AC4-4H0

Background:

Carmen Ace was born on August 19th. 1993 in Catalonia, Spain. This is where Carmen spent all of her childhood and completed schooling. In school, Carmen never particularly cared for academia, she was an average student (who was above average in mathematics) going for college as that’s what she thought she was supposed to do, until her brother, Leo, joined the UME when she was 15. While the two weren’t close, Carmen would end up following in her brother’s footsteps (vaguely) and joined the Spanish Army when she turned 18, which strained her relationship with her mother, who disagreed with the choice. This became a point of contention between the two as her mother, Valerie, hadn’t argued against Leo  joining the armed forces. This series of arguments lead to the two of them not speaking often.

 During her time in the Army, Carmen would complete basic medical training and assume the role of a combat medic. Carmen’s ability to simultaneously perform life saving care to an extremely high standard while maintaining an understanding and awareness of the area around her caused her to stand out off the bat, especially when coupled with the fact that she possessed an extremely quick reaction time and was very aware of small changes in the sounds of the area around her. Initial contact attempts by TITAN to hire her were unsuccessful.

When Carmen was 22, she gained the callsign of ‘Halo’ after her team leader, Eva, made a joke about how it always seemed like light would frame Carmen’s head like a halo. Carmen didn’t fight it as she figured it was a significantly better callsign than some other people would have gotten.

Later down the line, a few months before she turned 24, Carmen was an operative on Operation [REDACTED] with the UME. This mission turned out poorly and resulted in Carmen’s team and her brother (who was also present during this operation) being KIA. This very negatively impacted Halo’s psyche and while she remained operationally stable, emotionally she was very far from baseline. This instability was made worse by her mother being diagnosed with Early-Onset Dementia which essentially strong-armed the two into consistent contact. The grief from her brother’s death, and anxiety from her mother’s diagnosis caused Carmen to shrink into herself.

When she was 26, she completed parachuting school and became a member of the Spanish Army's paratroop brigade ("Almogávares" VI)and continued her work there, until it hit her that she would need to start looking for a care home for her mother. The costs associated with this eventually led to her looking for work outside of the Army.

This is when TITAN got back into contact with Carmen, and after realizing the pay was significantly better and would likely cause her to be able to afford everything comfortably, Carmen signed a contract with TITAN that would go into effect after she immigrated to the United States of America with her mother following 3 months after she fully immigrated, but the issues associated with her mother’s move caused the process to drag on for 9 months but following that, the two moved to Wyoming.

Halo completed TSOT, and it was during this time she was found to have a very high aptitude in regards to pararescue, and following intensive training, Halo was eventually assigned to TITAN's Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) division and was moved to Seraphim Squad with Lucia 'Plume' Láksa.