Agent Massachusetts
Name: Kimberly ‘Kim’ {REDACTED,LEVEL2}
Age: 28
Alias: Agent Massachusetts ‘Massa’
Nationality: Australian
Appearance: Curly, dark brown hair that hits just below the shoulders and is near-constantly worn in a functional ponytail. Almond-shaped blue eyes. Massa has tan skin, though it has paled considerably thanks to the amount of time spent in the Mother of Invention and her armour. She’s slightly taller than average and is pretty muscular, though she’s no tank. While she’s gotten many nicks and scratches over the years, a purple-ish scar on the right side of her neck is her most notable flaw. Others include a few shrapnel scars on her upper legs and lower torso from an unfortunate training incident involving {REDACTED,LEVEL2} at her Brisbane base.
Why were they Chosen for Project Freelancer: With an IQ of over 130 and a degree in medicine, Massachusetts certainly ticked the boxes for intelligence. The fact that she sat within the top five in her company for mid-range accuracy helped, too. Her ability to remain calm under pressure is especially helpful when dealing with the more hot-blooded Freelancers, and she had one more thing that made her perfect for the Project: her father was completely loyal to the UNSC, and did not mind that his daughter was part of an experimental program.
Personality: A caring cool sister-to-her-men/women who’s initially no-nonsense and borderline passive-aggressive. Massachusetts naturally takes on the role of the confidant and considerate ear to her friends and pretty much anyone who treats her and aforementioned friends well. However, if she finds you annoying, you’ll likely be on the receiving end of a whole lot of sarcasm and unsympathetic comments.
When forced into a difficult situation, whether it be a fist-fight between friends or an all-out battle with bullets flying and things blowing up, Massa will remain calm. She knows how to fight. She knows how to shoot. Everything that’s thrown at her is just a variation of one or two basic situations. This makes her a good team leader.
Things that will break her calm are things that are entirely new. The AI she had a limited understanding of, and the idea of having one stuck into her head wasn’t attractive in any way.
The concept that the people she’s loyal to are horrible had all the attraction of a cinderblock to the face. When confronted with the simple fact that Freelancer was doing little more than covering its tracks, she left the Project out of spite as much as self-preservation.
Relationships: A group of close friends among the Freelancers consisting of Agents Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, Kentucky and Illinois. Is also seen to be quite friendly with CT (they’re quite good tag-team snarkers) and North. She has an MIA brother and father but has had little contact with them since joining Project Freelancer.
Specialization: Medic. This generally applies only to on-field treatment, but may extend to work on the Mother of Invention should extra help be required.
Armour: Standard Mark VI, pale green with brown trim.
Armour Enhancements: Using a variant on the voice-filter technology and simple loudspeakers, Massa can amplify her voice to around 140-150 decibels. Her armour is equipped with a dampener to prevent harm to her ears, and after it was proved to be incredibly effective, other Freelancers were given protection against it. Unfortunately, it is ineffective against enemies with the same dampener enhancements, and for obvious reasons she cannot use it anywhere near normal Marines or civilians.
AI: Pi, curiosity. He has the appearance of a tall, dark and glowing-orangey-yellow man. Alpha split him off once he became aware of how much his own curiosity was hurting him, making him wonder things he didn’t want to, and explore places probably better left alone. Pi encourages Massa to find out all she can, and commonly asks for her opinion on one thing or another. As he stays with Massa, some of her thoughtful nature rubs off on him, and he now has an idea of ‘curiosity killed the cat’.
Preferred Weapons and Fighting Techniques: Mid-range fighting with an assault rifle is what she’s comfortable with and what she’s best at. She has no particular skills in close-quarters combat and will avoid this whenever possible, but when forced into this position, she’ll choose knife over fist. Long-range fighting she doesn’t mind, but her accuracy rating is lower than half of the other Freelancers.
Backstory: Straight from school (near the top of her class) to university (pretty good) to UNSC. After completing her training at a UNSC base in North Brisbane, Kim became a medical officer of {REDACTED,LEVEL2} Company. She was first brought to the Director’s attention when she made headlines for preventing a bar-fight between a couple of her mates from escalating –however, she didn’t intervene in time for serious damage to be avoided. One had to be hospitalised.
The Counsellor did some research into her background, saw her grades and success ratings, and suggested her for the Project. While she had a few misgivings about an ONI Section III experiment, she agreed so she could help more people by a) being able to do hard, next-to-impossible missions like the Spartans and b) working out the glitches in the new technology they would be using.
Fanfiction: Floodgates: When a Freelancer is infected by a terrible parasite on a recon mission, no one expected events to spiral out of control so fast.
Theme Songs:
Prismatic Butterfly, DOA3 OST (fighting);
Tomorrow Never Knows, Allison Mosshart (Project Freelancer);
Numb, Linkin Park (post-Project Freelancer)
Quotes:
‘Pi, curiosity killed the cat. And its owner. And her roommate. And pretty much everyone else in the immediate area, too.'
