player information ● name: Xep ● age: 20 ● contact: esquivant @ plurk ● other characters: Letha Regis
character information ● name: Jamie Dodger ● canon: Original ● canon point: April 2nd, 2017 ● age: 25
● (original) world:(WARNINGS: Violence, suicidal thoughts, rape, depression, drug use, self harm, child abuse, domestic abuse, torture/mutilation, Iunno everything that could make someone uncomfortable?)
Dodger comes from a world basically parallel to ours, except that a choice few are born with mutant abilities. These can be as mundane as being able to shift things a bit to the left or glow in the dark, to being able to move others by manipulating their blood or hack technology by speaking to it. Due to a somewhat prejudiced attitude toward mutants, they have a high probability of either hiding their abilities or ending up criminals. Those looking through the deep web often go for mutant hitmen, as they are considered specialists and often can complete tasks that would be impossible for a mundane human.
James Walker was one such mutant, coming from a poor but loving family that accepted him and tried to push for the rights of mutants for the sake of their son. Maddison Kingsley was a mundane human, coming from an uptight and rather stereotypical British heritage with parents who wouldn't even hire mutant staff for fear of corrupting her. In a classic retelling of Romeo and Juliet, the two of them ran away together at the ages of 17 and 16, after meeting when James' parents scraped the money together to bring him to England. But soon after they got to America, Maddison discovered she was pregnant, and James disappeared the next day.
Maddison managed to scrape by with what little she had, but her head was just barely above water. By the time her son was born she was homeless, sleeping on the doorstop of one of the restaurants she worked at each night after everyone had left and pretending to have just gotten there in the morning. Her son was named Jamison after his father, and she gave everything she could to ensure his survival. Jamison struggled to survive his first years, and Maddison turned to stealing just to have enough food for the both of them.
Things went on like this for about seven years. Then Maddison met Benny McQueen, the ringleader of a gang called the Sun Riders. In simple terms, they'd been a biker gang dynasty since the 50s and kept the traditional aesthetic going. Benny took an interest in Maddison, and began providing food for her and Jamison in return for company. For a while, this was a blessing, and both of them were regularly fed for the first time either of them could remember. In Jamison's case, quite literally. But after a few months, Benny's benevolence turned into blackmail. He started pressing Maddison for sexual favors, and withholding food from both her and Jamison when he didn't receive it. Soon after this began, Jamison watched his mother starve in front of him while trying to hide him from the gang.
He was quickly found, and Benny began treating him like a prince to pull his thoughts away from his mother. Benny took him in, letting him share a room with his biological son Anthony and affectionately referring to him as Jamie. Jamie and Anthony were subliminally taught to rival each other, and in most cases Jamie triumphed. He excelled at their homeschooled lessons, grew taller and stronger, and when they grew old enough to accompany Benny on missions, Jamie's mutation gave him the makings of a killing machine while mundane Anthony couldn't even shoot straight.
Jamie started being trained as a proper member of the gang at age 12, and by 14 he had been generally accepted as the next leader of the Sun Riders. He'd gained the name Dodger, for his fighting style that relied heavily on teleportation and his knack for getting himself out of trouble. And to avoid the embarrassment of his birth name, the gang only knew him as Jamie Dodger. Anthony had gained the nickname Duke, and while he was the one who actually had the last name of McQueen, the gang regarded him as a far second to Dodger. Dodger would have prefered to be second - but part of that had to do with the fact that Duke was largely ignored by his parents, while they tended to beat and starve Dodger as part of his daily discipline, or even if things just weren't going well for Benny.
Around the same time, Dodger met his first girlfriend. Janet was 18, and Dodger looked older than his age from the stress of his life. He managed to lie his way into convincing her he was an adult, and that he had a respectable job as a street musician. Over the next two years they would sneak dates whenever he had time, and he started to think of her as the only thing keeping him alive. He had built an elaborate web of lies to keep her or the gang from discovering each other, but Benny started to have his suspicions after a few too many missions were skipped in favor of dates with Janet and nights spent at her house.
Dodger was 16 when Benny finally figured out who Janet was, and was outraged. During their argument that night Benny broke a bottle and raked it across Dodger's face, giving him his infamous scars. Shortly afterward Dodger threw him into a table, broke off its leg and stabbed it into Benny's chest after beating him to death with it. Stumbling away from the wreckage of their fight, Dodger grabbed Janet and convinced her to elope with him.
