Physical description: Jackson stands 5'11” with short brown hair and green eyes. He is well-built. with a delicate and yet masculine face that usually sports the scruffy look. His style of clothing tends to run along the casual line, wearing mostly jeans, t-shirts or a henley and a favored black leather jacket with a pair of boots.
Personality: Once a friendly, kind and outgoing man, being forced to survive on his own following the world having been thrown into mass chaos and darkness left Jackson barely a semblance of the man he used to be. Living on his own has made him distrusting of most, preferring his lone life to that of the company of others. Though while he comes off as distant and uncaring most at most times, Jackson is not a heartless man. He won’t hesitate in aiding a stranger in obvious need, or help out a member of his tribe if he feels it is warranted.
Skills and Training: Jackson is proficient with both firearms and bow and arrow. He’s also quite adept at hunting, something he needed to learn to do when the world was thrown into chaos as a means to survive.
Strengths: - Hardworking - Protective of the tribe that took him in. - Skilled hunter - Strong willed - High pain tolerance
Weaknesses: - Has major trust issues. - Gets a bit claustrophobic when confined to enclosed spaces. - Not so great with people he doesn’t know and has a hard time letting people in as an avoidance mechanism to keep from being hurt by loss again. - Has a hard time forming lasting relationships
Items carried: A couple hunting knives and picture of his deceased wife, and daughter.
History: Born in the college town of Bozeman, Montana, Jackson was born one of three children to Rufus and Dorothy Claybourne. Raised in the city, Jackson’s life was relatively a normal and simple one. He grew up doing the normal things boys tended to do in their growing years. One of which, though he never considered himself professional league material, was playing baseball, starting from tee-ball when he was five, all the way up to playing on his high school’s team.
He had few girlfriends throughout his high school run, the last of whom would become his wife in the year following their graduation from high school. Both shared a passion for the law, though each in a different form. Jackson went on to attend the police academy, while Rianna went on to study law at Montana State University. The couple welcomed their one and only child into their lives in the second year of their marriage. A little girl who they proudly named Zora. Though the next couple of years were a bit of a struggle for the young couple, they did manage to enjoy a happy, though not without the occasional troubling times, life together. They eventually moved from their one bedroom apartment to a three bedroom home on a tree-lined street in a middle class section of the city, with a little financial aid from his parents.
A power surge at the station, one of the many results of The Pulse, left the building in total darkness, and most of the officers on duty sent out into the streets to try and sustain order on the streets. Jackson being one of those officers, and it was the one time that he regretted letting his duty to the force come before his family. By the time he was able to return home, Jackson found his house engulfed in flames, his wife lost within the ensuing fire, and his daughter missing. He searched the city for over a month, hoping to find any sign of his daughter. It all starting feeling futile to him, and then, after the passing of a month and a half, he finally left the parameters of the city in his packed up car. When gas finally ran out, Jackson packed what he could into a backpack, and onto his body, and continued on. Inquiring of anyone he crossed paths had seen a young girl that matched his daughter’s description. If she wasn’t in Bozeman, then maybe she had gotten out somehow. And though it was growing less and less the more time passed on, Jackson never fully gave up that one day he would find his daughter. Wouldn’t allow himself to fully accept that she might be dead.
Jackson learned to live off the land, surviving mostly on the venison he carved out of, and cooked, from the wild beast he killed, for the first two years following The Pulse. He eventually traded his gun for a roughly crafted bow and arrows, which in turn were traded for a better crafted and more efficient bow and arrows when he stumbled onto a destroyed and evacuated town and into a shop that still had a few weapons in its interior. While he was more proficient with a firearm, using it had the possibility of drawing unwanted attention his way. He has been living among the Algoma for two years now, earning his keep among the people as a hunter.
Writing Sample: The light was slowly fading into the horizon when Jackson decided to take refuge for the night in a deserted cabin within the woods of a state park, followed into the structure by a young wolf who had befriended him a couple weeks back. The animal had came upon him as he was cleaning a kill, hovering around the area until Jackson offered the beast some of the fresh meat from the kill. The wolf hadn’t shown any aggressiveness toward him, so had hadn’t had any qualms about feeding the animal. Which had been his mistake as the wolf followed him from then on. It had kind of been like two lone wolves had found each other and came to some kind of unspoken agreement.
“Not exactly five star accommodations, but the place will serve its purpose for the night.” Jackson remarked, mostly to himself as the wolf sniffed around the interior a bit before curling up and claiming a corner of the cabin. “Good choice.” He acknowledged to the wolf, as he dropped his pack down beside the sole bare mattress bed in the place. “Cause there was no way I was letting you claim the only piece of furniture in here, Shadow.” He chuckled lightly toward his travel companion.
It surprised him, when Jackson allowed himself to give it any kind of thought, that while he tried avoiding most people in his years on the road, he seemed to tolerate, actually welcome the presence of a creature of the wild.
Character Journal:jax_ Played by: Brian Austin Green Plot Points: Finding/Being reunited with his daughter Anything else?: