Jack Bennet
Jack Edward Kennedy Alias: Jack Bennett
Son of Senitor Edward "Ted' Kennedy & Virginna J. Bennett Kennedy Jack The last Child of Ted and his first wife Virginna J. Bennett Kennedy was Born in 1984 the babby was had as a last ditch attempt to save there failling marage this worked for about 6 years untill the couple devorced in 1990, ted remaired marrying Victoria Anne Reggie with her two children curran and Caroline in 1992. This further drove a wedge between the young jack who being an 'autumn' child dealing with an alcoholic mother and parrents in a failling marrage and his father. When his parrents got devorced Jack chose to live with his mother reather then stay with his father who he blamed for all his troubles. jacks mother was inatentive and Jack quickly fell to getting into trouble. it was his Uncle John John who acted as a mentor to the wild kid and seemed to be the only one to understand Jacks struggle to grow up an Astranged child with the burden of being a kennedy. Dispite Johns posative influence Jakc ended up in a Private school where he lived in NY diaspite the schools strict discipline the teen remaind a rebel and got involved in the urban explores culture of new york. better then that then his first brushes with teenage crime. After john johns death in 1999 Jack became depressed and sucidle he got very self destructive and got deeper into extreem sports anything that would push things a little closer to his death wish. dispite numerous atempts by his father to reach out to him he and Jack can do nothing but fight and dispite loving his father and truely desireing his affection Jack blames him for everything bad in his life. his father uses his money as a leash over the wild young man and is trying to preasure him into following a political life. John John left Jack a large share of stock in Gorege Magazine and Jack intends one day to follow him Into Publishing when he 'settles down' Jack is afraid of living without money so his father uses this as an effective cattle prod. he has recently convinced the Young man to Attend Gorgetown university in Washington where he can keep an eye out for Jack is is deeply concerned by his sons destructive behavour both for public relations reasons and out of geniune affection for the young son he sees as the most like himself. for this reason he pushes Jack even harder then his other children.
Current life activity
Student at gorgetown, member of D.C. urban explorers
Special skills or training? A little bit of b & e from his brush with street crime he learned how to pick locks and break into buildings and disable security systems, he learned a lot about publishing and the magazine buisness from his Uncle this he applied with help from some of his 'criminal' friends how to forge paperwork and documents these skills where further improved durring his time with the urban explorers. he has also taken exstensive self defense courses and survival courses. he is majorly into extreem sports and is good at them. as well as hes into gadgets and gizmos and has played quite a bit with computers. he has a natural skill with electronics.
Biggest secret? That he's a Kennedy
Greatest fear, something that would panic him/her. Being found out hes a Kennedy and people treeting him diffrently. Being cuttoff of from his money and having to try to learn how to live pour.
List your family and close friends. (name, special details)
still doing the exstensive research for this :P
(kev said) - any general things you plan to do once you all learn about the powers, etc...
(Cat) Id like to confront my Dad about his supporting the quarantine Jack is realy upset, the one time he was truly confident his father would have his back and that he could realy and believe in his dad the working mans champion and he feels like he was stabbed in the back. Also Jack would like to get the member of "Team Extreem" back together. See latter section for details. Jack would like to take some breathing time to figure out "What the fuck is going on with these powers" he dosnt know about anyone else but hes freaked out by suddenly having weird powers and only hasn't freaked outwardly about it is because hes been running on fear/anger/adrenilan but as soon as we have breathing room hes going to flip out. He also will want to do the following short term. Offer help to the survivers if he can. Find out if celerix has more cloning matter from them. Make sure the children are ok. Try a buy out of celerix maybe. Longer term goals jack will continue to be outraged anywhere people are being held aginst there will and with out true cause of law or justice. As well as any situation where children are being harmed. And he will want to find out what realy happened on the flight and whats been going on for 4 years and why they have freaky powers. Beyond that he/I have no idea as yet.
(kev said)
TRUE.
However, what I'm asking for are some BARE basics of your thoughts and
plans... stuff that I can PLAN for. I need an inkling of your plans to
properly make the game and events that propel the story.
I'm ALL for sorting out specifics IN-Character but I need something
to plan with since the style of game we're playing is SO VERY open...
the opposite of railroading really...
