Player Information Name: Heather Age: 36 Contact: discord: vikael#0221 Other Characters: n/a Invited by: Heather!ception
Character Information Name: Jagger Crowe Canon: Original Character Canon Point: Just prior to landing in Seattle, WA Age: 25
world & history: World Information The time is current, 2017. Jagger's world is much like our own. It's loud, over-populated. Modern. It's the Cycle of Man, and that is what some of the "Other" elements, Hidden from the eyes of the mortal world want to change. The Earth is home to roughly 6.5 billion people, most of which are completely normal. Nothing specifically special about them, they have no knowledge of magic outside their superstitious histories and fiction novels. But there exists a world hidden from their eyes, a world older than modern society, a world that is dying out, whose dwindling numbers were forced into hiding centuries ago, and who are, unbeknownst to the outside world, locked in a war between maintaining the status quo and bringing about a New World in which the Hidden need no longer fear the light. This war is very real to the pockets of Hidden, the werewolves, the vampires, the mages, and the witches, the Septians and the Fae. At least...the ones blessed with being raised by their own...
History Jag's story starts out a pretty sad one, even before he was born. His mommy was a Septian, a type of Hidden that is technically a sub-species of humanity, which is why they're able to interbreed with them. Her powers, which Jagger inherited part of due to his mixed heredity, were that of clairvoyance and psychometry (touching an object and reading psychic imprints from it). Normally, Septians are taught from a very young age how to control their powers. That was not the case here.
Jagger's mother, Peyton, fled south from the Isle of Man after her clan was slaughtered by an unnamed enemy. She took refuge in the huge human city of London, East End, and met Jagger's father, Harrison Crowe, who ran a bed and breakfast there. She never told him what she was, but they fell in love quickly enough. They married, and two years later, little Jagger was born, which put even more strain on Peyton's already fragile mind. As the war escalated, Peyton's sanity eroded away, by night terrors, visions of death, warnings she couldn't effect. She'd never been a completely stable person, but her sanity quickly forced Harrison to put her in a home...or at least, that was the intention.
Pesky powers like clairvoyance make it hard to spring things on people, and one night, when Jagger was just past his second birthday, Peyton awoke from a vision most foul. She'd always been aware of the fragility of her own mind. Recently, she'd been feeling herself slipping into the abyss her mind was so often forced to peer into, but she was certain of one thing in particular: something was coming for her and her son, and it would continue to come unless she did something to stop it. She spent more and more time forcing herself to use her abilities to look into the future, into the past, at the different threads of time, trying to determine which course of events would lead her Jagger's ultimate safety. Eventually, she painstakingly plotted a course of events that would see it his safety, left a list of very detailed instructions for Harrison, and saw to the first item on her list: her death.
Harrison sort of fell apart after that. He used the last of his savings, which was a modest sum to begin with, to relocate himself and his son to the US as a means to separate himself from the tragedy, but it never quite worked after that. Between immigration issues and trouble at work, Harrison found it difficult to hold down a job. Jagger grew up taking care of things around the house and taking care of school work, got his first job at 16 and moved out when he was 18. He met his current partner in crime in college when he was studying criminology and Charles (Chuck) was a parapsychology grad student. Chuck's Masters Thesis was on the existence of psychic abilities and Jagger responded to a flyer requesting anyone who thought themselves to be "gifted" for a clinical evaluation. Jagger went because he was going to be paid and he needed that 50 dollars to finish his rent for the month.
