Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 16:57:45 GMT -5
* - - Jack. Finley. Shepard. - - *
Name ;; Jack Finley Shepard
Nickname(s) ;;Jack, JJ, Shep
Age ;;28
Birthday ;;October 21st
Gender ;;Male
Species ;; Demi-god
Immortal Parent ;; Ceres
Years at Camp ;; 10 years, completed service. Lived in New Rome since the Age of five. Civillian.
Celebrity Claim ;; Jensen Ackles
Appearance ;;
With fair skin and Kelly green eyes, Jack really doesn't know where his looks come from. He's never met his mother, well he had once but he doesn't remember her at all. His hands are large and calloused, many times his clothes are smudged with dirt or grass stains. His clothes are slightly unkempt but at the same time, well maintained. He stands at an average height of six foot even, shorter than most of the other males he knows. Nine times out of ten, he looks as if he needs a shave. Jack tends to give off an aura that he doesn't care about what he looks like, but as he owns a small farm inside the city of new rome, it does him little good to dress up fancy or take too much pride in what he looks like when he's just going to get dirty again. Tee-shirts, jeans and workboots for the summer, the autumn and winter bring on hoodies, flannel shirts and heavier pants for when he works with the plants. His muscles are strong and he carries himself with good posture, though he's got little fat on his body, he's not overly muscled. Athletic in build, this comes from the years of legion training that he has been subjected too. He has a fairly active life style and is always on the go, so most of the time his clothes match accordingly. He has a plethora of scars as his specailty of fighting is hand to hand combat and knife fighting. A long scar reaches across his abdomen and up his chest from the last titan war, as well as a burn scar on the top of his left shoulder from a forge accident.
Personality ;;
Rough and gruff on the exterior, Jack has always been slightly a problem. He has trust issues when it comes to men, mostly stemming from a problem that arose when he was younger. At times he can be bitter, mostly when it comes to the gods, and slightly feels like they have snubbed their children and grandchildren. Jack's got a slight problem with authority and he questions them. He's been disciplined more than once because he's questioned orders and is no stranger to Kitchen duty. Jack deeply believes that if you give him a reason to follow orders, a legitimate reason, then he will follow them. His time spent in the legion has given him a bit of a sense of duty, even joining back up during the last Titan war. But once you manage to get past the gruff exterior, you'll find a deeply insecure and friendly person. Jack has never been in a real relationship with anyone other then a general friendship. Deep down he wants to be a good person, he wants to help people but feels that in the end everyone will abandon him. It also doesn't help that he's got anxiety and is fairly introverted when it comes to being around people. He hates being around large groups and often tends to become the quiet one in a group. People think that he's uppity or snooty because he won't talk to anyone, but he wants to communicate but finds it extreamly hard to do so. If it wasn't for the few good friends that he'd had over the years, he wouldn't talk with people period. His natural charisma from his greatgrandmother tends to get him into strange situations that give him anxiety problems. People he doesn't know naturally like him and want to be around him, but Jack doesn't want to be around them, that's where most people think he comes off as a snob or jerk.
Jack has a strong work ethic, mostly when it comes to his plants. He loves working with his plants, watching horror movies or attempting to find new things to cook. He will deny that he's a good cook as he finds self validation through other people's opinions of his cooking. Jack's favorite thing to do is to rise early, eat breakfast, work in his garden, maybe bug a friend or two, then finishing in the garden and heading back home for dinner. Though if Jack had his way, he'd eat like a hobbit, more than five meals a day, breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, supper, dinner and midnight snack. His favorite time of the year is actually Autumn, though it's odd for a child of Ceres. He loves the harvest in the air, the crisp smell of leaves, the apple and pumpkin cider, it's his favorite time of the year.
Powers ;;
From Venus: Charisma. Jack is an extreamly charismatic person, though it's not the same degree as other demi-gods and legacies. On a scale of 1-20, with 10 being average, he's got about a fifteen for a score. He can talk people into things, though this isn't charmspeak. He can easily get his point across and he's a likeable person. It worked better when he was a younger child, as children tend to get things more from people.
From Bellona: Fighting skills. Though no where near as talented as a true born son of Mars or Bellona, He has a knack for picking up fighting techniques faster than your average person. Jack can master any weapon with only weeks of training with it as opposed to taking years, or going in the other direction, slower than any son of vulcan, mars or bellona. He is well versed in hand to hand techniques and knife fighting.
From Ceres:
Natural Pathfinding- Due to Ceres searching for her daughter high and low till she was eventually found in the underworld, Jack has an unconcious ability that keeps him from getting lost. Even though it seems like he's wandering the world or spinning in circles, he eventually gets where he's going even if he doesn't know it. It takes longer time due to it being a passive ability and not something he can switch on and off. This also allows him to have perfect Eidetic memory when it comes to tracking things in territory he is overly familiar with.
