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Player Information
Your name/Pseudonym: Jenna
What gender pronouns do you prefer?: She/Her
Your email: ladypandora16@yahoo.com
Your chat handles: AIM-Pandora2085
Any other characters in this game?: Cinderella and Jay/Icarus
Character Information
Name: Cpl. Jake Jensen
Canon: the Losers
What type of canon is your character from?: Comic book/Movie
Character's LJ: petunias_fan
Brief history of your character:
Jake Jensen was born into a middle-class family in suburban Sudbury, Massachusetts and he'll be the first to tell you his life was far from a superhero origin story. In fact, it was downright average. He had a dad (Paul), a mom (Janie), a sister (Amy), and the occasional small pet (which never lasted long due to Jensen's propensity to forget to feed them). Take a picture of them and they looked like the belonged on a Hallmark card. And as is average of those picture-perfect families, they weren't happy. His parents divorced when he was eight, his father promptly disappearing from their lives with his barely-legal secretary. This left his mother to take on two jobs just to make ends meet while his sister juggled school, watching him, and hanging out with her friends.
All this left the young Jensen without much of a personal life. Everyday after school he was expected to come straight home, do his homework, and then stay out of the way/behave for his sister. This new lifestyle, which he begrudgingly accepted, didn't do much in the way of making and keeping friends and when the weekends finally rolled around (and with them free time), he rarely went farther then his front yard. It was during these lonely days that Jake Jensen learned that all it takes to have fun is a little imagination. Well, that and a screwdriver, pliers, a few power tools, and the family television. It's funny what a lot of curiosity plus a little boredom can do. He discovered entertainment in the appliances and machines scattered throughout the house. Fascinated about their inner workings to almost the point of obsession, he spent hours studying them, taking them apart, and putting them back together (often in better working condition than they had originally been in). It just so happened to turn out that Jensen was a genius when it came to technology.
Jensen grew up into your typical geek. He loved science-fiction and technology and he couldn't get his hands on enough of either. Once he was old enough to no longer need babysitting, he branched out and made a few like-minded friends. Mostly though, he stuck to fiddling with machines. He visited pawn shops and the dump often, finding any pieces of machinery he could (even the smallest scrap found a use) to either repair something or build from scratch. It wasn't long before his room was wall to wall and floor to ceiling with his inventions and creations. His mother, not wanting to crush his inquisitive spirit, tried to encourage him to find a more outward, not-in-her-house way to express his creativity. Though it didn't stop Jensen from pulling apart and rebuilding things, it did lead to him hanging around computer stores and libraries (where he could get his hands on the Much Coveted home computers). It also resulted in what Jensen would one day call The Great BattleBot Outrage. Early in middle school he designed and built a BattleBot which he entered into a competition. He was later disqualified because 1) He wasn't old enough and 2) It fired flechettes at high-speed velocity. To this day, Jensen insists he would have won and he was disqualified out of seer spite and jealousy.
It was around this time that Jensen got his first computer as a birthday/Christmas gift from his mother and his sister. Jensen fell in love. Coming out of his room only when forced to eat, Jensen immersed himself in learning how to use a computer. The first thing he did? Took it apart and then put it back together again. After that, It ran better than any computer on the market. And those that weren't even on the market too. He then took to playing around on the computer, completely ignoring the game that had come with it (The Oregon Trail) in favor of more in-depth exploring. Three hours into his exploring, Jensen hacked for the very first time--Navigating the computer to places that even the manufacturers didn't know existed. He did this for a week or two before running out of places to take the technology to. So, bored, he took up Oregon Trail, hacked that too, and beat the game. He found a more back-doors in the game before growing bored of that too and eventually beating the game the old-fashioned way.
High school was very much the same and if it were not for the progress of technology, Jensen may have gone out of his mind with boredom. Thanks to the blessed Technology Gods, the internet was made available to the public via the World Wide Web and he had a whole new playground to play on. Suffice to say, Jensen's knowledge and skills grew by leaps and bounds. Unsurprisingly, Jensen's activities got him noticed and, at eighteen, he was offered a place in the army. He accepted, lured by the promise of all the high-tech stuff that would be at his disposal.
It wasn't easy, but Jensen made it through the nine weeks of basic training. From there, the army groomed him for an infantry technician, teaching him about the finer points of technology that he had missed out during his years of self-education. Jensen was sent onto Special Forces training first at Ft. Benning and from there Ft. Bragg. Almost three years later, having undergone rigorous training and war games that left him both mentally and physically exhausted, he emerged as a member of the Special Forces. Having developed a reputation as a guy who marched to his own drum and was a motormouthed smart ass, Jensen wasn't exactly in high demand. Eventually, after being shunted from one unit to another, he was finally placed in a team with four other men in an army/CIA hybrid unit designated as the Losers. These four men also happened to each be damned geniuses at what they did: Clay, operational control; Roque, demolition and tactical; Pooch, transportation and heavy weapons; and Cougar, long range eliminations. Jensen had found his home.
