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Arthur T. Jackson

And no, the 'T' does NOT stand for 'Transylvanian'!

Created on 2006-01-16 16:54:02 (#9274087), last updated 2009-04-16

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Birthdate:	1918-10-08
Location:	Los Angeles, California, United States

Bio

COMPLETE BIO HERE

There are ten different species of vampire native to the US...the rest are all Romanian. Figures, right? Anyway, four of those species don't suffer from a terminal light handicap. Two of them are cardio-active...living vampires. Pulse, breath, and no sun allergy. One of those breeds is photoscopic...sun allergy, nasty rashes...and one is photosensitive. Light just hurts.

I'm a member of the last category...or at least I was, but that's a whole 'nother story.

For those who don't know (and bless your sweet faces for that), I'm Detective Artie Jackson. I come from a world you probably wouldn't understand...a world where even the dead pay taxes...trust me, even the worst vampires got nothing on the IRS. I had the unfortunate luck of being undead when the world started learning about the things that go bump in the night, and a whole lot of nonsense notoriety came about as a result.

Here's the short version: back in 1970, a werewolf changed form in the middle of downtown LA at high noon. To this day, no one knows what elicited the change...some say it was Fate, some say it was a one-time lunar or genetic anomaly. But the bottom line was that the supernatural underworld got outed, and we've been fighting for our place in the world ever since. That was thirty seven years ago, and even though we're still struggling on a few fronts? We've actually managed to find our place in the world. I like to think I had a hand in some of that...a couple fights I had in the courts and whatnot set some precedents on behalf of Paranormals...that's what we call ourselves.

Anyway...me? I was born in 1918...served over twenty years with the department when I got bit by a vagrant in 1963. I went down...got back up a vampire. Everything I know, everything I am is self-taught...tried to make it work for two years before my secret nearly got out and I had to leave behind my wife and kids. I never found the guy who made me, never got a reason for it.

I'm eighty nine years old, and these days I'm still serving and protecting, this time with a specialized unit in our precinct that handles Paranormal crime exclusively. I don't know much about what I am...I know that, of the vampiric breeds native to the US, only four are light-resistant, obviously. I also know that in this country, there are only about two thousand vampires that fall into the phylum of optimus lamia. Only three hundred can be found on the West Coast, and only a hundred in California proper. I'm one of six currently living in Los Angeles.

I also know that of those two thousand photosensitive vampires...I'm the only one that's not.

Life's a bitch...especially when you're dead.

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I am not Richard Belzer, nor am I Artie Jackson. Artie is a fictional character living in a fictional world of my own creation. Both are copywrighted, and neither may be used by any other entity for any reason without my express written consent. Besides...you steal Artie, and he starts nagging, and let me tell you...he can get grumpy. You don't want that.

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