"Get off my sprouts."

BITTER • HARD-HEADED • STALWART

One of a prodigious pack of kids under the Dooley family name, Notch spent his whole life living in Mino Ami, the sleepy farm town and port that almost survived the tech war. The Dooley's were themselves farmers, and like most of them, Notch took a great deal of pride in his work growing the food that fed the island of Tonpelli. In his mid-twenties, he married a local girl after a considerable courtship, and had no real ambitions beyond his life as it was, content to work the farm, start a family, and live out his life.

Then came the drones. And the War. And while many of his siblings ran off to join the Blues, or fled to the mainland, Notch dug his heels in, staying the course and working the farm. Soldiers still needed to eat, and when the dust settled, so would the survivors. He did the best he could, and on the night Mino Ami fell, he put his wife on the last boat out, and succumbed to his fate, being absorbed and enslaved into the Hivemind.

Around a year later, he woke up again, starving, sunburned, hypothermic and exhausted, with rusting metal arms and only a hazy memory of the time he'd lost. He walked back to Mino Ami slowly, and found it torched and empty. The Blues wouldn't have him, Offshore looked at him with suspicion, and the so-called Free Tech-Touched were nowhere to be found. The Mainland seemed like a coward's way out, and after all he'd been through, he refused to lose his homeland as well. So Notch went back to the ghost town he'd spent his whole life in, and set to building a new, quiet life alone there, intent on restarting his farm as best he could.

Only a few months after that, Duya returned with a plan to forcibly purge every remaining tech-touched drone from the island. He's still not sure how to feel about that.