianka
Discipline: 9.5. Arkady would charge directly into machine gun fire over an open field, alone, if his superiors told him to (or at least, probably).
Devotion: 8. Arkady is devoted to saving the world, but more specifically devoted to saving the Russian Federation (and while he understands that saving everyone is more important, it's hard to resist letting the aliens kick a little more shit out of the West).
Riskiness: 5. He is generally conservative and prefers to do things slowly by grinding away at them, but is willing to be innovative when the situation calls for it.
Languages Spoken: Russian, French, English, Chinese (his Chinese is poor)
Family: His parents (now divorced and estranged), his grandparents, his brother, his sister-in-law Nadezhda, and his niece Nina.

Accepted, welcome aboard!

[Camicon]

Shouldn't Chloe be like...31? This is I believe 5 years after Van's thread.

Same name, similar personality, different person.

[EDIT] Bentus, is this a direct continuation of Vancon's ATHENA thread?

[Shyluz]

Shouldn't Chloe be like...31? This is I believe 5 years after Van's thread.

Same name, similar personality, different person.

[EDIT] Bentus, is this a direct continuation of Vancon's ATHENA thread?

Indeed it is. You be breaking space-time, comrade.

[Camicon]

Same name, similar personality, different person.

[EDIT] Bentus, is this a direct continuation of Vancon's ATHENA thread?

Indeed it is. You be breaking space-time, comrade.

Then a name change, and slight biography tweakings, would be in order.

But I'll wait for Bentus to confirm, because the OP says this was inspired by Vancon's RP, not that it's a continuation.

[Shyluz]

Class: Scout

Name: Artem Yurivich
Rank: Nadrotmistr (Master Sergeant)
Age: 29
Experience: Originally, when Artem volunteered into the CAF, he was assigned to the 9th Artillery, where he campaigned in the 2018 Egyptian Crisis for several years before being transferred to the 601st SKSS, the special forces. After several years of distinguished service there, he was transferred to a secret project. ATHENA. He was an ATHENA Operator until 2023, then was 'retired,' and transferred to the SCK where he served as a Nadrotmistr in command of Ceta Ctvrtek (Platoon Thursday,) until 2025, when his platoon was deployed behind hostile lines in order to attempt to recover Ooster.
Height and Weight: Approximately 5' 11", or 1.803 meters, 162 pounds or 73 kilograms.
Appearance:

Long Bio: Born in 1996, Artem was an introverted child, from a very young age. He was so introverted, in fact that his parents had him sent to a psychologist to test for autism. The psychologist had him take the test and gave the results to the Yurivichs. The test had concluded that Artem was not autistic. Just an extreme case of introversion. He reacts to a situation with a minimal amount of planning, as previous experience in the 601st and the 9th Artillery, plans always go to hell. He was raised from age 5 to play the viola, and as such was groomed to become a musician like his father. However, in one final act of defiance, he signed up for the Czech Armed Forces. During the Aptitude tests for determining what role he would play, he displayed a huge talent for operating stealthily behind enemy lines, and communicating where artillery should be laid down, and how many rounds it would need to obliterate hostile forces. Even though he only was promoted to Lance Corporal, he was hand picked for the 601st SKSS, the Czech elite special operations unit. During his full military record, he has a total of over 100 kills, though a good portion of them are through indirect artillery fire. Even though if you see him, he's most likely seen you. And's pulling the trigger.

After his tour with ATHENA, and the awkward goodbye between him and Emilie, Artem was reassigned to the SCK, the Czech answer to Razor Wire and the alien threat. There, he lead nine of his fellow 601ers in direct, rapid, and reactionary combat all over central Europe. Eventually, he came to the realization -- a leader can't have a defeatist attitude. After this epiphany, his personality warped, becoming what one could describe as happy-go-lucky, though occasionally his defeatist and cynical self will seep through.

And now, humanity needs those Vigilant Few again.

