If I wake before I die

Player information.
● Name: Heather
● Age: 35
● Contact: vikael | discord: prettyvikael#0221
● Other characters: Aaron (customplates) | Dorian Pavus (tevinteraltus)

Character information.
● Character name: Jagger Crowe
● Canon: Original (Cycle of Ages)
● Canon point: 2018, Nov. After having received a plastic token from a nightclub in Seattle, WA in the mail
● Age: 28
● Canon background: Jag's story starts out a pretty sad one, even before he was born. His mommy was a Minder, a type of Hidden that is technically a sub-species of humanity, which is why they're able to interbreed with them. Her powers, which Jagger inherited part of due to his mixed heredity, were that of clairvoyance and psychometry (touching an object and reading psychic imprints from it). Normally, Minders are taught from a very young age how to control their powers. That was not the case here.

• Jagger's mother, Peyton, fled south from northern Scotland after her clan was murdered. She was the only survivor.
  
• She met Jagger's father, Harrison Crowe, in London's East End where he ran a bed a breakfast. She never told him about the Hidden world, or what she was, but aside from that one secret, they fell in love and married shortly afterward.
  
• As their family grew with Jagger's birth two years later, the Hidden war escalated and Peyton, whose mind was already fragile from all the information that continuously found its way to it, started to deteriorate mentally to the point that Harrison thought she might be safer in a home.
  
• Her powers of Clairvoyance allowed her this knowledge as well, and while Harrison was making plans for her admission, Peyton was using her powers to search through the various threads of fate, desiring nothing more than to keep her son safe from the forces hunting them. Eventually, she painstakingly plotted a course of events that would see it his safety, left a list of very detailed instructions for Harrison, and saw to the first item on her list: her death.
  
• Harrison sort of fell apart after that. He used the last of his savings, which was a modest sum to begin with, to relocate himself and his son to the US as a means to separate himself from the tragedy, but it never quite worked after that. Between immigration issues and trouble at work, Harrison found it difficult to hold down a job.
  
• Jagger grew up taking care of things around the house and taking care of school work, got his first job at 16 and moved out when he was 18.
  
• He met his current partner in crime in college when he was studying criminology and Chester (Chuck) was a parapsychology grad student. Chuck's Masters was in the existence of psychic abilities and Jagger responded to a flyer requesting anyone who thought themselves to be "gifted" for a clinical evaluation. Jagger went because he was going to be paid and he needed that 50 dollars to finish his rent for the month.
  
• At Chuck's urging, he and Jagger entered into a partnership that involved exploring seemingly 'haunted' locations to determine their validity, which led eventually, after the next 6 years, to meeting various members of clergy etc. and specialists that dealt with different 'occult' issues.
  
• They both garnered attention from nay-sayers and believers alike, Chuck (and sometimes Jagger too) have appeared of a few local access TV shows to talk about one high-profile case or another. A network approached them about doing a "Ghosthunting show" but Jagger vehemently declined.
  
• He received a coin from a nightclub recently which was a trap, he was sure of it, because now that he's touched it and knows that its owner isn't human, he can't ignore it. Apparently, he's going to Seattle...
  

● OC world information: The time is current, 2017. Jagger's world is much like our own. It's loud, over-populated. Modern. It's the Cycle of Man, and that is what some of the "Other" elements, Hidden from the eyes of the mortal world want to change. The Earth is home to roughly 6.5 billion people who are completely normal. Nothing specifically special about them, they have no knowledge of magic outside their superstitious histories and fiction novels. But there exists a world hidden from their eyes, a world older than modern society, a world that is dying out, whose dwindling numbers were forced into hiding centuries ago, and who are, unbeknownst to the outside world, locked in a war between maintaining the status quo and bringing about a New World in which the Hidden need no longer fear the light. This war is very real to the pockets of Hidden, the werewolves, the vampires, the mages, and the witches, the Minders and the Fae. At least...the ones blessed with being raised by their own...

• Abilities:

• Psychometry; He has the ability to touch an object or person and get a reading from them. This is also related to the past, present, or future. With a person, he can glimpse who they truly are, hear sounds that hint at it, get random smells, etc. With objects, the most commonly gets an impression of who handled it last, and what their intention.
  
• Research; He studied to become a private investigator and did get his license. He's also pretty good at reading between the lines.
  
• Stealth; Nothing fantastic, but he's practiced at looking like he belongs somewhere because he acts as he does, and generally not acting suspiciously, though not garnering undo attention. He's not a ninja or anything, though.
  
• Artistic ability; Jagger's one talent he never really explored beyond hobbyist until he started using it for work is his ability to sketch things from memory. It's nothing worthy of an art gallery, but he can sketch a face with enough accuracy as to be recognizable, and a scene enough for reference.
  

• Strengths:

• Analytical: Originally an adapted trait to remove himself from a situation and look at it subjectively, it's become something of a talent of his. No matter how incomprehensible a situation in which he finds himself in seems, he's able to pull back and view it as one would the figures on a game board. This is partially due to his tendency to withdraw himself emotionally from a situation. On the flip-side of this, because of how analytical he is, he sometimes misses emotional responses to things, such as being completely oblivious to someone flirting with him.
  
• Detail-oriented: Because of his attention to detail, few things escape Jagger's view. The visions and impressions he receives from objects are often flashes and this ability to quickly identify and analyze things he sees briefly have made or broken several cases for himself and Chuck. Even in conversations, he tends to listen as much to things people don't say to things they do in order to discern what they may actually mean.
  
• Curious nature: A weakness as much as a strength, Jagger has always been curious about the world around him. This is partially due to a need to understand where his powers have come from, but also just a part of him. He's one who would explore an abandoned silo to glean what it may have been used to store or to call a random number scrawled on a wall to see whom it may have belonged to.
  

• Weaknesses:

• Withdrawn: Partially due to his aversion to touching things lest he accidentally experiences some form of vision and partially due to his upbringing, Jagger has a hard time connecting with others. His short temper also plays a part, but he also has an aversion to closeness. From a very young age, he was the only person he really had to rely on and he's very hesitant to trust new people in his life. It took Chuck three years to get Jagger to open up about his mother's death and his father's neglect.
  
• Cynical: His sense of humor is a mix of deadpan and sarcastic bordering on fatalistic at the best of times. Having no fighting skill, his thick shell of barbed retorts has been his only armor against a harsh and often unfeeling world. It's also a handy way to keep people from getting too close and its a kneejerk reaction to annoyances like a lack of common sense.
  
• Short-tempered and biting: Jagger inherited his father's temper, which manifests in increased irritation, sarcasm, and shutting down. He's quick to anger when people are difficult or invasive and ask stupid questions that he feels the answers to are obvious at the very least. He has little tolerance for processes he feels are redundant or for wasting his time on trivialities. There's a reason Chuck insists on doing most of the talking.
  

• Nightmares:

• Madness: Jagger's deepest fear is going insane. As far as what little his father would ever say on the matter, his mother was deluded, hallucinated, and lost touch with what was real. Jagger is convinced this has to do with whatever power he inherited from her and fears more than anything that falling to that sort of reality-altering insanity is in his future.
  

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STUFF HERE

Hey guys! So, Jag's psychic, and so I need to know what he can know about your characters! Fill out the form with as much detail as you can, and how you'd like to be contacted if I have any questions! Thanks!

Also, Jag doesn't always get visions. Maybe like 40% of the time. This is only if he is getting something about them.

Character Name:
Canon:
Are you cool with Jag getting flashes of the characters' history? (if it's a canon, I can tots google it)
If yes, are there any parts of their history you'd like him to never get? Please let me know!
Is there anything special he can learn from touching them, like with a handshake?
Anything else, or do you have any questions?

(Just paste it in comments below :))


Plotty Bits!

So, here's the cool thing. Sometimes, Jag gets visions of stuff that's happening currently in other places. So, you got something you want the guy to see so he can tell someone who needs to know? Something you're planning and have no idea how to get the other people involved informed? Jag's your man! He does things like that all the time for the police, so yeah :) You can PM this journal if you want to use him mercilessly.

World Information
The time is current, 2017. Jagger's world is much like our own. It's loud, over-populated. Modern. It's the Cycle of Man, and that is what some of the "Other" elements, Hidden from the eyes of the mortal world want to change. The Earth is home to roughly 6.5 billion people who are completely normal. Nothing specifically special about them, they have no knowledge of magic outside their superstitious histories and fiction novels. But there exists a world hidden from their eyes, a world older than modern society, a world that is dying out, whose dwindling numbers were forced into hiding centuries ago, and who are, unbeknownst to the outside world, locked in a war between maintaining the status quo and bringing about a New World in which the Hidden need no longer fear the light. This war is very real to the pockets of Hidden, the werewolves, the vampires, the mages, and the witches, the Minders and the Fae. At least...the ones blessed with being raised by their own...

History
Jag's story starts out a pretty sad one, even before he was born. His mommy was a Minder, a type of Hidden that is technically a sub-species of humanity, which is why they're able to interbreed with them. Her powers, which Jagger inherited part of due to his mixed heredity, were that of clairvoyance and psychometry (touching an object and reading psychic imprints from it). Normally, Minders are taught from a very young age how to control their powers. That was not the case here.

Jagger's mother, Peyton, fled south from the Isle of Man after her clan was slaughtered by an unnamed enemy. She took refuge in the huge human city of London, East End, and met Jagger's father, Harrison Crowe, who ran a bed and breakfast there. She never told him what she was, but they fell in love quickly enough. They married, and two years later, little Jagger was born, which put even more strain on Peyton's already fragile mind. As the war escalated, Peyton's sanity eroded away, by night terrors, visions of death, warnings she couldn't effect. She'd never been a completely stable person, but her sanity quickly forced Harrison to put her in a home...or at least, that was the intention.

Pesky powers like clairvoyance make it hard to spring things on people, and one night, when Jagger was just past his second birthday, Peyton awoke from a vision most foul. She'd always been aware of the fragility of her own mind. Recently, she'd been feeling herself slipping into the abyss her mind was so often forced to peer into, but she was certain of one thing in particular: something was coming for her and her son, and it would continue to come unless she did something to stop it. She spent more and more time forcing herself to use her abilities to look into the future, into the past, at the different threads of time, trying to determine which course of events would lead her Jagger's ultimate safety.