Characters that don't get their own articles because I don't have money for premium membership or whatever it's called.

Content/Trigger Warning: These are characters that I, me and myself came up with. It might just be the case that these backstories are a contagious cognito-hazard that will cause you to need therapy, or intensify your need for therapy. I probably need therapy myself, but the therapists keep killing themselves before we're even 10 minutes into a session - and that's when they have alcohol on hand.

This list is gonna get a lot longer so a general rule is "be prepped for some messed up shit": so far we've got murder of children, pedophilia, swear words, kidnapping, family courts, harvesting of human albino flesh due to superstitious beliefs regarding it, physical, sexual, alcoholism, murder, war, blackmail, Aramis being a bit of an asshole - even if the freedom of humanity is a pretty good thing to be an asshole for, theft, disrespect of the dead, calling out Debi and Micheal Pearl for the scum and second-hand child murderers that they are, psychological and emotional child abuse, abuse of both lesser and hard drugs and murder committed by children.

Feel free to ask questions ranging from "wtf is wrong with you?" to "what's 9+10?" to every other imaginable question. Or just stroke my ego I like it when someone does that as well.

^{The Early Early Human-Goner War:}

Ebba

Appearance: 5'4, blonde, muscular, blue eyes, rarely smiles or frowns.

Is an member of Swedish nobility and grew up with her adopted sister, who was adopted for the sake of positive public feedback, and 3 older sisters. Massively enjoyed videogames, especially VR 1st-person shooters, partially because it was a means of getting away from her overbearing siblings and parents that led to a feedback loop of "they don't like me" -> "play more games to avoid them and distract myself from their overbearingness" -> "they become more overbearing and criticise me" -> "if I stop playing they "win" plus I enjoy playing anyway".

So, 2026 arrives. This was a year in which 70,000 people were killed across Europe and North America in terrorist attacks carried out by Boko Haram, a West African Islamic terrorist group, under the command of their ambitious and ruthless new leader, who was able to take control of the government of Chad and large portions of both Niger and Nigeria with the UN doing very little about this.

The retaliation from this was huge. Boko Haram was more or less crushed under the sheer force of NATO, EUCM (European Union Combined Military), CWCM (CommonWealth Combined Military, which only existed unofficially for Antarctic operations but was quickly officialised during this) and forces within Africa itself.

Ebba and her sisters, pushed by her parents confirming to them that the power of nepotism would ensure that none of them actually saw combat, joined the EUCM.

Ebba did too well in training for her own good, not least because of those VR shooter games she played. She was diverted to Antarctica and was in the same unit as Marcus, Pablo and Sienna. Aramis helped their unit during their last defensive battle and was added as a member when they were sent to South Africa due to the arrival of the Goners.

Godelieve

Appearance: mixed race, brownish hair, glasses, braces

She got degrees in linguistics and computer programming, wanting to integrate google translate into videogames so that people of all languages could play and actually know what was happening. She succeeded.

When the Goners showed up, her father was conscripted and died at the first human-Goner battle. Aramis used a photo of her in an IKEA cosplay at an SCP convention to find her as a means of getting into the team the Goners organized of humans and Goners making cross-communication possible, including adding the Goner language to google translate.

She agreed to get Aramis a copy of the program so that he could use it to interrogate a kidnapped Goner and learn about the Goner Empire to decide whether or not he would hinder its progress.

Tania Pilgrim

Appearance: light brown hair, green eyes, has a birth mark underneath her left eye.

Had a pretty normal childhood, aside from her being a giant nerd, in Texas until she was 13, when both of her parents were conscripted for being too physically fit and sent to fight the Goners. They both died in the first Goner vs human encounter, which made her perfect for being grabbed by NATO and trained+drugged into a super-soldier to use the increasingly advanced War Wolf suits.

She was deployed aged 17 to Spain when the Goners broke the Peace of Africa and would later serve under Aramis's military forces as part of the British Army.

Leonardo

Fun fact: his favourite ninja turtle as a kid was Leonardo. Guess why.

Nobody knows his backstory, only that he liked Leonardo the ninja turtle. He seems completely normal, but then does ridiculous things like taking out a squad of 5 Goners with a crate full of hula hoops and a fire axe, or that time he mindlessly chugged 20 pints of beer, urinating as he did it (ew).

