Rick Furzeland

'No my surname ISN'T foreign! Jesus christ, mention havin' a relative who ain't from here, and suddenly everything about you is JUST like them...'
A young (23 years old) and unexperienced member of the marauderers, like his two best friends, James Palmer and Tom 'Torch' Burch, struggling with the harsh reality that he never felt he should have had to experience.

Appearance
Rick is of an average height and weight, with neck length blonde hair. He wears glasses, and has light blue eyes. He is also noted for having a rather large (and slightly obtrusive) backside, a feature that often gets him abuse from his friends and superiors alike.

Background
Rick was brought up by his two parents, along with his older brother, in a small rural community. He never truly fitted in with other children, due to his lack of desire (or skill) at 'outdoor' entertainment, He found two friends half-way through his education who he ended up sticking with for much of his life. He did his best to ignore the Pendulum Wars, seeing it as 'Politicians wasting lives instead of money'. His perspective of war was changed drastically on E-Day: This wasn't the fake patriotism that they tried to brainwash the people with in the Pendulum Wars, this was a last stand. Fighting back against the bastards that tried to take away everything that millions of years of evolution had given the humans.

He left the village he grew up in on his own, only to find the two friends he decided to leave behind following him, both unwilling to see them be seperated for any reason. It was their fight as well.

Personality
Rick is not the kind of person who would have imagined himself in a war: Naive, but passionate when it came to the things he believed in and cared about., a trait that he often is told he shares with his grandfather. He tries to keep happy when around his friends, but can never truly relax: WIll one of his friends die in the next firefight? Will HE? When in battle, humour is the last thing on his mind. Eyes always darting to anything and everything that may be the cause of damage to anyone in his squad. He also refuses to use an enemy as a meatshield, due to the sheer inhumanity of what he is doing. 'Kill them, but don't make them suffer' is the way he fights.