Skills: He knows his architecture, and he can visualize things collapsing in his head, knowing when and how he has to avoid collapsing structures. Quite stealthy too. He also plays the viola like a badass.
Likes: PC games, classical music, dubstep, large explosions.
Dislikes: Console games, clowns, darkness, tight spaces.
RP Example: Meh.
Personality Type: INTJ ATHENA changed him. ENFP.
Tastes: Light and sweeter things.
Discipline: 7
Devotion: 8
Riskiness: 9
Strengths: Great at communicating, great with pinpoint fire, and has few remaining ties, thus excelling as a lone wolf.
Weaknesses: Bad team player, doesn't really understand how other people think, and is extremely prone to put himself in the risk of physical harm to protect someone he believe.
Theme Song: He's Just Drifting.
Languages: Russian, Czech, Slovak, Estonian, English, learning French.

[Tiltjuice]

OK, OK, I'm in.

Gonna be watching to see how things turn out, though.

[Camicon]

Anyways, prior post edited. New character there, take a look. I'm going to do an update to Chloe's app as well, account for the intervening years.

[Tiltjuice]

That reminds me...I still kinda think too many characters strangled the RP last time. Is there a limit on the number to bring in?

[Camicon]

Class: Scout (Officer)
Name: Chloe Hath
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 33
Experience:

• 1^st Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment (2010-2012)
• Joint Task Force 2 , CANSOFCOM (2012-2020)
• ATHENA (2020-present)

Height and Weight: 5'5", 125lbs
Appearance

Family: Mother and father in PEI, older sister in Vancouver.
Bio: Chloe was a girl without direction for most of her life. Despite (or perhaps to spite) her loving, middle-class family, Chloe spent her teen years engaging in petty larceny, vandalism, trespassing, and all other assorted small legal infractions. For a small while she ran with a gang, silently breaking into houses or shops so that they could steal any unlocked valuables. While doing so she developed an aptitude for spotting vulnerabilities in consumer-level security systems, and for bypassing various lock and alarm systems. The experience was mostly trial-and-error, and she ended up in front of a judge three times before her fourteenth birthday. Her third visit to court left her with an ultimatum: shape up, or get shipped to juvie. Not particularly keen on either option, Chloe changed tack, lost her gang affiliation, and did freelance casing work for whomever was willing to pay. Thankfully her work paid well, because she also moved out of her parent's home around this time, frustrated by the constant fights she would get into with them - she fell out of touch with her family, as a result of this. Chloe received work and pay anonymously, thanks to a system of encrypted emails, internationally routed internet traffic, and good old-fashioned dead drops. She was almost caught a handful of times, but as she only ever used publicly available computers (such as those at a library) she was able to evade the police each time.

It was only in her final year of high school, a few months before her eighteenth birthday, that she gave any thought to what she wanted to do with her life. Realizing that her grades were far too poor to even be considered by a post-secondary institution (not that she wanted to go, in any case), she applied to the Canadian military. After arriving, Chloe realized that she greatly valued the strict discipline and structure that came with military life, and found a burning passion to be the best damn soldier she could possibly be. During her training Chloe underwent a period of deep introspection, eventually coming to the conclusion that she had been (surprise-surprise) a complete shit to her family. After completing Basic, Chloe reconnected with her mother, father, and sister, and attempted to reconcile and heal old wounds. However, before any serious headway could be made Chloe was deployed to Afghanistan for two years, and she once again lost contact with her family.

Chloe saw combat on a regular basis in Afghanistan. Through the first months of 2010 she participated in Operation Moshtarak, followed soon after by Operation Dragon Strike, and Operation Baawar. Chloe's actions during Operation Mostarak - braving an IED laden field to retrieve a young Afghan child - earned her the Medal of Bravery, Canada's third highest award for bravery. After her tour in Afghanistan was over Chloe was selected to join JTF2. In 2014, she recieved the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot. Deployed to Syria in 2016, Chloe received the Medal of Military Valour, for actions undisclosed. The next year, in 2017, she received the Star of Courage for evacuating a number of Canadian and Ukrainian ambassadorial staff from Donetsk, after the diplomatic talks that they had been mediating there fell apart.