Making it fun without being able to guestimate your plans will just get harder and harder.
(Cat) Ok that makes more sense, see above for the most part. Ill tell you what I will do after every session as new ideas and goals occure to Jack and my self I will update those to the group.
exactly... this is HUGE ... just HUGE... I need a brief on ANYONE you plan to contact ASAP. I cannot use it if I get it the day or two before the game session... I just don't plan my game the few hours prior.
realistically if I don't get this info and ideas by Monday afternoon... you have to realise that you just WON'T be "aloud" to ask about those people...
for example - I would be Dee will like to get in touch with her 2 surviving brothers... but I don't even know ANY of their names, I don't know her father's name, I don't even know if they had a mother living... I don't know where her "Ladder" was located, etc... etc... etc...
that's just one example, I could do the same for each character.
(Kev said) Otherwise you get ad-libbed, half-made stuff that makes it HARD for me to rework into the plots if I have to make it up on the spot... For Example: Jack's college roomy.... I got a nickname "Van" on the spot and had to spontaniously make up his 4 year past in less than a minute. What did I come up with?
- he's a beginning Lawyer at "what'sIt" firm in DC - he has a wife that works for InTouch magazine
Overall not bad but I wish I'd rethought the magazine now. I wish I new the name of his firm... If I'd preplanned it I MIGHT not have made him a laywer, etc.. etc...
(Cat) ok I see your point –cough- however if you look on the back of my character sheet where I put my intial notes for the 3x3 you asked for us I listed Agent Marks, My hacker roommate Van from Law school. And my disreputable small crimes friend who sells stuff that falls off the back of the truck. I sorta gave that to you on –cough- the first session ;P just a quick sentence or two as per your request at the time :P
(Kevin wrote) We totally will do this! Next "ISSUE" will be a discover phase for attitudes, moral questions, goals, and powers!! Fun fun!!
(Cat) CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER
(Kev said) and it SHOULD... this will be a very important "event" in the main character's lives... If you read or have read Surpeme Powers you'll see they take 1-3 issues or more to do this stuff with events in the background continuing shaping the NEXT big events...
I'm planning to allow you this time... as long as you want it to be. :)
(Cat)
Good because honestly I think a lot of the answers you want are going to come out during that set of discussions.
(Kev said) Fair enough!
SINCE you can't talk about the future until it's in character (which makes sense) then that means you'll have MUCH MORE TIME to devote to your backgrounds, which you absolutely CAN do.
hehe.....
See how I turned it around like that... heheh... ;)
-kev-
(Cat) Fair enough
- anything from your backgrounds you want to give - details on life and especially family/friends you'll want to contact - job details
Ok im not going to re-summary jacks history right now as I think
you've got a handle on that ill go into more about that latter. So
ill do people he knows and his relationship with them,
Ted kennedy Dad: Jack and is father have a rough on again off again relationship. They love each other but have trouble admitting it and they piss each other off. Ted sees great potential in his son to realy make a diferance in the world and Jack just wants to live his life. Ted sees Jack as the last great heir to the Kennedys and would love to see his son become president or something influential. Hes always talking about jack wasting his potential. Generally they come together for a happy reunion that ends in one of them bringing up some topic they will fight about and jack storming out as quickly as he came in.
Kara, Edward Jr., and Patrick the older siblings… Due to the age gap Jack has never realy gotten along with his older brothers and his sister.s Ed Jr has always been jealous of their fathers belief that jack was the best of his children. And Patrick and jack just go there own ways. Kara tried for a while to intercede in how the messy marrage and devorce effected jack but he was unreconcilable she cares for jack but dosnt know how to express it to him. If he has a secret ally in the family its her.
Virginia Joan Bennett Mom, Jack loves his mom and she loves him they
have a great relationship when shes sober…. Jack is very protective
of his mother and feels its his duty to take care of her.
Joan Kennedy, children reach agreement
Medical, financial team, rehab cited
By John Ellement and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | June 13, 2005
Joan Bennett Kennedy is now being guided by a team of financial and
medical professionals and entering a period of rehabilitation under
the terms of an agreement her children hope will keep her safe and
improve her spirit and physical well-being, a Kennedy family friend
said yesterday.
