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Character Name: Harold "Hal" Jordan
Character Series: Green Lantern/ DC Comics
Character Age: 27
Background:
Born to parents Martin and Jessica Jordan of Coast City, California, Hal is the second of three children. Hal had a relatively normal childhood and grew up wishing to become a test pilot like his father. When he was eleven tragedy struck- Martin died in a plane crash during a highly anticipated test flight for his employers, Ferris Aircraft. There at the presentation to cheer his father on, Hal witnessed the accident first hand, his greatest fear come to terrifying reality. As a result he became even more obsessed with planes, to the point that he would cut school and sneak into airfields just to watch them fly. Needless to say this caused his mother no end to her stress, and she forbade him from having anything to do with aircraft.
That...really didn't work. On his eighteenth birthday, Hal ran away and joined the Air Force and became a Big Damn Test Pilot. While he was one of the best and brightest in the Air Force, he was also one of the most reckless, known for pushing jets past their limits and having more than a few death-defying landings to his name. Seriously, it could be a flaming ball of nothing but cockpit and he could not only land that sumbitch, but walk away without a scratch. The way he figured, he already experienced his worst fear. There was nothing else to be afraid of.
Shortly after thrashing a thirty-million dollar F-16 ("[having] saved the Air Force two years of test flights", as he put it), his younger brother Jim got back into contact with Hal to inform him that their mother was dying of pancreatic cancer. Hal was desperate to visit her, but both of his brothers put their foot down. Their mother had wanted nothing to do with Hal while he was in the Air Force, and seeing him might upset her already delicate condition.
So between getting reamed over the loss of the jet the following morning and stewing sorrowfully over the news about his mother, Hal made another bad decision. As stubborn as he was, he couldn't just walk away from the Air Force- so he decked his CO in the face. Ta-da! Dishonorable discharge. Joy.
In the end, he arrived too late to see Jessica before she died. His older brother Jack blamed him for her death, which was...misplaced but understandable, in hindsight. Out of the USAF, Hal got a job as a flight mechanic in training for Arden Air, learning under Tom Kalmaku. He came to reunite with Carol Ferris, who had stepped in to control Ferris Aircraft for her father Carl, who had seemingly pushed Martin Jordan to stay in the air the day he died. Both were underwhelmed by this experience.
In the midst of this, Sector 2814's current Green Lantern, Abin Sur, crash landed on earth and died, but not before his power ring summoned Hal and informed him that hay bro hay, you're the new GL of this sector. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic police force tasked with protecting one of the 3600 sectors of the known universe.
Transported almost immediately to the GLC homeworld of Oa after faffing with his shiny new power battery, Hal landed in with GL drill sergeant Kilowog's boot camp for n00bs. Hal made an impression by, what else, punching him in the face. (Sense a trend?) After a week of successful training, he returned to earth. During his time away the purchase of Arden Air by Ferris Aircraft was finalized, and the pilots in service instituted a walkout in protest. Asked back into the air by Carol herself, he reluctantly agreed and was back in employ as a test pilot once more.
Hal then went on to meet Sinestro, Abin Sur's pupil and arguably the best Green Lantern in the Corps. Following an encounter with the newly-telepathic and psychotic Hector Hammond, they went on to confront Atrocitus, who was brought to earth by Abin Sur in order to find out more about the whacked out prophecy of the Blackest Night. Which...will end up happening twenty or more years later canon-wise so we're not caring about it right now. Following the assbeating of Atrocitus, in which Hal got dressed down by Sinestro for being an angry dickweasel and told to grow the fuck up, Hal decided he'd go right to the source of his anger- Carl Ferris.
Instead of finding Carl Ferris enjoying his golden years golfing on a beach, Hal discovered that the man had in fact been riddled with guilt over Martin's death, the stress having finally taken its toll. Carol stepped in for him, sacrificing her dream career as a pilot to run the family business and take care of her ailing father. Besides feeling like a dick, Hal finally came to terms with the grief and loss he felt after his father's death, and to let go of the anger that had fueled him constantly for sixteen years. In the end he began to repair his relationship with his family, starting with his brother Jim, letting him in on his awesome GLness.
And not long after he wound up in Mayfield. Fantastic.
Personality:
At first glance, Hal can come off as overly confident and a bit of a cocky bastard. He has a reason to be- the sheer amount of willpower required to use a GL ring is apparent in his personal life, where he tackles any new challenge with the drive to be the very best. The best test pilot? Natch. Green Lanterns can't affect anything yellow? Fuck that, he's determined to prove he can. He did, once, to defend Sinestro against Atrocitus (not that anyone'll believe him). Point in his favor.
