Name: Captain Varik "Winchester" Zalman
Age: 28
Personality:
Varik is a very self confident (and a bit egotistical) pilot, who can back up his claims. He believes being a fighter pilot is the best thing in the universe and is not ashamed to say it. This often rubs people not in the aviation community the wrong way, and to add to this with his dislike for pokemon training didn't made him very popular. Varik in reality is rather immature for his age and because of this he is a bit awkward socially. One example of his immaturity is a bad tendency to say "So to Speak" and often gets himself in awkward situations with bad timing of this phrase in the wrong crowds. Due to his lack of social graces he tends to stick to flying and just hanging out with his fellow pilots who don't mind his immature nature. This is also the reason he has never had a girlfriend, but if you bring it up he will shrug it off with some claim he can't find a woman good enough for him.
When working and flying he is serious and locked on the mission. His ability to almost instantly change from immature to dead on serious often takes people off guard if they do not know Varik well enough. Varik does not tolerate people not doing their job and has no problem with letting them know it. Strangely this locked off attitude has changed now that he is being activated to assist in the war against Pokemon on the island he was originally born and grew up on. He has been uneasy as of late, but no one is sure why. Most thought he hated Pokemon due to his common verbal rants against Pokemon training, but he seems a bit uneasy now he is being called up to kill them.
Along with his lack of social skills, his combat skills other than being a pilot are lacking. His aim with his side arm is lacking and the few hand to hand skills he learned in survival training have been forgotten.
History:
Varik was the strange kid no one wanted to hang out with in his town growing up. Despite both his parents being well known Pokemon trainers Varik had no interest in following in their footsteps. Instead he was obsessed with the idea of flying jets. The idea of being flying through the skies at high speeds is what caught Varik's attention instead of pokemon training and badges. His parents tried their best to turn him into a trainer, and tried to satisfy his urge to fly with a flying type that they had taught fly to, but Varik wasn't interested. One day out of frustration his father started to remove all of Varik's aircraft models and posters and throw them away. His father hoped that less exposure to reminders of his dreams of flying would somehow help Varik open his eyes to being a trainer. Ironically this action would lead to Varik's only childhood friendship that would make Varik swear to never have a Pokemon…
Varik was sent to a Pokemon trainer's school once he became 16 by his parents as a desperate move to make him a trainer, but he ran away. Taking a ship to a foreign island he enlisted himself in a military school which began his career toward aviation. After graduating from a military academy under the false last name of Zalman, Varik entered pilot training and quickly proved himself the best in his class. From there he was sent to fly the brand new (at the time) F/A-25 Widowmaker, and has been flying it for the last 4 years. He recently reached the rank of captain and is a Flight Commander in the 53rd
Fighter Squadron.
Varik's biggest regret is not returning home for 12 years to see his childhood friend again, and finally he is returning home. Strangely he doesn't seem very happy about the circumstances despite the fact he can now rub his career decisions in the face of all of his peers who mocked him for not wanting to be a Pokemon trainer.
Appearance:
Varik has brown hair that stands at a maximum length of 1 inch on the top of his head and quickly tapers away to barely visible stubs next to his ears. His eyes are sky blue and they often distract from his misshapen nose caused by being broken when he was younger. His skin is slightly tanned, but he still looks a little pale due to his naturally light colored skin. His six foot even frame is athletic due to his daily gym routine.
Most of the time he is on duty and wearing a green flight suit with a black undershirt, and black boots. On his left shoulder a patch showing a jolly roger made with a flight helmet and mask for the skull and missiles for the crossbones and the numbers 53rd under it. On his right shoulder is a patch of the king of hearts playing card, but the king is a skeleton holding a blood soaked sword into his head. His name appeared on the black name patch, and his right breast has a patch showing lightning bolts striking the ground in the same spot. If not on duty he is usually wearing a T-shirt and jeans.
Role: Member (Pilot)
Password: Fight
Weapon: (On the ground) Semi-Automatic .45 Caliber Pistol (count as Bullet Punch)
(In the Air) F/A-25 Widowmaker
Armament:
4x 0.50 Machine guns
1x 30mm cannon
4 Hard points for bombs, rocket pods, or missiles.
Notes:
Despite being in the future, due to Pokemon training always being the focus until now military aviation technology is not as advance is it is in real life. While still using Jet fighters they are closer in technology to the fighters used in the Korean War than a modern day F-15 or F-16. There is a complete lack of precision weaponry and fire and forget missiles due to this, and machine guns and cannons are still the main weaponry on an aircraft.