Jay

Lasher

Jeremy Adam Lasher was born on Kashid 3, a heavily industrialized world mostly populated by humans and Edreeni. His nickname, Jay, is not merely a shortening of his given name. Soon after his birth, father Micah commented that his new son's babblings were similar to the chattering made by bluejays. It stuck. These days his mother is about the only person to call him Jeremy, and then only when she's annoyed.
Jay's immediate family is fairly small- his father is now retired from facility maintenance, and his scary mother Kareen happily putters around the house and spoils her grandchildren. Jay's got four siblings: Simon, fourteen years older, is a college professor of mathematics, happily married to Anita, father of four, and very prim and proper. Jay loves making him fidget. Brother Terry, three years Simon's junior, is a bit of a roughneck, making his living as a mechanic. He too is married, to Rashona, and they have a brood of six. Now, as much as Jay loves to poke fun at Simon, it's his sister Janet with whom he gets along the least. With her high shrill voice, Janet's made nagging an art form. She's an exobiologist with a henpecked husband and two children. Jay's last sibling is Becky, and he adores her. At fourteen, this surprise baby of the family is extremely sweet. (What, you mean five kids isn't a small family? Well, compared to the extended family, it is. Jay lost count of all his relatives long ago, and it seems that more of them pop up every day.)
Now, Jay was a fairly normal kid- he tagged along after his older sibs and cousins; he loved sports and hated to do homework, etc. Then, when he was eight years old, everything changed. He was given his first computer, and it was love at first byte. He devoured every piece of data he could find about computers, then went looking for more. It wasn't long before he'd torn his computer apart, upgraded it himself, and put it back together. In a word, he was obsessed. His computer became his best friend. Programming, building- everything about computers fascinated him. It took a few years before he got into hacking, but that he did eventually was inevitable. Luckily, he was never malicious in that activity. The few viruses he planted under the codename Elixir might play an annoying song on the local school principal's computer, but never destroyed or corrupted files.
At sixteen, Jay enlisted in the Kashid Navy, not out of any particular patriotic leanings, but rather from a desire to work with the best computers on Kashid. It was a paycheck, and he did his duty well, but it was soon quite apparent to him that the military was not suited to him (or vice versa). After his four years were up, he took his honorable discharge and looked around for a new playground. Linnae, heart of the Alliance and home to the Complex, caught his eye, and that's where he headed. Continuing his hacking activities, he took a day job building, repairing, and upgrading personal computers for the locals.

Jay's primarily a pretty cheerful guy- it takes a true tragedy to get him down for any amount of time. Making his way amiably through life, he definitely practices the Golden Rule. Be nice to him- he's your friend for life. Mess with him and his, and you can expect trouble (and it's amazing how much trouble can be caused when one has access to, say, giro account computers...). Everybody gets an equal chance to be his friend. Jay is also quite the lady's man, enjoying the chase as well as the catch. He's rather in awe of women- they give birth, after all, and they're very mysterious critters. Quite gallant, he's very much a charmer. He is, and probably always will be, addicted to his computers, and he can easily spend two or three straight days playing with them. The gregarious side of his personality forces him to venture out to mingle, but he's always got at least a laptop on him. Jay's fiercely loyal to his family, his friends, his cat, and red cans.

Yes, this is Adrian Paul, star of the Highlander television show. He's the inspiration for Jay's appearance. For clarity's sake, here's Jay's desc on Otaku: Tall (6'4") and lanky, this human male is skinny enough that the notion of him being intimidating is laughable. Laugh lines crinkle around his dancing deep blue eyes, and his complexion is utterly pale, testimony to very little time spent outdoors. Lean fingers move quickly, never able to stay still for long. A long narrow nose, heart-shaped mouth, and firm square chin serve to give him what some have called an aristocratic look. His black hair is pulled back into a nape-length ponytail at the back of his head. A sweet tenor drawling voice is only slightly tinged by an Edrilac accent. Always casual, always comfortable, and always in the best clothes available, Jay's lanky form is clad in fashionable but well-worn denim jeans. A billowy scarlet button-down shirt tucked into the pants doesn't quite hide the skinniness of his form. White sneakers with a trio of blue stripes on each side (well, they used to be white) allow him to pad softly through his surroundings.