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Username: dehydromon
Appearance: Matthew Larson [x]
Codename: Agent West Virginia
Age: 32
Gender: Male
AI: Kappa - Dexterity
AI Color: #0072c8
Armor Enhancement: Weight Adjustment
Armor Colors

• Primary: White
  
• Secondary: Gold
  
• Visor: Gold

Weapons: SRS 99 Anti-Matériel Sniper Rifle, M392 Designated Marksman Rifle

Personality: Agent West is a somewhat self-serving, battle-hardened soul who will often take advantage of other people and use them to his advantage. If he is angered, even to the slightest extent, he will begin to grow violent. To him, most other people are ultimately just tools to use for his own gain. For that reason, when he’s not convincing people to do his dirty work, he is usually seen alone. On many occasions, West has exhibited highly insubordinate behavior, and would often make room in every mission to put his sniper rifle to good use. Since his abandonment from the Freelancer Agency, however, he began to wonder who he really was. His weakness? He dare not speak it aloud, but he became deaf in his left ear sometime during his childhood, and thus isn't quite the best at determining the direction of a sound.

Biography: Call life tough and then try to compare it with Matt. His real parents abandoned him at an orphanage days after he was born. If that wasn’t bad enough, he was adopted into new families on three different occasions, each one much worse than the last. Why three? Because every one he was introduced into ended up getting turned in for child abuse. His third family was more of just a mother who couldn't handle the pain of losing her first child. Every month, she had a new boyfriend, and she certainly had a knack for picking the ones that liked beat children for no good reason. In order to survive, Matt ran away. He had a hard time remembering much of his life over the next few years.

Eventually, he stumbled upon the Freelancer Agency. There, his memory was wiped and he was trained to be a soldier. His codename, which became the only name he ever went by, was Agent West Virginia. That was where the sniper rifle became his designated weapon, but he never got used to using it to work with other people. He still didn’t remember his past, but he knew something had happened to him a long time ago that made teamwork difficult for him. After several missions that were either a struggle or a failure because of his lack of teamwork, his profile was recategorized into the Rogue Branch of the agency, which allowed him to work alone. It was at this time that information was leaked that the Director had for some time been putting inside agents to work constructing the most advanced AI in the world.

In the Rogue Branch of the Freelancer Agency, West began to show further signs of insubordination, and started to not only eliminate people that weren’t supposed to be part of the mission, but also to start going on missions of his own. Ordinarily, this would result in severe punishment, but with more and more of the agency being focused on the construction of the Alpha AI, he never really got the penalty he expected.

Once the Alpha AI was finished, the Director ordered it to be tested first on the members of the Rogue Branch, since it was where most of the other Agents under the US state naming scheme had also been transferred to. Under the Freelancer Project, as it was later named, he was given a new set of armor that was able to house both his Weight Adjustment armor enhancement and the Kappa AI. Missions after the installation of his AI became much more interesting and a lot tougher, but it wasn’t long before unforeseen complications began to arise in West’s later missions.

Before long, Agent West learned that the AI in one of the Freelancer Agents had gone rampant and that all the Freelancers were to be monitored closely thereafter. This displeased Agent West, but it wasn’t until there were rumors of terminating the Freelancer Project altogether that he decided to leave. Even though he later learned that the rumors were lies, he chose to stay on the path of an independent Freelancer. He also learned that there were several other Freelancers that chose the same path, but he never made an effort to work with them. He liked the freedom of working totally alone.

Theme Song: Scars Remain - Disciple
Other Info: Matthew Larson stands 6’ 2” tall and weighs 188 pounds. He has a tattoo of the number 21 on the back of his neck.