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User DW: NA
E-mail: waningsunflower@gmail.com
Other Characters: Godric, Pagan, Jake, Rags
Character Name: Daniel Jacobi
Series: Wolf 359
Age: Late 30s
From When?: Just at the finale. He was getting his ass kicked by Riemann and set off an explosion.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Jacobi seems to have a redemption arc in canon, but it is not a real redemption. He is the sort of person who will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify killing people, blowing up hospitals, doing whatever needs to be done, in order for other people to do good things. He's the one who is willing to get his hands dirty so others don't have to. And he has fun with it.
Arrival: Against his will
Abilities/Powers: No special powers! He's a brilliant ballistics expert with more than a basic understanding of coding.
Personality:
To say that Jacobi is simply loyal would be a lie. Jacobi takes loyalty and ups it to a thousand and still has room left over for more. The first time he met Maxwell, he told her that he had her back. Within five minutes of meeting her, he has pledged himself to helping her and doing anything he can. And he stays that way.
Throughout their friendship, he is her constant companion, always by her side. They have a sibling type relationship until the very end and that doesn’t seem unusual for him. This isn’t something that he does with just everyone, but this is something he did instantly and deeply. They cared very deeply for each other.
But that loyalty isn't all found family and happy times. His extreme loyalty comes at the cost of his own autonomy sometimes. He will mold himself to fit whoever he is following at the time. When he's working for Goddard and loyal to Kepler and Maxwell, he is just fine taking lives. He is happy enough with ensuring the future of science and technology as long as it means he gets to break things.
Prior to Maxwell's death, Jacobi was pretty easygoing and carefree. He was quick with a joke and loved annoying other nerds to the point of distraction. He does his job with pride and delights in fireworks. After her death? He's angry. He's angry and hurt and everything is harder. Darker. He attempts to force Minkowski to shoot Kepler, playing a cruel game with both of them and delighting into their suffering. He externalizes his pain, wanting others involved to hurt as much as he was hurt. SI-5 has taught him to compartmentalize his feelings most of the time. He's able to take that pain and put it somewhere else. His feelings can usually be pushed away to be examined later. So he took that grief and his anger and rage and he put it away. He hid it so effectively from even Kepler that no one saw it coming. He waited for just the right moment to enact this plan to betray Kepler and torment Minkowski. He examined those feelings and decided, on his own, to be cruel. When Jacobi is alone, when he has no allegiances, no loyalties to anyone but himself, he chooses to hurt others.
He grieves Maxwell so deeply that he even hallucinates her sometimes, talking in his ear. She gives him advice, reminds him about his coding, and while he knows better than to talk to her when other people are around, he definitely acknowledges that she’s around and he definitely does talk to her when he’s alone.
Everything he does is motivated by that grief masked by anger. He chooses sides, forms loyalties, breaks friendships, and lets it blind him. He clung to her once so tightly that now he refuses to let go. He blames himself for her death, blames everyone else for it, too. Nothing will make it okay, and so he carries that anger and grief and self hate with him at all times. It sits on him, commanding his movements, demanding that he constantly pay attention to the anger inside of him.
When his loyalty is tested to the limits and is finally, finally broken after Maxwell's death, he switches to the other side and suddenly is on the side of humanity. He wants to save people, no matter what. He sacrifices himself to save other people to ensure that they make it to Earth. But that superficial change is only because of who he is following. He hates Goddard and the others who align themselves with Cutter and Pryce because of how he blames them for Maxwell's death. There is no redemption, no seeing the light. He just wants Goddard to suffer and Minkowski and her clan are the ones who can make that happen easiest.
When it comes to morality, Jacobi is a ship set adrift. He understands that what he does is bad. He freely calls himself a monster. The bad guy. He knows what he is. But he does it anyway because he can justify it as being right and moral. He can stain his hands with blood so the scientists can make their breakthroughs. He can blow up hospitals and kill innocent creatures because it saves others. Or so he's been told. He follows what he’s told, follows orders without question, because the team comes first. The mission comes first. There is nothing more important to him than his team, whoever that is. For the longest time, it was Maxwell and Kepler. After that, it was whoever would piss off Goddard more.
But even before the grief, he didn’t really like getting close to people. Jacobi's best defense against that? Sarcasm. He is so rarely sincere about anything, though most of what he says is actually truthful. Even with friends, even with family like Maxwell and Kepler, he is biting and witty, though it takes on a more playful tone with them. To those he isn't as close to? It can sometimes come off as aloof and mean.