Hayata

Due to a falcon shitting on her mother's head as her water broke, Hayata's mother had her named Hayata, despite her father wanting her to have a normal name. Her mother left both Hayata and Hayata's dad, without contact details, when Hayata was 7. Hayata, in defiance of her mother having previously tried to make her more girlish, became even more of a tomboy than before, pushed further into her tomboyishness by the girls at her school being assholes.

Tomboyishness includes: learning to sword fight, learning to fist fight, learning to foot fight, having a pixie cut (that's it there's no hiding it I love pixie cuts), learning to pistol fight, being a piece of weeb trash and learning outdoors survival.

Aged 19, she accidentally ended up in Asian Egypt, which was annexed by the United Arab Emirates because "YUMMY AND EASY", after a hangover from drinking with her friends. She was not with any of her friends. They were in China because they'd drunkenly gotten onto a different boat.

After some run-ins with Goners, she's added to Aramis's forces with the near-suicidal role of wielding "disciplinary weapons", used by the Military Police of the Goners (that's the policers of the Goners, btw) which can circumvent kinetic shielding, against Goner soldiers. Just to clarify... these were melee weapons.

Tuma

He joined the Lion Brothers, a group of poachers, because his mother was sick, his father absent, and his little sisters hungry.

He was conscripted to be used in the first human-Goner battle and was tasked by the Lion Brothers to bring loot, including Goner corpses, from the battlefield to be sold at high prices. Instead, Aramis kidnapped him, injected him with nanobots that could release cyanide into his bloodstream at any time, and then used him to get the injection into the Lion Brothers, essentially forcing them all to join Aramis's forces.

Amira

Appearance: Mixed Arab and African, straight hair that is always tied back, keeps formal posture -> pixie cut (guys help I think my books are just gonna turn into an advertisement for getting pixie cuts), leaning on everything that can be leaned on, has a fist tattoo on her left wrist.

Story: The daughter of a Moroccan politician, she was set to be taken in as a hostage and sent to the hostage base all the way in South Africa to ensure her father's compliance with the Goner regime.

She had other ideas, sneaking out with her babysitter/best friend/oh yeah you bet they're gay for each other later, who was her age (funny story: Amira had few friends and this babysitter was a glorified hired friend, who was rewarded with pay, her family not getting evicted from their home and getting to attend a world-class boarding school with Amira. They eventually became actual friends).

She joined a rebel group. They told Aramis they planned to use her as a nuclear suicide bomber, but needed one of his nukes for that (oh yeah this guy gets nukes). After a great deal of thought, being 2 sleepless and psycho-drug-heavy nights of him struggling to force himself to give the go-ahead in which he kept this plan secret from everyone else, he gave them the nuke.

She was more than willing to die for the cause of stopping the Goners, and was handed in to the Goners with the nuke still in her belly. Her "babysitter" was sent to Aramis's army under the lie of Amira being sent there.

She was brought to the Main Goner Base. She sprinted to being just within range of a nuclear reactor to trigger a chain event within it as she exploded herself, destroying the base and everything within it: almost all of the hostages the Goners had taken, setting back their repair of their only repairable ship, tonnes of confiscated nuclear weapons... look the point is that this was a massive blow to the Goners.

RIP Amira.

Adom Madbouly

Appearance: Dark-skinned black, quite short, rather skinny at first but grows muscular, has a fist tattooed on his shoulder that he got while a member of Aramis's forces.

Whole story since his backstory is less interesting than his full one: This bad boy was born in Egypt, but was among those that Egypt, along with other countries, conscripted when the Goners first showed up while the bulk of its military was sent to the Human Alliance encirclement of the area in which the Goners were fighting among themselves.

Overall, Egypt conscripted 1 in every 5 men aged 18-25 and put them through intensive training while the soldiers that had already been trained sat around the Goner camp.

He was, to say the least, concerned by how the Goners, after losing two thirds of their forces to crash-landing, followed by a third of what remained to infighting, utterly smashed the encirclement force and did so without having to concentrate their forces, instead uniformly deploying them outwards to eliminate the human forces as quickly as possible.

Then, when the Goners took Namibia and when communications were established, the Goners claimed that they only wanted Africa.

Egypt was in Africa... or it was mostly, at least.

