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[adoptalizard]

player information.

name: Jen
are you over 18?: Yeap
personal dw: wuzzafuzzle
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: wuzzafuzzle errywhar
characters in abax: Alex Summers, Justin Taylor


in character information.

series: Teen Wolf
name: Jackson Whittemore
age: 17
sex: M
race: Human
weight: 165
height: 5'10"
[OPTIONAL] cause of death:
canon point: Just before Derek bites him at the end of Season 1
previous cr:

history: Jackson Whittemore on Teen Wolf Wiki.

personality:

This seems easiest to split up into two different sections, so that's how we're going to roll this bitch right here.

How He Presents Himself:

Jackson absolutely exudes arrogance. He's a prissy, spoiled, status climbing brat who drives a Porsche to school that his parents bought him and if he wrecks it, that's okay, because they'll just buy him a new one. He's also set to inherit a fairly huge settlement when he hits 18, so that doesn't really help the fact that he's spoiled rotten. He takes no issue with flaunting this and won't be put out at all if you point out how spoiled he is - he's got now delusions about it. That's not what his issues are. At least, not the ones he cares about.

He's detached, rude, cold, and makes a point of being self-sufficient, to a degree that it severely harms him and gives him emotional complexes. Regardless of Lydia being awesome for his social status, he dumps her, declaring her 'dead weight', as soon as he gets the idea that he'll be able to get werewolf abilities. While Jackson can be fairly dense about some things (mistaking what bottle is sulfuric acid, not knowing a puma is a mountain lion), he's actually pretty clever - putting together the pieces to figure out Scott is a werewolf, as well as who the hunters are ("Oh my god, that actually makes sense. Her name, idiot. Do you know what Argent means in French? It means silver."), and calculating in how he tries to manipulate Scott through Allison to get the werewolf bite.

He speaks like a jock, calls people by their last name, asks why he would want to be seen hanging out with you losers, would probably use the phrase 'social suicide'. He's the perfect Mean Girl. He's often snide and sarcastic in how he speaks to people and dismissive to anyone that isn't an authority figure, someone he's trying to suck up to, or Lydia or Danny - sometimes to them as well, most especially Lydia in later episodes. He's generally an insulting kind of smiling condescension when he speaks to certain people (Scott, Stiles, Derek, Matt, most in the show), a smile on his lips and eyebrows raised as he tells them how much of a moron they are and speaks to them like they're toddlers. He's got an inflamed kind of pride and dignity that he carries himself with, and it's obvious he considers himself above other people - a sort of method of convincing himself he's earned all that he is in being perfect and the best of the best.

Now that you've been thoroughly convinced that Jackson is the biggest Jackass in Beacon Hills, I'd like to point out that he can, occasionally, have a soul, as seen with the talk with Allison and some of the moments with her. While he is acting for a lot of it, there are some sincere moments and as Scott points out later, he DOES care for her, at least a little bit, and that's why he agrees to take her to prom. It's also seen in season 2 when he has the talk with Lydia in Scott's house - sympathizing, perhaps empathizing, with her feelings, and he's a surprising kind of insightful in each instance. He does actually care a good deal about Lydia herself, despite how he continually spurns her - he shows up freaked out at the hospital and feels guilty over what happened to her, as well as comforts her and kisses her at Scott's. They dated for a good long while, and he did things for her like watch the Notebook when he really really really didn't want to and have little cutesy moments like teaching her how to bowl. So it shows that he's not all callous coldness and self-propelling status climbing. Even then, the caring for Lydia and giving a shit that Allison not get hurt are not isolated incidents - Jackson, actually, is a well of emotion that he tries incredibly hard to keep down and ultimately it hurts him more than it helps.

"[Parents]: He's always been really hard on himself. it's just something we assumed was an effect of his being adopted... It's the need to please, the over achieving, the desire to make someone proud - someone he's never even met."
[Teacher]: Something's certainly seemed to recalibrate is desire for achievement several times higher. Not to be too blunt about it, but, he seems almost obsessed."

His Motivations:

Jackson is completely alone and it's entirely self-inflicted with the way he pushes people away, but at the same time, it's what he fears most. He always this sense of being on his own and being isolated, but he makes a point to self-isolate and manage completely fine on his own, not even manage, to be perfect on his own. It's a result of his being adopted; feeling alone because of that and wanting to prove to himself and everyone else that A.) he can manage being alone and it doesn't phase him and B.) that despite him being this second hand child, he is still something great to be proud of, better than the kids with proper families and parents. This intense drive and need to prove, the need to be the best, the need for perfection, to earn it, and the overachieving has settled that coldness in Jackson, so much so that he's severed warm ties to friends, girlfriend and even his adoptive parents ("Jackson hasn't said the words 'I love you' in eleven years.").

