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Nikolas Remi Jacques; Public Relations
Topic Started: Feb 5 2009, 05:34 AM (100 Views)
Nikki Remi Jacques
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Name: Nikolas Remí Jacques
Nickname: Nikki – most people do call him by that, though there are a few and far between who refer to him as Remí.
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Birthday: October 17th, 1909
Occupation: Public Relations for the Jacques Syndicate located in France.
Residence: The Jacques Villa, a smaller mansion that lies within Coral Gables.


Physical Description
Height: 6 feet 3 inches, he is taller then the average male, taller then even most of his family.
Build: He is slender through genetics alone, his entire family on the thinner side, and he rarely works out. Though he does have muscles they are not particularly defined and he doesn’t really bother to make them so, not caring either way, comfortable enough in his own strength.
Hair: Dark brown, he keeps his hair a few inches long, not bothering to cut it as often as he might though he styles it easily enough. He would grow it longer before he cut it shorter, not finding a short hair style fitting to his facial structure. When it comes to facial hair he is often lax about shaving off the stubble that grows overnight, though he is always clean shaven when it comes to business meetings and the like. His hair is all the same color, unchanged by the weather or sunlight, russet and a rather plain shade.
Eyes: A brown to match his hair they are rather soulful, expressing the emotions he’d rather hide more often then not, and he doesn’t appreciate it, often wearing sunglasses on a bad day. Most of his friends have come to recognize this habit, automatically associating it with when he’s feeling down, and if he thought about it he would realize the flaws in this system of cover-up.
Accent: Raised in France his accent is a thick, sometimes difficult to understand, French one. Though he can speak English it is a second language and oftentimes he can be misunderstood and be forced to repeat himself for a better understanding, often slipping into his native language when frustrated.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Other: A heart shaped facial structure Nikki has a well defined jaw, set by the full line of his lips and a strong nose. His face is an expressive one and he does not find it easy to hide whatever it is he is feeling on a moment’s notice, his eyes tending to share more then he might want them to. Brown, like his hair, he does not stand out in a crowd by particularly fanciful features or an awkwardly appealing trait, his smile bringing more attention then anything else. Cockiness fits to him like a tailored pair of pants and an easy grace brought through age only brings this feature out more. Not one to pick a fight, or even be particularly good at one if he was forced into it, he is muscular though not toned and his hands are generally soft, a sure sign of an easy life style. Though he would not take it so far as to say that he is “into” fashion Nikki does take a particular interest in his clothing, often spending frivolous amounts of money on the most recently in style clothes, his wardrobe embarrassingly filled out. He doesn’t mind so much when people admonish him on this fact, brushing it off with a quick smile and joke. An easy going kind of man he doesn’t bother much with caring about how much money he really does spend on his little habit, using his job as an excuse to always look presentable. In public relations this actually isn’t much of a stretch and many of his finer suits have rode in under the same excuse.


Psychological
Personality: Known as the Peter Pan of his family Nikki has a youthful complex, eternally seeking out the ability to stay young, and denying any aging on his part with vehement refusal. An exceedingly charming man he has the kind of face that tends to put people at ease, the quickest to laugh, and the first to offer a joke at his own expense to make other’s feel more comfortable. Light hearted he is a hard person to insult and most do not wish to, finding him entertaining if waspishly shallow, though this is not exactly the case. While he is always up for a good time he does not consider this in and of itself to be a shallow desire, believing that half of the world attempts to take themselves too seriously and that the other half succeeds in doing so. There is nothing that he sees wrong with trying to live with a smile and an embrace that life, in its most basic form, is only so long and ends whether you take it seriously or not. In this view he has learned to see the cup as always half-full, the perfect man for finding you the silver lining in the gray clouds, whether you wish to see it or not. Because he does not take life as most do he tends to ignore the responsibilities that come with age, ignoring them to opt for a much easier life style and one that he is accustomed to; a trait that has more faults then not when it comes down to it.

Growing up fairly dependent on his family for long-term companionship he is dealing with the feelings of loneliness for the first time in his life since coming to Rike. Set up with a raw understanding of English, a second language and not one practiced with the most fluency, his French accent is thick and gives him away as a foreigner. Most do not see him as much else and it is hard for him to break into people’s lives for more then a moment which, while not a problem when he had a steadfast family to fall back upon, is becoming more and more a difficulty that he is forced to deal with. He doesn’t have much of a temperament for violence and anger, considering them wasteful emotions, and it has robbed him in several ways of being able to truly relate to people when things get rough. While he does not expect everyone else to be as easy-go-lucky as he is he does have a harder time taking them seriously, causing easy rifts when he does not see the mistakes he has made as something to be taken into too much account. Not used to hurting people he does not know how to respond very well to someone when he has, flustered and lost when it comes to handling the more raw emotions that come with having hurt another.

Slow to anger and always ready with a smile many people underestimate his capabilities at the business end of the spectrum and in this he often surprises people. Not made to sit behind a desk in any way, shape or form he is best when dealing with actual people, grasping the concepts of transactions with a quickness that is rarely expected. Though not necessarily a bad person he has weak morals when it comes to business and life, excusing many of the mafia’s flaws simply from having grown up in the society. Like a politician he is often able to make people see the right in his way of thinking, even if it is not something that they will eventually choose, and he is well known for the charm that he applies in all areas of his life, including business interactions.