He was then deployed as part of the African Defense Force, which was fueled exclusively by African nations and volunteer fighters from beyond humanity's birthplace, and was able to consistently survive battles by playing dead, but ultimately would always have to return to the African Defense Force for food as he lacked the wilderness survival skills to survive on his own and families that would've shown him hospitality were almost utterly stripped of all their stuff as part of a Goner scheme to force everyone to move to the cities for free rations.

Then, on one glorious day, he encountered the unit of General Aramis. Human commanders were always more skilled in strategy than Goner ones, with some exceptions going either way, but Aramis took this quite a number of steps further.

He didn't merely think outside the box, he cut it up to make an origami dragon of incredible and hilarious tactics from the weaponisation of steel hula hoops to wear down and confuse Goner forces (their kinetic shielding would make anything thrown at them be yeeted away with great momentum but what if they were encircled by a hula hoop? -> hula hoop hits their shielding lots of times from many angles -> wears down shielding + the Goner is very confuzzled) to training up a 100-strong army of snipers who would each fire on a different Goner when their shielding was turned off.

Adam Madbouly watched, participated and learned. He could compete on a similar level to Aramis tactically, knew his tricks, and would provide a lot of sting when he turned on Aramis.

The Goners captured what of Egypt was in Africa. Adam Madbouly's family was taken hostage and all of Aramis's army was informed, specifically to let Adam know, that they were holding them hostage and he had to go to them if he wanted them to live.

Aramis agreed to this under the condition that Madbouly have a nuclear bomb put inside his stomach and act as a suicide bomber, with Aramis promising to rescue Madbouly's family in the confusion it would cause.

Madbouly learned that Aramis had no intention of saving his family through a mixture of intuition and looking over Aramis's strategy. Essentially, Aramis was just using Madbouly to destroy a major Goner supply depot because, as Aramis put it: "I'll admit that I like all of you, but that won't stop me from sacrificing you if the moment calls for it."

The thing that angered Madbouly here wasn't his life being sacrificed, but the dishonesty and fact that his family wouldn't be saved. Due to this, he swallowed a "micro-disarmer" stolen from Tekkie and then activated it, causing it to disarm the nuclear bomb inside of him. He fully swapped over to the Goners and Aramis's forces, which were expecting to fight radiation-ridden and ill Goners and human traitors, but instead found them fully prepared for them.

Amira did a boom-boom and Madbouly's family were killed in the blast. Madbouly, having betrayed his friends to protect his family, now had no friends or family besides some of the Goners. He went to the Supply Depot that he'd defended from Aramis's forces, having never removed the nuclear bomb and been living off of highly distilled liquids for several months, and used a reactor to set off the nuke and add to its boom-power, destroying the supply depot right as the Goners were using it to ready for an invasion of Asia and Europe, setting them back a month and reducing the material they had to work with so that the defenses Britain, Denmark, Russia, India and China had made would be sufficient, even if only after the Goner forces had been worn down by the many, many other nations the Goners would crush underfoot.

Petra

Appearance: Red-eyed albino. Pale af (Daenarys isn't an albino, albinos are pale af). Has a very messy pixie cut that's barely short enough to be considered a pixie cut.

She ended up at the same child brothel as Egan during a "transfer between foster care homes", being in a foster home because her single mother was a drug addict who attempted to smother Petra in public when she was 5 while high, as a result of a vicious fight in which she caused the other child to go permanently blind in one eye with a rock after they broke her leg.

Please refer to Egan's backstory for knowledge about the escape. Regarding Petra on it: she was suspicious that Egan was actually trying to snake people out to Mama but, deciding that she might as well die if she couldn't escape, went with it. Her leg was fully healed and so not a problem when it came to escaping. Note: she was 12 during the escape, meaning she'd've had 3 more years before being killed if she hadn't gone with Egan, who had almost no time left.

After leaving Egan and the settlement, she returned to her and her mother's house to find that another family had moved in there. When she asked about it, they immediately called the police under the belief that she must've run away from a foster home. She skidaddled.

She found her uncle, who informed her that her mother had overdosed while she was gone, and stayed with him while they initiated a big brain plan:

Her uncle had a long-distance relationship with a woman in the US of A (they were in the UK).

Greencards are a thing.

Her uncle, who I should now mention wasn't an albino, although his sister was, explained, with some lies sprinkled in, that Petra's mother had died some years back (true), that Petra was then living with her stepfather (false, no such stepfather existed), and that Petra was then put into her uncle's care just now because the stepfather was in prison for sexually abusing her (a means of explaining why Petra was so "shakey").

