Post by archer on Jun 23, 2009 12:46:43 GMT -8
• Juan Ramón . Flecha Jiménez•
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x x NICKNAME : Juan Ramón is used to differentiate him from Juan José, the original Archer. Outside his family or aficionados of his pedigree, just Juan is used.
ALIAS : The Archer [IV]; El Arquero [IV]; Nicolás Sebastián Carcaj; John Ramond Arrow
AGE : 30 [As of 3 Sept 1978]
BIRTHDATE : 7 April 1948.
APPEARANCE :
Juan Ramón has the long and sleek frame of a runner. He stands at six feet, two inches tall and weighs in at one-hundred and ninety-five pounds. His physique is well maintained due to constant exercise both traditional, such as pushups and non-traditional, such as chasing down criminals. Incidentally, much of his height comes from his legs.
In another world, Juan Ramón could have been a model. Square-jawed and handsome, Flecha’s complexion is a light-brown. He has gray eyes and a dark black hair which is usually cut short and styled in his civilian identity. He does not bother with such niceties as a hero, however. In either event, he generally has as much of a five-o‘-clock shadow as the court system allows.
Flecha has some distinguishing marks. As for naturally occurring distinctions, he has a mole on the right side of his lower back. Additionally, he has a scar on his left bicep from when a common thug cut it open with a knife. Additionally, he has whip marks from his various encounters with the villainess el Escorpión (the Scorpion) scattered across his form.
ATTIRE :
While Flecha could easily afford the finest European suits in all the latest fashion for his civilian identity given the loads of money he has inherited, he tends to dress modestly both in order to save more money for his extra curricular activities and to not show up his subjects. His suits tend to be darker colors in the neighborhood of charcoal or black. His ties, as with his suits tend to be muted both in style and shade. Outside of work, he still dresses up, tending toward a pressed white shirt and tie. His conservative attire in his private life clashes greatly with his more debonair and flashy style of his alternate identity. This is a conscious decision on his part to differentiate his work as Juan Flecha with his work as the Archer.
The Archer’s costume is more or less identical to that of his ancestors’. He wears a maroon cordobés, which is more or less a kepi, the hat worn by both sides during the American Civil War, except that the brim winds around the entire base. Additionally, it has a silver band around it. Given the clandestine nature of the business, El Arquero also wears a brown wig to disguise the color of his hair. His face is covered at least partially by a green and white domino mask. The rest of the costume consists of a white button-up shirt, black finger-tab gloves with silver lining, a maroon sash around his waist, black pants, and black steel-toed shoes. He also sports a silver half-cape with white trim. As with the previous Archers, the current one has a stylized rose on his quiver to represent his grandmother, Rosa Lina Núñez Blanca, who died in child birth. Traditionally, its color is the same as the sash, in his case, maroon. Finally, while operating as the Archer, Juan Ramón usually has a representation of saints Sebastian and Nicholas, two patron saints of archers on her person.
PLAY BY : Rafael Amaya
AFFILIATION : Juan Ramón is a member of the Guardsmen, currently on reserve status as he deals with his personal demons.
OCCUPATION : While Juan Ramón is a hero, in his civilian identity, he is a journalist by training, taking on leads when he find something worth his efforts, although he has worked fewer and fewer assignments as he devotes more and more time to finding his sister. While he had a fifty-one percent share in his grandfather’s company, he leaves the day-to-day maintenance to his uncle‘s protégé, having no interest in personally running a newspaper.
EQUIPMENT : Juan Ramón carries various professional necessities: pens, papers, a recording device, when in civilian form. As the Archer, he has with him a compound bow, a quiver, and at least two dozen arrows. He also has sundry items that are tricks of the trade, handcuffs, flashlights, glow sticks and the like.
PERSONALITY :
Juan Ramón and the Archer are best described as two sides of the same coin. When he is Juan Ramón, the man is all business. He is a workaholic who throws himself at his work with a grim determination. It is not uncommon for him to lose sleep and loved ones as he chooses a pile of papers over pillows and pleasure. When working on assignment, he usually champions the down-trodden, the discarded and the disregarded. While he helps the forgotten as best he can, albeit sometimes a bit patronizingly, he has no sympathy for career criminals. They are the types that meet up with the Archer.
