Vocal Vagrant
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
Music
Bastards On Parade - The Dropkick Murphys
Calm Like a Bomb - Rage Against the Machine
Show Me How To Live - Audioslave
Master Exploder - Tenacious D
Sound of Da Police - KRS1
TNT - AC/DC
Bad to the Bone - George Thurogood
The Oath - Street Sweeper Social Club
Bad Habit - Offspring
F*$@ Authority - Pennywise
Family and Birth
James Jones is the son of Desmond and Arianna Jones. Desmond captured Arianna's heart one day during an daring arial stunt show. While trying to perform a particularly dangerous stunt, Desmond's plane malfunctioned, causing it to plummet to the airfield near his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Arianna was doing her civic duty as the Celtic Clover, a local hero in Boston,and while on patrol, she saw Desmond's predicament. Rushing to save the brash young pilot, she was caught off guard when he began flirting with her right away, not distraught or offended like so many other men who had been saved by a woman hero.
The two hit it off instantly, and after a brief night of passion, only two weeks into their relationship, James was concieved. Frightened at the prospect of having to give up her career as a hero, and at Desmond's meager salary as a stunt pilot, the two searched for some way to rid themselves of their problem. What they didn't know, was that someone was already preparing to approach them with a solution.
Neugen
A representative of the corporation known as Neugen came to the two young lovers and offered them a deal that was too good to refuse. For $300 million dollars, they would pay the couple for their child, which the corporation would use for studies that they were conducting on meta-offspring, or mutants. Entranced by the vast amount of wealth that was penstrokes away, Desmond and Arianna signed their child away while he was still only three weeks old.
As the months dragged on, the couple wed, and began to think of their promising future. Desmond planned on starting his own aeronautic company, while Arianna began to design a new costume out of previously unobtainable material. Yet, the more they thought about what their lives would be like, they realized that something was missing. The answer was sitting within Arianna, and James's parents soon realized their terrible mistake.
When the time came, Arianna gave birth without any complications, but before Neugen was made aware of little James Jones's entrance into the world, his parents spirited him away to New York. Upon arriving in the Big Apple, Desmond began to search for work, and was pleasantly surprised to find that he was hired to be a test pilot for the U.S. airforce. The steady paycheck, coupled with Arianna's realization that the Celtic Clover didn't have to be exclusive to Boston, gave them new hope for the future, and for their son. However, knowing that they couldn't reveal their true identities without Neugen catching wind, Arianna dubbed herself the Irish Knight, and Desmond changed his name to Chris West alongside Arianna who changed hers to Paige West.
