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The Basics
Agent Jay, formerly James Darrel Edwards III, is a regular human at the age of 32. He's straight, but with his last girlfriend being shot up into space to save the planet, he's probably not looking any time soon. Jay is an outsider to this Manhattan, so no doubt he'll be confused about what the hell is going on and where his headquarters is.
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What makes him look good
Jay is use to blending into Manhattan, taking on the appearance of a business in any weather, in any season. He is a MIB agent, after all, and because of it, he dresses nearly 37/7 in a black suit. He makes it look good too, the whole thing: black shoes, socks, jacket, pants, and tie. The only bit of white on him is the shirt beneath, as Jay himself is a black man, keeping dark hair cut very low. His eyes are brown, and over the years of working at MIB they have lost a show of emotion within them. He does, however, know how to show sadness.
While he’ll lose them, presumably, with his arrival in this ‘other’ Manhattan, Jay generally will carry around a pair of sunglasses, and although he rarely actually uses them to keep out sunlight, he’ll probably be picking up a new pair anyway.
…and he has no fingerprints.
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Just a rumor, the 'them' and 'they'
Personality-wise, Jay is, first and foremost, very sarcastic. He does not hold back, and he doesn’t care to hold back. It’s how he deals with work – both people and aliens, and it’s hardly going to change anytime soon. He does have a soft spot for woman, of course, although with his job he’s learned that meeting new people can often be unfair, and sometimes not getting ‘emotionally involved’ (as Kay would put it) is the better course. It doesn’t mean he won’t, though.
As an MIB agent, Jay has grown into being a leader. His mentor (for a grand total of two days, unfortunately) was the top agent, the best of the best, of MIB and Jay replaced him. Because of that, he sunk into the role and the job became his life and he saw fit to free anyone else from the job that didn’t seem like they were enjoying it, or couldn’t handle it; that was his way of helping people.
Although to everyone else he seemed colder and uncaring, as if he would neuralyze anyone he thought screwed something up.
Jay’s personality improved when Kay returned to being an MIB agent, but then Jay also fell away from being a leader and was, more or less, in Kay’s shadow. On the plus side he became a more tolerable person, and on the downside he was making rookie mistakes that in all reality… he shouldn’t have been.
But Jay is rash, impatient, vocal, and dead honest. He has far better people-skills than his partner, and a caring heart for those he thinks deserves it.
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| | Abilities and Weaknesses
Jay is use to having an arsenal at hand and will be horrified to learn that his HQ at Battery Park doesn’t exist. Without his guns though, Jay has a strong survival instinct. It helps that he’s young and full of energy; he’s fast and could probably outrun the crabs completely if he didn’t have the effects of the city.
He can, however, still take quite a beating. And keep getting up once or twice. His determination generally outweighs his thoughts on if he can actually survive a situation, but he’ll put his life on the line to stop an alien invasion, or anything to remotely do with the destruction of his planet. It happens a lot. His body is use to being beaten and broken, healed up again, and then banged up again.
Finally, he has gotten quite skilled with basic computers, as he’s been mostly working (and getting headaches) from the higher tech ones in MIB. So he’ll probably be snooping hacking most people.
Of course, that determination does come back and bite him. Because of this-Manhattan putting an odd weakness over him, Jay won’t know his limits as well as he is use to, and is bound to get himself in quite the mess. He also is use to having an assortment of weapons and technology at his disposal – unfortunately, now he doesn’t.
Now, it may not necessarily be a weakness, but Jay will be keeping unique hours. Everyone at MIB runs on a thirty seven hour day.
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| | History
The MIB agent was not always known as “Jay.” For a long time he was James Edwards, a man who worked in the NYPD. His skills had been taken note of when one night he chased down a cephalopoid (who he thought was a human with eye problems); he was the only one to keep up with the kid, racing through streets, jumping onto a bus, and continuing on until he cornered the kid atop a building. The kid, terrified, babbled on about “He’s coming” and blinked another set of eyelids before throwing himself off a building.