Hal has a strong code of ethics, despite his general interpersonal fails. If something doesn't smell right, Hal won't let it pass without comment. Besides calling out a pilot for using a racist slur against his mechanic, he also clocked a Marine who got aggressive with his girlfriend and straight up called the Guardians on their bullshit for forcing Green Lanterns to work alone. In the same breath, he would also turn right around and pull any of the above's asses out of the fire if called to it. That pilot who called Tom "pieface"hurr Eskimo pie :|? Shortly after receiving his power ring, still not even fully sure of what the fuck he was doing, he rescued the man during a test flight gone awry. Despite having not even really known Abin Sur, Hal returned to the crash site and gave the GL a proper burial. It was the decent thing to do.
Hal is highly optimistic, easily adaptive (getting dragged to an alien planet to train how to use a ring that can create anything you imagine? Let's do this) and tends to be well-liked and respected by his close friends and coworkers- knowing his fellow pilots would also get their asses metaphorically tanned for his actions in the F-16, he bought them all drinks and kept the tone light at the bar that evening. Er, at least until he popped that Marine. But hey, they backed him up when it turned into a full scale bar brawl. He's got that kind of charisma.
On the flipside he can sometimes let his mouth and his temper run away with him, landing him in hot water. He's not so cocksure he won't back down if he knows he's wrong, but if he feels he's in the right? God help you. He all but told the Guardians of the fraking Universe to fuck right off, he won't hesitate when it comes to relatively smaller fry.
Abilities: Hal possess a Green Lantern Corps power ring and power battery for recharging the former. Yep, his toys are plug and play. The GLC ring allows him to create pretty much anything he wants so long as he has the willpower and the ring has the charge to support it. More info is on the wiki. Obviously he will be brought into Mayfield without his playthings. :( Shit sucks.
Sample Entry:
I wonder if this isn't some sort of cosmic, karma-wrought backlash for having been an admittedly shitty kid when I was growing up. I finally let my "son" cajole me into playing catch with him and, if I can be honest with myself? It was enjoyable. Still intensely creepy, particularly because I can't recall having had the free time in Basic to do anything besides fall exhausted into my bunk, much less bag a Stepford wife and start on a family in Pleasantville, USA...
[A burst of music can be heard in the background, "Let's Get Together" suddenly muffled when Hal puts the receiver to his chest, his voice level. "Hey hey! Beaver Cleaver, volume down, I'm not in the mood for Annette." "You're silly, Daddy!" The record's volume obligingly drops a moment later, and Hal sighs heavily. He scrubs his hand over his face.]
I take it back. I'll take another five weeks of getting pegged in the face with Kilowog's training disks over this. My aunt always said "it's different when you have your own".
Yeah. She was sure as Hell right.
Personal LJ:
theartemaContact Info: AIM - Megumi Sendo
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: N/A
Character Name: Harold "Hal" Jordan
Character Series: Green Lantern/ DC Comics
Character Age: 27
Background:
Born to parents Martin and Jessica Jordan of Coast City, California, Hal is the second of three children. Hal had a relatively normal childhood and grew up wishing to become a test pilot like his father. When he was eleven tragedy struck- Martin died in a plane crash during a highly anticipated test flight for his employers, Ferris Aircraft. There at the presentation to cheer his father on, Hal witnessed the accident first hand, his greatest fear come to terrifying reality. As a result he became even more obsessed with planes, to the point that he would cut school and sneak into airfields just to watch them fly. Needless to say this caused his mother no end to her stress, and she forbade him from having anything to do with aircraft.
That...really didn't work. On his eighteenth birthday, Hal ran away and joined the Air Force and became a Big Damn Test Pilot. While he was one of the best and brightest in the Air Force, he was also one of the most reckless, known for pushing jets past their limits and having more than a few death-defying landings to his name. Seriously, it could be a flaming ball of nothing but cockpit and he could not only land that sumbitch, but walk away without a scratch. The way he figured, he already experienced his worst fear. There was nothing else to be afraid of.
Shortly after thrashing a thirty-million dollar F-16 ("[having] saved the Air Force two years of test flights", as he put it), his younger brother Jim got back into contact with Hal to inform him that their mother was dying of pancreatic cancer. Hal was desperate to visit her, but both of his brothers put their foot down. Their mother had wanted nothing to do with Hal while he was in the Air Force, and seeing him might upset her already delicate condition.
So between getting reamed over the loss of the jet the following morning and stewing sorrowfully over the news about his mother, Hal made another bad decision. As stubborn as he was, he couldn't just walk away from the Air Force- so he decked his CO in the face. Ta-da! Dishonorable discharge. Joy.
In the end, he arrived too late to see Jessica before she died. His older brother Jack blamed him for her death, which was...misplaced but understandable, in hindsight. Out of the USAF, Hal got a job as a flight mechanic in training for Arden Air, learning under Tom Kalmaku. He came to reunite with Carol Ferris, who had stepped in to control Ferris Aircraft for her father Carl, who had seemingly pushed Martin Jordan to stay in the air the day he died. Both were underwhelmed by this experience.