His girlfriend was very bad at concealing how she disliked Petra's presence in the dynamic, but ultimately chose to marry Petra's uncle anyway. Some lies and fake passports and papers later, Petra was classed as her uncle's daughter and as a US citizen.

After some months of "home schooling", in which she ruthlessly studied to be at the same level as other kids her age, she entered the US education system.

"HOLY SHIT WHAT THE CINNAMON TOAST FUCK IS THAT THING" - someone when they looked at Petra.

Just kidding everyone was curious and weirded out at first and then, much like when a kid in class has broken their leg and upwards of 3 days have passed, nobody really cared.

She got very into guns, cadets, martial arts and other things relating to dealing out and receiving injury, dreaming of one day killing all the staff and clients of the child's brothel. She went to the old monastery when she was 18 to find it burnt down. She recognized Egan's pyromaniacal muckery and, after loosing some bullets into what she rightly assumed to be Mama's skeleton and exploring the island in full over the course of several days, left.

She joined the FBI, working her way up to a unit that dealt specifically with abuse of children, especially sexual.

On one occasion, there was another brothel like the one she'd been in off the coast of China, in which she opened fire on multiple clients as they were doing things that warranted fire being opened upon them, losing her job as a result because one isn't supposed to kill the pedos unless they resist arrest or try to run away, whereas she was making them drop like flies immediately. Oh, and she broke jurisdiction by going to China for this as it was meant to be dealt with by Chinese authorities, who she didn't trust to actually keep those they captured imprisoned rather than let them go and blackmail them with the information of them being pedophiles.

So, where does one go from there? The The Arctic/Antarctic War of course! She was brought into the CIA, added to a unit of 20 soldiers that included Olivia Johnson, and yeeted into Arctic warfare for a while before the Goners showed up, at which point she was part of the general human forces that were smashed to bits in the first human vs Goner battle.

Egan

Appearance: Scrawny redhead lad with bonkers hair. Born in 1999.

Backstory:

When he was 7, his father was killed and his mother permanently paralyzed due to a car accident. As his parents hadn't registered his existence, this made him very vulnerable to kidnapping. He was kidnapped. Duh.

And where else do lil' peeps that get kidnapped end up? *checks list*... well definately not good places and that definitely applies here because he was taken to an old monastery that had been raided by Vikings and never re-furbished (or so everyone thought) on an island several miles off of the coast of Mayo, one of if not the most thinly populated segment of Ireland.

This monastery was, in effect, a child brothel for the ridiculously rich.

Of course, no sane, even if still intelligent (intelligence is only good if you don't use it to ruin people's lives, sociopaths), individual would run such a place. It was run by several individuals but the face the kids saw most often was that of a woman who made them call her "Mama". She did not view them as people. She viewed them as assets and cute pets, in that order.

Nonetheless, she was able to brainwash pretty much all the kids, while what few were able to see through the deception kept quiet to avoid being snitched out by the brainwashed kids. Egan was one of those who kept quiet.

Kids that attempted to escape were punished with beatings, electric shock and waterboarding. Children that reached 15 years of age were killed and fed to feral pigs on the woods of the island, not to the knowledge of the brainwashed children who were told that they were being sent to work for the Vatican. Egan found this out during an escape attempt, which ended in him sneaking back in to avoid being killed and eaten by the pigs.

On top of this, children were put onto regimes to make them physically fit and healthy, even if not mentally so, and taught to act as if they enjoyed, as most didn't, being pimped out. This was so that higher prices could be charged for their use. They all had numbers tattooed onto their wrists and the napes of their necks, in order of when they were acquired, with Egan's number being 704.

Nonetheless, he wanted to escape. He thought his mother had just been knocked unconscious rather than that she was in a permanent coma and had had the plug pulled on her, resulting in her pretty predictable death, just a few weeks into Egan's presence at the monastery. He wanted to go back to her.

He got in Mama's good books. He cooked. He cleaned. He lit her fireplace. She reduced the frequency with which he was molested as a "reward", by putting up the price on him with the claim that his red hair made him a special "delicacy". Fucking hell what is wrong with me how do I come up with this I should get therapy.

