Jim Blair
James Blair (a.k.a. jim)
"As we pass a century of being an official country, I feel obliged to scribble my thoughts on the events that happen over the expo. What we saw is officially a transition between the old guard and new."
-Jim Blair's article after the Superhero presentation at Expo 67
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
He is a lean man with a healthy, average physique. He normally dons on either a zoot suit or a black lounge suit until that feel out of fashion. he wore the average office wear or casual pants and shirt of the time after that. He is an average caucasian male with a slight tan due to being on the field for long periods of time. His health issues stem from bullet wounds and pancreatic cancer.
Body Features
His body is average, healthy and lean for a man of his era. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Facial Features
He has a square jaw and soft facial features with short hair maintained in the styles average for it's time. His eyes aren't sunken and has a full head of hair well into his old age. His face has been described as upper class or chipper.
Identifying Characteristics
His bullet wounds, funny walk and later a lame leg.
Physical quirks
Several bullet wounds through his body. This includes one on his leg that affected his walk.
Special abilities
None
Apparel & Accessories
He normally wears a black lounge suit during the 40's and 50's. After he mostly wore normal office wear and casual wear.
He also got into the zoot suit crowd at one point of his life.
Specialized Equipment
His specialty is article writing.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Born in Centre City in 1922. Jim Blair had a relatively normal life until the great depression where he dropped out of high school in order to support himself and his family. Around this time he started working for his local newspapers and slowly rose up through the ranks to be assigned to cover the police beat.
During his time covering the police beat, he befriended many lawmen, From Judges to patrol officers. He also suffered from several bullet wounds that prevented him from going to war. In this period, He saw his friend Judge Torrent and his servant die by Dr.Electra and his crew and was saved by Nelvana and was saved by Nelvana of The Northern Lights. This moment in his life was said by himself to be the first of many paths crossed he had with the Superhero community. His articles that cover and include superheros support this claim and historians do use these as a source for talking about the time period.
He ended up married in 1945 with 2 loving kids. He died in 1990 due to pancreatic cancer. Over the years he has morality conflicts with his coworkers.
Gender Identity
Male
Sexuality
Heterosexual
Education
Took 3 years of high school education and started working in his local paper right after. He never took a university degree instead learning about journalism and the business. He ended up being good at his job.
Employment
Newspaper reporter and writer. He also attempted to be a writer at various points in his life. He was an editor when he retired.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Is proud that he survived his bullet wounds. He also wrote several books on the local superheros, this includes ones that involved a retrospective on Canadian Superheros and a compilation of his superhero focused articles with commentary.
Failures & Embarrassments
Has a book that failed critically and financially.
Mental Trauma
Was on the receiving end of some gunshots during his time covering the police beat. This made him slightly paranoid.
Intellectual Characteristics
Has an average intellect for his time and era. Where he intellectually stands out is on the creative side since over the years he developed the ability to weave a good story out of almost anything and figure out what would make a good story. He also understands that things change, partially due to learning how the law works.
Morality & Philosophy
Is morally on the side of lawful good and is a born and raised Protestant. He has a heavier emphasis on the lawful side which caused conflict with his employees and coworkers. He also isn't blind to how the law works and has been known to be reasonable on many things morally and philosophically.
Taboos
Shares the common taboos for his religion and era.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Outside of just doing his job, he wants to see criminals defeated.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Picked up basic criminology and police tactics due to his job reporting the police beat. He is also an adept article writer.
He is terrible at sports.
Likes & Dislikes
He likes Nature walks, hunting and reading history books.
He hates crime heavily. He also disliked several types of beer and fish.
Virtues & Personality perks
He is an adept writer and a quick learner. He also picked up various information on various topics.
Vices & Personality flaws
Slightly paranoid and somewhat a little too lawful. He is also a heavier drinker than most.
Personality Quirks
Is known to be slightly jumpy. He also ended up with a lame leg.
Hygiene
He has the average hygiene of the working man of his era.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Is the kind of person who knows a guy, here having contacts in various department of the law. This includes several coppers, a commissioner, several layers and a few judges.
Family Ties
Has family back in Scotland along with his family in Centre City . he has a wife and 2 kids.
Religious Views
Catholic
Social Aptitude
Highly confident and social. He has been known to be a good drinking partner and has the kind of aptitude to make a social connection easier.
Mannerisms
He often employs relaxed, casual and friendly mannerisms.
Hobbies & Pets
His hobbies includes hikes, camping and reading about history. He also adopted a dog at one point in his life.
Speech
Has the common dialect for an early 20th century Ontario resident.
Relationships
History
Jim tried to take him down for killing a bookie and for being a major element in the local crime scene. This started a few attempts at murdering the man from Elias.
Relationship Reasoning
Elias's reasoning to pursue a few murder attempts were out of hate for trying to put him away. Jim was doing his job and civic duty at the time.
Wealth & Financial state
Most of his wealth came from his positions at the newspaper. He eventually retired with the salary of an editor.
Alignment
Lawful Good
Current Location
Species
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Editor for the Centre City Gazette
Life
1922
1990
68 years old
Circumstances of Birth
Normal
Circumstances of Death
Pancreatic cancer
Birthplace
Center City
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Center City
Gender
male
Eyes
Light Brown
Hair
Brown hair, normally has short and stylish hairstyles.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Fair skin with a slight tan
Height
5'8"
Weight
150 Ibs
Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
Comments