Player: Aru Pronouns: they/them Over 21?: 30+ Contact: PM, discord: deadlynadder, zamamiro Invitation: Carly Triggers: Warning for rape/discussion if it comes up in individual plotting preferred. Otherwise, my things are related more towards eye trauma/teeth trauma.
IC INFORMATION
Name: Jake Baumgartner-Pepperdine Canon: Clarkston Canon point: end play/scene 11 Age: 22-26 — The script describes him as early to mid-twenties. Due to dialogue and him graduating college I put him as 23 for a hard number.
Jake Baumgartner-Pepperdine was born and raised in Waterford, Connecticut to an upper-class family. He never wanted for anything material in his childhood and by his own admission had never known a hard day's work. His childhood had its own strife's with his mother breaking her knee and falling into drug abuse. He grew up not knowing which version of her he'd meet that day and watching his parents unraveling.
After his parents divorce, Jake lived with his father and appears to have a normal childhood. Learning that his father was a (distant) relative of William Clark, Jake fell in love with reading about Lewis and Clark and the Western Frontier. He always wanted to follow the trail they followed across America and became enamored with the idea of becoming a pioneer.
He graduated with a degree in post-colonial gender studies. Sometime after or during the last few months, he was diagnosed with juvenile Huntington's disease and told that he would likely not live past thirty. His long time boyfriend broke up with him shortly after having decided they had no future together.
Unsure of his own future and if his life has any meaning, Jake left home without telling anyone to travel Lewis and Clark's route. He doesn't make it. The progression of his illness terrifies him and keeps in Clarkston, Washington where he applies as Costco to feel normal for once in his life. There he meets Chris a closeted gay man from across the river. In a matter of a few days: Jake and Chris try and fail to hook up in the Costco parking lot, Jake tries to commit suicide via drowning (Chris stops him), and Jake gets embroiled in Chris's home life and his own mother's struggle with drug addiction. Theirs is a story of finding connection in a world where they feel entirely alone.
Temperament: Jake is very aware of who he is as a person. He's an openly gay man with an unabashed love for exploration and a desire to make his mark on the world. He's so afraid of his life not having any meaning that he abandons every comfort he's ever known on a journey of discovery, intent on finding it or never coming back (and the never coming back has multiple meanings in time). He fears failure and sees himself as a one - a fuck up, an asshole that can't change.
But Jake does want to change. He doesn't want to die knowing that he never had any impact that he never grew up more than that selfish, privileged little boy. At any point in his travels he could tuck tail and go back home, everything fully funded, but in his desire for normalcy, for life, he stubbornly sticks it out at an overnight job he's clearly not physically capable of.
That is until he and Chris get into a fight and pushed over the edge he drops a 5000 television. Jake will push and try hard to be understanding, to be there for someone, and is over-eager and perhaps overzealous at times in his attempts at helping. But he's never had to think about things that might ruin someone's entire life, like losing a job that just barely paid the rent.
He likes to meet people, to talk to them, to learn about them. He talks easily and rambles easily more so when panicking. Jake wears his heart on his sleeve and he truly wants to help - though that help isn't always wanted especially when he chooses to be a busybody. The world is large, beautiful, and unimaginable. When he says that Costcos to him are like America's new frontier, and its employees the last pioneers, he means it. What's endearing about him is that wish, the bright-eyed belief, that there is always something more to be discovered.
Suitability: Jake himself will tell you that his experience with sex is borderline puritanical. He's had exactly one boyfriend he's been sexual with and one horribly failed attempt at a hook-up — but he was the one to initiate it, to encourage it, and it kind of almost panned out until he freaked out. In that respect, his overall inexperience does make him unsuited but it's not like he's outright opposed to sexual escapades.
In fact, the lead up to the failed hook up attempt was his want to be the person he wanted to be. More confident, more willing for spontaneity, etc. Because of this and the fact that life here would mean he could actually have a life, his body giving out him something that might not happen, he would lean more into it. He might not immediately be super ready to jump off the deep in, but with the right exposure and time would come to enjoy life here.
MUNDANE ABILITIES
Skills: He has a degree in post-colonial gender studies.
SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES
N/A Normal human with normal human weaknesses.
GAME DATA
Corporation: children of blindstar Recruitment reasoning: frankly speaking, there's no way apex legacies would look at him and while it could be fun to throw him into cdm he has no skills that they would look for. blindstar as a group who looks for enlightenment is the best fit for jake who's entire character arc is built on finding oneself and leaving an impact on the world. his explorer spirit leads to him being more philosophical in nature than anyone who might be of interest to watch on a big screen.
