Prescript: I apologise for not posting this earlier, as I heard that it managed to cause a little stir in the [LN] skype chat. Please forgive me.
Name: Dudley Wilmott
Age: 21
Birthplace: Manhattan General Hospital
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 75 kg
Relatives: Father, Jeremy Wilmott; Mother, Chantelle Wilmott; Sister, Cheryl Wilmott
Previous Fields of Work: Student, retail sales assistant
Experience: Graduation at Annapolis Naval Academy (no particular specialisations or honours awarded)
Basic training
Timezone: +-0
Bio:
Born just before the Nomad war, Dudley was raised in the outskirts of Manhattan's main city. Life was fairly mundane, except for the occassional thuggery that his parents did their best to shield him from. Growing up, he was a fairly quiet child. His sister, four years younger than him, illicited a change to his demeanor to the extent that he became quite extraverted, but also addressed most with genuine and constant courtesy. Dudley is not one to let his emotions dicate his actions, a skill learned from the constant bickering in his earlier life by his sister. Because of this, staff at all of his educational institutions noted that he was a pleasure to speak to, despite sometimes being slightly braindead when it came to academics.
Dudley often spoke to his friends about his dreams to be this or that, but that never included the Navy. He dreamed of occupations such as professional racing, commercial space travel, even a quiet paperwork-oriented job during the more hectic periods of his life. In fact, his parents both became increasingly nationalistic as the first small tensions with Rheinland came into public light, using all the means at their disposal to push him into service. He didn't mind at the time, since he could never imagine Liberty and Rheinland at war. As the tensions started to become more obvious during his time in the Academy, he began to fear giving his life away at such a young age. He had more to live for than that, he thought. On contacting his parents again, they had suddenly become much less nationalistic, leading Dudley to believe that it was a ploy to get him out of the house and earning a living. He felt a huge amount of resentment, but looked back on his life, and realised that the dreaming he had done had made him oblivious to the financial strains being put on the family.
This gave him a new sense of motivation, to be more than useless to himself, his friends, his family and his country. The camaraderie in the Navy suddenly became more bearable, and he found himself studying, and playing harder. Both the bookwork and the hard drinking on a friday night became part and parcel of his days in the Academy, and he graduated in the middle of his class. A good achievement, having made strong friendships, enjoyed his time and proving to himself that he could be an asset to everyone, rather than a liability. He aims to prove this to his country first, but also to his family, who could be construed to have cast him out for that very reason. He aims to return to his family as a man.