The Archer likes to say that he goes after both the disease and the symptoms of the crumbling society. While he goes after criminals he leaves a particular class of criminal alone. He does not go after those he considers to be the victims of bigger fish. He will go after pimps but not prostitutes (he will go after most Johns especially if they are particularly abusive). His fists will strike dealers before they do addicts. As the Archer he continues his family tradition of helping the people where the system is unable or unwilling to tread.
His methods put him often at odds with both ends of the costumed spectrum. The optimistic side generally frowns upon how hard he goes after the criminals he chooses to pursue, preferring him to use a gentler touch whereas the pessimistic side faults him for making a distinction in the first place, preferring him to treat garbage like garbage. He still leans more toward the former however as his costumed schtick still is filled with lies: his codename, his wig, large aspects of his much more bombastic and flashy personality. He is not to the stage of the pessimists who have just quit lying about being heroes and have become what they fight.
Juan Ramón spends most of his free time doing research for articles, exercising or kicking down doors. These priorities reflect a fundamental reality of his personality. Juan Ramón will not allow himself to get close to anyone for any reason. He will deal with them but the passion, the drive, comes from a work ethic, not from a friendship or a love. It is strictly business. While he flirts with women constantly as the Archer, this is just another elaborate lie for the sake of his job. His assumption is that with hormones flaring, they will be more likely to lead him to where his arrows need to soar. This is all because the dangers of interpersonal connections in this business were made all too real to him in 1958 and again twenty years later. As a result of the barbarism of a few sick minds, he cannot, will not, allow himself to get hurt again.
SKILLS :
As a reporter, Juan Ramón has a working knowledge of the city in general and the Manhattan in particular. His verbal communication skills are higher developed than his written communication, however, which is a bit of a problem given his medium. He speaks fluent English and Spanish. Given his other profession, he is very skilled in archery and modestly skilled in hand-to-hand combat as well.
STRENGTHS :
El Arquero has tradition going for him above anything else. His work is quite literally in his blood. It is a legacy he carries onto the battlefield both as an extra source of strength and with the aid he gets from the people of his district simply by virtue of his uniform. By virtue of his chosen means of dispatching criminals, he has gotten very good at fighting from a distance.
WEAKNESSES :
While the Archer is strengthened by those who came before him, it is also a weight around his neck. His shortcoming, especially his inability to prevent a repeat of the Crisis of 1958, hit harder when compared to what his grandfather, father, and uncle were able to accomplish. Additionally, his use of a very archaic weapon, the bow and arrow, puts him at a disadvantage against modern means of destruction.
RESIDENCE :
Juan Ramón has a small place in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City, New York. He also maintains a couple safe houses in and around Spanish Harlem.
FAMILY :
Costumed:
Codename (Name) birth-death active [relationship to Juan Ramón] sash color
Archer I (Juan José “Pepe” Flecha Hidalgo) b. 1900 d. 1958 a. 1919-1953 [p. grandfather] silver
Archer II (Meraldo Ruben Flecha Núñez) b. 1925 d. 1958 a. 1953-1958 [father] white
Archer III (Ramón Maximo Flecha Núñez) b. 1928 d. 1978 a. 1958-1973 [uncle] green
Archer IV (Juan Ramón Flecha Jiménez) b. 1948 a. 1973-c. [self] red
Lady Archer I (Rosalia Joan Flecha Jiménez) b. 1948 d. ? a. 1974-? [twin sister] yellow
Young Archer I (Meraldo Ruben Flecha Núñez) b. 1925 d. 1971 a. 1941-1944 [father] none
Quiver I (Meraldo Ruben Flecha Núñez) b. 1925 d. 1971 a. 1945-1953 [father] none
Young Archer II (Ramón Maximo Flecha Núñez) b. 1928 d. 1976 a. 1950-1953 [uncle] none
