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PART ONE

Your Name: Sarah

Desired PB: Brad Pitt circa Legends of the Fall

Your Email: Rabbie20.sarah@gmail.com



PART TWO
Full Name: Jessup ‘Jess’ Greene
Date of Birth and/or Age: 35, March 21, 1830
Sexual Preference: heterosexual
Ethnic Background: English/Irish/German although he was born and raised in America and is American as they can be nowadays.
Occupation: Former Texas Ranger, now running the Barber Shop.
Family:
- Father: Francis Greene – Died of Consumption six years ago.
- Mother: Gretchen Greene – 52 – Alive, living with Jessup and his wife in New Shelby, although currently she’s off visiting her other children. (She’s full blooded German. A lovely lady, at least Jessup thinks so.)
- *Brother: George Greene – 33 – Living in Texas.
- *Sister: Alice Greene-Jones – 32 – Living in Virginia with husband and little ones.
- *Brother: Horace ‘Ace’ Greene – 30 – Living in Texas, is still a Texas Ranger.
- *Brother: Caleb Greene – 28 – Living somewhere in California.
- *Sister: Agnes Greene-Walker – 26 – Living in Tennessee with husband and little ones.
- *Brother: Timothy ‘Baby T’ Greene – 24 – With their ma, making sure she doesn’t get into too much trouble.
- Spouse: Abelinda Greene – 28-29 – Alive, and amazingly enough still married to Jessup after 6ish years.
- Child: Maria Greene – 4 ½ - Alive.
- Child: Lily Greene – 2 – Alive.
- Child: Francis Greene – 6 months – Alive.

*Names and ages can be changed if someone decides to pick up any of Jessup’s family.

Current Residence: Above the barber shop in an apartment with his family.
Appearance: Jess stands at 6’0” even, and is a lean and muscular fellow from his time working on the farm and from his time rangering. His hair is long worn loose, more often than not, and is bleached blonde from the sun. He will get it trimmed up, not too short but just enough to keep him from ‘lookin’ like a woman’ as he puts it. His face is always clean shaven; he ‘keeps up appearances’ for the clients of the shop, letting his wife shave him if she’s not mad at him. Once upon a time he might’ve been seen sporting a full beard, but now he keeps his face clean for fear that his wife might kill him in his sleep for looking unkempt. His eyes are a brilliant and clear blue, emotion always reflected in them. When he smiles, they smile when he’s mad they darken. He typically sports a tan cowboy hat when out in town, and one will find him most often in breeches, boots, suspenders attached, and button up shirts sometimes with vests other times not. If he has to he’ll don a suit but he does so very unwillingly.

There is a limp in his gait, from an unfortunate fall from his horse back about 2 years ago. The horse was spooked by a snake, reared and overcompensated. Thankfully he didn’t receive more injury than he did to his leg. His knee twisted, probably broke and just never healed right. He moves around fairly well but when the weather turns colder he’s a little stiff. He has several scars on his body, a handful from various falls and scraps he had as child, and one on his right upper thigh from being shot by an arrow. Thankfully it wasn’t tipped with poison. He is typically also seen sporting scratches, bite marks and bruises at any given point and time. It all depends on what sort of mood Abelinda is in.

Personality:
Jessup is a fairly laid back sort of fellow, he’s gentlemanly, and does the best that he can with what he’s got. However, when he is riled he becomes as mean as a striped snake, and his wife ain’t got anything on him. He’s used to doing without but likes having. He’s also a state-the-obvious kind of guy, but sometimes things are more than what they appear to be. Or at least that’s Jessup’s opinion. He’s a family man, first and foremost, and now that he’s married (something he personally never thought would happen) that hasn’t changed one bit. He may not ‘love’ his wife in the conventional sense, but he does care for her on some level.

He doesn’t really care what other people may or may not think about him; especially on the topic of him being married to a Mexican woman. He’ll defend her to the very end if it boils down to it. She’s more woman than any man he knows can handle and he thinks he does a fairly decent job of handling her. He doesn’t hit her, unless drunk but he is a mean drunk, but he does pin her to keep her from hurting him more than she already does. He tries his damnedest to be gentle with her, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t get a little rough if the need arises for it.