At Chuck's urging, he and Jagger entered into a partnership that involved exploring seemingly 'haunted' locations to determine their validity, which led eventually, after the next 6 years, to meeting various members of clergy etc. and specialists that dealt with different 'occult' issues. They both garnered attention from nay-sayers and believers alike, Chuck (and sometimes Jagger too) have appeared of a few local access TV shows to talk about one high-profile case or another. A network approached them about doing a "Ghosthunting show" but Jagger vehemently declined. He received a coin from a nightclub recently which was a trap, he was sure of it, because now that he's touched it and knows that its owner isn't human, he can't ignore it. Apparently, he's going to Seattle...
abilities: • Psychometry; He has the ability to touch an object or person and get a reading from them. This is also related to the past, present, or future. With a person, he can glimpse who they truly are, hear sounds that hint at it, get random smells, etc. With objects, the most commonly gets an impression of who handled it last, and what their intention. • Research; He studied to become a private investigator and did get his license. He's also pretty good at reading between the lines. • Stealth; Nothing fantastic, but he's practiced at looking like he belongs somewhere because he acts as he does, and generally not acting suspiciously, though not garnering undo attention. He's not a ninja or anything, though. • Artistic ability; Jagger's one talent he never really explored beyond hobbyist until he started using it for work is his ability to sketch things from memory. It's nothing worthy of an art gallery, but he can sketch a face with enough accuracy as to be recognizable, and a scene enough for reference. • Lockpicking Skills; Self-taught, but he can get into most locked buildings, cabinets, etc that aren't alarmed.
Personality:
Originally an adapted trait to remove himself from a situation and look at it subjectively, his ability to analyze has become something of a talent of his. No matter how incomprehensible a situation in which he finds himself seems, he's able to pull back and view it as one would the figures on a game board. This is partially due to his tendency to withdraw himself emotionally from a situation. On the flip-side of this, because of how analytical he is, he sometimes misses emotional responses to things, such as being completely oblivious to someone flirting with him. Because of his attention to detail, few things escape Jagger's view. The visions and impressions he receives from objects are often flashes and this ability to quickly identify and analyze things he sees briefly have made or broken several cases for himself and Chuck. Even in conversations, he tends to listen as much to things people don't say to things they do in order to discern what they may actually mean. Jagger has always been curious about the world around him. This is partially due to a need to understand where his powers have come from, but also just a part of him. He's one who would explore an abandoned silo to glean what it may have been used to store or to call a random number scrawled on a wall to see whom it may have belonged to.
Partially due to his aversion to touching things lest he accidentally experiences some form of vision and partially due to his upbringing, Jagger has a hard time connecting with others. His short temper also plays a part, but he also has an aversion to closeness. From a very young age, he was the only person he really had to rely on and he's very hesitant to trust new people in his life. It took Chuck three years to get Jagger to open up about his mother's death and his father's neglect. His sense of humor is a mix of deadpan and sarcastic bordering on fatalistic at the best of times. Having no fighting skill, his thick shell of barbed retorts has been his only armor against a harsh and often unfeeling world. It's also a handy way to keep people from getting too close and its a kneejerk reaction to annoyances like a lack of common sense. Jagger inherited his father's temper, which manifests in increased irritation, sarcasm, and shutting down. He's quick to anger when people are difficult or invasive and ask stupid questions that he feels the answers to are obvious at the very least. He has little tolerance for processes he feels are redundant or for wasting his time on trivialities. There's a reason Chuck insists on doing most of the talking.
While not quick to form relationships with anyone, once he has allowed someone to become close, he is protective of them with a fierceness that borders on mania. He feels loneliness profoundly, so much so it almost feels like another part of him, but the few people he cares for alleviate that solitude and he cherishes them because of it. That isn't to say he's only caring because he feels lonely otherwise. To spite his loner nature, he does care deeply about those around him, it's almost impossible not to when a casual brush of a shoulder could share more thoughts and feelings than the person would have done openly, and he has a desire to use those abilities to help others. At first having thought they were a curse, in the course of working with Chuck and actually using his powers to bring peace to others, he feels not only that he can make them useful in the aid of others, but that he should.
