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Player Information:
Name or Handle: Hal
LJ: n/a
Email: etlitteratim@yahoo.com
AIM/ MSN / Plurk name: aim: atraquodalbus | plurk: dichotomy
Any current characters here?: Thane Krios, Malik A-Sayf, Anders
Character Information:
Character Name: Jackson Rippner
Age: 29
Canon: Red Eye (movie)
Appearance:
Jackson has brown hair, blue eyes and a perpetually bored/smug expression. He's not particular tall or built, pretty much your average human height and slim. He has a few scars but the most noticeable and prominent is the one on his neck from being stabbed with a pen (his life.)
Personality:
Jackson is a seemingly unflappable man, able to manipulate and act without batting an eye. Throughout the movie he rarely loses his temper, and even when he does he uses violence as a way to intimidate but never really loses the calm, collected way of speech. He comes off as very charming, awkward but in a way that disarms people and makes them more trusting of an apparent good nature. It is not completely an act, even after he outs his motives to Lisa he remains much the same, though perhaps sharper and crueler when his will or control are tested.
Jackson seems to be a control freak of sorts, playing the entire situation to a particular script he himself has set up, small details such as Lisa’s father’s wallet and plans within plans when something goes awry. He does seem to get violent when tested too much, first knocking Lisa out but more so choking her on her second attempt to warn someone of his plans. He seems to enjoy having some control over her, more so on a mental range and often pushes to hear or find out reasons behind her actions and loner lifestyle. Strangely he doesn’t seem entirely unsympathetic to her, claiming ‘bad things happen to good people,’ but in the long run she is just a means to an end.
An interesting point is his reaction to explaining the family of Keefe will die as well. He seems undisturbed by it, his employer ‘sending a message,’ but at the same time he seems to find it distasteful as well. Nothing morally terrible, more an employee disagreeing with a policy his boss dictates but sucking it up regardless.
More interesting perhaps is his comment on how he ‘never lied’ to Lisa the entire time. On a basic level it’s true, and most likely part of his controlling agenda. It could also mean that Jackson Rippner is his actual name and not an alias as one would suspect with this kind of mission. For these intents and purposes I am willing considering that to be the case.
Jackson also is a skilled fighter it would seem, knocking Lisa out with a very practiced headbutt and not flinching when it made his forehead bleed. He knocks out another woman off scene in a crowd without attracting suspicion, and over powers Lisa each time they are struggling without too much of a trouble, even when he is injured and she is armed with a field hockey stick. He is stabbed in the throat with a pen and is still able to assess the situation, staying calm (though angry) and pulling the object out himself. He is still able to work with the wound, even when he is shot in the side.
If you are apping a character arriving from another game: In DDD Jackson went through a rather large revelation, but before that he was rather cross. Being nearly killed and arrested thanks to Lisa was something he viewed as a defeat, something he had a very hard time accepting of himself. It didn't drive him mad but it did drive him, forcing him back into the shady business he had thought he'd be leaving for good after the disastrous Keefe job. He was bitter but he didn't let it show often, instead meticulously working to make up for his mistakes. His obsession with control made it so he had to focus on the small things, such as slowly working his way to killing Keefe. He did so to ease himself in his own way, he couldn't leave the contract unfinished, even if his failure before made the contract void.
DDD opened his eyes some, making him more complacent in the idea of other worlds and realities. He came to accept it was real and not some symptom of his madness, taking the ideas and people he met with a grain of salt but nothing more. It did throw him off somewhat, part of him had a hard time dealing with his perceptions being so thoroughly shaken but his self reliance kicked in, allowing him to accept it rather than be crushed by it.
The biggest change he underwent was what his relationship with Lisa put him through. He kept contact with her at first out of a need for revenge. He wanted to balance out the scales, he couldn't let his failure go and he couldn't let her role in it go either. At first that is what she was, the physical manifestation of his failure in that important contract, if he could control her he'd have some control over himself and his future. As time went on he began to enjoy the challenge Lise provided, it was like a game of chess the way they moved their pieces. Lisa never gave up and even occasionally thoroughly got the best of him. It was a struggle Jackson was unfamiliar with, Lisa was a wild card in his very organized and carefully planned life.