People seem to think Jessup to be a little slow. He’s not really, he just likes to take his time and think over things a little bit before he speaks. He spoils his children, loves them to pieces and is pretty good at making toys for them. His penmanship and reading skills are less than to be desired. He can read, but has issues with bigger words and will often times seek out people who might be able to help him out. He is a proud man however, and so it may take him a little bit to ask for help. He loves taking naps, which he does so as often as he can without his wife finding out. Although that proves to be hard and more work than it is actually worth. Jessup isn’t really a religious man either, he doesn’t attend church like most think that he should but he really doesn’t give a damn. He figures he’ll go where he’s needed when his life ends.

Likes: Riding, shooting, playing a hand of poker or two, his children, hunting and lazing about.

Dislikes: Snakes, his limp, sometimes his wife, bland foods (he’s gotten used to his wife’s cookin’), big words, and writing.

Special Skills/Weapons Used: He’s a good hunter, and sometimes tracker. No where near as good as the Native American trackers that the Rangers took on half of the time, but still he’s decent. He’s good with the barber razor, when Abelinda can’t work at the store. He considers himself a good horseman as well, except for that one time. While out rangering he took to whittling, something that has come in handy for making toys for his children. There are also some toys for sale in the barber shop that Jessup has put together. He knows a handful of German and Spanish words when spoken. Jessup has owned the same rifle since 1860 Henry Rifle, Casehardened Frame, .45 Caliber, 24" Blued Octagonal Barrel. He wished that he’d had it when he’d been rangering. He also carries the guns he’s had when he started being a Ranger a pair of Colt ‘51 Navies .


Weaknesses: Jessup is a terrible speller, and his penmanship is also pretty dang terrible. While he can do a decent shave, don’t ask him to cut your hair. He was almost killed by his wife for giving her a terrible haircut. He’s oftentimes jumpy, blame that on his time spent with the Rangers. He has a limp, which he personally sees as a weakness. The wolves go after the lame, and Jessup feels that way about himself. His wife can be considered a weakness, just because of her heritage. He doesn’t see it that way himself, but from outsiders it can be taken that way. His family is also another big weakness of his, if anything were to happen to them he’d surely go crazy or just shrink into himself. He’s blunt, and comes off as being slightly rude when he speaks without thinking. This is why he takes his time speaking and people perceive him of being ‘slow witted’. He is a revengeful fellow. It may take him years to get it, but he will one day.

PART THREE

Jessup was born on a fine spring day, just as the cows were birthing as well, or so his ma said. She’d had her ma help deliver Jessup, since Francis was out helping with the cattle with their birthing. Jessup would later hear that his ma had gone to strangle Francis because he wouldn’t come when he’d been called. Jessup had never seen such a stranger relationship between two people as he grew up. They were loving, yet harsh with one another, but when they looked at each other you could tell they loved one another.

The family owned a small farm in Tennessee. There were enough cattle for milk and meat for the family, chickens, pigs, goats, and enough horses for the boys and the help. That was pretty much it. Francis told Gretchen that she was going to give him five more fine boys like Jessup. Gretchen turned up her nose and told Francis that she would have a daughter or two if it was up to her. Sure enough, Gretchen was right and the Greene family grew containing four more boys and two girls.

Jessup didn’t have much in the way of formal schooling. He learned what he could to get by, and his ma taught him the rest. He learned how to read (unless there’s a big word, then he might need a little help), and write although his spelling and penmanship is awful. Math was something he got the hang of though, fairly easy. He was always more interested in riding, learning how to shoot, hunt, and track.

And those things he learned from his father. Francis spent a lot of time teaching his boys the finer things in life. The boys helped their father around the farm, tending to what needed to be done and so on. Around the time Jessup was 14 his father got, what his mother called a knot in his knickers, to go out west. Everyone was doing it, so why not the Greene family? They went out on a wagon train; of course the usual things happened. Births, deaths, and attacks on the wagon train. It was amazing to the teenage Jessup, but he had no complaints. Finally they arrived in Texas, a place called Austin.

The boys helped their pa setting up a ranch, and by the time Jessup was 20 he found a new calling in his life. He wanted nothing more than to be a Ranger. At this time the Rangers were somewhat disbanded, but Jessup felt that the need for them would eventually rise again. He joined up by the time he was 21, and started out on his career as a Texas Ranger.

The years came and went; Jessup saw lots of hardship during his service to the Rangers. He saw many a friend die, and hated going back to tell the women they’d left behind that their loved one had died. When he was back home he’d spend time with his family, helping out with the ranch, but most of his time was spent in the local whore house. He was, as any other American red-blooded male, in need of female companionship after months of being surrounded by men.