James had a hard time explaining the situation to his superiors. With good reason, they wouldn’t believe him. Instead, he got a chick from the morgue that believed him, and shortly after, a man in a black suit. A man who seemed to completely understand him, although he seemed very… strange regarding his questions about what happened. He took James to Jeebs’ pawn shop to get him to identify the gun that the cephalopoid had used, but Jeebs’ wasn’t entirely willing to part with the information until Kay shot his head off, causing James to freak out and draw a gun on him, the situation growing weirder when Jeebs’ head grew back. James pointed out the gun and they were on their way outside, Kay explaining about aliens and how he wouldn’t remember anything by morning. Before James can really say that you just don’t forget that sort of thing, Kay neuralyzes him and James’ head clears to find himself in a restaurant with Kay laughing over his own joke. Kay gives him a card with an address and tells him to “be there or be square” before he’s off.
James finds himself in Battery Park, apparently late, to a meeting of “the best of the best.” Little did he really know what he was being recruited for. They were run through several tests and James stood out with his personality and bright colors and the way he saw the world, but in the end Kay still chose him. While he still thinks that Kay is insane and in need of a CAT scan, his mind changes when the man goes to get coffee and the “worm” aliens are in the room.
He’s given time to think his decision over, and by morning he’s made up his mind and he returns. He loses his identity – fingerprints, his name… He becomes Agent Jay, and he doesn’t have long to get use to the job before they’ve got a bug (a giant cockroach, who takes the skin of a man as a disguise) on the planet, a dead prince, and a galaxy that needs finding before their planet is destroyed.
Sounds like a fun few days, doesn’t it?
They realize that the galaxy is on the collar of the dead prince’s cat that was hanging around the morgue, but the bug reaches the same conclusion moments before them and escapes with the galaxy and the woman from the morgue, Laurel, to find a way off the planet. MIB has his ship though, and closes off any way that he could escape, only Jay remembers that the saucers in Queens are real ships and the pair are quickly off.
They shoot down one of the ships and the bug stumbles out angrily. When told to put its hands on its head, the bug rips off the skin and knocks the partners aside. After eating Kay’s gun, he tells Jay to make sure the bug stays on this planet and before Jay can even put up a fuss, Kay gets himself eaten. Determined, Jay puts up a fight and all his attempts are flawed until he finds himself thrown against a rusted dumpster, where out fall a handful of roaches. Jay’s eyes widen in realization and he steps on one, the crunch resounding all the way to the escaping bug, and after another few crunches, it angrily returns back to the surface to put an end to Jay – when Kay’s gun charges and he blows his way out from the inside.
Kay calls Zed saying they got the galaxy and while reminiscing about the past, the bug reforms and once again nearly eats Jay, only to be blasted apart again… by Laurel.
Returning to headquarters, Jay tries to convince Kay not to neuralyze Laurel – she did save their lives, after all. He takes out the small device anyway and when Jay can’t understand, Kay says that it isn’t for her, but for himself. He hadn’t been training a partner, but a replacement. Jay neuralyzes Kay and takes Laurel on as a partner.
Five years later, Jay is still at work... and with a new partner, who doesn’t last long. After having a mess up with a giant worm named Jeff, Jay saves a train of people and then takes his partner, Tee, for pie, where the man has a breakdown exclaiming that he’s going to be neuralyzed. Jay does. He returns to headquarters alone, where he seems to have adjusted to his new role quite well, although he’s gained a reputation of neuralyzing MIB personnel, worrying many of the people he comes across on his way to Zed’s office.
Zed is determined for him to have a partner, and the alien, Frank (disguised as a dog) becomes his new one. Jay immediately asks for more work, and though Zed is reluctant to give it at first, Jay wins out in the end and is sent to a pizzeria where a murder of an alien had occurred. He questions a female witness, who he immediately falls for, and later makes up some excuse to keep from neuralyzing her. He moves onto a park where MIB personnel quarantined a section off. The witness, Laura, had spoken about the Light of Zartha and Jay is looking over a ship that Zed mentions is Serleena’s – all of which is impossible. The problem was solved long ago, and the only agent that knows anything about it… is a neutral.
Kay.
Jay gets to him before Serleena can. He finds him as “Kevin Brown” in a post office. He tries to explain his case (and really he should have remembered when Kay first explained MIB to him) and is recommended a mental health clinic. He follows Kay into the back and quickly reveals that the only reason that he’s comfortable there is because all the workers are aliens. Jay does manage to convince him to go with him (although he got a punch in the face after mentioning his wife.
