<br/><div class="floatleft">(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6674/67221819.png)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br/><strong>  Character Name:  </strong>Jacob (Jake) Daniel<br/><br/><strong>  Nationality:  </strong>American, with various other nationalities mixed in.<br/><br/><strong>  Age:  </strong>28<br/><br/><strong>  Appearance:  </strong><br/><br/>  Short, brownish hair, brown eyes, handsome features<br/>  Height: 6’2” <br/>  Weight: 200 lbs<br/>  Very athletically fit, toned, lean and muscular build<br/><br/> <br/><br/><strong>Training/skills/specific knowledge or experience:  </strong><br/>In the Marines, Jacob had worked his way up to become a rather skilled marks man. The Marine Corps taught him stern discipline. And being a pretty outdoorsy person, Jacob knew how to survive in the wilderness – wilderness not filled with blood thirsty cannibals.<br/>The only information he’d had about Europe was that it had been a poison, and little did he know that that ‘poison’ would turn humans into living monsters…<br/> </span></span><br/><div class="floatright">(http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/750/2006391742814024.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br/><strong>Background:  </strong><br/>Jacob had been born into a well off family. His mother had been a lawyer, and his father a Colonel in the Army. Perhaps that had been why he had chosen to join the armed forces after college. To follow in his father’s footsteps. Jacob attended the University of Washington, and was able to finish his studies one year earlier than usual, due to attending school full time and taking courses over the summer.<br/>Right after college, instead of pursuing his career of choice, Jacob spent three years in the Marine Corps after he was finished with college. The Marines brought him all kinds of training, and whipped into the best shape of his life. After the three years in the Marines, Jacob was offered a position to work with Xe Services LLC, also known as Blackwater, a private military security firm, in other words, the largest mercenary firm in the world at the time. Blackwater offered a nice paycheck, which had been the primary reason Jacob had joined in the first place. Blackwater had a thing for special agents, as it was primarily Army Rangers, Special Forces, and Marines that were hired.<br/>Blackwater had been putting its business in foreign affairs for years, hence why they’d dispatched a team over-seas to help secure the borders of Europe. But in the process, the plane Jacob had been on had crash landed somewhere in Germany – somewhere near Bonn.<br/><strong>Languages:  </strong><br/>Completely fluent in English and somewhat fluent in Spanish, French, and some German from high school elective courses.<br/> <strong>Personality:  </strong><br/>Boy scout up until high school, Jacob had always been an outdoors type of person, whether it be camping, hiking, or dirt biking in the mountains. He had also been fascinated with machines – cars to be exact, hence his ability to fix anything when it came to automobiles. Had that been a better paying field, he would have easily pursued that as opposed to joining the armed forces.<br/><br/><strong>Behavior under Stress:  </strong><br/>Having been in the Military for the past 7 years, Jacob has learned to handle almost any situation he comes across. Because if he stressed out under the job, someone would die, and something like that just couldn’t happen in his line of work. Though, the outbreak in Europe had definitely crept under his skin for the first couple months he’d been in Europe.<br/><strong>Weapons, equipment etc.:  </strong><br/>(Primarily weapons from the crashed airplane)<br/> M86 Sniper Rifle  (http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1635/dsr13083.jpg),  Glock Model 22  (http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8388/g22w.jpg),  M4A1 Carbine  (http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4371/m4options.jpg),  Butterfly Knife  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balisong_%28knife%29),  Survival Knife  (http://www.teraasekeskus.com/images/extra/RamboSurvivalKnife.jpg), as well as other basic supplies from the crashed airplane. Food rations to last years, but a lack of water, hence one of the reason for Jacob leaving the crash site.</span></span>