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Pronouns: they/them
Over 21?: 30+
Contact: PM, discord: deadlynadder,
Invitation: Carly
Triggers: Warning for rape/discussion if it comes up in individual plotting preferred. Otherwise, my things are related more towards eye trauma/teeth trauma.
Canon: Clarkston
Canon point: end play/scene 11
Age: 22-26 — The script describes him as early to mid-twenties. Due to dialogue and him graduating college I put him as 23 for a hard number.
Jake Baumgartner-Pepperdine was born and raised in Waterford, Connecticut to an upper-class family. He never wanted for anything material in his childhood and by his own admission had never known a hard day's work. His childhood had its own strife's with his mother breaking her knee and falling into drug abuse. He grew up not knowing which version of her he'd meet that day and watching his parents unraveling.
After his parents divorce, Jake lived with his father and appears to have a normal childhood. Learning that his father was a (distant) relative of William Clark, Jake fell in love with reading about Lewis and Clark and the Western Frontier. He always wanted to follow the trail they followed across America and became enamored with the idea of becoming a pioneer.
He graduated with a degree in post-colonial gender studies. Sometime after or during the last few months, he was diagnosed with juvenile Huntington's disease and told that he would likely not live past thirty. His long time boyfriend broke up with him shortly after having decided they had no future together.
Unsure of his own future and if his life has any meaning, Jake left home without telling anyone to travel Lewis and Clark's route. He doesn't make it. The progression of his illness terrifies him and keeps in Clarkston, Washington where he applies as Costco to feel normal for once in his life. There he meets Chris a closeted gay man from across the river. In a matter of a few days: Jake and Chris try and fail to hook up in the Costco parking lot, Jake tries to commit suicide via drowning (Chris stops him), and Jake gets embroiled in Chris's home life and his own mother's struggle with drug addiction. Theirs is a story of finding connection in a world where they feel entirely alone.
Temperament:
Jake is very aware of who he is as a person. He's an openly gay man with an unabashed love for exploration and a desire to make his mark on the world. He's so afraid of his life not having any meaning that he abandons every comfort he's ever known on a journey of discovery, intent on finding it or never coming back (and the never coming back has multiple meanings in time). He fears failure and sees himself as a one - a fuck up, an asshole that can't change.
But Jake does want to change. He doesn't want to die knowing that he never had any impact that he never grew up more than that selfish, privileged little boy. At any point in his travels he could tuck tail and go back home, everything fully funded, but in his desire for normalcy, for life, he stubbornly sticks it out at an overnight job he's clearly not physically capable of.
That is until he and Chris get into a fight and pushed over the edge he drops a 5000 television. Jake will push and try hard to be understanding, to be there for someone, and is over-eager and perhaps overzealous at times in his attempts at helping. But he's never had to think about things that might ruin someone's entire life, like losing a job that just barely paid the rent.
He likes to meet people, to talk to them, to learn about them. He talks easily and rambles easily more so when panicking. Jake wears his heart on his sleeve and he truly wants to help - though that help isn't always wanted especially when he chooses to be a busybody. The world is large, beautiful, and unimaginable. When he says that Costcos to him are like America's new frontier, and its employees the last pioneers, he means it. What's endearing about him is that wish, the bright-eyed belief, that there is always something more to be discovered.
Suitability: Jake himself will tell you that his experience with sex is borderline puritanical. He's had exactly one boyfriend he's been sexual with and one horribly failed attempt at a hook-up — but he was the one to initiate it, to encourage it, and it kind of almost panned out until he freaked out. In that respect, his overall inexperience does make him unsuited but it's not like he's outright opposed to sexual escapades.
In fact, the lead up to the failed hook up attempt was his want to be the person he wanted to be. More confident, more willing for spontaneity, etc. Because of this and the fact that life here would mean he could actually have a life, his body giving out him something that might not happen, he would lean more into it. He might not immediately be super ready to jump off the deep in, but with the right exposure and time would come to enjoy life here.
Recruitment reasoning: frankly speaking, there's no way apex legacies would look at him and while it could be fun to throw him into cdm he has no skills that they would look for. blindstar as a group who looks for enlightenment is the best fit for jake who's entire character arc is built on finding oneself and leaving an impact on the world. his explorer spirit leads to him being more philosophical in nature than anyone who might be of interest to watch on a big screen.
Passcode: there is no spoon