Janet and Dodger moved from place to place over the next 4 years, never settling too long in one place. Janet no longer believed he was a busker, after he showed up on her doorstep covered in blood that night, but he refused to answer her questions and she was somewhat afraid to ask. Dodger never managed to hold a job, always finding some way to get himself fired within a week. He relied on Janet's income wherever they went, blowing money on booze and cigarettes and passing out drunk on the couch most weeks. Every complaint from Janet was met with threats from Dodger, and every threat to leave was met with tears and begging for forgiveness, just for him to fall back into the same habits.
Finally, her patience ran thin and a physical fight broke out. During it, Dodger grabbed Janet and smashed her head into a wall, resulting in permanent brain damage. Janet managed to knock over a cabinet, knocking Dodger unconscious. When he woke up, Janet was long gone and their apartment was on fire. He had just enough time to rescue his few belongings and go back to wandering the streets.
For a few weeks Dodger was homeless and hungry, sinking into deeper and deeper levels of desperation and despair. He was very close to giving up and submitting to starving on the street when he stumbled across a group claiming to be a branch of the Church of Satan. With very little at stake, Dodger agreed to join in exchange for a place to stay and a bit of food. As it turned out, they were less of a group of satanists and more a perverse cult under the impression that they could bring about the utopia through drug abuse and sexual energy. Without going into too much gruesome detail, Dodger spent the next three years serving the cult by engaging in orgies and drinking cocktails of drugs and blood that by all accounts should have killed him.. and did kill several people while he was involved in the cult.
This, like many stages of Dodger's life, ended abruptly with tragedy. After being blacked out for several days, Dodger woke up semi-sober on a sacrificial slab with a knife raised above him. He managed to get out of it by grabbing it and forcing it into the cult leader's throat and slaughtering several people in his path, and after escaping got enough memories back to realized he'd been raped repeatedly while semi-conscious. From that day forward he made a sport of hunting down members of the cult that had escaped him, as a form of coping with his trauma.
This led to another long spell of senseless wandering. Dodger hit a new low, seeking sex and drugs just to keep himself in a strong enough haze to avoid his anxiety and depression. When the next part of his life found him he was bordering on 24, drunk off his ass and so high he'd forgotten how to speak English.
This new chapter came in the form of Victor Augustine, a smooth-talking crime boss from the bronx. Despite his self-destruction and harrowing addictions, Augustine saw potential in Dodger as a perfect assassin. He adopted Dodger in some form or another, giving him enough money to live on and feed himself on the promise that Dodger would sober up.
Dodger took to his new lot in life like a fish to water. Within a few months he'd managed to wean himself off of most of his addictions, sticking to heroin, alcohol, cigarettes and the occasional binge of speed. He managed to pay for a crappy studio apartment in the city on the money Augustine gave him for spying on competitors and killing off anyone who tried to sell illegal goods in Augustine's territory. Over the year that he's worked for him Dodger has developed a debilitating crush on his boss, seeing him as an adonis and a saint, but any advances on this front have been met with disdain and harassment. For now he sticks to acting as Augustine's shadow, having created such a name for himself that those who work for Augustine are fearful of saying anything against him even in private, lest Dodger catches them. His boss may treat him like shit, but Dodger's living the best he's ever lived. He's blinded completely by circumstance.
A quick "where are they now" segment: James Walker had a girlfriend named Karen Jacobson, who gave him a daughter named Jacqueline and later lost touch with him. Walker runs a private detective agency, although Jackie serves as his secretary and the main brains of the operation. Janet lives with her friend Lisa, since her brain damage has rendered her unable to safely live on her own. Unknown to Dodger, she was pregnant when they broke up and managed to have a daughter named Maddison Jane Smith. Maddie was named after Dodger's mother, as Janet knows that's what he would want. Duke now runs the Sun Riders, and due to his mother's insistence the gang is working full-time to find Dodger and torture him for betraying the gang. They have yet to get anywhere with that, since Dodger knows all of them too well and is too paranoid to take any chances. Almost none of the original gang are left, as several of them died over the years and several more left due to Duke's poor leadership skills and the constant bickering between him and his mother. Dodger knows almost nothing from this paragraph, and it will probably never be referenced in-game but it's all fun facts for those interested.