Jacobi also does things simply to see if he can. He's brilliant, having gone to MIT and worked for the Air Force R&D for a while. But that brilliance breeds boredom, which he staves off by finding ways to blow things up. While he doesn't do this when he's working, he knows where his strengths lie. He knows that he is very good making things that break other things. He is very good and very precise, but he likes to do things just to see what happens. Sometimes that means unintended explosions. He isn't cavalier with human life unless he's supposed to be, though, and still mourns the loss of two people in an accident when he was working for the Air Force by drowning his sorrows in cheap alcohol. He calls it an "anniversary," but he holds onto that guilt the same way that he holds onto the guilt of Maxwell, even though he says that it's "nobody's fault." For Jacobi, guilt is almost a way of life.
Barge Reactions: Jacobi has seen some weird space nonsense and isn't particularly fazed by it now, but there is always a transition period. He treats most things lightly, though, and hides his feelings, so he won't seem too bothered, even if he's unnerved. He isn't going to be on board with graduating at first, mostly because he's going to take a lot of convincing that he's even there for the right reasons, but eventually he'll figure it out. Also, the sheer amount of knowledge on board the ship is going to be tantalizing enough for him to forget some of the strangeness. He's seen people come back to life and heard aliens talk through that previously dead body. The breaches and floods will be a bit of a trigger since he's been brainwashed before, but that's something that will just come with time.
Path to Redemption: The very first thing a warden needs to do for Jacobi is to get him through his grief over Maxwell's death. He has sort of come to terms that it was his fault, but that has done nothing to help him move past it. As long as he's still grieving, he's stuck being angry and he will act on that constantly. It overrides most of his other decision making.
Once that's past, he will need to find a sense of moral compass. He needs to learn that the greater good doesn't always justify going out of his way to kill people. He needs to find his own moral code and not simply follow whoever he's currently loyal to at the moment.
History:
(Taken piecemeal from wikis)
Born November 12, 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jacobi's father was a US Air Force Recruiter who always belittled his son for not "wanting to be GI Joe when [he] grew up." Jacobi tried to join the Air Force out of high school, but was rejected because of his poor eyesight. After graduating an unknown college, Jacobi did his graduate studies at MIT, years after his teammate and friend Alana Maxwell did her undergrad at the same institution.
Jacobi worked for the Air Force doing ballistics research and development, specifically on orbital ballistics. But after an accident cost the lives of two men he was fired. Unable to find work due to what happened, Jacobi spent two years unemployed. At this point, 2011, he was approached by Warren Kepler in a bar in San Francisco. It can be assumed that Jacobi has been working for Goddard Futuristics since this time.
On their way to the Hephaestus, they spot Doug Eiffel's destroyed ship freely flying through deep space and intercept it, rescuing Eiffel. They reunite Eiffel with the crew of the Hephaestus, then proceed to repair the heavily damaged station. Kepler takes over as commanding officer and demotes Minkowski to navigations officer. When Eiffel tells him that he's working for a psychopath (Cutter), he says he does not mind. This causes tension between the two teams.
Sensing dissent among the ranks and preparing for a mutiny, Kepler begins manipulating Eiffel to trust him more than others from the Hephaestus. Unfortunately, an insurrection occurs hours before the contact event, led by Eiffel's plan. Jacobi and Maxwell capture Eiffel and Lovelace, and Kepler uses them to push the other team to surrender. Kepler threatens to shoot one of them if Minkowski and Hilbert did not give up. He points a gun between Eiffel and Lovelace and begins to choose which he would shoot with "Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe". About to land on Eiffel, Lovelace interferes. She mocks Kepler and he changes his mind and threatens Lovelace's death to Minkowski. Minkowski does not surrender, and Lovelace is shot and killed. Maxwell is killed by Minkowski in retaliation for Hilbert’s death in an explosion, orchestrated by Jacobi. Kepler and Jacobi are eventually apprehended and brought to the funeral Eiffel held for Lovelace, Maxwell, and Hilbert. During this, Lovelace comes back to life, and Kepler reveals that this was not the original Lovelace. This knowledge causes a rift between him and Jacobi, who thought he knew all Kepler's plans. After the events of the funeral, Kepler begins to talk to Eiffel, eventually taunting him about his daughter. Eiffel, enraged, punches Kepler. Eiffel pauses for a moment, before continuing on with two more punches in quick succession. Kepler uses that moment to overpower Eiffel and grab his gun, then takes him as a hostage to try and convince Minkowski to free Jacobi. Lovelace then appears behind Kepler, and Kepler loses his advantage.
When Cutter takes command of the Hephaestus, Jacobi is brainwashed with most of the crew and saved only by Lovelace’s blood. He joins with Minkowski, Lovelace, and Eiffel to form a plan against Cutter. After Kepler's death, Jacobi traps Riemann, a high ranking but unofficial black ops member of Goddard, and kills him in an explosion.
Sample Journal Entry: TDM
Sample RP: TDM
Special Notes: None!
