chrischance

name: unknown.
primary alias: christopher chance.
handle: the human target.
secondary aliases: john doe, pierre lafleur, martin gage, tony graham, alfred baines, robert huschka, theodore smith, jason karas, patrick donnegal, marc ragland, albert potts, paul younglove, kenneth hogan and a plethora of others.
age: 39.
formal education: b.a. in human biology, m.a. in international relations.
assets: eidetic memory, polyglot, marine corps forecon training (sere, cqc, tactics, protective security, reconnaissance, marksmanship, weapons and explosives proficiency, ground, aerial and amphibious operations, fieldcraft, infiltration, surveillance, combat medicine, &c.), expertise in deception, impersonation and social engineering.
background: November 19, 1990. An unnamed fireteam of the 1st FORECON's deep recon platoon was compromised in the course of Operation Desert Shield. The four men were captured by enemy forces, but they braved the maltreatment in hopes that rescue would be close at hand. Week one. It was as bad as could be expected, but no worse than what they'd been taught to endure. They had every confidence that by this time next week, they'd be looking back on this as another one of life's experiences. Week two. Their bodies may be battered, but not their spirits. Never. Week three. They'd lost a good soldier and friend to these bastards. What was taking so long to plan an extraction? Week four. Any minute now. By week nine, it was clear even to the most hopeful of the surviving three that no one would be coming for them.

In the end, they planned and executed their own death-defying escape. Though miraculously alive, the experience proved particularly distressing for one man whose eidetic memory became an agonising burden. He remembered every second of his captivity in vivid detail and he couldn't ever forget. The three Marines, bound not only by their mutual brush with death, but also a shared sense of having been abandoned at best and betrayed at worst by their country, decided to strike it out on their own. Rather than report their survival to Uncle Sam, they formed a vigilante mercenary group, doing what needed to be done on behalf of those who didn't want to get their own hands dirty--including, but not limited to, recovery and black ops direct action, all for a modest fee. Nothing really had changed in essence, except that now they were getting paid much more handsomely for their services.

The problem was that the feel of the green Benjamins between the thumb and forefinger invariably led to greed and corruption in a business that was on the shadier side of the field to begin with. Before anyone knew it, the self-appointed leader of the team began to take on questionable contracts under carefully crafted pretexts of security threats in order to spare the more conscientious sentiments of his colleagues. The other two grew increasingly more uneasy, but it was only with the case of Katherine Walters that everything fell apart. Confronted by one Officer Winston on security detail of Miss Walters, the man who then called himself Christopher Chance agreed to help defend the target whom he had been sent to liquidate. Confirming his suspicions that the leader had gone crooked, Chance proceeded to track down the original client who had ordered the hit and served justice the only way he had served it for the past number of years. This effectively declared war against his former colleagues and despite having developed romantic intimacy with Walters, he chose to remove himself from her life for fear of retributions against her. However, this turned out to have been a bad call as men were sent against her anyways and Chance realised it too late to intervene.

Accepting Winston's proffered way out (of what, Chance never told), Chance titled himself a private security consultant and built up a reputation for being the best in the industry (he doesn't like to boast, but it's true) and having a strong--if not a little overly staunch--moral fibre. Considered reckless by, well, pretty much everyone, not even Winston fully comprehends the motivating forces behind his existence, though the latter has his theories based off the adrenaline rushes of high risk assignments sent their way. None of them hits the jackpot, but some of them aren't too far off the base either. Although the partnership is officially a two-man outfit, they are known often to team up with similar-minded specialists the likes of Guerrero and Charlie.
played-by: mark valley.
username/aim: chrischance / i pasticci.