Post by Eragon on Apr 6, 2013 10:40:46 GMT -5
I know she's a side character, but I got bored and I have most of her history stored up in my head, so...here it is!
Name: Jackie McElveen, aka Little Red.
Age: 18
Book Origin: Percy Jackson OC
Picture (optional):
Appearance: jet black hair that curls loosely down her shoulders and dark brown eyes. She has pale skin and is small and slim, almost elvish. She usually wears nondescript skinny jeans with any top that doesn't attract too much attention. She really likes leather jackets, but tries not to wear them too often because it could become a trademark.
Personality: she is quiet most of the time and tends to keep to herself. She's had things happen to her before she joined the team that make her cold and a little bit jaded. She especially doesn't like it when people touch her, particularly guys. She doesn't hesitate to do what needs to be done unless it involves killing a person. She considers herself a lame Ares kid because of it and therefore doesn't reveal her parentage. She doesn't like people to realize how insecure she can be so she puts up a cold front mixed with some level of innocence that works almost flawlessly. She keeps most of her past a secret because she's ashamed of it and tried to put it behind her in as many ways as possible when she joined the team. She doesn't usually doesn't show how much she cares about people and sometimes wishes she was less attached to the team because she's used to people rejecting her or leaving her life for good, so she assumes that its just a matter of time before she's no longer welcome with them. She is fiercely competitive and HATES being short. The Ares cabin nicknamed her "Runt" when she was at camp the month before the Battle of Manhattan and it didn't go over well. Also, she thinks the world of Drew but wouldn't admit how far for anything.
Family:
Love Interest (optional): Drew but eventually Bastion
Best Friend(s): the team (Daisy, Bell, Lily, and Master)
History (does not need to be paragraphs):
Jackie grew up in a foster care facility near a sketchier part of Chicago where there was a lot of gang violence. She hated foster care because the people there only took an interest in you if you became a problem. So she learned how to become a problem. She started pilfering in small amounts from the kitchen or whatever when she was five, until by age seven she was on the street picking pockets. A gang member noticed her aptitude when she picked his pocket and dragged her over to their headquarters, and she fell in with them. It gave her the opportunity to get away from the unforgiving world of the kind of foster care that she knew and to feel like she belonged somewhere. Her relationship with the gang members was strange at best; over time they eventually regarded her as a little sister to some degree but at the same time remained fairly distant. They had her running the rounds on tourists and other pedestrians (this is when she really became good at acting) and giving them the profits--in return she got a small room to herself and a portion of her pickings every week. As she got older they started trusting her with bigger jobs, like cleaning the guns, making sure they worked right before they were shipped off, etc. When she was nine a teenager of about fourteen joined the gang, named Will. He introduced her to the demigod world when he figured out they were both Ares kids. He taught her how to fight and use her small size as an advantage by being quick.
Two years later, when she was eleven, the gang ran into a tight spot and couldn't get the money to pay for a shipment, and without it they would be sunk. Their partners made an offer: they would take the money they had with Jackie and call it even. Will heard about it, and knowing that this group was always on the lookout for young girls, looked for a way to get her out safely that night. The other gang members, however, had a close eye on both of them and the plan went awry (mainly because Will's closest friend in the gang was a coward and didn't let them escape). The result was that Will was killed and Jackie was put under sedatives and sold into the sex trafficking industry and wasn't taken out of it for another two weeks and she doesn't remember much of how she got out. She has a scar on her back from a failed escape attempt. When she did escape, she robbed her traffickers blind and took a train from Chicago to New York and a plane to London, where she stayed for six months before running into the team. During those six months a retired thief took her under his wing and taught her the complex forms of thievery she would need to become a professional thief.
Powers or Skills: Expert thieving, and since she is an Ares kid she's an extremely good fighter (although she isn't that confident in her abilities) and is pretty good with guns. Her height is a disadvantage so her preferred weapon is a spear and shield since it gives her more reach. She is also fast in general and likes to run a lot. Reading and math and learning a new language don't come easily to her but she has no trouble nailing an accent and she is very athletic (she picked up tennis and became very good at it over the course of a summer for a job).
Hero or Villian: hero
Weapon: a magic celestial bronze knife that turns into a double-ended celstial bronze spear when the knob on the hilt is twisted to the right and pulled down. She acquired it during the month leading up to the Battle of Manhattan when she was sixteen. She prefers to use the spear like a staff, forgoing the usual shield.
Other (optional): she is really closed off and cautious with physical relationships most of the time and has trust issues when it goes to things beyond friendship, and when she was younger she even had trouble with that. She and Clarisse LaRue have a love-hate relationship that is 95% hate. Also, Will only joined the gang because he needed money for his sister's medical bills and wasn't old enough to get a job (his mom was working part-time and his step-father left when his sister started needing expensive medical attention). Without his stepdad's income he and his sister were in danger of being put into foster care, and he was worried his sister wouldn't handle that well due to a mental disability that caused her to have no social filter.
She has no great love for Chicago and doesn't go there if she can help it.
Her real name is Jacqueline, but she hates that name and gets really mad if anyone refers to her by it.
