Rebecca Chambers (Resident Evil)
Rebecca Chambers is a female video game character who features in Resident Evil.
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Biography
Rebecca Chambers (Japanese: レベッカ・チェンバース, Hepburn: Rebekka Chenbāsu) was a female human who was born in the modern age. It was said that she came to graduate from college from a young age as she was 18 years old at the time. She was later scouted for her talents and she was recruited to join the Special Tactics and Rescue Service that was a special forces division of the Raccoon Police Department. Assigned to the Bravo Team in June 1998, Chambers served as Rear Security and as its Medic, with her expertise making up for a lack of experience in combat. Due to her young age, fellow officer Richard Aiken was charged with looking after her in the missions. Rebecca also joined the R.P.D. intramural basketball team due to being an avid fan of the sport, to the point that she always played with her friends on holidays. Chambers joined S.T.A.R.S. during a difficult period for the Raccoon Police Department. Since 20 May, the police had been investigating a series of animal attacks and cannibalistic murders taking place somewhere in Raccoon Forest, but in particular the section of the Arklay Mountains in the city's northwest. Failing to establish any suspects in mid-July, the RPD formally assigned S.T.A.R.S. to the case.
On the night of Thursday 23 July, Bravo Team took off in a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, and flew northwest into the Arklay Mountains. At 22:00, the helicopter experienced engine difficulties and was forced to make an emergency landing in the forest; this was later determined to be the result of sabotage, but was not known at the time. In the initial search of the area, the team discovered a wrecked MP wagon which was overturned while transporting a prisoner for execution. Marine Second Lieutenant Billy Coen, the prisoner, was not among the bodies and was immediately suspected of killing the two MPs. Consequently, the team changed their focus to searching for Coen, while RPD pilot Kevin Dooley remained in the helicopter. The team was separated during the search, and soon after attacked by Cerberuses; Dooley was killed immediately, with Edward Dewey suffering serious injuries from a mauling. Chambers meanwhile found herself in front of a private train for Umbrella employees, the Ecliptic Express. Captain Enrico Marini, Kenneth J. Sullivan; Forest Speyer and Aiken took shelter in the Spencer Mansion and engaged in limited contact with Chambers. During her initial search of the train, Chambers discovered that its occupants had mutated into Zombies, having been infected by leeches during an attack on their train two hours prior. Dewey himself later mutated into a Zombie, after passing out in front of Chambers in what she assumed was dead. Coen himself was found to be on the train, and was willing to co-operate with Chambers in escaping the death trap, but refused to hand himself in. The train was soon after commandeered by Delta Team, a unit of the Umbrella Security Service, but they were attacked and infected by leeches after powering the train up. The accounts differ on the action taken by the two when the train went out of control, with one stating that Coen and Chambers were forced to turn on the train's brakes, while in another, they were taken completely by surprise by the event. Whatever happened, the brakes were pulled too late to save the train from derailing as it pulled into the train station below the executive training center, but they survived the ordeal.
Now on new ground, the two explored the expansive training facility and its laboratory, uncovering brief dark moments in the facility's history, such as the use of B.O.W.s, the director's developing insanity, and the growing rivalry between two employees, one of whom had the same first name as the head of S.T.A.R.S. The two would find trouble several times, however, leading to Chambers being attacked by an enormous centipede, and nearly falling to her death after being attacked by a monkey; fortunately, Coen arrived in time to save her life. Afterwards, Chambers, having her doubts about the charges against Coen, questioned him about it. Coen revealed that operating under false information, his unit made their way to an African village believed to be used as a terrorist training ground, but it was actually full of innocent civilians; unwilling to go back empty-handed, Coen's commanding officer ordered the villagers' executions and used Coen as a scapegoat. They then soon uncovered further dark deeds, such as human experimentation. After starting up an underground gondola, Coen pushed Chambers out of the way of an attacking Eliminator, the two falling down into the waters below. On her own, Chambers made it to the other side, where she found Captain Enrico. Telling him about losing Coen, Enrico agrees to let her look for him, as long as she was careful. After this, he heads back to his team's meeting point. On her way to an elevator, the steel shutter behind her closed, and a monster attacked from behind the rubble where she defeated the beast and went down the elevator to find Coen. After activating the facility's dam, the two found each other, but to their horror, the bones of many people used in the director's experiments had been thrown around where they were standing. Determined to get out of the place alive, the two fought insurmountable odds before reaching the exit. There, they found the director, James Marcus, unusually youthful looking for an elderly man. The doctor explained to them that his gruesome death at the hands of Umbrella and with his trusting students Albert and William, and his rebirth from his leeches, he is the man who spread the t-Virus. The doctor suddenly began to vomit out leeches before mutating into a sickening Leech-like foe. Although he seemed impervious to firearms, Chambers and Coen quickly discovered that Marcus was vulnerable to sunlight. Coen baited Marcus, while Chambers was opening the roof hatch eventually exposing Marcus to the light of day. Chambers tossed Coen a Magnum, who fired at the creature in its weakened state, killing it. The monster plummeted down a cargo elevator shaft, while flames went up as the facility's auto-destruct timer ended. The two escaped just before the training facility/mansion exploded. Chambers took Coen's Dog Tag, a symbol of a soldier's death, to give Coen a chance for freedom. Afterwards, Coen walked into the trees, never to be seen again. Looking down the cliff edge, Chambers noticed another mansion; which she remembered Enrico having told her about.
