Pavel "Ace" Morzodrenko

NAME:
Pavel “Ace” Morzodrenko (Portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson)

AGE:
Early 30s

NATIONALITY:
Russian

HEIGHT:
5’11”

HAIR COLOR:
Brown

EYE COLOR:
Blue

BODY BUILD:
Athletic

DISTINGUISHING PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES (SCARS, TATTOOS, ETC.):
Gunshot Wound (Left Shoulder)

MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE / LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE (IF ANY):
Russian Airborne Forces
45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade
Spetsnaz Alpha Group

ROLE:
Communications
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The oldest of two children born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Pavel “Ace” Morzodrenko grew up with three interests: language, music and technology. When Pavel was in his teens, he began working in his father’s computer shop. Somewhere in that time, he got into hacking. At first, it was little things like changing schoolmates' grades for money. But, just after Pavel turned 18, he got into serious trouble for hacking into the financial records and assets of a company that his father performed I.T. services for after the company refused to pay what they owe, which would have been a financial hit that the company couldn’t recover from. Pavel was facing serious charges for his crimes, until an agent of the GRU (one of Russia’s largest intelligence agencies) intervened on his behalf. The agent was impressed by Pavel’s technical skills and convinced him that exceptional service to his country would see all the charges against him dropped. Though Pavel displayed more than enough intellect to justify remaining in the GRU’s Cyber Warfare Unit, he wanted to serve on the front lines. Over Pavel’s career, he and his team were deployed to various places around the world for missions of asset recovery or destruction, disinformation, kill/capture, etc. This came to an end in the late 2010s while his team was on a covert operation in Northern Africa when they refused to kill civilians who had seen their faces. For their “insubordination” the team was strafed by a Russian fighter jet’s machine guns. Being the only survivor, Ace wandered alone for a while until he was picked up by a U.S. Special Forces unit investigating the air strike. He surrendered to them and divulged information that he had about a number of Russian black ops around the world in exchange for American citizenship and a new life.