Post by James Clark on Oct 3, 2014 13:27:08 GMT -7
James Richard Clark
| NAME James Richard Clark ALIAS None AGE 39 DATE OF BIRTH 01/17/2542 GENDER Male | PLAY BY Chad Michael Murray SEXUAL ORIENTATION Heterosexual AFFILIATION Red Pact OCCUPATION Hired Gun PLACE OF BIRTH Born on Greenleaf Citizen of Harvest |
HEIGHT
6" 1/2'
WEIGHT
176 Lbs.
HAIR
Color, length, typical style, facial hair
EYE COLOR
GreenPHYSICAL BUILD
Muscular
DISTINGUISHING MARKS
402nd Special Forces Battalion tattoo on his chest, numerous body scars and one scar that is faded over his left eye.
GENERAL APPEARANCE
James though well dressed can sometimes come off as gruff or not fully groomed.
CLOTHING STYLE
James is well dressed, brought up by an upper class family, a former military officer and a bodyguard for the upper crust of society had made it where this is the most common dress for him.
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OVERALL PERSONALITY
James Clark is a respectable man, so long as you can overlook his shortcomings. His drinking, oh his drinking, it started out just a little bit at first to drown out what his uncle had done to him and what he was still doing to his sister after he was thrown out. Next came the war, and war can effect people in many ways. For James it led to more drinking. This turned even worse when Elizabeth died. Next and only slightly less than his alcoholism is his womanizing. Any young man can easily fall prey to this way of life and for James he started out like that. There came a day though that his life was changed and he found that right one, the one that could change everything but again with her death he faded back into his old ways.
James isn't all bad though. He is a strong, hard worker. He has dedicated his life, sacrificed so much for his jobs over the years, and it has made him stronger. He is unwavering in his belief that he is dedicated to doing what he believes is right even when sometimes it doesn't turn out the way he would want it to. When James' loyalty is finally earned he is stubbornly loyal to that person till the bitter end. James is also dedicated to following through on his goals, such as his promise to avenge his lost love, Elizabeth.
| FATHER Horus Clark - (Died at 50 would be 72 if still alive) MOTHER Isabel (Mayfield) Clark - (Died at 47, would be 69 if still alive) SIBLINGS Brothers: Jason - 49 Jasper - 46 Sisters: Jasmin - 28 OTHER NOTABLE RELATIVES Torin Mayfeild - Uncle - 73 | SIGNIFICANT OTHER None CHILDREN None OTHER SIGNIFICANT PERSONS None PETS None |
BACKSTORYJames Richard Clark, Third of a line of four children born to Horus and Isabel Clark. James' two older brothers Jason and Jasper were 10 and 7 years older then him respectively. While as it would be 11 years after James' birth that his sister would be born. James was born on Greenleaf like his brothers before him, as well as their father. Isabel, their mother had immigrated from Jubilee back in 2530 and with in a few months she had met Horus and feel in love. Hours spent the next six months courting Isabel before they tied the knot. A mere year and a half later and they had their first child Jason. Three years later and they had their second son Jasper. The Clarks were happy with their little family and Life on Greenleaf suited them well, Horus worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a financial accountant for one of the planets leading medical suppliers.
As the boys grew older Isabel wished she had a daughter to complete their family. Don't get me wrong she was happy with Jason, and Jasper. The two were wonderful and caring boys, they had bright futures making the verse a better place, but nothing could stop her from wanting to have a daughter. Horus and Isabel tried for another kid and eventually the time had come and Isabel was pregnant again at the age of thirty. They were blessed by another baby boy, James Richard Clark. James found his sense of adventure at the young ripe age of 5, when he wondered of the family's modest piece of land at the edge of town and in to the dense jungle surrounding it. He was all smiles as he trudged deeper and deeper in to the woods. All the while his parents grew more frightened they would never see him again. It was an eighteen hour search for the child before he was found, by his uncle who had come in from Harvest not but a few days prior to visit his sister.
James didn't know much about his uncle Torin, but what he could say at that exact moment is he didn't like him. Why would he, he come out and stopped his adventure. Little James never did let that little fact go all his life. To his pleasure they didn't have to see the man but once every five years when he came around to visit for a few days. As James grew older he realized that the fact he had destroyed his little adventure wasn't the only reason he didn't like the man. He was a drunk and an asshole but for some reason his parents didn't see it. Isabel looked up to him. When James was eleven the family was graced with a surpirse, his mother had yet another child, Jasmin. By this point Jason had already went out on his own. James had always looked up to Jason and though he now lived on Harvest James wrote to his brother every month. Jason would write back and tell him about everything he was doing. He had joined the Red Pact Army and had met a girl, Christina.