After splitting up with Coen, Chambers reached the mansion later that day after barely surviving the dangerous trek through the wilderness, only to find the mansion completely vacant. Tired from her experiences, she fell asleep in one of the servant dormitory's bedrooms. On the evening of July 24, she had recurring nightmares regarding a giant snake and was eventually awoken by fellow Bravo team member Aiken. The two searched the grounds for Marini, whom they relied on for safety after the team split up. However, due to a heightened amount of Web Spinners, the two were forced to abort the search of the grounds and went into the mansion, unaware that their captain would soon come into the dark tunnels near the spider's den. Upon arriving at the mansion and fending off some monsters, she and Aiken began to realize the events at the mansion were connected to the Arklay murders they had been investigating, so they agreed that they needed to focus on survival first and foremost. While navigating around the Mansion, she and Aiken also witnessed Sergei Vladimir and an Ivan carrying a body bag towards the woods, causing them to become suspicious of the entire affair. After being attacked by a flock of crows, which Aiken scared away with gunshots, Chambers wondered if she and Aiken were the only members of Bravo Team left. However, their conversation was short-lived when they were ambushed by a giant snake. They were forced to flee, eventually managing to temporarily evade via the hallways. They encountered the snake again in the attic library. After a lengthy battle, Aiken shoved her out of the way when the snake went after her. She hesitated to shoot the Snake out of risk of hitting Aiken, instead deciding to aim for the lower body. This irritating it enough to spit out Aiken and flee. Aiken told her to have hope that someone would rescue them, but Chambers was struggling with the feeling that their situation was hopeless.
Alpha Team was sent to rescue Bravo team, and Chambers was found by Alpha team member Chris Redfield, whose team faced a similar problem to that of Bravo team. Aiken would give Redfield his radio so he could call for help, not knowing that it was broken. Eventually, the two uncovered that the Alpha team leader; Albert Wesker, was the one who masterminded the deaths of several S.T.A.R.S. members and was personally responsible for Enrico Marini's assassination, leaving Chamber as the only survivor of her team. She also was shot by him, but she survived due to her bulletproof vest. After awakening the monstrous Tyrant (T-002 Model), Wesker was swiftly impaled by its claws, dying temporarily while the other survivors retreated. After escaping it, Redfield and Chambers, along with Alpha team members Jill Valentine and Barry Burton, headed up for the heliport after the Mansion's auto-destruct was activated. The creature would heal from its wounds and attack the surviving S.T.A.R.S. mercilessly. Luckily, Alpha team's pilot, Brad Vickers, flew over and dropped a Rocket launcher to be used on the monster.[40] After the beast was eradicated by the explosive missile, the four escaped with Brad back home and Rebecca fell asleep on the helicopter floor. Upon her return to work after a brief hospitalization, Chambers wrote her report on the incident in which she lied about Coen's 'death' to stop a further manhunt for him. After that, she left Raccoon City before the t-Virus outbreak that consumed the city in September 1998.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Despite looking delicate, it was said that she was a woman of action who remained calm in the face of danger. Whilst at S.T.A.R.S., it was noted that she lacked experience in actual combat. This led to her appearing somewhat childish at times and sometimes hesitate when finding herself overwhelmed by an unknown situation.
She was noted for being an avid sports fan and played with her friends on holidays.
Powers and abilities
Rebecca was born a normal human being though one who was noted to be highly talented. A child prodigy, Chambers entered university at a young age and graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the age of 18
As a member of S.T.A.R.S., she came to be an expert in the manufacture and preparation of pharmaceuticals thus allowing her to serve as the team's medic.
Notes
- Rebecca Chambers was created by Capcom and featured in the Resident Evil universe.
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