Post by Scribe on Jul 26, 2009 1:35:19 GMT -5
Name: Jacob 'Jake' Tristan Mercer
Height: 6'
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Nevada, Earth
Race/ Species: Human
Distinguishing marks? Scar from hip to upper thigh
Family:
* Isaiah (father)
* Camille (deceased)
* Joseph and Elijah (brothers - deceased)
STARFLEET BACKGROUND
Rank: Captain
Assignment: SS Farragut
Qualifications
Graduate West Point Academy
MACO Specical Forces and Tactical Training:
* Camouflage
* Demolitions
* Elec. Ops.: Communications
* Pilot: Shuttlecraft Only
* Reconnaissance
* Small Weapons Combat
* Survival: Asteroid/Moons - Class I
* Survival: Adaptable Planets - Class K
* Survival: Terrestrial Planets - Class M
* Tactics: Small Units
* Unarmed Combat (or Anbo-Jytsu)
Background and Interests
Jacob or Jake Mercer was born to family with a proud military tradition. As far back as the 1st World War, a Mercer has always served in combat. Although Starfleet became more and more prominent as the military establishment, the Mercers were Marines by choices.
Jake was raised in a very male dominated family since his mother Camille had died delivering his twin brothers. And since Isaiah had no inclination to marry and preferred to keep casual relationships rather than replace his beloved wife. The boys had a healthy upbringing with their father devoting a great deal of time to them. Jake's youth was spent hiking, fishing, learning to shoot and all other activities, a traditional man like Isaiah could teach. The result of which ensured that the Mercer boys were not prone to subtlety however posessing a certain chauvinistic charm.
As soon as Jake was old enough, he was one of the dwindling number of cadets to join West Point Academy like his father before him. Following his graduation, Jake joined the MACOs and saw a year of service before the Xindi attack. He was with his squad assisting a riot on Proxima when news fo Earth's destruction reached him. Bundled on board the SS Yangtze Kiang along with every remaining Marine left in an effort to combat the impending Xindi attack, Jake was apart of the fleet that went to halt the Xindi Planet Killer.
In the battle that ensued, the ship took substantial damage and during the evacuation, Jake was on one of the decks when it sustained a hull breach. Although he managed to escape, the injury he incurred to himself was substantial. Only the efforts of his comrades team to drag him to an escape pod, kept him from being lost with the ship.
As part of the ragtag remnants of the fleet that followed Admiral Teagarden to the other side of the gaalxy, Jake woke up to learn that his brothers had died on Earth. There was no news of his father. Believing he was the only survivor his family, Jake withdrew into himself. He was later assigned to the SS Farragut commanded by Captain Ishiyama in charge of his own squad of MACOs.
However, following the discovery of the Gaian colony after the battle of Acheron, Jake learnt his father was alive. Or rather what was left of the man. A shell of his former self, despite his gratitude for his surviving son, Isiaiah was very much broken. Despite efforts to comfort his father, Jake found that there was little he could do to halt Isaac's downward spiral and returned to duty on the SS Farragut.
Psychological profile:
Bitter and angry, Jake has classic survivor's guilt and takes it hard whenever he loses anyone. He hates Xindi with a passion and feels emotionall disconnected. There is little that moves him any more and has no problem pulling the trigger if the need requires it. Bordering on the edge of homicidal, Jake's only life line is the job. Once an avid outdoorsmen, Jake has little use for any of these hobbies now because they were now unpleasant reminders of his shattered family.
Played by Scribe