He didn't realize how much she had gotten under his skin until the virus that kept them stuck together and the attack by his colleague. Instead of killing the man when he got the better of his attacker Jackson stepped down when Lisa begged him to stop. Part of it was practicality, if Lisa was unmanageable they wouldn't be able to escape and they could both be in trouble. Still, he could have killed the man despite this, and he realized it was Lisa's influence that made him stay his hand in the matter. When he finally realized how much Lisa had gotten under his skin he went to finally kill her, going as far as having the knife to her throat when he decided to let her live.
His reasoning was complicated- to him Lisa was an enemy but also very close to an equal, someone who had become a part of his orderly, structured life as much as anything else had. More than just the familiarity, his interactions with Lisa gave him a challenge and even enjoyment he hadn't had for a long time. In a way he could have killed her, he wasn't incapable of living without the challenge she presented but he didn't want to lose that. In that moment he chose for himself how he wanted his life to go, another measure of control.
Personality-wise the whole experience gave him more of a sense of control over his own future. His long held philosophy of 'bad things happen' still stands but he is now willing to take more of an active role in making sure said bad things don't happen to him, despite what surprising choice he may need to make for that to occur.
Background:
Little is known or revealed of Jackson's backstory. He explains he’s working as a terrorist operative, on a specific mission to help kill Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe. His actual part to play seems more of a mastermind, plotting the move by watching and stalking Lisa Reisert (most likely himself and by means of hired ‘thugs’ so to speak) and then confronting her to convince the manager to make the phone call he needs. What his actual job is in an overall sense is poorly described, though he claims not to be a mob hitman because ‘the money is shit,’ making it sound like he takes more ‘high end’ killings and plots, such as this assassination. He also makes the comment that this is ‘work for the last time,’ which could mean simply this job or he was moving to something different.
The film begins with Jackson meeting Lisa Reisert, a hotel manager on the same flight. Jackson first comes off as boyishly charming, almost awkward but good natured, and interested in the young woman. Lisa first stands up to a man harassing a harried flight worker while in line and Jackson steps in as well, grabbing the man’s arm in a way that seemed fine from the outsider’s view but seemed to startle the man. It was the first glimpse of his true danger.
Jackson stumbles through an invitation for the woman to join him for some food, which Lisa declines but eventually joins him for a drink later on (as their flight had been delayed.) He plays a game, trying to guess her favorite drink (which he does but she lies about) and continues the banter. They later find their seats together on the plane.
He talks Lisa through the ascent as she panics due to the turbulence, but once things are settled and she tries to thank him for the distraction he reveals his true plans behind them. A terrorist group hired him to help kill Charles Keefe, an apparently controversial figure and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. A brief clip showing him from the news makes him seem like a man of heavy action, which they make seem to have rubbed some the wrong way and/or threatened them.
The basis of the plan is Lisa must call and change Keefe’s room so a missile can be deployed to kill him, using Lisa’s father as leverage as he has someone ready to kill the man should she refuse. When Lisa realizes Keefe’s family will be killed as well Jackson comments that his employers want to send a big, flashy message and it isn’t his concern, seeming neither disturbed nor approving of the idea.
The bulk of the film is conversation between the two, Jackson trying to get into Lisa’s head and get the job done while Lisa tries to play hero and thwart his plans. She tries to write a message in a book for another passenger, leading Jackson to knock her out through a head butt and apparently somehow knock the other passenger out as well to retrieve the book, which happens off screen.
Lisa tries to write a message on the mirror of the bathroom and Jackson once again foils her, coming in and nearly choking her to death. He claims he has ‘never lied to her’ once but he thinks she’s a liar, because he had been watching her for eight weeks and he had only seen her buying the drink she had declined. He also sees her scar, from a rape a while back, and guesses it has to do with her emotional distancing from everything.
He manages to make her send the call and make the change, promising once he got confirmation Keefe was dead that he would call his men off her father. Just before landing Lisa explains her scar, from a rape where she since promised nothing of the sort would happen again. She then proceeds to stab a pen into Jackson’s throat, one she swiped while being lead back from the bathroom, and runs.
