Post by Jarquia Craven on Sept 7, 2005 21:17:13 GMT -5
Name: Jarquia Craven
Race: Human/Cyborg/Wyre-kin
Affiliation: Shadows of Gaia
Age: ??
Sex: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 156 lbs.
Eyes: Gray-Blue
Hair: Platinum white
Jai’eesh’s younger brother is quite like his zodiac Gemini. His public life and private life are like night and day. In public, Jarquia Craven is the CEO of Craven Industries, the largest technology conglomerate in the world, especially after their hostile take over of Microsoft. He is hailed as a technological genius (even though few know the real reason why), and a very shrewd businessman as he’s tenacious in the boardroom. Somehow he manages to oversee all aspects of his worldwide company without missing a beat, strike fear into his competitors, and makes sure his business is the one to work for as his employees are treated like human beings, not expendable parts of a machine. (Note: Jarquia’s real big into making sure his employees on all levels are happy to work for him. As having once worked jobs where he was “just a number” to the management, he makes sure no one feels like that in his company and are well compensated for what they do)
Outside of Craven Industries, Jarquia is a big philanthropist. He loves funding scientific research of all areas, and when one of his funded groups discovers something of value to the world, he throws huge parties for them so the world knows about it. Plus on the side, Jarquia loves to collect artifacts from all over the world as he seeks them out on his own. He loves to take trips all over the world that are well publicized, but never once has he had someone try to kidnap or kill him. In his apartments at the top of Craven Towers in NYC, his collection is stunning, ranging from antique automatons, to ancient armor and weapons. His prized pieces are a huge silver swan automaton music box, and he claims to have two of Murimasa’s blades. He is however still on the hunt for the Masamune. When he does find a new piece for his collection, again, he loves to throw huge parties as many people try to gain favor with him to get invited in to see his rare collections.
The other side of Jarquia Craven is one that no one knows about other than his sister Jai’eesh and the few close Wyre friends they have. Quiet and brooding when not in public, Jarquia has a storm raging inside of him that cannot be tamed thanks to his past. Years ago, when he was still in college, he received word his beloved sister had disappeared. Jarquia immediately dropped everything and went to look for her, but instead wound up in the clutches of General Ikol (Loki) who kept him to torture his sister with trying to get her to turn into a Griffin for the first time. To keep the pressure on Jai’eesh, the insane God in disguise strengthened their mental link and Jarquia was turned over to Dr. Selvanni to be butchered alive. Dr. Renna Selvanni, a top scientist in cybernetics finally had her dearest wish come true when she was supplied with a human guinea pig to see if she could finally create the world’s first cybernetic solider in Jarquia. Both siblings shared the extreme pain Jarquia went through and instead of pushing Jai’eesh further over the edge, it actually kept Jarquia going and able to survive the unwanted transformation. When General Ikol found out about this, he severed the connection, but that was his downfall as it did push Jai over the edge and subsequently led to her destroying the entire military base they were in and rescuing Jarquia.
Sadly, even though he was free, outside of all the medical equipment he was hooked up too, his body started to reject all the cyborg implants. He was slowly dying, but at the last minute, a very young and strange artificial life from came to them. Jai’eesh and Jarquia named it Narnia and the nanotechnology-based life from fused with Jarquia, saving his life, yet changing it forever as well. Now thanks to the fusion with Narnia, Jarquia is virtually a technology God himself able to insert his mind into the Internet, he is unstoppable. However these new powers have worn thin on him after time, while useful he feels he is losing touch with what it is to be human. He actually feels quite alien around others, except for his sister who reminds him of when he was human and happy. He does wish for love, but he also fears that if his secret were found out they would not want to love an automaton such as he. Thus he is at war inside, but one thing does keep him going and that is to find Dr. Selvanni to make sure she never carries out more of her mad experiments on another innocent soul.
Jarquia has many friends and enemies. His big rivalry right now is with the Oriental Triads. When he first expanded Craven Industries into China and Japan, the Triads thought they could take advantage of the stupid arrogant American. Not so as Jarquia humiliated them time and time again, gaining their eternal hatred. Jarquia does find it amusing that they keep sending assassins after him; he’d think they’d get the point by now.
With the Wyres, most don’t have anything to do with him as he’s still seen as human, even if he is Kin to Jai’eesh. Thus if Jai cannot be in command at the time, it is left up to Lizavetta or Rusty to lead the Shadows of Gaia even though Jarquia funds everything they do (such as he bankrolled both Rusty’s nightclub “The Blue Earth” and The Bard’s pub, “The Globe”). (Note: Rusty and The Bard are grateful of course, but many other Wyres just see him as Jai’eesh’s puppet to be used as a resource. Grateful aren’t they?) He doesn’t mind too much, but he does try to stay out of Wyre politics, except he does like to check on what Zharn’s up to every so often…
Jarquia does have many special powers, but he’s pretty laid back about it, as it’s like a “done that, been there,” kinda thing. When it comes to hunting something, whether it is a person or an artifact he wants, he takes his time as he has a ton of it on his hands. He feels that Jai’eesh, even though she sometimes drives him nuts, is his balance in life and if something ever happens to her, he would lose control over what’s left of his humanity and just ravage the world from there. Thus he’s always walking a very fine line with his powers and emotions.
