Joe Honnick
Jul 24, 2013 22:08:04 GMT -5
Post by Joe Honnick on Jul 24, 2013 22:08:04 GMT -5
[/i][/size][/right]The Basics
Name: Joseph Mark Honnick
Nicknames: Joe
Age: 53
Orientation: Heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: PUSE Club President
Powers: N/A
Play By: Seth Gilliem
The Details
Hair Color: None, he’s bald!
Eye Color:brown
Any Piercings? no
Any Tattoos? no
Any Scars? A small one on his abdomen where he had his appendix removed, one on his knee where he had to have surgery, a small scratch on the inside of his thumb.
General Appearance:
Joe is tall, hovering above and below six foot depending on the day. He has a pleasant demeanor and more often than not has a smile on his face, no matter what he’s doing. Instead of hair on his head Joe opts for a goatee, he hasn’t lost his hair he shaves it because otherwise it would be a puff of curly hair. Joe kept his body clear of piercings and tattoos though he narrowly escaped getting the Rolling Stones lips on his rear on a drunken dare simply because he didn’t have a cash. There is not a day that goes by where Joe is not thankful for that. His college days were a little crazier than he liked to admit. Joe works hard to keep his body in shape and though he is not bursting with muscle he is fit and well able to hold his own against some of the young bloods in the gym, though his knee has slowed him down a little.
Joe has been known to relax and wear jeans and shorts in the summer with a polo or tee shirt but when in the public eye he is all business. He wears slacks and dress shirts on a regular basis though he normally skips the tie. He’ll put a suit together usually when it starts getting colder or when he has an important meeting or presentation. Dressing to the nines is something Joe prides himself on. Never is there a moment when he is disheveled. He expects the same of his peers, though that isn’t always the case. Taking looking clean and neat as a sign of being well put together Joe has a tendency to judge those that dress sloppily. He worked hard to get where he is and often he views his appearance as a reflection of all of his hard work.
Personality:
Joe is determined and hard working. He doesn’t take failure as an option. He’s always had to work hard to get subjects like math and science but he refused to fail them. He is a skillful speaker and as a great understanding of people and how to act around different types of people. Joe is a pleasant person and always polite and cordial. That doesn’t mean that he’s afraid of debate. In fact he thrives on it. He doesn’t accept defeat and has a sharp memory that allows him to call from a vast arsenal of facts and ideas. Joe’s wit is sharp and he started out at a young age making his own decision and became skillful at persuasion. Full of ideas and organized in a way that allows him to get things done and push others to get things done make Joe a good leader. He is never negative about a situation and though he may break down to his wife in the face of a hopeless situation he always keeps his smile and positive attitude around his peer.
Joe is a strong leader and doesn’t show weakness and when facing a losing situation Joe keeps his smile on his face and instead of reducing himself to logical fallacies he skillfully either turns the conversation or yields to his own ignorance and does his research for the next round. He never admits defeat and anyone who thinks that they have defeated him will soon find that that is not a permanent situation. Once Joe has an idea in his head he clings to it until he gets it. Joe’s what people would call a ‘go getter’, someone who makes things happen for himself and doesn’t wait for others to hand things to him. Joe has a good work ethic, something he pressed upon his daughters. For Joe romance was a struggle, he was bold but he was also strongly focused on work.
Your Vices
Likes: his family, politics, law, equality, bananas, snow, cold weather, history, 80s metal, rock ‘n roll.
Dislikes:Meta humans (psychics in particular), humidity, lawyers, apples, math, musicals, Nascar.
Strengths: leading, staying calm, speech, holding up facades, organizing.
Weaknesses: family, weak knee, pushy.
Fears: meta humans in positions of power, his children will marry a meta human, a family member getting hurt.
Secret: Once in high school Joe had briefly dated a meta human.
Family Ties
Father: Joshua Honnick
Mother: Amanda Honnick
Siblings: Angela, younger sister
Any Other Important People:
Wife: Jasmine Honnick (53)
Children:
Lesedi (24)
Rachel (22)
History
Joseph Honnick was born in Ohio to a lower middle class family, his father was a police officer and his mother was a cashier at the local supermarket. When Joe was young he was given a small allowance and his parents were very strict that if he didn’t do his chores then he wouldn’t get paid and anything that he wanted he had to buy with his own money. He idolized his father and strove to work as hard as his father did. Though his father didn’t want Joe to go into the police force and when Joe expressed the desire his father suggested another route. Always fond of English and history Joe went to college at The Ohio State University and studied history. He excelled and quickly became involved in clubs, as well as other activities. College was a very chaotic time for Joe and he enjoyed going out to parties and joined a fraternity. He soon became president of the Speech and Debate team and with all of his efforts he led them to a victory the end of his senior year. With a little bit of work Joe also ended up president of his frat.
