I'm considering making The Request sometime in the future (although that's still a ways off, I've yet to finish a Project and would like to provide a sample of my writing first). Before that happens, though, I'd like to present a potential Agent pair for constructive criticism:

Agent Clark Smithers
Male Human
52 (Biologically and canonically 52, cotemporal with World 1 for the last 18 years)
HL1 / BMS Continuum

• A Black Mesa scientist called "Smithers" (no first name given) briefly appears in canon Half-Life 1 and the Blue Shift expansion pack, escapes the facility by teleporter just before the nukes go off, and promptly drops out of sight. Since it's highly unlikely that he'll ever reappear in any official capacity, and he has effectively zero interaction with more important canon characters, I'm considering him free for the taking, although to my knowledge nobody has ever done something exactly like this.


• Smithers appears in, roughly, his original Half-Life 1 incarnation- thin and almost completely bald, with thick, black-plastic-framed glasses. I am unsure how much of his properties as an HL1 NPC remain now that he's out world-hopping: it is entirely possible that he can take multiple rounds of small-arms fire without apparent discomfort, but is unable to climb over a three-foot-high wall.


• Smithers wields a personally tweaked SPAS-12 shotgun from his home continuum, and is quite terrible with it. He is consistently unable to hit anything save at point-blank range, so he usually prefers to use a disguise that allows him to get quite close to the Sue or other hazard. Like all Black Mesa scientists, he has earned a Generic PhD. that provides him limited knowledge in a wide array of fields- in practice, that means he can correct incompetent Suethors on anything I can easily look up, but lacks the specialized knowledge of a proper World 1 scientist.


• In his personal life, Smithers is fastidious and methodical, if a bit crotchety- woe to the mini that distrubs his neat stacks of canon materials and scientific journals. On missions, however, he tends to play fast and loose with the Rules, and the Flowers know exactly how to make him pay for it. This is the primary reason why he was "saddled" with Agent Wtak as a partner, although the efficacy of that decision remains to be seen. Therefore, the majority of missions he will be given will classify as "punishment" for past and current incidents of unacceptable looting, canon contamination, and "forgotten" charge lists. Nonetheless, his significant feild experience means he can usually get the job done.

• There seem to be a number of human and Sangheili Halo-natives working at the PPC, but none of the other races, so I thought I'd represent.Wtak hails from something called "the Cortana & The Littlest Jackal"... he doesn't like to talk about it.


• Wtak looks.... well, he looks like a Jackal, specifically a wiry, shorter-than-average homeworlder (regular "Jackal" pheontype) with abnormally bright yelow plumage. Like most Kig-Yar, he smells faintly of ammonia. Not really all that much else to say here.


• Wtak is easily the more competant of the two when it comes to combat, despite his relative inexperience. He has a special fondness for killing things with "writing": magic, software, cheat codes, or anything else available, although if push comes to shove he is also capable of using a wide variety of light and precision firearms.


• Wtak is a clean-cut, model Agent, fresh out of training and eager to make a mark. He's a stickler for procedure and a bit of a bore, although in true Kig-Yar fasion he's also greedy, vain, and highly competitive. He tends to "collect" a great deal of junk from around Headquarters, particularly spellbooks, potions, and assorted magical gewgaws, and leaves them strewn about everywhere for Smithers to pick up and complain about.