A decade later, during a seek and destroy (which was surprisingly easy for people of their talents), mission deep in the heart of the Bolivian jungle, the Losers found and "laser painted" their target (a large drug and arms assembly line run by a man named Fadhil) for air strike. Immediately after they found out that Fadhil was using children as mules. After being told by their elusive handler, Max, that the operation wouldn't be aborted no matter what the cost, Clay made the executive decision to go in and get the children out before the air strike, ETA eight minutes. Pooch hot wired an old school bus and the team managed to get every last child out of the blast radius and to safety. At the rendezvous spot, the helicopter couldn't take the children and the Losers together, so the team decided to let the children get out of there first. As the helicopter was taking off, the Losers watched helplessly while it was shot down on orders from Max. The realization that they were the ones who were supposed to be in that helicopter as well as the deaths of innocents, weighed heavily on their hearts as they tossed their dog tags into the burning debris and disappeared. The news spread about how it had been their recklessness that had killed those children along with themselves, and their names were inevitably dragged through the mud.
Four months later, in Bolivia, while Jensen was doing what he needed to do to help get a source of income (ie working in a plastic doll factory), Clay was approached by a mysterious woman named Aisha who had business proposition for them: transport to America where they could get their lives back and clear their names, and in return, Max was to die. The team accepted.
Aisha smuggled the Losers back into the USA and, based on Aisha's Intel, a mission to capture Max in Miami is planned. The mission goes well. However, Aisha mislead the team and instead of Max they only retrieved a hard-drive called the Goliath hard-drive. Afterwards, trying to re-convince the Losers she can be trusted, she explained that the hard-drive contained valuables Max needed to make his next arms deal. But, even with this they couldn't find Max because they didn't have the algorithm needed to get into the drive. Without it, it would take weeks of hacking (months for someone who wasn't of Jensen's caliber) to break the code. Knowing that the algorithm could be found on any of the Goliath hard-drive's home computers, Jensen suggested breaking into the Goliath Corporation and hacking the system there. He went in undercover, first as a courier and then as Tech Support and successfully found and copied the algorithm. Getting back out of the building proved to be a bit more difficult and it was only with the help of his team (Cougar, in particular) that Jensen escaped.
The information on the Goliath hard-drive revealed that Max intended to purchase the latest high-tech weapon, an environmentally friendly bomb with the power of a nuclear weapon but with no contamination or fall-out. His plan was to use it to start a war for the benefit of the United States of America.
While the Losers were preparing to stop Max, Jensen commented that their target from back when they were in Bolivia had 4 million dollars missing. He ended up finding out that the money was not really missing but actually went to a trust fund from Fadhil's only child which was Aisha. Meanwhile, in the next room Aisha and Clay were laying in bed talking. She tried to get information on the mission back in Bolivia, but before she found out if Clay really killed her father or not the gang busted in on them telling Clay who she really was. Knowing the Losers will shot first and ask questions later, Aisha ended up shooting Jensen in the arm before making her get away.
Despite fearing they may have been betrayed, the Losers decided to continue on with their mission and raid the Port of LA. They were mere inches from completing their plan when they were betrayed by Roque, who had been working with Max since the Miami mission. Just as everything looked bleak for Clay, Jensen, Pooch, and Cougar, Aisha ended up saving everyone from being executed, but let Clay know that their fight was not over yet. The team succeeded in stopping Max but ultimately Max escaped, but without money, muscle, or any equipment at all.
Afterwards, the team took a brief respite from their revenge mission. Their first stop was the hospital where they snuck Pooch in so he could be reunited with his wife and newborn son. After that, they went to watch Jensen's niece's soccer team (The Petunias) face off in their championship match. The team has since returned to trying to locate Max and bring him down.
Brief synopsis of your character's personality:
Jensen can only be described as a geek with a heart of gold. He's fiercely loyal to people he cares about. This is especially true in regards to those he considers family which basically amounts to two groups of people--The Losers being one and his older sister and his niece being the other. Dedicated to the team, he's willing to do anything for them. Hack the unhackable, go in undercover to the headquarters of Really Evil Men to learn where they're hiding their ill-gotten blood money, sing Journey songs loudly and off-key, risk life and limb... You get the picture. He also adores his niece, and even while halfway around the world he hacks into a satellite to keep up with her eight-and-under soccer team, the Petunias. He proudly often wears a homemade pink t-shirt in support of said team.
Jensen has a ready smile and apparently boundless energy. Nothing seems to get him down and his upbeat demeanor manages to remain intact even in the face of more dire circumstances. He cracks jokes constantly, often at inappropriate times, and has a propensity to ramble, especially when he's nervous. The team rolls their eyes at his behavior but its affectionate. He's their bright side, he reminds them to laugh and keeps things light when situations get heavy.
Even with all his Special Ops training and despite the fact that he could kill a man from hundreds of miles away with a keystroke, Jensen is no James Bond when it comes to women. Just the opposite in fact, as he is continuously crashing and burning. That doesn't discourage him though; he doesn't give-up and, much like a puppy, he bounces back repeatedly for more and more rejection and embarrassment.