Jackson manages to pull the pen out, taking a scarf and following Lisa into the terminal but losing her. He heads to her father’s house, where she had taken care of the man sent to watch her father and made a call earlier to save the Keefes. Jackson knocks out her father and chases her, throwing her down the stairs but stopping when she manages to get a gun. He tries to run but she shoots him near his waist, giving him the opportunity to kick the gun from her hands. He grabs her but is shot again by Lisa’s father, this time in the chest. The movie leaves it unclear if he has died.
Of course for our intents and purposes he hasn’t died, getting hospitalized and readied for trial for his crimes. Sometime during that he escapes, having already proven to be able to handle injury and still function well, using his skill and connections to escape.
Canon point: Post Canon and post DDD canon, see below!
If you are apping a character arriving from another game: In dramadramaduck Jackson immediately after his canon ends (with him alive in this case, and in the hospital in custody until he eventually escapes) finds his computer, phone and basically any means of communication began linking him to a large nexus of people from all realties, times and universes. He remained in his own world and his own time but could contact and even "world hop" to the homes of others on the community, along with the occasional "virus" from the community doing anything from changing genders to making people's thoughts public. Jackson continued his life and work besides this hitch, going to finally finish off Keefe. He also keep an eye and contact with Lisa, as she too was connected to the network.
Jackson, being the person that he is, did not make any sincere friendships. He did have a curious relationship with Jonathan Crane, the "Scarecrow" of Gotham who had his face and Edward Nygma, the Riddler of a different Gotham. Crane and Jackson had a mutual sort of working relationship based of vague curiosity with each other and distrust, perhaps even some respect on Jackson's part at the danger Crane posed.
Jackson was not a fan of Nygma due to his personality and his relationship with Lisa, which he viewed as mocking (which Edward loved to do) and potentially dangerous. He eventually agreed to help Crane trick the other man by pretending to be Crane in Crane's place, managing to fool Nygma long enough that he could be subdued and Crane could experiment with his fear toxin.
Another rocky relationship he formed was with the Joker of Nolan's Gotham. His constant trolling of Lisa showed him she was developing some sort of liking for the psychopath, something Jackson frowned upon. He warned her about the Joker to little avail, and when the Joker tried to pull a powerplay on Lisa she used the chance to try and set Jackson on him so they would perhaps destroy each other. This didn't go as she planned unfortunately for her, and the Joker continued to be a thorn in Jackson's side that he cautiously avoided throughout the community.
The biggest event and development was a particular virus on the community. Before Jackson had kept an eye on Lisa and trolled her out of caution and a sense of needing revenge for her defeat of him. This continued of course, until a virus that made two people in the community wake up beside each other and feel incredibly ill if they weren't touching or at least close. This distressed them both, Lisa for having to be around Jackson 24/7 and Jackson because his carefully controlled world was suddenly thrust out of alignment. They made the best of it, working to wait it out when one of Jackson's colleagues came to try and take him down for business.
With Lisa's help he managed to subdue the man, and when Lisa begged him not to kill him Jackson reluctantly let him go for the moment. They escaped and the virus eventually ended, leaving Jackson in a confused place. He decided that he had grown complacent, maybe too invested in Lisa, and decided she needed to die. He went to her house, intent on killing her but found himself unable to do so. This was a rather strange revelation for him that forced him to rethink a lot of what he knew.
He left her alive and left her alone for some time before making contact again, brushing a great deal of what happened off. Only a few months later he stopped finding himself on the community, which is when he'd be pulled to Coruscant.
Special Abilities:
He is an assassin of sorts. While we don’t see the extent of his abilities he fairly easily keeps Lisa under control when she lashes out. He is also hurt several times, including getting stabbed in the throat with a pen, and barely seems to blink so it can probably be assumed he has a high pain tolerance (or works well in high stress situations.)
I'd like to make him Force sensitive, if that's ok!
Sect: Sith
Job: I'd like him to be an Assassin for the Sith.
Samples:
First Person:[audio]
You know, it always seems to me like disaster likes to pile itself as high as it can- disaster and inconvenience, depending on the magnitude. One step forward, two steps back. A silver lining with a grey cloud.
