Jefferson McIntosh

[Jeff McIntosh]

The Basics

Name: Jefferson Patrick McIntosh
Nicknames: Jeff
Age: 17
Orientation: Ace spectrum-- he hasn’t thought about this much beyond the fact the idea of sex makes him super uncomfortable, please don’t make out in front of him oh my god. And romance, well, who knows? Just don’t ask him to think about it right now because that involves (shudder) feelings.
Desired Rank/Job: Student
Powers: Clairaudience -



Jeff hears voices. Anything he hears is something that someone is actually saying at that point in time. If he concentrates hard enough he can build up mental shields to keep from overhearing things, but that’s a skill he has great difficulty with. He can, however, tune out all the voices if he’s focusing intently on something (in much the same way people tune out whatever is going on around them while they are focused.)



He can only hear voices within a 5 mile radius of wherever he is currently standing. Which voices he hears is typically at random, although if he knows where someone is supposed to be and concentrates in that direction he can sometimes manage to hear some of their conversation.



He can only hear human beings vocalizing. He can’t hear animal noises, or the sounds of vehicles and appliances, or the waves lapping on the beach, and as such he couldn’t place where someone is supposed to be just by hearing their conversation. He can, at times, estimate in what direction something came from but only with difficulty. Unless he recognizes a voice as someone he has heard before he won’t know who is speaking, either. The voices he hears are disembodied; no suggestion of what someone looks like is present.



Hearing a constant stream of voices leads to headaches (often of the migraine variety) and sometimes if someone comes up behind him and speaks to him he doesn’t realize they aren’t a product of his power and that he needs to turn around. Conversely, sometimes he hears voices and turns around to see who is speaking and nobody is there. There is a sense of never being truly alone, which is difficult for an introvert.
Play By: Blake Jenner

The Details

Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Any Piercings? no
Any Tattoos? no
Any Scars? just the usual from rough and tumble play
General Appearance: Jeff is decidedly average in every way. He’s 5’9, with brown hair in a mop top and dark brown eyes. He’s in excellent shape due to years of soccer and football and general activity. He tends to wear distressed jeans, sneakers that are so old and beat up he should probably throw them out, t-shirts emblazoned with either sports teams or bands he’s seen in concert, and hoodies -- preferably his old ‘Bama hoodie, which his mother keeps trying to throw out.

If his shirts aren’t entertainment related then he goes for solid colors. He’ll occasionally be found in patterns, either because his mother bought him something and it was the only clean shirt he had, or because it’s houndstooth and he simply couldn’t resist.

Personality: Jeff is a generally quiet person. He prefers to have one or two close friends to having a large group to socialize with, and he’s not prone to talking to people unless it’s immediately obvious that they have something in common. He doesn’t like being the center of attention unless he’s on the field, which he maintains is not the same thing at all.

He’s also a very physical person; even when off the field he likes to roughhouse with his friends. Sitting still is very difficult for him, and if he’s forced to sit for long periods of time he ends up fidgeting endlessly: drumming his fingers or his pencils or kicking the desk in front of him.

He enjoys pranks and can be easily convinced to go along with most of them. He’s not malicious about it but doesn’t always think about how the person on the receiving end will feel about it and so sometimes pulls mean ones out of thoughtlessness. Understanding other people’s point of view is a skill he simply hasn’t put much time into.

In fact, a lack of impulse control and acting without thinking is perhaps one of his greatest weaknesses. He doesn’t engage in very much introspection largely because he’s not comfortable with emotions (either his own or other people’s) and he tries to deal with them by acting, and hoping that acting will make them go away. If he argues with a friend he’ll be upset, but he’s never sure how to go about apologizing or talking about it. So he usually doesn’t, and hopes that eventually everything will be fine again. Occasionally, if he senses that he really did mess up enough that his friend might cut him off, he’ll offer a very awkward and uncomfortable apology, but it’s usually clear he’s not entirely sure what he’s doing.

He’s not necessarily an aggressive person, but he won’t hesitate to punch someone if he thinks they’re being hostile towards himself or his friends. He’ll also punch someone if he thinks they’re being mean to a girl, because he has a misplaced and somewhat grudging sense of chivalry.

He’s been raised to understand that he is supposed to protect women because they are vulnerable and frail and need men. Jeff absolutely resents this fact in every single way, and as a result prefers to spend as much time without women as possible. He considers them an intrusion on his testosterone ruled world and he would be happy to have nothing to do with them ever again. He doesn’t want them to make him a sandwich; he just wants them to go away so he doesn’t have to hold the door open or help them reach things off the tallest shelves. Because he will absolutely do those things, and he will do them while rolling his eyes and complaining.

The most frustrating part of Hammel to him is that the sports teams are co-ed, which he is convinced means he has to go easy on the girls on the team. One of his female teammates beat him up for voicing this opinion once, when he was new to the school, but this did not manage to break him of his misogyny.

As a result, he’s also uncomfortable with men who present themselves in a way that’s coded feminine, because he can’t handle less rigid gender roles. Coded feminine does not extend to gay; he doesn’t care who his friends want to make out with, as long as they don’t make out with those people in front of him.