Chloe was approached the day after First Contact by the Athena Program. After receiving an expedited honourable discharge from the Canadian military, with the understanding that she could return to JTF2 any time she wished, Chloe joined ATHENA forces in Oosterscheldekering. Her first deployment was to Beijing, as a member of the team which secured the crashed alien craft and it's cargo. She surivved the attack on Oosterscheldekering and went on to lead a number of different ops for ATHENA, mostly high risk missions that could brook no error. She was also one of the most senior operatives, and key pieces, of ATHENA's assault in South America.

Chloe stayed on with ATHENA even after they began their draw down in 2023, and after the renewed alien offensive in 2025 was responsible for preparing the wave of new recruits for combat. Despite her best efforts, ATHENA did not last long against the veritable tidal wave of alien forces which swept across Europe, after breaking through NATO lines. Chloe was leading a small team on a surgical strike in Germany at the time, and in the resulting confusion and chaos lost contact with her squad and ATHENA command. She has not been seen or heard from since, and is listed as M.I.A.

Weaknesses: Claustrophobic
Skills: The sneakiest of all sneaky sneak-thieves, ie. she's really good at not being seen.
Likes: Fine wines, good books, and loud music
Dislikes: MRE's, dancing, and messy rooms
Tastes: Warm and hearty meals, like Shepard's pie, beef stew, and tourtiere
Hobbies: Knitting, squash, and writing
Languages Spoken: English (fluent), French (fluent), Pashto (passing), Ukrainian (passing).

Discipline: 6
Devotion: 8
Riskiness: 6
Theme Song
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[Sonitusia]

Class: Hunter
Name: Odetta Carrius
Rank: Feldwebel/Sergeant
Age: 27
Experience: 4 years of enlisted service as a mountain infantryman in Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 Bayern, 10th Panzer Division, Heer, Bundeswehr, 3 years of the ATHENA program, and 2 more years as second-in-command of a reconnaissance platoon in Gebirgsaufklärungsbataillon 230.
Height and Weight: 168 cm and 66,2 kg (5.51 ft and 145.9 pounds)

Appearance:

Short Bio: Daughter of a master hunter who decided that joining the military was the best way to one up him.
Weaknesses: Discussions about normal things.
Skills: Excellent eye sight and hearing inherited from her father.
RP Example: 'Ey

Long bio: Daughter of Leonard Carrius, well known internationally as a master of hunting, she did not want to walk in his shadow. In fact, she wanted to cast her's on him. Starting out small by being taught how to survive, how to shoot, and basically Hunting 101 from a true ace, she joined the Bundeswehr when at age of enlistment. This gave odd looks to her from her female friends who were mostly going to universities, but she had already gained her education from Aachen at a much younger age, though not extensive, and only obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering.

Once in the Bundeswehr, she proved herself very adaptable to harsh conditions, and having very good capabilities in tracking and sharpshooting. Due to this, she was suggested to join Gebirgsjäger 23, one of Germany's main mountain infantry brigades, and specifically in Gebirgsaufklärungsbataillon 230, the reconnaissance battalion. She was well trained in predicting enemy movements, calling in artillery strikes, and eliminating key enemy soldiers before the main force arrived.

Her four year experience had taken her to Egypt, although she was not yet in front line combat, and she mostly acted as a spotter for aerial missions until she was finally given live combat missions. Later on she would take place in quelling a major uprising along the southern border of Germany, using her abilities to trace rebel leaders and eliminate them.

After her first mission to search and rescue a downed pilot, Odetta continued to serve in ATHENA for three more years, until she decides to return to her home country after it appears the threat of aliens no longer existed to an extent that would require her assistance. She continued to serve in her original unit, receiving a promotion and almost acquiring officer status. It was then that the aliens once more struck, and she immediately went back into action.

