Matt Jameson

Matt Jameson is a Mann Co mercenary Soldier, stationed in Mountainlab. Matt has a two year old Doberman Pinscher named Rocket, who stays around the base.

Summary
Hailing from the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Matt "Soldier" Jameson knows what that label means, and he carries it proudly with him into the battlefield. Matt is logical and strategic when he needs to be, but is able to distinct his work-self and the rest of him. As such, he can display ridiculous, reckless behaviour, encourage and even take part in doing stupid things with his friends, but it's important to know that the idiot character he is out of the battlefield is nothing close to who is can be.

Biography
Matt Jameson comes from Philadelphia, and was born and raised around close friends and family. His father was a military man and as such, wasn't home very often, so his childhood was spent with his mother who loved him dearly. His family was never short of love for their son, and whenever his father was him he always tried to instill a sense of duty into Matt.

When Matt was 11, his mother became deathly ill and passed away just a few short months later due to health complications. His father, upon hearing the news, left his job to raise his son alone. Matt did his best to be independent as his father still needed to find work again as a civilian, selling handcrafted items at school when he could. His father's friends from the military were close to the Jameson family, and they were supportive and able to help Matt get opportunities for work - mostly through running errands for their families, walking dogs, helping get groceries, packing up homes, and more.

Unfortunately his father was not able to find work due to his inability to adjust well to civilian life, and family friends couldn't support them financially forever. His father began to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, and his life began to spiral out of control. Matt, getting older and more mature, did his best to help his father, but his aggressive nature turned his son away. As a result, Matt left his father alone and tried to help out financially himself. He continued to run errands until he could get a job at a dog shelter at the gift shop. He also volunteered to help out with the shelter work when the shop was empty.

At the shelter, he loved all the dogs and got to know each and every one of them. The dogs enjoyed him too, and his supervisor offered to let him switch to working with the dogs instead of the gift shop to which he had accepted, as a new girl was coming in to work the gift shop as well. He spent a lot of time at the shelter, but on one of the days he was walking the dogs, an old mother, her adult son, and teenage daughter saw him and tried to take a dog from him. In order to protect the dogs, he fought back, and a doberman he was walking attacked to protect Matt as well. The doberman was enough to scare the mother and daughter into backing off, but the adult son was violent and Matt had to fight him off himself. With help from the dogs, he was able to drive them away without anything happening to the dogs.

He kept this a secret from people at the shelter, not wanting them to know that he had gotten into a fight, but didn't realise that during the fight someone had indeed seen it - someone who would come back to him years later when he grew older. Matt eventually moved on from working at the shelter once he was old enough to enlist in the army and did so out of respect for his father, and knowing that the army was secure in terms of it being a job.

Matt stayed in the army until he was 35, when he was approached by the same woman who had seen him at the fight for the dogs over a decade ago. She understood his situation and offered him a chance to join Mann Co for security and stability. Just a few weeks earlier, the shelter had contacted him saying that the doberman he walked had passed on but was the father to puppies who were ready to be adopted out, and that he could take one if he wanted. Miss Pauling allowed him to take a puppy with him to Mann Co, which sealed the deal for him.

Personality
To make up for his lack of a caring father in his later childhood, Matt can sometimes he overbearingly "dad-like". He cares greatly about the well being of his team, and brotherhood is number one to him. Thankfully, the presence of Rocket has allowed him to get along with his team quite easily because of their interest in Rocket being a great conversation starter.