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[Jesper]

Form of...new character. 8/


Name: Jayd
Age: 20
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Starting Planet: Earth
Profession: Bounty Hunter
Fighting Style: Fast and direct.

Short Bio:

“Well…my dad was a bastard,” he began basically the same way he had begun the story for the Company evaluators, and that made him want to laugh. “I’ve been defending him all my life, but when it comes down to it, we never got along, and that was because he was the biggest asshole alive.”

“Was?” the girl blinked.

“Yeah…I’ll get to that in a minute. You see, my dad was one of the biggest crooks in East City. Everyone knew it, but nobody could ever, you know…find cold, hard evidence against him. Fucker had all his corners covered. If anything, he was good at what he did,” Jayd smiled and laughed with eyes closed, but he was far from happy.

“What did he do?”

“He was a mobster, I guess. He had a fake business under his name, and he was funneling money from drug operations. He also shook down local businesses for ‘protection,’ but everyone knew it was bullshit because there was nothing to be protected from. It was all bullshit,” he shook his head. “If anything, they needed protection from him, but that’s the world we live in, right? Anyway, he…he never really spent any time with me. My mom was some hooker that he dumped as soon as I was born, and he kept me around for…fuck knows what. A legacy, I guess. The problem was that my old man wasn’t really a people person, and he sure as hell didn’t know how to be a father. I don’t think he wanted to be.”

“…I see,” Victoria pulled the covers even farther up so that only the tiniest part of her pupil could be seen. She had such beautiful eyes. It made things easier for Jayd…her eye was easy to talk to. “So you’ve never met your mother?”

“No. I’ve just seen pictures,” Jayd leaned his arm across the back of his chair. “She was pretty, far too pretty to be such a whore. That was the kind of person my dad was attracted to, though. He enjoyed easy access.”

Victoria cringed slightly. It wasn’t easy for Jayd to hear, either. “So anyway…I was kind of expected to be a part of the family business, you know? I was probably…fifteen when I witnessed my first ‘transaction,’ where my dad and his men exchanged goods for money, or vice versa. A lot of the time it didn’t go down cleanly…I saw a lot of blood, so much that it didn’t seem real to me.,” he paused and shook his head. “I’m sorry, I’m just rambling. I’m not used to talking about this.”

“No, it’s fine. Really,” the pink-haired girl said warmly. “I want to hear it.”

“Well…okay,” Jayd lifted his hands in a shrug before returning them to their places. “When I was seventeen, I wanted to try out some things on my own. I didn’t really know the difference between right and wrong, just that if I wanted something, it was alright to take it. Who gives a fuck if I have to hurt someone to get it?”

“…I know what you mean.”

“See, I used to visit this sweet old woman. She used to care for me after my dad went on one of his infamous tirades, the ones that usually ended with me getting my ass kicked. She was like a mother to me,” Jayd recalled. “She was rich, too. Had a lot of nice stuff.”

“Jayd…” Victoria apparently realized where this was all going.

“Yeah. I stole from her,” he told plainly, his eyes practically empty as he spoke. “A lot. Anywhere from cigarettes, to money, to diamonds. She never found out, assumed it was one of her maids or gardeners or…something. The point is that she never suspected me of anything. Unfortunately, my dad found out, and he was fuckin’ furious.”

“Why?” she shook her head softly. “The way you describe it, he was a bigger thief than you were.”

“Yeah, he was. He was too good of a thief, and that was the problem,” Jayd chuckled darkly. “He said I was too much of an amateur, and that I would leave a paper trail that would lead back to him. He didn’t care about that old lady, he just wanted to watch his own back.”

“What did he do?”

“He hit me. A lot,” Jayd explained. “He beat me to within an inch of my life, all because I spent a few months doing the exact same thing that he was doing. What a fuckin’ trip, huh?”

“Sounds like an asshole,” Victoria lowered her head. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s not a big deal. I was used to it, really, it just got worse than it usually was,” he said. “After that, though, I just wanted to get as far away from him as possible. I didn’t want to be in the family business, I didn’t want to be a criminal or a thief or anything else. I thought I was above it all, so I tried to do what a normal kid my age did. You know, I went to school, and hit on girls. That much hasn’t changed.”

He laughed to signal that the latter was a joke, but it was only received with a half-hearted chuckle. She was loosening up, but only barely. Clearing his throat, he continued. “I met this pretty awesome girl at my school. I mean…she was in with some of the wrong kind of people, but I was too, you know? I thought Lindsay wanted to rise above it all, like I did. We got to know each other pretty well.”