[You can almost hear his shrug] Or maybe, more appropriately, always someone ready to push you back down- though that would be more "us" in this case, wouldn't it? As much as tragedies tend to come in threes planned tragedies tend to come in much higher numbers. What number are we on now?
I would recommend a vacation. I hear Mon Cal is very nice this time of year.
Third Person:
It was three am when Jackson Rippner stepped out of his office, lock and key, off into the city night. You shouldn’t walk alone, a nice young man like you, the old woman who served him dinner on early nights often told him. She’d bring him his warm meal and slap his arm lightly as when he asked her if a young lady like herself should be out past curfew, laughing with her old grey eyes and pushing wisps of white hair back into her bun. There are dangerous men out there, she told him. Jackson would put on a heavy look, a nod. Yes, dangerous men. Very dangerous men.
At three thirty he made it down the old stairs dug into one of the back alleys, walking into a room full of dangerous men with dangerous eyes, several turning in his direction before sharply looking away. His face was set in a look of stone as he walked through another doorway, shrugging off his coat and handing it to a dangerous man standing to the side.
There was a gun strapped to his side, an untouched gun that was more for show and truly tight spots. Jackson didn't like guns, he had no talent for them and the wildfire, flip of a coin way they functioned never appealed to his tastes. Instead he preferred the knife strapped to his leg, safely out of sight. The dangerous man at the side knew this, following after him after his coat was placed away.
“Did you find her?” Jackson asked, heading to a desk covered in newspaper clippings and photographs, ink and organized clutter. The man nodded with a ‘yes’r, damn hard one to pin.’ Jackson just stared at one of the photos, picking it up to examine the people hurrying along in their ignorance. He smiled.
“The good women always are.” He placed the photo down. “I think we’re ready.”
Anything Else: I'd like him to have been in this universe for a couple of months or so already, if that's alright. He's the type that would lay low and get his training with the Sith as an Assassin before bothering to get involved with the network and other outworlders.
Oh, and blue milk and Jolee Bindo.
Name or Handle: Hal
LJ: n/a
Email: etlitteratim@yahoo.com
AIM/ MSN / Plurk name: aim: atraquodalbus | plurk: dichotomy
Any current characters here?: Thane Krios, Malik A-Sayf, Anders
Character Information:
Character Name: Jackson Rippner
Age: 29
Canon: Red Eye (movie)
Appearance:
Jackson has brown hair, blue eyes and a perpetually bored/smug expression. He's not particular tall or built, pretty much your average human height and slim. He has a few scars but the most noticeable and prominent is the one on his neck from being stabbed with a pen (his life.)
Personality:
Jackson is a seemingly unflappable man, able to manipulate and act without batting an eye. Throughout the movie he rarely loses his temper, and even when he does he uses violence as a way to intimidate but never really loses the calm, collected way of speech. He comes off as very charming, awkward but in a way that disarms people and makes them more trusting of an apparent good nature. It is not completely an act, even after he outs his motives to Lisa he remains much the same, though perhaps sharper and crueler when his will or control are tested.
Jackson seems to be a control freak of sorts, playing the entire situation to a particular script he himself has set up, small details such as Lisa’s father’s wallet and plans within plans when something goes awry. He does seem to get violent when tested too much, first knocking Lisa out but more so choking her on her second attempt to warn someone of his plans. He seems to enjoy having some control over her, more so on a mental range and often pushes to hear or find out reasons behind her actions and loner lifestyle. Strangely he doesn’t seem entirely unsympathetic to her, claiming ‘bad things happen to good people,’ but in the long run she is just a means to an end.
An interesting point is his reaction to explaining the family of Keefe will die as well. He seems undisturbed by it, his employer ‘sending a message,’ but at the same time he seems to find it distasteful as well. Nothing morally terrible, more an employee disagreeing with a policy his boss dictates but sucking it up regardless.
More interesting perhaps is his comment on how he ‘never lied’ to Lisa the entire time. On a basic level it’s true, and most likely part of his controlling agenda. It could also mean that Jackson Rippner is his actual name and not an alias as one would suspect with this kind of mission. For these intents and purposes I am willing considering that to be the case.
