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Character Name: Jericho Jimenez
Player Name: Marissa
Internet Handle: Barbed_Wire_Bard
Clan: Gangrel
Sabbat/Independent?: Independent
Path: Power and the Inner Voice (*)
Sire: Rosco P. Coltrane Edwards
Personal Quote: "So this one time we put an onion soaked in blood on Roscoe's belt to get Peaches to play 'chase'. Took out two trees and part of the fence. But my point is that you got to incentivize people now a-days if you need 'em to do what yew want!"
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"You remember the character 'Jericho' from the old comic book series, Titans? Yeah, neither did my folks. My name is from the Bible. But he could step into the skin of another person just by looking them in the eye. Would you like to see how I can do that to you in just four key presses?"
If you had a title, or nickname, what would it be? His sire keeps slipping up and calls him Jim-Bob, and it tends to get stuck. But he vastly prefers Jericho.
Appearance: "Scruffy" was a word invented with Jericho in mind. A scraggly bit of beard and mustache that occasionally gets waxed and curled, and a shaggy, unkempt mane of black hair. Blue jeans with worn spots and old (cleaned) mud stains. Typically black or red flannel, with a little tarnished turquoise broach on his throat. Big black texas ten-gallon, dark brown eyes, and a pair of dark hide boots completes the Jericho ensemble.
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When Jericho cleans up - either to hang out with some of his mortal hacker friends face-to-face or for meeting City Gangrel in private - his spanish-mexican heritage is much clearer. Dark eyes, still-dark skin from before his embrace, clean shaven face with cheek bones and sharply angular features. A thick pony tail of neatly trimmed hair and a sharp smile. He switches to street clothes - typically some very smart western clubware if his appearance is to impress, or some incredibly nerdy hoody and jeans for his computer buddies.
Personality: Jericho comes across as a dumb hick country Gangrel who don't know nothing and ain't possibly ever done nothing. His accent is thick, his manners thicker... when he talks in more then a grunt and a slouch. This appearance of dumb, slightly naive Texan lends the man a perpetual halo of innocence. No-one can picture him ever doing anything actively malicious or conniving. He's good ol'Jim-Bob Jericho. Helps Jake out with work, sets up his sire and the other country Gangrel with free HBO.
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When he's not playing the part of Gangrel: The Hickening, he's actually fairly soften-spoken and thoughtful. His geek shines through, and he'll chat away about any old thing he's seen recently. This lends him the other side of his perpetual halo of naivety - he can be adorably geeky. The most harm he is to anyone is in Team Fortress 2. He values his own freedom, and the loyalty of others above all else. However, there is a ruthless intelligence and pragmatism hiding under that dumb, harmless hick guise. All of which he uses to push both the plans of Jake and himself forward.
He also has a temper that can smolder like a old ember and enough personal ambition for several.
History Before Embrace:This is a man with a foot in both fields of Gangrel. He was a brat from a shifty suburb on the outskirts of San Antonio. Half the people were new money moving in, and the other half were old poverty, illegals and rednecks with rusted out old cars out back. He moved to Austin almost as soon as he turned 18 and never looked back.
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The hill country was a short trip away as a kid, but the internet and the web cafes of downtown San Antonio far shorter. Jericho picked up odd jobs here and there to supplement his classes and earn money from. Eventually bankrolling it into enough money to get his first machine. He teamed up with a small-time local San Antonio PEN tester to learn the trade until his grades (and poverty) finally landed him an all-expenses paid trip to UT Austin.
Austin was candy-land for him. It took a while to lose the accent and learn how to dress good enough for going out. It left a sore spot for when he gets mocked while out of character. But tech companies, computers and cute geek girls and boys galore. He breezed through his classes, bribed other students to do the stuff he couldn't stand, spending most of his time online learning from the vast hacker communities. The world was his oyster, right up until graduation.
Then his family came into town. To show he wasn't "Too Good" for family, he accompanied them to Don Depot, better known as the very scary bar on old 5th. One scary lapdance from a pregnant 'waitress', and Jericho finally got up to use the bathroom and escape out the window. Next thing he knows, he's waking up in the cab of a truck with a crying redneck who asks that he call him 'daddy'.
The rest is history.
After Embrace: Some people have it rough when they know from Minute One they're an "oops" embrace.
Why did my sire do it? Does he wish the condom hadn't broken? Angst city, ya know?
Jericho couldn't be happier. Some of the aspects of Kindred he's still getting accustomed to. The ongoing war and madness started by the new Brujuh hasn't exactly made things easy. But he doesn't sparkle, Roscoe is pretty understanding about his childe being a little more City then Country, and Jake is like a second (third?) father to him.
Loves: Computers, anything connected to the internet, "Smart" technology, electronics, cameras, spy movies, coffee, punk chicks, androgynous suits, bright lights, circuit boards, food, being underestimated.
Hates: Heavy physical labor, authority, getting dirty, chick flicks, authority, having his knowledge of computers challenged, how hackers and hacking are portrayed in film, authority, getting made fun of for having been a hick when he's not actually being one.
Favorite thing in the world: Tom Hiddleston is his Idol.
Interesting Flaws or Quirks: Jericho dearly misses eating. Very occasionally he'll taste mortal food (in privacy) even though he throws it right back up if he actually eats. He'll also come up with the weirdest analogies or stories to explain something.
Ambition: Jericho? Ambition? NAAAH. He just wants peace and quiet for all kindred kind. Especially on his lawn. Getting pretty tired of people shooting each other up on the lawn.
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