Life went on and James grew older, he grew close to his sister, taking on as much of a role as a parent as his mother and father. When James was seventeen his father had been promoted to the CFO of the company and were at a party celebrating his new appointment to the position as well as for the retirement of the old CFO. There were many of the executives at the party when disaster struck. A terrorist group bombed the building and both their parents were killed. It took weeks of investigation, but a link was made, a small group of terrorists had attacked the company because they were distort over their practices. How essential medications were not being shared with the other worlds like it had been under Alliance rule. It was a political statement and those involved had been from several other Red Sun planets like Jiangyin, Rhilidore, Saint Albans, New Melbourne, and Aesir. They had taken innocent lives in their efforts to save innocent lives.
For James and Jasmin, it meant their world had to change. They were moved to Harvest to their uncle, who had been named as their godfather. Life was different there Harvest was a planet full of farming fields and small towns differing greatly from the cities and jungles of Greenleaf. Things changed at home as well, Torin was worse then James had ever imagined. He was drunk all the time, he was abusive and treated the two poorly. As James had never forgotten how he ruined his adventure, Torin never forgot how James had troubled his mother. James would forever remember the beatings he received from Torin. Torin had blamed Horus for Isabel's death. Had she not met him she would still be on Jubilee and alive. With Horus gone though the only place Torin had to take out his anger was on the two children.
James turned eighteen and was able to leave, he had tried to get permission to take Jasmin with him but Torin wasn't going to let her leave. James was kicked out of the home and left with no where to go, and the threat his death if he returned was received as truth. James Joined the Red Pact Army only a month after being kicked out and having trouble finding work. His testing scores were high enough for him to get in to the academy to become an officer.Four years later his time in the academy ended and he commissioned as an officer at only 22. Shortly after his 25th Birthday he had made Captain and was put in charge of his own company of troops. It was shortly after this point that his unit was deployed to Saint Albans to assist defeating a terror organization that had taken up staging on the planet to attack all over Red Sun. James and his Company would spend 9 months on Saint Albans fighting in rugged territory to finally put an end to the group. Though they had helped protect Saint Albans and the rest of Red Sun many people were detractors to the efforts of the Red Army.
When the War of Containment broke out between the Red Pact and Jiangyin James had made it to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was leading the 402nd Special Forces Battalion. The 402nd was sent out at the tip of the spear in the war to lead the efforts to gain a landing point on Jiangyin in April of 2573. Through expert leadership he was able to gain control of the landing point and push out and by July of 2573 the 402nd was redeployed there on Jiangyin to lead the assault on the capital and spread the Red Pacts control out from there.
News had turned for the worst though as the COmmonwealth had joined the battle and began to attack the red pact. Covenant was hit by the Commonwealth and the 402nd would redeploy here and fight on holding the Commonwelath back there till early 2576 when the Red Pact would pull them and nearly all others from Covenant and redeploy them back in the larger planets that were now falling under attack or threat of attack. The 402nd was sent to Jubilee to prevent the Commonwealth and Jiangyin from getting a foothold there.
The remander of the war James would stay on Jubilee fighting to defend the planet till the surender of the Red Pact in the War of Containment in July of 2577. James would muster out three weeks after the war ended in an effort to move forward with his life.
As everyone knows history is written by the victor, and the Red Pact War was no different. Like many of the planets of the Red Pact, James had become Disillusioned by the why the war was portrayed. His view of the nation he had once so valiently fought for hard shifted. James' return to Jubilee was short lived. His sister had left, leaving only For in there as family. With no one left there to keep him ties to the Red Pact, he had no reason left to stay.
James left looking for a place he could believe in. The stars lead him to Lundinium. The Alliance had been battered back from its ones great hold on the 'Verse. They may have been far from perfect, but it offered the the peek of society. James found himself small jobs using the skills he had learned in the military to make ends meet, but never quite making ground. That was till 2579 when he met Elizabeth King, estranged wife to Jonathan King. Mr. King was coowner and partner of Fisher & King PMC, a powerful private military contractor that worked mostly in the Red Sun area.
