Jace Underwood
PART 1: THE BASICS
What is your full name? Jace Mykeal Underwood
Where and when were you born? Born in Maryland on March 9, 1994
Who are/were your parents? (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.) Mother names was Aurelia Riggs, but married and dropped Riggs to be Aurelia Underwood. Father name is Blake Underwood.
Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like? Sister, Bailey Underwood. To him, he’s super proud of her and all she’s accomplished. He thinks she’s hardworking, caring, and nurturing. They look out for each other.
Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people. Jace lives alone in a townhome now. It’s decorated with the help of his sister, but not anything over the top. Lots of white, red and black in his home.
What is your occupation? Jace is a civil engineer who specializes in disaster management. His main job is to ensure that different structures throughout the city are prepared to withstand natural disasters, assess the risk posed to specific communities, and also to help lead rebuilding efforts. He works for FEMA. Due to his degree, he also is able to pick up side contracting gigs and do work to inspect homes in preparation for sale/purchase.
Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks. He's tall with a semi-athletic build, he works an active career so its not hard to stay slim. He weighs about 200 and is 6'2. He enjoys tattoos with two full arm sleeves, connected by a chest piece. He also has tattoos covering his stomach, and legs. His hair is almost always covered by a hat of some sort and his locs reach his shoulders, but are constantly growing. He has brown eyes. He likes to dress comfortably, he's not fancy by any means. Fancy to him is throwing on a designer version of the atheltic wear he is typically donning. A lot of his clothes are black, gray, and white, but he does have a ridiculous shoe collection that he will utilize to pull in a random pop of color. His preferred uniform? Sweats, a hat to match, and white t-shirt, maybe a hoodie/zipup to match the sweats if its a little chilly out. His favorite shoe is the Jordan 1.
To which social class do you belong? Jace is a solid upper middle class citizen. He earns a six-figure salary at his full-time job and does enjoy doing that work. Jace has the ability to make additional money through side hustles (home inspections, commercial real estate inspection) but he hasn't pursued that as his main line of work for his own personal reasons (benefits, time off, etc.).
Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses? Jace doesn't have any known food allergies, but has really bad seasonal allergies. Its one of the reasons he enjoys LA, because they don't flare up as bad as they did when he was a kid. They are triggered by the fires though as the smoke in the air has significant impacts on air quality and his ability to breathe.
Are you right- or left-handed? He's left handed.
What does your voice sound like? His voice is deep. It's strangely southern, but not indecipherable. Most of it is due to the people he hung around in college and adopting their slang. When he's upset, his native DMV accent will come through, but generally his accent is neutral.
What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently? "Nah" "type shit" "Bet" "yo"
What do you have in your pockets? Keys, vaseline, phone, pack of gum. & if its the weekend, he probably got a gun in his waist band.
Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics? When he's stressed, he wipes his hands over his face. He also tends to play with the tips of his hair when he's deeply focused in a conversation. His face is naturally deadpan, which might make some people think he's a lot more unapproachable than he actually is.
PART 2: GROWING UP
How would you describe your childhood in general? Jace generally had a happy childhood. He was a true little boy, grass stains in the jeans, frequently doing little daredevil stunts on the playground and always wanting to be outside. He was forced into being a more responsible, and mature kid at about 6 when his parents had their second child.
What is your earliest memory? Jace's earliest memory is getting ice cream with his grandfather before watching football games on the weekends. His grandfather would often watch him so that his parents got down time, but he loved those times.
How much schooling have you had? Jace has earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
Did you enjoy school? Jace grew up in a pretty high structured home environment, so while he didn't love the academic aspect of school, he did what he had to do to get scholarships and graduate on time.
Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities? He learned most of his skills from his dad. His dad taught him in many ways how to be a man and taught him alot about materials used to build things, it was just something the two of them were always talking about. Jace would be marvelled at the architecture of buildings and bridges in DC and his dad would go into depth about how they were built and sustained. His dad also taught him the simple things like how to cook for himself (even though his mom was the true chef of the family) and how to clean up after himself as a man.
