The Jay |
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Portrayed by Dylan Farrow |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Jay Donohue |
Age |
18(30) |
Height |
4'6" |
Build |
Short Toothpick |
Eyes |
Slitted Golden |
Hair |
Copper Gold |
Factions |
None |
Occupation |
Custodian |
Alignment |
Confusing Neutral |
Claim to Fame
None yet
Reputation
Unknown.
Biography
In the Old Days, a changeling would often be left behind, a sickly child the Fae could not (or would not) raise. The child that was taken as 'payment' typically speaking would never be heard from again. It is usually presumed to be mythology, old stories that even some of the learned of the occult discard as at best highly impractical and perhaps legendry grown up around sickly children to soothe the hearts and minds of parents in a pre-scientific Age.
Child abductions happen every day now in this modern age, and after a few weeks or possibly even months, all but the most devoted loved ones stop searching… and eventually even they give up hope.
These two facts by themselves are highly coincidental, and would typically have no bearing with each other save for the intervention of denziens of Otherworld.
The walls between worlds are sometimes weak, and when the Chicago Cubs are in the playoffs, strange things can happen. It happened in 1984, when they reached the National League Championships, only to fall to the Padres of San Diego. In the media fall-out afterwards, the disappearance of one child simply… failed to make the news.
In the magical land, a child was taken, raised to be a proper servant. She was twisted, turned, adapted for the needs of the land and the nobility therein. It was very much a way of life for this darker section of Otherworld, and accepted as general practice. After all, weren't they providing a much better and longer life than those primitive apes who had not even learned how to See things properly?
This may have gone on for untold millennia and lost for all time save for the re-opening of the door in 2003. And the shapers of the servant-girl had done their job far too well —but that is another tale.
An un-remarkable Fae noble sent his servant girl to go fetch some mortal wine and whiskey for a very important meeting he was holding. Unfortunately, that servant ran into a very stubborn and determined salesclerk. It didn't help that the child did not have identification to prove that she was even old enough to purchase liquor.
The clerk was the long-lost descendant of a line of Homo Magi, and also discovered that the servant was being held against her will. Being an upright sort of fellow, he offered her sanctuary in his store.
After a while the noble arrived, and irate at not only not getting the beverages that the servant was sent for but also now missing his servant girl, attempted to burn the offending mortal alive. Magics clashed, bad things happened, and the store went up in a huge explosion. It even made the news briefly before it was lost to the 24-hour news cycle.
Jay Donohue was found horribly burnt in the ruins of the burning drugstore in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago eleven years ago, and was quickly placed into DCFS custody after her recovery. After spending some time in foster care, her regenerative capabilities and obsessive focus on cleaning became apparent, and she was sent to a secondary institution that specialized in such cases.
After several years of work and education, she graduated towards the top of her class with a reputation for being a hard worker and calling other people on their bullshit. Given her focus and dedication, she was gently guided to a college education by well-meaning guidance counselors, and then to a vocational school.
During her time in school, she was told of how *dirty* New York City was, and this became a goal, a challenge to her skills.
So now she's heading to the Big Apple, to clean it one block at a time.
Trashbugs, beware.
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Character Details
Jay is a focused hard-working cleaning girl with the long-term and almost
Sisyphean task of attempting to clean up New York. Unlike the other vigilantes who focus
on crime, she focuses on cleaning. Also, don't call her an elf.
Cleaning Expert |
It's not a lifestyle, but Jay is a very dedicated and hard working custodial sort. She can clean pretty much anything if she puts enough time, power and effort to it. In fact, the harder the job, the harder she works. She could, in theory, even clean up toxic waste spills, biohazards, and the like. She'd probably need decontamination afterwards, though.
And her rates are a pittance. Just a favor or a promise.
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Keen Hearing |
Those pointy ears aren't just for show. Jay can hear things on both ends of human-normal that would be inaudible to normal human hearing. Unfortunately, this also means that she can be incapacitated briefly by extreme noises in those ranges until her regeneration kicks in.
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Fearsome Smile |
No one likes it when Jay gets angry. When she starts getting angry, she starts to *smile*. The angrier she is, the wider and thinner the smile becomes, and the more intense the fear that smile emanates becomes. Jay does not realize that she's doing this half the time, which makes it even worse. When she does start to realize it she will attempt to redirect her anger into her cleaning.
This does not impact automatons, certain deities, or individuals of emotional context such as the Hulk. |
Martial Artistry |
Though she has a horrible tendency to get flung around like a rag doll when fighting, Jay does have martial arts training, mostly revolving around strike-points, choke-holds, and blocking/dodging incoming attacks. She's also a combat menace with a broom or a feather duster, capable of performing attacks that can stun or daze given opponents. On the downside, her frame makes it very hard for her to apply any sort of real leverage on opponents when they do manage to get their hands on her.
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Aura Of Cleanliness |
When Jay cleans something thoroughly, it remains bright, shiny and clean for a time after — usually a scene or two — and it's a bit sparkly when she does a really good job. Which is most of the time. It takes a little bit more effort on vandals to deface her cleaning jobs when they're in this 'shiny' period, and she can kinda pick up on someone 'messing with her hard work' if she's nearby. Then all bets… are off.
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Regeneration |
Jay's regeneration is full body, any limb will regrow over time, but there is no danger of two forms being created if enough is sliced away from her. If she were to be knifed in the chest, for example, she could regenerate that, along with any links to a severed limb if said limb were to be re-attached or held in place at the very least. Regrowing the head is beyond the scope of this power at this time. In terms of time broken bones heal within moments if she does nothing but sit back and catch her breath, and more traumatic injury such as gunshots or knives could take a couple of hours to heal if they are not critical injuries. She can even handle toxic chemicals, diseases, and the like with rapidity and ease.