Inventory: • 5inx3in unlined notepad, 1/3 used • Mechanical pencil • Clothing: socks, briefs, undershirt, black t-shirt, black leisure jacket, black leather driving gloves • Wallet containing 1 debit card, 1 credit card, Michigan Driver's License, 20 US dollars • A set of lockpicks
Which of the following would they most like to have in abundance: Limitless good luck
Jagger Crowe | Original Character | Reserved
Name: Heather
Age: 36
Contact: discord: vikael#0221
Other Characters: n/a
Invited by: Heather!ception
Character Information
Name: Jagger Crowe
Canon: Original Character
Canon Point: Just prior to landing in Seattle, WA
Age: 25
world & history:
World Information
The time is current, 2017. Jagger's world is much like our own. It's loud, over-populated. Modern. It's the Cycle of Man, and that is what some of the "Other" elements, Hidden from the eyes of the mortal world want to change. The Earth is home to roughly 6.5 billion people, most of which are completely normal. Nothing specifically special about them, they have no knowledge of magic outside their superstitious histories and fiction novels. But there exists a world hidden from their eyes, a world older than modern society, a world that is dying out, whose dwindling numbers were forced into hiding centuries ago, and who are, unbeknownst to the outside world, locked in a war between maintaining the status quo and bringing about a New World in which the Hidden need no longer fear the light. This war is very real to the pockets of Hidden, the werewolves, the vampires, the mages, and the witches, the Septians and the Fae. At least...the ones blessed with being raised by their own...
History
Jag's story starts out a pretty sad one, even before he was born. His mommy was a Septian, a type of Hidden that is technically a sub-species of humanity, which is why they're able to interbreed with them. Her powers, which Jagger inherited part of due to his mixed heredity, were that of clairvoyance and psychometry (touching an object and reading psychic imprints from it). Normally, Septians are taught from a very young age how to control their powers. That was not the case here.
Jagger's mother, Peyton, fled south from the Isle of Man after her clan was slaughtered by an unnamed enemy. She took refuge in the huge human city of London, East End, and met Jagger's father, Harrison Crowe, who ran a bed and breakfast there. She never told him what she was, but they fell in love quickly enough. They married, and two years later, little Jagger was born, which put even more strain on Peyton's already fragile mind. As the war escalated, Peyton's sanity eroded away, by night terrors, visions of death, warnings she couldn't effect. She'd never been a completely stable person, but her sanity quickly forced Harrison to put her in a home...or at least, that was the intention.
Pesky powers like clairvoyance make it hard to spring things on people, and one night, when Jagger was just past his second birthday, Peyton awoke from a vision most foul. She'd always been aware of the fragility of her own mind. Recently, she'd been feeling herself slipping into the abyss her mind was so often forced to peer into, but she was certain of one thing in particular: something was coming for her and her son, and it would continue to come unless she did something to stop it. She spent more and more time forcing herself to use her abilities to look into the future, into the past, at the different threads of time, trying to determine which course of events would lead her Jagger's ultimate safety. Eventually, she painstakingly plotted a course of events that would see it his safety, left a list of very detailed instructions for Harrison, and saw to the first item on her list: her death.
Harrison sort of fell apart after that. He used the last of his savings, which was a modest sum to begin with, to relocate himself and his son to the US as a means to separate himself from the tragedy, but it never quite worked after that. Between immigration issues and trouble at work, Harrison found it difficult to hold down a job. Jagger grew up taking care of things around the house and taking care of school work, got his first job at 16 and moved out when he was 18. He met his current partner in crime in college when he was studying criminology and Charles (Chuck) was a parapsychology grad student. Chuck's Masters Thesis was on the existence of psychic abilities and Jagger responded to a flyer requesting anyone who thought themselves to be "gifted" for a clinical evaluation. Jagger went because he was going to be paid and he needed that 50 dollars to finish his rent for the month.
At Chuck's urging, he and Jagger entered into a partnership that involved exploring seemingly 'haunted' locations to determine their validity, which led eventually, after the next 6 years, to meeting various members of clergy etc. and specialists that dealt with different 'occult' issues. They both garnered attention from nay-sayers and believers alike, Chuck (and sometimes Jagger too) have appeared of a few local access TV shows to talk about one high-profile case or another. A network approached them about doing a "Ghosthunting show" but Jagger vehemently declined. He received a coin from a nightclub recently which was a trap, he was sure of it, because now that he's touched it and knows that its owner isn't human, he can't ignore it. Apparently, he's going to Seattle...
abilities:
• Psychometry; He has the ability to touch an object or person and get a reading from them. This is also related to the past, present, or future. With a person, he can glimpse who they truly are, hear sounds that hint at it, get random smells, etc. With objects, the most commonly gets an impression of who handled it last, and what their intention.