Likes: Music, Poetry, Guns, Hunting, Trees, Explosions, Winter, and Autumn
Dislikes: Summer and Aliens
Hobbies: Collecting leaves, crafting things out of objects around her

Theme Song: Strike Back (English Cover)

Discipline: 9
Devotion: 7
Riskiness: 5

Languages Spoken: German, English, Dutch
Tastes: Sweet and sour food, also has a craving for foods that literally melt in one's mouth.
Voice: The one who says she's quitting
Family: Her father and mother are still alive in Aachen, Germany.
Personality: ITSP

[Vancon]

That reminds me...I still kinda think too many characters strangled the RP last time. Is there a limit on the number to bring in?

When I was OP, I said that everyone could have up to 3 chars.

Same name, similar personality, different person.

[EDIT] Bentus, is this a direct continuation of Vancon's ATHENA thread?

Indeed it is. You be breaking space-time, comrade.

I'm under the impression that this is a continuation but 5 years after or something.

[Tiltjuice]

2 or 3 might be good. I'm just concerned about a lot of people making a lot of chars and then it all adding up. Then it gets unfun when RL or writers block hits someone for a bit, they get discouraged or intimidated by the number of catchup posts they have to make and the people who were waiting/stuck get discouraged. And badgering for a post doesn't work as we all saw.

I like both versions of Athena because they have the potential to be really big and multifaceted. Just trying to keep it a low-pressure, fun game. I'm only making one char for the time being, anyway, but I'm not suggesting everyone has to.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

wew

[Bentus]

Class: Scout

Name: Artem Yurivich
Rank: Nadrotmistr (Master Sergeant)
Age: 29
Experience: Originally, when Artem volunteered into the CAF, he was assigned to the 9th Artillery, where he campaigned in the 2018 Egyptian Crisis for several years before being transferred to the 601st SKSS, the special forces. After several years of distinguished service there, he was transferred to a secret project. ATHENA. He was an ATHENA Operator until 2023, then was 'retired,' and transferred to the SCK where he served as a Nadrotmistr in command of Ceta Ctvrtek (Platoon Thursday,) until 2025, when his platoon was deployed behind hostile lines in order to attempt to recover Ooster.
Height and Weight: Approximately 5' 11", or 1.803 meters, 162 pounds or 73 kilograms.
Appearance:

(Image)

Long Bio: Born in 1996, Artem was an introverted child, from a very young age. He was so introverted, in fact that his parents had him sent to a psychologist to test for autism. The psychologist had him take the test and gave the results to the Yurivichs. The test had concluded that Artem was not autistic. Just an extreme case of introversion. He reacts to a situation with a minimal amount of planning, as previous experience in the 601st and the 9th Artillery, plans always go to hell. He was raised from age 5 to play the viola, and as such was groomed to become a musician like his father. However, in one final act of defiance, he signed up for the Czech Armed Forces. During the Aptitude tests for determining what role he would play, he displayed a huge talent for operating stealthily behind enemy lines, and communicating where artillery should be laid down, and how many rounds it would need to obliterate hostile forces. Even though he only was promoted to Lance Corporal, he was hand picked for the 601st SKSS, the Czech elite special operations unit. During his full military record, he has a total of over 100 kills, though a good portion of them are through indirect artillery fire. Even though if you see him, he's most likely seen you. And's pulling the trigger.

After his tour with ATHENA, and the awkward goodbye between him and Emilie, Artem was reassigned to the SCK, the Czech answer to Razor Wire and the alien threat. There, he lead nine of his fellow 601ers in direct, rapid, and reactionary combat all over central Europe. Eventually, he came to the realization -- a leader can't have a defeatist attitude. After this epiphany, his personality warped, becoming what one could describe as happy-go-lucky, though occasionally his defeatist and cynical self will seep through.

