Below is an outline of several key characters that I am developing for my Major Project series.
Stanley Bradshaw
Stanley is a member of the Royal Marines who grew up in the town of Kettering in the UK. He has a strong sense of justice, and will do whatever it takes to protect his friends and family. At an early age, Stanley decided that he wanted to protect his country, and decided to join the Marines immediately upon leaving secondary school.
Stanley has the ability keep cool under pressure, and is relatively laid back in all aspects of life. Despite being in the Marines, Stanley hates the idea of killing and will often try to resolve a problem without resorting to violence.
During his time in the Falklands, Stanley discovers that one of his superiors; Sergeant Dreizer is plotting to murder all of the Marines in his platoon in order to illegally export a supply of gold from the Falkland's mines. Stanley is too late to prevent the massacre, and instead only manages to wound Dreizer, who tells Stanley that it is he that will be blamed for the murders due to being a junior officer.
Stanley remembers receiving an invite to a reunion with his friends in the Scottish Highlands, and decides that it would be better for him to go there and try and lay low, avoiding the military police until he can decide what to do.
Mitch McKenzie
Mitch was raised by his mother and step-father. His step-father was an incredibly violent alcoholic, who would often beat Mitch and his mother. As a result, Stanley grew to be a very violent, temperamental person who would take his aggressions out on the people around him at school. A racist and sexist, Mitch was generally found bullying person that he thought to be inferior.
The one constant in his life was his love of Football, and Mitch strived to one day play professionally. One day Mitch manages to secure a long sought-after try out with Tottenham Hotspurs F.C, which Mitch hopes will be the thing to pull his life out of the gutter and give him a sense of self-worth.
However, a few days before the try-out, Mitch has his ankle broken by his Step-father, and has to undergo ankle fusion surgery- meaning he will never be able to play football to a professional standard again.
Homeless, Mitch comes begins to dabble in the sales of drugs, most notably cocaine, and he manages to make a reasonable living out of it. However, Mitch hates selling drugs, and decides to visit the work-place of his old school-friend Alex to try and get a job at the London based Fairwether Energies.
Discovering that Alex is under a lot of stress however, Mitch sees the opportunity to profit and benefit, and becomes Alex's personal drug dealer. Mitch develops a pseudo-friendship with Alex, and operates as "the devil in his ear", often pretending to be Alex's friend in order to keep him on cocaine, and drain him of as much money as possible.
Alex Fairwether Jr.
Alex is the only son of the immensely successful Alexander Fairwether, the CEO of Fairwether Energies. Alex never wanted the life of a rich person, and demanded at a young age to be treated just like everyone else, attending a public school, and wanting to eventually leave and get a regular job. However, his father had different ideas.
upon leaving secondary school, Alexander Fairwether begins to attempt to mold his son in his own image, and educate him on the ways the family energy business is run. However, the constant pressure of having to live up to his fathers excessive expectations, and having to learn about something he had absolutely no interest in made Alex eventually turn to drink and drugs with influence from Mitch McKenzie.
Eventually, his father discovers his substance abuse, and promptly disowns Alex, who moves to the Fairwether families abandoned mining lodge in the Scottish Highlands in an attempt to go "cold turkey."
Cindy Parker
Cindy is a determined, and intelligent young woman. The only one of the ground of friends to attend university, Cindy excelled and gained an undergraduate degree in Accountancy at Cambridge University. This in itself was a particularly awesome feat, as Cindy's overprotective father was extremely reluctant to allow Cindy to leave the comfort of Kettering in order to travel and live in a different part of the UK.
upon graduating, Cindy moves to London in order to take a job as an accountant for a large corporation. However, upon arriving, she discovers that she is merely being used for menial jobs around the office, and is actually being paid less than the men in the office that are working on the same level as her. Cindy is also the victim of several sexist remarks, and becomes very unhappy with her workplace.
On one particularly bad day, Cindy comes across a letter she received from Alex Fairwether, inviting her to come and stay with him at his families lodge in the Scottish Highlands. After some deliberation, she quits her job and promptly heads out to Scotland.
Jairo Adebayo
Jairo was born in the village of Malawi in south-east Africa, but at an early age was sent to England by his family, who wanted a better future for him. He is a particularly good natured person, always smiling and very optimistic about life. This is despite Jairo having horrible experiences dealing with racism at the hands of Mitch McKenzie and others since coming to England. His optimism makes him very approachable, and as a result, Cindy, Alex and Stanley immediately accepted Jairo into their group.
After secondary school, Jairo found employment at a building site, where he faced severe racial bullying from some of his work-mates. As a result, he became quite depressed and felt alone, especially with with a lot of his friends having moved away to different parts of the country. he therefore jumps at the opportunity to attend a reunion with his old schoolfriends at the Fairwether lodge.
He hopes that by reconnecting with his friends, he won't feel so alone.
Ivan Dreizer
Dreizer is the main Antagonist of the series. he is motivated only by money and is a ruthless killer. Dreizer travels the world, taking part in wars and conflicts wherever possible in order to take advantage of vulnerable areas to extort money and steal valuable resources.
How he has survived so many conflicts is due to his toughness, and the fact he is incredibly wiley, often manipulating the others into doing his bidding. Dreizer has no problem fighting alongside one army one day, and then switching sides if it means he will profit. In basic terms, Dreizer's only loyalty is to himself.
Dreizer learns of a gold mine that has been discovered in the Falklands Islands, and decides that he can gain access to military controlled areas in the Falklands by joining the Royal Marines. Once there he devises a plan to murder every last member of his small platoon, and secretly steal the gold for himself, faking his death. However, his plan is scuppered by Stanley Bradshaw, the only survivor of the massacre, who manages to wound Dreizer and escape the Falkland's islands.
Dreizer survives his wound by radioing for help from the Royal Marines, and subsequently is too weak to return and collect the gold from the Falkland mines, effectively losing out on his original plan to steal the gold and run. As a result, Dreizer becomes fueled by blood-lust and a need to get revenge on Stanley, and sets out to find the man that cost him his loot.
More back stories and details about these characters will be explored during the series, and by the end of the series, I hope to have developed them much further. I have chosen the characters to be the way they are so I can explore certain themes in my series, including racism, sexism, revenge, bullying and other aspects of day to day human life.
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