O'CONNOR, JACKSON AARON

[jax]

jackson aaron o'connor.

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/ i want to voice this out loud

full name. Jackson Aaron O'Connor.
stage name. Jax O'Connor.
nicknames. Jax.
age & dob. Thirty-two & September 12, 1978.
gender. Male.
sexual orientation. Heterosexual.
career. Crew member - writer / producer.
hometown. Huntington Beach, California.


/ it's therapeutic somehow

height. 5ft 10.5in.
eyes. Blue.
hair. Sandy brown, dirty/dark blonde. Can look gingery. Who knows.
build. Stocky, athletic, broad.
distinguishing features. None.
play-by. Benjamin McKenzie.


/ so i'm moving to new york

loves. Writing. Beaches. Water-related activities: surfing, swimming, wakeboarding etc. Running/jogging and staying fit (enjoys combat sport like boxing/kickboxing). Dogs. Petite/short girls, brunette girls, shy girls, wholesome girls and girls with all four attributes! Mild California winters. Family. Surfing with his Dad.
hates. Fast food. Incomprehensible music. Deceiving and troublesome people: liars, cheaters, tricksters etc. When small cuts hurt the worst (it's so annoying, and they're usually in the awkwardest of places). Prejudice. Dentists, hospitals and needles. The ever changing/advancing state of technology.

quirks.

• Generally follows a daily (or at least, a morning) routine.
  
• Sleeps for approximately 4 hours a night.
  
• When eating toast with meals, he tends to have it on a separate plate. He can't eat it if it's made soggy by scrambled egg or beans. He also generally can't eat untoasted white bread. Fuck yeah, wholemeal.
  
• Hates the texture of cheese. But likes the taste of it cooked/melted.

aspirations.

• Pen a book.
  
• Provide for his son/take care of his family.
  
• Be awesomely successful as a screenwriter.

secrets.

• He grew up believing his mother was actually his sister.
  
• Sold a gift from his grandmother to buy surfboard, then realised it had been in the family for decades. Never brings up the object, will pretend it's been mislaid if enquired about while mentally shitting himself/feeling deep, deep shame.
  
• Got in trouble with the law for having sex in back of car.
  
• Rarely watches emotional movies with other people present, because he cries.
  
• Bribed to be his photographer-aunt's model a lot during his early college years, with money.

personality evaluated. Jax tries to not be a complex person but sometimes he can have a slight case of denial about his inner workings. Like his trust and abandonment issues. They've become pretty severe, to the point of not pursuing a relationship properly (even though it's perfectly promising) because of his own fears. Due to various events in his life, he's developed a problem with putting his faith in people and dedicating himself a hundred percent. He used to be the type of guy who invested his all into a relationship but he's had his heart and his trust broken by people he loves and now he just can't develop with people (especially woman he's trying to date) like he used to. He's stubborn about many things but mostly this. He won't let someone try and help, he doesn't let people in easily. He's one of those people who bottles things up and broods about it (I know, so Atwood-ish). Jax has had enough with drama and wants to avoid it at all costs, even if it means ignoring the issues he has and focuses on the good things he's got, like his blossoming career and his young son, Dan. It's a waste of someone who is deeply caring and to be honest, romantic.

He's a nurturer, a family-orientated gentleman who puts others (especially family) before himself and his own needs. He grew up in a tight-knit environment that, after a bumpy couple of years, survived a shocking revelation that could have easily derailed his life. Jax has a protective nature that can sometimes be a negative trait of his as well as a positive, he can be too protective but he does it for all the right reasons. He's often seen as the rock, the glue that keeps everything together. He's heavily relied on and sometimes too relied on by the family but he'd never dream of saying no. Overall, he's a good guy. After a brief rebellious stint starting in middle school and ending in high school, he's someone who lives a straight and narrow lifestyle. But he's not perfect, no one is! He's got plenty of flaws, which include his aggression, his smoking, that protective nature we talked about and of course, all his little issues with relationships and trusting potentially scheming bitches. He can't stand when people lie and live a life of deceit and disrespect. Little white lies are fine - he'd never dream of breaking the news that Santa's not real but conning people on various levels is so wrong to him. He appreciates honesty and respect.

