WARNER, JONATHAN

[JONATHAN WARNER BRASS]

JONATHAN WARNER {BRASS}

- - -you're a million ways to be cruel - - -[/center]

ALIAS

Jon, or Jonathan. Not Brass.

AGE

20.

HERITAGE

Scotland.

CLASSIFICATION

Unnatural.

ORIGIN

La Porte, Indiana.

SEXUALITY

Heterosexual.

MAJOR/MINOR

N/A {At this time}

OCCUPATION

Starbucks employee.

- - - tomorrow is a day away - - -

PLAY BY

Steven R. Mcqueen

HAIR COLOR/STYLE

Dark brown, almost black. Usually left with some length in the back, and in the bangs. Hates having it cut too short.

EYE COLOR

Flat brown eyes, often look shadowed due to the fact that Jon is most often seen with an expression of half-lidded boredom or disdain.

BODY TYPE

Solid build, but not heavyset, and definitely not overweight or stocky. He has a trim waist with a strong upper body, and keeps fit with a combination of long distance running, and weights. (Not truly thin enough to be just a runner.) He has strong legs, though it's hard to tell beneath baggy jeans. His back sports a myriad of thick, bumpy scars that climb from the small of his back up to his shoulders, one of the reasons why he often refuses to wear anything less than a full-sleeved shirt/hoodie. (Scars a product of his beginnings as an unnatural. Stretched and disfigured as Jon grew into them.) Though muscular, he feels the overall effect of his scars would repulse most who sought to be close to him, and as such, keeps them covered. He is around 6'1.

FACIAL FEATURES

Slender face, with thick straight brows. His nose is a bit wide, but is complimented by a full mouth, a slight cleft chin, and thick lashes, painting an altogether attractive face.

CLOTHING STYLE

Everyday clothing is essentially made up of jeans and various hoodies, or long sleeved shirts. In warmer weather, he might deign to wear a regular short sleeved T, but the jeans will remain the same, along with a tattered pair of runners. The majority of his clothes all have darker tones.

Though he'd rather not have to even think about the option of formal wear, in the event that it becomes unavoidable, Jon usually manages to pile together simple dress pants and a dark dress shirt that buttons at the wrists. At the very back of his closet, he keeps an untouched black suit combo bought for him in his junior year, though he prefers to not have to resort to that.

- - - and yesterday was gone too fast - - -

LIKES

• Archery.
• Reading.
• Long distance running.
• Rock music.

DISLIKES

• Chatty people.
• Cats.
• Theatre majors.
• His scars.

ADVANTAGES
Reserved - He keeps his opinions to himself, unless confronted or provoked. This lends him the facade of being easy-going.
Trustworthy - He might not have a lot of trust in others, but for some reason people still assume he would take their secrets to the grave. Which he would. He has nothing to gain from making people suffer emotionally.
Focused - He might hate homework, but when something comes along that piques his interest, he becomes wholly focused on it. This comes in handy with archery, a sport he took up when he arrived at the school, and still works to perfect.
Perceptive - People-watching has its benefits. Years of being the outsider has allowed him to study his peers without interruption. He's adept at picking up on small flaws, or analyzing somebody's expression.

DISADVANTAGES

Taciturn - He does not usually seek out conversation with his fellow students. If they approach him, he'll reply, but tends to not carry on for too long.
Extremely self conscious - As mentioned before, he'll do whatever it takes to not show off the scars on his back, despite the fact that he's in very good shape.
Pessimistic - Three years of being at Thaedeus has taught him to have few expectations. He can't help thinking that this year will be the same combination of loneliness and self-loathing.
Unforgiving - Jon has a hard time with grudges, especially when given no example of a person's good side.

PERSONALITY

Jon has a lot of pent up frustration. He knows what his parents did to him now, submitting him to the experiments at the mercy of the government, and despises them for it. It is as if they have ceased to exist to him. Yes, he might feel grateful every now and again for the clothes they put on his back, but to him it will never make up for the trouble he has had to undergo in the life of an unnatural. In a regular school, he was able to generally avoid trouble, keeping up as a strictly B student. As he grew older, it became more difficult to fit in. His peers were less tolerant, and it became harder to hold back his furious lashes of insecurity. He took up rigorous exercise, and stopped seeing whatever few friends he had.

As a child he had never been 'unhappy', but he knew he was different. It drove a wedge between him and most relationships. That being said, he is a teenager, and won't turn down a drink and a good time. He can even be fairly talkative, as long as he isn't expected to keep up being a 'good friend' to anyone.

Despite the apparent bad attitude, he really is sensitive, but even he wouldn't want to admit that all this anger stems from the hurt caused by his parents' betrayal.

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- - - you wonder what the future will bring - - -

MOTHER

Amanda Jane Brass.

FATHER

Michael Trevor Brass.

OLYMPIAN MIMIC

Erebos.

SIBLINGS

Paul Michael Brass.

PET

No pet.

WEALTH STATUS

Came from a middle-class family. While they might not be able to buy a Ferrari, they are able to support a well-sized home for four people on a reliable income. His father works with a local construction company, doing their finances, while his mother teaches at the high school that Jon was going to attend before he had to move to WA.