This put him in the perfect position to acquire matches, food supplies, knives, highly flammable alcohol, a flare and still-perfectly-flammable expired cooking oil. Perfect for an escape. He waited until he was 14.

During this time, he tried to see who he could and couldn't get to escape with him. He could tell who wanted to stay and go, but not who would be brave enough to take the leap or, more dangerous, might inform Mama of this with the hopes of being allowed to live longer, be sexually abused less, or get some other "privilege" that should really be a right.

He found 3 he was willing to leave with. They did what they could to gather more supplies before initiating a plan.

Egan set fire to strategic points in the monastery to avoid killing other children, but without concern for the lives of the staff, in order to make a distraction. Trails of expired cooking oil of specific lengths, mixed with strong alcohol that Egan had taken some of and replaced with water, were used to cause a simultaneous effect. This basically meant setting fires outside of the doors of every staff member.

This is where it went wrong.

In case the children rebelled, the bedroom of each staff member, of which there were 7, contained a hidden pistol, baton, fire extinguisher, and the upper half of a riot suit.

Egan, out of spite, left an especially large amount of his flammable concoction outside of Mama's door. The popping of floorboards woke her up and the inward flow of smoke told her she didn't have time to don everything. She threw her stuff through her window, followed by a mattress, before jumping out and landing on the mattress. She left the extinguisher behind, and the visor of her helmet was too smoky to see through, so she left it as well. In other words, she had a pistol, baton and riot jacket.

Children were running around, confused as to why Mama had an gun and everything was on fire. A pair of opportunists joined Egan's group.

They were running down the dock of the island, towards the boat of a client, when Mama caught up to them. She shot 3 of them, considered "replaceables", then threw her pistol behind her before going in with her baton.

Those that remained sprinted onto the boat.

The captain of the ship, doubling as the bodyguard of the client, went around the ship to investigate the noise that had woken him up. When he saw Egan, after a moment of hesitation, he lunged at Egan.

This was right as Mama came aboard. Egan was pinned down and 2 children were quickly left sobbing on the ground with broken bones by Mama when she went in on a red-eyed albino girl called Petra.

Petra ran over to where Egan was pinned down and dropped a knife into Egan's hands as she tackled the captain. Her vision wasn't good enough for her to pull this off.

Egan launched himself upwards, with his knife going right into Mama's neck. It missed her trachea (airpipe), but blood-loss is still a thing that exists. She stumbled backwards and off the boat, onto the docks.

They saw some other staff coming, equally armed with pistols.

They mashed whatever they thought would work. Eventually, the ship jogged forwards. When it started moving, the staff started firing, although they didn't do any significant damage.

They crash-landed on the Irish coast. Petra the albino and Egan the ginger left their 2 friends behind with blankets, tinder, matches and food from the ship to search for a settlement.

After 8 days of camping, walking and drinking filthy water once their bottles ran out, they found a settlement. They stole some bikes, getting back to the ship in mere hours to find the boat gone. They went back to the settlement.

They was taken in. He was able to convince his hosts, who claimed that he was their distant cousin, not to report him or her to the authorities, rightly believing that there were politicians involved in the pedo-brothel and that he was at risk of being sent back and the family "silenced". Petra left anyway.

During his time there, he became a pyromaniac. He'd gained an obsession with fire from how it had kept him and his friends alive, as well as allowing their escape. He loved the contradiction in how it was so destructive and yet so vital to survival. To him, the fires he secretly made deep in the damp woods were art.

However, one night, it was especially cold that winter and his coat had already been torn apart by the family dog the night before. Because of this, he didn't go to the woods but instead went to the hayloft.

Despite his expertise on fire safety, a strong wind came through and yeeted some hay onto the fire. The wind quickly spread the fire across the house and Egan was barely able to save the family who he'd been living with, although the dog died from carbon monoxide poisoning after attempting to save a toy it had initially left behind in the house.

The parent-hosts, much to the dismay of their children, kicked him out. At this point, he was 16.

After registering as an Irish citizen and revealing the scandal, which was ultimately covered up, he was faced with the threat of being killed by politicians, businessmen and church officials that had been clients of the child brothel, having to live on the run.

One day, he was in a cafe, having cut and dyed his hair black to avoid being recognized, when he got caught up in a conversation with with an old veteran of the Irish Troubles. There he learned that the best place to go to run away from things was the military, as this old veteran had done escaping to Ireland from North Ireland to avoid prosecution for bombings he carried out.