Jackson also is a skilled fighter it would seem, knocking Lisa out with a very practiced headbutt and not flinching when it made his forehead bleed. He knocks out another woman off scene in a crowd without attracting suspicion, and over powers Lisa each time they are struggling without too much of a trouble, even when he is injured and she is armed with a field hockey stick. He is stabbed in the throat with a pen and is still able to assess the situation, staying calm (though angry) and pulling the object out himself. He is still able to work with the wound, even when he is shot in the side.
If you are apping a character arriving from another game: In DDD Jackson went through a rather large revelation, but before that he was rather cross. Being nearly killed and arrested thanks to Lisa was something he viewed as a defeat, something he had a very hard time accepting of himself. It didn't drive him mad but it did drive him, forcing him back into the shady business he had thought he'd be leaving for good after the disastrous Keefe job. He was bitter but he didn't let it show often, instead meticulously working to make up for his mistakes. His obsession with control made it so he had to focus on the small things, such as slowly working his way to killing Keefe. He did so to ease himself in his own way, he couldn't leave the contract unfinished, even if his failure before made the contract void.
DDD opened his eyes some, making him more complacent in the idea of other worlds and realities. He came to accept it was real and not some symptom of his madness, taking the ideas and people he met with a grain of salt but nothing more. It did throw him off somewhat, part of him had a hard time dealing with his perceptions being so thoroughly shaken but his self reliance kicked in, allowing him to accept it rather than be crushed by it.
The biggest change he underwent was what his relationship with Lisa put him through. He kept contact with her at first out of a need for revenge. He wanted to balance out the scales, he couldn't let his failure go and he couldn't let her role in it go either. At first that is what she was, the physical manifestation of his failure in that important contract, if he could control her he'd have some control over himself and his future. As time went on he began to enjoy the challenge Lise provided, it was like a game of chess the way they moved their pieces. Lisa never gave up and even occasionally thoroughly got the best of him. It was a struggle Jackson was unfamiliar with, Lisa was a wild card in his very organized and carefully planned life.
He didn't realize how much she had gotten under his skin until the virus that kept them stuck together and the attack by his colleague. Instead of killing the man when he got the better of his attacker Jackson stepped down when Lisa begged him to stop. Part of it was practicality, if Lisa was unmanageable they wouldn't be able to escape and they could both be in trouble. Still, he could have killed the man despite this, and he realized it was Lisa's influence that made him stay his hand in the matter. When he finally realized how much Lisa had gotten under his skin he went to finally kill her, going as far as having the knife to her throat when he decided to let her live.
His reasoning was complicated- to him Lisa was an enemy but also very close to an equal, someone who had become a part of his orderly, structured life as much as anything else had. More than just the familiarity, his interactions with Lisa gave him a challenge and even enjoyment he hadn't had for a long time. In a way he could have killed her, he wasn't incapable of living without the challenge she presented but he didn't want to lose that. In that moment he chose for himself how he wanted his life to go, another measure of control.
Personality-wise the whole experience gave him more of a sense of control over his own future. His long held philosophy of 'bad things happen' still stands but he is now willing to take more of an active role in making sure said bad things don't happen to him, despite what surprising choice he may need to make for that to occur.
Background:
Little is known or revealed of Jackson's backstory. He explains he’s working as a terrorist operative, on a specific mission to help kill Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe. His actual part to play seems more of a mastermind, plotting the move by watching and stalking Lisa Reisert (most likely himself and by means of hired ‘thugs’ so to speak) and then confronting her to convince the manager to make the phone call he needs. What his actual job is in an overall sense is poorly described, though he claims not to be a mob hitman because ‘the money is shit,’ making it sound like he takes more ‘high end’ killings and plots, such as this assassination. He also makes the comment that this is ‘work for the last time,’ which could mean simply this job or he was moving to something different.
The film begins with Jackson meeting Lisa Reisert, a hotel manager on the same flight. Jackson first comes off as boyishly charming, almost awkward but good natured, and interested in the young woman. Lisa first stands up to a man harassing a harried flight worker while in line and Jackson steps in as well, grabbing the man’s arm in a way that seemed fine from the outsider’s view but seemed to startle the man. It was the first glimpse of his true danger.
