Milliways Dossier: Adrian Shephard

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History

• Sergeant-Major Adrian Shephard, United States Marine Corps
  
• A foul-mouthed, fairly honorable 'jarhead' who doesn't back down from anything, especially a fight
  
• Well traveled, knows several languages - or at least how to swear in them, hahaha!
  
• Languages known (bits of): English, South American Spanish, German, Dutch, Quebecois, Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese, Sateré-Mawé - I'm so jealous
  
• Has a glove up his right arm - lost the limb while he was pinned under a hellicopter

Impressions

• Threat Level: HIGH - I've no doubt Shephard would use his considerable skills against me if he felt he had to
  
• Met while he was a high blood troll for Cubefall - he ordered grubloaf from the bar, haha
  
• Sliced his hand open to find out what his blood color was (blue) without flinching - impressive
  
• Been in the military for close to six years, since he graduated high school
  
• Asked who I was immediately - wow
  
• Also asked my where and when - oh my
  
• "Ain't like I was ever plannin' on bein' anything but a Marine"
  
• Gives people a little bit of their homeland with the swearing
  
• Mother made him work on beehives
  
• Friend to the trolls
  
• Not interested in robots
  
• Used to fly for a living - "murderbirds"/helicopters - impressive
  
• "Alien maggot things that showed up 'bout sixteen years back'n fuckin' conquered the goddamn planet"
  
• Destroyed the Combine on Earth, and then went to their dimension - the Overworld - with Dr. Freeman and "shredded" the entire place out of existence - wow!
  
• Aliens changed the atmosphere and sterilized everyone for sixteen years with an energy field
  
• Only a couple million humans left alive - Shiva wept
  
• "I ain't exactly what you'd call the best man in the world to say 'you can't' anything to. .... Me? I'm the jarhead skin-banger hillbilly kid from the ass end of nowhere. Reckon folks'd generally agree I'm too goddamn stupid to know when I'm up against something too big for me" - ahahaha, brilliant!
  
• Satere-Mawe - South American tribe living in the Amazon - amazing warriors
  
• "The manhood ritual means getting my meat arm'n one of my legs bitten clear to kingdom come by goddamn bullet ants" - oh jeez, good luck
  
• "Human nature. Someone's always gon' be an asshole" - pfft! ahaha
  
• Asked my age - what a terrifying man!
  
• "Anybody come 'round lookin' to git you workin' in the Nachricten-Abteilung yet? Reckon you're about the same time frame as Gustav Steinhauer..."
  
• He's so observant because of his hunting and scout sniper training - had to sit and observe without a gun
  
• "You go out on a hunt, you see signs of how a critter behaves, you either learn what that means 'bout what's goin' through that son of a bitch's head and what makes 'em do what they do, or you go home real fuckin' hungry" - fascinating!
  
• Trained with guns from his uncles
  
• Started off nice and small, with a BB gun - check Bar
  
• Tans demon bunny hides, but can't even get his dog to touch the meat
  
• "You ever want a couple lessons from someone who knows his shit, you find me when I ain't busy on somethin' else, I might be willing to show you a few things" - and an offer to learn to drive a car! wow!
  
• Transcribing handwritten accounts of soldiers who died
  
• Right hand replaced with something which transcribes automatically from a lady at Milliways named Kreyu
  
• Killed a she-pig one handed to earn his new arm from a master smith in Elysium
  
• Carrying all the names and all the stories of the Marines who died in the war
  
• Seven Hours War - because that's how long the Earth took to surrender - amazing
  
• Stuck in suspended animation for twenty years due to a G-man in a suit
  
• First story I transcribed was Lance-Corporal Mertz's from Shephard's old unit
  
• Next met him when he brought in... multi-eyed, ham-colored creatures on three legs
  
• Well-trained "dogs" from the Combine - Houndeyes from Xen
  
• Tamed their mother
  
• Horatio, Rosanne, Chester, and Fran - named after admirals
  
• Teeth along a row on their midsection! ew!
  
• Bark like a thunderclap - channels the soundwave - wow
  
• "They ain't exactly what you'd call terrifyin' compared to the other shit that lives in Xen, so they got to defend themselves somehow"
  
• Offered to "scare up" a .22 rifle for me
  
• "Kid, if it's got a trigger, I c'n use it, and if it bleeds, I c'n kill it"

Weaknesses

• None for now - he's a powerhouse! I don't think anything can kill him!

Scabs

• Did he ever go to the alien dimension himself?

Opportunities

• He's very clearly offered to teach me how to shoot - how wonderful!