And he appreciates people who are open-minded. No one can say that they've never judged someone unfairly, even Jax does it, we all do. But he makes a conscious effort not to be prejudiced. There were the occasional hard moments, dealing with the aftermath of revealing that the woman everyone knew as his sister was actually his mother and valued those who didn't jump ship. And he hardly makes it easy for people to know the story behind the book cover. Patience and understanding is everything. So is having the ability to drop the serious stuff when you can and just have fun. Jax is a keen athlete and a childhood right by the beach created an avid surfer in him. As he's someone who can have an often stressful and busy schedule, he needs to take time-out for himself. Despite the active lifestyle he has, he's a troubled sleeper. On average, he'll sleep about four hours a night and spends the rest of his time in front of the television and/or on the computer. If there's an idea in his head, it's gotta be documented.

If he seems to always be in thought, it's probably because he is (or maybe he's just looking his usual brooding self). Being an imaginative and creative person who relies on those two traits for a career can be both good and bad. Good for his career, bad for his head. Sometimes he has a problem with shutting off his mind, be it to ideas or personal problems or the stresses of life. Admittedly, he is something of a hotheaded and irritable person. He can get pretty pissed off easily depending on the day or situation and he's so easily frustrated - especially with technology! But he tries not to take it out on the wrong people. Especially not his son, who lives with his mother but sees Jax a lot. Having the responsibility of being a father has given Jax an additional purpose in life and he'll never deny that although it's hard work, he loves every second of it. Too bad it seems unlikely that he'll get married and have more. He's total house-husband material: domesticated, sufficient cook and excellent with kids (and dogs). Care to deal with trust issues; aggravated, distant and closed off behaviour with a side helping of grouchiness and one big crazy family that's heavy on the female side? He's all yours!


/ i've got issues with my sleep

father. Aaron Jackson , 48 , LAPD detective.
mother. Nora O'Connor , 47 , florist.
siblings. Fiona O'Connor , 23 , cashier.
Alannah O'Connor , 17 , student.
pets. Oscar "Oz" - mixed pitbull bred of a dog.
other family. Niall O'Connor , 74 , grandfather.
Eileen O'Connor , 72 , grandmother.
Cathleen "Leena" Fitzpatrick , 49 , aunt.
Caoimhe "Keavy" O'Connor , 30 , aunt.
Kevin Fitzpatrick , 52 , uncle.
Jonathon Fitzpatrick , 23 , cousin.
Lisa Fitzpatrick , 19 , cousin.
Olivia Fitzpatrick , 16 , cousin.
Siobhan O'Connor , 2 , cousin.
Niamh O'Connor , 10 months , niece.
Daniel O'Connor-Kelly , 7, son.

history evaluated. The O'Connor's moved to a mobile-home park in Huntington Beach when Jackson (aka Jax) was a newborn baby. He grew up in a predominately female atmosphere but it had it's advantages. Jax would never go without care, love and support. His big sisters were like second and third mothers to him but he didn't realise how close the two statuses were. What seemed like an incredibly normal and average family had something of a dark secret which came to light when Jax was twelve. At twelve, his family had to sit him down and explain that his real father wanted to get to know him and that Niall was actually his grandfather. He had grown up under the assumption that Nora was his sister when she was in fact, his mother. Nora wasn't a girl who had fallen into the wrong crowd or was up to no good. She became pregnant at fourteen and had her son when she was fifteen. His father's family refused to have any contact but would have paid child support if requested (which it wasn't) and shipped their son to military school on the grounds that "he needed a more disciplined and structured lifestyle". He was a top student being pressured by his parents to do well at school so he would go to college and was deeply upset with the disappointment he felt from them. He would later regret letting them have such sway over his choices in life. The armed forces paid for his college tuition and he repaid the favour by serving in the military. Once out, he sought a relationship with his son.