It should be noted that this regeneration does not occur when Jay is in contact with any silver alloy, silver, or extemely refined versions/iterations of silver.
Given also a dearth of research means, it is uncertain at this time if this is an expression of Otherworld immortality or some sort of magic.
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Truesight |
Jay can see through *any* sort of disguise, Glamour, or efforts to engage in personal visual deception. For some reason, this makes her exceptionally angry, and she can't see the concealment that she is peering through, though she will know that someone or something is attempting to hide from her. She will always see the true appearance of things on a personal level. Handy for cleaning, not so much for dealing with folks who are undercover or trying to hide. This vision is blocked by traditional means such as brick walls, steel walls, and other normal mundane physical objects (ie, solid non-living objects not worn by a person in question).
If there is one 'plus' side, she was trained enough in school to keep from simply blurting out the identities of folks hidden under such means, though she won't be happy about such shenanigans unless it looks like there's a very good reason.
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Flying |
It is uncertain quite how she does it, though it is presumed it is some sort of magic at work. Jay can fly up to two hundred miles per hour with amazing agility, capable of fitting into the tightest spaces. She has a flight envelope of 40,000 feet where it starts to get a bit hard to breathe. Typically speaking, she tends to float around about a foot above the ground unless it's pointed out to her that it's probably not a good idea, she's working, or she's trying to get somewhere fast.
She can carry up to twenty pounds of equipment and gear with her when flying. |
Trust Fund |
When Jay was at school, she was an exceptionally obsessive cleaner and worked every single hour that she was allowed outside of actual classes. As a result, she managed (with the aid of the school's financial advisor) to amass a pretty decent sum of money in a trust from all the work she did. She personally doesn't like the concept of money — it's not a favor or a promise, so it has less worth in her eyes. However, she also is aware enough to understand that sometimes, cleaning supplies need replacing, food costs money, and some folks don't take cleaning as a form of rent payment.
Overall, if she was actually *counting* the money, she'd probably have a couple of million in the trust. But she doesn't count it.
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Reinforced Jumpsuit |
Jay's typical working clothing is a battered yet serviceable jumpsuit that appears to have seen much better years. Despite the nature of it, it never seems to wear, tear, catch fire, or even get holes in it. It does have a bit of a magic aura about it, and those in the know would realize that it has been alchemically treated in some way. It won't stop bullets, but it will resist fire and chemical damage as well as some blunt force trauma.
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Cleaning Tools |
Jay has a large closet at her apartment filled with all sorts of cleaning tools for various jobs. Pretty much every cleaning accoutrement known to man is in there. Typically speaking, she is seen with her broom and a feather duster, sometimes riding the broom side-saddle while flying and giving the false impression that she might be a witch or spirit of some sort.
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Silver Weakness |
For some unknown reason, Jay has a vulnerability to silver alloys, silver, and rarefied versions of silver such as truesilver, mithril, and the like. Contact with such a metal will immediately cause her to zone out, and if the contact is maintained, she will start to smolder, then catch fire, and burn. Her regeneration does not cover this sort of damage, so it won't be a comfortable end for her, to say the least, if she is burnt to a crisp.
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Partial Amnesia |
Prior to a few months before attending high school, Jay's past is a blank slate. She has no idea who or what may have happened in that blank time, and sometimes things come bubbling out of that murky past to haunt, hunt, or hurt her. Or sometimes all of the above. Despite the ominous nature of such a sword hanging over her head, she tends to not worry about it overmuch, taking each day in stride. Which means she's never ready for things coming from the past.
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Hunted By The Fae |
Jay does not realize it, but she is actually the subject of the attention of certain Fae nobility for reasons that are inscrutable to the mortal mind. As a result, there is a chance at some future point they will show up in the Tri-Cities area to seek out their quarry, and it will probably not go all that well for her.
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Cleaning Focus |
Jay still becomes a bit obsessed with cleaning. While she's grown up a bit from insisting that everyone must clean, she still puts great weight by the work ethics that people present, and the messes that they make and don't clean up. While she's not anyone's mother, a surefire way to anger her is to make a huge mess then walk away from it.
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A Deal's A Deal |
Promises and favors are Jay's currency. If she promises to do something that isn't contrary to her entire way of being, she will attempt to move Heaven and Earth to ensure the promise is kept. Things that are off-limits include, but are not limited to: Stopping cleaning forever, Making huge messes for someone else to clean up, killing someone, stealing, and lying. If it appears that someone has broken the spirit of the deal, she will not react well and will immediately stop honoring her side of it.
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Not! An! Elf! |
Everyone sees the pointy ears and assumes. It happens all the time. The slitted eyes don't help, either. Jay is NOT an elf (at least, as far as she knows) and gets very, very cranky if folks start to treat her like one. This may even encourage her to start Smiling. |
Magical Origin?? |
Being from another place, Jay is a person that grew up in a world full of magic, and things that would impact magic may also affect her capabilities as well. The nature of her strange focus is related to her susceptibility to silver versus the cold iron that normal folks are allergic to where she is from. This made her a great servant for the Fae, because they never had to worry about her making off with the household silver, and in the event of assault, she could at least withstand the bane of cold iron.
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Disturbing Hollow |
Under normal circmstances, a person with a few odd markings would be presumed to just be a mutant or genetic experimentation gone awry. Sometimes, though, a body is 'too perfect' or has something where it crosses the line into 'way too human to be human'. Jay would be one of the sorts that fits into that category. The pointy ears and strange eyes really don't help the issue in the least. Not that she really minds, though. It means most sane people leave her alone when she's cleaning.
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