Real name Victor Nikolai, smilers parents were barricaders meaning he grew up with terrorists influencing him and treating him terribly, this led to him gaining a mute and violent personality. He was also exposed to a shit ton of toxic fumes causing him to have lung problems, his parents telling him to “man up and live with it” if he ever complained.
When he was 15 he decided he had enough and tried to escape the bunker they kept him imprisoned in, however he was caught almost immediately and was physically punished in the process.
3 years pass by and Victor turns 18 and is immediately moved into the surgical room, turns out he was going to be turned into an enhanced soldier for the barricaders against his will.
Victor retaliated as much as he could but it was no hope, he had his lungs, heart, arms, legs, eyes and lower jaw replaced with cybernetics and a brain chip making him follow any order a barricader gave him, he was essentially a sleeper agent.
Wearing a mask with a massive smile to scare his opponents and wielding 2 revolvers, The Smiler was born and was sent out as the barricaders super soldier, or so they thought. Turns out the chip had a sentient virus installed without any of the barricaders knowing, immediately overriding the order function and instead had the virus control him at any point, this led to Victor gaining a case of D.I.D, the virus taking the smiler title. Despite this, Victor was free of that hell hole and began his journey across the baron wasteland known as District17.
He’s really fond of small birds [robins, swallows, ETC] any time he sees one he immediately just watches it until it leaves his sight
Due to his enhancements, he’s completely unable to sleep at all, can’t even feel tired in the slightest
Out of every other character, he’s memorised the routes of District17 the most
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