What's up, RMers?

[Kain Nobel]

In my project's story, I've long had a soldier named Mack Gillborne as one of the main characters, a fictional Myran infantry specialist and military engineer, tasked with one last mission before he retires. After eight or so years of not having a menu portrait, I've finally drawn him one (<--see avatar), which is inspired and based on real life British SAS soldier John McAleese (RIP).


(Source : BBC)

Fictional Mack is a foul mouthed bad ass, with a role similar to Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII. He's an equipment specialist who often conceptualizes field gear to aid in missions. He's also the poor sucker who has to fix your crappy vehicles when they break down on site, disable explosives when others are too nervous to "cut the wire", things of that nature. He's just got one more mission on his shoulders before he can retire, but the closer he gets to finishing his job, the harder it is for him to let go as he feels he must see things through to the end.

There are some things I'd like to do to make the character look slightly different from his inspired real life counterpart, but I'm not sure what exactly I would change. The name has always been Mack and he's always been a mustache wielding bad ass, so maybe the inspiration was divinely meant to be! Nevertheless, his fictional counterpart is pretty bad ass in his own right, hopefully it would do John Mac proud!

Pointless Trivia

In the early concept, when he was more affiliated with gadgetry and less with being a bad ass, Mack Gillborne was based on the blue power ranger, Billy, played by David Yost.



If I ever add flashbacks to the story, maybe I'll model young Mack based off of Billy. They kind of look similar, assuming he hasn't grown a mustache yet.

Also almost modeled him after John McAfee (yeah, the anti-virus guy).



Coincidentally, they all actually kind of look alike, in one way or another, even though they're three different people.