Jamie Dodger | OC | Not Reserved
● name: Xep
● age: 20
● contact: esquivant @ plurk
● other characters: Letha Regis
character information
● name: Jamie Dodger
● canon: Original
● canon point: April 2nd, 2017
● age: 25
● (original) world: (WARNINGS: Violence, suicidal thoughts, rape, depression, drug use, self harm, child abuse, domestic abuse, torture/mutilation, Iunno everything that could make someone uncomfortable?)
Dodger comes from a world basically parallel to ours, except that a choice few are born with mutant abilities. These can be as mundane as being able to shift things a bit to the left or glow in the dark, to being able to move others by manipulating their blood or hack technology by speaking to it. Due to a somewhat prejudiced attitude toward mutants, they have a high probability of either hiding their abilities or ending up criminals. Those looking through the deep web often go for mutant hitmen, as they are considered specialists and often can complete tasks that would be impossible for a mundane human.
James Walker was one such mutant, coming from a poor but loving family that accepted him and tried to push for the rights of mutants for the sake of their son. Maddison Kingsley was a mundane human, coming from an uptight and rather stereotypical British heritage with parents who wouldn't even hire mutant staff for fear of corrupting her. In a classic retelling of Romeo and Juliet, the two of them ran away together at the ages of 17 and 16, after meeting when James' parents scraped the money together to bring him to England. But soon after they got to America, Maddison discovered she was pregnant, and James disappeared the next day.
Maddison managed to scrape by with what little she had, but her head was just barely above water. By the time her son was born she was homeless, sleeping on the doorstop of one of the restaurants she worked at each night after everyone had left and pretending to have just gotten there in the morning. Her son was named Jamison after his father, and she gave everything she could to ensure his survival. Jamison struggled to survive his first years, and Maddison turned to stealing just to have enough food for the both of them.
Things went on like this for about seven years. Then Maddison met Benny McQueen, the ringleader of a gang called the Sun Riders. In simple terms, they'd been a biker gang dynasty since the 50s and kept the traditional aesthetic going. Benny took an interest in Maddison, and began providing food for her and Jamison in return for company. For a while, this was a blessing, and both of them were regularly fed for the first time either of them could remember. In Jamison's case, quite literally. But after a few months, Benny's benevolence turned into blackmail. He started pressing Maddison for sexual favors, and withholding food from both her and Jamison when he didn't receive it. Soon after this began, Jamison watched his mother starve in front of him while trying to hide him from the gang.
He was quickly found, and Benny began treating him like a prince to pull his thoughts away from his mother. Benny took him in, letting him share a room with his biological son Anthony and affectionately referring to him as Jamie. Jamie and Anthony were subliminally taught to rival each other, and in most cases Jamie triumphed. He excelled at their homeschooled lessons, grew taller and stronger, and when they grew old enough to accompany Benny on missions, Jamie's mutation gave him the makings of a killing machine while mundane Anthony couldn't even shoot straight.
Jamie started being trained as a proper member of the gang at age 12, and by 14 he had been generally accepted as the next leader of the Sun Riders. He'd gained the name Dodger, for his fighting style that relied heavily on teleportation and his knack for getting himself out of trouble. And to avoid the embarrassment of his birth name, the gang only knew him as Jamie Dodger. Anthony had gained the nickname Duke, and while he was the one who actually had the last name of McQueen, the gang regarded him as a far second to Dodger. Dodger would have prefered to be second - but part of that had to do with the fact that Duke was largely ignored by his parents, while they tended to beat and starve Dodger as part of his daily discipline, or even if things just weren't going well for Benny.
Around the same time, Dodger met his first girlfriend. Janet was 18, and Dodger looked older than his age from the stress of his life. He managed to lie his way into convincing her he was an adult, and that he had a respectable job as a street musician. Over the next two years they would sneak dates whenever he had time, and he started to think of her as the only thing keeping him alive. He had built an elaborate web of lies to keep her or the gang from discovering each other, but Benny started to have his suspicions after a few too many missions were skipped in favor of dates with Janet and nights spent at her house.
Dodger was 16 when Benny finally figured out who Janet was, and was outraged. During their argument that night Benny broke a bottle and raked it across Dodger's face, giving him his infamous scars. Shortly afterward Dodger threw him into a table, broke off its leg and stabbed it into Benny's chest after beating him to death with it. Stumbling away from the wreckage of their fight, Dodger grabbed Janet and convinced her to elope with him.