Along with mental stimulation Joe was a successful football player, until he took a hard hit to his knee and had to have surgery. He was still a good player but he couldn’t risk the hits anymore so he got himself involved with the local high school teams as a volunteer coach. He loved working with people and found he was good at persuasion and leading. With a degree under his belt Joe then attended law school at the University of Virginia and he loved every minute of it. It was all persuasion and debate and winning. Joe hated losing and so he spent endless hours studying and learning and when he passed the bar he returned home to Ohio and the whole family celebrated the first lawyer in the family.
Joe took his first job as a court appointed attorney in the small town of Pilot Ridge. It was here that he first became really exposed to meta humans. They unsettled him and fascinated him by what they could do. Joe felt a cold stab of jealousy here at Pilot Ridge when he wondered what he could have done if he were giving such an advantage. Joe worked hard and often times his job was making sure those that had cases against them got fair trials. But Joe liked to win and he started winning more and more of his cases. Deciding that he didn’t like getting people he knew to be guilty off Joe quit and worked at a patent office for a few years. Finding he missed the rush of competition he applied for a job in prosecution when one opened. He was surprised and pleased when he got the job and he was successful for many long years.
While working at the patent office Joe met Jasmine, a young entrepreneur who was selling a line of homemade herbal remedies. Taking a chance Joe asked her out and ever since the first day he knew she was the one. They dated for two years and when Joe bent his knee (his bad one) to show he was dedicated to her they were married in a wedding that fulfilled all of Jasmine’s childhood dreams. Joe worked hard to get himself where he was and worked hard to keep himself in the job and successful. Jasmine ended up selling her idea to a pharmaceutical company when she became pregnant with their first child. Jasmine preferred life as a stay at home mother and between the two of them they raised two beautiful and talented girls.
As he aged the sting of jealousy started to turn to a bitter disgust. How was it that he had worked so hard to get where he was and meta humans were practically being given jobs because their power made it favorable for them. Despite this it wasn’t until his eldest daughter, Lesedi started dating a meta human psychic that Joe’s disgust turned to hatred. The psychic filled her head with malicious thoughts, convinced her that she was too ugly to be seen, stupid, worthless, he was the only one that would love her. And when he finally finished with her he dumped her like she was nothing. That night, Lesedi tried to take her own life with pills. Joe was furious and when he went to the police they claimed there was no way to prove it because a psychic trail was hard to prove. Furious Joe had gone to the school up the hill and they claimed they would deal with it, but they were too busy protecting their own that his daughter’s life seemed to mean nothing to them.
Joe’s heart simmered and he had never supported any meta groups but now he found his political agenda turning even more toward the anti-meta side. The hatred grew from the injustice done to his daughter and the fact that meta humans were given an obvious advantage. PUSE was initially a small group of friends who shared his ideals then Joe came to notice that more people shared this idea and using what he knew about people and about the law he built PUSE with the help of a few close friends and soon became a force to be watched as Joe used his skills and others to do fundraisers and raise awareness about the unfairness of the situation. Joe is intelligent though and hasn’t mentioned anything about the deeper goal of his agenda. Meta humans were dangerous and selfish and they needed to know that it was still the ‘base-line’ humans that held the power. There needed to be checks against meta humans or they were going to take over and soon, Joe thinks, meta humans will make metaphorical slaves of base-line humans through intimidation and cheating their way to the top.
Roleplay Example
Joe walked in the front door and after shutting it securely he turned to see his wife coming down the hall. Giving her a kiss he set his bag down next to the door. He walked in a daze and found Lesedi on the couch wrapped in a blanket and watching what looked like a show about teenage pregnancy. “Hey Lesedi,” Joe said patting her head before giving her a kiss on the top of her head. She murmured a hello and Joe frowned. She’d been on suicide watch for the past week and both him and Jasmine were about at their wits end. Every time they turned around she might decided again that she wanted to end it all. If he ever got his hands on that psychic he was going to wring his neck. Lesedi hadn’t been the same since they had started dating and Joe should have realized it then but it wasn’t until he broke it off with her that everything became apparent.
Joe bounced his hand against the back of the couch a few times before turning from his eldest and looking at his wife who motioned toward the kitchen. He’d never had a problem with meta-humans until they made his family a target. His family had never done anything wrong and here they were subject to the mercy of meta-humans. It was not fair that some people be given an advantage over others. Lesedi had been a happy college senior until she met that guy and he filled her head with lies about how she was not good enough. When she had told him Joe had for the first time showed true wrath to his children. “How’s she doing?”
He sat down heavily at the table and hand his hands over his head and squeezed his eyes shut as if to shut out all of the light. He could never have imagined that something like this would happen to his beautiful little girl. The meta humans were terrible, always using their powers to advance themselves over ‘base-line’ humans. He learned recently, that kind looking woman on the weather channel was a meta as well. No wonder she was where she was, her power gave her an obvious advantage over everyone else who had worked hard to get their degrees. They were practically handing out these positions to people because of their powers. Someone had to step up and keep that from happening. Thus PUSE had been born. Joe was determined to make sure that equality stood and that no one got a free pass because they were what they called ‘superior’.
What About You?
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Name: Izy
Age: early twenties
Experience: A while.
How Did You Find Us? Too long ago to remember.
Ready To Play? Nai!