And now, humanity needs those Vigilant Few again.

Skills: He knows his architecture, and he can visualize things collapsing in his head, knowing when and how he has to avoid collapsing structures. Quite stealthy too. He also plays the viola like a badass.
Likes: PC games, classical music, dubstep, large explosions.
Dislikes: Console games, clowns, darkness, tight spaces.
RP Example: Meh.
Personality Type: INTJ ATHENA changed him. ENFP.
Tastes: Light and sweeter things.
Discipline: 7
Devotion: 8
Riskiness: 9
Strengths: Great at communicating, great with pinpoint fire, and has few remaining ties, thus excelling as a lone wolf.
Weaknesses: Bad team player, doesn't really understand how other people think, and is extremely prone to put himself in the risk of physical harm to protect someone he believe.
Theme Song: He's Just Drifting.
Languages: Russian, Czech, Slovak, Estonian, English, learning French.

Accepted.

Class: Hunter
Name: Odetta Carrius
Rank: Feldwebel/Sergeant
Age: 27
Experience: 4 years of enlisted service as a mountain infantryman in Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 Bayern, 10th Panzer Division, Heer, Bundeswehr
Height and Weight: 168 cm and 66,2 kg (5.51 ft and 145.9 pounds)
Appearance:

(Image)

Short Bio: Daughter of a master hunter who decided that joining the military was the best way to one up him.
Weaknesses: Discussions about normal things.
Skills: Excellent eye sight and hearing inherited from her father.
RP Example: You should know me from FR&R, but if you need one, I'll try to look for something...

Long bio: Daughter of Leonard Carrius, well known internationally as a master of hunting, she did not want to walk in his shadow. In fact, she wanted to cast her's on him. Starting out small by being taught how to survive, how to shoot, and basically Hunting 101 from a true ace, she joined the Bundeswehr when at age of enlistment. This gave odd looks to her from her female friends who were mostly going to universities, but she had already gained her education from Aachen at a much younger age, though not extensive, and only obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering.

Once in the Bundeswehr, she proved herself very adaptable to harsh conditions, and having very good capabilities in tracking and sharpshooting. Due to this, she was suggested to join Gebirgsjäger 23, one of Germany's main mountain infantry brigades, and specifically in Gebirgsaufklärungsbataillon 230, the reconnaissance battalion. She was well trained in predicting enemy movements, calling in artillery strikes, and eliminating key enemy soldiers before the main force arrived. Her four year experience had taken her to Egypt, although she was not yet in front line combat, and she mostly acted as a spotter for aerial missions until she was finally given live combat missions. Later on she would take place in quelling a major uprising along the southern border of Germany, using her abilities to trace rebel leaders and eliminate them.
Likes: Music, Poetry, Guns, Hunting, Trees, Explosions, Winter, and Autumn
Dislikes: Summer
Hobbies: Collecting leaves, crafting things out of objects around her
Theme Song: Strike Back (English Cover)
Discipline: 9
Devotion: 7
Riskiness: 5
Languages Spoken: German, English
Tastes: Sweet and sour food, also has a craving for foods that literally melt in one's mouth
Voice: The one who says she's quitting
Family: Her father and mother are still alive in Aachen, Germany.
Personality: ITSP

Accepted.

Class: Scout (Officer)
Name: Chloe Hath
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 33
Experience:

• 1^st Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment (2010-2012)
• Joint Task Force 2 , CANSOFCOM (2012-2020)
• ATHENA (2020-present)

