LANDERS, JACOB WILLIAM |WIP|

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JACOB WILLIAM LANDERS

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Jake Landers | 16 | Gay | Good - Helsing | Student at LA High | Billy Unger[/color][/font][/CENTER]

STRENGTHS

• Determined ::: Being brought up nearly half your life around arrogant or hard hunters, it is expected that Jake would gain some quirky traits. One of them is being determined. He wants to kill evil, and he wants to find out what happened to his sister, and stop whoever killed the most amazing person in the whole world to him. He is the kind to not give up, not to back down which is both a strength, and a weakness.
  
  
• Helsing Abilities ::: Van Helsing is one of them most eleged hunters in history, but some facts were misunderstood about him. Sure he was a hunter and a scientist, but his involvement in the dark arts wasn't determined. He had enhanced all bodily abilities to a supernatural level due to separating the vampire jean from a vampire, and injecting it into himself. This awakened a deep power inside of him, and with the help of a shaman, he created the elixer of life to grant him immortality. But this is a secret, and evil have come for it. Being a 'Helsing', Jake has enhanced senses and instincts, strength, speed, reflexes, agility and precision, both that was called upon him and that he developed with Van Helsing himself.
  
  
• Knowledge ::: Jake knows about witches, demons, monsters, vampires and ghouls. He has been trained to know, and know how to kill the predators of the world. Having this knowledge helps him when it comes to situations to understand weaknesses and fighting vantage points. But also so he isn't blind towards the truths of the world, and he is stronger from it.
  
  
• Musical Capabilities ::: Jake is a naturally born musician, well at least he was born with potential. A good voice, a good sense for technique and he loves playing the strings. Jake would like to pursue music, he really would. It is relaxing, it means something to him but in his destiny, what he wants probably isn't considered. But even after high school, he will fight like hell to have an averagely normal life on top of well - being the apprentice of a century old vampire hunter.
  
  
• Sarcasm ::: Something that he can use fluently. Jake's life might be serious, but if he is with friends he likes to joke, muck-around and get up to some stupid stuff, just remembering that he is young. It is something that he doesn't want to forget, that he might fight ghouls and evils, but he is still a teenage boy with the need to goof around, have attractions and live the life of the American teen.
  
  
• Loyal ::: When he is brought up around commitment, secrecy, honor and loyalty, Jake has a good grasp on the extent that his loyalties lie. With friends, family or those confiding in him, he holds trust and his loyalty to people with great responsibility, and it would take a big reason for him to even consider breaking his loyalty towards someone. He isn't someone to not take a mature approach to serious things such as relationships, friendships and confidentiality.
  
  
• Leadership Qualities ::: Jake has the qualities that make him a good leader in groups, since Van Helsing allocated him as a team leader for the past two years for his potential as a strong hunter, so Jake knows the hardships of being a strong leader and taking the dominant role in hard situations, and making decisive and risky decisions when necessary.
  

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WEAKNESSES

• Closed-Off ::: Who is Jake Landers? Not many people know, because when your entire life basically is built on secrets and lies to the ones you love and care about, it is hard to be able to share who you are with someone close to you. He tried that with someone, and they are dead now. And no, that isn't his sister. Jake closes himself off from a lot of people, and even though he can be happy and bubbly there is always that piece of him held back, and you can try to get to him; but good luck.
  
  
• His Sister ::: Jacinta Lander's died in mid-2012, over ten years ago and that fact always hurt Jake. He was only six, and the memories he had of his sister was that she was caring, and cautious and strong. He remembers that, but his sister loosing her life effected him, and drove him to fight harder. Especially when he found out that Jace was a witch, and they the magic was ripped from her. And it is because of his sister, that he wants to find who did this.
  
  
• Vulnerability ::: Jake might be a little superman, but he isn't invulnerable. Sure he might not bruise or get knocked down as easily as most people, but he can still get hurt and or killed easily. This is where he is vulnerable that his skills and abilities can only get him so far, where he must be focused and has to improvise to make sure that he stays alive.
  
  
• Sensitive ::: He might be tough, he might be strong, but he is also sensitive. Words can hurt him, be sure of that. He feels what most teens feel, alone, sad, empathic - love. He wants what everyone wants, and is not a hard and emotionless guy. He is emotional, and that is what makes him such a people person, because he can relate to them in many ways. Sure, he might not open up to people, but he can give wisedom and advice, but will emotions be a prominant distraction for this hunter, and lead to his own demise.
  
  
• Naive ::: With sensitivity and the need to be strong, Jake can be caught in moments of weakness, and can be manipulated. He can become a puppet and be lead along, which is what happened with the demise of the Van Helsing mission, and the demise of a lot of friends of Jake. He can be manipulated, but he is learning from a lot of his past mistakes.
  