“Was she your girlfriend?”

“Yeah. I mean, I guess,” Jayd shrugged. “With people like her, you never know. We hung out a lot, had a really good time. We had…” he sighed and looked away for a moment. “When we had sex, that was the happiest I had ever been. I know it probably sounds really corny…”

“N-no…” Victoria shook her head, though her cheek was still pinned against the mattress.

“Yeah? Well…anyway,” Jayd continued. “One day, I came home and found Lindsay in our kitchen. I had one of those ‘what the fuck’ moments, but she just laughed and told me that she was waiting up for me. My dad was upstairs sleeping, though, so it was kind of…weird. I didn’t think much of it.

My dad was so…nice to me after that. That was the fucking weirdest thing of all. He kept…you know, giving me money, and buying me shit. Most nights I had to find my own food, and here he was, buying me a Playstation out of the kindness of his heart. It was pretty great, I thought he was trying to atone for so many years of being a heartless bastard.”

“That doesn’t sound so bad.”

“No, it wasn’t. Things were pretty good for a while. Lindsay was starting to distance herself from me, though. I don’t know what it is about my life, but I can’t have more than one good thing going before everything just starts going to shit. Every time I tried to talk to her about it, she’d just change the subject. I always ended up talking about myself,” Jayd stopped talking and tilted his head at the thought, a smile creeping on his face. “Now that I think about it, that much hasn’t changed at all.”

Victoria giggled softly, a gesture that made Jayd genuinely happy.

“So one day I came home, and by that time, I was used to the same old shit: Lindsay would be dabbling about, and my old man would be asleep upstairs. That day, though, nobody was around, at least not that I could see. It was a big house, but you could hear everything when absolutely nothing else was happening…”

“Oh…” Victoria closed her good eye tightly.

“Heh…yeah,” Jayd scoffed and crossed his arms. “They should have turned the TV on, or something, right? I could hear everything.”

“What did you do?”

“Right then? Nothing,” the youth shook his head. “I tried to make myself believe that it was just another one of dad’s whores, and that it was nothing I should have been sticking my nose into. So I made a sandwich.”

“Your girlfriend was cheating on you with your father and you made a sandwich?” Victoria was exasperated. Upon reflection, Jayd supposed that he couldn’t blame her.

“What would you have me do? I was trying not to hear it, and I sure as hell didn’t want to see it,” Jayd shook his head. “But I couldn’t take it anymore. I charged up the stairs, and kicked open the old man’s bedroom door. They…” he clinched a fist. This was the part he was trying to force out of his memory ever since. “Lindsay was straddling my old man.”

“You saw everything…”

“Yeah, she was fucking his brains out,” he said. “They both turned to look at me, and although they looked surprised…they didn’t stop.”

“I…” Victoria was searching for words, the same as Jayd was doing.

“I didn’t know what to say. It would have been easy to make some sort of soapbox speech if they looked guilty, but there they were, going at it like a couple of animals. I just turned around and started to walk away.”

“They deserved something,” Victoria said suddenly. “You deserved to fight for yourself.”

“Like I said, I didn’t know what to do. How do you even respond to something like that? I wasn’t going to do anything, but…” he took a deep breath. “When I turned my back to them, they started to laugh at me. What the hell was so funny? That my dad was a bastard? That my girlfriend was betraying me with said bastard? I was so angry that…the ground started to shake. The things I can do now, Victoria, the…the wind ki stuff surfaced there. I killed them both. Two wind Needles, straight through their brains.”

Victoria said nothing. She just stared.

“There was so much blood everywhere, I…I just ran,” Jayd explained. “I ran as fast and as far away as I could, and that’s when I ran into the Company. That’s how I’m here.”

General Description: Jayd is tall and kind of lanky, but he’s agile and flexible enough to move around pretty quickly. He wears an outfit that is mostly dominated by the color black—baggy black jeans, a black shirt, black jacket, and a black hat that sits on top of a bright red bandanna. You know, for variety. He has two scars, one on each cheek, and dark, golden eyes.

Starting Abilities: Elemental Ki-Wind; Immaterial

Trait: Defiant

Stats:

• Strength - 20%
• Focus - 20%
• Endurance - 20%
• Agility - 40%

[Vad]

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