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[captaincanada]

Player name: liz!
Player contact: ragweed @ plurk; middlemarching#9936 on discord

Character name: Maj. Kaidan Alenko
Canon: Mass Effect trilogy
Canon point: The conclusion of the last game, assuming that Commander Shepard selected the Control ending.
Powers, if any: 

• Kaidan is a literal space marine, and has all the training that comes with that job (combat, survival, shooting various firearms, looking good in uniform, etc.) He is also a Spectre operative for the Citadel Council--the second human ever to receive such an honour. (Commander Shepard being the first, naturally.) He's tech-savvy and good with electrical systems, and is equally competent at fixing faulty wiring as he is overloading an enemy's electrical grid.
• He's a biotic; exposure to "Element Zero" while in utero resulted in his being born with space magic the ability to control mass effect fields. Per the wiki, biotics access and have their inherent abilities augmented via bio-amps, which are implanted in their heads. Biotic individuals can knock enemies over from a distance, lift them into the air, generate gravitational vortices to tear obstacles or enemies apart, or create protective barriers." Kaidan only uses his abilities in combat, and given he's been wired with the controversial L2 implants, he's prone to pretty intense migraines that can take him down for the count if he's not careful.
• He could make introspective navel-gazing an Olympic sport, and makes a mean steak sandwich.
• homeboy cannot dance to save his life.

Application letter: 

Solar Year 2186

Hello,

I flagged the first two messages from this account as phishing attempts and rerouted them to the Citadel's information security division, because frankly the idea of anything approaching a paradise left on Earth is hard to wrap my head around. But someone at the office got back to me verifying the extranet protocol address, so here I am, contemplating a vacation for the first time in four years.

This is also the first time I've drafted a message in recent memory that didn't contain a classified de-brief for the Citadel Council, or require the recipient to at least have some kind of a security clearance. The hoops I had to jump through to disable encryption on outgoing messages from my omni-tool were pretty impressive, too, but I won't bore you with the technical details because technical details are part of my day job. This is supposed to be about taking a break, right? The Commander would've called it a "sanity check." Or would have, before the end [REDACTED]

I really need to get off this space station [REDACTED]

I've got until the end of the fiscal year to burn up the last of my shore leave before [REDACTED]

I need a change of scenery because every time I look at the Citadel, all I see is the weapon that killed my [REDACTED]

Honestly, I don't know how to ask for help when I need [REDACTED]

It's been a rough four years, and I've buried a lot of good people. I could really use a break.

Thanks for your consideration,

Maj. Kaidan Alenko
Alliance Navy