Background
James Carmichael, aka JC or Jace, was born to Alex and Megan Carmichael on November 28, 2048. His father was Elven while his mother was Human. This mixed metatypical background resulted in his own Human metatype. When he was six, he lost his mother to a car accident. Both he and his father were in the car at the time. Paramedics ruled that the death was a result of a spontaneous heart attack at the time of the accident. Alex broke his collar bone in the accident, so James was cared for by Jackson Cross, Megan's brother.
After Megan’s death, Alex decided to immigrate to the Tir Tairngire, specifically Portland. Due to his age, James was brought along. In the Tir James was the subject of some reverse discrimination as a result of his metatype. The other children were, by and large Elves or Dwarves and both groups tended to use James’s difference as a way of ostracizing him. The Elves did more than the Dwarves, often resorting to the use of Sperethiel in his presence. Little did they know that his father had given him some rudimentary lessons in the language and he understood some of what they were saying. His treatment at the hands of his Elven peers is what led to his bias against that metatype. It’s rarely evident, but at times he suffers from a initial prejudice against them. His treatment at the hands of the other elves, his father's distance due to his professional life, and Jace's growing sense of isolation strained his relationship with others and drove him toward the matrix for socialization.
Jace grew up in the Tir until he was 16 and the Crash 2.0. Jace was actually jacked-in during crash but doesn't remember exactly what happened. He remembers something breaking through his high school's matrix defenses--something long, dark, and bristling--and then it's all black. Unlike many, Jace woke up quickly suffering only some minor neurological damage that now manifests as his Scorching. When he awoke, he found out that his father was in a coma similar to that of many. While he awoke days later, Jace took his chance. Having never felt comfortable in the Tir in the first place, he decided to make a run for it. He skipped town out of Portland and headed north only to be quickly apprehended at the border between the Tir and the Salish landsLuckily, the processing systems for the Tir authorities were still fucked due to the Crash so Jace was able to slip away, cross the border, and quickly get arrested by the Salish authorities. They, too, were dealing with the after effects of the Crash. While they kept a better watch on Jace and the others border crashers, they were willing to turn him over to UCAS authorities when he name dropped his uncle, Jackson Cross. The Salish turned him over to an Officer David Decker, a Lone Star corrections officer at the Seattle border.
Jackson -- or Jax to his friends -- was more than happy to take James in. Jax ran a computer technician's business out of Renton and quickly put Jace to work. For the next few years, Jace did odd jobs for Jax and learned more about the matrix and about hacking. It wasn't long until he began to make a bit of a name for himself in and around Renton as a guy who could get things done if they needed doing online. In 2070 -- when Jace was 22 -- he started more serious Shadowrunning work operating for Luna, a Fixer also in Renton. The jobs were usually small with Jace acting as Matrix support for other teams but one of the jobs brought him back in touch with Officer Decker. Decker caught Jace's team red handed but decided that it was more interesting to cause trouble for KE than to get a bust that was outside his jurisdiction. Since that job Jace has kept in touch and used Decker as a source for information on KE activities.
Iconography
Online, Jace uses the icon of a rotund boy wearing red coveralls and a black shirt. He uses an agent that has the same icon but with black coveralls and a red shirt. He calls the agent Tweedle-Dum and seems to refer to his commlink as Tweedle-Dee. His programs all complete his iconography; his Attack is a sling-shot, Armor is a baseball cap (backwards of course), Trace is a Kick-Me sign that travels through the matrix to land itself on the target icon, for example.
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I figure the open-ended jobs that Jace did for others is a good tie in for anyone who wants to have worked with Jace in the past. As you can tell from the comments above, Jace is Awakened, but he's an Adept. If you've worked with him, he doesn't really talk about his powers much; in fact if you don't have the ability to see Astral, it might not be apparent that he is an Adept.
Let me know if you want any tie-ins. I could use the extra Karma to initiate and attune my commlink *grin*