He's shown to be incredibly hard on himself. There's a couple times in the show he's seen going out late at night to shoot lacrosse balls at a ring or can and becoming incredibly frustrated with himself, even crying at some points. He surrounds himself with people that push him the same - Lydia in her strive to make sure he always wins, is the best lacrosse player, is the most popular boy in school, and he puts himself at the top of the social food chain, being commanding and domineering around other people in his social circle. When he starts to come unhinged with the scratch from Derek or when the Kanima stuff in season 2 intensifies, Jackson works even harder to push everyone and everything away, insisting he handle it on his own and not accepting any sort of help or advice from others.

You might call Jackson dedicated, but in reality, 'obsessive' would be more apt. Once he has an idea or goal in mind, he strives towards it relentlessly and it becomes his whole world, such as figuring out what Scott is, getting the werewolf bite, documenting his new power, etc.

Despite all of this, it is clear that Jackson is full of fear. He's terrified, of dying, of being alone, of being unwanted, of isolation, all things that are a sort of self fulfilling prophecy in how he ends up inflicting these things to happen to him regardless. He's deeply emotional despite attempts not to be. There's several moments in the show sheer terror can be seen in Jackson's expression, and you can tell it hurts the most when he's reminded that no one will be coming for him if he gets hurt or goes missing. He cries, often, probably more than a lot of people in the show, most particularly when he thinks he might die, is reminded he's alone, or feels frustrated.

Jackson is selfish and cutthroat. He'll throw Scott under the bus to get what he wants and not feel bad about it, truly. Perhaps he doesn't really understand the degree to which he's harming people, but chances are he really just doesn't care. He's only shown to really have care beside himself for Lydia and sort of for Danny. He's even witness to abuse happening across the street at the Lahey house and just responds with "Freaks." as opposed to any kind of actual concern. That's not to say he isn't heartless - his emotions are just greatly self-centered and focused on his own issues, not giving a care for others and not believe others have any business caring about his own problems. It's more that that isolationist sort of theory of living he has. Though while he'll ruin Scott's life, he won't do something to straight up put Scott in harm's way, shown during the Prom episode, after he tells the Argents about Scott, he says "you promise you won't hurt him" and asks what they plan to do with him.

So all in all, Jackson is an arrogant, spoiled brat of a teenager who will do a lot to get ahead in life, but does actually have his limits and occasionally has a whole lot of a soul, as much as he'll deny it or try to convince you otherwise.

abilities/powers:

Aside from some really annoying hallucinations and neck pains due to a scratch Derek Hale gave him while dying from wolfsbane poisoning, he's pretty much your normal human teenager, albeit an awesome lacrosse player.

first person sample:

[ A tuft of perfectly styled brown hair pokes into view of the screen as a wry expression pulls onto teenage features. Jackson doesn't seem to be aware of the phone to his side as of yet. ]

Oh ha ha. Real freaking funny, McCall. Your prank pulling days have definitely come to a sub-par middle. A sub-par and mentally questionable middle, because who takes someone's clothes and sneaks into a hospital in the middle of the night to hide them in a morgue? Some one with weird and disturbing closet hobbies and serious developmental damage...

Seriously, I think the whole teen werewolf thing is poisoning your sense of what's socially acceptable. If you had that to begin with...

[ There's a pause and Jackson swallows dryly, glancing around, eyes blinking rapidly a couple times. ]

...McCall? Stillinski? [ A beat, and his voice only echoes blankly off the morgue walls. ] ...Anyone?

[ Something akin to fear filters into the expression and Jackson's tone finally shakes slightly, the last admission much weaker than the wry sarcasm he started out with. ]

...Hello?



[[ Because intro entries are not the greatest for judging voice, here's a dear-mun entry ]]

third person sample:

Jackson wakes chilled to the bone, and as his senses slowly adjust, taking in the darkness, the enclosed space, hands slowly roaming to the sides to feel at the walls, there's a steady growing terror that crawls up his spine like icy fingers dragging sharp nails.

He panics.

Banging on the walls, he yells, calling out to the room outside of the cold, metal box he's found himself trapped in - almost coffin-like, not something he wants to consider at the moment but it filters in regardless. "Hello!? Is anyone out there?! Let me out! Hey!"

He begins to hyperventilate as feet bang against the door of the freezer, an ache coming to his throat from the frigid air against the muscles raw from yelling and something else - a lump coming to form in his throat as no answer comes, absolutely nothing from beyond the dark walls. Alone, abandoned, and Derek's words ringing in his head - no one coming to save him. He thinks, did he tell anyone before leaving for Derek's? No. His parents didn't know, he doesn't talk to Lydia anymore, and like hell he'd be filling Scott or Stiles in. The last thing he recalled was stepping through the creaky, scorched door of the Hale house and it had been so easy for Derek, Alpha now, to do whatever he pleased to him. He'd never been more vulnerable, with nothing but a cheap declaration of saving him to defend him. "Please... Please, I don't want to die in here! Let me out!"

Regrets filter in; things he never did, stuff he never apologized for, never telling his parents he loved them, never finding out about his real parents. A cool wetness comes to his cheeks and the last word is whispered to the shadowed emptiness of the freezer, a desperate plea, pitiful and quiet. "Please..."

case no: randomize :O