Elizabeth hired James on as her personal private security going with her wherever she goes. Him and a man name Corbin were constantly at her side, be it while she was on business in the core or at her home on Bellerophone. Elizabeth had family money, she owned a business herself running foodstuffs to the outer rim planets. Her husbands business had been started with her family money, and when they had split the source of funds had dried up. This is why Elizabeth had hired the security, her husband had become aggressive and determined to resecure that source of funds.
The months past then a year and the bitter divorce began. Elizabeth and James had grown close as time went on, till James' relationship with Elizabeth turned more intimate then just employer and employee. By February of 2581 the divorce was on its final stage and Jonathan made one last desperate act to stop the divorce. He had gotten to Corbin. Paid him off to kill Elizabeth, if she were,dead before the divorce was finalized he would be left with all the funds.
Upon her estate on Belerophone Corbin took James spare pistol from his room walked in to Elizabeth's officer and shot her right in front of James. Then shot James with his own weapon. Finally he walked over and stood next to where Elizabeth was now lying on the floor and shot himself in the shoulder with James weapon. Corbin crawled his way out of the room leaving the two there to die.
James stayed motionless for a moment before his hand grabbed Elisabeth's hand. He felt weak, like he couldn't move. His eyes darting around the room till they came to a stop on the cortex screen on the desk, providing at that very moment breaking news of Elizabeth King's murder at the hands of her body guard James Clark. At first he didn't understand. How had her murdered her, but moments later it all came in to focus it had all been set up. He had been framed so Jonathan could have right to her fortune.
James forced himself to his feet, picked up Elizabeth and carried her from the office, Corbin no where to be found. He would have hunted him right then and there but he would have to set her down. Instead he rushed to the landing pad. Put her in the shuttle and departed. He was heading straight for the hospital but on the way there Elizabeth died along with the only way of clearing his name. Instead he departed the core as quick as he could taking her to Greenleaf where his life had began. That had talked of going there when the divorce was final and living out their days there.
James would spend the next few months tracking Corbin. Till he finally found him on Persephone and killed him. His money had dried up and he still had vengeance to seek against Jonathan. He would need help though and work to amass what he needed for his revenge. It was in November of 2581 that he found himself work with the Peerless and he has been there ever since.ROLEPLAY SAMPLEJames stood there looking down the hill at the incoming forces. The Commonwealth had landed on Jubilee and was beginning their advance out from their landing point. The war was far from over but things had turned against the Rep Pact. the 402nd had not been tasked with stopping the advance but causing as much damage as they could to the landing forces. James of course had set his men up around their encampment circling out miles around. He had an entire battalion and he was going to utilize it to the best of his ability.
It had only been six days since the commonwealth forces had begun the build up and already there were over 40,000 troops in the area. for now though his focus was on the the first advancing convoy heading toward the small city of Hillcrest. James keyed his mic and began to speak. "Alpha Second Platoon, you have incoming wait for my orders to engage. Delta, Third Platoon. I want you to lock in the artillery one click out from the ambush site. Wait for them to pull back and pound them on my mark."
James waited patiently for the right moment. They would pin them down and offer them an escape that would only lead them in to artillery fire. James peered out his binoculars watching as the convoy advanced in the depression below. second by second they closed on the position and James keyed his mic again. "Alpha Second, engage target now." James commanded as they turned the bend in the road right in to the fatal funnel. James could see grenades going off, gunfire being laid down by his men. The targets never really stood a chance. Next came the mortars devastating the vehicles. For a moment James' view went back to where in the distance the large gathering of foreign troops. There wasn't any movement, they nothing on the way, but they would soon and by that time they had to be down with it and out of there. He glanced back to the convoy as several of the vehicles had turned around and begun to retreat. "Delta Third, let it rain."
It took only a moment before the sound of the artillery could be heard up on the hill. There was no question the Commonwealth troops knew now and would be sending reinforcements. They hadn't finished off all of them yet but that convoy wouldn't be making any further advance. That was good enough for now. they would relocate that team and give them hell at the next point. "Pull back to rally point Foxtrot." And that was it, they were done for now till the next move they tried to make.
Roleplay Experience: Verse, BSH
How You Found DoS: James Gorram Clark, called over from the above two sites.
Other Characters on the Site: None
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