‘You make me wanna scream.’
Age: 28
Alias: Agent Massachusetts ‘Massa’
Nationality: Australian
Appearance: Curly, dark brown hair that hits just below the shoulders and is near-constantly worn in a functional ponytail. Almond-shaped blue eyes. Massa has tan skin, though it has paled considerably thanks to the amount of time spent in the Mother of Invention and her armour. She’s slightly taller than average and is pretty muscular, though she’s no tank. While she’s gotten many nicks and scratches over the years, a purple-ish scar on the right side of her neck is her most notable flaw. Others include a few shrapnel scars on her upper legs and lower torso from an unfortunate training incident involving {REDACTED,LEVEL2} at her Brisbane base.
Why were they Chosen for Project Freelancer: With an IQ of over 130 and a degree in medicine, Massachusetts certainly ticked the boxes for intelligence. The fact that she sat within the top five in her company for mid-range accuracy helped, too. Her ability to remain calm under pressure is especially helpful when dealing with the more hot-blooded Freelancers, and she had one more thing that made her perfect for the Project: her father was completely loyal to the UNSC, and did not mind that his daughter was part of an experimental program.
Personality: A caring cool sister-to-her-men/women who’s initially no-nonsense and borderline passive-aggressive. Massachusetts naturally takes on the role of the confidant and considerate ear to her friends and pretty much anyone who treats her and aforementioned friends well. However, if she finds you annoying, you’ll likely be on the receiving end of a whole lot of sarcasm and unsympathetic comments.
When forced into a difficult situation, whether it be a fist-fight between friends or an all-out battle with bullets flying and things blowing up, Massa will remain calm. She knows how to fight. She knows how to shoot. Everything that’s thrown at her is just a variation of one or two basic situations. This makes her a good team leader.
Things that will break her calm are things that are entirely new. The AI she had a limited understanding of, and the idea of having one stuck into her head wasn’t attractive in any way.
The concept that the people she’s loyal to are horrible had all the attraction of a cinderblock to the face. When confronted with the simple fact that Freelancer was doing little more than covering its tracks, she left the Project out of spite as much as self-preservation.
Relationships: A group of close friends among the Freelancers consisting of Agents Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, Kentucky and Illinois. Is also seen to be quite friendly with CT (they’re quite good tag-team snarkers) and North. She has an MIA brother and father but has had little contact with them since joining Project Freelancer.
Specialization: Medic. This generally applies only to on-field treatment, but may extend to work on the Mother of Invention should extra help be required.
Armour: Standard Mark VI, pale green with brown trim.
Armour Enhancements: Using a variant on the voice-filter technology and simple loudspeakers, Massa can amplify her voice to around 140-150 decibels. Her armour is equipped with a dampener to prevent harm to her ears, and after it was proved to be incredibly effective, other Freelancers were given protection against it. Unfortunately, it is ineffective against enemies with the same dampener enhancements, and for obvious reasons she cannot use it anywhere near normal Marines or civilians.
AI: Pi, curiosity. He has the appearance of a tall, dark and glowing-orangey-yellow man. Alpha split him off once he became aware of how much his own curiosity was hurting him, making him wonder things he didn’t want to, and explore places probably better left alone. Pi encourages Massa to find out all she can, and commonly asks for her opinion on one thing or another. As he stays with Massa, some of her thoughtful nature rubs off on him, and he now has an idea of ‘curiosity killed the cat’.
Preferred Weapons and Fighting Techniques: Mid-range fighting with an assault rifle is what she’s comfortable with and what she’s best at. She has no particular skills in close-quarters combat and will avoid this whenever possible, but when forced into this position, she’ll choose knife over fist. Long-range fighting she doesn’t mind, but her accuracy rating is lower than half of the other Freelancers.
Backstory: Straight from school (near the top of her class) to university (pretty good) to UNSC. After completing her training at a UNSC base in North Brisbane, Kim became a medical officer of {REDACTED,LEVEL2} Company. She was first brought to the Director’s attention when she made headlines for preventing a bar-fight between a couple of her mates from escalating –however, she didn’t intervene in time for serious damage to be avoided. One had to be hospitalised.
The Counsellor did some research into her background, saw her grades and success ratings, and suggested her for the Project. While she had a few misgivings about an ONI Section III experiment, she agreed so she could help more people by a) being able to do hard, next-to-impossible missions like the Spartans and b) working out the glitches in the new technology they would be using.
Fanfiction: Floodgates: When a Freelancer is infected by a terrible parasite on a recon mission, no one expected events to spiral out of control so fast.
Theme Songs:
Prismatic Butterfly, DOA3 OST (fighting);
Tomorrow Never Knows, Allison Mosshart (Project Freelancer);
Numb, Linkin Park (post-Project Freelancer)
Quotes:
‘Pi, curiosity killed the cat. And its owner. And her roommate. And pretty much everyone else in the immediate area, too.'
‘You make me wanna scream.’