In the midst of this, Sector 2814's current Green Lantern, Abin Sur, crash landed on earth and died, but not before his power ring summoned Hal and informed him that hay bro hay, you're the new GL of this sector. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic police force tasked with protecting one of the 3600 sectors of the known universe.
Transported almost immediately to the GLC homeworld of Oa after faffing with his shiny new power battery, Hal landed in with GL drill sergeant Kilowog's boot camp for n00bs. Hal made an impression by, what else, punching him in the face. (Sense a trend?) After a week of successful training, he returned to earth. During his time away the purchase of Arden Air by Ferris Aircraft was finalized, and the pilots in service instituted a walkout in protest. Asked back into the air by Carol herself, he reluctantly agreed and was back in employ as a test pilot once more.
Hal then went on to meet Sinestro, Abin Sur's pupil and arguably the best Green Lantern in the Corps. Following an encounter with the newly-telepathic and psychotic Hector Hammond, they went on to confront Atrocitus, who was brought to earth by Abin Sur in order to find out more about the whacked out prophecy of the Blackest Night. Which...will end up happening twenty or more years later canon-wise so we're not caring about it right now. Following the assbeating of Atrocitus, in which Hal got dressed down by Sinestro for being an angry dickweasel and told to grow the fuck up, Hal decided he'd go right to the source of his anger- Carl Ferris.
Instead of finding Carl Ferris enjoying his golden years golfing on a beach, Hal discovered that the man had in fact been riddled with guilt over Martin's death, the stress having finally taken its toll. Carol stepped in for him, sacrificing her dream career as a pilot to run the family business and take care of her ailing father. Besides feeling like a dick, Hal finally came to terms with the grief and loss he felt after his father's death, and to let go of the anger that had fueled him constantly for sixteen years. In the end he began to repair his relationship with his family, starting with his brother Jim, letting him in on his awesome GLness.
And not long after he wound up in Mayfield. Fantastic.
Personality:
At first glance, Hal can come off as overly confident and a bit of a cocky bastard. He has a reason to be- the sheer amount of willpower required to use a GL ring is apparent in his personal life, where he tackles any new challenge with the drive to be the very best. The best test pilot? Natch. Green Lanterns can't affect anything yellow? Fuck that, he's determined to prove he can. He did, once, to defend Sinestro against Atrocitus (not that anyone'll believe him). Point in his favor.
Hal has a strong code of ethics, despite his general interpersonal fails. If something doesn't smell right, Hal won't let it pass without comment. Besides calling out a pilot for using a racist slur against his mechanic, he also clocked a Marine who got aggressive with his girlfriend and straight up called the Guardians on their bullshit for forcing Green Lanterns to work alone. In the same breath, he would also turn right around and pull any of the above's asses out of the fire if called to it. That pilot who called Tom "pieface"
Hal is highly optimistic, easily adaptive (getting dragged to an alien planet to train how to use a ring that can create anything you imagine? Let's do this) and tends to be well-liked and respected by his close friends and coworkers- knowing his fellow pilots would also get their asses metaphorically tanned for his actions in the F-16, he bought them all drinks and kept the tone light at the bar that evening. Er, at least until he popped that Marine. But hey, they backed him up when it turned into a full scale bar brawl. He's got that kind of charisma.
On the flipside he can sometimes let his mouth and his temper run away with him, landing him in hot water. He's not so cocksure he won't back down if he knows he's wrong, but if he feels he's in the right? God help you. He all but told the Guardians of the fraking Universe to fuck right off, he won't hesitate when it comes to relatively smaller fry.
Abilities: Hal possess a Green Lantern Corps power ring and power battery for recharging the former. Yep, his toys are plug and play. The GLC ring allows him to create pretty much anything he wants so long as he has the willpower and the ring has the charge to support it. More info is on the wiki. Obviously he will be brought into Mayfield without his playthings. :( Shit sucks.
Sample Entry:
I wonder if this isn't some sort of cosmic, karma-wrought backlash for having been an admittedly shitty kid when I was growing up. I finally let my "son" cajole me into playing catch with him and, if I can be honest with myself? It was enjoyable. Still intensely creepy, particularly because I can't recall having had the free time in Basic to do anything besides fall exhausted into my bunk, much less bag a Stepford wife and start on a family in Pleasantville, USA...
[A burst of music can be heard in the background, "Let's Get Together" suddenly muffled when Hal puts the receiver to his chest, his voice level. "Hey hey! Beaver Cleaver, volume down, I'm not in the mood for Annette." "You're silly, Daddy!" The record's volume obligingly drops a moment later, and Hal sighs heavily. He scrubs his hand over his face.]
I take it back. I'll take another five weeks of getting pegged in the face with Kilowog's training disks over this. My aunt always said "it's different when you have your own".
Yeah. She was sure as Hell right.
