Post by James "Jem" Carstairs on Feb 7, 2016 0:18:26 GMT -5
*-- James Carstairs --*
Name :: James Carstairs (Ke Jian Ming)
Nickname(s) :: Jem
Age :: 155 years old (25)
Gender :: Male
Book(s) :: The Infernal Devices
Author(s) :: Cassandra Clare
Summary of Character Involvement/Plot of Book(s) :: Clockwork Angel: Jem is a shadow hunter who lived in the Victorian England. He had a really weird illness related to an addiction to a drug called Yin Fen that a demon developed in him. After his parents died he was sent to London, to live in the Institute there. He met William Herondale who later became his parabatai. When he was 17 they met Tessa Gray, an orphan who was a warlock with Nephilim blood. Both guys fell for Tessa, but will thought he had a curse in him and didn’t want Tessa to suffer from it. So Jem was the one who made his moves. They investigated some murders and only found more questions about it.
Clockwork Prince: Jem proposed to Tessa as she was going to ascend as a shadowhunter. They found out about some clockwork men that attacked them. Jem fought against them to protect Tessa but he only became even more ill. He had to take twice as much drug as he used to, only to make Will and Tessa think that he was getting better. But he fell deathly ill and the owner and creator of the clockwork men kidnapped Tessa. Jem begged Will to go and save her. Then Jem joined the Silent brotherhood and his parabatai bond was broken.
Clockwork Princess: Jem then known as Brother Zachariah helped Will and Tessa to defeat Mortiman, the owner of the clockwork men.
Face Claim :: HERO JaeJoong
Appearance :: Jem is a contradiction himself. when he was younger got very ill and his constitution turned to be weak. He was thin and fragile, but still he trained hard to become a strong shadowhunter, Marked muscles and not a bit of fat in his body. Pale skin almost like snow with a silver glimmer all over it, but very dim to be immediately noticed. Silvered hair so as his eyes. He found a way to get healed and his body changed a bit. His body got stronger and was built up a bit more, but it is still graceful and he still plays the violin beautifully. His hair and eyes got dark brown, almost black as when he was a child. His skin is not as pale as before, and it doesn't have the silvered glimmer anymore. Also his pale skin marked in black with permanent runes and with like burnt scars with the temporary ones. He isn't too tall, only 6'1".
Personality :: Jem is a really kind man, he is always trying to help others and make them feel well even when he is the one who used to need a lot of help, had never liked to worry anyone or to ask for help. He had never liked to feel like a burden to others, so he does always his best effort to be strong and capable to do everything on his own. He is also kind of quiet, he prefers to sit down and listen, observe those who he is with, so he know them better, so he knows how to help them or also his enemies, how to defeat them. He is very calm, always trying to think on his actions and the consequences that those actions will create. He has a cold mind whenever he is in hunter’s mode, but when he is with the people he loves and cares about, he is always gentle. He had hated when people found out about his illness, but now that he doesn’t have it, he still worries that people know he had it. He is also worried to find yin Fen again, if he does he fears he could become an addict again. He is very intelligent and calculates everything really well. He adores to play the violin and teach his niece how to play it too. He is a really hardworking man, no matter what he is doing, he gives more than 100% of his effort to accomplish the task or work that he had to develop.
Family :: Father: Jonah Carstairs
Mother: Ke Wen Yu
Uncle: Elias Carstairs
Niece: Emma Carstairs
Parabatai: William Herondale
Wife: Tessa Gray (divorced)
History :: Jem was born in Shanghai, China. Son of Jonah Carstairs and Ke Wen Yu, who were the ones running the Shanghai Institute where he was raised. His life was good a peaceful or as much as any other Shadow hunter kid, until he was 12 years old. His parents destroyed the nest of a Great demon known as Yanluo. It in retaliation captured the Carstairs. He killed Jem’s parents and then tortured Jem by poisoning with yin fen. It gave him delirious dreams for days. By the time the Clave finally arrived and saved him, he was already addicted to the drug and his dependence to it could not be cured. He needed regular doses of it to survive, which also were deadly in time, so it was known that he couldn’t survive long.
He was sent to London Institute, there he was cared for by Charlotte Branwell. There he also met other shadowhunters and some mundanes gifted with the sight. Among the shadowhunters was William Herondale, who also was fairly new there. Charlotte had to take Jem to the training room to meet Will. He seemed to be rude and tried to dissuade Jem to befriend him, so he told Jem how sick he looked. Jem told him about his short lifespan and that instead of pity him he should let him train with him, Will agreed to it.
