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Name: Rizzy
Age: 27
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Character Basics:

Character Name: John Young
Journal: darkplace
Age: 26
Fandom: The Tomorrow People
Canon Point: end of 1x13/start of 1x14
Debt:

Class A: 60 years (betrayals and murders/responsible for deaths of multiple people after kidnapping them for ultra)
Class B: 10,232 years (thousands of assaults and multiple kidnapping as an agent of ultra/assault as a defect/breaking and entering as a defect and as an agent/stealing as a child and then as a defect of ultra/fraud for leading a group of people under completely false pretenses/a giant lie so all of these for almost his whole life and he is twenty six.)
Class C: 4 year and 8 month

List crimes you’ve created for your character here.

GRAND TOTAL: 10,296 years and 8 months

I AM worried about my crime count here cause it seems so large .-., but I averaged out 2 assaults per day per year for 11 years (assuming he didn't become a full-time agent until he was at least fifteen), which is possibly low since some days he can assault up to ten-twenty people or more depending on what is happening, which got him up to almost 5,000 years alone, and he really has been doing the rest of these things all his life or for multiple years and multiple times a month/week within those years, but I can talk more in depth about any of these crimes if you need.

Canon Character Section:

History: John Young grew up in foster care. The show makes no mention of his parents so it is unclear if they died or gave him up. John never mentions them either. His foster father was a physically and verbally abusive drunk who had multiple foster children. The foster father didn't feed them or take care of them, and he would often use the money that he got from the system to buy more alcohol for himself. It's heavily implied (and shown at least once) that John would steal food to take care of the other kids at the house. When John was twelve (fourteen years prior to current events in the show), he stole a car which he went joyriding in and food (and likely did that a lot). When he teleported back with the food, John found out his foster father used the fosterkids' money on alcohol again. He tried to kill him with a knife but couldn't because Tomorrow People have a gene inside of them that prevents them from killing people. Ultra found out about John as they are constantly scouting for those that have powers. Jedikiah Price (one of the founders of Ultra) showed up at the door before John could be beat again for attempting to murder his foster father. Jed offered the foster father money as compensation and took John away to begin his training to be an Ultra agent.

John was the youngest recruit Ultra has ever had. The training to become an agent is brutal, violent, and intense. It includes intense training in how to physically fight, how to hack computers and build them, and various other skills that Ultra finds to be effective in tracking down tomorrow people. It is the kind of training that people are killed for if they make mistakes that are too big, because only a select few would make it to become full time agents. For John, Jedikiah was the closest thing he ever had to family or to a father. The moment that Jedikiah saves him from that environment, it is the start of what would be a very manipulative, abusive father-son relationship began that day.

John is not only the youngest recruit, but he would also become one of Ultra's best agents. He is referred to as Jedikiah's star pupil. He learns incredibly painful lessons through his time at that organization, including what happens if someone you care about outside of Ultra finds out what you can do even if you use those powers to save them. Eventually, he signs up for an experiment that is intended to destroy the part of the Tomorrow People that prevents them from killing. He does this in the hopes of making Jedikiah proud of him. It's an intense drug therapy that fries out that particular part of their brain. Almost everyone that signs up for that program ends up dead. John is one of only two Ultra agents to survive it. Immediately, he is asked by Jedikiah to kill someone that he cares about. It's someone who is going to help their species to survive and to live in a safer, better world. Jedikiah tells him that he is blowing up Ultra facilities and endangering lives. John follows orders, but he would never be the same after killing that man. He makes a promise to him as the man is dying that he will protect their people and that he would take up the cause now. The responsibility and weight of that weighs on his shoulders.

