Three guess what inspired the call-sign. lol
Name: Niklas Kreuger
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 34 years old
Gender: Male
Callsign:
Dead-Man
Physical Description:
Littered with scars and tattoos in equal measure, Niklas stands at 6'3" and with the cybernetics added heavily onto what's left of his original organic mass, he weighs in at around 240lbs. Both arms and legs are entirely cybernetic and designed to appear in line with his original athletic build, and they are covered in a myriad of colorful and decorative patterns in hopes of on some level replacing the original tattoos lost. His spine is cybernetic as well and has a - spine - painted onto it, appropriately enough.
Where looks are concerned, Kreuger isn't exactly a handsome man any longer with one eye being cybernetic and his ardent refusal to surgically hear the shrapnel scarring around it, with his other
organic eye being a deep green. His hair is raven black and shaved down to stubble on the sides and back with not even a full inch left at the top. His skin is pale, his mid-section and neck heavily tattooed and scarred in some places, and his overall build is athletic though leaning towards more bulk than some might expect from a combat pilot.
Personality:
Niklas "Dead-Man" Kreuger was at one point, oddly enough, a teacher. And this does show in his personality. Even though he isn't the highest ranked pilot in the unit, he does seem to take it upon himself to look after them in ways that the unit commander can't always afford to. In the air its the Captain's show, but on the ground Niklas can be found "looking after", pestering some might say, his fellow pilots. Ensuring they have enough sleep. That they are eating right. That they aren't shirking out on medical inspections.
All of this while guzzling down coffee, pain killers, and fifths of whatever alcohol he may be able to grab in disturbingly equal measures. Some might say he is hypocritical but they'll never see him shirking on mandatory sleep before combat operations or on regular medical check-ups.
In regards to other sorts of pilots, he will often say how everybody from supply ferries to bombers to fighter/assaulter pilots are needed to get the bigger plan done - but he'll break the neck (and likely several other bones in the process) of the first medical officer that says his physical condition means he needs to be put back into supply flights. Or worse, back onto medical leave - for what is quite obviously something close to functioning alcoholism and addiction to low-level prescription pain-killers caused by his myriad of injuries.
And where self image might be concerned, even if he may not admit to he almost never shows his arms to the shoulder, often wears wrap-around glasses, and seldom wears any civilian clothes shorter than jeans when out on leave.