character :: Hassan
'Years ago, they labeled us: dangerous extremists, they said. But look around and you tell me: am I such a danger? Am I any more of a 'mad devil' than they? For protecting myself, for protecting those I love, for fighting back when they tried to wipe us from existance? Perhaps a fresh look in the mirror might reveal who is truly been lied to, radicalized by the lies of their own government and the propaganda spewed by their politicians. For, in this case, I am certainly not the aggressor.'
Greed. That is what drove the United States to bear down on the Middle East, as the need for resources became greater than the desire for peace between nation and the safety of millions of people miles away from our shores. A quiet mission was launched under the guise of a 'war on terror', a lie to conceal the greater need for oil that could be taken, by force, if necassary to replinish the U.S dwindling supply. What followed was nothing short of what the U.S had hoped for: the people to fight back.
With soldiers lining the streets in the major cities on Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, people feared for their lives as tensions grew hostile when workers refused to back down and an fight between the two escalated until a number of U.S soldiers as well as middle eastern civilians were dead. The U.S sensationalized the stories, pouring it through their media, noting that this was the time to act against these 'extremists' or suffer more losses of our own - and as propaganda seemed to do, it worked and what became of it was a massacre.
People poured into the resource rich countries left and right, trying to imprison all those they could catch but the civilians wouldn't allow their families to be taken so easily. They fought and pushed the U.S back, maintaining control until the losing side had enough and set off a bomb worse than all other before it to clear the remaining 'radicals'. Some tried to escape, other accepted their fate as the U.S gathered up survivors to keep as prisoners but there were a few that refused to die. Hassan not only refused to die...
He fought back.
After watching his family die before his eyes during the initial bombing that tore through the middle east, leaving a corrosive wasteland in its wake, Hassan used what he had learned from his brother to make himself a safe haven that no person alive could, or would dare, penetrate. By crafting armor and and weapons from scraps of metal left behind, Hassan is able to make both offensive and defensive armor/weapons that can withstand the acid-like air outside of his home. But the U.S doesn't want Hassan to live - they want him eliminated by so far, the missions have been unsuccessful as no one in their right mind wants to mess with a man that the U.S soldiers have nicknamed 'The Mad Devil'.
With his violent, hostile nature brought on by the horrors he has witnessed, the unique set of skills he learned improving every day and the unwavering support of a dedicated (yet ignorant) servant, it's becoming more unlikely that anyone will ever see Hassan fall to his knees.