However, John follows through with his promise. He starts to build up an underground hideout (also called the lair) with Cara, and he starts it under a false promise that one day they will find the man (that John has killed) who will lead them to salvation, who will create an end to this shadow war. She is one of the first people who has powers that he runs into and the strongest telepath that he has ever met. John saves her life, and though she doesn't trust him, they head back to the lair. Together, they bring in young people who are 'breaking out' and discovering their powers for the first time. These young people have to leave their families and old lives behind forever, and John and Cara and Russell train them to learn how to use those powers. Cara is the first person that became family to him who genuinely cares about and loves him without manipulation or abuse. The entire lair slowly fills up with people that will become the family that John has always been looking for. They fight against Ultra in what is considered a shadow war for their own right to survive and to live freely, because Ultra turns their people into agents, kill them, or rip their powers from them (a process that is incredibly painful and leaves the person being an empty husk of who they were before). They can't afford to walk around on the streets or to have fun. They are always fighting and always trying to survive.

There's more history here of his time on the show as well though I don't think it is very well written so if you need more, let me know. :)

Personality: Despite his incredibly abusive upbringing, John can be incredibly warm. He cares. He is protective of people like him. He is protective of people who have powers. John tends to take on a mentor type of role with anyone who is young, struggling with powers. He is good at teaching people how to fight, how to use their powers, and how to handle their emotions as well as tough situations. John feels responsible for them, because he feels like he failed them long before he ever met them. He feels like he is the reason why their people are suffering the way that they are, because he killed a man that he shouldn't have killed and took away the hope of those people with the powers that they have. It has built in him this need to be the kind of leader that they deserve and the kind of leader that he took away from them. This is why he has based the hope that he gives these people on an absolute lie, because he doesn't believe he is someone that people would want to follow. No, John is the monster. He is the guy that was doing terrible things, but really there is someone out there who wants to take us all to this better place and who will end this war for us.

John, along with Cara, is the leader of the group hiding out under the lair. In total, there has been anywhere between eight to fifteen of them, living underground and relying on him and each other to keep safe. John he feels responsible for all of the tomorrow people including the ones that they haven't found yet. He is a very firm leader. When the rest of them want to leave the lair to have fun and live for a change, John is the one that puts his foot down and insists that it can't happen and that it is too dangerous. It comes straight from his Ultra upbringing and from understanding (in a way almost no one else can) exactly how terrible Ultra and Jedikiah are as well as the kinds of things they are willing to do to someone simply because they have these powers. He knows it so well, because he worked for Ultra. John started out, helping to capture people like him with powers. He followed orders from Ultra without question for years before he finally broke away, but he has seen and been a part of the very worst that Ultra can do.

In some ways, John finds it difficult to exist without those four walls, without having that kind of order that is determined by someone else or by the situation. He fights to end this shadow war between his people and Ultra, but if that war ever ended, John would be at a complete loss as to how to function. All of his life, he has done nothing other than survive. He grew up in an abusive situation where he had to fight for food and clothing. He became an Ultra recruit while he was still a child and his life became manipulations, violence, orders, and survival of the fittest. Then he defected from Ultra and became hunted more than the average tomorrow person, because he already had a file on with Ultra as one of their top agents so he has lived underground ever since. John has never had the chance to want anything for himself (and the one thing that it is emphasized that he wants comes from the mouth of one of his abusers, "You're just a boy looking for a family. That's all you'll ever be.") In the end, he gets this family with those that live in the lair with him in hiding, but again as his former abuser, Jedikiah, points out ("Even they will abandon you"), John is terrified of this possibility. He is terrified that he will lose them (because of his secrets, his betrayals, because he isn't like them) are known that he will lose the only real, true family and home he has ever known.

John doesn't trust human people very much. The Tomorrow people call them Saps, which is a play off of homosapian. His experience with humans without powers has been almost wholly negative. His foster father abused and neglected him. When he returned to fight back against the man and check in on the foster kids that John left behind, he used his newly trained powers in front of him, and he was nearly beat to death. Jedikiah shows up to kill him, and he tells John, "No human, other than me, is ever going to accept you." This is something that has been drilled into him from this moment on both that he is different than other people and that no one would accept him at all. People would fear him except for Jedikiah.

