Lt. Col. Maximilian “Doodle” Yates (Bilbo) or (Pupil)

Weight: 150

Apparent Age: 30

Archetype: Physical Magician: Circle Unknown (Expect the worst)

Preferred Weapon: Katana

Runner Song:  (Pupil)

(Bilbo)

Bio: It appears that even the New Breeders have learned a valuable lesson form there elders and in Maximilian’s case he has had some world class teachers. This young runner has landed himself in heap load of trouble during his short career and has been forced once again to fake his own death and reinvent himself as a new runner, though with do diligence and patience I was able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and conferee that Bilbo and the Pupil are one and the same. So like the greats of the shadows, he has faked his own death and returned to the world of the shadows as a new man, though for Bilbo his old habits would be his downfall and eventually give way to his being discovered as alive.

        As for his beginnings there is very little known about Maximilian and his youth, what we do know is he grew up here in Seattle and was raised in the Lynnwood district. His parents worked hard to provide for Maximilian and put him through college, with the aid of his biological and absentee father Mr. Tudor Yates better known as the Professor. Maximilian was being looked after from the shadows by his father and many of his fathers closest friends, though none of the shadows best could protect Maximilian from his worst enemy himself. As much as they tried to keep this young man out of the shadows and protected from the world that lurked ever so close to the young Yates. It would be his own curiosity that would bring his world crashing down and through him head first into the world of the shadows. Once a corporate wage slave serving the German machine of Seder Krupp and now a shadow warrior staying alive by the skin of his teeth.

       This runner has managed to put together a team of new breeders and was well on there way to becoming the next big thing within the shadows, but do to a run of bad luck, inexperience and poor leadership the original squad he gathered would end up all perishing with Waldo and Tin Man both falling at the vain attempt to siege Fort Lewis during the Battle for Seattle. After the battle and the death of his friends, everything would start to fall apart for Bilbo quickly. He would never be able to put together another squad like he had prior, and he would begin to forget the teachings of his elders. Yes he has gathered a group of like minded runners, and restored the membership roster of the Harbingers, but without the guidance of his friends Bilbo’s lack of leadership experience and his inability to work as a cohesive unit has caused the curse to follow him once again with the new batch of runners.

       Even the crime he was accused of the theft of the Orb of Avalon, was not his doing yet performed by a fellow team member without his knowledge. Bilbo would never again be able to find himself in a comfort zone and would have to spend his life running around the city like a chicken with his head cut off, this is do to Bilbo serving to many masters and not being able to show a shred of leadership or proper decision making. This would lead to in fighting and frustration within the Harbingers and continue this once proud team to fall quickly in an out of control plunge. As the roster of the Harbingers continued to rotate with Crab being the only hold out from the original squad, it would seem that this new team would implode and become nothing more then a bad memory. Though with the addition of team mates Tic Tac and Bueller the team would receive much needed structure and reignite the fires that once burned bright within Bilbo. Though it seemed that the curse that hung over him would continue to haunt his every move and Bilbo would continue to fall deeper into despair and forgo all of his previous training an experience and continue to make rookie mistake after rookie mistake. Even have a new term coined on the streets called “Pulling a Bilbo” with every failure weighing heavily on this commander he would try even harder to become more self reliant and not rely on his own team for assistance.

      This would lead to his biggest fumblings when he would strike down a member of the Brotherhood of Mercenaries in cold blood, while in the direct presence of fellow Brotherhood Members and Devils Rejects, only when a bounty would be placed on his head and hunters from all over the world would converge onto his location would Bilbo alert his fellow team mates of the danger he just put them in. Though one thing can be said for Bilbo is he is a very resilient little bugger and only after surviving the likes of Fallout, Forsaken and Whisper and the social graces of Bueller would the bounty be lifted and Bilbo would be out of the hot water he placed himself into, Though this runners mental disintegration would continue and he would begin to prove the apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree as with each passing day Bilbo becomes more and more like his father. This will only end in one manner, either Bilbo currently the Pupil will fully transform into this generations Professor or he will end up getting himself and his squad killed do to his lack of experience.

       This has only become more likely seeing that this young runner is not learning from his failings, though with the newest addition to the Harbingers being Plymouth a very experienced military officer this team might be able to prevent any further disintegration and once again rise from the ashes that Bilbo caused. Though with Bilbo’s newest bounty being multiple billion credits, and the UCAS being hot and horny to capture and make an example of this young man, even Plymouth might be out of his league and Maximilian might have to accept his fate of an early grave.

       According to my sources the UCAS has recently employed legendary bounty hunter and assassin Oak to track down and capture Bilbo either dead or alive, Oak has a 100% success rate and has brought down runners and terrorists far more powerful than Maximilian in the past and has had a valiant career over the last five decades. So with this new threat looming over the head of Maximilian he must learn from his past, and head back to class to receive the teachings of his elders. The shadows are a dangerous place to reside, when one like to skip school and not pay attention in class, the Pupil has allot to learn or he will find himself on the receiving end of Oak.

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