Height and Weight: 5'4", 115lbs
Appearance

Family: Mother and father in PEI, older sister in Vancouver.
Bio: Chloe was a girl without direction for most of her life. Despite (or perhaps to spite) her loving, middle-class family, Chloe spent her teen years engaging in petty larceny, vandalism, trespassing, and all other assorted small legal infractions. For a small while she ran with a gang, silently breaking into houses or shops so that they could steal any unlocked valuables. While doing so she developed an aptitude for spotting vulnerabilities in consumer-level security systems, and for bypassing various lock and alarm systems. The experience was mostly trial-and-error, and she ended up in front of a judge three times before her fourteenth birthday. Her third visit to court left her with an ultimatum: shape up, or get shipped to juvie. Not particularly keen on either option, Chloe changed tack, lost her gang affiliation, and did freelance casing work for whomever was willing to pay. Thankfully her work paid well, because she also moved out of her parent's home around this time, frustrated by the constant fights she would get into with them - she fell out of touch with her family, as a result of this. Chloe received work and pay anonymously, thanks to a system of encrypted emails, internationally routed internet traffic, and good old-fashioned dead drops. She was almost caught a handful of times, but as she only ever used publicly available computers (such as those at a library) she was able to evade the police each time.

It was only in her final year of high school, a few months before her eighteenth birthday, that she gave any thought to what she wanted to do with her life. Realizing that her grades were far too poor to even be considered by a post-secondary institution (not that she wanted to go, in any case), she applied to the Canadian military. After arriving, Chloe realized that she greatly valued the strict discipline and structure that came with military life, and found a burning passion to be the best damn soldier she could possibly be. During her training Chloe underwent a period of deep introspection, eventually coming to the conclusion that she had been (surprise-surprise) a complete shit to her family. After completing Basic, Chloe reconnected with her mother, father, and sister, and attempted to reconcile and heal old wounds. However, before any serious headway could be made Chloe was deployed to Afghanistan for two years, and she once again lost contact with her family.

Chloe saw combat on a regular basis in Afghanistan. Through the first months of 2010 she participated in Operation Moshtarak, followed soon after by Operation Dragon Strike, and Operation Baawar. Chloe's actions during Operation Mostarak - braving an IED laden field to retrieve a young Afghan child - earned her the Medal of Bravery, Canada's third highest award for bravery. After her tour in Afghanistan was over Chloe was selected to join JTF2. In 2014, she recieved the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot. Deployed to Syria in 2016, Chloe received the Medal of Military Valour, for actions undisclosed. The next year, in 2017, she received the Star of Courage for evacuating a number of Canadian and Ukrainian ambassadorial staff from Donetsk, after the diplomatic talks that they had been mediating there fell apart.

Chloe was approached the day after First Contact by the Athena Program. After receiving an expedited honourable discharge from the Canadian military, with the understanding that she could return to JTF2 any time she wished, Chloe joined ATHENA forces in Oosterscheldekering. Her first deployment was to Beijing, as a member of the team which secured the crashed alien craft and it's cargo. She surivved the attack on Oosterscheldekering and went on to lead a number of different ops for ATHENA, mostly high risk missions that could brook no error. She was also one of the most senior operatives, and key pieces, of ATHENA's assault in South America.

Chloe stayed on with ATHENA even after they began their draw down in 2023, and after the renewed alien offensive in 2025 was responsible for preparing the wave of new recruits for combat. Despite her best efforts, ATHENA did not last long against the veritable tidal wave of alien forces which swept across Europe, after breaking through NATO lines. Chloe was leading a small team on a surgical strike in Germany at the time, and in the resulting confusion and chaos lost contact with her squad and ATHENA command. She has not been seen or heard from since, and is listed as M.I.A.

Weaknesses: Claustrophobic
Skills: The sneakiest of all sneaky sneak-thieves, ie. she's really good at not being seen.
Likes: Fine wines, good books, and loud music
Dislikes: MRE's, dancing, and messy rooms
Tastes: Warm and hearty meals, like Shepard's pie, beef stew, and tourtiere
Hobbies: Knitting, squash, and writing
Languages Spoken: English (fluent), French (fluent), Pashto (passing), Ukrainian (passing).