History: Nikolas Remí Jacques was born in 1909 to a wealthy mafia family in the Southern borders of France. Cousin to the son of the boss he stayed tight within the inner ranks of the family, spending much of his younger childhood bonding with the boss’s son, Anthony. Growing up in the veritable lap of luxury he never had much cause for concern about his future. It was rather set in stone that he would assist in the mob business once he was old enough and he didn’t have much problem with that, not really because he ever thought about it, but because there was never the mentality for anything different to come of his life. An easy going person he didn’t fight much with people’s plans for him, asking only that they keep him out of the violence spectrum. Growing up with it he was hardly enchanted into believing that the mafia was a lovey-dovey business with lots of fluff and rainbows, hardened by what he had seen. While he was accustomed to being surrounded by the flack of the outer edges of mobster living he didn’t take an active interest in it like Anthony did, not a cruel person by nature, and reluctant to serve the family in any engaging capacity for their crueler, if necessary, tactics. The playful one out of the two he was more interested in women and liquor, well known for getting into trouble and then getting easily out of it, a smooth tongue keeping him out of the stern eye of the law.

As a teenager he stayed fairly aloof from the family business, keeping his serious cousin engaged on the easier side of life, and the two were thick as thieves for several years. With night and day personalities Nikki put up with his cousin’s strange desires for long-term success, marriage and other such unsavory benefits, the two remaining very close well into their twenties. Looked upon favorably by his family and known for having a weak stomach for violence Nikki was given a job in the public relations department of the mafia. With a silk tongue he didn’t need much practice to fit right into the descriptions that his job entailed, keeping trade between various mafia families running smoothly and making sure that various transactions went down without a hassle. Graced with ridiculously good luck he narrowly escaped several stickier situations, wasting away with his youth and generally being young at heart, ignoring the naysayers who told him to settle down like his cousin and find himself a real pretty woman to marry. Though he was hardly a man opposed to love there was never truly a relationship that made him want to stick around, too easy going for most women, and too accepting of all women to try to settle down to a narrow-minded viewpoint of just one.

While life continued to pass him by, albeit in blissful peace, Nikki began to eventually feel the tugging draw of age, his thirtieth birthday a traumatic one. Facing the nearing prospect of forty, a number which felt much closer then it had at twenty-nine, he began acting up in his ventures instead of cooling off. Developing a rather extreme Peter Pan personality type he refused to acknowledge the fact that he wasn’t nineteen anymore, spending the next few years in a wash of alcohol and woman. Though still well loved it was impossible for his family to not see his work begin to slip, all his attention fixated on maintaining his youth. It was Anthony who sent him to America in the late winter of 1940, an act that broke their decade’s long friendship with a harsh finality. Under the claim that they needed him to watch over the trades that they were doing with various businesses in Rike city they pushed him out of their own city, his wild endeavors on the town starting to draw unwanted attention. Though it was done largely for his own good, his family hoping that he would wizen up and mature under a stricter assignment he hardly took it as that, unable to even bid his childhood friend goodbye upon his leave.

Entering into America at thirty-three he didn’t let his own distraught feelings over the move show through, charming his way easily into the heads of many of the business leaders of various companies and affiliated mafias. There was one person who was not a total stranger, a boss’s wife by the name of Jezebel Nightingale, and he almost wept at her presence, clinging to her in a way wholly unlike him once he began to deal with the culture shock of the American lifestyle. Complaining on the unhappiness that seemed to be drowning the city he hated it all, finding the women far too dull and constricted and the men too focused on their own lives for any fun. Homesick in a painful way he spent much of his free time wandering the city for instant friends, looking for companions in a way that he never had before. Though it was hard for anyone to stick around he did make the acquaintance of a smaller group of people, a lovely young woman by the name of Lilika Tanner and, by extension a drunken ex-soldier named Penn O’Conner along with their chain of friends. Growing instantly attached he became a commonly known face to them, feeding his own loneliness in a desperate search for someone who wouldn’t leave the next morning and, though he still hated the city, the friendships helped relieve some of the bitterness.

Family: He has a rather large family, his father brothers with the boss of the mafia he was raised around. Because of this close connection he grew up with a wide range of people he considered family, blood mattering sometimes, but rarely enough that he grew to calling anyone and everyone his cousin. He does have a specific cousin, by the name of Anthony, the boss’s son, and they were quite close as children, though their relationship has grown strained due to the course of action that led him to America.


Miscellaneous
Pet: Three flat coat Labrador dogs, two of which that he bought when he'd first come to Rike. The oldest, Adéle, he has owned since she was a puppy. He bought Didier when he was just over a year old, the male young and annoying to the older female, though he gets along well with the third dog, a puppy version of the both. Félix was only four months old when he brought him home, the younger brother to Didier, and the two often wreak havoc on the man's home. He values these three more then anything else that he owns, their companionship a needed thing in the wide, empty house.
Knowledge/Talents: He speaks French as his first language and English as his second, though is able to speak some light Italian as well. Nikki is a fast talker and skilled at persuasion, getting people to like him with a good-hearted personality and picking up on their own traits with subtle studying. Good at getting himself out of trouble he is quick to gather people’s acceptance. He has a good amount of interest in cooking, preparing most of his meals, and often offering to cook for his guests whenever the chance presents itself.
Infected Ability: None.
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