Boomer
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Character Bio for Boomer
Name: Boehum "Boomer" Dellphin
Race: Therin Artaus (Black Bear)
Place of Birth: One of Ian Murphy's terraforming projects
Parents: dead
Skills: Woodworking, percussion music, weapons spec, advanced artillerist.
Age first encountered: Mid 30s
Motive: To move on, to heal, to get back to living. In the mean time, fighting anyone he has to.
Past:
Boomer was born on one of Ian Murphy's terraforming projects to settlers there. His childhood was one of crafts, woodwork, and music. His favored instruments were the large Ursis Taiko Dan like drums that are carved in honor of people. He got to play his grandfather's drum when he was 15. He spent three years carving the drumsticks. It was, at the time, the highest honor he'd ever received and one of the happiest moments of his life.
When the Therin Civil War heated up, Boomer's planet was one of the first ones Ian lost. The fighting was quick and brutal and young Boomer found himself in fighting positions watching his parents and everyone he loved killed in orbital and then aerial bombardments. He was in a prison camp for four months before Ian and the Omegas broke him back out.
He was a hot blooded and severely damaged soldier, but damn good at gunnery. He joined up with the ground strike forces, striking back where and when he could. His hatred of the Cains Imperial forces drove him close to war crimes a few times, and he was benched as often as deployed.
After the war, his home planet was a radioactive wasteland that he couldn't return to. He stayed with the fleet, bouncing from treatment to treatment for his trauma. Murphy was looking for a way to get him both help, and away from anything resembling combat detail when Tagg opened GPG on Muir and was looking for gear testers. Ian half ordered Boomer to report to Tagg. Thus, Boomer was on hand when Lei made her assassination attempt on Tagg and was thwarted by Boomer and her going full hammer and tongs until Tenaya showed up and got Lei calmed down enough to find out why she was there.
Boomer, still recovering from the fight he had with Lei, didn't pause to heal and went immediately to the Fellis compound that Lei had been trained at to administer the Great Lady's justice. Between him, Tagg, and Old Wolf, there really wasn't much left of the place.
Boomer and Lei have an "understanding." It wouldn't do to call it a relationship, but they help one another with the trials and tribulations that they both have gone through. They are partners in almost every sense and have one another's back. Lei gets him to play drums again, even though she knows it hurts him as it heals him.
Reputation:
Boomer has an unrepentantly intimidating reputation. He's known for busting heads and taking on odds that are best labeled "Insane" and "Unhealthy." Up until he meets Lei, he's got an apathetic view of his own mortality. He's a walking Artaus "Awfuckit" moment looking for a place to land really big rounds..
Stereotype/formula:
John Rambo meets The Hound from GOT and a bit of Heavy Arms with musical skill.
Network:
Boomer is quiet drinking buddies and brothers in arms with both Tagg and Ian Murphy. Both of the old men look after him, knowing what his damage is. Tenaya is the wise woman that Boomer quietly respects and listens to, perhaps not to the extent that the Fellis do, but as a soldier would to a lady. Boomer is also one of the few that has unrestricted access to any part of Pallet. He often is out wandering the wilds with Lei when she's not on bodyguard duty for Tenaya. Old Wolf may be his boss, but often enough he's pack and packing.
Habits and Patterns:
Okay, to say Boomer has PTSD is a bit like saying the Pope is a little bit Catholic. This makes him socially avoidant, and depressive, and yes, he has triggers in loud, unexpected noises. Combat arms protocol for waking him is not just advised, but ordered. He will come awake with claws first and firearms a very close and quick second. He's a being of few words, is quiet and soft spoken, and can have panic attacks if put around too many people at the same time.
That said, you put him in a combat situation and he's a machine in his element. You put him against Cains imperials and he's, well, he's... Not pretty. See the "Walking Awfuckit Moment".
Otherwise, Boomer is a soldier, with a lot of the disciplines a soldier has. When in doubt or distress, he falls back on these failsafe habits and manners. This is a person who cleans and maintains weapons to relax when he's not woodworking for much the same reason.
Talents and Abilities:
Boomer is a weapons specialist of the caliber that American SF weapons specs aspire to. He's intimately familiar with everything that goes bing, bang, or boom. He's an excellent artillerist and has the advanced mathematics skills to calculate escape ballistics velocity on both weapons and vehicles. He's trained in advanced tactical SERE, and is extremely experienced and versed in every aspect of it. His hand to hand is an equal to Lei, and sparring matches between them routinely end in stitches, or if one has to stop to set bones on the other, and pauses for analysis between them.
He loves the music of his youth, and part of his healing comes from playing the large Ursis Taiko Dan like "life drums" that are made to honor those that died on his home planet. He has them in a large array on Muir in Muir Valley. Every year, on the anniversary of the battle, he plays the drums as a playback of the battle in which each of the drums lost their life. He plays until the pain becomes too much and he drops the sticks.
Body/physical description:
Boomer is a Therin Artaus Black bear standing in at 6' 5" and 285lbs. His body is covered over in lines from past scars, and after he first meets Lei, there are a number of lines up and down his abdomen. His eyes are black. He keeps his fur crop shaved to military specs.