REECE, JACOB TYLER

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* jacob t. reece ,

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FULL NAME Jacob Tyler Reece

NICKNAMES Called Ty by his sisters

DATE OF BIRTH June, 16, 1990

AGE Twenty

GRADE/YEAR Sophomore in College

ELEMENT Water

SEXUALITY Straight

MARITAL STATUS Single

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[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]

CELEBRITY CLAIM James McAvoy

EYE COLOUR Blue

HAIR COLOUR Brown

HEIGHT & WEIGHT 6'0 & 166lb

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES His eyes are so blue they almost shine. It makes him feel self-conscious, but apparently girls love it. He's also got a birthmark on his right wrist that a lot of people mistake for some shapeless tattoo. Lastly, he speaks with a British accent.

CLOTHING STYLE Suave; Jacob likes nicer jeans, button-up shirts, vests, and jackets. Denim, leather, or suit, it doesn't matter. Even if he's just wearing a t-shirt underneath, he is rarely seen without vest, jacket, or both.

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POSITIVE TRAITS

• Friendly – For the most part Jacob is extremely nice to people he doesn't do. He gets a little standoffish with thunders, and sometimes he'll take it personally when people give him the cold shoulder. But for the most part he is always willing to give a new person a chance.
  
• Outgoing – He's not shy. Not at all. In fact, a lot of people say he's up in their business a little too much.
  
• Patient – Though first impressions matter to him, he cares about his friends enough not get grudges when they get angry at him. He'll also try to deal with crying, though he really doesn't know what to do.
  
• Cheerful – There are very few things that get him out of his happy attitude. The way he sees it, there's nothing that can happen that can ruin a life completely as long as you've got friends, family, and the capacity to smile.
  
• Flexible – Not in the physical sense, but in the fact that he doesn't get all caught up in plans and schedules. It infuriates some people, but it allows him to make a friend at a moment's notice, or stop what he's doing to help a friend in need.
  
• Hardworking – While he does have a hard time focusing on things, he makes up for it by being extremely hard working while he is working. Also, whenever he's doing something for someone else, he will give it his all and then some until it is over with.
  

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• Distracted – He tries very very hard, but sometimes he just can't keep his focus on things. He's not ADD or ADHD, but he still has trouble with things like history, listening to boring people speak, and remembering what he'd been planning on doing if something else of interest pops up. Only using his power is very easy for him to concentrate on.
  
• Hard-headed – Call it stubborn, but you'd most likely but understating it. If he thinks that what a person is doing is wrong, it's wrong. If he thinks that he absolutely has to jump in the middle of a confrontation with several thunders in order to protect a girl's honor, he's right. If he thinks that a fire teacher needs to have worms in his soup, then the teacher need worms in his soup.
  
• Insensitive – Not that he means to be, but it just takes him awhile to...get it.
  
• Assuming – He makes assumption about people based on the way they hold themselves, how happy they are, how nicer they are. This can lead him to say many stupid stupid things.
  
• Reckless – It takes very little thought to get Jacob to jump into something, so he very often overlook the consequences of things.
  
• Cocky – He tends to think that because he's so much better with his element than the majority of the people at the school, he can get away with things. Pranks, careless words, etc. He's a nice guys, but often he doesn't think about consequences.
  
• Temper – no, it's actually not the length of his temper. He's not as patient as earth people, but he has learned a good amount of patience and techniques to dissolve his anger. But when he gets angry he is a firecracker, and it seems to give him an easier time with his power, as well.
  

LIKES

• Small fuzzy animals
  
• Practical jokes
  
• Swimming
  
• Snow
  
• Girls
  
• Writing
  

DISLIKES

• Drawing
  
• History
  
• Thunder students
  
• Losing what he writes because of computer crashes
  
• Dry heat
  
• Summer
  

STRENGTHS

• Fast-acting
  
• Power gets easier to use when he gets angry
  
• Cultivates strong friendships to fall back on
  

WEAKNESSES

• Milk allergy
  
• Any threats to his sisters
  
• Reckless
  

FEARS

• Dying from lack of water
  
• His younger sister's wrath if he doesn't take care of Tasha right
  
• Anything happening to Tasha
  

BEST MEMORY Two years after their parents died, Jacob finally turned eighteen and could legally be his younger sisters' guardian. The looks on their faces is still to this day the thing he thinks of when in despair.

WORST MEMORY The day his parents died. He spent an entire night holding Emilia and thinking about Tasha, who was halfway across the world at the time. He spent the entire time holding back his own tears in order to be strong for them.

LONG-TERM GOAL Keep Tasha away from any war that may break out in the academy

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MOTHER Jennifer Emma Reece (deceased), Therapist

FATHER Ashton Ian Reece (deceased), Architect

SIBLINGS Sister: Emilia Josalin Reece (17), Fire Student
Sister: Natasha Danielle Reece (11), N/A

OTHER N/A

HISTORY Jacob was born and raised in London, England. He lived a rather normal life with his two younger sisters and his parents for the most part, though it was well known among the family that his grandparents on his mother's side were both elementals. His grandfather was earth, and his grandmother was wind. This brought a little tension as the children grew up, as neither of their parents had powers and they had no idea what they would do if one of their children gained some. Jennifer had estranged herself from her rather wealthy parents by her marriage, and thus they couldn't go looking for help.

For the first thirteen years of his life, things went rather normally. Despite the tension, they were are tight-knit family who shared most of their secrets with each other. When there were differences there were compromises—that was his father's rule. Even when they were at each others throats for one thing they would still be able to come together to protect each other from outside hurts. Jacob's hardest times were when he and Emilia had differences, because they matched each other in stubbornness. Only he was the more patient and she had the more wrathful temper.

He gained his powers and letters of acceptance arrived from academy shortly after he turned thirteen, and his parents shipped him off. Since it was a boarding school, they didn't have a good enough excuse to upturn their entire lives to follow him to Canada. He was lonely, but he fit right in with his water classmates. When he was sixteen he heard about Emilia gaining her powers, and was more than happy when she showed up to start attending the academy as well. That gratefulness didn't last, however, because it didn't take long for politics to put such strains on them that they could barely speak to each other by the time the first term was over.

He was seventeen and she was fifteen when the disaster struck. Their parents and younger sister were in a colossal wreck, killing both parents and severely injuring Tasha. It was the beginning of a new grade, but after making sure Emilia could handle the news, Jacob was on a plane to England, straight to the hospital his little sister was staying in. The nine-year-old was severely depressed, but seeing him did wonders for her health. Eventually she recovered, but he'd missed a month of classes, and thus was held back a grade.

A senior again, Jacob went back to the school. He wasn't old enough to be their guardian yet, though he resolved to be as soon as legally possible. That year was a hard one, using every ounce of free time he had contacting Tasha and Emilia, trying to keep them together for the last year it would take for them to be together again. Finally, when he was nineteen, he impressed the right people enough to be called their guardian. He got an apartment and Tasha came to live with him. He had to work a whole lot in order to pay for her schooling, but when he turned twenty he came into the college fund his grandparents had left him—fifty thousand dollars. There were no conditions, so he's using it instead to take care of his sisters.

* puppet on a string ,
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YOUR NAME Marci

YOUR AGE Over thirteen, yes.

RP EXPERIENCE Eight Years

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