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World: Overwatch

Story

Due to Lijilianas father beeing a soldier and very strict, she was trained from an early age on. Different kinds of sports and a millitary school prepared her for the real military, which she joined as soon as it was possible.
She was always someone who loved the challange, the adrenalin, and ofcourse, winning. Having the same hot temper as her father, she is not a very good looser. However, she is loyal and pumped with energy. Her rather fragile figure help her to be fast and very agile so se can fit through tiny holes or navigate herself well through thight spaces, but if she gets ghaught, she is rather weak, can’t stand many bullets and is in no way a tank.
In military, she was trained to be a flank soldier, not one on the front, but one that comes from the side or behind the enemy and executes them.
Due to her fathers contacts to the higher commanders and generals, she got elected for the ‘Mantis’-Project, where some especialy good soldiers got equipped with a new kind of mechanic dress that gave you the ability to fly and was nearly bulletproof, despite beeing skin thight.
About five Mantis soldiers were trained to the extrem to become a warmashine, with this technology, she became thight friends with. But befor the project was finished, an army of battle omnics attaked Croatia.
Despite the army fighting desperatly, the omnics where way to many. And they kept comin.
Her father died in this war, leaving her only with a little brother, and her mother, who lived in a whole other country.
Eventually, they had to give up most of the soldiers, leaving with their families, trying to start a new life.
But some of them could not accept defeat. They built up an alliance, Ljiliana beeing a part of it, trying desperatly to fight back the omnics, and regain their city.
They kept loosing their allies to the robots, only a few even had weapons and the whole situation seemed hopeless…. until overwatch joined in. In her eyes, they where the knights in shining armor, coming to safe and free them….
Sadly, things did not go as planed. The city was lost. Not even overwatch could retrieve it.
But, they saw the courage and the potential of the alliance and offered them a month of training. In war, you can use every soldier you get. And thats how she joined the team.

To remember that time and her fellow soldiers, she now goes by the name Mantis.

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