Jackson stumbles through an invitation for the woman to join him for some food, which Lisa declines but eventually joins him for a drink later on (as their flight had been delayed.) He plays a game, trying to guess her favorite drink (which he does but she lies about) and continues the banter. They later find their seats together on the plane.
He talks Lisa through the ascent as she panics due to the turbulence, but once things are settled and she tries to thank him for the distraction he reveals his true plans behind them. A terrorist group hired him to help kill Charles Keefe, an apparently controversial figure and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. A brief clip showing him from the news makes him seem like a man of heavy action, which they make seem to have rubbed some the wrong way and/or threatened them.
The basis of the plan is Lisa must call and change Keefe’s room so a missile can be deployed to kill him, using Lisa’s father as leverage as he has someone ready to kill the man should she refuse. When Lisa realizes Keefe’s family will be killed as well Jackson comments that his employers want to send a big, flashy message and it isn’t his concern, seeming neither disturbed nor approving of the idea.
The bulk of the film is conversation between the two, Jackson trying to get into Lisa’s head and get the job done while Lisa tries to play hero and thwart his plans. She tries to write a message in a book for another passenger, leading Jackson to knock her out through a head butt and apparently somehow knock the other passenger out as well to retrieve the book, which happens off screen.
Lisa tries to write a message on the mirror of the bathroom and Jackson once again foils her, coming in and nearly choking her to death. He claims he has ‘never lied to her’ once but he thinks she’s a liar, because he had been watching her for eight weeks and he had only seen her buying the drink she had declined. He also sees her scar, from a rape a while back, and guesses it has to do with her emotional distancing from everything.
He manages to make her send the call and make the change, promising once he got confirmation Keefe was dead that he would call his men off her father. Just before landing Lisa explains her scar, from a rape where she since promised nothing of the sort would happen again. She then proceeds to stab a pen into Jackson’s throat, one she swiped while being lead back from the bathroom, and runs.
Jackson manages to pull the pen out, taking a scarf and following Lisa into the terminal but losing her. He heads to her father’s house, where she had taken care of the man sent to watch her father and made a call earlier to save the Keefes. Jackson knocks out her father and chases her, throwing her down the stairs but stopping when she manages to get a gun. He tries to run but she shoots him near his waist, giving him the opportunity to kick the gun from her hands. He grabs her but is shot again by Lisa’s father, this time in the chest. The movie leaves it unclear if he has died.
Of course for our intents and purposes he hasn’t died, getting hospitalized and readied for trial for his crimes. Sometime during that he escapes, having already proven to be able to handle injury and still function well, using his skill and connections to escape.
Canon point: Post Canon and post DDD canon, see below!
If you are apping a character arriving from another game: In dramadramaduck Jackson immediately after his canon ends (with him alive in this case, and in the hospital in custody until he eventually escapes) finds his computer, phone and basically any means of communication began linking him to a large nexus of people from all realties, times and universes. He remained in his own world and his own time but could contact and even "world hop" to the homes of others on the community, along with the occasional "virus" from the community doing anything from changing genders to making people's thoughts public. Jackson continued his life and work besides this hitch, going to finally finish off Keefe. He also keep an eye and contact with Lisa, as she too was connected to the network.
Jackson, being the person that he is, did not make any sincere friendships. He did have a curious relationship with Jonathan Crane, the "Scarecrow" of Gotham who had his face and Edward Nygma, the Riddler of a different Gotham. Crane and Jackson had a mutual sort of working relationship based of vague curiosity with each other and distrust, perhaps even some respect on Jackson's part at the danger Crane posed.
Jackson was not a fan of Nygma due to his personality and his relationship with Lisa, which he viewed as mocking (which Edward loved to do) and potentially dangerous. He eventually agreed to help Crane trick the other man by pretending to be Crane in Crane's place, managing to fool Nygma long enough that he could be subdued and Crane could experiment with his fear toxin.
