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mercenaryempathy) wrote2012-08-17 03:44 pm
mercenaryempathy) wrote2012-08-17 03:44 pm
Info Post
So this is a basic info post for Jason and his various incarnations. There are three working AUs right now, all based on what set of powers he has or lack thereof. I'll start off with a basic physical description though.
Description:Jason is tall and thin, roughly 6 ft (1.8 m) and 135 lbs (61.2 kg). He has shaggy blonde hair that falls in his face a lot and blue eyes that often look like they're staring at nothing because of his blindness. When they aren't focused on nothing in particular they seem to stare right through you, as if they're looking at what's under your skin. He has full lips, set in a longish face, and likes to smile, though this quickly turns into a pout when things aren’t going his way. He has long limbs and due to his weight is rather bony, a look exacerbated by the fact that he doesn’t eat very much. Clothing tends toward whatever he finds to be comfortable, soft t-shirts and sweaters, comfortable, loose-fitting jeans and worn in shoes. There will be times when his clothes don't match, but that's why he wears jeans in the first place, almost anything goes with them. In some variations he will only have one working eye and a bad leg because of the wreck instead of full blindness.
Technopathy OU:In this universe, Jason was born Nathan Johnson, a healthy but blind baby whose parents were killed at an early age in a home invasion gone wrong. Jason was placed in foster care and bounced around the system before being placed in a government program in human modification. In this program he was given the powers that he currently has. These powers include the ability to see and then manipulate electrical currents, which is how his technopathy works. He can't actually see a computer screen, but he was given the ability to mentally translate the electrical code at about the same rate a normal person can read. He's quite good at getting computers to do what he wants. He ca technically control much larger currents, but doing so makes him pass out if he tries to work with anything more powerful than standard household current.
When he was sixteen the program was shut down because of a lack of funding. Jason ended up on his own and on the streets and after deciding that he didn't much like starving he turned to the world's oldest profession to pay the bills. He indulges in soft drugs on occasion, but has never been addicted, his vices are chiefly booze and cigarettes and he claims those are enough of a drag on his wallet without getting addicted to anything hard. He does go through a string of boyfriends, none of whom are the nicest of guys. This culminates with Aaron, a man who has power and connections and is a controlling asshole. But Jason falls for him and for awhile he convinces himself things are fine. At his insistence Jason stops whoring, having to content himself with being a Kept Man, sitting around Aaron's apartment and waiting for him to come home. Then Aaron starts getting jealous and suspicious, accusing Jason of going back to his old job, even if Jason hasn't. Eventually, when he's shown pictures of Jason meeting an old friend for lunch, he beats Jason bloody, threatening him with death if he catches Jason so much as looking at anyone else.
The next day Jason sneaks a phone call to one of the few friends he has left in the city, and a day or two after that he's gone without a trace, leaving almost everything he had behind and fleeing to the other side of the country. He changes his name to Jason Piers and starts a new life, even if it's quite similar to his old life.
Several months later, Elliot shows up at his door, thanks to an error by his landlord, who accidentally gave Elliot Jason's apartment to rent. While Jason was still living there. Since Elliot has nowhere else to go in the city, Jason lets him stay for the weekend. He ends up never leaving and the two men end up together.
Three years later they're still together, and Jason is secretly saving his money, hoping to get a ring for Elliot and a down payment on a house. Things are looking up for both of them, and they're as happy and secure as either of them could wish for. Which of course means that something has to happen.
And it does. Jason is going to see a new customer, and while he makes a habit of screening as thoroughly as he can, one slips through the cracks. On a cool fall night, Jason is stabbed to death in the bathroom of a hotel. When the police don't seem interested in investigating the death of a hooker, Elliot, who can shapeshift into animals, tracks the murdered down and kills him, dying in the process from a gunshot wound when the man shoots at the giant bear that attacks him.
Empathy AU:Jason Piers was born a normal, happy healthy boy with loving parents, two older siblings and a loving, if slightly odd grandmother that lived with them. He liked to play tee-ball and play with his toy trains, normal things for a young boy and he was considered quite the little charmer by most of the adults. All in all a completely and utterly normal, unremarkable boy.