Name birth death marriage [relationship to Juan Ramón]
Non-costumed, paternal:
Rosa Lina Núñez Goméz b. 1898 d. 1928 [grandmother]
Eva Teresa Flecha Núñez b. 1920 d. 1970 [aunt]
Roberto Santos de Peralta Diego b. 1922 d. 1944 m. Eva Teresa Flecha Núñez [uncle]
Jewelle Alicia Sanfilippo Quevedo b. 1925 d. 1977 m. Ramón Maximo Flecha Núñez [aunt]
Non-costumed, maternal:
Pablo Carlos Jiménez Barna b. 1892 d. 1917 [grandfather]
Ana Izabel de Campos Roseta b. 1897 d. 1969 [grandmother]
Talita Ella Jiménez Roseta b. 1927 d. 1958 [mother]
Teresa Paula Jiménez Roseta b. 1914 d. 1924 [aunt]
Jovita Rosa Jiménez Roseta b. 1916 d. 1967 [aunt]
Juaquina Sonia Jiménez Roseta b. 1919 d. 1975 [aunt]
Dolores Tareija Jiménez Roseta b. 1921 d. 1929 [aunt]
Amilcar Niceto Barriga Iglesia b. 1912 d. 1963 m. Jovita Rosa Jiménez Roseta [uncle]
Ezequiel Ramil Damas Valerio b. 1916 d. 1945 m. Juaquina Sonia Jiménez Roseta [uncle]
Julio Castaneda Barriga Jiménez b. 1935 d. 1953[cousin]
Eladio Josephus Barriga Jiménez b. 1937 [cousin]
Isidro Carlos Barriga Jiménez b. 1937 d. 1970[cousin]
Arsenio Pablo Barriga Jiménez b. 1940 d. 1968 [cousin]
Amador Luis Damas Jiménez b. 1944 d. 1967 [cousin]
HISTORY :
It is not possible to understand Juan Ramón without first understand Juan José. A son of Spanish immigrants who came over during the First Republic, Juan José was born to poverty and ended his life with two great legacies: an empire of the written word and a legacy of heroic deeds. Both of which he started after his service in the Great War. The paper, Noticias Hoy (The News Today), provides its readers with a daily dose of news and opinion and the hero, El Arquero (The Archer), protects the people from the seediest elements of society. He instilled in his descendants a promotion of hard work, determination, charity and civic works as virtues and his means of doing so, a paper reflective of his social politics (exposing the corrupt in the city, maintaining connections to the past and present by having both Spanish and English editions) and a heroic identity to take care of what the paper cannot.
Both of these worlds were given to Juan Ramón’s father, Meraldo, after Grandfather Pepe retired in the early fifties both from his civilian work and from his clandestine activities. Unfortunately, this world came crashing down when Juan Ramón was ten and the information broker known as la Esfinge finally got the information he craved the most, the secret identity of the Archer. He and his goons ambushed Meraldo and his wife while they were out on the town, celebrating their anniversary. The jobs held by Meraldo were soon taken over by his brother, Ramón Maximo, the family business, the family secret and raising Meraldo’s children, Juan Ramón and his twin sister, Rosalia. In his role as the new Archer, Ramón Maximo hunted down la Esfinge where the villain fell presumably to his death into the waters of the Hudson.
After years of training, Juan Ramón took over the role of the Archer and was soon joined by his sister as la dama Arquero (the Lady Archer) in his work as a crime fighter while Ramón Maximo spent his time watching the family business. While his uncle had continued the family tradition of non-involvement with the affairs of other heroes, Juan Ramón and Rosalia took a different path, joining with a revival of the Guardsman. Their assumption was that the class of criminals in the time of his grandfather might have mostly had honor but they were getting progressively worse. They could not stand alone against them. In 1978, twenty years to the day of the first crisis that rocked the Flecha family, a man calling himself la Esfinge struck again, killing Ramón Maximo and abducting Rosalia in an attempt to draw out the last remaining Flecha. Since then, Juan Ramón taken leave from both sides of his life to find his sister and to bring la Esfinge to justice once and for all.
YOUR NAME : Red.
CONTACT : PM only.
Personal note, I give permission to anyone wanting to create characters put in as hooks (the Scorpion, la Esfinge or Lady Archer), to do so.
RP EXPERIENCE : I have been RPing for about a decade, mostly super-hero related.
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