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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadowbloodmoon" data-source="post: 2118160" data-attributes="member: 9986">Jason PaquinJason Paquin was born to a family of folks who never wanted for anything. His father was a wealthy banker, or at least that is what they had told him. His father was always too busy to tell Jason much of anything. He was always in meetings or away on business trips. His mother was almost never present either, her vast social empire being the top of her list to take care of. She relied on the family's large amount of money to keep everyone, including Jason, well-taken care of. Unfortunately, it didn't take care of his emotional needs. He his it well, of course, not wanting to disappoint his parents, but their attention was focused more on Mark, who wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, not knowing what he was really getting into. Jason continued distancing himself from the family, but when they were around, he acted as if nothing was wrong, that everything was fine. Thus it came as a surprise the day that Jason came to his father and asked to leave home. All of fourteen years old, Jason had decided he wanted to see the world, travel around, learn new things, meet new people. Something other than be here where no one really cared about him. Jason's father, more interested in Mark's progress than Jason's, allowed him to go, on one condition. It was decided by his father however that he needed a chaperone for these trips, so his father sent hired guns to keep an eye on Jason's activities.During his travels, Jason picked up numerous languages and cultural skills (Specialty#1, multicultural). He developed an ability to kow how to interact with people all over the world. His travels took him in an almost straight line across the globe. From the United States to Europe to the Russian territories to the Oriental countries, all the way south to Australia, back north to Indonesia and again west through India and the Middle East and then Africa, back to South America and then again to the U.S. Strangely enough, Jason never wanted to visit Canada.During the first part of his journey, in Europe, he discovered boxing, and soon after, wrestling. Here was a way for Jason to take out his inner aggression and deal with hormones that had started to develop in him. It wasn't until his travel to the Orient that he developed a real fascination with Eastern martial arts. Learning what he could from wherever and whoever he could, Jason gained a smattering of hand to hand combat skills from all over the world (Specialty #2, open hand combat). He trained exclusively with a Chinese Buddhist temple for eight years before continuing the rest of his journey. While with the temple, besides the physical aspect of it, he had learned from the Buddhist philosophy that fighting was not about aggression, but a continuous learning of what mind and body are capable of. This helped him deal with the anger he felt at being left out of the family, but not the jealousy. Along with learning how to fight, Jason learned that in order to truly know the real cultures of wherever he went, he would have to avoid his chaperones, thus he picked up a few techniques of evasion, both from his own experience and that of some of the people he met while doing so (Specialty#3, evasion). A few encounters with some shady individuals taught him about disappearing in plain sight and staying out of view, not only from his watchers, but from the law as well. Jason knew that some of the activities he engaged in sometimes skirted and often times literally broke the law, but as far as he was concerned, it was just another learning experience. Because he did not fully understand the Buddhist ways, he felt that in a way, they allowed him to do whatever was necessary to learn new things.Also on his trips around the world, Jason had met many people, some decent folk, some not so decent folk. While his need to prove himself kept him from making many friends, on both sides of the fence, he could count many as sources of information, strictly in a business sense. He could find just about anything he wanted by talking to the right people in a new place. (Specialty#4, Human Networking).Eventually, almost two decades had passed and Jason felt he learned what he could and anything else would come from experience. He also found out that his father was dying. Returning home to his father, he found that his father had decided to let Mark, who had been taking care of things for his father all this time, become heir of the Paquin fortune and business. Realizing that his father's business actually had to do more with criminal activities thatn Jason would have liked. Deciding that it was better this way, Jason thanked his father and left for parts unknown.Unfortunately, as much as Jason tried to hide it, he was still jealous of Mark and how both his father and mother ignored him to groom Mark for position at the head of the family. It wasn't so much that Jason wanted that position, but he did want recognition for his own accomplishments. This feeling would color his interactions with people he would later meet. Since he no longer had the resources to pay for his excursions out into the world, Jason had to find something to make money. His contacts and combat skills earned him a place with another, less covert criminal syndicate. At the time however, Jason was told it was a legitimate business of dealing with imported weapons for the military. Moving up the ranks however taught him the truth. Eventually, Jason wanted out, seeing that eventually he would become exactly what Mark had become. Making a deal with the CIA agent that had been assigned to watch this particular group, Jason helped bring the operation down to a halt. The agent was going to offer to help him get a new identity and a new life, but Jason turned it down, saying that he refused to hide from his former life. However Jason's inherent need for recognition (Hubris) kicked in and he decided he wanted to do what the agent did. He struggled however with another deeper reason. He secretly wanted to bring down his own family's operations, however he was unwilling to go against his own family, no matter how angry a part of him still was. The agent agreed that they could use someone with Jason's talents and eventually he was sent to the CIA training farm in Langley, Virginia. During his psych screen, it was determined that Jason's need for recognition went far deeper than his younger brother. Anyone that was better skilled at something than he was, Jason immediately had to strive to be that much better. His superiors decided this could be used to their benefit and kept Jason in training. During the course, Jason discovered that he had a knack for remembering technical details about equipment, and thus was able to identify almost anything from any part of the world (Specialty#5, military equipment identification). He had become in essence, an encyclopedia of that knowledge. After his commission into actual field duty, Jason slowly became bored with what he was doing. At the same time, he was becoming frustrated with not being able to surpass the skills of some of the other agents in certain areas, thus causing some trouble within the community. It was also found out that Jason had been making too many contacts within other espionage communities, and he was wavering on a thin line as far as his superiors were concerned. Deciding that he was too valuable to lose, but that the information he had was too dangerous, Jason's superiors recommended him for the ESPION project.Let me know what you think...  Also, I was thinking that instead of tying ESPION to the UN or any nation for that matter, it could be an upper echelon type thing. A pool of agents who have no true allegiance except to the company and the mission, hired by any and all countries in order to perform activities their own agents do not want to dirty their hands with. Just a thought....</blockquote>

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