  
• Underestimating Situations ::: As a hunter, Jake can underestimate situations with his kind of invulernable and risky mentality. He is fast and strong, and depends on the fact that he will win. But that isn't always the case, especially when there are other people involved where they could get hurt, where this can be a fatal flaw; if not for him then for someone else.
  
  
• Defensive ::: Jake has the tendency of being irrationally defensive in situations. Not with hunting, but with interactions. If some people see him as a freak, then he will get defensive. If someone is bullying someone, he will step in. It is a weakness on how worked up he can get in situations, including if someone's life is at risk, or he is losing a battle, he will step up his game to defend his ground.
  

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LIKES

• Cross-Bows
  
• Guys
  
• Music
  
• Glee Club
  
• Hunting
  
• Van Helsing
  
• Red Bull
  
• High-tops
  
• Swimming
  
• Motorbikes
  

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DISLIKES

• Blood
  
• Dogs
  
• Chinese Food
  
• Vampires
  
• Demons
  
• Witches
  
• Heat
  
• Silence
  
• Lies
  
• Pain
  

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HISTORY

Do you remember Jacinta Landers? Her friends called her Jace, and Jace was the small blonde that moved to LA to start afresh in college, but her past had a tendency to bounce back at her. Jace was a grey witch, blessed with demonic black magic and white elemental magic, which meant that Jace was one of the most powerful witches in the world. But with power, comes those that will do anything to get it. Thus two witches of her coven, Kyra Chamberlain and Wesley Hunt stripped the magic from Jace, ripping her apart in the process, and lead to the death of Jacinta Landers. While over ten years since her death, people have gotten over her death, there is one individual that hadn't. One person who won't stop until the person responsible for the death of his sister is brought to justice, and that is Jake Landers.

Jake was born on January 15th, 2006 to Claudia Landers and Jack Cargan on the coastal city of Miami with his older sister Jace and a bright smile. They say that Jake was born with a bright smile, and always with such promise in his eyes. He wasn't a troubled baby, but he was often calm and loving, especially when it came to his sister. Jace would often take it upon herself too help look after Jake when their mother would be at work. Usually in some instances, half siblings didn't have a very strong connection, but these two did. They loved each other, and even though Jace was a lot older then him, it didn't matter because they were still so close. It actually was better because Jace was at a mature state to look after him when there mother couldn't. They had a close relationship, one where sure Jake would annoy the crap out of Jace on occassion, but they loved each other non-the-less. When Jake was only seven, his uncle Peter taught him guitar lessons. Peter believed that only 10% of all people could not sing, and he taught him steel strings like a pro. Jake loved it, and kept doing it. Singing and playing guitar; the best therapy especially when Jace moved away from home. He was only six, he didn't really understand where she went. All he knew is that he thought she was going to be happy. How wrong was he?

After a few months when he was busy in 2nd grade and chilling with his mother in Miami, they got the news. His mother found out first, and only minutes later while he was playing with his mini steel string and picking at a scab on his knee, his mother came in and told him what happened. Jake didn't come out of his room for days, maybe a week. He just sat in there, barely ate or went to school. He would just think of his sister, and try to comprehend what happened to him. At six years old, death was very complex. Why couldn't she just come home? Where did she go? Was she an angel? He never got the answers he wanted. Jake closed himself off for a while, sticking himself into music like the little rockstar he was, and being with his mother. He is forever and always a mummies boy because really, who did he have left? He became in words 'socially awkward'. He didn't have heaps of friends, just one or two best friends that he made priorities. He showed loyalty at seven years old, and it has only grown. But when kids would pick on him, he started retaliating and getting into fights with the kids. It was shocking because he isn't a bad kid, but the sarcastic kid that sticks with his own but now when he would get teased, he wouldn't hold back.

When he was eight years old, and things hadn't changed much except that he had a fair few more friends. He was still playing strings, developed a fascination with motorbikes and a big fan of Ben 10. But when he was at school, he got in a fight and actually punched a kid in the face and broke his nose. It was astounding that he could, and he was suspended from school. But this was only the start for weird things. He would constantly break the strings on his guitar, could outrun everyone in red rover, even the teacher. He always one to always get a basket in basketball, and win in most athletic competitions. And he didn't know why, and neither did anyone else. Apparently though, some did. One night when Jake was grounded for getting in trouble at school again, a couple of men came to the house. Dressed in black, all strong and independent - and with a destiny. Jake just didn't know that it involved him. Claudia was told of what Jake was. A Helsing, a gifted and selected individual to hold the power of Van Helsing, one of good's most powerful vampire hunters. Due to a shaman's magic, Jake was given the strength, speed, precision and skills of the Helsing along with many randomly chosen men through the world.

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