Jackson Stryker

Character Information
Character Name: Jackson Stryker Age: 22 Occupation: None Known Relatives: Brian Stryker (Father; Deceased), Angela Stryker (Mother; Deceased) Significant Other: Formerly Elle Bishop Current Location: Level 5, Hartsdale, New York Affiliation: Villian Known Ability: Persuasion Biography: Jackson was always a strange child. Suffering from paranoid schizophrenia as a small child, his parents eventually moved him to the country, hoping that the change of scenery from NYC would help. It only made things worse. He formed imaginary friends, claiming that they were there to make people do what he wanted to, and at the age of six he proved it.

The command was simple, spoken in the rage of a child denied one more hour of video games or something just as trivial, but it was fatal for both of his parents. Jackson easily convinced his mother to 'stab daddy in the back because he's watching football and I can't play my games,' before convincing her to stick a fork into a socket.

Convinced that his imaginary friends had helped him defeat the evil parents, Jack actually spent an entire week in that house, walking around those bodies, until a worried neighbor called about the smell that did not seem to bother the kid at all. Because he was a juvenile, with obvious emotional illnesses, Jackson was never prosecuted, but instead committed to a mental health facility.

There he met another 'extraordinary person,' a boy who could walk through walls the way he could command anyone to do as he pleased. It was this new best friend who convinced him not to tell anyone what he was capable of, to pretend for the time being until he was old enough to be listened to in the world without his ability. Jackson would keep that charade up until the age of 16, when he left that hospital after convincing the security guards to smash their heads against the wall until there wasn't much left to their skulls or they died--whichever came first, since Jack didn't stick around to see.

For a couple of years he lived freely, abusing his ability, and while he had quit taking his meds, it seemed he had outgrown his schizophrenia and was finally learning how to blend in with the rest of the world. That changed not long after his 17th birthday, when he was captured by operatives of the Company, taken to their holding facility--level 5--and forced to wear a muzzle to give the drugs time to kick in and suppress his ability. Jackson tore that muzzle off with his own fingernails, left a bloody clawed mess when they finally managed to tranquilize him again. And then his jaw was literally wired shut, since it was the only way to keep him from abusing his ability until those drugs could start working.

It was only after those drugs worked and he was no longer as much of a threat that he learned his friend from the mental health hospital had been yet another 'imaginary friend,' a manifestation of his subconscious that allowed him to play it safe until he was old enough to realize what he was capable of. Since then, for the last 5 years, he has been held captive as a Level 5 threat, and has yet to make an actual escape attempt despite his past--something that definitely has the Company's constant attention. Character Journal: whatisay Played by: Jen