Alicia Jackson

• Character Creation: November 27th, 2000
• Picture Reference: Ryan Starr (American Idol Season 1)
• Current Status: Active

Alicia Jackson
IC Information
Full Name:	Alicia Henderson (Married name), Alicia Jackson (Maiden)
Deed Name:	The Last Song Standing (Current), Guards The Final Flame (Deed Name/Rite), Pretty-Paws (Cub)
Gender:	Female
Age:	29 (born December 11th, 1985)
Breed:	Homid
Tribe:	Children of Gaia
Auspice:	Galliard
Rank:	Adren
Sept Position:	Member.
Pack:	Excelsior (under Black Unicorn). Formerly: Resonance (under Stag, Hidden Walk), Synthesis (Under Cockroach, Rough And Tumble (under Rat, Mavericks (under Owl, Western Eye).
Height:	5'6
Weight:	145
Hair:	Dark Brown
Eyes:	Dark Brown
Nature:	Alpha
Demeanor:	Caregiver
OOC Information
Theme Song:	New Love - Hey Ocean!
Status:	Alive / On-Screen
Player:	Dynamite (Dynamite, OOC bot)

Early Life:

Born and raised in St. Claire, Washington, Alicia Jackson is the daughter of a Child of Gaia Ahroun by the name of Mark Jackson and a kinfolk mother named Rosalyn. She has a twin brother by the name of Benedict who was born kinfolk. Growing up, the two were inseparable as most young children were as the enjoyed playing games and going to school together. Unfortunately the happiness of their small family did not last. Their father, like most young Ahroun, was on a quest of never ending glory and finally found a fight that was greater than what his claws could handle. Upon his death, her mother fell into a deep despair. After a few years of trying to raise two young rambunctious children with a never ending supply of energy, Rosalyn ‘settled’ for a man by the name of David Anderson. David was a nice guy, until he started to pick up the bottle. Then he became a monster.

After a tumultuous relationship with her stepfather which became both verbally and physically abusive, Alicia ran away from home in a stubborn bout of anger and desperation in hopes to put distance between herself and the rocky family. She could no longer watch her mother be a punching bag and she was pushing her brother away and acting out. Life on the streets as a young girl is never easy for anyone and she learned how to survive within the concrete jungles through trial and error. Soon after, Alicia joined a local gang that called themselves The United States, in which each member had a tag named after one of the fifty states. For the next two years, she was simply known as Arizona, the bitch of the streets. The streets were where she found her freedom and her prison at the same time. Gang life turned to drugs and petty theft, and then soon fist fights and broken knuckles. Strung out and at the end of her rope by her sixteenth birthday, the invisible seal of her Garou heritage ignited and that was when her new life began. Rescued from the streets from the most kind and patient person she will ever meet, she soon began a student and mentorship with the woman known as Andrea Wyatt. To the ‘people’ she was known as Drinks Deeply from the Bitter Cup.

Garou Life

To Alicia, Andrea Wyatt was the most amazing woman she ever met. Andrea took her from the streets, pushed the drugs out of her veins and helped shape her into the life of a Child of Gaia. From there, Alicia had a new direction in life, one that she threw herself into headfirst without abandon. This was her chance, to make something of her life and follow in her father’s honorable footsteps. During her time as a cub, Alicia decided to head back to her old home to find her brother and mother, despite being warned not to by her Elders. Once more Alicia was faced with heartache as she discovered that David had beat her mother to death after a night of drinking that turned brutal. With the aid of her cub friend Helen, a Black Fury who was set out to prove herself, they tracked him down through the city and murdered him, much to the glee of the local Black Furies and the disappointment of Andrea. For a short time a power struggle between the two tribes emerged as the Furies tried to convince the Gaians that Alicia belonged in their ranks. Alicia was forced to make a choice and she chose to stand behind the tribe that flowed through her blood as it would be dishonorable in her eyes to turn her back on her father’s name.

From that point on as a cub until she was a Cliath, Alicia was quite a troublemaker, but also loyal to a fault. She formed a cub pack with the likes of Joey and Luke and proved from the start that she would become a capable leader. After relentless training, Alicia was soon sent on her Rite of Passage in the form of a vision quest in which she was to bring harmony between two gangs in the midst of a dystopian future. Upon waking, she was reborn as Guards The Last Flame by her mentors Andrea and Adam and was officially welcomed into the ranks of tribe and Garou.

After her graduation into adult hood, Alicia quickly sought out to join a family and found herself within the ranks of the urban pack known as Synthesis who was led by John Smith, Walks-Thin-Ice. Having been brought into the pack to fill the hole that Roger left behind when he was killed, Alicia became a true urban Galliard as her voice would carry along the barking chain, passing information through the city and bolstering her packmate’s morale. Sadly, it all fell apart when John Smith was killed in combat and Salem split the pack up soon after.

Making a name for herself:

Many years, packs, and wars later, Alicia had rose up to become the Voice of the Goddess for her tribe and had established herself as a dedicated war healer. Having no qualms of throwing herself into battle despite her tree-hugging nature, Alicia would make sure that no brother or sister would be left on the battlefield near death. Her voice would sing the praises of her family and the dirges of their fallen. Many a time Alicia had questioned the Fool during the Moots, and boosted the Garou’s morale in battle with her howls of encouragement and optimism. Five years later, Alicia had challenged the Shadow Lord known as Jared for the rank of Fostern and bested him in a true Galliard singing competition in which she inspired the Sept’s leaders and moved them to both anger and sadness. As a Fostern, Alicia was instrumental in helping take back the Caern when the Black Spiral Dancers attacked and took over the Sept for what was recorded as one of the lowest points for the Hidden Walk.