Name: Jackie McElveen, aka Little Red.
Age: 18
Book Origin: Percy Jackson OC
Picture (optional):
Appearance: jet black hair that curls loosely down her shoulders and dark brown eyes. She has pale skin and is small and slim, almost elvish. She usually wears nondescript skinny jeans with any top that doesn't attract too much attention. She really likes leather jackets, but tries not to wear them too often because it could become a trademark.
Personality: she is quiet most of the time and tends to keep to herself. She's had things happen to her before she joined the team that make her cold and a little bit jaded. She especially doesn't like it when people touch her, particularly guys. She doesn't hesitate to do what needs to be done unless it involves killing a person. She considers herself a lame Ares kid because of it and therefore doesn't reveal her parentage. She doesn't like people to realize how insecure she can be so she puts up a cold front mixed with some level of innocence that works almost flawlessly. She keeps most of her past a secret because she's ashamed of it and tried to put it behind her in as many ways as possible when she joined the team. She doesn't usually doesn't show how much she cares about people and sometimes wishes she was less attached to the team because she's used to people rejecting her or leaving her life for good, so she assumes that its just a matter of time before she's no longer welcome with them. She is fiercely competitive and HATES being short. The Ares cabin nicknamed her "Runt" when she was at camp the month before the Battle of Manhattan and it didn't go over well. Also, she thinks the world of Drew but wouldn't admit how far for anything.
Family:
- father - Ares
- mother - never knew her, left her in the foster care system as an infant.
- half-brother: Will Sytes (dead)
- the team: Daisy, Bell, Lily & Master
Love Interest (optional): Drew but eventually Bastion
Best Friend(s): the team (Daisy, Bell, Lily, and Master)
History (does not need to be paragraphs):
Jackie grew up in a foster care facility near a sketchier part of Chicago where there was a lot of gang violence. She hated foster care because the people there only took an interest in you if you became a problem. So she learned how to become a problem. She started pilfering in small amounts from the kitchen or whatever when she was five, until by age seven she was on the street picking pockets. A gang member noticed her aptitude when she picked his pocket and dragged her over to their headquarters, and she fell in with them. It gave her the opportunity to get away from the unforgiving world of the kind of foster care that she knew and to feel like she belonged somewhere. Her relationship with the gang members was strange at best; over time they eventually regarded her as a little sister to some degree but at the same time remained fairly distant. They had her running the rounds on tourists and other pedestrians (this is when she really became good at acting) and giving them the profits--in return she got a small room to herself and a portion of her pickings every week. As she got older they started trusting her with bigger jobs, like cleaning the guns, making sure they worked right before they were shipped off, etc. When she was nine a teenager of about fourteen joined the gang, named Will. He introduced her to the demigod world when he figured out they were both Ares kids. He taught her how to fight and use her small size as an advantage by being quick.
Two years later, when she was eleven, the gang ran into a tight spot and couldn't get the money to pay for a shipment, and without it they would be sunk. Their partners made an offer: they would take the money they had with Jackie and call it even. Will heard about it, and knowing that this group was always on the lookout for young girls, looked for a way to get her out safely that night. The other gang members, however, had a close eye on both of them and the plan went awry (mainly because Will's closest friend in the gang was a coward and didn't let them escape). The result was that Will was killed and Jackie was put under sedatives and sold into the sex trafficking industry and wasn't taken out of it for another two weeks and she doesn't remember much of how she got out. She has a scar on her back from a failed escape attempt. When she did escape, she robbed her traffickers blind and took a train from Chicago to New York and a plane to London, where she stayed for six months before running into the team. During those six months a retired thief took her under his wing and taught her the complex forms of thievery she would need to become a professional thief.
Powers or Skills: Expert thieving, and since she is an Ares kid she's an extremely good fighter (although she isn't that confident in her abilities) and is pretty good with guns. Her height is a disadvantage so her preferred weapon is a spear and shield since it gives her more reach. She is also fast in general and likes to run a lot. Reading and math and learning a new language don't come easily to her but she has no trouble nailing an accent and she is very athletic (she picked up tennis and became very good at it over the course of a summer for a job).
Hero or Villian: hero
Weapon: a magic celestial bronze knife that turns into a double-ended celstial bronze spear when the knob on the hilt is twisted to the right and pulled down. She acquired it during the month leading up to the Battle of Manhattan when she was sixteen. She prefers to use the spear like a staff, forgoing the usual shield.
Other (optional): she is really closed off and cautious with physical relationships most of the time and has trust issues when it goes to things beyond friendship, and when she was younger she even had trouble with that. She and Clarisse LaRue have a love-hate relationship that is 95% hate. Also, Will only joined the gang because he needed money for his sister's medical bills and wasn't old enough to get a job (his mom was working part-time and his step-father left when his sister started needing expensive medical attention). Without his stepdad's income he and his sister were in danger of being put into foster care, and he was worried his sister wouldn't handle that well due to a mental disability that caused her to have no social filter.
She has no great love for Chicago and doesn't go there if she can help it.
Her real name is Jacqueline, but she hates that name and gets really mad if anyone refers to her by it.