When he was five years old he was coming home from the store with his mother. There was an accident, and it wouldn't have been very serious, but the young Jason had unbuckled his seatbelt to get something from the front seat, and soon found himself catapulted through the front windshield. His injuries were quite serious, with a severe concussion resulting in trauma to his brain, rendering him blind. It was a miracle he survived at all, so when the small boy started to scream and cry in the Emergency room, it wasn't considered odd, and soon enough he slipped into a coma.
The coma lasted for a full week, and when the young boy finally woke up it was to a world of darkness. Along with taking away his sight, the head trauma somehow woke up his empathic powers, a frightening prospect for a small child in a hospital. It is quite possible that he would have gone insane if his grandmother hadn't realized what his ranting and crying about the other children in the unit was really about. His grandmother possessed the same powers as he did, though she had come into them in her teens and not her childhood. Nonetheless, she took the boy under her wing, teaching him how to shield his powers, and in the process quite likely saving Jason's sanity.
For a time his grandmother acted as Jason's morality chain, making sure that he didn't abuse the powers he had or use them to take advantage of other people. She tried to instill a sense of morals in the boy, and while it worked to an extent, when she died five years later, not as many of her morals stuck as she might have hoped.
Jason never really felt like his family understood him, and while this is a common feeling for children, it was exacerbated because none of them knew of his abilities. While his grandmother invited him to meet some of her own friends with similar abilities and it was never her intention to isolate him from others like him, he never met anyone close to his own age with similar abilities.
By the age of 15, Jason had gotten remarkably good at manipulating people, and while he never used his abilities for evil, he was also... well he was a vulnerable fifteen year-old boy who had found a remarkably good way to avoid being picked on by playing the ones who would bully him off of the ones that would be sympathetic to him. He had friends, but both his disability and his ability isolated him, and the teen was quite lonely. He became depressed and craved more attention from both his peers and his family, but even as he manipulated the attention he wanted from them it was never really enough.
Then when he was 16 he met Nathan. Nathan was nice, paid him attention, flirted with him and best of all, knew about his powers and didn't judge him, he even had similar ones, which was how the older man (Nathan was 22 when they met) claimed to have found Jason. Jason, usually so well in control of how he felt about things and what emotions he let show, fell head over heels for Nathan. For the first time in years, he was completely and utterly happy.
But Nathan wasn't who he seemed to be. Along with sensing other supernaturals, his powers involved being able to shield his thoughts and to project whichever were the ones that would be most useful for him to let "leak through." Nathan had all the actual emotional capacity of a rock and in fact worked for one of the more powerful area vampires. One that had a taste for young humans with psychic abilities and had sent Nathan out to recruit vulnerable young men and women for his "herd" that he fed from.
Jason's naiveté made him a perfect target, it was only a month or two before he ran away with the other man one night, leaving a note telling his parents he was going somewhere he had no intention of going. Jason Piers disappeared into the night, leaving his family and all he had known behind.
After a few days of traveling, still wrapped up in the fantasy of a happy life with Nathan, Jason woke up somewhere that he immediately knew was not the motel room he had fallen asleep in, curled up next to Nathan. The place smelled completely different, heavy with some sort of incense that made it hard for him to think. And the emotions... distress and worry, but mixed in with intense pleasure and anticipation and sharp spikes of self-loathing. And Nathan was nowhere he could find, though knowing how well the man could shield himself he could have been right next to Jason and he never would have known.
Jason was both lucky and unlucky. Unlucky because he was now a member of a "herd" belonging to a local vampire, Davin. Lucky because Davin believed in keeping his food in relative comfort. He would spend the next two years as part of the vampire's herd, a demeaning if relatively comfortable existence. He never forgave Nathan for what he did, especially once he was told the truth one night by Davin himself.
The (fresh) saliva of a vampire is both a powerful narcotic to other beings as well as being highly addictive. For this reason they are sometimes hunted by those brave or foolish enough to do so, and the results sold on the black market as illegal drugs known as "Angel Tears." One of these hunters came after Davin, killing him and releasing the dozen or so humans in his herd. Unfortunately he didn't feel any need to do anything after that, and they were left to do what they could to survive. Jason and a few of the other more attractive ones soon turned to the world's oldest profession to try and supply their addiction, sometimes working for cash and other times simply for the drug itself. Eventually he would meet Harry, the first in a string of boyfriends that he was able to "date," attaching himself to the less than reputable man in exchange for the drug that Harry would provide him with. Eventually the two broke up and the pattern repeated itself several times over the next several years. At least until Aaron.
