Post by scribblerrigby on Mar 3, 2011 4:04:04 GMT -5
Well, seeing as how he’s niggled his way into a few threads already as an NPC, I might as well give him his own page.
Name/Nickname:
Alexander Jeffrey Hitchcock – goes by “Jeff,” usually.
Age:
21 (November 20, 1989)
Gender:
Male
Height:
5’6”
Weight:
163 lbs
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Affliction:
None. Human.
Nationality:
Born and raised in Bridgeport, he’s mixed African-Indian-English descent
Occupation:
Paperboy/Weekends at a convenience store/Student.
Skills and Abilities:
He’s skilled when working with most mechanical things. He’s also played baseball for six years prior to the start of Bridgeport-canon, and is fairly fit, and strong. He’s smart, somewhat nerdy, and well-read. He has also gotten away with elaborate schemes and pranks, in the past.
Whenever he inadvertently ends up in Monster Fights™ - which so far has happened a little too often for his liking – he can usually hold his own – mainly by swinging whatever blunt objects happen to be on hand, and then running as fast as he can. It works.
Weaknesses:
The boy runs solely on caffeine and wishes at this point – between the work, regular stress of school, and the less-regular stress of living among constant, chompy, deadly monsters, he almost never sleeps, anymore. He can be charmed or seduced, easily. Otherwise, it’s the usual set of human weaknesses – he can break, he can die…
Relationships:
Though he’s living away from home in a crappy little apartment, he has a good relationship with his mother, father and three sisters. Malcolm Finley’s been his best friend and partner-in-crime since grade school. They live above the Laundromat with two cats – Buffy and Xander, and he is acquainted with Angeline Utkin,and a long string of girlfriends by association. He dated werewolf Laurie Barlow for about three weeks, but they still remain on good terms. Noah Kaufman is another guy the boys hang with, who is completely out of the loop on the spookier goings-on in the city. He knows Aldo, but more from online and in-game interactions than anything personal. He’s been dragged to Marlene’s several times. Other than the few people in his immediate circle, and some of the regulars at Marlene’s, he doesn’t know any other afflicted.
@fiendish_ginger You know, I've stopped judging people since I met you. I've pretty much maxed out my judging quota.
Personality:
Jeff is usually blunt and sarcastic, though he genuinely cares very deeply for close friends and new acquaintances, alike. He loves pranks and can keep an excellent straight face, and he’s usually thinking of the best way to mess with someone. He’s the more emotionally grounded of the pair, though often to an extreme as he sometimes has issues with genuinely expressing himself. He buries all of his fears and anxieties (of which there are many) under his bravado, and often it comes out unexpectedly in pretty severe anxiety attacks and meltdowns. He’s one of those drifters; a kid that has many interests but doesn’t actually know what to do with his life or future. He drifts in and out of a mechanical engineering major, but would rather make movies or play games all day.
For being dumped into a world of demons and monsters and things that go bump in the night, he tries to appear to take it very well, all things considered.
Appearance:
He’s shorter and physically fit, with dark skin, brown eyes, black hair, and occasionally glasses. He has the Jedi Order symbol tattooed on his right wrist, and is planning on putting the Galactic Empire symbol on the other one. He usually dressed pretty casually – it’s usually only blue jeans, boots, and snarky or band t-shirts.
History:
Malcolm and Jeff met when they were in kindergarten. Jeff and his friends needed someone to play the Green Power Ranger after their other friend went home sick, and the boys have been best friends ever since. They were those dumb kids that would get sent to the time-out wall during recess for swearing, or bringing dirty pictures to the playground, or pulling pranks on the teacher, or telling the rest of the kids about the latest South Park episode. They’re THOSE GUYS that, whenever there was a power outage on campus, would sneak into the girls’ dorms to scare them. You all know these kids.
He was also the sober cab for Malcolm and a few of their friends on that Halloween party. He still has nightmares about discovering Malcolm’s body, that night.
During the two-week period in which Malcolm was freshly turned and largely unaccounted for, Jeff and his date at the time were attacked by a pair of maddened, near-feral vampires - his friend being one of them. In the ensuing struggle, Malcolm had broken Jeff’s arm and lacerated his lower neck and upper back.
Jeff hit him with his car.
It’s either a testament to how good their friendship is, or how dopey both of them can be that they’re still best friends after that.
Malcolm’s later apologetic re-entrance into society meant that Jeff had to accept the existence of all sorts of insane and dangerous things he’s only now just starting to notice around town. He usually ends up doing favors and odd jobs for Marlene and, impressed by her dedication and her little operation, helps out where he can around her house. He dated Laurie, a werewolf woman he met at Marlene’s, for several weeks – the break was mutual, on okay terms, and it was partially because he wasn’t sure he could handle the whole dating-a-deadly monster thing at the time. He’s also on occasion had to stash the sharp objects in the apartment, in the event of Malcolm’s early bouts of sleep-walking (and attempted sleep-staking).
Now, he helps Fin find blood by paying for it, donating and bottling some himself, helping trap animals, or - rarely - by less savory means, and he’s usually the designated “wolf-sitter” every month when Laurie transforms.
Needless to say, sometimes it all gets to be too much for him, and he has had a few meltdowns. And yet, morbid curiosity drives him to research more mythology and creatures, so he knows what to expect.
Basically, he’s trying to get by and maintain as normal of a life as possible. It’s a bit futile, but he wants some credit for trying.
