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Character Information Character Name: Walter Hargreeves AKA Walter O'Reilly AKA Radar (AKA Number 9 AKA The Knowledge) Played By: Gary Burghoff Original Canon: M*A*S*H
Personality: Radar is a sweet and pretty naive kid, he makes friends easily despite being fairly shy and usually assumes the best intentions of most people around him. He's a sensitive soul, the kind of person who always rescues animals in need regardless of whether he actually has the space to keep them, and he'd give somebody the shirt of his back if they really needed it. He's very innocent and absolutely terrible when it comes to romance, his inexperience leaving him awkward and prone to blushes and babbling. He can be a little touchy about his own shortcomings, getting very defensive about being teased - despite all of his siblings being the same age, Walter's naivety gave him a very 'younger sibling' vibe and that's obviously continued into his later life. Despite seeming a little bit useless, he's very organised and knows a lot of tricks you wouldn't expect in order to keep things running smoothly.
Abilities & Skills:
Special Abilities; Walter has pre-cognitive abilities that allow him to know things are going to happen shortly before they happen.
Skills; * Requisitioning - Mostly from within army channels, though he's got a few civilian contacts do, Radar can get hold of just about anything you might want, regardless of how rare or difficult to acquire it might be * Comms - In his job as company clerk, Radar mans the comms room, and he can pretty much handle anything that might go wrong with it too * Animal handling - Radar has always been a friend to animals ever since he was a child, so he's gotten very good at soothing and caring for animals, particularly when they're in distress * Basic fighting - he's not the greatest fighter out there, but he is in the army so he's been through basic training
Childhood: Walter Hargreeves was one of the original 13 - his birth mother was just a young girl living with her parents and brother in Iowa and she wasn't ready for a child, it was agreed that it would be better for mother and baby both to let Reginald Hargreeves take the newborn. Walter was always a shy, somewhat serious child, trailing along after his brothers and sisters as though he were the the baby of the family (despite them all being the same age), he was always easily led and would usually get himself into trouble just by following some of the his more boisterous siblings. Sometimes, however, he'd get them all out of trouble using his abilities. Because of the nature of them, it was actually a little time after they had manifested that Reginald Hargreeves truly realised what the boy he had dubbed 'Number 9' was able to do - after all, it's hard to spot pre-cognition when it's being used to ensure that a horde of children scatter at just the right moment to avoid being caught raiding the cookie jar. It was when young Walter started anticipating his requests and repeating his exact words a half-step before he said them that it became clearer that Walter's abilities had manifested and what form they took.
Unfortunately for Walter, they were never useful more than a few seconds in advance, and despite all of Reginald's best efforts to thrust the young boy into danger in order to try and trigger his abilities quicker, they never seemed to extend any further. His promise fizzled to nothing, relegating him to the 'B' team with little care or thought for how that would make him feel, just as Reginald did everything.
Walter didn't mind so much, it allowed him to spend more time with his animals - a rack of makeshift cages tucked away in one of the attic rooms formed his little menagerie of friends, injured or abandoned creatures he took under his wing and nursed back to health, and he got in trouble more than once for stealing scraps from the dinner table to feed the neighbourhood strays.
Even as part of the B team, Walter never really took to the Superhero life, spending most missions on lookout duty and almost always being out of the action, he never really got a lot of the attention that was heaped on some of his siblings as they grew up. He was okay with that, he didn't like to admit that he probably had the most useless power out of all of them.
When the family started to split, Walter was devastated, he didn't know what to do without his siblings around. He drifted away himself, in search of another place he could call home, and wound up joining the army. At first his name caught some attention, especially when Vanya's book came out, so he arranged with his superiors to change it - taking on the name O'Reilly so he didn't have to keep answering questions about his family or what his powers were. That allowed him to put his ability down to just a weird quirk, and it quickly earned him the nickname 'Radar', which he was rather fond of. The army was the second family he was looking for, and he's been happy with them ever since. He writes to his siblings often, though he doesn't mind overly much if they don't write back, they're all very busy after all.
Present Occupation: Corporal in the Army, he's a company clerk. Present Residence: Radar usually lives on base or on deployment, it varies depending on where he's stationed. He was stationed in Korea prior to the death of Reginald Hargreeves, which itself will trigger compassionate leave allowing him to go home.
