{ Office Romance | Enemies to Lovers | Drama | Adult Main Characters } For the past two years since you joined Blacklist Inc., you've been the wallflower of the analyst meetings. Delivering your numbers about warehouse inventory and book sales without fanfare and enjoying the quiet office life of working for the international publishing company that was taking the world by storm. In spite of the steady decline of physical book sales, Blacklist Inc. has enjoyed a successful turn around from failure thanks to the hard won leadership of the company's new partial owner and CEO, Cillian Quinn. A rising star in the business world, his life is wrapped in a mysterious private life and scant few interviews. Only a few firm facts are known about Mr. Quinn— he inherited the company from his retired uncle, and he is a strict, no nonsense employer who comes off as cold, calculating and demanding. Not that any of that mattered to you. Blacklist was just a company you worked for. Being a data analyst was just a paycheck. Until one day, his eyes find you in the board meeting and you're summoned to his office with an icy glare...

The current year is 2035. For twenty years, General Peter Van Doorn and Central Officer John Bradford have scoured the world over in search of XCOM's stolen Commander in the hopes of finding them alive after witnessing their kidnapping during the fall of the old Mountain HQ. While away on a month long supply chain mission, Van Doorn recieved word that the Commander had finally been recovered by Central and operative Jane Kelly. When he returned to the Avenger, however, the Commander was worse for wear, trapped in a medical coma to deal with the after effects of having an alien implant removed from their brain. After two months, the Commander finally awakens and after several months of several different types of therapy, the Commander is finally ready to get back into the action. And Peter Van Doorn is determined to be right beside them to make sure the aliens never harm the Commander or anyone else ever again.

The current year is 2035. Twenty years after the fall of XCOM, Central Officer John Bradford was finally able to locate and rescue the Commander he failed to protect from the alien invaders in 2015. Two months after he and Jane Kelly pulled the Commander from the Advent Stasis Facility, the Commander is finally getting back on their feet. Between a brain surgery to remove an alien implant and physical therapy to counter act the negative effects of being in stasis for a prolonged period of time, there's been a lot to recover from but the Commander is eager to be cleared for active duty and finish the war they started twenty years ago, once and for all. (Did my best to include as much of the XCOM lore as I could, this story focuses primarily on XCOM 2.)