Jensen is fascinated by any and all technology. He could easily spend days fiddling around with some machine or computer program or two and given the choice between a gun or a piece of tech to hack, he'll pick the tech every-time. In fact, Jensen has a tendency to occasionally set his gun down and forget to pick it back up again, something he'd never do with a piece of tech.
All this, however, does not mean Jensen does not have his more somber side. When the time comes for Jensen to drop the wise-ass act and take things seriously he does. It's rare but it happens and when it does it's generally a sign of how bad things are.
Stats
Age: 27
Height: 6'0”
Appearance:
Despite being the team's resident geek, Jensen has kept himself in peak physical condition and is covered in lean muscle. Clearly, spending hours in front of the computer have done him no harm. Then again, that might be thanks to his many years of training. It's difficult to fall out of shape when you work with a Special Forces army/CIA hybrid unit.
Jensen wears a pair of prescription John Lennonesque glasses with transition lenses. He has bleach-blonde spiked hair, sideburns and a goatee that's fuller on the chin. He's usually seen dressed in baggy jeans or khakis and some sort of graphic tee.
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Game Information
What is the point of your character's canon in which you are introducing your character?: 2005, after the end of the first movie.
Is your character alive or dead at the point of entry to the game?: Alive
What skills does your character have?:
As the Loser's designated tech and communications guy Jensen is good at exactly that--tech and communications. He's a genius when it comes to computers, appliances, machinery, and other forms of technology (whether it be hacking, rebuilding, or creating) and a wiz at communications whether it be short range, long range, or really long range.
But don't let Jensen's geek status fool you, he's Special Ops and with that comes all sorts of training. He can use a variety of weaponry (guns, knives, and even a crossbow for example) and can hold his own in hand-to-hand combat. He's fast and surprisingly agile.
Ten Personal Items:
1) Gun
2) High-Tech Crossbow
3) Night Vision Goggles
4) Comm Units (5)
5) Laptop, with accompanying external hard-drive which contains files, photos of friends and family, and a few computer games.
6) Tool box
7) Army gear, helmet included
8) Repelling Gear
9) Goliath hard-drive
10) Costume Pirate hat
(Upon his arrival, Jensen has his Military Issue PDA and watch on his person)
Entrance post:
One thing Jensen was grateful for--Thank God, he hadn't been hacking in just his boxers again.
Jensen looked around the room he had just woken up in. It was a ballroom. An honest to God, King-Louis-the-Fifteenth-was-here ballroom. How the fuck had he ended up here? The last thing he remembered was hacking into old KGB computer networks and poking around just for the hell of it. Turns out that when the KGB was dismantled their systems were never taken offline. They deleted most of the files, but it’s not like they're actually gone. Findable if you know where to look. Fun fact. So, yeah, that was the last thing he remembered. And now he was here. In a ballroom.
The question was how. When you're sharing a small cabin with four highly-trained individuals who're strung as tight as a bow string it's not like someone can sneak your unconscious body out the back door. Especially when one of those highly-trained individuals was Aisha. Maybe they were here too. He considered shouting for them but then remembered that shouting wasn't exactly covert-op. It was actually the opposite of covert-op which would make it...open-op? Obvious-op? Noticeable-op? In-Broad-Daylight-Op? Look-How-Fucking-Stupid-We-Are-op? Something.
The hacker did a quick inventory. Watch? Check. PDA? Check. Bad-assness? Present and accounted for, baby. And no gun. Of course, he didn't have his gun. He tried to remember where he had left it. Thinking, thinking... Annnnnd there it was. On the bathroom sink counter. He blamed the scissor arm magnifying mirror thing there. It was distracting. So, alright, he didn't have his gun. That didn't make him defenseless. He was special forces trained. And he was, like, the Chuck Norris of tech and communications. Well, he would be if Chuck Norris could hack into the FBI database with a Nintendo DS.
Taking out his PDA, Jensen used a stylus to tap away at the screen. He worked with rapid precision, eyes glued to the screen as he tried to connect to a wireless network or a satellite or a freakin' dial-up modem. Still tapping away, he started toward the door. He hadn't taken more than a step when something crunched under his foot. Looking up from his work, he turned his attention to the floor. The corners of something peeked out from underneath his boot. He lifted his foot and there, underneath it, was an envelope. His eyes narrowed--And his name was on it. 'Cause that wasn't creepy or anything.
Jensen pocketed his PDA and leaned over to pick up the envelope. Yup, Cpl. Jake Jensen Right there on paper. Definitely creepy. He tore open the envelope and dumped out its contents into his waiting hand. A brass key and a folded piece of paper which, upon being unfolded, turned out to be a map. “Um, yeah, totally didn't sign on to play Legend of Zelda,” he said aloud but then shut-up when he realized there was no one around to hear him. “Unless there's a princess,” he started up again, because, really, he didn't do complete silence well. “If there's a princess I'm so in. I refuse to use a sword though. I mean, come on! A sword? Totally medieval. Join the 21st century people!”