Pictures of Jarquia (drawn by Jai'byrd):
Race: Human/Cyborg/Wyre-kin
Affiliation: Shadows of Gaia
Age: ??
Sex: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 156 lbs.
Eyes: Gray-Blue
Hair: Platinum white
Jai’eesh’s younger brother is quite like his zodiac Gemini. His public life and private life are like night and day. In public, Jarquia Craven is the CEO of Craven Industries, the largest technology conglomerate in the world, especially after their hostile take over of Microsoft. He is hailed as a technological genius (even though few know the real reason why), and a very shrewd businessman as he’s tenacious in the boardroom. Somehow he manages to oversee all aspects of his worldwide company without missing a beat, strike fear into his competitors, and makes sure his business is the one to work for as his employees are treated like human beings, not expendable parts of a machine. (Note: Jarquia’s real big into making sure his employees on all levels are happy to work for him. As having once worked jobs where he was “just a number” to the management, he makes sure no one feels like that in his company and are well compensated for what they do)
Outside of Craven Industries, Jarquia is a big philanthropist. He loves funding scientific research of all areas, and when one of his funded groups discovers something of value to the world, he throws huge parties for them so the world knows about it. Plus on the side, Jarquia loves to collect artifacts from all over the world as he seeks them out on his own. He loves to take trips all over the world that are well publicized, but never once has he had someone try to kidnap or kill him. In his apartments at the top of Craven Towers in NYC, his collection is stunning, ranging from antique automatons, to ancient armor and weapons. His prized pieces are a huge silver swan automaton music box, and he claims to have two of Murimasa’s blades. He is however still on the hunt for the Masamune. When he does find a new piece for his collection, again, he loves to throw huge parties as many people try to gain favor with him to get invited in to see his rare collections.
The other side of Jarquia Craven is one that no one knows about other than his sister Jai’eesh and the few close Wyre friends they have. Quiet and brooding when not in public, Jarquia has a storm raging inside of him that cannot be tamed thanks to his past. Years ago, when he was still in college, he received word his beloved sister had disappeared. Jarquia immediately dropped everything and went to look for her, but instead wound up in the clutches of General Ikol (Loki) who kept him to torture his sister with trying to get her to turn into a Griffin for the first time. To keep the pressure on Jai’eesh, the insane God in disguise strengthened their mental link and Jarquia was turned over to Dr. Selvanni to be butchered alive. Dr. Renna Selvanni, a top scientist in cybernetics finally had her dearest wish come true when she was supplied with a human guinea pig to see if she could finally create the world’s first cybernetic solider in Jarquia. Both siblings shared the extreme pain Jarquia went through and instead of pushing Jai’eesh further over the edge, it actually kept Jarquia going and able to survive the unwanted transformation. When General Ikol found out about this, he severed the connection, but that was his downfall as it did push Jai over the edge and subsequently led to her destroying the entire military base they were in and rescuing Jarquia.
Sadly, even though he was free, outside of all the medical equipment he was hooked up too, his body started to reject all the cyborg implants. He was slowly dying, but at the last minute, a very young and strange artificial life from came to them. Jai’eesh and Jarquia named it Narnia and the nanotechnology-based life from fused with Jarquia, saving his life, yet changing it forever as well. Now thanks to the fusion with Narnia, Jarquia is virtually a technology God himself able to insert his mind into the Internet, he is unstoppable. However these new powers have worn thin on him after time, while useful he feels he is losing touch with what it is to be human. He actually feels quite alien around others, except for his sister who reminds him of when he was human and happy. He does wish for love, but he also fears that if his secret were found out they would not want to love an automaton such as he. Thus he is at war inside, but one thing does keep him going and that is to find Dr. Selvanni to make sure she never carries out more of her mad experiments on another innocent soul.
Jarquia has many friends and enemies. His big rivalry right now is with the Oriental Triads. When he first expanded Craven Industries into China and Japan, the Triads thought they could take advantage of the stupid arrogant American. Not so as Jarquia humiliated them time and time again, gaining their eternal hatred. Jarquia does find it amusing that they keep sending assassins after him; he’d think they’d get the point by now.
With the Wyres, most don’t have anything to do with him as he’s still seen as human, even if he is Kin to Jai’eesh. Thus if Jai cannot be in command at the time, it is left up to Lizavetta or Rusty to lead the Shadows of Gaia even though Jarquia funds everything they do (such as he bankrolled both Rusty’s nightclub “The Blue Earth” and The Bard’s pub, “The Globe”). (Note: Rusty and The Bard are grateful of course, but many other Wyres just see him as Jai’eesh’s puppet to be used as a resource. Grateful aren’t they?) He doesn’t mind too much, but he does try to stay out of Wyre politics, except he does like to check on what Zharn’s up to every so often…
Jarquia does have many special powers, but he’s pretty laid back about it, as it’s like a “done that, been there,” kinda thing. When it comes to hunting something, whether it is a person or an artifact he wants, he takes his time as he has a ton of it on his hands. He feels that Jai’eesh, even though she sometimes drives him nuts, is his balance in life and if something ever happens to her, he would lose control over what’s left of his humanity and just ravage the world from there. Thus he’s always walking a very fine line with his powers and emotions.
Pictures of Jarquia (drawn by Jai'byrd):