His younger brother, Ace, joined the Rangers not too long after Jessup had. Now, he had his brother to look after who had become his ‘part’. Seven years after Jessup had joined the Rangers they were put back into ‘full force’. John Salmon ‘Rip’ Ford was commissioned as a senior captain and Jessup and Ace along with 98 other men were dispatched to begin an expedition against the Comanche’s and other tribes. On May 12, they crossed the Red River into the Native American territories and attacked a village. Amazingly enough there were only four men who lost their lives that day, but the boys managed to kill seventy-six Comanche’s, took eighteen prisoners and got more than 300 horses. They returned home heroes, and Jessup took his earnings to the whore house. He and Ace had both been promoted to Corporals during this expedition.

Tragedy struck the Greene household that summer. Francis finally succumbed to the Consumption that had been eating away at his insides. Gretchen would forever more mourn the loss of her husband, whom she loved so much. Even though she would often say that it was because of his lack of drinking that he caught the wretched disease.

In December of 1959 Jessup was once again called upon by Ford, and they were sent to Brownsville Texas. A Mexican rancher by the name of Juan Cortina had attacked and then occupied the town. With the US Army the Rangers went down, and Jessup took part of the Cortina War. It was also, during this time that he met Abelinda. After they had defected Cortina’s men in the battle of Rio Grand City, some of the boys went back to the Mexican camps and homes to see what they could find.

Nothing was there, and so Jessup left the boys to go do a little bit of hunting. It was then that he happened upon a woman with a revolver, aiming at a jack rabbit. Poor thing didn’t know she was being stalked by two Mexican men who had that deadly look about them. Jessup never really liked seeing a woman get hurt, even if she happened to be Mexican. He shot the two men, saving her life that night as she shot the rabbit. He talked to her, finding her more irritating than anything but he did learn that she’d over heard something that had almost gotten her killed. Her husband had been shot by the men who were after her, and Jessup found out that there were two more. It was late, however, so the two had to spend the night next to the fire that they she had cooked some rabbit stew on.

The next day Jessup had planned on going back to the camp, without her since he figured she could take care of herself. She followed him, and even at his insistence on her going back she wouldn’t listen. He had never met someone as bull-headed as she was, well, unless you count his ma that is. Along the way they were attacked by two other men who apparently were there the night her husband was killed. By some miracle, stroke of luck or will of God, Jessup managed to best the other two men. It was at this point he thought the woman with him was nothing more than trouble, and that as soon as he could he should leave her there.

He tried to leave her there as he made his way back to his company, but he wasn’t that lucky apparently. She followed him, and while he was off reporting she was blabbing to the men about them being married. Jessup wasn’t a violent man, well towards women anyway, but that was enough to almost send him over the edge when he got back.

But he did get his revenge on her.

Against his better judgment he told her that she was going back to Austin with them. Just so she might have a better life. Once they made the long trek back to Austin it was a new year, and Jessup had a plan to get hitched. Getting a preacher to ignore her screaming no wasn’t easy, but enough money can buy almost anything. For the first few days after they were married she was awfully quiet, and then the biting, clawing, scratching and name calling started. Jessup took it all in stride, and ignored the comments from his family that was still living at home. He didn’t care, he had actually grown fond of her over the short amount of time they’d spent together.

The day finally came when Abelinda told him that she was pregnant, it was shortly after Jessup had gotten back from an expedition and had gotten shot with an arrow. He was somewhat happy that he was going to have a family, but his happiness only grew when he saw that pretty little girl in her mother’s arms. It was then that he really started to care for Abelinda, and swore to himself that he’d never let anything happen to her.

The years passed, and Jessup got hurt once again from the fall with his horse. It was at this time Abelinda told him to quit or she was taking the children with her and leaving. That thought of losing them unsettled Jessup, so he asked her what she wanted to do. The baby was barely four months old and he had no clue as to what on Earth they could do.

She suggested going to a place she’d overheard some people talking about called New Shelby. They could start a barber shop up there, since the town was just recently being repopulated. Jessup agreed, and spoke to his mother about this. She had been thinking of selling the ranch anyway, and that she would move out there with them when the timing was right. She managed to sell the ranch, and got a fair price out of it before she took off with Baby T to visit the rest of Jessup’s family.

Jessup and Abelinda headed out to New Shelby, bought the old barber shop there and cleaned it out. It’s only been a week since they arrived, but they think that they’ll settle in just fine.