Joining the Irish military was suicide. He'd be noticed. Registered. Killed.

The British military, however...

He used the open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland to get UK citizenship, followed by joining the British military. Eventually, he ended up in the SAS.

However, his troubles would catch up to him, as there were more than plenty of British politicians that had been clients of the child brothel.

This time, however, when he went on the run, he was hunting.

He found the home of a businessman in London, broke in and threatened the businessman into revealing the home addresses of several politicians Egan had seen on the news that had paid to use him back in his time at the child brothel. Egan claimed he was just working for an assassin, even reassuring the businessman that he'd live if he never told anyone of their exchange. Egan then, as casually as possible to make it seem like he didn't care, asked the businessman if he'd ever used the brothel. The businessman said he hadn't. Egan left.

Egan interrogated and then killed all of those politicians. He got more addresses, and kept going with his bloody system for 2 days before having to stop because authorities had caught on and were like "yo no idea why someone is killing politicians, probably hired by those damn Cornish or something, but I want every potential target's house turned into Home Alone 12, Nuclear Renaissance."

Regardless, he was able to find out that Mama had survived. The fact that the knife had stayed in the wound had greatly reduced blood-loss and she'd been treated by the other staff.

When he went to the island under cover of darkness with a dartgun and tranquilizers he stole from London Zoo, lots of gasoline and petrol from various petrol stations across Ireland, a stolen boat, matches, rope, several knives, knuckle dusters on each hand and a few bottles of water cos you gotta stay hydrated guys.

He darted and then tied up everyone there. Kids were dragged onto the boat, staff were tied up in the main room of the monastery, along with lots of gasoline. Mama, who had been stuck wearing a neck brace for the rest of her days, got the "privilege" of being in a chair and the last to burn. He made sure they were all thoroughly awake before starting the fire and leaving the monastery to burn in a much harsher fire than before. After that, he took the kids and made fake papers, passports, medical records, birth certificates and so on for them before dropping them off into adoptive families whose parents looked similar to them across the world.

Afterwards, he donned a fox mask and became a mercenary, mostly defending ships that were passing through pirate-loaded areas like the Red Sea. He became known for both it and the terrifying M1A1 Flamethrower he used.

However, he felt what could be considered a higher calling when a world-threatening plague broke out in China. The Chinese authorities hired him to "deal with it", alongside a mixture of other mercenaries and Russian, North Korean, Chinese, American and French troops (secretly. Each sent in small task forces), which he did very effectively. Corpses which had been cooked couldn't spread the disease, unlike those which had been shot. It was during this that he was able to acquire his iconic fire-gun, which was essentially a flamethrower with a machine gun and bayonet attached to it, and his oxygen gas helmet, which could filter smoke and was just as heat-proof as his armour, allowing him to fight in the midst of the flames as he burned villages to the ground.

The infected, not wanting to die, having guns for dealing with wild animals and staying healthy for weeks after the infection, during which they could transfer the disease, fought back. They were completely overwhelmed and massacred, with Egan impressing the governments of those nations quite a bit with his work. He stayed anonymous, going by the nickname of "Toasty" to avoid rustling the jimmies of anyone else who'd been a client of the child brothel.

For this reason, they were quick to hire him, and all other mercenaries they could find, when the Goners (3-4 foot tall lizard/velociraptor people) showed up. He figured out how to lure Goners into large areas of dry grass and set them aflame as a way of massacring large numbers of Goners at once, coming to be utterly feared by the Goners.

Andrew:

Appearance: Grey-brown dreadlocks and numerous tattoos, mostly relating to either weed, Scooby Doo, or both. Yep, he's a hippie. Aged 73.

Backstory: Having been raised in traditional suburbia by a father who believed that canes and belts were the most effective and healthy tools of discipline, it is a surprise to absolutely nobody that he ran away to his maternal aunt's place and became a goth when he was 14. Neither of his parents cared to pick him up, fearing the social embarrassment of it being revealed that their child had become a Satan-worshiper (he hadn't but boomers be boomers).

Eventually, he mellowed out quite a bit and came to prefer the calm and peace of hanging out with hippies over the feedback loop of depression, cringe, or both that came with hanging out with most of the goths, who were really into the whole "blackness of my heart" stuff rather than just being a buncha peeps that like wearing black and like to chill with one another like most do today. Due to this, and his love of weed, he became a hippie.

