User:Kiffvanb/sandbox

Kiff van Brueklen was born in Enschede in the Netherlands on 17th February 1973. His family moved to St.Albans, Hertfordshire, England in 1975. An identical twin, he and his brother schooled on the outskirts of Bournemouth, Dorset. An unremarkable student, van Brueklen excelled in athletics, swimming and team sports. Representing and captaining both the first XI football and county inter-school athletic teams.

Van Brueklen joined the Ministry of Defence upon leaving full-time education and chose to specialise in psychology. It was in this part of his education that he started to display exceptional ability in the understanding of behaviour. An uncanny ability to understand and predict sets of behavioural patterns saw him projected to working in national security at the age of 19. Being exposed to the harsh realities of international terrorism was a mentally dangerous risk in someone so young. For van Brueklen, the pressure was too much and he was granted a 12 month leave of absence just 7 months after commencing his role. During his break, van Brueklen opted to learn about electricity and telephony in an effort to expunge the images that had previously so disturbed him Van Brueklen rejoined the MoD and continued researching behaviour displayed in various social experiments. Studying the limbic system, van Brueklen was able to recognise, and manipulate, the relationship between neuro-chemicals and, specifically, the amygdala. Van Brueklen's work is restricted as it is subject to the rules of the official secrets act 1989.

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