She's now in a very comprehensive program," said the family friend,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The arrangement is the result of a closed-door agreement reached
Friday between attorneys for Joan Kennedy, the former wife of Senator
Edward M. Kennedy, and her three adult children, who have been
fighting with their mother in probate court since last summer over
what they saw as a critical need for direct control over her medical
and financial decisions.
Last summer, Probate and Family Court Judge Robert E. Terry named
Edward M. Kennedy Jr. as his mother's temporary guardian, a move Joan
Kennedy initially supported but then decided to challenge. A trial on
the issue was to open today in Barnstable Probate and Family Court.
But the agreement between Joan Kennedy and her three children --
Edward, Kara Kennedy Allen, and US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy,
Democrat of Rhode Island -- takes the issue out of the public eye and
back into the private arena. According to the family friend, who is
familiar with the details in the agreement, two financial
professionals will watch Joan Kennedy's estimated $9.5 million in
assets while a guardian ad litem will monitor her and guide medical
decisions made for, and by, her. All three of the professionals must
make periodic reports to the probate court, the family friend said.
The agreement can be altered to increase the control over Joan
Kennedy if she abuses alcohol or otherwise endangers herself. Court
records show that she needed a guardian because of an unspecified
mental illness, and the family friend said that concern was in
addition to her chronic alcoholism.
Sean Richardson, chief of staff for Patrick Kennedy, said yesterday
that the Kennedy children had been working to make sure their mother
gets the treatment she needs for her alcoholism, but he did not
elaborate. They did reach an agreement," Richardson said.
Joan Kennedy's investment adviser, Webster E. Janssen of Connecticut,
said in a telephone interview yesterday that he was notified by an
attorney for her about the settlement on Friday. Janssen was expected
to be among the witnesses testifying during the trial, and said his
view is that Kennedy is able to handle her affairs. He said he has
dealt with Kennedy on financial matters since 2002 and never saw any
signs of a mental illness or instability to support the children's
claims. Janssen said he has met or spoken with her multiple times in
the last six months. She's always been lucid and
sober."Continued... Page 2 of 2 --
• Speaking of the three Kennedy children, he added: I think
they are mean-spirited and vindictive. And they should get on with
their lives and stop badgering poor Joan. . . . She's sort of living
under house arrest most of the time."
Augustus F. Wagner Jr., lead attorney for the children, dismissed
Janssen's comments. The kids had nothing to gain by going forward
other than the protection of their mother," he said. They had
nothing to gain by stepping up. Zero. I admire them. That's about as
good an act of love that I've seen."
Janssen said he spoke with Joan Kennedy last week. She seemed OK,"
he said, adding that he tried to reach her over the weekend but had
not gotten a return phone call by last evening.
Kennedy, who has struggled with an addiction to alcohol for years,
has been arrested several times for operating under the influence and
has gone through rehabilitation repeatedly. In March, she was
hospitalized for a concussion and shoulder injury after falling on a
Back Bay sidewalk. The family friend said there have been other
similar incidents that have not received public notice but cause the
children to fear for their mother's safety.
Janssen's involvement with Joan Kennedy's financial affairs
infuriated her children, especially after Joan Kennedy signed over
control of the family home in Barnstable and her condominium on
Beacon Street in Boston to Janssen last October when Edward Kennedy
Jr. had control over his mother's financial and medical interests.
Janssen put both properties on the market, but her children obtained
a court order blocking any sale.
To the Kennedy children, Janssen was ignoring the court orders naming
Edward Kennedy Jr. as temporary guardian. The agreement reached
Friday terminates Janssen's role and hands over control of the
properties and Joan Kennedy's financial assets to the two independent
advisers, the family friend said.
Janssen said that every step he took was done after consulting with
lawyers, including Joan Kennedy's lead attorney, Hanson S. Reynolds.
He said he has not been told if the Kennedy children will seek
regulatory sanctions against him through the Securities and Exchange
Commission or the National Association of Securities Dealers. He said
he has not faced a complaint in 45 years in business.
It's not like I've run off to Brazil with the money or squandered
it in any way," he said. I never got paid a dime."
© Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company.