They became really close friends and when they were 13 Will asked Jem to become his parabatai. Jem thought Will deserved someone healthier, but Will insisted and even told Jem to bet, if in battle Will won, then they would become parabatai. Jem lost the bet and a year after that they underwent the parabatai ceremony.
Will spent a long time looking for a cure for Jem, but when they were 15 Jem asked Will to stop looking for it. Also by that time the Demon Yanluo was slain and Jem was invited to go to Idris and live with his father’s brother, Elias. But Jem refused and stayed in London with Will.
Two years after that they were investigating about the death of a mundane which led them to the Dark sisters. Jem had to go back to the Institute because he was too ill to go into the raid against the house of the Sisters. Will rescued a girl, Tessa Gray, who Jem met hours later. She walked into his room while he was playing his violin. He thought first it was will but then when he realized about his mistake, he didn’t mind it being her. Tessa and Jem became very good friends, he helped her to adjust into the shadow world and also helped her understand Will’s bad behavior.
Days later after a battle he fell ill again. Then he explained Tessa about his dependence to the drug, how Will bought it to him so he could still live, but Jem always try to take as little as possible, the needed to survive only. He is frightened of the kind of death he would have after watching a werewolf dying of an over dose of it.
They continued the investigation of the clockwork creatures and they had to face the Dark Sisters again. In the house they found a cat in a cage, Jem rescued it and later he named the cat Church and the cat became really fond of Jem. Also after that he talked to Tessa and comforted about not being able to have children and gave her his family ring as an engagement ring and his jade pendant as an engagement present, as she prepared to Ascend and become a shadowhunter.
But in order to make Will and Tessa think that he was well and almost healthy, he took twice as much of the drug and fell extremely ill. A man stole all of the Yin fen and there was no way to get more for him. Tessa was kidnapped by the same man who stole the drug and Jem asked Will to save her. By the time Will was half way he felt their parabatai connection break and the rune bleed, making him think that Jem had died, But he didn’t die, he became a Silent brother.
Being a silent brother he couldn’t be with Will or Tessa, so he lived apart. Tessa married Will and Brother Zachariah, which was his new name, watched over them and their children. He visited Will before he died of old age and played the violin once more. Then year after year visited Tessa in a bridge in London. Years later he met Will’s descendant, Jace Herondale. Jace had in him the heavenly fire and that burnt all the yin fen from his body.
Tessa was an immortal, was a warlock with Nephilim blood, so after 129 years of being a silent brother, he looked for Tessa and told her he was cured and also he didn’t want to be a shadowhunter anymore. They went together to her flat and their engagement was restored. They moved to Los Angeles to look out for his distant niece, Emma Carstairs. And in 2009 Tessa and Jem got married in their bridge, Blackfriars Bridge. Five years after they got married, they got divorced. She blamed him for not being as Will was and to still be lost in the past. So they finally got divorced and he went back to be a fulltime shadowhunter. Nowadays, Jem is one of the many that had come to our universe.
Site Alias :: Lilith
Roleplaying Experience :: +-12years
Code :: brickpants
Sample RP :: It was a dark night, the silence in the air was something that would have frozen the blood in the veins of the bravest person. The air was cold and the fine snowflakes that fell to the ground were like small blades cutting through the cold and red skin of the people that were walking down the street. Of course there were few people outside, it wasn’t really late, only 8pm, but the sky was already pitch black and the weather didn’t help a lot to encourage people to be outside. Among all those people was a young man walking down the street as if he was looking for something or as if he was lost.
He was a slim man, with pale skin and black straight hair. Although it was freezing cold outside, he was wearing only black jeans with black combat boots, black T-shirt and a black sweater over it, a thin scarf in white and that was it, no mittens, no hat or a better scarf, a thick jacket, something to cover more of his body. He was wearing only that and he didn’t seem to be cold! How was that possible?! He was walking among people being careful not to hit someone as he walked.
“Where am I?” he asked himself as he was walking. People looked at him in a weird way, maybe it was because of his thin clothes, his lack of thicker ones, or maybe it were the tattoos that he had on his pale skin. It was difficult to see them under his clothes, but he had some on his hands and on his neck. He also had some marks on his cheeks that seemed the mark of a faded tattoo or scar. He didn’t seem to care about the looks of the people around him, but people for sure was looking at him, staring.
He needed answers, hours ago he had been chasing a demon down the street, then it turned on a corner and Jem followed it. Then he walked through like something that looked like a mirage and appeared in that weird place, it didn’t look like Los Angeles, and if he wasn’t back soon, Emma, his teenage niece was going to miss him. So he needed answers and soon. He saw a library and thought that it would be a clever idea to find some answers in there. So he walked into the Library and looked around, he needed to find a map or a person with the right answers.
