BASIC INFO
Name: Jonas McCree
Age: 48 (appears closer to 42)
Race: Human
Home Planet: Gaia
Occupation: Retired captain, landscape designer
Appearance: Jonas is of average height at around 5'11. His long hair is more salt than pepper, the black simply giving depth to the silvery white strands. He wears it pulled back into a simple braid, mostly to keep it out of his way while gardening. He is trim and slightly muscular, though this is becoming a more stringy look as he ages. His face is strongly boned with a broad, large nose, light brown eyes, thin lips and tan skin. His hands and body are covered in various minor scars from one occupation or another, and his nails are constantly filthy from his work with dirt and flowers. Ears bear scars and rips from something or another, but they are well healed. He dresses in browns, greens, and blues with a love of shirts with repeating geometric patterns. He normally pairs these with a leather jacket when not at work or a tan utility vest while planting. He has a slightly lighter circle on one finger where a wedding band once sat, but even it is beginning to darken.
OTHER INFO
Equipment: Jonas has accumulated many different odds and ends over a lifetime of varied careers. He possesses a few pistols and a blaster rifle, as well as several changes of clothes, many potted plants and heat lamps, a handheld computer, a pair of well worn and loved boots, a newer spare pair of boots for when the first gets wet, identification and pass cards, a credit stick with a comfortable sum of money on it, a boot knife, gardening tools, and a wedding ring that he keeps in the watch pocket of whatever pants he happens to be wearing at the time. Depending on what he is doing, he may have many of these things on his person (excepting plants and heat lamps). He also carries with him a bottle of painkillers and a jar of the best organic sunblock.
Strengths: Jonas has held many jobs and his skills are varied. He's got a green thumb and is skilled at designing landscape layouts. In addition, he is a talented captain with a willingness to listen to his crew without letting them push him around. He's decent with firearms. He can, in a pinch, pilot many craft adequately, though not perfectly, and thus prefers a trained pilot to be on his crew.
Weaknesses: Jonas is obsession driven. If he becomes focused on something, it is hard to get him to leave the subject or flight of fancy alone. He also has a weakness for pretty women. Jonas also refuses to knowingly harm children. Finally, he has a bad case of arthritis that even modern medicine has trouble combatting, meaning he is limited in hand to hand combat. Without his medicine, his hands will give him enough trouble that pulling an old fashioned projectile weapon's trigger causes him pain.
Abilities: n/a
Bio Jonas spent his youth on Gaia, living in relative upper middle class luxury before he decided to embrace an ill chosen life of adventure. He signed up to work on a cargo ship at age sixteen, wanting to see open space and the excitement of being offworld. However, on only his second cargo run, he discovered that the ship was no mere cargo ship, but a smuggler vessel.
Caught up in romantic notions of being an outlaw and flying the stars, he remained, apprenticing to the captain and eventually being offered his own vessel after years of hard work due to his talent with handling people. However, all things sour, and eventually he took his ill gotten minor fortune and retired. After several minor career shifts and spending a good amount of money at the University near where he lived, once again on Gaia, he settled on landscape design and found a deep love of working with plants.
It was while doing this that he met Esperanza DeRah and her parents, becoming a friend to the family and giving Esperanza advice about being true to herself and making a difference in the world, the way he wished he had done as a youth. Of course, that was all years ago, but as far as anyone has heard, he's still working on landscapes and tending his own penthouse garden on Gaia.