While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them. Growing up his father was his role model until he wasn't. Jace admired his dad for being the head of his family, but when he learned that his dad had been cheating on his mother for much of his life, it shattered the image he had of him. It was then that Jace began to idolize his mother for both her physical and mental/emotional strength. She was the glue to keep their family together.
While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Jace wanted to be G.I. Joe when he grew up. He literally just wanted to be super strong and be able to save the world from bad guys. He got lucky falling into the work that he did, because he literally graduated high school with no plan besides to follow the money, which happened to be at CalTech. He didn't know what he was going to do with his degree, which partially explains the brief but impactful crashout period he had right after finishing college.
As a child, what were your favorite activities? His favorite thing to do as a kid was try to turn his little sister into a little brother, play outside with bikes, and go to the park. He also enjoyed getting to spend time with his grandparents.
As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display? As a kid he was adventourous, goofy, friendly, and energetic.
As a child, were you popular? Who were your friends, and what were they like? He was a well-liked kid, but popular is a reach. He didn't become popular until high school. He had a close friend named Neal in elementary school, and he also had Pop Warner Track and Field teammates who he hung out with and were always invited to his childhood birthday parties.
When and with whom was your first kiss? His first kiss was in third grade with a girl named Mariah. It was nothing eventful, they kissed behind a tree at recess and she was his girlfriend for the rest of that day.
Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity? He lost his virginity in high school to a girl named Miko. He really liked her and they were a real puppy love couple, but once Jace lost his virginity, he turned into a whore. Poor Miko, he broke that girls heart because for the rest of high school he really was for everybody.
PART 3: PAST INFLUENCES
What do you consider the most important event of your life so far? His mother's funeral because it changed his brain chemistry and who he was. He became a bit colder after that, and a bit more reckless. He has since matured but that event made him really lose touch with reality for a while.
Who has had the most influence on you? His mother and sister have the greatest influence on him. He will do anything for their favor.
What do you consider your greatest achievement? Jace’s greatest achievement was purchasing his home.
What is your greatest regret? He feels pretty bad about how he treated the girl he lost his virginity to. That girl did not deserve to get played like that.
What is the most evil thing you have ever done? The most evil thing he's ever done is pistol whip someone because he lost a street race. He split the gentleman's brow open and broke his jaw. He got away with the crime, but it took him a while to sleep peacefully afterwards without thinking someone was out for their getback.
Do you have a criminal record of any kind? Jace has been arrested a few times for reckless driving and violating gun laws. He's been licensed to carry but has gotten caught up a few times with where he's had his gun and the circumstance with which he got caught in. He's never spent more than 2 weeks in jail and his record was clear enough to get him a job with FEMA. They still on his ass about them charges though...
When was the time you were the most frightened? Jace was most frightened the first time he pulled a gun on someone. He had no intentions of using it, but he pulled to regain control of a situation. His fear was that he was going to have to kill someone because they called his bluff. Fortunately, that did not happen.
What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you? The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to Jace was when he got his ass beat by one of his ex-girlfriends old (but not old) boyfriends. Jace had fallen in love with the girl, but she was a little quicker than him when it came to the love game. He called himself fighting for her love and got his ass beat by somebody he should've never tried to fight to begin with.
If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why? Jace would wish that his parents never split up. It started a nasty spiral of him feeling like nothing was real in the world and made him really resent his father. He would change the fact that his father was a cheater so that his mom never felt the need to end their marriage and he thinks that would've fixed all the problems he had later in life.
What is your best memory?Jace's best memory is one of the times he went to Disney World with his family as a kid. He was 11 at the time and he just remembered how happy everyone was. He got to take his younger sister on a lot of the rides, and be his definition of a good big brother. His mom and dad were also genuinely happy, and it was a weekend filled with a lot of love and laughter in his family. They also stayed on the resort, so it felt like an extra magical weekend. Only the closest people to Jace know that Disney World is still to this day one of his favorite places because of how magical it is.
What is your worst memory? Worst memory is for sure the death of his mother. Not actually the day that she passed but the months leading up to it.