Discipline: 6
Devotion: 8
Riskiness: 6
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Still accepted

Class: Assault
Name: Marilee Thomas
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 28
Experience:

• 1^st Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment (2016-2018)
• Joint Task Force 2 , CANSOFCOM (2018-2020, 2023)
• ATHENA (2020-2023, 2025-present)
• NATO JSCO, Spectrum (2024-2025)

Height and Weight: 5'6", 125lbs
Appearance

Family: Mother, deceased; father, estranged; younger sister, living in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Bio: Marilee was a girl without direction for most of her life. Her mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Melody, which drove their father into a downward spiral of alcohol, drugs, and physical abuse. Marilee and her sister would suffer daily under their father's belt until Marilee turned fifteen, bought a pair of bus tickets for herself and her sister, and put an entire continent between themselves and their father. Marilee earned money as a mule for a local marijuana grower, thankfully never being arrested, though she and her sister often spent many nights hungry. Still, they both continued to attend school, and against all odds both excelled.

Upon graduating, Marilee was worried that her transient past would prevent her from finding a job which would more fully provide for Melody, so she applied and was accepted to the military, subsequently sending the entirety of her pay into a bank account for her sister. Despite signing up for purely economic reasons, Marilee came to build an understanding and appreciation for what the military did. Despite not being able to see her sister nearly as often as she would like, Marilee is happy that Melody has been able to piece together a comfortable life for herself, who has since been hired as technician by a laboratory producing experimental drugs for trial testing; Marilee also appreciates once again having a disposable income.

Marilee's first deployment was in northern Iraq, training Kurdish peshmerga as a part of Operation Impact. Despite ostensibly being a training program, free of any direct conflict, Marilee nonetheless saw a fair amount of front-line combat during her two years in-country; her single-handed routing of a Daesh mortar position saw her awarded the Medal of Bravery. Marilee returned to Canada in 2018, where she won the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot. Soon after she was extended an offer from Joint Task Force 2, to join their ranks, which she accepted. During the following year, 2019, she was assigned protect Canadian diplomatic staff in Ukraine; she received the Star of Courage for evacuating a number of Canadian and Ukrainian ambassadorial staff from Donetsk, after the diplomatic talks that they had been mediating there fell apart, in an incident eerily similar to that which took place two years prior.

The Canadian government was approached a few months after First Contact by the Athena Program, requesting more soldiers to fill... recent openings, within their ranks. The offer was made to Marilee, who accepted; after receiving an expedited honourable discharge from the Canadian military, with the understanding that she could return to JTF2 any time she wished, Marilee joined ATHENA forces in the Netherlands. Her deployments with ATHENA were by and large smaller skirmishes, against forces both alien and human, though she was also deployed in the vanguard to South America during ATHENA's second major offensive against the alien invaders.

As the conflict against the alien invaders began to wind down, Marilee left ATHENA and rejoined JTF2 in 2023; doing much the same work as she had with ATHENA, only this time under a Canadian flag, Marilee was their officially unofficial expert on combating the extraterrestrial threat. In 2024, she was selected to join NATO's JSOC Spectrum task force. In response to the invasion of Germany in 2025 Marilee was deployed to the European front to assist in leading NATO operations on the ground-level. ATHENA immediately approached Marilee to bring her back within their ranks, an offer which she initially refused, due to concern with how her own unit would handle things without her. On January 10th, as alien forces overwhelmed NATO's defensive lines, Marilee entire Spectrum detachment was wiped out. ATHENA once again offered Marilee a place within their ranks, which she accepted this time. Not that it meant much, as ATHENA fell almost immediately after NATO's defensive lines collapsed.

Like every other soldier left stranded in mainland Europe Marilee has spent the last year running and hiding, doing what little she can to protect civilian forces from the extraterrestrial threat, and looking for ways to hurt the invading forces.