HISTORY

Jon's parents both hail from Indiana. They had met in college, and graduated together, and after two years in a healthy relationship, got married. Amanda made it clear right away that she wanted a child. Mike was well-meaning, and readily agreed. It wasn't long before they had Jonathan, and moved into the house that has been theirs for the past seventeen years. Mike held a steady job, though he had to commute quite a way away to get to work, where he dealt with the finances of a large firm. Amanda stayed at home, looking after Jon. Life seemed perfect, almost too easy. Then there came the call. Amanda had sought out something more for their child, filling out the government issued application, tired of waiting around at home with nothing to do. Her husband was slightly more reluctant with this new plan. But she assured him that it was a safe procedure. Jonathan would be special, would become something extraordinary. The small matter of giving him a dose of supplements each day was nothing to what could be achieved. They would be helping the world. She could see it now, her little baby would thank her one day for giving him this gift, their family would be among the first to imitate the gods. Soon both parents were taken in and accepted to donate their only son, who was no more than a year old. A few months without seeing him would be the only price.

Not so. The procedure took longer than expected. The Brass' phone calls were turned away, and they were given excuses that perhaps the whole experiment was not quite as far along as their top scientists anticipated. Amanda and Mike were hysterical. When little Jonathan was returned to them they could see their error from the get-go. His back was covered in bandages for his first few months home, a side effect unavoidable test that was part of the procedure, they were told. Amanda point blank refused to change the dressings, refused to look on the deep slices that covered her baby's fragile body. The work of keeping their son alive fell to Mike. He got up each morning to give Jonathan his 'supplements'. Another problem to overcome; they were really pumping him full of chemicals. It was only after a year of being the sole care of his father that Amanda finally began to look after Jon. So distraught, both parents tried to ignore the creeping fear that their son would grow and have...powers. They kept the whole thing under wraps, simply changing the subject when Jon became old enough to ask why he was so disfigured, why he was different. Soon enough he learned to stop asking. Keen to go back to being a normal family, a normal mother, Amanda was pregnant less than a year after Jonathan's second birthday.

Some normalcy returned to the boy when he entered elementary school. His parents were obsessed with keeping him happy, and were more often than not sickly nice to him. Jon grew resentful, knowing that they keeping things from him. His parents instructed him to say nothing of the supplements, or the scars. He obeyed. He was able to bluff his way through six grades, though several of his teachers would mildly remark that there was something...off about him, from time to time. In middle school, with hormones kicking in...Well, it all went to hell in a handbasket. Jon was becoming progressively harder to handle. In a shouting match with his younger brother, Paul, he lost control of the suppressed powers that he had managed to be given. He'd temporarily blinded his brother. Paul tried to run, screaming about his sudden lack of sight, out of his mind with fear, and Jon stepped back, horrified at the seemingly impossible event. His parents took Paul away that night, leaving Jon to sit alone in his room, stunned, confused, never given an answer. His father returned to the house the next morning, trying to turn away Jon's urgent questions. Jon, already taller than his father, cornered him in the kitchen. Bluffing that he would blind his father the same way he had to Paul, Mike was forced to let his son in on the secret, fearing the unknown power of the youth. But Jon was only given half the story: Under circumstances beyond the Brass' control, he was 'modified' to have super-human abilities. His parents were resigned to sending him away; he was too much of a liability. As much as he begged them, he knew that they were protecting Paul over anyone else, and eventually agreed to go quietly.

Just before entering his grade nine year, he was brought to Thaedeus. The stories they told him...it was almost as if he were setting off on some great adventure. He would fit in at long last, and get the whole truth, for he knew his parents were holding back information, even after what had happened. Here, his dangerous new tendency to blind those that angered him would be over-looked. He was wrong.

Instead of the expressions of mild confusion that he used to receive from his old teachers, his peers, here he was met with disgust. He learned with horror of his 'patron god', Erebos, who had to power to temporarily blind people, blend with the shadows, and submit others to depression just by being near them. The more he learned of this mythical world that had drawn him in, the more he hated his parents, hated himself. He learned of the fact that they had donated him to experimentation, of his limits from the supplements. He couldn't control what powers he had. It didn't take him long to realize that he didn't have the most harmless of Erebos' powers: the ability to blend with shadows. Sure, he liked the darkness, but he didn't suddenly disappear. Then again, his classmates learned to ignore the solitary boy, so the effect was still the same. The depression factor remains a mystery to him. He has never before outright asked anyone how they feel when he walks in to a room. And as for the blindness, he keeps it to himself. He has never subjected anyone else to that particular horror, other than his little brother. Now in his senior year, Jon has learned to have low expectations. He knows he will attend class, drink his chemicals, and go on day in and day out with the same routine of solitary suffering. Even though his experience at Thaedeus was less than pleasant, he fears leaving, not knowing how he will fit in with the rest of society.

After Thaedeus


The time to graduate came and went. The plan was for Jon to accompany his girlfriend Scarlet Lancaster back to Vancouver, but he became sidetracked by his own problems. In an effort to have some sort of closure with his family, he left the school only three days before he and Scarlet were supposed to catch their flight. Of course there was tension, and as a result, the two broke up with little communication. Now back in town, with a new name {Something happened with his family-but what?}, he's renting an apartment in the downtown area called Summerwalk, paying his rent with his wages from Starbucks, but is soon to get a place at Thaedeus, helping with archery.

- - - as you worry about the sins of your past - - -

OOC ALIAS

Brass.

OTHER CHARACTERS

Rosalyn Sara Silva, Holly Alexis Rivers, Wesley Adam Bennett.