James Hook[WIP]

[Dr. James Hook]

JAMES HOOK

....the mask

Your Name: kevlar
Where did you find us?: wandering around.
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...basic character information

Birth Name: [Doctor] William James Thaddeus Hook Junior
Nickname: The Captain, Big Will, James.
Gender: Male.
Age: Fourty-six.
Birth date: September 29th.
Major: Theatre Studies
Classes: Drama 101 & 102, Biology 101
Animal Identity: Hippopotamus

...personality

Likes:

*women
*the sea
*planning
*style
*cartography
*piracy
*hippos
*ships
*travel
*the theatre

Dislikes:

*snarkiness
*disobedience
*being polite
*teaching
*tuxedos
*weddings
*most of his colleagues
*idiocy
*reptiles (especially crocodiles)
*alarm clocks
*children

Fears:

*hatred
*seriousness
*crocodiles

Strengths:

|| knowledge in his field
|| teaching
|| leadership
|| getting things done
|| energy

Weaknesses:

|| frivolity
|| impatience
|| violent
|| crumble under too much pressure
|| reptiles, for reals

Overall: [400 words minimum]
Personality is really important in understanding your character so we ask that you go into great detail with it. There are so many personality traits that you can describe and it is this that will help RPing with your character become that much easier.

...appearance

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Appearance: [400 words minimum]It's pretty simple to explain the basic looks like eye and hair color, weight, clothing, piercings, tattoos, make-up, and other extra things. You also must go into detail about what the animal portion of your character looks like. If you're a snake, great but what kind of snake, what do you look like etc. Both of these are important and must be explained as detailed as possible[/size]

...history

Parents:
(mother) - Elizabeth Alexandria Noone (deceased)
(father) - James Hook Sr.(deceased)
Siblings:
Santiago Hook (56) - Married, three children, Investment Broker
Christopher Hook (56) - Dating Joseph Green, one adopted child, unemployed
Lawrence Hook (56) - Vow of chastity, no children, Preist
[400 words minimum]

James Hook Senior will be the first to tell you one thing and one thing only:

"Screw the sea. Join the army instead."

He grew up in a military household in which his father was permanently on reserve, ready for service anytime that he would be called for or needed. Living in a household like that proved difficult for him at a young age, usually unable to meet up his father's exponential standards. Because of his usual screw-ups in his father's eyes, he became insecure for the eighteen years that he lived in that house. He was quiet, moody, shut in, only reading books. When his eighteenth birthday rolled around, his father shipped him off to the army without a second look and James endured, quite possibly, the hardest few years of his life.

He returned, hair short and eyes hard from war at a fresh 23. He moved out of the house without a second look at his father and promptly found a broad to live with. Elizabeth Alexandria Noone was a badass with a drinking problem. Every night, she went and danced at different bars, donning different wigs and outfits to tease the men there and steal free drinks. James Hook, who'd only stolen glances at women like that, became entranced with her. She, determined to loosen up his stubborn, introverted personality, took him into her arms to try and bring out the soul in him. It took years of work but they ended up married when he was 28 and she was 24. James Hook, being a resourceful man who lived for plans, attempted to lay their life out for them but Eliza would not have it. She ripped out the game plan he'd written down and demanded that he live in the moment and not be such a whiny person.

Needless to say, he buckled up right there.

A few more years passed and Eliza produced triplets. It was almost impossible to manage with her partying lifestyle and his being in the reserve. The three boys, Santiago, Christopher, and Lawrence grew up reasonably well with their mother and father who popped in and out from doing military service here and there. When the boys were ten, Eliza got pregnant again, this time with William James Thaddeus Hook Junior who, his father decided, would be his legacy. The family, because of Eliza's rich parents over in England, were able to live wealthily. They regularly visited their lake house in southern California, taking James at a young age. He fell in love with the sea there, although he didn't know it. Sailing out on boats with his adventurous parents; his wacky mother and more reserved father who only seemed to brighten up around his wife. James grew up slowly but surely, the triplets faring on their own as they had each other to support.

Eventually, they became old enough to go to college and they split ways, choosing different directions to go in. His mother turned back to bar-tending to make her money, making a pretty good living off of it while James Senior considered retiring from the reserve. He'd received plenty of honors and medals and, on fall afternoons when his wife was out and James Junior was home, they would lock up in his study and James's father would show the boy everything he'd ever done. He showed him all the medals and plaques and honors and awards that he'd received from doing service. He told his son about how proud he was for doing work for his country and knowing that he'd served them well. Around that time was when he decided to show his son the shifting gene. He revealed to James Junior that their whol family were shifters and he would soon join the ranks. The animals varied, seeing as Hook Senior was a gorilla and Elizabeth was a hippo while their triplet sons were each variations of land and water mammals. Hook Junior wanted nothing more than to just be like his father and grow up and earn that kind of respect that his father and his father's father had had before him. Not less than a week later, Hook Senior was diagnosed with cancer. But a strong military man like James Hook wasn't going to go without a fight.