Aaron was a hunter, like the one that had freed Jason , but he hunted all supernatural creatures, not just for profit but because he viewed them as a plague and a drain on humanity. He was unaware that Jason had powers, and Jason hid it from him, thinking that their relationship wouldn't last very long. But Aaron was different, and Jason soon found himself actually falling for the man, who soon insisted that Jason get clean. It was a painful process, but eventually he did, and the pair was rather happy, even if Jason had to hide what he was from the hunter and was always careful that he never find out.
The tenuously happy relationship came crashing down when an old acquaintance came back into Jason's life. Nathan showed up at Jason's door one day, and when Jason refused to give him money or a place to stay he exposed Jason's abilities to Aaron. In the rage that followed, both at what Jason was and that the man he had been with had lied to him, Jason fled, fearing for his life if Aaron ever found him.
No powers AU:This AU is a combination of the previous two as far as history goes. Jason lives with his family in Virginia, the car wreck takes his sight at age 5 and then at age 16 he meets Nathan who is just a good old fashioned sociopath that manipulates Jason, convincing him to run away and subsequently getting him addicted to drugs and then pimping him out. Eventually Nathan is shot and presumably dies, and Jason is left to fend for himself and works independently. From there it follows much the same plot as the OU, with him meeting Aaron, having to leave town, and finding Elliot. Unfortunately it also has the same depressing ending, but since this is the normal world and no one has powers, Elliot is killed while beating Jason's killer with a baseball bat.
Sentinels & Guides AU:This follows much the same story line as the others. Jason's parents are killed in a car accident, and he likes with his grandmother, who is a Guide with an old and gruff Sentinel. She has Jason tested for Sentinel abilities at a young age, but it's too early and she dies when he's about five. He goes into foster care and ends up on the streets at fifteen, working as a prostitute. He doesn't find his Sentinel at all until he's about 25 or so, and is in denial about even being a Guide. But then he meets Ivan by chance and his whole world changes.
Description:Jason is tall and thin, roughly 6 ft (1.8 m) and 135 lbs (61.2 kg). He has shaggy blonde hair that falls in his face a lot and blue eyes that often look like they're staring at nothing because of his blindness. When they aren't focused on nothing in particular they seem to stare right through you, as if they're looking at what's under your skin. He has full lips, set in a longish face, and likes to smile, though this quickly turns into a pout when things aren’t going his way. He has long limbs and due to his weight is rather bony, a look exacerbated by the fact that he doesn’t eat very much. Clothing tends toward whatever he finds to be comfortable, soft t-shirts and sweaters, comfortable, loose-fitting jeans and worn in shoes. There will be times when his clothes don't match, but that's why he wears jeans in the first place, almost anything goes with them. In some variations he will only have one working eye and a bad leg because of the wreck instead of full blindness.
Technopathy OU:In this universe, Jason was born Nathan Johnson, a healthy but blind baby whose parents were killed at an early age in a home invasion gone wrong. Jason was placed in foster care and bounced around the system before being placed in a government program in human modification. In this program he was given the powers that he currently has. These powers include the ability to see and then manipulate electrical currents, which is how his technopathy works. He can't actually see a computer screen, but he was given the ability to mentally translate the electrical code at about the same rate a normal person can read. He's quite good at getting computers to do what he wants. He ca technically control much larger currents, but doing so makes him pass out if he tries to work with anything more powerful than standard household current.
When he was sixteen the program was shut down because of a lack of funding. Jason ended up on his own and on the streets and after deciding that he didn't much like starving he turned to the world's oldest profession to pay the bills. He indulges in soft drugs on occasion, but has never been addicted, his vices are chiefly booze and cigarettes and he claims those are enough of a drag on his wallet without getting addicted to anything hard. He does go through a string of boyfriends, none of whom are the nicest of guys. This culminates with Aaron, a man who has power and connections and is a controlling asshole. But Jason falls for him and for awhile he convinces himself things are fine. At his insistence Jason stops whoring, having to content himself with being a Kept Man, sitting around Aaron's apartment and waiting for him to come home. Then Aaron starts getting jealous and suspicious, accusing Jason of going back to his old job, even if Jason hasn't. Eventually, when he's shown pictures of Jason meeting an old friend for lunch, he beats Jason bloody, threatening him with death if he catches Jason so much as looking at anyone else.
