Post by Speaker for the Dead on Oct 3, 2014 12:13:40 GMT -5
"I am a chief. God has made me what I am.
He has given me the duty—and I must do it, whatever the cost."
Name: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser
Alias: Jamie Fraser, Jamie MacTavish, Red Jamie, Mac Dubh, Alex MacKenzie, Alexander Malcolm, Jamie Roy, Captain Alessandro, Etienne Marcel de Provac Alexandre, Bear-Killer, Sawney, Jamie McCrimmon, Frazer Hines, Sam Heughan
Title: Laird of Lallybroch
Clan: Ventrue
Sect: Camrilla
Sire: Sir Malcolm Murray
Parents: Brian and Ellen Fraser
Sibling(s): Merida Jayne Grier MacKenzie Fraser
Children with Geneva Dunsany: William Ransom
Children with Claire Fraser: Faith, Brianna Ellen
Adopted Children: Fergus
Love Interest: Claire Fraser
Past Relationship(s): Geneva Dunsany, Laoghaire MacKenzie
Crushes: --
Childer(s): --
Ghoul(s): --
Year Born: May 1, 1721
Year Ghouled: 1753
Year Embraced: 1809
Heritage: Scottish
Place of Birth: Lallybroch, Scotland
Residence: Lallybroch, Agricola
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 197 lbs
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Blue
Distinguishing Mark(s): Jamie is very tall at six feet, four inches, with thick, wavy red hair and slanted, cat-like blue eyes. While his height and broad shoulders cut a large figure, Jamie is built like a swimmer or basketball player; muscled and strong, but not excessively so – no extra flesh on his large frame. His hair is not the gingery sort of red, but rather a multitude of individual colors mixed together: auburn, amber, roan, cinnabar, rufous, copper, cinnamon, red and gold are all used to describe the strands of its unique hue, and it is often compared to a red deer's pelt. His eyes are a dark blue, fringed with long lashes that are nearly black at the tips, but transition to auburn then pale blond at the roots. He gets his height and hair color from his mother's MacKenzie blood, as well as the high cheekbones and long, straight nose, but the slanted eyes, strong jaw and wide mouth are traits from his father, Brian Fraser.
Over the years, Jamie's body has acquired many scars from various injuries. The most shocking of these, usually hidden by his shirt, is his heavily scarred back, from lashings inflicted by Jack Randall and, years later, as a punishment at Ardsmuir prison. He also has a triangular scar on his collar bone, as well as a long scar on the fourth finger of his right hand, both of these also inflicted by Jack Randall. During the Battle of Culloden, a bayonet ran clean through his thigh to the bone; he only escaped death from infection by his sister's stubborn refusal to let him die, and survived with a thick welted scar up the length of his thigh. A broken nose just before Culloden left Jamie's knife-edged nose slightly thickened at the base of the ridge where the fracture healed.
Over the years since his torture at the hands of Jack Randall at Wentworth Prison, Jamie's right hand has suffered repeated trauma again and again, owing to the stiff fourth finger that sticks out and is prone to re-breaking.
Occupation: Prince of Lallybroch, Soldier, Landowner, Printer, Smuggler
Associations: --
Properties: Lallybroch, also known as Broch Tuarach, is the small estate. According to Jamie, the land is fairly rich and offers opportunity for fishing and hunting. Lallybroch supports about sixty crofts, as well as the small village, Broch Mordha. Jamie's family home is the manor house on the estate. Fraser's Ridge.
Pet(s): --
Prey Exclusion: Bravery
Animal Form: Wolf and Hawk
Disciplines: Presence, Dominate, Fortitude
Out of Clan: Potence, Animalism, Protean, Obfuscate, Auspex, Celerity
Merits: Iron Will, Natural Linguist
Flaws: --
Abilities: --
Personality: Stubborn, Hot Tempered, Just, Brave, Gallant, Vengeful, Clever, Observant, Resourceful, Survivor, Competitive, Diplomatic
Brief History: Jamie was born to Ellen and Brian Fraser in the Scottish Highlands, at their family home of Lallybroch. He was very close to his older brother, William, and was devastated when his brother died of smallpox when Jamie was only six or so. From that point, he was raised to be the future laird of Broch Tuarach, the more official name of the estate. The family suffered another blow when Ellen died in childbed, along with the baby, when Jamie was about eight years old. His sister, Jenny, aged ten, took on the running of the household after their mother's death, and their father Brian raised them both to adulthood.
Around age fourteen, Jamie went to foster with his maternal uncle, Dougal MacKenzie at Beannachd, his uncle's home. Dougal, left-handed like Jamie, taught him to wield a sword with both hands. At sixteen, Jamie lived for a year at Castle Leoch, seat of the Clan MacKenzie. At eighteen, Jamie went to Paris to study at the Université, living with his father's cousin, Jared Fraser.
After Jamie had returned home to Lallybroch, in October of 1740 he was arrested by the English for obstruction – that is, for defending his family and property when the English set upon his home – and then taken to Fort William for imprisonment. He escaped, but the English pursued him and brought him back to the fort, where he was flogged with one hundred lashes for escaping, but then Jonathan Randall ordered that he be given another hundred lashes for theft. While recovering from his second flogging, friends came to help Jamie escape a second time, and in the process one of the guards was killed, and thence Jamie had a price of ten pound stirling on his head for murder. By the time he had escaped, though, he had word that his father had died of an apoplexy, apparently caused by his distress after Jamie's second flogging, when it looked as though Jamie had died. Jamie then fled to France to join his best friend, Ian Murray, as a mercenary in the French army, where he stayed for two years. Returning once more to Scotland in 1742, Jamie traveled the countryside with a gang of broken men – men without clans – for six months, raiding cattle and the like from the borderlands, when one day someone hit Jamie in the back of the head with an axe, and his uncle Dougal had him sent to recover (or die) from his injury at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupré in France, where Jamie's uncle Alexander Fraser was abbot.
In the spring of 1743, Jamie returned to Scotland with Murtagh, and once in the Highlands they were found by Dougal and his men, who are absconding with lifted cattle. Captain Randall and his dragoons pursued the Scots and engaged them in a confrontation, during which Jamie was shot and dislocated his shoulder. Soon after, Murtagh brought an Englishwoman named Claire Beauchamp to Dougal, having rescued her from the English captain.
"When the day shall come that we do part, if my last words are not 'I love you'
ye'll ken it was because I didna have the time."
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