Not a self-insert, I swear - Wet-Suit's original file card talks about how well-read his is and how he's deeply educated in the classics, so the idea of the Navy SEAL who actually writes a GOOD book is intriguing to me. (Wanted to make him more than just "Torpedo, but East Coast.")
Code Name: Wet-Suit (Disavowed)
File Name: Forrest, Brian M.
Primary Military Specialty: SEAL
Secondary Military Specialty: UDT (Underwater Demolitions)
Birthplace: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Rank: E-5
Subject is at this time a matter of significant concern to the Lewis administration on dual fronts. While his reputation as a Navy SEAL was notoriously fearsome, it has come to the attention of the agents assigned to surveil Forrest that the man is a surprisingly well-read wordsmith of some talent and has secured a book deal with a major New York publisher. While details are scant, the rumor in the literary world is that it is a semi-fictionalized account of the subject's experience with the GI Joe Unit and its direct interactions with Lewis prior to the election. Operatives on behalf of the administration are attempting to gain access to an early draft of the book and will try to have it spiked if it is, in fact, a tell-all. Additionally, the subject regularly evades his surveillance teams and, according to Copperhead and his smugglers, has led more than one group of former Joe divers in nighttime raids on the shipments Copperhead has been tasked with ensuring delivery of in off-the-books operations for the administration. Unfortunately, his burgeoning public persona has made simply disappearing Forrest a challenge.
"Wet-Suit was always a scary dude, but the only thing worse than a normal scary dude is a smart scary dude. And Wet-Suit is well-read the way Flint is. He's got a depth of knowledge and vocabulary that makes the rest of us sound like cavemen. None of us knew he wrote, of course, but why would we? He spent most of his career with us underwater, conserving oxygen and blowing stuff up. Who knew he admired Hemingway more than, like, a war hero or whatever? And now he's got this book deal and Lewis is freaking out, which is objectively hilarious. But in the meantime, he's got a group of disgruntled ex-greenshirts geared up and sinking smuggling vessels just to be a nuisance. Then he and his team crawl out of the black ocean water, shed their gear like lizards crawling out of the primordial soup, and he sits down at his keyboard to work on this book that's going to send the Lewis administration into a tailspin...."
