Throughout history, men of quiet resolve who are willing to kill for their country have always existed. Men who do not see glory, but instead do the dirty work that needs doing. They kill, steal, and basically do whatever is needed for victory. They don't care much about what people think of their acts; they know that victory can never be achieved without them.
Henry Batson is one such man.
Henry was born in Tempe, Arizona to parents who ran one of the city libraries. He grew up in a loving home with attentive parents: Henry, however, was what people in the future would learn to call broken.
Henry did as he was told and did well enough in school, but Henry was always a loner. If asked, no one would really say why Henry spent all his time alone, as he was well liked enough to fit in as needed. For his part, Henry never talked about it.
After high school, Henry enlisted in the Army. During the recruitment process, Henry took a psychiatric test, which revealed certain characteristics about Henry that meant he would make a terrible soldier, but a fantastic assassin.
After his enlistment was denied, he was approached by someone in the War Department, who never gave Henry his name. This man offered Henry a chance to serve his country in a different capacity, and Henry accepted. He was flown to a base in the middle of the desert and began training along a small class of like-minded people. During his training, Henry's talents with marksmanship were discovered and honed, and he soon became a skilled sniper.
Two years later, Henry had killed his first person.
It was a general in a small country in South America, and under the auspices of the newly formed OSS. The man died without ever seeing his attacker, and a regime changed to a much more American-friendly government.
Shortly after Henry returned from his 3rd such mission, he received orders to report to base; there, he was told he was being sent to liase with the French Resistance in the "little Europe" war. After being given the information necessary for his mission he was put on a plane to Algeria, and then boarded a smuggler ship headed across the Mediterranean Sea to France. Once there, he made his way to Carcassonne where he met up with his contact, who brought him into the resistance.
That was six months ago.
During this time, Henry assisted the Resistance by providing intelligence gathering and even working with them on missions where he primarily provided overwatch to groups of freedom fighters.