Weaknesses: There are a small number of triggers, relating to the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, which can induce panic attacks
Skills: Marilee can take a punch like nobody's business, and is very situationally aware
Likes: Strong beer, bar fights, and loud music
Dislikes: Formal etiquette, seafood, rain
Tastes: Quick and easy foods; MRE's, microwave meals, instant noodles, and the like
Hobbies: Drawing, singing, rock climbing
Languages Spoken: English (fluent), French (fluent), Kurdish (passing), Ukrainian (passing)

Discipline: 4
Devotion: 6
Riskiness: 8
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Accepted as well. Although again just to re-iterate, the RP takes place mere days after the line collapsed.

Also, re: Continuity from Van's original Athena RP. This is meant to be set in pretty much the same universe, until whenever it becomes inconvenient. I've moved Emilie's age up 5 years to account for the time difference, but it's not something I'm going to go around checking or saying that you HAVE to do. I don't see how pretending that the char was a few years younger in the original could hurt.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

There we are, made some quick additions to my old bio and changed some of the numbers accordingly to the time passed and all that.

Class:Scout
Name: Natasha Vasilyev
Rank: Corporal
Age: 34
Experience: 6 years KNLM (Dutch Ground forces), 6 years MIVD (Military Intelligence), 3 years ATHENA.
Height and Weight: 187 cm, 70 kg
Appearance:

Short Bio: Natasha was born to two rich Russians whom had fled (with their capital, naturally) to the west and ended up in the Netherlands. She grew up like any regular girl in the country, her parents trying to speak Dutch at home, too, so that her first language would be the one of the country she was born in. At the age of 19, having finished school, she enlisted for the army rather than opting for a degree, preferring the challenge the job would give her. She was later approached by the MIVD for a job, which she accepted, forcing her to stop contact with her friends and family but offering better career options, and a job even more challenging. She later joined ATHENA, after First Contact had been established. She took part in several missions, and saw deployment in South America during the attack on a large alien encampment. Afterwards, she was honorably discharged and returned to her position in the MIVD. With the return of the alien menace in 2025, she stayed with the MIVD but once again she had to focus on the extra terrestrial threat. Now, with the alien assault pressing onwards, Natasha has lost most of her faith in ATHENA, but finds herself close to recently the destroyed base of the organisation, having blown up some of the dikes in the area in an (so far unsuccessful) attempt to flood the land, what remained of command wanting to surrender as little land as possible to the aliens. Comms have fallen eerily silent, however, and Natasha finds herself stranded, cut off and trying to survive.
Weaknesses: Not very social as a result of working at the MIVD, hasn't seen any combat deployment prior to being a part of ATHENA- not much deployment afterwards, either.
Skills: Able to analyze situations quickly, good at coming up with solutions in short time, stealthy.
RP Example: You know me, right? I was also in the previous RP..


Theme Song: why not two?
Discipline: 8
Devotion: 4
Riskiness: 4
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch, some German and Russian
Tastes: Sweet food, mainly. Also those Onion & Sour Cream crisps, 'cause those are just excellent.

[Lunas Legion]

Almost joined Van's original thread, and I regret not doing so.

What do you people need class-wise?

[Vacif]

Almost joined Van's original thread, and I regret not doing so.

What do you people need class-wise?

...Everything...well we have enough officers though.

[The Flame Dawn]

Almost joined Van's original thread, and I regret not doing so.

What do you people need class-wise?

...Everything...well we have enough officers though.

I'd say we've got lots of scouts too.

I'm working on a combat engineer atm

[Unified Free Lands]

Tagging.

[Camicon]

Found a great picture, swapped it out for Marilee's appearance.

[Tiltjuice]

Found a great picture, swapped it out for Marilee's appearance.

Someday you should teach me your deviantART fu.

[Camicon]

Found a great picture, swapped it out for Marilee's appearance.

Someday you should teach me your deviantART fu.

It involves having a free-scrolling mouse wheel, and lots of procrastination.

[Shyluz]

Someday you should teach me your deviantART fu.

It involves having a free-scrolling mouse wheel, and lots of procrastination.

So, same as me, except on deviantART, not zerochan?