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Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Chaer // lj: chaernotwasted Email: chaernotwasted@gmail.com
AIM (if you have one): Sicilytremaine
Character Name: Jaslyn Todd
Character LJ (if applicable): N/A
Physical description (face, build, weight): Brown hair, green eyes, very androgynous build, made more so by the muscle she’s acquired in training. Sharp facial features. 5’6.5’’ height, 140lbs.
Age: 17
Birthday: March 5
Codename:: To be decided
PB: Tali Lennox
Abilities: Deadly at hand-to-hand combat, proficient with most weapons, excellent markswoman and acrobat, odd connections in the Gotham underworld. Very intelligent, both book and streetwise.
Weaknesses and flaws: While having been trained extensively and tested by her parents in hand-to-hand and with weapons, she has very little real (under life or death) combat experience. Despite her intelligence, and what her father has passed on from his time learning detection from Batman, she still has a hard time paying attention to her surroundings and connecting them.
Character location/Home: Gotham
Alignment: Undecided?
Team: N/A (yet?)
Relatives: Living: Jason Todd and Talia Al Ghul
Backstory:
Jaslyn Todd was a surprise to both of her parents, Jason Todd, and Talia Al Ghul. There were a number of arguments she was too young to remember, but the end result was that she would spend the school year in Gotham having as normal of a life and education as she could, and in the summer she would be taken by her mother to be trained more thoroughly than morning and evening sessions with her father could accomplish. In addition to training her in combat, Jason tried to impart what he knows of detecting with limited success. Jaslyn was much more apt to understand the ways of the underworld from what she learned herself by seeing than anything he could explain. Unfortunately, beyond some odd friends and informants she helps her dad with, she hasn’t much exposure to the underworld and is therefore largely clueless when it comes to deciphering things and following leads.
On her sixteenth birthday, her parents told her she would face choices on her eighteenth birthday. Being 18 she would no longer be legally bound to go away with her mother for the summers, but she would also not be legally bound to stay in Gotham with her father and finish high school. Unsure what to make the discussion Jaslyn tabled the subject in her mind until her seventeenth birthday when they brought it up again, and they realized they’d been too vague for their rather straightforward daughter.
Finally realizing that they were finally offering her options to use the training they had been giving her since before she was walking steadily, she was even more confused than ever. She had heard many times her father’s opinions on crime and how to deal, and even seen him in action a time or two, but she was smart enough to know that her father was only one masked vigilante and that his methods were different than most. Her mother, and by extension, her only grandfather, had been very secretive about what they did with their skills. Jazz wants to find out more, but she’s not sure she will like what she finds if she does chose to leave her home in Gotham and travel with her mother when she turns eighteen.
She became determined to make a more informed decision, so she began striking ridiculous bets and deals with her father directly after her seventeenth birthday until she finally persuaded him to allow her out onto the streets of Gotham in a mask. Now she’s finally putting her skills to some use. She wants to help people as much as she can, but she knows there are many different ways of looking at a vigilante life style, and she’s not sure what the right one is for her.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: Probably a post of her patrolling in Gotham?
What are you planning to do with this character?: I plan for Jazz to meet the other teenagers and young people with abilities beyond the scope of the norm, whether they’re learned or hereditary, and realize that she’s not the only one making tough decisions; and that they can provide different options and opinions on how she should use her abilities, but in the end she has to make and live with her own choices.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: I want to see Jaslyn’s growth as a person as her eighteenth birthday approaches. I want her to learn through experience and meeting others about the differences in her father’s methods and the more generally accepted ‘good guys’ methods. I hope to be able to play out the complicated choices and feelings she’ll have as she tries to find her own way to use the skills she’s been honing since practically birth.
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