Anything Else:
Name/Nickname:
Alexander Jeffrey Hitchcock – goes by “Jeff,” usually.
Age:
21 (November 20, 1989)
Gender:
Male
Height:
5’6”
Weight:
163 lbs
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Affliction:
None. Human.
Nationality:
Born and raised in Bridgeport, he’s mixed African-Indian-English descent
Occupation:
Paperboy/Weekends at a convenience store/Student.
Skills and Abilities:
He’s skilled when working with most mechanical things. He’s also played baseball for six years prior to the start of Bridgeport-canon, and is fairly fit, and strong. He’s smart, somewhat nerdy, and well-read. He has also gotten away with elaborate schemes and pranks, in the past.
Whenever he inadvertently ends up in Monster Fights™ - which so far has happened a little too often for his liking – he can usually hold his own – mainly by swinging whatever blunt objects happen to be on hand, and then running as fast as he can. It works.
Weaknesses:
The boy runs solely on caffeine and wishes at this point – between the work, regular stress of school, and the less-regular stress of living among constant, chompy, deadly monsters, he almost never sleeps, anymore. He can be charmed or seduced, easily. Otherwise, it’s the usual set of human weaknesses – he can break, he can die…
Relationships:
Though he’s living away from home in a crappy little apartment, he has a good relationship with his mother, father and three sisters. Malcolm Finley’s been his best friend and partner-in-crime since grade school. They live above the Laundromat with two cats – Buffy and Xander, and he is acquainted with Angeline Utkin,
@fiendish_ginger You know, I've stopped judging people since I met you. I've pretty much maxed out my judging quota.
Personality:
Jeff is usually blunt and sarcastic, though he genuinely cares very deeply for close friends and new acquaintances, alike. He loves pranks and can keep an excellent straight face, and he’s usually thinking of the best way to mess with someone. He’s the more emotionally grounded of the pair, though often to an extreme as he sometimes has issues with genuinely expressing himself. He buries all of his fears and anxieties (of which there are many) under his bravado, and often it comes out unexpectedly in pretty severe anxiety attacks and meltdowns. He’s one of those drifters; a kid that has many interests but doesn’t actually know what to do with his life or future. He drifts in and out of a mechanical engineering major, but would rather make movies or play games all day.
For being dumped into a world of demons and monsters and things that go bump in the night, he tries to appear to take it very well, all things considered.
Appearance:
He’s shorter and physically fit, with dark skin, brown eyes, black hair, and occasionally glasses. He has the Jedi Order symbol tattooed on his right wrist, and is planning on putting the Galactic Empire symbol on the other one. He usually dressed pretty casually – it’s usually only blue jeans, boots, and snarky or band t-shirts.
History:
Malcolm and Jeff met when they were in kindergarten. Jeff and his friends needed someone to play the Green Power Ranger after their other friend went home sick, and the boys have been best friends ever since. They were those dumb kids that would get sent to the time-out wall during recess for swearing, or bringing dirty pictures to the playground, or pulling pranks on the teacher, or telling the rest of the kids about the latest South Park episode. They’re THOSE GUYS that, whenever there was a power outage on campus, would sneak into the girls’ dorms to scare them. You all know these kids.
He was also the sober cab for Malcolm and a few of their friends on that Halloween party. He still has nightmares about discovering Malcolm’s body, that night.
During the two-week period in which Malcolm was freshly turned and largely unaccounted for, Jeff and his date at the time were attacked by a pair of maddened, near-feral vampires - his friend being one of them. In the ensuing struggle, Malcolm had broken Jeff’s arm and lacerated his lower neck and upper back.
Jeff hit him with his car.
It’s either a testament to how good their friendship is, or how dopey both of them can be that they’re still best friends after that.
Malcolm’s later apologetic re-entrance into society meant that Jeff had to accept the existence of all sorts of insane and dangerous things he’s only now just starting to notice around town. He usually ends up doing favors and odd jobs for Marlene and, impressed by her dedication and her little operation, helps out where he can around her house. He dated Laurie, a werewolf woman he met at Marlene’s, for several weeks – the break was mutual, on okay terms, and it was partially because he wasn’t sure he could handle the whole dating-a-deadly monster thing at the time. He’s also on occasion had to stash the sharp objects in the apartment, in the event of Malcolm’s early bouts of sleep-walking (and attempted sleep-staking).
Now, he helps Fin find blood by paying for it, donating and bottling some himself, helping trap animals, or - rarely - by less savory means, and he’s usually the designated “wolf-sitter” every month when Laurie transforms.
Needless to say, sometimes it all gets to be too much for him, and he has had a few meltdowns. And yet, morbid curiosity drives him to research more mythology and creatures, so he knows what to expect.
Basically, he’s trying to get by and maintain as normal of a life as possible. It’s a bit futile, but he wants some credit for trying.
Anything Else:
- Now that Malcolm periodically forgets about food in general, Jeff’s teaching himself how to cook. He’s pretty terrible.
- He’s fairly tech savvy, and can fix many things.
- Hobbies include making short, digital movies, playing video games, reading, and learning the bass
- The Best TV shows, ever: Doctor Who, Outlaw Star, and V. Music: Gorillaz, The Black Ghosts, Vampire Weekend, Juno Reactor, Nightwish.
- Still regrets that he sold his Night Elf account to pay for rent.
