Post by Milo Ventimiglia on Apr 30, 2011 9:22:49 GMT -5
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Full Name: Jacqueline Elizabeth Ventimiglia
Nickname: Jackie – never call her ‘Jacqueline’ – she hates it.
How old they look: Around 19
How old they actually are: 31
Birthday: 4th August 1980 – but in this new world, it’s 4th August 2069
Gender: Female
Marital status: Single – divorced recently
Religion: Absolutely atheist
Family: On this world, just her little brother, Milo…and her cousin Max MacRurach and his family, who she learns of later.
Habits/Other quirks: Smokes cigarettes. Likes to drink, but isn’t an outrageous drunk.
Job: Journalist.
Position: Non-human, was never a slave, arrived after slavery was abolished.
House: Lives with Tara at the moment.
Main mode of Transportation: Learner driver, public transport.
// A Little More Intimate, Now Don't Be Shy //
Appearance: Jackie is almost as tall as her little brother Milo. She stands at 5’7, so she is almost tall for a woman these days. She has her brother’s dark hair, but it is slightly wavier and it isn’t too hard for her to give it nice, natural waves and curls at the bottom. Her eyes are a bright, intelligent green. Her skin is slightly paler than Milo’s but it still has that same olive tinge to it which other women envy. She is very slim, but not boyishly so. It’s actually a pain for her and her family to keep weight on because of the amount of energy that they use, so she constantly eats so that she doesn’t become hideously skinny.
Her outstanding feature is definitely her tail. It is dark, like her hair, and long and cat-like, although it is very long in proportion to her body. She can grip things with it and even carry her own weight whilst hanging off something. She can’t do this for long, however.
Jackie’s clothing is generally fashionable but not in a rich or celebrity manner. She came into this world as a fashion reject, being from 2011, but unlike her brother, she quickly caught on to the fashions and generally likes to look good. She doesn’t wear overly revealing clothes despite being a bit of a party girl – Jackie, while in some ways fairly immature for her real age, is still more reserved than a real 19-year-old. She is still 31 in her mind. She likes colours which compliment her colouring: black, tan, white, pale colours matched with darker colours, and sometimes, bright vivid colours. Jackie also has a thousand pairs of shoes and coats, although she wouldn’t call herself a girly-girl. She deems it practical to have a large wardrobe for her job. She likes a scattering of jewellery and doesn’t prefer gold or silver – whatever matches, goes. She only ever ties her hair up when it is practical, otherwise she keeps it down as much as possible.
Like her brother, Jackie does wear a collar, having given herself up quickly after being given advice by Milo’s boss, Hawkeye, to avoid a jail sentence if found out. She otherwise wears quite a few scarves around her neck and long necklaces.
Personality: Jackie is … well, Jackie. She might be the oldest sibling, but she certainly isn’t the most responsible. Jackie is protective of Milo and often patronises him because she is older, but in reality, she is almost the more childish. She hit the wrong crowd at a younger age. That’s not to say that she got into hard drugs, but she certainly started to enjoy alcohol and marijuana at fifteen when Milo was still innocently skateboarding around with his friends.
It depends where one meets Jackie what one’s first impression might be of this strong-willed woman. Meeting her at a club or party would give the impression of a party girl, but seeing her at work would show a determined, passionate streak. She has her brother’s stubbornness and his temper, though hers is worse. She shows her emotions and she isn’t afraid to argue or confront someone if she doesn’t agree with them. It doesn’t take moments to get to know Jackie – it takes a lot longer than that. She can be off putting yet quickly endearing, depending on the type of person associating with her.
Jackie’s main outlook on life is to have fun and drown out any sorrows. Unfortunately, and she knows it, it’s not the right way to live. She has grown up considerably, but even at 31, she is still not quite right. Men are blacklisted – she will look, she will flirt, but it will be some time before Jackie trusts another man after what her asshole husband did to her. While Jackie is physically strong compared to most humans, she still suffered when her husband beat on her. It might have healed quickly and she might have been capable of flinging him against a wall or tearing his throat out, but he manipulated her into being emotionally unable to fight back. As a result, Jackie is wary of men. She believes most of them to be bastards, and she enjoys mocking and insulting them. She also likes to make people squirm in general and will say things to confuse or infuriate them.
On the positive side, Jackie has a great sense of humour. Almost everything has a funny side, and she enjoys showing her amusement in the loudest way possible. She thrives on positive energy – if other people aren’t having fun, then nor is she, and she deems it her job to make sure that they are. That includes spending copious amounts of hard-earned money buying other people drinks or taking them out. She is also loyal and generally hardworking, although she has a procrastinating side to her as well. Despite this, she does get things done when necessary. She would make a terrible journalist after all if she couldn’t keep to deadlines. She’s a night-owl and works best then, probably because she is so used to having clubbed and pub-crawled for years.
Family is very important to Jackie. She cherishes her brother almost to the point of suffocating and annoying him. They cling to each other because their parents are back on their world, in their real home. Jackie is annoyingly protective of Milo and will go to any length to make sure that he is safe, even if it means pissing him off.
