Characters: Jarhead
Name: Bill Davis
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 240 pounds
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Ethnicity: Caucasian (American of English descent)
Known relatives: Ethel Davis (mother, deceased), Daniel Davis (father, deceased)
Education: High school, military tactical training
Aliases/nicknames: Old Glory, Super Fi
Distinguishing characteristics: Grizzled stubble on his cheeks no matter how often he shaves due to 50/40's Forever Formula in his veins
Best known for: Ending the Iranian hostage crisis singlehandedly, stopping a dramatic terrorist attack on the United Nations by pushing an explosives-filled van into the East River in 1986.
Group Affiliation: The Foundation, The 50/40 Project
Place of birth: Brooklyn, NY
Marital status: Single
Ambitions: To ably serve, to protect, to find what's right, to find peace after lifetimes of war
Skills/abilities: Jarhead has a body that has been optimized to peak human performance, so he is capable of operating at all the heights of human experience. This gives him nearly superhuman strength (able to lift/press 600 pounds), speed, endurance and durability, plus accelerated healing. He's an expert marksman with all NATO and Warsaw Pack handguns and rifles. Jarhead has a keen tactical & strategic mind and is a superbly capable battlefield planner.
Brief personal history: After the first Super Soviet hit the proxy battlefields of Southeast Asia, the United States rushed into an augmented humanity program under Title 50, Chapter 40 of the United States Code (called The 50/40 Project), developing some interesting "failures" before striking it rich with seventeen year old Brooklyn native Bill Davis, the son of immigrants from Manchester. Unfortunately, before the project's success could be replicated, the remote Alaskan lab was compromised and destroyed by Super Soviets tasked as clandestine services. Once in the field, Davis proved to be the superior of any ten Super Soviets, incapacitating a platoon of them and destroying their facility in a secret mission in the early 1980s. Jarhead has seen combat on every continent and returned to tell the tale. Agreeing to serve his country in the burgeoning conflicts of extrahumans, Jarhead sometimes feels like he's lived past his time.
Written by Hannibal Tabu
Character design by Jason Reeves