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Basic Info
Name: James DuFresne(pronounced Doo-frayne)
Character Role: Doctor/Chemist
D.O.B: 02/29/1832
Ethnicity: African American
Nationality: American
Age: 35
Sex: Male
Specific Info
Personality: James is a kind soul with a lot of wit about him. He likes to see the happiness in people so he tells stories of his time with his master and the many funny happenings in the lab. However, he gets very serious whenever shit hits the fan, if you’ll pardon my french.
Moral Alignment: Neutral Good
Fears: his research being used to harm rather than help, extremely violent white supremacists, accidentally killing someone with his medicines.
Regrets: all the patients his medicines weren’t able to help save, he wasn’t able to save his sister from a stray bullet
Hopes: Everyone regardless of colour or sex be treated as equals, a better world where people don’t kill each other because of differing ideals, to discover previously unknown elements and their effects on the human anatomy
Connections: The Free State of Jones
Equipment:
Character Appearance
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: black & scruffy
Skin: black
Height: 5’11
Weight: 187 lbs
Biography & Background:
Unlike most African Americans, James Francois DuFresne was born a servant rather than a slave in Ellisville, Missouri. His master, Doctor Charles Falron, was a fair man to all races despite scrutiny from his peers. He sought to it that those whom served under him got an education. In doing so, the doctor saw potential in James when he was a young boy. As the Dr. Falron oversaw his studies, he noticed little James was quite adept when it can to the sciences, especially chemistry.
The old man guided James’s studies to focus on that area of science once the boy had learned the core subjects. A decade and a half later, DuFresne had become an accomplished chemist and medicine maker at the age of 29. This had been about the time the splitting of the country had been official, calling for a war between the two halves. Unfortunately for DuFresne and his fellow Pro-Union townsfolk, they were on the wrong side of the border. It was around this time he actually learned how to fire a gun, because the independence of him and his county-men depended on them being able to protect each other as The Free States Of Jones was created behind the leadership of one Newt Knight.
Sadly, in one of the fights defending themselves from the confederacy, a stray bullet in the firefight made its way to the lung and heart of his sister, Marianne. Though this grief was hard for him to handle, it made him want to fight harder on her behalf. 4 years of fighting later, and the war was over. The Free State of Jones had held its own despite being surrounded by enemy territory to the end of the war.
It had been 2 years since that day, and DuFresne had opened a pharmacy since then, selling remedies to all kind of sicknesses of his own concoction.
Name: James DuFresne(pronounced Doo-frayne)
Character Role: Doctor/Chemist
D.O.B: 02/29/1832
Ethnicity: African American
Nationality: American
Age: 35
Sex: Male
Specific Info
Personality: James is a kind soul with a lot of wit about him. He likes to see the happiness in people so he tells stories of his time with his master and the many funny happenings in the lab. However, he gets very serious whenever shit hits the fan, if you’ll pardon my french.
Moral Alignment: Neutral Good
Fears: his research being used to harm rather than help, extremely violent white supremacists, accidentally killing someone with his medicines.
Regrets: all the patients his medicines weren’t able to help save, he wasn’t able to save his sister from a stray bullet
Hopes: Everyone regardless of colour or sex be treated as equals, a better world where people don’t kill each other because of differing ideals, to discover previously unknown elements and their effects on the human anatomy
Connections: The Free State of Jones
Equipment:
- Winchester Model 1866 & Colt M1861 Navy
- That which is seen in the picture plus a 6 layer leather vest imported from Korea...oh, and of course pants, socks, shoes, etc
- A pocket watch given to him by Doctor Falron, an engraved carving knife that belonged to Marianne, his customized chemistry setup
Character Appearance
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: black & scruffy
Skin: black
Height: 5’11
Weight: 187 lbs
Biography & Background:
Unlike most African Americans, James Francois DuFresne was born a servant rather than a slave in Ellisville, Missouri. His master, Doctor Charles Falron, was a fair man to all races despite scrutiny from his peers. He sought to it that those whom served under him got an education. In doing so, the doctor saw potential in James when he was a young boy. As the Dr. Falron oversaw his studies, he noticed little James was quite adept when it can to the sciences, especially chemistry.
The old man guided James’s studies to focus on that area of science once the boy had learned the core subjects. A decade and a half later, DuFresne had become an accomplished chemist and medicine maker at the age of 29. This had been about the time the splitting of the country had been official, calling for a war between the two halves. Unfortunately for DuFresne and his fellow Pro-Union townsfolk, they were on the wrong side of the border. It was around this time he actually learned how to fire a gun, because the independence of him and his county-men depended on them being able to protect each other as The Free States Of Jones was created behind the leadership of one Newt Knight.
Sadly, in one of the fights defending themselves from the confederacy, a stray bullet in the firefight made its way to the lung and heart of his sister, Marianne. Though this grief was hard for him to handle, it made him want to fight harder on her behalf. 4 years of fighting later, and the war was over. The Free State of Jones had held its own despite being surrounded by enemy territory to the end of the war.
It had been 2 years since that day, and DuFresne had opened a pharmacy since then, selling remedies to all kind of sicknesses of his own concoction.
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