After returning to headquarters, Jay is completely overlooked, already in Kay’s shadow even if Kay still has no idea what’s going on. He takes the man to deneuralyzation, but MIB is breached by Serleena and they flush themselves out of MIB. The only other deneuralyzer is in Jeebs’ shop. Figures. They manage to get Jeebs to work it, and afterwards Kay stumbles off (Jeebs pleads with him that his brain needs time to reboot). The shop is broken into, cronies sent by Serleena in search of Kay – Jay explains that Kay is a neutral and he’s the “trigger-happy” replacement. They decided that if he’s useless, they’ll kill him, but Jay is luckily saved by Kay, who seems to be back.
But he has no idea about what’s going on.
They go back to the scene of the crime after deeming MIB a trap. Kay is annoyed that Jay didn’t neuralyze Laura (among other things), but it goes forgotten after Jay realizes that his partner left clues for himself. Jay keeps Kay from neuralyzing Laura and takes her to stay at the worm’s place, on suspension for stealing from the Duty-Free Shop. He gets a kiss from her before he leaves, and then leaves to meet up with Kay again.
Grand Central Station is their next destination, hoping to find another clue inside. A small gathering of tiny aliens live inside. They return to him a watch (with 59 minutes left on it), and an outdated video store card. At the store they find he reserved a video that he never picked up – entitled “Mysteries in History: The Light of Zartha.” Watching it, the quality is low, but Jay realizes that it jogged Kay’s memory, and as it plays on, Kay corrects the little details of what happened. It was the only time he ever saw Kay show any real emotion.
The light was hidden on Earth, never sent off the planet like it should have. Jay neuralyzes the video pair and catches up with Kay – again (see a pattern here?). Over the communicators, he checks with Laura – who has a bracelet that is now glowing for the first time, and then with Frank (although what they don’t know is that Serleena mimicked his voice).
They arrive at the worm’s place to find Laura gone and the worms in pieces. The worms pull themselves together and go with the pair to retrieve some weapons in a secret compartment at a family’s apartment, and then are finally off to their headquarters. They part ways in the elevator – the worms to shut the power off, Jay to get to Laura, and Kay to… well, deal with Serleena. Kay tells Jay not to come back for him.
Jay faces down Jarra, an old enemy that he locked away for trying to steal Earth’s ozone. Small (literally) problem; Jarra made mini clones of himself. Jay fights them all off, saving Laura from launching off the planet. He, of course, goes back for Kay and saves him from Serleena. Pressed for time, they check her glowing bracelet which shows the departure place for the light (to return to Zartha) and the three rush from headquarters to it, chased down by Serleena in a ship.
After warnings about a certain red button that Jay desperately tells his partner not to press, their vehicle transforms into a flying craft modified to hyperspeed and they rocket into the sky. Jay takes control from Kay and leads them down into the subway, and although it leaves them no space to dodge the fire, Jay quickly locates Jeff the giant worm, just missing his teeth, and skidding passed as Jeff eats Serleena’s ship.
They make it to the departure point, and annoyed, Jay asks Kay about the light and where it was… and he points at Laura. Neither of the pair understand and Jay takes notice of their surroundings, realizing that Kay is right, and he slumps against the car, realizing that he’ll have to let her go, and that it never seems to be fair.
Jeff rises high above the building from a glass window and angrily Jay tells him to get back in the subway, when Jeff’s head explodes to reveal the serpentine head of Serleena. Jay jumps out in the way of Serleena’s attack on Laura and gets tangled up in her appendages, fighting them off with teeth and fists, yelling at Kay to help him out until Kay finally focuses on shooting him free. Jay sadly watches Laura go, and a wounded Serleena tries to give chase; the partners go for their guns to finish her off. Jay asks why Kay didn’t tell him about Laura and Kay asks “Would you have let her go?” to which Jay has no response to. They head back to the car, Jay wondering if Laura is Kay’s daughter but hardly gets a question out before Kay says something about cleaning up MIB. Jay complains that most of the city just saw what happened and they need to think out a plan, and Kay stops him by putting on his glasses (Jay doing the same, although confused), and he presses a button on his watch that neuralyzes the whole city from the Statue of Liberty.
Jay exclaims he wants one of those, and they head back to headquarters.
Days later, Jay found himself waking up at dawn in a tree outside. Last thing he had remembered, it was night, and he was on the streets a good deal away from headquarters.
So… what the hell?
And Manhattan is a mess.
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Her personal journal is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) spiritsshadow, and her writing journal ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) justsleepwalkin has been fairly quiet, but her characters entertain themselves and keep their own spark together role-playing with themselves at dreaminsanctity. She would also like to note that the journal's layout is done by introject. |
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