Victoria Reggie: The Step mom, She cant help but like jack a little hes like a celeberaty or a rock star or your favorite trouble making family member. He rolls in and is all flash and pazaz until the inevitable blow up between him and his father. Shes worried about his unfluence on her young children who seem to adore Jack. And think that jack just needs a little discipline and shed like to "help him help himself" shes nervious around jack knowing that her social life and familys serenity into chaos at his presence. Shes the kind of lady who would snoop through your stuff looking for drugs only for your own good of course!
Team Extreem!!!!!!! <spelled wrong on perpose> TE is the group of
rich nardewells into extreme sports and not quite professional
athletes who comprised Jacks urban explores and xtreem sports team
also called the Urban Tigers. Made up of people who could have all
gone pro if it wasn't for quirk here or there that held them back..
like Dale Ernhart Jr's Little brother Danny Earnhart who got kicked
out of nascar for dangerious driving, crashing, reckless stunts,
brawling, and all around demolition derby like driving… but more
about him latter.
Randy "Van" Styles, driver of the equipment Van for Team Extreem all around prop master and wizard of things Techno, Van was a big time hacker with a strong wit and shar intelligence he strongly believed in person rights and freedoms of the individuals he knew all kinds of great stuff about how to get off of weed possession charges on obscure rights laws and technicalitys. It was inevitable he would become a lawyer he was jacks roomie in Gorege town. He was jacks confidant someone Jack could always trust on for loyalty and help and to keep his secrets. Van always was up for an adventure but he lived his through cyberspace he lacked a catalyst to get him in trouble in the "real world" Until he met Jack, Jack would come up with a wild Idea of something stupid to do and there would be Van his wing man. Van would like to see himself as an athelete like the rest of team extreme but realy hes more of a brain, hes alwlays maybe idalized that about jack yet of all jacks friends its Van who knows how deeply jack realy cares for his father and how torn apart he is by his on again off again relationship with his family. He knows how deeply the Death of uncle John John effected Jack and he spent many a night "hanging out" with jack when he should have been studying in order to keep a suicide watch.. hed tell his wife latter all kinds of storys about his friend Jack jack as he liked to call him. He would have confided to his wife at somepoint that he honestly thought jack commited suicide when he disappeared and that he felt like it was his fault that he was there it was this catalyst in his life that sent Randy a more serious direction in life. Though still an idealist he know looks for big causes to fight and it could one day bring him aginst the wrong kind of enemy…
Danny "CrazyCar" Earnhart the youngest son of Dale Earnhart. Danny drives like his daddy only he has a penchant for driving angry and likes to smash things up. After being kicked out of nascar Danny worked on his dad and then brothers cars for a few years becoming one hell of a mechanic and after that turned to demolition derbys and street racing Danny Earnhart is the 2 time champion of the Real World Cannon ball. If it has a motor Danny can fix it if it has wheels danny can drive the shit out of it.. he just dosnt promise it will be intact afterwards. He has a habit of stealing friends cars and tricking them out with out there permission. Danny likes jack because he thinks Jack is the only guy he knows crazier then he is. He was sad when he found out Jack was dead but not realy surprised. He will be pretty damn surprised to find out jack is alive and would probly drop everything for a reunion hes sad that the team pretty much split up after Jack Jacks death. Hes working as a stunt man in Hollywood for the new Dukes of Hazard movie. Hed be likely to "barrow" the car and drive it out.
Bunny "The Babe" or "Brat" Bension <depending on who you ask>, Hot Chics rock right? Hot chics who like drinking beer and watching anime –to much- anime and can skate like the devil are WAY HOT!!!!!!!!! Bunny is probly the only Hotchick jack knows that he hasn't slept with. She was the sister of a friend from highschool who died, he asked jack on his death bed to watch out for his little sister. And jack has sort of a adopted her as family ever since. Shes had a rough life her father was an abusive alcoholic rich son of a bitch ie untouchable by the law. Bunny grew up with a touch of a violent streak oh sure shes cute and flirtatious one minute but cross her and well the boys don't need to protect her. She jokes around with jack that she will get him into her bed one of these days and his response is usaly yeah but it would only be to read you a bedtime story brat. And they both laugfh because they know its true. Bunny is a Mistress of the skate board She taught everything she knew to her ex boy friend Tony Hawk, and she would have been realy famous but for 2 things. 1. shes a girl. 2. when she caught tony cheating on her on his first tour she broke her board using it to make a nuttshot and tony had her black listed. She stoped Skatting when jack died She said it just wasn't fun anymore. She has a job now as a kindergarden teacher in D.C.
