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forbarrayar_ooc2017-03-23 09:11 am
Mr. PTSD himself, Killjoy "Wet Blanket" McBuzzkill, Guilt Issues McGee and Grudgeholding Motherfucker. Wash is a space marine who's been through some shit and has learned to associate honesty and trust with certain death, and he's as bad at making friends as he is with keeping them. He has mostly learned to put his past behind him, keyword mostly, and he's found peace with how damaged and fucked up he is by, uh, embracing it. He's pretty good at acting like a normal person though, if a kind of boring, awkward and cynical normal person who's almost too much of a pragmatist. Loyal and insanely protective to the few people he trusts to a fault, but honest essentially never.
Initially arrived with the Cetagandan side, hated everything, defected. Has no real plans of going home, though he won't tell you this, or uh anything for that matter look he doesn't like talking about himself. Most recently has been on two spectacular failures of missions and he came back from one unconscious! It wasn't even the first time he's been carried back here unconscious. I swear he's actually perfectly competent. He's been learning about horses, swords/archery, trapping, Russian, and general Barrayaran culture/history.
Wash isn't 100% closed off, but only because he's learned that being that closed off just attracts attention, and he usually manages to strike the perfect balance between distant and amiable to avoid attention. He doesn't really let anyone in, and any characters who can break through his defenses one way or another are A+. This includes breaking through them in negative ways, though be warned that Wash tends to take negative relationships to, uh, extremes. He holds grudges like a motherfucker, like, his mom called him out on this even when he was a kid. I'm all for negative CR tho but fair warning.
Idleness is death when it comes to Mr. Washington. He likes learning new things and dedicates himself to them with regimented meticulous discipline and incredible fervor, and anything you have to teach him he'd most likely readily learn. He has an extremely precise near-photographic memory and is a quick learner, and makes up for he lacks in raw ability and talent with sheer studiousness. The one thing he likes more than learning new things, aside from like beating shit up and being a terrible person, is teaching. He's a capable soldier, and while he's learning himself with swords and archery he specializes in knife-fighting and is very good with unarmed close quarters combat. He is also a spaceman and will teach you about space if you really want, and he knows random things like how to braid hair?? Also Wash is just in general like an extremely paranoid spaceman, and if anyone wants that on your case, please hit him up.
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