Hashim/Introduction

Hashim Balawi (for all his exotic sounding name) is an American citizen, his family has been for generations. That didn't hardly matter after 9/11 and all of a sudden everyone acted like Hashim had something to prove. He wound up switching from pre-med to joining the army as a combat medic, he'd always been an athletic sort and no stranger to discipline so it wasn't any great hardship.

He proved to have a knack for it and even spec ops needs field medics. He wound up going a lot of places he never was and doing a lot of things he never did. When the time came to readjust to civilian life he didn't take it well. He got a job in the Prospect M.E.'s office but a lot of the strange and senseless deaths that'd come through the morgue coupled with the PTSD symptoms drove him to take his own life. This opened the window for the escape of Garuel, the Black Mercy, from the Abyss. Now they're both dealing with how much everything's changed but doing better together than either would alone.