Carl "Big Boom" Berleski Carl former Private 1st Class of the Army Airborn Rangers was given a Dishonrable discharge his second year in the Airborn for being to crazy taking unnesacary risks and generally disregarding orders he thought weer stupid. Carl is a demolitions expert and an expert jumper rumour has it he and Bunny are dating. Carl left team Extreme a little before Jacks disappearance to take a job with the D.C. bomb squad it was the only place he said he found a more chalanging occupation. It was his idea of "Growing up" besides when hes holding wires in his hands every shuts up and listens to him he dosnt like authority figures at all. He and Jack used to argue a lot about what was and wasn't safe to try. Carl has a hot temper but is mostly a big teddy bear type…
Mah-lahah-Lahah "little Budha" Kurawanimanniarah Little budha is the teams resident Surfing expert.. Jack once asked why the 6'6" 470lb lil budha was called thatand Budha only laughed and said you should see my big brothers. LB is a giant samoin native of Hawaii and he opitamises there laid back calm culture the man dosnt ruffle dosnt get made or excited he walks through life riding a perpetual wave of stoned like mana. He is majorly into hawaian spirituality and is an amazing surfer. Infact hes not a profession champion only because he dosnt meet "weight class"restrictions built into the competitions and dosnt fit there "image" but he can ride the thrashingest scaryest waves as if standing on the reflective eye of a looking pool. LB loves all the members of Team Extreem and is a very warm and friendly person he tend to end disputes be placing a living wall of flesh between combatants he simply will not allow his friends to get hurt but it makes him cry to have to use physical force on someone. He is also security for team Extreem.
Mike "Scary Fucker" Patterson Mike has been taking martial arts since he was a 4 year old boy his father is a 3rd don in multiple forms and raised is son not to be no wuss. Mike has short guy syndrome hes 4'2" and dosnt like being picked on about it. Hes a wirey little monkey of a man and is an expert in 12 difrent deadly martial artists is an acomplised gymnast though his true claim to fame is he is an accomplished freestyle mountain climber. those crazy guys who climb cliffs without safty gear just there bare hands" he likes to scail skyscrapers. He no longer competes in tournaments for martial arts.. Mike was in prison for 5 years for almost killing a man who asualted Bunny. He now works as a Cooler corridnating bouncers at a popular club in D.C. he also was security for team extreme
Wilhelm "Blue Balls" barbatos Expert with pyrotechnics and extreme survival his ideal vacation is roaming the woods with Ted nudget killing things with their bar hands or going dipping in a polar glacial pool. You know an extreme envirement and hes camped it. As well as an expert in bungie jumping. Currently working on an Alaskian Oil rigg to make some money to fund his next camping trip to some jungle somewhere.
Kim "Whats in here" Martin master spelunker and urban explorer proficient in all manor of locks and security system kim loves to seek out forbidden places in the forgotten industrial recesses of a city and seek them out looking for secrets she has a degree in Cultural anthropology and archiology and calls her self an archeologist of the hidden history of the modern world. She acts as scout and guide when team extreem goes urban exploring. She is also an expert skier from California. And is currently living in L.A. where she works as at a starbucks.
Jack will be outraged that Goerge died in the wake of John Johns death and will want to restore the magazine.
George magazine to fold in March January 4, 2001 Web posted at: 6:29 PM EST (2329 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- George magazine, the political monthly founded by the late John F. Kennedy Jr, is folding, its owner said Thursday.
In a statement released by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, the company said the magazine, which struggled to make money, will cease publication in March.
"Despite a superb editorial product under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Frank Lalli, advertisers' support has not been forthcoming," Hachette President and CEO Jack Kliger said. Citing the "recent softening of the advertising market," Kliger added, "The likelihood that George's prospects will improve in this environment has become remote."
"While I have been enthusiastic about George and remain so, the reality of today's magazine business is that we cannot make George work economically," he said.
Staff members were informed Thursday of the decision.
The final issue of George will include interviews conducted by Kennedy while he was editor.
Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law were killed when the plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in July 1999.