James Junior's first instance of shifting was not a pleasant one. He'd been engrossed in a role at a thirteen year old actor and, unbeknowst to him, had been casted in a local Shifter Alumna play. While onstage, he got so engrossed with the character that, in the middle of one of his angry monologues, he opened his mouth and gave an inhuman roar, his thin and spindly body morphing into a fat and husky slick-skinned hippo, mouth wide open and his tails hitting at his rear. The stage groaned with his weight and James Junior, mortified, tumbled off the stage and into the first few rows of the audience, hurting his left leg in the process. His parents had rushed forward and consoled him back into his human state where he scowled and declared that he wouldn't be shifting again for a very long time.

Hook Senior did have a stroke three years after being diagnosed and was forced to permanently retire from the Army. His wife took a job as a wedding planner, much more reliable so that she would be able to conduct her business at home and keep an eye on her husband. James Hook Junior lived through all of this, struggling to come to terms as to what was happening to his father and if there was anything he could do. Once he saw all the pain that his father was going through, he decided that he wanted to serve his country and follow in the footsteps of the father that had raised him with such love and care and forgo his Shifting personality which he'd gradually been training at Shifter Academy under the major of Drama. He wanted to get all the honors that his father had received but at a fraction of the cost. He decided that the Navy would be his best bet and he approached his father at a tender 16 and told him that he was going to join the Navy. His father had smiled and pat the boy's hand. "Do me proud." He said simply and rolled over to sleep.

His mother soon fell ill from all the stress she put on herself with the wedding planning and taking care of her husband and she was gradually confined to her bed, unwilling and unable to get out for the smallest tasks until she finally had to give up her steady source of income. She had a heart attack just as James Hook Junior was entering the Navy and died the day after. His father, stricken with grief, suffered another stroke after over-exerting himself in the planning of his wife's funeral. Unlike the first one, however, he didn't survive as quickly. James Junior was around to hear the final words of his father, a repeat from the words years before. "Do me proud." The funeral was somber with the triplets sobbing and inconsolable. Even though James Junior was the one who'd spent the most time with them, he was the only one who's eyes were dry at the funeral. He knew that it'd been coming and he had been expecting it. He was going to take those words from his father's last breath and do just that.

Not long after, he was shipped off to work for the Navy off the West Coast. His first day on an actual boat met hardship and war and Hook endured it for seven years. Seven long years only to be promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade. He suffered through the agony of naval war until his ship was hit hard during a particular battle and he was slammed back against the mast, making his leg crumple beneath him. He learned that he would have to have surgery in his leg and that it wasn't going to be pretty when they were through with him. The hit in his head must have also knocked something loose because he suddenly had a flair for the dramatic; a flair that he nursed and with for the rest of his life. It was re-awakening of his high school years at Shifter Academy, time that he had never really expected to reappear.

From the day he turned 26 to the day that year he turned 32, William James Thaddeus Hook Junior was a self-proclaimed pirate. He was the Captain of his ship the Eliza and his first mate was some bumbly bum that he could hardly remember the name of now. His years of fumbling sea voyage brought in money that he'd earned, performing a play at sea. The Eliza was perfect for his performance, and certainly excellent for his namesake. With a crew of actors rivaled by many and known by none, they sailed around the world, landing at various ports to perform the many adaptations of Peter Pan, with James Junior playing the (obvious) Captain Hook. He reached international fame (although never really stepping in the limelight) and was known for his effiminate personality and portrayal of the develish pirate captain. After an unfortunate accidental shifting (Hook hadn't tried shifting for years and years), the ship sank and he was forced to swim back to his hometown in California. Most of his acting troupe drowned but some survived, moving to other parts of the world. With the very very small amount of the money he had salvaged from the wreck, he attended a local university to eventually get his Masters and P.H.D. in Biology. After attending college for ten years and a man of forty-two, he bought a wealthy home in the richer part of Shifter Island, ready to settle down and relax, choosing to teach the students of Shifter Academy about Drama, his beloved subject, and run the Theatre Program. At fourty-six, although his world adventures are over, his adventures as a teacher at Shifter Academy are just beginning.

...connecting human to animal

[One Paragraph Minimum]
Explain why your character shifts into the animal that it does. Why is it this animal and not a different one? Is it your courage? Your adventure seeking personality? Your hawk-like eyes? Tell us about the connection between your human and inner animal. And please don't say "It was their favorite animal growing up." Good resources to understand this better are questions 6 and 7 in the FAQ's.

...literacy

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