JEREMY ETSON

Jeremy Etson, British, born in the house of Daniel Etson, Son of the biggest entrepreneur of the country.
Jeremy grew with all the luxuries provided to him on the snap of a finger. Extremely attached to his father,
always looking up to him, idolising him and seeking his validation. Learning the stature and coldness his
father had towards the world and to his family. Developing the tendencies to hold his emotions to save the
family image, because nothing can tarnish the Etson name. Watching his mother and father fight in the
privacy of their room from the creaks in the door, feeling bad for his mother but still continue idolising his
dad. Up until his 16th christmas when police showed up to their house and arrested his father for drug
smuggling, extortion and murder; all he remembers from that day is the rain pouring heavily and his mother
screaming “he’s innocent!”. Since then everything changed, the Etson name was tarnished, their family was
ruined, the feeling of abandonment became the new member of the family; all because his father, who was
no matter how, still an honest man, was framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Jeremy made his life about
getting his father out of the jail and on the way he shaped his skills so much he became one of the most well
known lawyer of the state but still unable to get his father out of the jail, somehow all the evidence would
always come out against him. In all this time Jeremy became even more cold to life, all his efforts draining
down, turning him away from who he actually was. When he is offered the biggest case of his career he takes
it in a heartbeat. The case of Tom Jenkins, who committed a triple homicide, murdering three people and for
what? No reason, he was drunk, had power and had a gun on him. Son of Christopher Jenkins, the most
powerful politician turned businessman in the state. The intimidation, money and fame pulled Jeremy in.
4 days away from the final day of hearing Jeremy gets a phone call from his family lawyer and long time
friend, Gerad, that his father died of a heart stroke in the prison. Shook to the core, Jeremy rushes to his
mother’s house to check on her and that is where he learns that his entire life he has been lied to. His mother,
intoxicated and in emotions, reveals information about his father that makes all the assumptions he had
about the man he loved and idolised fall to the ground and shatter in a million pieces. He tells his mom that
she told him his father was innocent, that all he remembers is her screaming for his innocence at the cops but
all she tells him is, “don’t be like him Jer”. For a man who has never shared a single emotion since the age of
16, watching his life fall apart in front of his eyes, Jeremy realises who he has been idolising his whole life and
who he has become and how he doesn’t know who he was before all of this. He realises his family didn’t
break because of corrupt law but because of the right law. He was abandoned the love of family because of a
criminal and what is he doing now? Defending those same criminals in the court of law, probably ruining
the other families the same way. Jeremy questions his morals, his reality and the complexities while battling
his will for duty and his career.

(Jeremy as a person)

(appearance)