Joker- Full Metal Jacket

STORY ARC (Your scenario can take place during any of these events, or after them)

Joker is known for his quick wit, comedic attitude and intense courage. He witnesses losses and himself loses his innocence during the events of the Tet Offensive. He is sent to Parris Island to undergo eight-week recruit training, and is given his signature nickname on his first day of Platoon 3092. There he meets Cowboy and Pyle. He gets off to a rough start with the overly abusive senior drill instructor, Sergeant Hartman, but takes on the rough routine of shouting, beating and intense training.

In the first four weeks, he witnesses Pyle trying the hardest of the platoon but continuing to fail. Like the other recruits Joker is physically fit compared to the overweight and softer Pyle, who is also not very bright. Pyle struggles with drills, clearly has various mental issues, and is also a victim of intense abuse from Hartman

Joker is later promoted to squad leader and is placed in charge of Pyle for one-on-one instruction. He takes Pyle under his wing, but even as it seems that Pyle is improving the abuse continues stacking up by the Hartman. Soon, the platoon starts to receive corrective training, under the pretense of collective punishment, every time Pyle continues to make a mistake. The last straw was a blanket party at the start of the seventh week, midnight. Despite his hesitations, Joker beats Pyle with a towel-wrapped soap bar, going along with the other recruits, and he continues to the point his disappointment takes over and becomes a relentless rage.

By morning, Joker notices the change in Pyle from his improvement and his unusual silence. At first, he and the platoon feels Pyle was in deep concentration. He soon gets the idea that Pyle is no longer mentally stable after he witnesses Pyle talking to his rifle. This is unfortunately dismissed as a rumor.

On the last night of boot camp, he is assigned to fire watch and finds Pyle with his rifle, talking to it, and has armed it with a loaded magazine of live ammunition. He tries to calm the insane Pyle, but it results in Pyle loudly proclaiming that the rifle belongs to him like a woman. Sergeant Hartman attempts to intervene, but is shot and killed by Pyle. Joker reasons with Pyle, who briefly drifts out of his psychotic obsession, and realizes what he has done. Joker watches with horror as Pyle shoots himself in the mouth.

By January 1968, Joker is a sergeant based in Da Nang for the newspaper Stars and Stripes alongside Private First Class "Rafterman," a combat photographer. The Tet Offensive begins and the base is attacked, but holds. The following morning, Joker and Rafterman are sent to Phu Bai, where Joker searches for and reunites with Sergeant "Cowboy" Evans, a friend from Parris Island who now serves in a unit dubbed the "Lusthog Squad". While reporting at a site where civilians were massacred, a Marine Corps colonel challenges Joker on the inconsistency of his wearing a peace symbol pin button on his uniform's lapel, while having "Born to Kill" written on his helmet. Joker claims he does not know its meaning, nor where he procured the pin, but when pressed, surmises he intended it as commentary on the duality of man.

During the Battle of Huế, platoon leader Lieutenant Walter J. "Touchdown" Schinoski and a fellow Marine are killed by the NVA. Later, a booby trap kills the squad leader, Sergeant "Crazy Earl", leaving Cowboy in command. Becoming lost in the city, the squad is ambushed by a Viet Cong sniper who kills two members, "Eightball" and "Doc Jay". As the squad approaches the sniper's location, Cowboy is killed.

Assuming command, the dull and bloodthirsty squad machine gunner "Animal Mother" leads an attack on the sniper. Joker locates her first, but his M16 rifle jams. The sniper, a teenage girl, overhears this and opens fire, while Rafterman shoots and mortally wounds her. As the squad converges on the sniper, she begs for death, leading to an argument over whether to kill her or leave her to die in pain. Animal Mother agrees to a mercy killing but only if Joker will handle it; after some hesitation, Joker shoots her. As night falls, the Marines march to the Perfume River singing the "Mickey Mouse March".

PERSONALITY

Joker is probably known best for the wisecracking, sarcastic nature that earned him his nickname. His jokes often get him into trouble, and he often uses humor as a way to cope- though he is aware of when too much is too much. He is also very intelligent in multiple ways. He's friendly and is close to those who he cares about. He rarely ever swears, even if angry.

He is very smart, pragmatic, and cynical. Before being sent to Phu Bai, he was eager for the war and "ready to be in the shit." However, after the Tet Offensive, he became more critical of it, though he rarely speaks of it.

DETAILS

-At boot camp, Joker is at first sympathetic towards Pyle, but after Pyle starts failing to pull his own weight and getting everybody in trouble, he becomes resentful towards the overweight recruit. Even so, Joker is still less abusive towards him than everyone else. -In Vietnam, he is a military journalist, but is primarily a soldier, and is involved in battles especially after being sent to Phu Bai.

APPEARANCE

Joker is a Caucasian male with short blond hair, blue eyes, and round wireframe glasses. He is seen wearing a Vietnam soldier's green uniform and gear, with a peace button on his lapel and "Born To Kill" written on the front of his helmet. 2 grenades are attached to his flak vest, and he is armed with an M16 rifle.