prettyman, jacob wyatt

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JACOB WYATT PRETTYMAN

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FULL NAME: Jacob Wyatt Prettyman
NICKNAMES: Jake, J-Pretty, Prettyman
AGE: How old they are
GENDER: Male
SEXUALITY: Bisexual, sort of. Kinsey 2-3.
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Citizen.
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: Doctoral Candidate in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.
JOB OCCUPATION: Check the jobs claim, or N/A if they don't work.

HAIR: Color, style, etc.
EYES: Brown.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: If any.
TATTOOS: Jacob is covered pretty much from head to toe in tattoos, most of them relating to some event or interest in his life. The black shading behind most of his tattoos is a direct homage to movement, catching the eye and following the smooth lines of his body.
PIERCINGS: His ears have plugs in them and he's worn a septum ring off and on, flipping it up so no one can see it when he's working or trying to look professional.
PLAY-BY: Bobby Hicks

LIKES: At least ten.
DISLIKES: At least ten.
FEARS: Paralysis, or really anything that would inhibit movement.
SECRETS: At least one.
PERSONALITY: A good paragraph if you can, good and bad! Or, if you prefer bullets, at least four with a little explanation!

MOTHER: Gillian & age.
FATHER: Lucas & age.
SIBLINGS: Paul & age, brother. Hannah & age, sister.
OTHERS: Name, age, why they're important. If none, put N/A.
PETS: Name & species/breed!
HOMETOWN: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
HISTORY: As far as the story of boy meets girl goes, Jacob Prettyman's parents had it easy. Their fathers worked together at J&L Steel, and being roughly the same age, they were constantly thrust together, both at school and various social events, like barbecues and church fellowship held on the weekends. Their families even sat together in the tiny Lutheran church they attended every Sunday. His parents were married soon after graduating from secondary school, Lucas Prettyman following his father into the steel mills to make an honest living while pursuing a business degree at University of Pittsburgh. Jacob's mother, Gillian, began temporary work as a secretary at the local high school. Together, they bought a decent sized house in a nice neighborhood and settled into their lives together. After five years of marriage and several disappointing miscarriages, Gillian discovered she was pregnant. It couldn't have come at a worse time. The late 80's were hard on Pittsburgh, as steel corporation after corporation closed its doors, losing their headquarters to multi-million dollar deals that would move them out of the area. Lucas became one of thousands of displaced workers, while Gillian continued to work through morning sickness and swollen ankles.

Fresh out of college with a degree in Business Administration and Finance, Lucas was offered a job at PNC Financial Services, which was headquartered in the city. He was reluctant to take the job, not quite confident of his entry level skill set, but with his wife seven months pregnant and both of their fathers breathing down his neck about responsibility, he didn't really have a choice. He became a day teller at one of the PNC branches, and soon after that, his first son was born. Paul was a blessing after the previous miscarriages, and Lucas and Gillian treated him like one. He had the luxury of being the only child, doted on and spoiled rotten until he was five, when the familiar aching joints and morning sickness began plaguing his mother. Jacob came three weeks early, but that didn't stop him from letting out a mighty cry as the nurse practitioner rushed to clean him off. The Prettyman family been blessed with not one, but two healthy boys.

Things were good for those first few years. Lucas was promoted within the bank system, taking over the mortgages and small business loans, his careful decision making on lending helping to revive some of Pittsburgh's economy and landing him another promotion. As the nineties rolled in, Gillian became pregnant with her third child, and as Lucas combed the suburbs for the perfect house for their growing family, Gillian held onto an unexpressed hope that maybe this time she'd get to have a daughter. When little Hannah was born the family settled into Gillian's dream house in nearby Burgettstown, where Lucas was transferred to be a branch manager for PNC. With his new salary, he could support the family while Gillian stayed home with the children, though most of her focus was on little Hannah as the boys were both school age. Life was quiet for those first few years in Burgettstown, and the family developed a comfortable routine, with the boys working hard at their respective schools. Good grades meant family adventures in the summer during the two weeks of vacation Lucas was allotted. They traveled the whole of the United States, every year a different destination. Jacob's favorite was their trip to the California coast, exploring the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Standing in the hot sand of La Jolla Cove, envious of the scuba divers disappearing below the waves, a 10 year old Jacob resolved to find his way back there somehow.