User DW: NA
E-mail: waningsunflower@gmail.com
Other Characters: Godric, Pagan, Jake, Rags
Character Name: Daniel Jacobi
Series: Wolf 359
Age: Late 30s
From When?: Just at the finale. He was getting his ass kicked by Riemann and set off an explosion.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Jacobi seems to have a redemption arc in canon, but it is not a real redemption. He is the sort of person who will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify killing people, blowing up hospitals, doing whatever needs to be done, in order for other people to do good things. He's the one who is willing to get his hands dirty so others don't have to. And he has fun with it.
Arrival: Against his will
Abilities/Powers: No special powers! He's a brilliant ballistics expert with more than a basic understanding of coding.
Personality:
To say that Jacobi is simply loyal would be a lie. Jacobi takes loyalty and ups it to a thousand and still has room left over for more. The first time he met Maxwell, he told her that he had her back. Within five minutes of meeting her, he has pledged himself to helping her and doing anything he can. And he stays that way.
Throughout their friendship, he is her constant companion, always by her side. They have a sibling type relationship until the very end and that doesn’t seem unusual for him. This isn’t something that he does with just everyone, but this is something he did instantly and deeply. They cared very deeply for each other.
But that loyalty isn't all found family and happy times. His extreme loyalty comes at the cost of his own autonomy sometimes. He will mold himself to fit whoever he is following at the time. When he's working for Goddard and loyal to Kepler and Maxwell, he is just fine taking lives. He is happy enough with ensuring the future of science and technology as long as it means he gets to break things.
Prior to Maxwell's death, Jacobi was pretty easygoing and carefree. He was quick with a joke and loved annoying other nerds to the point of distraction. He does his job with pride and delights in fireworks. After her death? He's angry. He's angry and hurt and everything is harder. Darker. He attempts to force Minkowski to shoot Kepler, playing a cruel game with both of them and delighting into their suffering. He externalizes his pain, wanting others involved to hurt as much as he was hurt. SI-5 has taught him to compartmentalize his feelings most of the time. He's able to take that pain and put it somewhere else. His feelings can usually be pushed away to be examined later. So he took that grief and his anger and rage and he put it away. He hid it so effectively from even Kepler that no one saw it coming. He waited for just the right moment to enact this plan to betray Kepler and torment Minkowski. He examined those feelings and decided, on his own, to be cruel. When Jacobi is alone, when he has no allegiances, no loyalties to anyone but himself, he chooses to hurt others.
He grieves Maxwell so deeply that he even hallucinates her sometimes, talking in his ear. She gives him advice, reminds him about his coding, and while he knows better than to talk to her when other people are around, he definitely acknowledges that she’s around and he definitely does talk to her when he’s alone.
Everything he does is motivated by that grief masked by anger. He chooses sides, forms loyalties, breaks friendships, and lets it blind him. He clung to her once so tightly that now he refuses to let go. He blames himself for her death, blames everyone else for it, too. Nothing will make it okay, and so he carries that anger and grief and self hate with him at all times. It sits on him, commanding his movements, demanding that he constantly pay attention to the anger inside of him.
When his loyalty is tested to the limits and is finally, finally broken after Maxwell's death, he switches to the other side and suddenly is on the side of humanity. He wants to save people, no matter what. He sacrifices himself to save other people to ensure that they make it to Earth. But that superficial change is only because of who he is following. He hates Goddard and the others who align themselves with Cutter and Pryce because of how he blames them for Maxwell's death. There is no redemption, no seeing the light. He just wants Goddard to suffer and Minkowski and her clan are the ones who can make that happen easiest.
When it comes to morality, Jacobi is a ship set adrift. He understands that what he does is bad. He freely calls himself a monster. The bad guy. He knows what he is. But he does it anyway because he can justify it as being right and moral. He can stain his hands with blood so the scientists can make their breakthroughs. He can blow up hospitals and kill innocent creatures because it saves others. Or so he's been told. He follows what he’s told, follows orders without question, because the team comes first. The mission comes first. There is nothing more important to him than his team, whoever that is. For the longest time, it was Maxwell and Kepler. After that, it was whoever would piss off Goddard more.
But even before the grief, he didn’t really like getting close to people. Jacobi's best defense against that? Sarcasm. He is so rarely sincere about anything, though most of what he says is actually truthful. Even with friends, even with family like Maxwell and Kepler, he is biting and witty, though it takes on a more playful tone with them. To those he isn't as close to? It can sometimes come off as aloof and mean.
