Fallen · Tower · Los · Angeles

Lady Death

          

            Jaya is 25 years old.  She was born in London, England, but her family moved to Santa Barbara, CA when Jaya was 3.  Her parents are Phillip and Indira.  They run a construction contracting business – specializing on home additions and high end remodeling jobs.  Jaya’s older brother is Victor, a conservative and hard working man who now helps to run the family business.  Her younger brother is Chaman, a very likeable, funny guy, is working on his MA in Education from UCSB.  Jaya also has some extended family in Santa Barbara.

Jaya moved to Los Angeles to attend Santa Monica Community College.  She transferred to UCLA after her second year and graduated with a BA in history. 

While in college, Jaya worked for Wally Park of Park & West Investigation.  She considered becoming a professional P.I, but changed her mind after getting shot out during what should have been a routine task.

            Jaya lives in Studio City, in a condo complex on Coldwater Canyon, about a mile north of Riverside.  She works at the Huntington Library in Pasadena and at River Yoga in Studio City – on Laurel Canyon near Ventura Blvd. Jaya Awakened as a mage of the path of Moros a year ago. She was recruited by the Free Council and recently established her own Cabal with two of her closest mage allies. She goes by the Shadowname of Missus Miller. Misses Miller is also part of an ancient and secret cult to the Aztec Death-god Mictlantecutli, who she has reluctantly agreed to serve for the span of 666 days.

History 

Jaya was born in London to Phillip and Indira Youngblood.  Phillip was a working class Eastender who met Indira while she was in London on holiday.  They fell in love and married quickly.  Indira’s family was horrified by the marriage, so Indira stayed in London with her new husband.  The couple had three children, Victor, Jaya, and Chaman.  Just before the birth of Chaman, the family relocated to Santa Barbara where two of Indira’s siblings had settled.  Phillip worked as a construction contractor for a while before Indira convinced him to hire some employees and expand his work to a proper business.  Money was tight while their children grew up, but over the past few years their oldest son Victor has become more involved in running the business and now things are running much more smoothly.

            Victor, Jaya’s older brother, has always been very family oriented.  He’s always worked hard for his parents’ approval and his sibling’s admiration.  He worked for his father the entire time he was going to college and has become a full partner in the business.  At the age of 28 he is already married and will soon be a father.  Victor did not approve of Jaya’s choice to move to L.A. to go to school and has been quite critical of her life choices ever since then.  It’s only been during the past year that they’ve begun to rebuild a friendlier relationship.

            Chaman, Jaya’s younger brother, has just started working on his Masters degree in education at UC Santa Barbara.  Everyone in the family likes and gets along with Chaman.  He was a bit of a clown growing up, but he has always been careful not to rock the boat.

            Growing up, Jaya always felt the desire to strike off on her own and find her own place in the world.  She liked her parents well enough, but didn’t care for their other relatives who looked down on her father for being a laborer and were quick to criticize Jaya and her brothers.  After graduating from high school she moved to Los Angeles and started taking classes at Santa Monica Community College.  By the end of her first semester, she had started working for Park & West Investigations. 

            She transferred to UCLA after her second year and pursued a BA in history.  Between her studies, her job at Park & West, and her work study job at UCLA’s art history library, she was extremely busy.  But she was proud of the fact that she did it on her own. 

            Just after graduation, she decided to pursue a career as a private investigator.  But a month later a man whom she had just photographed cheating on his wife, drew a gun and chased her, firing after her.  The event really rattled Jaya, and she immediately changed her plans. 

            Her manager at UCLA’s art history museum put her in touch with a friend at the Huntington Library.  Jaya was hired as an assistant archivist – her job responsibilities being mainly limited to scanning pages from old books.  The work was dull compared to her P.I. experiences, but she liked the people and the atmosphere.  She also liked having enough time to have a social life again.  Since then she has been promoted and is well liked at work.   

Jaya Youngblood’s Allies:

Marrianna Troklevich, Nurse (1 point)

            Marrianna Troklevich is a nurse at Kaiser Permanente.  She is a 39 year old Russian immigrant who came to US when she was a teenager.  Marrianna hired Jaya three years ago to investigate her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s financial status.  She suspected that her husband – Misha - had a lot of their money hidden in “off the books” investments and wanted to make sure that she got her fair share in the divorce.  Jaya’s investigation led to a safety deposit box containing a half a million dollars worth of diamonds.  Marrianna did quite well in the settlement. 

Her gratitude being stronger than her adherence to rules, Marrianna has occasionally helped Jaya out by giving her information from the hospital’s records.  Generally, Marrianna considers the information she passes to be incidental – when someone signed in to the emergency room or what medication was given to a patient.  She’s more hesitant to reveal sensitive or confidential information, though if it was important enough to Jaya, then Marrianna could be convinced.  Marrianna has also patched up one or two of Jaya’s old clients when they needed medical attention but didn’t want to deal with the sorts of questions that get asked at a hospital. 

            Marrianna currently lives in a house in Echo Park with her teenage sons Alexander, 19, and Gamlet, 14.  Alexander works as a mover and has done a little acting.  Gamlet will be starting high school in the fall.  He hopes to go to CalTech and become a rocket scientist.

Jaya's Contacts:

Balraj Rai, Blogger and Web Crawler (2 points)

            Balraj is Jaya’s cousin – on her mother’s side.  Balraj is a 29 year old computer programmer.  Brilliant and successful, Balraj has frustrated his mother time and again by not getting married.  Watching his parents bicker day in and day out for all of his life has soured him on marriage.  A geek and rebel at heart, Balraj has found his ideal community online.  He usually spends his evenings surfing the internet, reading blogs, downloading interesting files, and keeping up to date on the wide range of odd ideas and events that sets the internet buzzing.  His web site – www.mythicrealism.com – is a testament to the truly bizarre nature of our modern world.  Video footage of celebrities getting dragged out of court houses, sound files of naturalists being attacked by hungry bears, detailed break downs of how global warming will affect different major cities, interviews with alien abduction victims – he posts it all, pasting together a fascinating portrait of who we are as a people right here and right now.

            Balraj lives in Pasadena.  He works for a gaming company, but telecommutes most days.  His closest friends are scattered around the world, people he’s met online.  He also has a small group of local friends – Hollywood hipster-geeks who he sometimes parties with (hip clubs, cocktails, and pretty girls who know that comic books can result in profitable movie franchises). 

            Jaya and Balraj were friends as children, but lost interest in one another as teens.  However, they reconnected as adults one summer when there were a lot of family weddings and they were both hopelessly single.  Balraj was surprised to hear that Jaya was working with a private investigator.  He wanted to hear all about the cases she had worked on and offered to help her out if she was ever working on any unusual cases. 

            Jaya and Balraj meet up for pizza once every few months, just to keep in touch.

Shadow Name: Missus Miller
Mystic Path: Moros
Order: Free Council
Player: Kip