Chlorokenesis- The ability to easily manipulate plants to his will. Jack also has no allergic reaction to poisions or any sort of allergy that is derived from plants. This does not include venom from animals or man made venom. It also gives him some knowledge of plants and their properties, though it's a basic, this is poisonous, this is fine to eat, this can help stomach aches, but don't ask him to make up complex things to cure everything under the son. Using his chlorokenesis is exhausting and can only be effected by plants within a three yard radius around him. The bigger and more extensive the plant is, the harder it is for him to manipulate. His chlorokenesis is much more powerful in the late summer and autumn, as opposed to summer and spring like most of his siblings. He specalizes in fall and winter plants and foods.
Pollination insects- Jack has a rare ability to control and communicate with pollination insects, mostly Bees, wasps, butterflies, and Beetles. Control and communication only extends out to a five foot radius, but he also cannot summon them. Controlling the insects that pollinate takes more energy then the chlorokenesis and at many times is a defense mechanism that protects him in dire situations.
Family ;;
Venus- Great-great-grandmother
Bellona- Grandmother
Ceres- mother
David Shepard- father, whereabouts unkown for the past 24 years
Kit Albright, sister
Ryan Ruckshack, brother, deceased
Lexi Rosethorn, sister, deceased
Nora Reyes, niece
Tessa Yates, cousin
Amelia McArthur, great aunt
Nova Silverwood, cousin
Matilida Blair, cousin
History ;;
Jack knows little to nothing about his father, his mother, or any of his family or if he has any family. Jack simply knows that since the age of four, he has been alone in the world, and it's always just been him.
His story actually starts in New Rome, where a legacy of Venus and a son of Bellona had met with a wonderful woman while he was providing security detail at a large event in the Netherlands. Nine months later while David had returned to New Rome, he was gifted with a small child. The boy was named Jack. To David, Jack had always been an inconvenience. Mostly being left with the elderly woman across the hall whenever David had a job to do or finish. One day at the age of four, Jack and his father traveled to Boston where Jack was told to wait for his daddy in the hotel lobby till he was finished with business, but he never came back. The four year old sat there for two days in the lobby before he was discovered by the hotel staff, Jack was then turned over to police. When Jack told them what his name was, where he lived, the police thought it was just a made up world of the imagination of a four year old. They eventually located his grandmother, or so she claimed to be, she had all of the paperwork properly documenting him as her grandson. He was taken from Boston where he was placed in an orphanage in New Rome.
Jack hardly got along with the other children in New Rome, many of them picked on him or made fun of him. He was constantly getting into fights with the other children and consonantly arguing with the matron about why he should do the things he was supposed to do. He was always getting into mischief, growing plants in peoples beds, and his possible favorite one was stopping up the toilets with random vegetation. He was never adopted, most parents thought him to be too introverted when they met him even though around others, he was quite boisterous. The matron was quite happy to send him off to the legion when he was ten. Jack had been put in the fourth cohort, but made a few good friends while in the legion. He had a hard time trusting people at first, always questioning their motives of why on earth they would want to be friends with him. Also as he questioned people a lot, he tended to get in trouble with the centurions and the praetors. Jack was no stranger to punishment, and he would end up in the Kitchens washing dishes as punishment.
At the age of fourteen, it was during a punishment session that he developed the love of cooking and creating things. He routinely would subject his best friend to such experiments in cooking, a good deal turned out good, but there were those times when things just did not work out. The Aurae who worked in the kitchens had grown used to the son of Ceres and at times would offer him advice on his cooking. But he was found to love cooking and Jack was teased mercilessly by other members of his cohort because he wasn't exactly a strong or secure in his fighting abilities. The other children were quick to make fun of him, telling him that he'd never amount to much of anything in the legion and he was a weak link in the chain. It was at this age that Jack started to shy away from people, becoming more and more introverted, prefering the singular company of his best friend and shying away at girls or anyone else for that matter. When thrust into social settings, Jack would close himself off, become quiet and many would think that this was because he was a jerk and that people were too good for him. It simply wasn't the case. Jack lacked the will power to talk to people, he simply figured that they would write him off or even go as far as to befriend him and leave him.
Jack fought for camp during the second titan war. Though it was mostly done because he really didn't know what else to do. But camp was his home. Jack didn't want to loose a home. Though he believed that the gods were just spoiled children, it was his home that he was fighting for. So when the third titan war came around, Jack was quick to enlist once more back into his cohort and fight for New Rome. But this time it was with a more extensive knowledge of his powers and state of being than the first time. And with a degree in Botany from the University of New Rome. He retired again, currently does mostly work on the farm, supplying shops with produce and herbs and the occasional special fruit. He lives in New Rome, close to the outskirts and will happily join up the legion again if a new threat should arise.
Site Alias ;; Charlie
Reading;; All
Roleplaying Experience ;; 10+years
Sample RP ;;See Charlie-mack Jolly
