Name: Jingo "Jango" Blowtorch
Age: 24
Height: 1.85m (6'2")
Weight: 80kg (180Ibs)
Pilot Class: Fixer
Nationality: Newfoundlander
Appearance:
JingoBio: Jingo's birth was difficult for everyone, especially so for his mother, who was told by doctors that Jingo was most likely going to be stillborn and he was. His mother, stricken by grief at the death of her first child, died of depression a few minutes after giving birth (though after some thought later in life, Jingo speculated that it was blood loss that killed her). However, unfortunately (or fortunately for Jingo), as the baby's body was being taken to the morgue, it burst into shrieks and cries; his father, enraged by the doctor's false assumptions, beat the doctor to death in the ward. He grabbed his infant son out of the nurse's hands and made his escape soon afterwards, evading the clinic guard that pursued him around relentlessly.
After that, Jingo's father lived as a fugitive of the law, or rather what was left of it, trying to look after his son in a harsh world, a few months later they found safety in the form a ferry. At the time, they lived in Newfoundland, a large island off the cost of mainland Canada, it was practically impossible to get to the other side and it was speculated that there was no other side, as it was common for escaped prisoners to swim out to sea and never come back. It was a path that Jingo's father contemplated but when a ship came across from the other side, his hopes for a better future for his son were reinforced.
So he stowed away, crawling up the anchor chain of the ferry and into the hold, with his sleeping infant tied to his back.
Twelve years after making land fall in Labrador, life was going well, Jingo had settled into a cabin in the woods by his father, the isolationism suited them well as it meant that Newfoundland Rangers couldn't find them and that his father could take his plane out to town without being traced back.
Jingo spent many evenings of his childhood alone, his father was often out on his plane (later he discovered this was due to his father being a Skywayman). He spent most of this time bird watching, sat in a field outside his house with his eyes to the sky and by the end of the day, he'd have a pile of birds that he decided to keep.
One day, while watching the skies, waiting for his father to come home, Jingo spotted a plane, it wasn't his father's as this one was sleek and metal and had two engines, it was also coming right at him. Jingo managed to get away as the plane impacted the ground, it trailed a deep gash in the soil as it crumpled against the earth, upon returning, he found the pilot dragging himself out of the shattered cockpit.
Now, Jingo has never been the most sociable one, as he was raised in a forest with no one other then his father to talk to, so naturally he stood in front of the man like a dullard. The man looked up at young Jingo rather irked, he barked for the boy to get him some bandages, By the time his father returned, the man was inside and sprawled out by the fire place. The rest was history.
The man became a long time house guest, and with Jingo's help, fixed up the plane again, though the pilot was not there to see it fly again as he died of injuries sustained after the accident. Jingo took to flying it, joining his father on raiding bandit camps (it seemed to be a form of consultation to his father, to repent for the blood on his hands); however, after his father died in a malfunction during takeoff, nothing tied him to his cabin in the woods, so he left, he didn't know what he was looking for, he speculated it was adventure but some part of him knew that he was seeking company.
Theme Song:
I'm Alright
Neziul,
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