Jackie, contrary to the party-girl attitude, does not throw herself around to any man who wants her. She has self-respect, thank you very much. That’s not to say that she wouldn’t bed a guy if he seemed extra special; she isn’t above natural needs. She is picky and untrusting and is more comfortable remaining on a friendship level with men than anything intimate.
Likes:
• Alcohol
• Smoking
• Parties, being the centre of attention
• Good times, good jokes, humour
• Her job – being nosy is her thing
• Annoying other people
• Dogs
• Shape-shifting and using her powers
• Running in her animal shape
• Romance novels – with a lot of action and spice
• Imagining new ways to torment her ex-husband
• Competition: at work, or in any situation
• Winter clothes! Especially those coats…it barely gets cold enough in California for coats, so Jackie loves dressing up against the cold.
• Storms – they energise her.
Dislikes
• The asshole she married and divorced
• Boring, humourless people – ugh!
• Girly drinks with sugary soda
• The attitudes of a lot of men
• The way her life has gone
• Snow. She got sick of it fast
• Non-organic fruit/veg/grains etc, ‘carcasses’ – meat, that is. She only eats freshly killed meat, so she hunts for it herself.
• Excessive humidity. It kills her.
• Excessive rain.
• Most celebrities, particularly snobby women and arrogant men. Back home, she promised to beat her brother’s head into a brick wall if he became a lunatic actor. He took her seriously.
History:
Jackie’s history starts out kind of boring. She was born in California in 1980, the oldest of two children, to faerie parents Isolde and Charlie. Her ancestry is rich – her mum is British and Irish with a few other things mixed in there, and her dad is Sicilian. Neither is human – both are a type of faerie shape-shifter (see species). Jackie and her younger brother Milo were bought up human, their true natures hidden from them for safety reasons. They had a pretty decent life. Jackie was a cheerleader for a little while, but she quickly grew bored of all the political bullshit and pulled herself away from stereotypes. She was pretty much friends with everyone, from the football team to the nerds to the cheerleaders to the … well, not the vampire wannabes, who existed even before Edward and Bella disgraced bookshelves world-wide in the 21st century. Jackie had a likeable personality and a bit of a wild, daring side, so people looked to her as a leader. She didn’t do anything dramatic in her school years, if you don’t count editing the school newspaper or setting her arch nemesis’ locker on fire (all over a guy). She was never caught for that incident.
When Jackie hit middle-school, things began to take a bit of a turn. She founded a group of pot-smokers after being introduced to it herself by some college guys that she and her two best friends began seeing in secret. They would get high every day after school, or during school if they could skip it, and pretty soon, alcohol was in the picture. Jackie had a great time, but luckily, she and her friends had a falling out with the college boys before they could get into anything hard and nasty like heroin.
Jackie’s grades slipped from high to average, but she became head girl and prom queen, although she publically mocked the whole ‘prom queen’ thing after winning it through vigorous campaigning. Ever the vocal one, she went on to college to study journalism, feminism and sociology. She smoked even more weed in University and did a whole bunch of protesting against whatever she didn’t believe in. It was in college that she learned of her true nature – the magic hold on her must have slipped, because her tail grew back one night and she found herself pounding on her parents’ door, screaming for an explanation. It pained her to keep it from her brother, but her parents insisted that she keep it from him until he was a little older.
Jackie eventually got a job working for a major Los Angeles newspaper. She met and married another reporter, a man named Paul, whom she later divorced after an ugly court case. Paul was the start of her more serious downfall. She began to drink heavily, and she lost passion for her job as he began to emotionally manipulate her. She lied to her family about her happiness and withdrew from them. There was an ugly incident where Milo nearly broke Paul’s arm in a fight over her, but luckily, the charges were mysteriously dropped. After an ugly battle, she finally got away with 50%, although the situation would scar her for life. She went to live with Milo in his home in Outer Los Angeles, and she started the party life up again. She felt as though she had simply missed so much of her social life that she wanted to experience it all as much as possible. She ignored Milo’s nagging and worry and slipped into a routine: she would go out and drink with her girlfriends, return at a silly hour of the morning, wake up hung-over, then start all over again. Milo, always working and almost never home, probably missed the worst of it.
It wasn’t long after that Milo mysteriously disappeared. It was a long, traumatic month without her brother, and when he did eventually reappear briefly (with a strange girl in tow), she accidentally followed him back into Ontario, Canada, 2100. And it was there that she began a new life, because really, she had no choice. Unfortunately, she was in animal form when she went through the portal. Not only did she, like her brother, become a teenager (Jackie became 19…legally able to drink under Canadian law, to her delight), she also got stuck in animal form briefly with no memory of herself. She found Milo easily nonetheless and accompanied him when he transformed for the first time, then taught him how to use his form and powers. She currently lives with Milo’s girlfriend Tara and is working at a small newspaper, hoping to work her way up to the major Wonder City newspaper, Daily Wonders (gee, what a witty name, Jackie reckons). She also does freelance work. She gave herself in to the government if only to get proper ID and to safeguard herself from eventually (and it would happen) getting caught and jail for lying about what she was. She got off very lightly and was given ID and a collar, which doesn’t bother her as much as it does Milo. Then again, she never had to endure being a slave. Besides, it's better not to have to hide her true nature and her tail, as she had to at home.
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