Political Liaison - Joseph M. Lebeau
Dec 11, 2013 11:18:10 GMT
Post by Joseph M. LeBeau on Dec 11, 2013 11:18:10 GMT
Name: Joseph Matthew LeBeau
Age: 28
Race: Human
Rank: Free
Occupation: Political Liaison
Appearance:
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 165 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Brown with some blond
Build: Lean and toned.
Abilities:
Eidetic Memory : This is a more fully realized version of a photographic memory...a more unlimited version as it allows him to not only remember everything he sees, but also everything he smells, tastes, hears and touches. While not a traditional 'psychic' ability, many still take it to be something supernatural. Joseph just looks at it like a skill...and a well-honed one at that.
Skills:
For the People : He has a knack for knowing what people want to hear, and has no issues with delivering.
Smooth Criminal : This man walks the walk and talks the talk. He can lie so easily, and so seamlessly that it's almost like he's not telling a lie at all. In fact, if he told you the sky was green and the grass was blue, you might find yourself inclined to believe him.
Silver Tongue : Not only does he have a higher understanding of the laws of this country as well as the laws surrounding the treaty, but he understands the sort of technical talk that often confuses laymen. Because of this, he can talk around a jury, and can also talk around most people until they finally come around to his way of thinking.
Ivy League Education: He received his education at the country's most prestigious schools, and graduated from Harvard's School of Law Magna Cum Laude.
Who you Know : He has connections - whether they're his judge father or other political affiliates or not doesn't matte.
Politically Savvy : He knows how to play the game, and he plays it well. Some would almost say too well.
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Weaknesses:
Racist : Not in regards to color of skin as must human racists are...this is entirely focused around the 'monsters'. Mind you, he's clever enough and skilled enough to hide this particular weakness...he thinks vampires, dhampirs, and lycans are dirty, filthy creatures not fit to walk this earth. Occasionally he meets exceptions to this rule of hatred, and it totally screws with his head...but this is only /occasionally/.
Germophobe ~ Conditional: Since he finds the 'monsters' so filthy, it only stands to reason that he does not want them touching him. If one should dare be so familiar, he's overcome with an almost over-powering urge to shower and burn the things he's wearing. Once again...these are impulses he can control and usually he manages just fine.
Who you Know : His father is a judge, and a well-known judge. So he has to be careful of how his personal actions outwardly reflects that.
Perfectionist: Yes he works hard, and plays harder - but everything he does has to be done with utmost precision. If it's anything less than perfect, then he wants nothing to do with it.
Dirty Secret : He has a dhampir half-brother that he doesn't like to acknowledge, and a vampire step-father that he also refuses to acknowledge. As a result of this, he's tried to keep any connection they may have to him out of public record. He does see his half-brother once a week, but does his best to keep these meetings secret.
Closeted : While Joseph does like the ladies, and like them quite a bit...he's a very deeply closeted bi-sexual. While most nowadays are quite comfortable with that sexual status, Joseph himself is not - and finds it to be a rather disgusting imperfection in himself. As a result of this, any /man/ he happens to take to bed should not expect to be treated kindly before, during or after the act. This is a part of himself that he despises...would really rather didn't exist. And it's a part that he denies and defies, usually with a great degree of success. But every now and then, well, he /is/ only human after all.
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Personality:
Duplicitous, Smooth-Talker, Intelligent, Professional, Hateful (hidden), Perfectionist, Calculating, Cold, Aloof, Arrogant, Superior
Brief History:
Joseph is, was and always will be one of the one-percenters. He grew up the very privileged child of Judge Walter LeBeau - a man with more political clout than any one person should really be able to lay claim to. Now, young Joseph did have his mother in his life for a very short time...but if one were to ask him about her, he would tell that person (and quite bluntly too) that she was dead and expect it to be left at that. The truth is...she's alive and well, but living with the vampire she left his father for and their dhampir son, and Joseph's dhampir half-brother.
Now, it'd be nice if it could be said that Joseph didn't always hate the things he didn't understand...but, and perhaps unfortunately, it can't. That hatred of those very things was something that was instilled in him practically at birth. Perhaps things could have changed if he had chosen to remain with his mother...but no, that was not for him. Instead, he grew up under his father's care and did so very much in his father's image, and took that image and a very high IQ with him to all the private schools his father's money afforded - private schools that his very high IQ had him going through like water, the boy turning out to be quite the young prodigy indeed. By the time he was just eighteen, he'd already achieved his J.D (Juris Doctor or the equivalent of a Master's Degree) from Harvard Law.
By the time he was twenty-one, he was making a name for himself in a small, privately owned law firm that his father recommended him to...only to be snatched up the District Attorney's office. There, though, was where he hit a bit of a snag as he tended to find the work dissatisfying. He was supposed to be putting the criminals away...and yet every day he saw the real 'monsters' walking free while innocent humans - humans just protecting their right to /be/ human - got locked up in prison for having the nerve to take action against the bastards.
Well, Joseph couldn't - no /wouldn't/ stand for it. After fishing around for just the 'right' fit ...he eventually took a job and Leiber & Brahmin - a privately owned law firm that specialized in just that sort of defense. His time there was both satisfying and very, very profitable - the so-called 'murderers' he managed to save being the sort that had more than enough cash to blow on his costly services - and he never lost a case.
It is likely that, anyone paying attention to those sorts of trials -as some of them were high-profile and Joseph has never been camera shy - would know him strictly by reputation. After all, during that time he was exceptionally tenacious in the courtroom, not backing down and defending his clients with almost vicious skill. But still, it wasn't enough. He was only saving one human at a time...and there were really thousands, millions even, at stake. Especially with the induction of the by-now Infamous treaty...
Needless to say, when he heard through the grapevine that there was a job opening in his area for Political Liaison...he jumped at it. Of course, it took a bit of finagling to make certain he would get it - but with his father's clout and his own connections, it was pretty much a piece of cake. Here was a chance to really do some /good/...to show those 'monsters' that his kind were not just things to be owned or killed for food. Still, he was aware he'd have to be clever about it...especially when confronted with the German who was to be his assistant - one Dietrich Schäfer. Yes, he knew that, if he wanted things done his way, then he needed to be clever about it indeed - which really, given his level of intelligence, shouldn't prove to be too difficult. At least not to his way of thinking.
Currently, he lives among the 'monsters'...and though he hates every minute of it, that hate is hidden behind a very carefully and expertly constructed mask of charm and neutrality. Though he is finding it difficult, he's meticulously working at going through the former Liaison's notes. A somewhat difficult task as it would appear that Mr. Aaron Williams was not the most organized of people...and was prone to writing nonsense at that - but Joseph knows he's up to the task. Knows he'd /better/ be...because if he wants things to go a certain way, he needs to really work for it.
Face Claim: Wouter Peelen