John is a leader, but he is also a follower. He is good at following orders when those orders come from someone that he respects like Cara. If she tells him that she has a plan or that she thinks that they should do something, John will genuinely hear her on it even if he argues her on it at times too. If he believes something else is right, John will do it. It's why he left Ultra in the end despite following Jedikiah's orders up until that last moment. When Cara was voted leader of the group after John's secrets and betrayals came out, John respected her authority without grudge, without being angry about it. However, when they disagreed on something huge, John still did what he felt was right even though this resulted in his getting kicked out of the lair and the group. He has a lot of issues with assassins because he was trained to be one and knows what killing takes out of you ("It's a part of your soul you never get back"). John has a lot of issues with killing and how that takes from a person. After he killed that man, John swore he would never kill again, but in the end, he has to break this promise two more times.

John can be incredibly closed off at times. He has walls inside of himself that he doesn't let anyone through even Cara, which is saying something in a group of people who can all share their deepest memories and have the most intimate conversations without saying a single word at all. The things behind those walls include both the secrets that he has been keeping as well as the pain and the abuse in the life that he has lived. Part of him feels like if anyone were to see those things, they would view him differently. He would no longer be a strong leader but the worthless boy getting beaten or the ruthless killer with the gun in his hand. He would sacrifice and give up anything to fix the wrongs that he believes he has committed. Sometimes he can be snarky and an asshole when he's ticked off at someone, but John doesn't hold on to grudges or to anger for very long if he loves that person.

He will always struggle with his relationship with Jedikiah. Although he swears that he is not Jed's creation or his son, John is continuously manipulated by him throughout the series. Jedikiah knows exactly what to say to John to influence him, and it leaves John struggling with self doubt and struggling with who he really is and what decisions are truly his own in the end. Maybe he is simply Jedikiah's creation in the end.

Powers/Abilities: The Tomorrow People, as they are called in this world (they didn't choose the name, okay?), have three supernatural powers, which they can use to do a lot of different things that all fall under one of those three powers. The three powers are telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. It depends on how much they work on each specific ability as to what all they can do with each of those powers and how much control they have over that power.

Also, some of them are more naturally talented at one of the three than the others so they can do more than other people with those three powers. John's strength is in teleportation. He was able to teleport himself so he was in three places at once in order to cut a bomb off, and he can also teleport over long distances, taking someone with him along the way.

He is also able to use telepathy to read people's minds (both surface thoughts and deeper) though he can only communicate with someone else that has telepathy as he can't project his own thoughts into someone else's head who doesn't have that ability. In addition, he has telekinesis so he can move objects without actually touching them. In canon, the Tomorrow People are also born with the inability to kill someone to offset these powers. If they try, they feel pain that can just about knock them out.

Appearance: Tall, blond, muscular with intensely blue eyes, and absolutely gorgeous especially when shirtless. His face is very, very expressive.

CR AU

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Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

I don't know how to put it to words. Jedikiah is the man who wants to end our species. He is the man who would do anything to kill us or control us so we aren't stronger than him. His whole life, he's been jealous of his brother and what his brother could do, and I always thought he loved him too, which is why--

Jedikiah isn't just some evil. He's not just the devil in a suit in charge of an organization. He is the man who found me. He is the man who gave me food and a roof over my head, and I wasn't used to that. I wasn't used to someone giving me anything. He was the first person to ever care about my birthday and give me a cake and a pocket knife. He acted like my birthday was something worth celebrating, and it was all a first for me. This man who used me. He is the closest thing I've ever had to a father, and I hate him so much.

But I love him still too. I can't forget the times he talked to me. I can't forget that he saved me and raised me. God, I want to. I want to tear him out of my chest so he can never get his hold on me again, but every single time he speaks to me, I'm brought right back to being that worthless little boy who had to fight for everything until he came along and said I was worth something. He saved my life multiple times, and I still remember how it felt when he aimed that gun at me. If it weren't for Stephen, I would be dead because of him too.

I know that.

It's just not simple. None of it. I wish it was. I wish I could put that gun to his head when Cara tells me to and just pull the trigger without caring anymore, without caring what part of my soul is destroyed this time as long as he's dead. But wishes don't change anything.

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