Jacobi also does things simply to see if he can. He's brilliant, having gone to MIT and worked for the Air Force R&D for a while. But that brilliance breeds boredom, which he staves off by finding ways to blow things up. While he doesn't do this when he's working, he knows where his strengths lie. He knows that he is very good making things that break other things. He is very good and very precise, but he likes to do things just to see what happens. Sometimes that means unintended explosions. He isn't cavalier with human life unless he's supposed to be, though, and still mourns the loss of two people in an accident when he was working for the Air Force by drowning his sorrows in cheap alcohol. He calls it an "anniversary," but he holds onto that guilt the same way that he holds onto the guilt of Maxwell, even though he says that it's "nobody's fault." For Jacobi, guilt is almost a way of life.
Barge Reactions: Jacobi has seen some weird space nonsense and isn't particularly fazed by it now, but there is always a transition period. He treats most things lightly, though, and hides his feelings, so he won't seem too bothered, even if he's unnerved. He isn't going to be on board with graduating at first, mostly because he's going to take a lot of convincing that he's even there for the right reasons, but eventually he'll figure it out. Also, the sheer amount of knowledge on board the ship is going to be tantalizing enough for him to forget some of the strangeness. He's seen people come back to life and heard aliens talk through that previously dead body. The breaches and floods will be a bit of a trigger since he's been brainwashed before, but that's something that will just come with time.
Path to Redemption: The very first thing a warden needs to do for Jacobi is to get him through his grief over Maxwell's death. He has sort of come to terms that it was his fault, but that has done nothing to help him move past it. As long as he's still grieving, he's stuck being angry and he will act on that constantly. It overrides most of his other decision making.
Once that's past, he will need to find a sense of moral compass. He needs to learn that the greater good doesn't always justify going out of his way to kill people. He needs to find his own moral code and not simply follow whoever he's currently loyal to at the moment.
History:
(Taken piecemeal from wikis)
Born November 12, 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jacobi's father was a US Air Force Recruiter who always belittled his son for not "wanting to be GI Joe when [he] grew up." Jacobi tried to join the Air Force out of high school, but was rejected because of his poor eyesight. After graduating an unknown college, Jacobi did his graduate studies at MIT, years after his teammate and friend Alana Maxwell did her undergrad at the same institution.
Jacobi worked for the Air Force doing ballistics research and development, specifically on orbital ballistics. But after an accident cost the lives of two men he was fired. Unable to find work due to what happened, Jacobi spent two years unemployed. At this point, 2011, he was approached by Warren Kepler in a bar in San Francisco. It can be assumed that Jacobi has been working for Goddard Futuristics since this time.
On their way to the Hephaestus, they spot Doug Eiffel's destroyed ship freely flying through deep space and intercept it, rescuing Eiffel. They reunite Eiffel with the crew of the Hephaestus, then proceed to repair the heavily damaged station. Kepler takes over as commanding officer and demotes Minkowski to navigations officer. When Eiffel tells him that he's working for a psychopath (Cutter), he says he does not mind. This causes tension between the two teams.
Sensing dissent among the ranks and preparing for a mutiny, Kepler begins manipulating Eiffel to trust him more than others from the Hephaestus. Unfortunately, an insurrection occurs hours before the contact event, led by Eiffel's plan. Jacobi and Maxwell capture Eiffel and Lovelace, and Kepler uses them to push the other team to surrender. Kepler threatens to shoot one of them if Minkowski and Hilbert did not give up. He points a gun between Eiffel and Lovelace and begins to choose which he would shoot with "Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe". About to land on Eiffel, Lovelace interferes. She mocks Kepler and he changes his mind and threatens Lovelace's death to Minkowski. Minkowski does not surrender, and Lovelace is shot and killed. Maxwell is killed by Minkowski in retaliation for Hilbert’s death in an explosion, orchestrated by Jacobi. Kepler and Jacobi are eventually apprehended and brought to the funeral Eiffel held for Lovelace, Maxwell, and Hilbert. During this, Lovelace comes back to life, and Kepler reveals that this was not the original Lovelace. This knowledge causes a rift between him and Jacobi, who thought he knew all Kepler's plans. After the events of the funeral, Kepler begins to talk to Eiffel, eventually taunting him about his daughter. Eiffel, enraged, punches Kepler. Eiffel pauses for a moment, before continuing on with two more punches in quick succession. Kepler uses that moment to overpower Eiffel and grab his gun, then takes him as a hostage to try and convince Minkowski to free Jacobi. Lovelace then appears behind Kepler, and Kepler loses his advantage.
When Cutter takes command of the Hephaestus, Jacobi is brainwashed with most of the crew and saved only by Lovelace’s blood. He joins with Minkowski, Lovelace, and Eiffel to form a plan against Cutter. After Kepler's death, Jacobi traps Riemann, a high ranking but unofficial black ops member of Goddard, and kills him in an explosion.
Sample Journal Entry: TDM
Sample RP: TDM
Special Notes: None!
