Jak McEvans

I'm just getting back into writing, so any criticism would be appreciated. This is the short version of his background info. It's 1,072 words. I'm really bad at this.

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>-and so I asked, “exactly what use are tits on a snakegirl?” then the guy gives me the fucking best look. Like I just asked why water was wet. So I-

>*a cough is heard*We’re recording now

>Oh, well then I’ll tell ya the rest after. Anyways so we have to, do what exactly?

>We need you to give us an account of your recruitment into the Travellers.

>Aw yea yea.  How far back you want me to explain?

>Just a general synopsis of your life before the event that spurred Traveller activity and then a rundown of said event.

>Alright, well my life was pretty lackluster honestly. I come from an Earth that hadn’t even invented competent space travel. The place was really boring. There weren’t any supernatural, ethereal, or even alien beings on my planet, just humans. It’s a bit unnerving now that I know how common the existences of such things are everywhere else. The best way to describe my home was like a bubble. Nothing out of the ordinary penetrated into our little universe. Spoilers, I found out why later, but we’ll get to that. Anyway so growing up in this bubble was a bit boring. Growing up I always dreamed of meeting new beings, but the hope I would one day was crushed by my peers. Those who thought aliens and all other extraordinary things existed were, punnily enough, alienated. There were a few who liked to entertain the idea that they did. However the popular opinion was we were alone in the universe. I dunno how else to describe it. It was almost as if everyone else just instinctually tried to snuff out any talk like that. Hell for a bit, even I stopped thinking that stuff was real. Right up until it happened. I think I was 13 when it happened. Something caused a world-wide effect to take place. It was like, uh, like uh you know when you look at a sunset and can see the horizon shimmering? It was that shimmer, but everywhere in the sky for a full day all over the planet. Then nothing. All that was there to even remind us that it happened was a large ring like structure above our planet. All was quiet. That is, until we started getting messages from space. For a long time we beamed out transmissions to space hoping for a reply only to get static. Well, we weren’t getting static no more. Space was loud and, more importantly, angry as fuck. We couldn’t understand the transmissions, but you could hear no feel the pure malice in them. Whatever was out there was pissed we were here. It took less than a month for them to arrive. Those things. We put up resistance like an ice cube tries not to melt in lava. It probably didn’t help that all of the planet’s governments were at each other’s throats up till that point. It took less than 3 days for the planet to unanimously surrender. And, and in those three days… Over 3 billion people were slaughtered. *A deep sigh is heard* Sorry. Even after all this time it still gets to me.

>If you need a moment…

>Nah, nah. I’m all aces. Anyway It was looking like it would be curtains for humanity. Terms for surrender were being drafted for the invaders. Right when everyone thought we were to be enslaved was when he showed up.

>Who?

>Why our knight in shining armor. He has many titles; Savior of humanity, Vanguard of retribution, Bulwark for the weak to name a few. He was a traveler, a survivor from the time wars. He alongside his army purged the aliens that destroyed us. He did it even faster than they did. To make a long story short so we’re not here all afternoon; someone was shielding us from the horrors of space. When they stopped he came to save us. He helped us rebuild and we hailed him as a god among men.  The world turned into his own personal empire. In 7 years he did more than uplift us from our destroyed state. He changed us with his otherworldly technology. Most were made stronger, faster, smarter etc. Some awakened psionic potential and others became monsters. Then there were rumors others became something better. Anyways we melded into his personal army. It was then the judicial guys showed up. We fought feverishly to defend our savior. However at the last second our “Savior” with 70% of our population abandoned us. I alongside the other ground forces were left at the mercy of the judicial branch. It was also then they told us the truth. That he was using us, making us into his killing machines. That he turned off our shield, and that he was the one who sicced the aliens on us. It was hard to accept, until you looked back with an observant eye. When the aliens arrived they secured the ring first, and when our “savior” came they didn’t even attack him. He surrounded them and then opened fire. He betrayed them like he did us. After shocking the world the first responders came to patch up the judicial and help repair what was left of my planet. I was wasted and walking down an alley on a Tuesday night. I had nothing left; my parents were on the ships, my life was pretty much fucked, hell I didn’t know anything besides what little training I had under that fuck. It was here at my lowest I met a fledgling hunter, shit to this day I don’t know who it was, but I woke up in Homeworld. The rest is as they say history.

>If you don’t mind me asking, what did he change in you?

>No clue. I assumed I was just made better, but when I went back and investigated some of the records I was in a "special" list. It supposedly had something to do with connecting the subject with someone else. Who or what I don’t know. I’ll admit though, that ever since I visited that therapy clinic I always feel like someone’s watching me. Not in a creepy way, but more of a comfortable guardian way never really looked into honestly.

>Thank you for your time. I believe that’s all we need.

>Null sweat mate. Oh! So back to the snake tits-

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