The next day Jason sneaks a phone call to one of the few friends he has left in the city, and a day or two after that he's gone without a trace, leaving almost everything he had behind and fleeing to the other side of the country. He changes his name to Jason Piers and starts a new life, even if it's quite similar to his old life.
Several months later, Elliot shows up at his door, thanks to an error by his landlord, who accidentally gave Elliot Jason's apartment to rent. While Jason was still living there. Since Elliot has nowhere else to go in the city, Jason lets him stay for the weekend. He ends up never leaving and the two men end up together.
Three years later they're still together, and Jason is secretly saving his money, hoping to get a ring for Elliot and a down payment on a house. Things are looking up for both of them, and they're as happy and secure as either of them could wish for. Which of course means that something has to happen.
And it does. Jason is going to see a new customer, and while he makes a habit of screening as thoroughly as he can, one slips through the cracks. On a cool fall night, Jason is stabbed to death in the bathroom of a hotel. When the police don't seem interested in investigating the death of a hooker, Elliot, who can shapeshift into animals, tracks the murdered down and kills him, dying in the process from a gunshot wound when the man shoots at the giant bear that attacks him.
Empathy AU:Jason Piers was born a normal, happy healthy boy with loving parents, two older siblings and a loving, if slightly odd grandmother that lived with them. He liked to play tee-ball and play with his toy trains, normal things for a young boy and he was considered quite the little charmer by most of the adults. All in all a completely and utterly normal, unremarkable boy.
When he was five years old he was coming home from the store with his mother. There was an accident, and it wouldn't have been very serious, but the young Jason had unbuckled his seatbelt to get something from the front seat, and soon found himself catapulted through the front windshield. His injuries were quite serious, with a severe concussion resulting in trauma to his brain, rendering him blind. It was a miracle he survived at all, so when the small boy started to scream and cry in the Emergency room, it wasn't considered odd, and soon enough he slipped into a coma.
The coma lasted for a full week, and when the young boy finally woke up it was to a world of darkness. Along with taking away his sight, the head trauma somehow woke up his empathic powers, a frightening prospect for a small child in a hospital. It is quite possible that he would have gone insane if his grandmother hadn't realized what his ranting and crying about the other children in the unit was really about. His grandmother possessed the same powers as he did, though she had come into them in her teens and not her childhood. Nonetheless, she took the boy under her wing, teaching him how to shield his powers, and in the process quite likely saving Jason's sanity.
For a time his grandmother acted as Jason's morality chain, making sure that he didn't abuse the powers he had or use them to take advantage of other people. She tried to instill a sense of morals in the boy, and while it worked to an extent, when she died five years later, not as many of her morals stuck as she might have hoped.
Jason never really felt like his family understood him, and while this is a common feeling for children, it was exacerbated because none of them knew of his abilities. While his grandmother invited him to meet some of her own friends with similar abilities and it was never her intention to isolate him from others like him, he never met anyone close to his own age with similar abilities.
By the age of 15, Jason had gotten remarkably good at manipulating people, and while he never used his abilities for evil, he was also... well he was a vulnerable fifteen year-old boy who had found a remarkably good way to avoid being picked on by playing the ones who would bully him off of the ones that would be sympathetic to him. He had friends, but both his disability and his ability isolated him, and the teen was quite lonely. He became depressed and craved more attention from both his peers and his family, but even as he manipulated the attention he wanted from them it was never really enough.
Then when he was 16 he met Nathan. Nathan was nice, paid him attention, flirted with him and best of all, knew about his powers and didn't judge him, he even had similar ones, which was how the older man (Nathan was 22 when they met) claimed to have found Jason. Jason, usually so well in control of how he felt about things and what emotions he let show, fell head over heels for Nathan. For the first time in years, he was completely and utterly happy.