Your Vices

Likes:
alt rock music (although he’s more likely to use labels like post punk, post grunge, shoegaze, or psych rock)
+ soccer
+ SEC football
+Bear Bryant (Jeff is deeply saddened that this legendary figure died before he was born and speaks of him with great reverence)
+ houndstooth
+ texas pete on literally everything (especially oreos)
+ dancing in very tiny venues with no air conditioning.
+ camping
+ hiking
+ basically anything that involves sweating
Dislikes:
-anything and anyone he deems “girly”
-public speaking
-inactivity
-emotions
-apologizing
-accidentally hurting someone
-homework
-although he’s physical with his friends/siblings, he’s so uncomfortable with PDA (regardless of the gender/sexualities involved)
Strengths:
+athletic
+stubborn
+very fast - he plays wingback on his soccer team and defensive tackle in football
+he actually has a fairly nice singing voice, but most people only hear this if they’re his friend and he’s singing along to the radio
+High pain tolerance
+If he’s invested in something he’s very focused
Weaknesses:
-sexist
-unreliable (unless you’re his team)
-careless
-zero introspection
-ignores his problems
-stubborn
-tendency to daydream (mostly about playing sports professionally)
Fears:
-any problem he can’t ignore
-friends leaving him because they join at the hips with their girlfriends
-That he has no skills outside of sports so he’s going to be stuck in a minimum wage job
-He has a little insecurity about being so tall, because the average height for professional soccer players skews short

Secret: not really

Family Ties

Father: Howard McIntosh - plumber
Mother: Helen McIntosh - stay at home mom/mommy blogger
Siblings: Nicholas Evan McIntosh (19), Joseph Emory McIntosh Joelle Emily McIntosh (age 15), David Samuel McIntosh (13)
Any Other Important People:a husky named Bear. He misses his dog the most.

History

Jeff has so far lived a comfortably middle class life with his parents and three siblings. He was always especially close with his father, whom he idolizes and who has been a pervasive influence on his life: His father coached his youth soccer team, and his father attended ‘Bama, and his father listened endlessly to the alternative rock station. He also idolizes his older brother Nick, but the two of them have always had a more contentious relationship. They roughhouse, yes, but they also actually fight, because Nick enjoys teasing all of his younger siblings and Jeff doesn’t always appreciate that.

Nick is in many ways Jeff’s opposite: He’s studious, and a bit of a mama’s boy but one who has always had a way with the ladies. He’s now in college with ambitions of med school in his eyes, and he’ll probably succeed, because he always seems to succeed at anything he puts his mind to.

Jeff has a much more difficult time with school, even when he tries, and so he largely doesn’t unless it’s going to impact his ability to play on one of his teams.

Although his mother stayed home with her children, Jeff never had quite the same relationship with her that he does with his father. She’s overly demonstrative in her affections in a way he finds embarrassing (as opposed to giving noogies and punching people in the shoulder). Also, she blogs about her family, which means she publishes information about him on the internet and as a generally private person he finds this uncomfortable. At least she has the decency not to use any of her children’s names.

He also loves his younger siblings (although he is as of yet unaware that one of them is a sister) and when he lived at home he roughhoused with them as much as he did Nick, although there was a little less teasing and more protecting involved in their relationship.

When he was 11 years old he began hearing voices. Sometimes they were the voices of his family or other people he knew; sometimes they were voices he didn’t recognize at all. His concentration on the field began to suffer, which worried everyone who cared about him (or winning), but he wouldn’t tell anyone what was wrong because he was afraid of having a mental disorder. But within a week Hammel recruiters were at their little two story house in Gadsden, and Jeff was taken away to Pilot Ridge. This was a relief for him, as he now knew the source of the voices, and that he wouldn’t have to be medicated or locked away. (He’s pretty sure having to take medication for mental illness is a weakness, which is another reason to not talk about feelings, ever.)

He was disappointed by the sport’s teams at Hammel; they were intramural rather than competing with outside teams, and they were co-ed. But he needed to play, and so he sucked it up and tried out anyway. Between manifestation and the present day he sprouted up, which causes him a little bit of anxiety, because although it isn’t unheard of for a soccer player to be his height they’re more often on the shorter side.

The year after he came to Hammel was a chaotic, confusing year. Coach Campbell seemed nervous and jumpy all the time, and then Mr. Tonaya mysteriously lost his vision (in an accident, people said) at the same time that several other teachers and faculty members became injured. Jeff heard that some of them had even been in the hospital! But he didn’t know why, and he certainly wasn’t going to ask them, because that sounded a lot like inviting people to talk about feelings, which he wouldn’t want to do even with adults. (Besides, Ms. Vasiliev was terrifying even with a cane -- or maybe more so with a cane, because she might smack someone) and she was friends with Mr. Tonaya. And Coach Campbell was, well, his coach. And also could control you with his mind, so asking him anything was definitely out of the question.

He’s managed to pass his classes largely due to the threat of being kicked off sport’s teams if he fails, but he’s had much worse luck with controlling his power. Even after six years of practice he can’t seem to get a handle on it, which frustrates him to no end.

He misses his family, especially his father and his dog. He’s lived away from Bear for six years! That’s half the dog’s expected life, which makes Jeff a little sad; he had adopted Bear with the desire and understanding that he would have a constant companion through his teen years.

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