Full Name: Matilda Barnabas Hale
Parents: Saxton Hale and Margaret 'Mags' Stewart
Age: 25 (When she arrives in Teufort) 28 (during the events of expiration date) 29 (the events of the Tf2 Comics)
Bio: Matilda was born during Safari in the Serengeti of Africa , she was delivered by her father . Matilda spent her infancy and early childhood with her mother but her childhood and adolescence was spent traveling the world with her father and while he was hunting animals to extinction. Matilda was learning how to cook the dishes of different cultures that she visited while traveling.
Matilda learns several languages such as French, Cantonese ,Russian , German ,Spanish,and ASL. At sixteen Matilda published her first cookbook
'Around the world in 80 plates' which became a bestseller the same year she appeared on Julia Child's show the French chef.
At nineteen Matilda opened her French restaurant in the heart of Sydney named 'Le restaurant Kangourou sautillant' or in English The hopping Kangaroo Restaurant which she bought with the sales from her cookbooks,while running her restaurant she attended College for her B.A in Business.
Where she meets Amanda Pauling, an American on a semester abroad the two young women become good friends, Matilda puts in a good word with her God Mother for a job after college.
In the summer of 1968 Matilda receives a letter from her Godmother Helen the head of TF Industries who owns Reliable Excavation Demolition and Builders League United better known as the R.E.D team and the B.L.U team. The teams of Nine mercenaries each fight against each other in the Badlands of Teufort New Mexico also known as the Gravel war , which her Fathers Company supplies Weapons to.
Enclosed in the letter is a check for 190,000,000 Australian dollars , the letter stated that her services are requested in Teufort New Mexico to be the Chef to the R.E.D team until the Gravel war has ended or when the current Mercenaries are replaced by new ones whichever comes first, and knowing what her Godmother is capable of Matilda leaves operation of her restaurant in the very capable hands of her Sous Chef and heads to Teufort.