Janet and Dodger moved from place to place over the next 4 years, never settling too long in one place. Janet no longer believed he was a busker, after he showed up on her doorstep covered in blood that night, but he refused to answer her questions and she was somewhat afraid to ask. Dodger never managed to hold a job, always finding some way to get himself fired within a week. He relied on Janet's income wherever they went, blowing money on booze and cigarettes and passing out drunk on the couch most weeks. Every complaint from Janet was met with threats from Dodger, and every threat to leave was met with tears and begging for forgiveness, just for him to fall back into the same habits.
Finally, her patience ran thin and a physical fight broke out. During it, Dodger grabbed Janet and smashed her head into a wall, resulting in permanent brain damage. Janet managed to knock over a cabinet, knocking Dodger unconscious. When he woke up, Janet was long gone and their apartment was on fire. He had just enough time to rescue his few belongings and go back to wandering the streets.
For a few weeks Dodger was homeless and hungry, sinking into deeper and deeper levels of desperation and despair. He was very close to giving up and submitting to starving on the street when he stumbled across a group claiming to be a branch of the Church of Satan. With very little at stake, Dodger agreed to join in exchange for a place to stay and a bit of food. As it turned out, they were less of a group of satanists and more a perverse cult under the impression that they could bring about the utopia through drug abuse and sexual energy. Without going into too much gruesome detail, Dodger spent the next three years serving the cult by engaging in orgies and drinking cocktails of drugs and blood that by all accounts should have killed him.. and did kill several people while he was involved in the cult.
This, like many stages of Dodger's life, ended abruptly with tragedy. After being blacked out for several days, Dodger woke up semi-sober on a sacrificial slab with a knife raised above him. He managed to get out of it by grabbing it and forcing it into the cult leader's throat and slaughtering several people in his path, and after escaping got enough memories back to realized he'd been raped repeatedly while semi-conscious. From that day forward he made a sport of hunting down members of the cult that had escaped him, as a form of coping with his trauma.
This led to another long spell of senseless wandering. Dodger hit a new low, seeking sex and drugs just to keep himself in a strong enough haze to avoid his anxiety and depression. When the next part of his life found him he was bordering on 24, drunk off his ass and so high he'd forgotten how to speak English.
This new chapter came in the form of Victor Augustine, a smooth-talking crime boss from the bronx. Despite his self-destruction and harrowing addictions, Augustine saw potential in Dodger as a perfect assassin. He adopted Dodger in some form or another, giving him enough money to live on and feed himself on the promise that Dodger would sober up.
Dodger took to his new lot in life like a fish to water. Within a few months he'd managed to wean himself off of most of his addictions, sticking to heroin, alcohol, cigarettes and the occasional binge of speed. He managed to pay for a crappy studio apartment in the city on the money Augustine gave him for spying on competitors and killing off anyone who tried to sell illegal goods in Augustine's territory. Over the year that he's worked for him Dodger has developed a debilitating crush on his boss, seeing him as an adonis and a saint, but any advances on this front have been met with disdain and harassment. For now he sticks to acting as Augustine's shadow, having created such a name for himself that those who work for Augustine are fearful of saying anything against him even in private, lest Dodger catches them. His boss may treat him like shit, but Dodger's living the best he's ever lived. He's blinded completely by circumstance.
A quick "where are they now" segment: James Walker had a girlfriend named Karen Jacobson, who gave him a daughter named Jacqueline and later lost touch with him. Walker runs a private detective agency, although Jackie serves as his secretary and the main brains of the operation. Janet lives with her friend Lisa, since her brain damage has rendered her unable to safely live on her own. Unknown to Dodger, she was pregnant when they broke up and managed to have a daughter named Maddison Jane Smith. Maddie was named after Dodger's mother, as Janet knows that's what he would want. Duke now runs the Sun Riders, and due to his mother's insistence the gang is working full-time to find Dodger and torture him for betraying the gang. They have yet to get anywhere with that, since Dodger knows all of them too well and is too paranoid to take any chances. Almost none of the original gang are left, as several of them died over the years and several more left due to Duke's poor leadership skills and the constant bickering between him and his mother. Dodger knows almost nothing from this paragraph, and it will probably never be referenced in-game but it's all fun facts for those interested.