Another rocky relationship he formed was with the Joker of Nolan's Gotham. His constant trolling of Lisa showed him she was developing some sort of liking for the psychopath, something Jackson frowned upon. He warned her about the Joker to little avail, and when the Joker tried to pull a powerplay on Lisa she used the chance to try and set Jackson on him so they would perhaps destroy each other. This didn't go as she planned unfortunately for her, and the Joker continued to be a thorn in Jackson's side that he cautiously avoided throughout the community.
The biggest event and development was a particular virus on the community. Before Jackson had kept an eye on Lisa and trolled her out of caution and a sense of needing revenge for her defeat of him. This continued of course, until a virus that made two people in the community wake up beside each other and feel incredibly ill if they weren't touching or at least close. This distressed them both, Lisa for having to be around Jackson 24/7 and Jackson because his carefully controlled world was suddenly thrust out of alignment. They made the best of it, working to wait it out when one of Jackson's colleagues came to try and take him down for business.
With Lisa's help he managed to subdue the man, and when Lisa begged him not to kill him Jackson reluctantly let him go for the moment. They escaped and the virus eventually ended, leaving Jackson in a confused place. He decided that he had grown complacent, maybe too invested in Lisa, and decided she needed to die. He went to her house, intent on killing her but found himself unable to do so. This was a rather strange revelation for him that forced him to rethink a lot of what he knew.
He left her alive and left her alone for some time before making contact again, brushing a great deal of what happened off. Only a few months later he stopped finding himself on the community, which is when he'd be pulled to Coruscant.
Special Abilities:
He is an assassin of sorts. While we don’t see the extent of his abilities he fairly easily keeps Lisa under control when she lashes out. He is also hurt several times, including getting stabbed in the throat with a pen, and barely seems to blink so it can probably be assumed he has a high pain tolerance (or works well in high stress situations.)
I'd like to make him Force sensitive, if that's ok!
Sect: Sith
Job: I'd like him to be an Assassin for the Sith.
Samples:
First Person:[audio]
You know, it always seems to me like disaster likes to pile itself as high as it can- disaster and inconvenience, depending on the magnitude. One step forward, two steps back. A silver lining with a grey cloud.
[You can almost hear his shrug] Or maybe, more appropriately, always someone ready to push you back down- though that would be more "us" in this case, wouldn't it? As much as tragedies tend to come in threes planned tragedies tend to come in much higher numbers. What number are we on now?
I would recommend a vacation. I hear Mon Cal is very nice this time of year.
Third Person:
It was three am when Jackson Rippner stepped out of his office, lock and key, off into the city night. You shouldn’t walk alone, a nice young man like you, the old woman who served him dinner on early nights often told him. She’d bring him his warm meal and slap his arm lightly as when he asked her if a young lady like herself should be out past curfew, laughing with her old grey eyes and pushing wisps of white hair back into her bun. There are dangerous men out there, she told him. Jackson would put on a heavy look, a nod. Yes, dangerous men. Very dangerous men.
At three thirty he made it down the old stairs dug into one of the back alleys, walking into a room full of dangerous men with dangerous eyes, several turning in his direction before sharply looking away. His face was set in a look of stone as he walked through another doorway, shrugging off his coat and handing it to a dangerous man standing to the side.
There was a gun strapped to his side, an untouched gun that was more for show and truly tight spots. Jackson didn't like guns, he had no talent for them and the wildfire, flip of a coin way they functioned never appealed to his tastes. Instead he preferred the knife strapped to his leg, safely out of sight. The dangerous man at the side knew this, following after him after his coat was placed away.
“Did you find her?” Jackson asked, heading to a desk covered in newspaper clippings and photographs, ink and organized clutter. The man nodded with a ‘yes’r, damn hard one to pin.’ Jackson just stared at one of the photos, picking it up to examine the people hurrying along in their ignorance. He smiled.
“The good women always are.” He placed the photo down. “I think we’re ready.”
Anything Else: I'd like him to have been in this universe for a couple of months or so already, if that's alright. He's the type that would lay low and get his training with the Sith as an Assassin before bothering to get involved with the network and other outworlders.
Oh, and blue milk and Jolee Bindo.