To say that this was a blow to everything he thought he knew about his life and his family is an understatement. Jax was devastated by the revelation, unsure how to digest the information and unsure how to continue with life as normal when everything had changed. Both he and younger aunt Keavy (who was once his sister) both became distant to their immediate family, the trust between the O'Connor family broken. But something in him was desperate to get to know Aaron (who's first and last name was Jax's first and middle name), perhaps due to growing up in a basically all-women household. Both of them had the hobby of surfing in common and used this to build the foundations of their now happy bond. Things between his sister-mother and him were less wonderful. The family continued to maintain that Nora and Jax were siblings but Jax found this hard to do. He didn't want to lie to people, he didn't want to live a charade. This caused a lot of tension in the family and a lot of bad attitude from Jax. He got expelled from high school when he was sixteen and his grandfather took him away for the weekend to have a heart-to-heart, explaining that the choices they made was never an easy one, especially not for Nora but they did it with both Nora and Jackson's best interests at heart, because they wanted to let Nora grow up rather than waste her youth as a young mother. From a different perspective, he began to understand better. So he quit the immaturity and acts of rebellion and anger, trying to salvage what was left of their relationship.

They made a compromise, come out clean with the truth whilst trying to get to know each other again. He enrolled at a new school and introduced Nora to new friends as his mother while old friends tried to get used to the news. Writing was something he had always been interested in, though he had trouble being confident about his work. He also wasn't confident in the idea of a career as an author and was steered into the direction of screenwriting. Eventually he graduated high school and attended USC for seven years, earning both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Screen & Television. He had already began working in indie and low-budget projects during his late undergraduate and early graduate years, as well as helping develop several sadly unproduced/unaired pilots and projects before signing on to a number of shows thanks to his connections in the production side of the television industry. Now he has finally started getting some recognition for his work and is a fully-fledged screenwriter (turned producer). Now besides anything career orientated, his personal life has been turbulent. He had a whirlwind romance with a wonderful woman who was everything he could ask for in a partner and when she revealed she might be pregnant, he proposed to her without a second thought. She, however, didn't accept and instead broke down. Josie had failed to mention to Ben in the six and a half months that they'd been dating, that she was already married. To an actively serving soldier, no less!

He couldn't believe his luck, or lack of it. There didn't need to be any paternity tests (though one was done, just for clarification), her husband had been away on deployment the whole time. They were newlyweds too, it didn't take long for the marriage to dissolve. Jax was the somewhat proud but mostly confused father of Danny O'Connor-Kelly. For the sake of his son, Jax tried to have an at least civil relationship with Josie but found that too hard because he was understandably pissed at the entire situation. But she promised he'd have all the custody rights he deserved and they worked out (and continue to work out) a schedule, which works well for them. By now of course, they get along much better than they used to but he'll never trust her again. He finds it hard to put his trust in most people now. He just focuses on trying to be a good role model for his kid, hoping to provide no drama for the kid so he can escape the kind of things Jax went through! He is someone who will do anything for family, even if it comes before his own needs. Right now he finds him in a stressful and busy situation, with his sister (actual sister, not sister-aunt) living in his apartment with her newborn baby while she goes through some serious depression shit because she too has experienced devastating blows in her relationship. Literally - her boyfriend was a troubled and sadly abusive man who is now in jail.

Jax seemingly can't help but find himself in turbulent situations. Thankfully his career is less of a roller coaster ride, it seems to be the only thing going smoothly! For once, he'd like his life to be nice and normal, with no drama. Sometimes he wonders if he went under a ladder or broke a mirror in his early childhood and those years of bad luck got extended.

/ christmas came early for me

alias. Laura.
years of rp experience. five +
other characters. Joey, Chelsea, Emily, Tom and Rob. >.>
how did you find us. n/a.
roleplay sample. Sorry, I wrote a lot/too much again...

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