But Nathan wasn't who he seemed to be. Along with sensing other supernaturals, his powers involved being able to shield his thoughts and to project whichever were the ones that would be most useful for him to let "leak through." Nathan had all the actual emotional capacity of a rock and in fact worked for one of the more powerful area vampires. One that had a taste for young humans with psychic abilities and had sent Nathan out to recruit vulnerable young men and women for his "herd" that he fed from.
Jason's naiveté made him a perfect target, it was only a month or two before he ran away with the other man one night, leaving a note telling his parents he was going somewhere he had no intention of going. Jason Piers disappeared into the night, leaving his family and all he had known behind.
After a few days of traveling, still wrapped up in the fantasy of a happy life with Nathan, Jason woke up somewhere that he immediately knew was not the motel room he had fallen asleep in, curled up next to Nathan. The place smelled completely different, heavy with some sort of incense that made it hard for him to think. And the emotions... distress and worry, but mixed in with intense pleasure and anticipation and sharp spikes of self-loathing. And Nathan was nowhere he could find, though knowing how well the man could shield himself he could have been right next to Jason and he never would have known.
Jason was both lucky and unlucky. Unlucky because he was now a member of a "herd" belonging to a local vampire, Davin. Lucky because Davin believed in keeping his food in relative comfort. He would spend the next two years as part of the vampire's herd, a demeaning if relatively comfortable existence. He never forgave Nathan for what he did, especially once he was told the truth one night by Davin himself.
The (fresh) saliva of a vampire is both a powerful narcotic to other beings as well as being highly addictive. For this reason they are sometimes hunted by those brave or foolish enough to do so, and the results sold on the black market as illegal drugs known as "Angel Tears." One of these hunters came after Davin, killing him and releasing the dozen or so humans in his herd. Unfortunately he didn't feel any need to do anything after that, and they were left to do what they could to survive. Jason and a few of the other more attractive ones soon turned to the world's oldest profession to try and supply their addiction, sometimes working for cash and other times simply for the drug itself. Eventually he would meet Harry, the first in a string of boyfriends that he was able to "date," attaching himself to the less than reputable man in exchange for the drug that Harry would provide him with. Eventually the two broke up and the pattern repeated itself several times over the next several years. At least until Aaron.
Aaron was a hunter, like the one that had freed Jason , but he hunted all supernatural creatures, not just for profit but because he viewed them as a plague and a drain on humanity. He was unaware that Jason had powers, and Jason hid it from him, thinking that their relationship wouldn't last very long. But Aaron was different, and Jason soon found himself actually falling for the man, who soon insisted that Jason get clean. It was a painful process, but eventually he did, and the pair was rather happy, even if Jason had to hide what he was from the hunter and was always careful that he never find out.
The tenuously happy relationship came crashing down when an old acquaintance came back into Jason's life. Nathan showed up at Jason's door one day, and when Jason refused to give him money or a place to stay he exposed Jason's abilities to Aaron. In the rage that followed, both at what Jason was and that the man he had been with had lied to him, Jason fled, fearing for his life if Aaron ever found him.
No powers AU:This AU is a combination of the previous two as far as history goes. Jason lives with his family in Virginia, the car wreck takes his sight at age 5 and then at age 16 he meets Nathan who is just a good old fashioned sociopath that manipulates Jason, convincing him to run away and subsequently getting him addicted to drugs and then pimping him out. Eventually Nathan is shot and presumably dies, and Jason is left to fend for himself and works independently. From there it follows much the same plot as the OU, with him meeting Aaron, having to leave town, and finding Elliot. Unfortunately it also has the same depressing ending, but since this is the normal world and no one has powers, Elliot is killed while beating Jason's killer with a baseball bat.
Sentinels & Guides AU:This follows much the same story line as the others. Jason's parents are killed in a car accident, and he likes with his grandmother, who is a Guide with an old and gruff Sentinel. She has Jason tested for Sentinel abilities at a young age, but it's too early and she dies when he's about five. He goes into foster care and ends up on the streets at fifteen, working as a prostitute. He doesn't find his Sentinel at all until he's about 25 or so, and is in denial about even being a Guide. But then he meets Ivan by chance and his whole world changes.
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