• Research; He studied to become a private investigator and did get his license. He's also pretty good at reading between the lines.
• Stealth; Nothing fantastic, but he's practiced at looking like he belongs somewhere because he acts as he does, and generally not acting suspiciously, though not garnering undo attention. He's not a ninja or anything, though.
• Artistic ability; Jagger's one talent he never really explored beyond hobbyist until he started using it for work is his ability to sketch things from memory. It's nothing worthy of an art gallery, but he can sketch a face with enough accuracy as to be recognizable, and a scene enough for reference.
• Lockpicking Skills; Self-taught, but he can get into most locked buildings, cabinets, etc that aren't alarmed.
Personality:
Originally an adapted trait to remove himself from a situation and look at it subjectively, his ability to analyze has become something of a talent of his. No matter how incomprehensible a situation in which he finds himself seems, he's able to pull back and view it as one would the figures on a game board. This is partially due to his tendency to withdraw himself emotionally from a situation. On the flip-side of this, because of how analytical he is, he sometimes misses emotional responses to things, such as being completely oblivious to someone flirting with him. Because of his attention to detail, few things escape Jagger's view. The visions and impressions he receives from objects are often flashes and this ability to quickly identify and analyze things he sees briefly have made or broken several cases for himself and Chuck. Even in conversations, he tends to listen as much to things people don't say to things they do in order to discern what they may actually mean. Jagger has always been curious about the world around him. This is partially due to a need to understand where his powers have come from, but also just a part of him. He's one who would explore an abandoned silo to glean what it may have been used to store or to call a random number scrawled on a wall to see whom it may have belonged to.
Partially due to his aversion to touching things lest he accidentally experiences some form of vision and partially due to his upbringing, Jagger has a hard time connecting with others. His short temper also plays a part, but he also has an aversion to closeness. From a very young age, he was the only person he really had to rely on and he's very hesitant to trust new people in his life. It took Chuck three years to get Jagger to open up about his mother's death and his father's neglect. His sense of humor is a mix of deadpan and sarcastic bordering on fatalistic at the best of times. Having no fighting skill, his thick shell of barbed retorts has been his only armor against a harsh and often unfeeling world. It's also a handy way to keep people from getting too close and its a kneejerk reaction to annoyances like a lack of common sense. Jagger inherited his father's temper, which manifests in increased irritation, sarcasm, and shutting down. He's quick to anger when people are difficult or invasive and ask stupid questions that he feels the answers to are obvious at the very least. He has little tolerance for processes he feels are redundant or for wasting his time on trivialities. There's a reason Chuck insists on doing most of the talking.
While not quick to form relationships with anyone, once he has allowed someone to become close, he is protective of them with a fierceness that borders on mania. He feels loneliness profoundly, so much so it almost feels like another part of him, but the few people he cares for alleviate that solitude and he cherishes them because of it. That isn't to say he's only caring because he feels lonely otherwise. To spite his loner nature, he does care deeply about those around him, it's almost impossible not to when a casual brush of a shoulder could share more thoughts and feelings than the person would have done openly, and he has a desire to use those abilities to help others. At first having thought they were a curse, in the course of working with Chuck and actually using his powers to bring peace to others, he feels not only that he can make them useful in the aid of others, but that he should.
Inventory:
• 5inx3in unlined notepad, 1/3 used
• Mechanical pencil
• Clothing: socks, briefs, undershirt, black t-shirt, black leisure jacket, black leather driving gloves
• Wallet containing 1 debit card, 1 credit card, Michigan Driver's License, 20 US dollars
• A set of lockpicks
Which of the following would they most like to have in abundance: Limitless good luck
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