Welcome to a World of Remnant like mini series about Mercs in Remnant. The idea was long in my mind long before some guy in the last chapter suggested it, and I said "why not?" I'll do some of these only because there is definitely a lot of things that need explaining. Things that I'm not sure if I could explain in regular chapters. Let's get into this shit then, shall we?

John Doe

Known as "The Soldier" or simply "Soldier", John Doe is an overly patriotic American with a love for rocket jumping and anything about the American military.

Born on a rural farm near the Ohio River in 1921, young John spent his childhood wandering the lush fields of his family farm or the wilderness of the surrounding forest. His parents were both young people who dreamed of life in the big cities, leaving the fields and woods behind for the skyscrapers and shops when his father hit it big they year before he was born. Then it was found out that John's mother was pregnant with him. They feared a child might ruin the sweet life of dance halls and speakeasies in the city. Afraid that an abortion would lower their social standing and possibly kill his mother, they went all the way back to his grandfather's farm so they can have the child and leave him there.

Young John never saw his parents, but he always saw his grandfather. His grandfather, a fucking badass manly motherfucker named Howard Doe who's done nothing but smoke cigars and drink whiskey for most of his elderly life, was the only family member he had close to him. Howard was not your conventional grandfather, if you catch my drift, but he loved his grandson nonetheless. He took care of John in the absence of his fuck stupid parents where he would tell him stories. Stories about the red, white, and blue flag that flew proudly at their farm. Do you remember when I said Howard was a fucking badass? I meant it. This guy, born 1830, lived until FUCKING 112 years of age, had fought in almost every major American war from his birth to his death in 1942.

And yes, he was 70 or so when he finally decided to have a child.

Yes, these stories were about the heroics of Americans in action, but they were also about how he should always do the right thing. The Land of Freedom is exactly what it should be, therefore he slaughtered slave owners whenever he was down in the South. Liberty and justice to all, therefore he fought with the Native Americans in the Indian Wars of the West against American Cavalry. Whenever he was traveling the newly Free South, he would attack anyone and any establishment that openly expressed intolerance against blacks because he believed in "All men are created equal." I think you get it now, Howard was a patriot, but not a patriot for his government, but a true patriot of what America stands for, and he wanted his grandson to be the same.

The stories of heroism and what is right inspired John to go out in the fields and play soldier while his fuck manly grandfather worked the crops of the small land they owned by himself. Maybe he played soldier a little too seriously since his grandfather gave him an ACTUAL rifle to play with. He would sometimes take him out hunting and even teach him how to fight the way he does it.

Howard cared deeply for his grandson. His whole life has been spent fighting and killing in the name of the flag, even taking the flag against others who claim they are the actual patriots. So after fighting his last war in 1918, he found that he could no longer keep this up in his current age. His own son, John's father, was a reckless youth who was rarely home, always going out and hanging out with his friends to earn some money so they can go to the city. After the death of his wife in 1920, he found that he was just lonely at the family farm. That was until another Doe came to stay, John.

There you have it, Soldier's early life was full of patriotism on a small farm, so when he heard of war breaking out in 1941 against Japan and Germany, he wasted no time. He and Howard scrounged up all the money they could gather just to send John off to the East Coast where he could hopefully get enlisted. That didn't happen. He was so overzealous in his love for America that none of the recruiters from all branches would take him, saying he would easily get a Section 8.

Soldier was devastated. He didn't want to go all the way back to Ohio just to tell his now frail grandfather the army wouldn't take him because they thought he was crazy so he did the next best thing to joining the army. Stowing away to Europe.

The war was even better than what he imagined. Evil fucks called "Nazis" were everywhere, and the best part was that they were all in need of a killing! So fanatical was he in the war that his Nazi killing spree did not end until he found out in 1949 that the war ended four years earlier. He also forgot his name and legitimately thought it was "Jane" because it sounded like how his grandfather called him. Jane would be his name until he remembers that it was actually John during the robot war. He returned to America the next year due to difficulty in finding adequate transportation, and came back to his family farm to find his grandfather had passed away of old age the year after he left.

Soldier was devastated. On top of finding that his grandfather died, he found his childhood home had been turned into farmland for a farming corporation. He was lost. Having no where to go and no wars left to fight, he simply wandered around America as a homeless bum. His sanity delved down into loony levels combined with his insane love of America and hatred of all things that stand against it. Still, his grandfather's message stayed ever so prominent in his mind... even if there was a little blurring when Soldier decided he hated hippies and wizards among other silly things. And lead poisoning...

After nearly twenty years of homelessness, Soldier's life finally turned around when Mann Co. offered him a job. You know what happens next. He becomes roommates with Merasmus and fights in both Mann Co. wars. He only fought in World War II previously. He did not go to Korea or Vietnam.

William Charleston

Known as "Scout", Willy is the scrawny but fast speedster of the mercenaries.

Born in 1951 to Annabelle Charleston and a certain disappearing Frenchman, Willy spent his life in his mother's suburban home alongside his seven older brothers. The father was never home. None of the fathers were home actually as they were all born to different men.

It was hard for his mom to keep check on all the boys, and Willy ended up getting into a lot of fights with his older brothers since he was the runt of the litter. Unable to effectively fight back against his bigger brothers, he took to running away then hitting back. If he was faster than his brothers then they can't hit him. With years of doing running (and some caffeine) he managed to be the fastest of all his brothers. This made him a great baseball runner for whenever he played with his brothers or at school. He absolutely loved the sport, even almost making it to the little league had he not been disqualified for trying to put itching powder in the other teams clothes.