Anything else we should know? He likes comic books and he still sleeps with a teddy bear. He also has a really big appetite and tends to eat a LOT at any given meal, despite not putting too much weight on
Walter Hargreeves
Player Name: Kit
Contact: PM,
Other characters here:
Character Information
Character Name: Walter Hargreeves AKA Walter O'Reilly AKA Radar (AKA Number 9 AKA The Knowledge)
Played By: Gary Burghoff
Original Canon: M*A*S*H
Personality: Radar is a sweet and pretty naive kid, he makes friends easily despite being fairly shy and usually assumes the best intentions of most people around him. He's a sensitive soul, the kind of person who always rescues animals in need regardless of whether he actually has the space to keep them, and he'd give somebody the shirt of his back if they really needed it.
He's very innocent and absolutely terrible when it comes to romance, his inexperience leaving him awkward and prone to blushes and babbling.
He can be a little touchy about his own shortcomings, getting very defensive about being teased - despite all of his siblings being the same age, Walter's naivety gave him a very 'younger sibling' vibe and that's obviously continued into his later life.
Despite seeming a little bit useless, he's very organised and knows a lot of tricks you wouldn't expect in order to keep things running smoothly.
Abilities & Skills:
* Comms - In his job as company clerk, Radar mans the comms room, and he can pretty much handle anything that might go wrong with it too
* Animal handling - Radar has always been a friend to animals ever since he was a child, so he's gotten very good at soothing and caring for animals, particularly when they're in distress
* Basic fighting - he's not the greatest fighter out there, but he is in the army so he's been through basic training
Childhood: Walter Hargreeves was one of the original 13 - his birth mother was just a young girl living with her parents and brother in Iowa and she wasn't ready for a child, it was agreed that it would be better for mother and baby both to let Reginald Hargreeves take the newborn.
Walter was always a shy, somewhat serious child, trailing along after his brothers and sisters as though he were the the baby of the family (despite them all being the same age), he was always easily led and would usually get himself into trouble just by following some of the his more boisterous siblings. Sometimes, however, he'd get them all out of trouble using his abilities.
Because of the nature of them, it was actually a little time after they had manifested that Reginald Hargreeves truly realised what the boy he had dubbed 'Number 9' was able to do - after all, it's hard to spot pre-cognition when it's being used to ensure that a horde of children scatter at just the right moment to avoid being caught raiding the cookie jar. It was when young Walter started anticipating his requests and repeating his exact words a half-step before he said them that it became clearer that Walter's abilities had manifested and what form they took.
Unfortunately for Walter, they were never useful more than a few seconds in advance, and despite all of Reginald's best efforts to thrust the young boy into danger in order to try and trigger his abilities quicker, they never seemed to extend any further. His promise fizzled to nothing, relegating him to the 'B' team with little care or thought for how that would make him feel, just as Reginald did everything.
Walter didn't mind so much, it allowed him to spend more time with his animals - a rack of makeshift cages tucked away in one of the attic rooms formed his little menagerie of friends, injured or abandoned creatures he took under his wing and nursed back to health, and he got in trouble more than once for stealing scraps from the dinner table to feed the neighbourhood strays.
Even as part of the B team, Walter never really took to the Superhero life, spending most missions on lookout duty and almost always being out of the action, he never really got a lot of the attention that was heaped on some of his siblings as they grew up. He was okay with that, he didn't like to admit that he probably had the most useless power out of all of them.
When the family started to split, Walter was devastated, he didn't know what to do without his siblings around. He drifted away himself, in search of another place he could call home, and wound up joining the army.
At first his name caught some attention, especially when Vanya's book came out, so he arranged with his superiors to change it - taking on the name O'Reilly so he didn't have to keep answering questions about his family or what his powers were.
That allowed him to put his ability down to just a weird quirk, and it quickly earned him the nickname 'Radar', which he was rather fond of. The army was the second family he was looking for, and he's been happy with them ever since.
He writes to his siblings often, though he doesn't mind overly much if they don't write back, they're all very busy after all.
Present Occupation: Corporal in the Army, he's a company clerk.
Present Residence: Radar usually lives on base or on deployment, it varies depending on where he's stationed. He was stationed in Korea prior to the death of Reginald Hargreeves, which itself will trigger compassionate leave allowing him to go home.
Anything else we should know? He likes comic books and he still sleeps with a teddy bear.
He also has a really big appetite and tends to eat a LOT at any given meal, despite not putting too much weight on