One more art from me for the night, no real lore for this one, I just wanted to shine a little spotlight on Alice and Ted, the Skybreaker Scouts - two former security guards who got promoted to field scouts, tasked with looking for habitable places and sources of supplies, they also help to recommend courses of action for a larger squad of Skybreakers to help clear out the city they’re currently holed up in, and perhaps further spread their area of influence after that objective is accomplished.
They also look out for survivors in trouble and aid them as best as they can, though in these times it can be a tough call between calling in a medical team or simply putting a bullet in their head. Those that they save are generally invited to join the lower ranks of the Skybreaker crew - ever since the project was cancelled and the cataclysm hit, Skybreaker became less about secretive science projects and more about surviving and thriving - that said, some of the Skybreakers still conduct experiments, and now that they know that Subject C.W. is still alive and kicking, they’re not entirely sure what to do with him, but they treat him as a welcomed guest.
Alice is a skilled tactician and a deadly-precise markswoman, able to scan her surroundings and quickly decide on a course of action - in part due to the CBMs she’s had installed. Her face is disfigured by some previous botched CBM installations, and while she doesn’t mind it so much, she is worried about accidentally scaring new recruits and rescued survivors alike, so for their sake, she tends to wear a ballistic mask spraypainted with the Skybreaker logo.
Ted is, by contrast, bulky and muscly - he may look overweight but there’s functional muscle in there, he’s the kind of guy who’d fight bears in the woods and win. Somewhat brash and too noisy for his own good, Ted never leaves the Skybreaker base without his gas-mask, and almost always has his hood up. No real reason for this, he just likes keeping his face concealed so he matches up with Alice.
Alice and Ted were a married couple before the Cataclysm struck, these days however they treat each other more like teammates than lovebirds. Tough love prevails in the apocalypse, after all.