He continued his hippieness all the way to the human-Goner war, in which he was conscripted for his mechanical skills to build and repair tanks, planes, mechs and so on. Initially, he didn't like the idea of this, so they showed him a video of Goner commanders killing humans in the countryside for sport, including some children. After that, he worked tirelessly. Despite this, he always hoped that peace and understanding would be met with the aliens, even if this... didn't exactly happen. He made the War Wolf combat suits and helped in the original blueprints.

Olivia Johnson

Appearance: Look up "Infinity Train Amelia Hughes"... it's a coincidence I swear.

Ever read the book "To Train Up A Child"? It's been linked to the deaths of multiple children. Her parents followed it quite avidly.

Literal, physical, scars, as well as the far more numerous mental ones, aside, Olivia had a middle+high-school sweetheart who she ditched her family for (both understandable and sensible... that's the family ditching part) and married when she graduated. Fun fact: marrying your highschool sweetheart is only a good idea when you've both finished college and are financially stable... actually marriage in general is only a good idea if you have a prenup and are absolutely certain, and that's with actually whipping out lists and seeing which boxes they tick (please include things other than physical attraction. Yes it's necessary but so is financial stability, getting along, neither of you being likely to become abusive, cheat, get clingy or neglect the relationship).

Speaking of college, she and her husband couldn't get student loans because they didn't have the luck of meeting the criteria in the state they were in. Her family was rich enough, but refused. His family would've helped if they could, but they couldn't afford it.

And so they had a big brain idea: "Let's see... there are no wars that we are statistically likely to get roped into even if we join the military. The military is mostly being used to deal with rescue efforts with all these weather+flooding problems that the catch-up of global warming is smacking us with, so we'll basically just be rescue workers with guns... our college fees will be covered by the government... we should join the military."

*chuckles in The Arctic/Antarctic War*

They were each deployed separately in the Antarctic because of how well they performed in the physical and gunsmanship tests. He died in a skirmish with French forces that included General Aramis, she didn't die.

She was among the initial forces of NATO, UN, SCTO, CFSP, FPDA, NORAD, RSS and a tonne of others that surrounded the initial Goner camp to figure out what those darn lizards were shooting each other for and to act as a defense for it they decided they wanted to shoot humans instead.

She served under General Aramis after defecting from the USA military for its refusal to help Africa for 4 years before being informed of Aramis having killed her husband, with video evidence from her husband's head-cam showing Aramis lunging towards him with a knife after discovering that he'd run out of bullets.

You can guess what she did with that information.

Paporangi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_people_with_albinism#Tanzania

He's an albino. In Tanzania.

His mother died giving birth to him. His father only raised him begrudgingly until he was 13, at which point he and Paprangi's older siblings and younger half-siblings moved to the city to find work without him.

He was captured by sellers of albino meat, who kept him and several others locked up and would hack off parts of him as they were bought, cauterizing the wounds after. He had lost an arm, 2 legs and his cheek when those running the place were massacred.

The ones who did the massacring were the Goners. They shot and killed the 15 human guards without any casualties and brought Paporangi and the other albinos back to the Goner Central Base. The only survivor of the 2-day journey was Paporangi, while the others died from their wounds getting infected, dehydration and loss of will to live.

Goner Central Base was where Paporangi was given experimental robotic prosthetics by the Goners.

Aged 18, he decided he'd rather fight for those who'd saved him and returned what had been taken from him than those who'd abandoned, kidnapped and taken from him in the first place.

2nd Invasion:

Bjorn:

Appearance: 7'6 tall, 3'2 wide shoulders, extremely muscly, missing his right pinky-finger, has brown-blonde hair and green-blue eyes. Has glasses, but wears contacts during combat. Deceptively fast and accurate for his size.

He was an orphan

He enjoyed the fighting. He enjoyed it a lot. Especially melee.

Rambelo Rakotomalala

Appearance: dark skinned black, has tonnes of semi-swollen scarring around his left eye, black eyes, dummy thicc nose.

Backstory: Grew up on Madagascar, born just a few years before the 2nd Invasion during The entirety of the Human-Goner, and was lucky not to be killed by the nuclear blasts that the island was subjected to by the United Commonwealth when Goners used the island as a base of operations from which to invade Africa.

