Original Idea/Character/ and OOC thread: Link (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=51544.0)<br/><br/>(Saturday, 7:00 PM, Officer Koutai's home)<br/><br/>Arex Koutai slowly got out of bed, while most people in the city were settling in for the night. Arex was getting ready for work. Stepping into the shower and getting hot water on him, he started running through today's meaning in his head. It was his first day as an officer with NOOSE. Although he was the commander for the bureau in LC, he was still nervous. Getting out of the shower and drying himself off he went to the closet and started putting on his uniform with care. Making sure every part of it was picture perfect. Next came his duty belt. It had served him well the past few years, through dirt, grime, mud, and rain it went with him, carrying the necessary tools of the trade. Carrying the single most powerful item in his possession, his pistol. Able to permanently remove a living thing from the face of the earth, with it he carried an awesome responsibility. After examining it he slowly loaded the magazine into the weapon, hearing the click of the lock. Then pressing the side button he saw and heard the slide lock into place. It was ready to fire at an instant. He put it in its holster and locked it in. Next he added his handcuffs, riot prod, mace, extra magazines, his taser, and finally his radio, turning it on and putting the microphone wire behind his back and hooking the microphone on to his chest for easy use. Next came his gold and silver police badge, attaching it to his uniform. The word "Patrol" emblazoned below the seal. Finally came his boots, worn with years of use but still effective. They had seen many different types of terrian and use, but they always came through for him. He ate a quick meal and some afternoon news. Before taking the keys to his car and leaving the house, turning on the alarm and turning off the lights. In front of the house rested his squad car, recently back from the mechanic and ran like new. Walking to the car only took a few seconds, but for him it seemed like an eternity, all the years of police duty going through his mind and where he had been. He was not scared, he had been before, but he was hardened now, ready to do his duty and protect the city from eating itself. Before he got inside the car, he put his duty bag in the truck and pulled out his Beretta tactical shotgun, pumping it to load a new shell and took it inside the cabin and locked it into its holder. Starting the car and starting his drive to HQ.<br/><br/>As Arex drove his police car through the almost empty downtown streets his mind began to reflect to his first day. the same day that LCPD called "Hell Week" a period in the city's history that crime rattled the city and where good cops were few and far between, corruption had sunk into the city's core and rotted it from the inside. The crime in this city almost reached a point where the president had to call in the military. As a first day trainee Arex had almost no experience with police work and one of the rare good cops as his mentor. What most cops refer to as a bad day was a cake walk for Arex. He had seen half the city burning with fire and riot. criminals running free in prisons and jails. Those days starting to flashback to him in his mind.<br/><br/>That Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAZ2tdUUS94&feature=related#ws)<br/><br/>Complete anarchy was a figurative word used by colleges for lack of government, that day he had seen what it was like. The police overwhelmed with 911 calls, unable to make all of them they had to do the unthinkable, ignore the desperate cry's for help and focus on the major crimes. That entire week he had maybe gotten 3 hours of sleep in between arrests and paperwork. He also took 30 criminals from the street permanently, his weapon tasted the blood of humans and felt disgusted. He was an officer of the peace in a city that did not know the term. But they pulled through, organizing themselves and holding back the tide of crime in the city from outside and in. Three - fourths of the department were arrested on criminal charges and 50 had lost their lives on the streets. The funerals were tough to go to. Due to the lack of officers, arex had been on 30 of the funeral honor guards. It was tough, sometimes he thought of suicide during those days, just to end it all and sleep long. But he knew that it was a cowards way out and that surviving would make him a better person and man. As he rounded the intersection he could see the NOOSE branch HQ in the distance.<br/><br/>Noose HQ (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/gtawiki/images/3/36/LCPDheadquarters.jpg)