▼ IC INFORMATION Character name: Jack Benjamin Canon: Kings Job/Role: Political aide to Aries, former operative
General Reputation: Jack has been one of Aries’s aides for about a year, and in that time has developed a reputation as a charmer who does actually get things done. It’s easy to spot that he comes from a privileged upbringing in his matrix, a crown prince to be exact, but he comes off as something of a mockery of his own stereotype, prone to sarcasm and quick to self-depreciate. Though he may not always seem like it, he is serious about his political goals, and there are rumors he’s a bit vicious when crossed. In the wake of the attack on Olympus he's been a busy bee with the council, but he has semi-conspicuously donated to Anders' clinic and lost his temper at the architect a bit and I maaaay throw him at the Great Harbinger Head Search for network blather shortly.
Prior to politics, Jack started his career in the ZDG, until about a year ago when half his crew was killed by machines. Jack was generally credited with leading the survivors to safety with some degree of heroics. (The reality is more complicated, but also a secret.) His surviving crew mates seem genuinely fond of him for some reason and he’s known to show less flippant dedication to the well-being of ZDG soldiers.
Less known but certainly not unknown is the fact that Jack is haphazardly religious, with a quiet interest in collecting matrix code for early Judaic artifacts and iterations of Torah. (Basically, if you have or can get something like that, it’s not hard to get pointed his direction for a trade.) On the flip side, he is a generous patron of Zion’s entertainment industry, which is to say he would frequently crawl into a nightclub-shaped hole to die if he could, and in Zion tends to seek out its nearest not-really-equivalents with regularity.
Looking For:
Allies! Rivals! Enemies! Bring me your politics.
ZDG people who were around 1+ years ago, who might know him from his slightly more honest soldiering days and/or know (or have been on!) his crew.
Members of his extraction team if your character was around 2+ years ago.
Useful people. You know, for things.
Contacts for his illicit bible merch collection.
Actual black market contacts for smuggling in Irkallan refugees, which Jack is very, very quietly supporting.
More messy romantic entanglements b/c what would Jack’s life be without those.
People to be aggressively friendly at!! Genuine two-way friendship is rare but he likes to collect people and make them like him.
Notes: I am currently trying (and frequently failing) to abstain from starting new things due to upcoming deadlines, but I'd love to make plans for things to start about a week to 10 days from now.
JACK BENJAMIN
▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Jack Benjamin
Canon: Kings
Job/Role: Political aide to Aries, former operative
General Reputation: Jack has been one of Aries’s aides for about a year, and in that time has developed a reputation as a charmer who does actually get things done. It’s easy to spot that he comes from a privileged upbringing in his matrix, a crown prince to be exact, but he comes off as something of a mockery of his own stereotype, prone to sarcasm and quick to self-depreciate. Though he may not always seem like it, he is serious about his political goals, and there are rumors he’s a bit vicious when crossed. In the wake of the attack on Olympus he's been a busy bee with the council, but he has semi-conspicuously donated to Anders' clinic and lost his temper at the architect a bit and I maaaay throw him at the Great Harbinger Head Search for network blather shortly.
Prior to politics, Jack started his career in the ZDG, until about a year ago when half his crew was killed by machines. Jack was generally credited with leading the survivors to safety with some degree of heroics. (The reality is more complicated, but also a secret.) His surviving crew mates seem genuinely fond of him for some reason and he’s known to show less flippant dedication to the well-being of ZDG soldiers.
Less known but certainly not unknown is the fact that Jack is haphazardly religious, with a quiet interest in collecting matrix code for early Judaic artifacts and iterations of Torah. (Basically, if you have or can get something like that, it’s not hard to get pointed his direction for a trade.) On the flip side, he is a generous patron of Zion’s entertainment industry, which is to say he would frequently crawl into a nightclub-shaped hole to die if he could, and in Zion tends to seek out its nearest not-really-equivalents with regularity.
Looking For: Notes: I am currently trying (and frequently failing) to abstain from starting new things due to upcoming deadlines, but I'd love to make plans for things to start about a week to 10 days from now.