Nonetheless, the UCW took full control of Madagascar, which had previously just been unofficial control as Madagascar needed trade with the UCW but never previously became a member, and that radiation from the nukes was still there. Rambelo grew up in that radiation, with several years of his childhood being spent surrounded on all sides by plasma and bullets. His older brother died during this, and his father had never been around,

It's almost certainly due to this radiation that a tumour formed next to his left eye. His family simply couldn't afford to get it removed with private healthcare, and the queues for the national health service that the UCW instituted in the new member state were just too long for a working-class kid with an ultimately non-fatal problem to get any help beyond an hour-long checkup in which he and his mother were informed that removing the growth outside of a controlled medical environment would kill him due to the amount of bloodloss it would incur. Since it was non-fatal, Madagascar's NHS had more pressing concerns than removing it.

The remainder of his childhood sucked. Any touching of the swell, even him just turning his head at slightly faster than moderate speed, would cause incredible pain to the tumour and surrounding parts of his face. On several occasions, it was used as a means of bullying him as other children only had to poke it to send him into tears. This pushed him towards learning martial arts, in which he figured out how to move without incurring significant pain to his tumour, but it also made him a more viable candidate for the military despite the growth.

He was conscripted for use by the UCW. He initially resisted having the growth removed due to him considering it part of his identity, but a load of lectures on "it's not about you it's about humanity and you can help humanity by being a better soldier" eventually convinced him to allow it to be removed.

A nasty growth was replaced with nasty scars, and a tiny bit of the growth remaining has allowed for it to still have a presence on his face under the scar tissue, even if it's only a slight swelling compared to the built-up-over-years growth that had been on his face before.

Human Counterattack:

Himmata Embranthiri

Appearance: bleached white hair, very androgynous, short, very light brown skin, has a tattoo of a bird on her ankle

Being transgender in India sucks. Himmata, originally named Himmat, is transgender female (born male).

However, the mid and late 2060s and the 2070s, being during the 15 Year Peace Deals of The entirety of the Human-Goner, were a time of new horizons for the LGBT movement - that is, to say, the movement was sparking up after decades of being ignored due to the more pressing matter of humanity's potential enslavement by xenos, as humanity now had 15 years of military buildup and chill.

Himmata, against the wishes of her father, the only family member who knew of her being trans, who hoped that being transgender is a phase (while this could technically be considered true for gender-fluid peeps, it's also the case for them that they can re-enter the "phase"), attended an LGBT rally in a dress when she was 13. On her way home, she was assaulted by a gang who beat her, cut her balls off and stuffed them in her mouth. Death was only avoided due to the interference of her older brother, who'd been brought with her father before they split up to search for her, with a metal pipe. Himmata was half dragged and half carried to a hospital, where a doctor had to stop treating a patient's broken arm due to the unwillingness of the other doctors in the hospital to help Himmata.

Here's the thing about testicles: they're what produce most of the testosterone in men. Here's the thing about testosterone: it's necessary for male puberty. This basically resulted in Himmata being androgynous and quite small, being only a little larger than she would've been if that Y chromosome had been swapped out for an X in the womb.

Then Himmata, as someone legally recognized as a male in the Indian Republics and now over the age of 16, was part of the 95% of the male population that was conscripted while women were encouraged to receive sperm in vials from their husbands at war, or, if they were single, to get artificially inseminated anyway.

Himmata was put on drugs, but not the fun kind, in addition to a training course in which she chose to focus far more on cardio than weights. This basically resulted in extremely strong movement-related, but not weight-related, mucles in a small and still quite light frame, which is a funny way of saying Himmata is *fast as fucc boi*, jumps to challenge Olympic high-jumpers and is a brilliant climber: simply put, much mobility.

Why much mobility? Initially, because Himmata wants to be dodging those slow-ass plasma bolts rather than being made to look like the human equivalent of Swiss cheese, but later it's just that Himmata loves the fighting style she ends up fitting into and the adrenaline rush it lets her live out.

Some more stuff happens but let's not spoil things too much.

Welter

Appearance: Has a double-claw tattoo on his neck matching that of those humans who were indoctrinated and used by the Goners as children, wears long black robes, has black hair and tanned skin.

Backstory: Was one of those that was indoctrinated