<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">Blackjack</span><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/68/CharacterFortune.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Seth Lengheardt<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Male<br/><strong>BattleMech:</strong>ON1-M Orion<br/><strong>Homeworld:</strong>Marik<br/><strong>Original Faction:</strong>Marik<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Seth is a very, very troubled man. He's quiet, haunted, and has trouble making friends easily, and has allowed precious few through the walls surrounding this, his current lancemates among them. Normally though the extent of his socializing is using his looks and wit to get a standard stream of one night stands before he goes out on missions. In combat however he becomes chatty, almost to the point that his lancemates have thought about muting his comm, but cannot due to his expert evaluations and situational awareness amidst the stream-of-consciousness thinking. Once the gunfire has ceased though, he fills out his report punctually and returns to his bunk, usually warding off all but the most serious friendly advances for a post-mission drink with a cool stare before walking off without a word.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Seth started out his military career as the standard spoiled rich son of a business executive, his pomp and privilege masking his otherwise high-functioning sociopathy. It took no small amount of military life to finally iron out those flaws, but it left him... Changed. He went to a university for business, and was supposed to take over his father's place on the board of trustees so that he could retire, but instead joined the military the day he graduated. He did this as a way to rebel, but his father wouldn't let his son become a common field grunt, and instead sunk a portion of his investments into buying his son a 'mech - A top-of-the-line, freshly upgraded version of a trusted design (Kerensky used the Orion on Terra, so what's good enough for Kerensky is good enough for his son.) It was the only thing he could think to do to protect his son before they had a vicious, nearly violent fight which ended with Seth being disowned.<br/><br/>Seth threw himself into mechwarrior training after that, earning special commendations with honors for deftly piloting his Orion "Seababy" through several engagements. The Orion is not exactly a "sniper"s choice, but it does have significant potency as a command mech, especially when piloted by someone with as all-encompassing situational awareness as Seth. When it came time to "re-up" in Marik's famed volunteer army, however, he dropped out, choosing to see what trouble he and Seababy could get into as paid mercenaries instead.<br/><br/>Between his natural aptitude in combat and the mech he pilots, he was a natural pick to eventually lead a scrappy lance of mercs, his only drawback being his natural anti-sociability. As of late though this has become less and less pronounced, and many would attribute this "softening" to be his close relationship with the "comms" mechwarrior in his lance, Nicky. They started out how Seth always starts his interaction with a woman: an intense night very soon after Nicky had joined the unit. During the combat soon afterwards though, he learned that he couldn't just ignore this one like he had others before her, their battle effectiveness demanded that they work closely, and though this has been a change for Seth, it's been one that has saved both of their lives countless times since. She has her own demons, so they really match up well, and though it is not a regular thing (they prefer to keep their relationship more of a "familial" close than romantically so) she has been the only woman in Seth's life that he has slept with more than once, their closeness and occasional need for mutual comfort overcoming better judgement. This closeness has worked out very well for Seth particularly though, her willingness to hit him up the side of his head when he's being an idiot definitely helping bring him back to earth when he'd tempted to detach himself from his lance completely.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Quiet, incredibly hard to perturb, and a perpetual loner, Seth seems repressed, but in all honesty he just doesn't care about a lot of things. When it comes to the bedroom though he tends to let everything out, knowing that more than likely he'll never see the girl again anyway.<br/><br/><strong>Specialty Skills:</strong>Hand-to-hand combat, cooking, and in his spare time he enjoys the solitary life of bowhunting. He's a skilled survivalist and loner, and during his time in the army discovered that he's also a deadeye infantry sniper.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">BattleMech Characteristics:</span>This image is painted on the left thigh of his mech, along with 15 mech kill markers. He arrogantly doesn't keep track of vehicle kills: (http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTotKawscb_Hvii7F_rbRNAWuuGGap_GYcn5dwcyB0Y7T84QPwMSU58VJmCIw)(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/57/Orion.jpg)