Character-Stryker Jr.

Character Details

Character Details
Real Name:	Jack Stryker Jr.
Birthplace:	Southampton, United Kingdom
Specialty:	Sharpshooter
Team Affiliation:	Eagle Force Returns

Character Biography

Jack Stryker, Jr. grew up in a relatively affluent neighborhood outside London raised mostly by his mother as his father was full time military and spent most of his time in the remote regions of the world fighting evil.

Stryker had a good upbringing, attending the best schools, playing varsity football and forming close relationships with high school friends. On the surface he appeared to be your typical straight A student, high school sports jock with an involved parent getting ready to lead a privileged life.

All of this proved that the young man was exceptionally good at hiding his true feelings from everyone.

Since first learning of his father at a young age, Jack Stryker became obsessed with the military and specifically with being a sharpshooter. He idolized his father in all ways, picturing the perfect human being that he must be while he spent all of those years away from home. When he did see him, he worked hard to impress him and was mostly successful to the point where the elder Stryker thought he was so capable of being self sufficient, he didn’t pay him much attention.

Meanwhile, Stryker was spending all of his free time studying military operations and tactics and following along with what he thought was his father’s career. Since he was young, he suspected that the elder Stryker was fighting on the front lines against R.I.O.T., but his father would never confirm that, and every time he heard a news snippet about the terrorist organization, he consumed it as if it were his last meal. One thing that the younger Stryker did discover was that his father had a role in preventing a potential terrorist attack at the wedding between Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

At the age of twelve, Jack made friends with a questionable crowd in secondary school, getting his hands on a low caliber rifle. He would sneak off and participate in target practice nearly every day after school and even on weekends, telling his mother that he had football practice. By the time he was sixteen years old, he was a better marksman than most other adults and he had found a deep rooted love for long distance shooting. Unfortunately he had also found a deep rooted love for side-stepping authority and doing what he wanted without full consideration of the consequences.

So adept was Stryker at concealing this double life that his mother and father were both stunned when he inquired about joining the military when he turned eighteen. This had come out of left field, but with the best interests of their son in mind, they allowed it and finally the younger Stryker felt like he was heading in the direction he was meant to head in.

Surprisingly, it took a while before he got his true wake up call. His military skills and raw talents took him a far way and he nearly navigated his way into the Special Air Service, letting his skills speak for themselves. However, just as he was on the verge of being able to pass the skills tests to enroll in the SAS, his superior officers had finally had enough of his problematic self-discipline and he was offered an immediate discharge.

After several years maintaining the facade of normalcy, the discharge before he could make it to the SAS affected Stryker greatly, as he saw his one true dream fading in the distance. Withdrawing from public life, he began hanging out with several former military folks, many of them who had served in the Special Forces, and through these contacts he grew attached to a third party military contracting firm that specialized in off the books operations for various international organizations.

It didn’t take long for Stryker to get a reputation and to establish a name for himself, quickly becoming the “go to” guy for many black bag missions that were deemed too sensitive for regular military to participate in. The true nature of these operations has never been revealed and most of the records of his service to this mercenary team remain sealed.

Eagle Force has always walked the line between official military and black operations, and at several moments throughout recent years, Captain Eagle had heard about the son of his longtime friend Jack Stryker. It was quite clear that the elder Stryker was disappointed that his son hadn’t made it in the military, but in spite of these misgivings, Captain Eagle reached out to the younger sharpshooter in the early days of reforming Eagle Force to face down the new threat of R.I.O.T.

Enthralled in the idea of working for the organization that had helped his father become what he was, Stryker, Jr. agreed to assist in operations on a contract basis as needed, with a remote possibility that somewhere down the line, if he worked through his discipline problems, maybe he could even be a full time member.

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