The family's dreams came crashing down the following winter, however, when it was discovered that in Lucas' haste to afford the lifestyle he thought his family deserved, he'd made some unsavory lending decisions in exchange for large personal loans, growing deeper and deeper in debt. Lucas began liquidating his assets to try to repay them, but he was already too far under. Eventually, the bank foreclosed on the house, and the family was forced to move into a much smaller place in nearby Forrest Hills. The neighborhood was a lot rougher, and the children had to switch schools. Jacob, who was going into 7th grade at the time, fell in with an older crowd. Without the solid support system of the friends he had made in Burgettstown, and feeling cramped in the tiny bedroom he had to share with Paul, he began acting out, including petty crimes such as shoplifting and destruction of property.

The boys eventually settled their differences, but after graduation, Paul went away to college, choosing Tufts University in Boston. Jacob felt abandoned, and his behavior only grew worse, coming to a head when he was cited with possession of marijuana and underage drinking after getting busted at a party. Within a couple months, he was also arrested for breaking into a pharmacy. Because of his priors, he was sentenced to juvenile detention. Once there, he began to clean up his act, if only to earn the right to go back home. He worked diligently towards getting his GED, which he earned just before his 16th birthday and immediately started correspondence courses through the Community College of Allegheny County. The ocean still fascinated him, and he knew he wanted to work with it in some capacity, so he majored in Biology, hoping to use it as a springboard into some sort of marine career.

After his 17th birthday, he was released from his two year stay at the juvenile detention center and allowed to return home, ignoring his old friends and making new ones at the community college, though he was often the youngest in his classes. He earned his Associate of Science degree in Biology the same year Paul graduated from Tufts. After that, it was a matter of figuring out where he wanted to go. Visits to Paul in Boston reestablished his love for the Northeast, so when he discovered the University of Rhode Island offered a double major in Ocean Engineering and Marine Biology, it was settled. He moved that Fall and began his diligent studies, spending his summers as a research assistant at Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA and working weekends through the school year at Save the Bay Aquatic Exploration Center in Newport. He spent three years in the program, eventually graduating with two Bachelor's degrees. There was no question about where he would go next; Jacob Prettyman was ready to explore La Jolla Cove the right way -- from under its waves.

He attended graduate school at the University of California in San Diego, pursuing an MS in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. During his time at UCSD, he worked as a research assistant in the Marine Biotech laboratories and supplemented his income by working as a tank diver at SEA Life Aquarium in Carlsbad. However, he hated that position because that particular aquarium focused more on tourism than scientific research. Once he began working on his thesis, he started volunteering for conservation events with the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, which allowed him to brush elbows with the marine biologist who would make his thesis research and eventual employment with the Birch Aquarium possible. He worked there as a husbandry intern until they realized how much potential he had for education. While his introversion would normally create anxiety when exposed to large groups of people, Jacob felt confident in his knowledge of the exhibits and the species inside of them, allowing him to step into the role of interactive underwater diver during daily tank talks. When his research wrapped up in April, he presented his thesis on site fidelity in mobile apex predators, a groundbreaking study of several species of sharks off the coast of southern California. His published paper caught the attention of the Board of Directors at the New York Aquarium, who were scrambling to find a solution to keep from closing down in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

Riding the wave of the shark's popularity, which had grown steadily over the past decade, they resolved to rebuild their damaged exhibit, making it bigger and better in the process. Jacob was one of their first recruiting choices and they began courting him as May came to a close. With his graduation looming less than a month away, home ownership and a promising relationship, Jacob's initial reaction was to say no, as the job they'd offered wouldn't even officially begin until 2016, but they came back with a better offer for him in the in-between -- one that Jacob and his boyfriend both agreed he'd be stupid not to take. Jacob moved to New York City the day after his graduation. He felt like he was in limbo while he adjusted to life so far from what he'd grown comfortable in, working as the Director of Animal Husbandry at the New York Aquarium. He viewed the aquarium's rebuild as a sort of metaphor for his life, planning to take what he was doing already and make it bigger and better, and he did just that -- until opportunity came knocking again.

Jacob spent three months stationed in Costa Rica working as a research fellow in a partnership between the Sea Turtle Conservancy and the New England Aquarium. Upon his return, his residency was split between Boston and New York for several months as he worked for the New England Aquarium and the Museum of Natural History, alternating weeks between each locale and helping his brother flip houses on the side. He accepted a year-long teaching stint for Island School on Eleuthera in the Bahamas, but before his contract was up, the program lost much of their funding. Jacob once again found himself returning to New York, accepting a posting as research fellow with the Bronx Zoo's ornithology program. Feeling defeated, he reluctantly began applying to grad schools and began the PhD program in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University in August.

YOUR ALIAS: K.
RULE WORDS: Found in the rules.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: Googling forum RP.
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