Yep. He was never one to play real fair as life wasn't that fair for him. Getting bullied by your older siblings and some other kids on the street and also being pretty scrawny does that to you, but then again, if life doesn't play fair and you're also not playing fair, doesn't that mean it is fair then? It didn't matter much to Willy either way. The only thing he felt he had to prove was how was the best to everyone. Why? Because no one picks on the best!

He willingly gets into fights on the street just so he could show the world that he ain't no bitch and he wasn't going to take shit from nobody. This was also how he got into a lot of trouble with the law. Throughout his teenage years, his ego grew as he believed that he really was the best in town, bragging about it to everyone he met. Hell, there was a moment where the brothers all went to the shooting range and he managed to outdo all of them with a lever action shotgun and pistol, only making him more smug about how great he was.

But underneath, he's still the scrawny Boston kid who's been beaten, and he knows it. It's why he keeps the act of being the best up, but his love life doesn't exactly show the same results...

In 1968, he was approached by Mann Co. to work for them as a mercenary. He hadn't the slightest clue of what a mercenary was, but when they told him all he had to do was shoot and kill some guys, he was all for proving he was the best at this too. During this time, he discovered that one of his coworkers/ enemies (as they ended up fighting on both sides, because Mann brothers) might be his father...

To this day, Scout still refuses to believe Spy is his dad, even if the evidence and his own testimony say he indeed is.

The Pyro

Fuck this shit. I know absolutely doggy dick about Pyro's origins and I don't want to lose my mind if I even try to understand how it came into being.

The only thing we know about Pyro's personalty is that it sees the world in a very cartoonish and childish way. Boring scenes are drab and lame but still in a cartoonized form, and scenes of violence are depicted as nice happy affairs with candy and sweet shit like that. To everyone else though, Pyro is seen as a merciless fire obsessed monster. Though it has been witnessed that Pyro's only like this in battle. When Pyro's not out killing dudes, it behaves like a child, playing with puppies and doing other innocent stuff like that.

As for Pyro's origin, I already told you I'm not delving into that fuckshit, but we do know that the individual known as the Pyro first appeared in 1964 after it as connected to a series or fires across the United States. The mysterious fires have been going on as far back as 1952, but it was only in 1964 when they finally laid eyes on the one causing the fires. It took some work and a dozen severely burned policemen to finally put Pyro in an insanity asylum, and asylum Mann Co. bought shortly after hearing about its newest patient. Pyro was freed on the promise that it will get to burn all the things it wants as Mann Co. couldn't find anything about its past to use against it, not like they would let it know that, but you get it.

It seems like whenever Pyro is angry, it has the supernatural ability to emit fire out of its body whenever it is extremely angry. No one has seen Pyro's face, or the rest of its body for that matter. The flame proof suit it wears has never been taken off.

Mikhail Cherinkov

Mikhail Cherinkov, born 1922, somewhere in the Soviet Union. Heavy's early life was a pretty harsh one. His father was a counter revolutionary when the Soviets took control of Russia, so he tried to hide his family as best he can from the authorities. Still, they couldn't hide forever and Heavy's family was sent to a Siberian gulag in 1941 after almost twenty years of hiding. His father died in the grueling conditions of the gulag, leaving Mikhail as the man of the family at age 19. He hated the gulag and the Soviets for that matter. How can you put your own people in so much abuse and pain? This is where his hate of all things evil began.

In December of 1941, not even a whole year of being imprisoned, and adolescent Heavy single handedly freed all the prisoners and burned the gulag down amidst all the chaos. He made sure that he and the prisoners tortured every single one of the guards to death for their sins. So now what? You just burned down what was probably the only shelter for miles in this snowy wasteland. There goes what was left of the Cherinkov family, Mikhail, his mother, and his three younger sisters, Bronislava, Yana, and Zhanna. They somehow survived two days of walking through constant blizzards and knee deep snow when they stumbled upon a little village near the Dzhugdzhur Mountains in Siberia. It was here where the kind villagers took them in.

Since Heavy was the man of the Cherinkov family, he had to find a way to get his family out of these conditions. He decided the only way to do that was to gain an education and start a whole new life, erase their names so the Soviets wouldn't find them. After much thought, Mikhail began his journey west, hoping to get into a college in St. Petersburg.

It took years, but he did it. He received a PhD in Russian literature and he made ready to find a job as a writer, hoping he can make enough money in book sells to get his family settled in. Unfortunately, the Soviets found him out, and he was forced back into hiding. He worried about his family as he hasn't seen them in years, and now he's afraid he'll never see them again since he was stuck in Western Russia and they were in Siberia.

At one point where he tried to sneak onto a train, he was found by a team of KGB assigned to find him, and he slaughtered them. His actions brought attention to him however, and the authorities were quickly on him. That was their last moments on Earth, as Heavy picked up a minigun from one of the KGB operatives and proved how his strength and ferocity could defy Soviet rule. After killing the local police forces and some army units sent as back up, he traveled further north where he ran into an agent from Mann Co.

He questioned how the agent knew about him, but he made an offer that Heavy cannot refuse. An offer to leave Russia altogether and make money to support his family, and all he had to do was kill people. The answer was yes, and Mann Co. snuck him out of Russian and took him all the way to the Badlands. The hot climate was vastly different from the cold snow of Siberia, but he performed his new job without fail. Soon enough, he has sent enough money back to that little village to get a proper luxury cabin built for his family near the village.

There we have it. A World of Remnant like mini-series! Part 1 of the nine mercenaries backstories.

Also, I'll say there will be a delay in an actual chapter because I got to actually think this time about what happens next, so these things are gonna have to satisfy ya until the chapters are out. There might be another one really soon. About what, I have no idea.

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