Alicia soon took up an invitation from Megan Fitzpatrick, otherwise known as Fire Eyes to join the honorable stag pack known as Resonance. Resonance was dubbed by the Sept as the ‘Leadership Pack’ as it contained many high ranking and tribal leaders of note, such as Song Yi Lin, Tobin, Dakota and Clemency. Taking over as the Caern’s Caretaker to take a sabbatical from the city life, Alicia soon started to train the new fresh faces of young Garou who would show up at the barn and tell them heroic stories of the Sept’s fallen warriors. After Megan left the Sept for a personal journey, Alicia found herself stepping up as Sept Alpha without challenge and Alpha of the pack. After a few months of successful and mostly drama free leadership of the Sept, she stepped down to allow Touch Deer to take the reins so that she can focus on her own personal life of being a wife to her kinfolk husband Tom Henderson and mother to her daughter.

Sept of the Western Eye

Another couple of years went by and Alicia soon found herself traveling to San Francisco after stepping down as tribal leader and passing the honors on to her once student Stacey who had shown incredible promise and leadership as an Ahroun. Alicia had escorted her cousin, Dakota, to the Sept of the Western Eye after her young pack mate got herself into a bit of a mess regarding her kinfolk husband and an act of self-defense. Having family down south in the bay area, namely a group of cousins from her father’s side of the family that she has grown close with over the years of passing information back and forth, she decided to prolong her stay a bit longer as opposed to heading back to Washington. Tom had found a job and their children took a liking to the area so it only reinforced her idea of staying, if only for a bit longer.

Life in San Francisco was a lot like life in St. Claire. Both were big cities with plenty of excitement and glory to find. Alicia found herself right at home in what she considered to be the biggest hippie and tree-hugging city in the world. Almost immediately she made a quick impact with the local Gaians when she sang her tales of the Hidden Walk and those who have made a name for themselves, both past and current. She sang with such conviction and passion that they accepted it as her boon and invited her into their family. Within a couple of weeks of introspection, Alicia found herself within an Owl pack by the name of Mavericks, named after the beautiful waves the crash along the Bay Area shores. Led by their Alpha, Silver Sky, Mavericks became well known for their strengths in search and rescue. They were the pack that would pull survivors out of the fight and pick off the enemy along the fringes. It was an exciting life for Alicia. Back in action, right in the middle of the fight, and once more taking on the role of a battle healer.

Adren Challenge

After roughly five years of participation within the Sept, Alicia felt it was the time to finally prove herself an Adren and challenge for rank. During her challenge to her pack leader Silver Sky, Alicia was tasked to rebuild lost relations between the city Garou and the Sept that lived in the forests within Lake Tahoe. The Sept of the Falling Snow were comprised by mostly older Lupus born Garou who was still clinging to the old traditions and their mistrust of those born as humans ran deep. Most of their kin and kind have been pushed out and killed by the rise of the cities and they felt let down and insulted by the Garou who took the city as their home and in their opinion denied who they are truly are. This rift between the two Septs had plenty of opportunity in the past to reconcile but negotiations have always appeared to stall. To have these two packs united would strengthen the Garou’s hold from the Bay to the Northern mountains and utilize the resources of the city and wild.

It took Alicia four months of research, negotiations and sleepless nights as she worked with the lupine elders in trying to convince them to meet with their two legged brethren from across the way. There were many nights where Alicia thought about giving up as she dealt with hard headed Garou that were too proud to even think of the idea of reconciliation. It wore on her patience and confidence in herself, but every day she pushed through until finally she was able to find a break through. During her research of the two Septs, she uncovered that the mistrust grew when a Shadow Lord by the name of Raven’s Final Flight once unsuccessfully tried to gain control over the Sept of the Falling Snow and with his dying breath slipped one final lie into the ear of the Red Talon Elder, suggesting that the coup was of the Western Eye’s doing in hopes to gain control of their Caern. With relief in her heart, Alicia sang one final song and story that healed the rift between the two Septs and a compromise was finally met.

Three more months of negations and one of the more prouder moments in Bay Area history was witnessed as the opening of a new Moon Bridge between the two Caerns had finally been complete and a celebratory revel confirmed that Alicia had successfully completed her Adren challenge. With the new rank came a new name as she was renamed Last Song Standing for it was her tale that brought unity to the two Septs and ended their long running feud with one another.

Homeward Bound

Another year rolled by and Mavericks had finally disbanded as most of the members had decided to take other roles within the Sept. Having found herself without a pack for the first time in what felt like forever, she was convinced by her cousin Dakota to head back up north to Washington so that they can root ground once more into the Sept that raised them. After bidding a farewell to a few of her remaining family members and ex-pack mates, the two started their journey back to the Hidden Walk.

Hooks and Contacts:

• Alicia has strong relations in the Sept of the Western Eye (San Francisco), Sept of the Falling Snow (Lake Tahoe), and the Sept of the Steel Angels (Los Angeles)
• Was involved in several gangs when she was younger before her first change.  Most notably the 'United States of Anarchy' (mostly defunct, off shoot of the Crips)
• Has a daughter named Andrea Henderson (Born 2002).  Searching for a player.

Character Sheet:

Gifts	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
	Persuasion Mindspeak Mothers Touch Sense Wyrm Resist Pain	Jam Tech Lunas Armor Calm Dreamspeak	Dazzle

Rites	Level 0	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
	Feed the Earth	Baptism of Fire Questing Stone Talisman Dedication Rite of Cleansing Gathering for the Departed	Rite of Spirit Awakening Rite of Passage	Rite of Gaian Blood Rite of Perseus' Shield

Preceded by: Andrea

Children of Gaia Elder 2003-2006

Succeeded by:<br./>Stacey

Preceded by: Megan

Sept Alpha Late 200-2005

Succeeded by:<br./>Touch Deer