<strong>Character Name:</strong>Shane "Mars" Marshall<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>At the age of 20, Shane is 5'10", has dark blue eyes and a crew cut of red hair, his well-toned, muscular body supports calloused hands, dark brown, weathered tan skin after spending a year in the deserts of Iraq, he had just been transferred to the mountains of Afghanistan. He wears boots, and brown army fatigues.<br/><br/><strong>Background: </strong>Graduating from high school, after growing up in small town USA, as the captain and quarterback of the football team, homecoming king and one of the most sought out boys, Shane's sense of duty to his country was overpowering. He joined the army and after a year of training, he became a member of the Special Forces. He was sent to Iraq immediately after training, where he excelled at soldiering.<br/><br/>Traits:<br/><strong>Special Forces (5):</strong>Trained in both hand-to-hand and many types of weapons, from machine guns to the garrote.<br/><strong>Man of his Word (4):</strong>Loyal and honest, once he has given his word on anything he will never go back on it.<br/><strong>Memory for details (3):</strong>Shane has a knack to remember the minutest of detail, he will know where the closest river is because he glanced at a map back at headquarters or every order he was given for a mission.<br/><br/><strong>Greatest Fear:</strong>Shane’s greatest fear is that he will have to kill another child. During one of the many raids in Iraq, a young boy armed a suicide bomb charged his patrol; he shot and killed the boy.<br/><strong>Frailty (tied to Mental Survival):</strong>A woman’s scream, regardless if they are friend or foe, will bring him back to the torture he had to perform in Iraq.<br/><strong>Needful thing:</strong>Dog tags<br/>