Harry Alexander Jennings
Description
About
Born into a wealthy Northern Canadian family, Harry Jennings is a Deveraux agent in Region White, based out of St. Petersburg, Russia. Suffering from manic depression, Harry is a grounded agent, unable to leave Deveraux's home-city of Boston without permission. Having originally decried his region as one of the worst he could have been stationed in, Harry slowly grew fond of his host-nation, integrating himself into its cultural zeitgeist with the help of his Field Handler.
Appearance
Peaking at just over six foot tall, and with azure-blue eyes, Harry could easily be summed up with the cliché expression tall, dark and handsome. His dark hair is usually kept closely cropped, a style which first arose out of his desire to rebel against his parents' expectations and desires, though he is slowly growing it out. When in his adopted city of St Petersburg, and the wider Russian Federation, Harry's inclined to shun his typical Western clothing and fit in, donning modern Russian attire.
Personality
Harry is your typical easy-going graduate. He gets on with most people at Deveraux and will always strive to go that extra mile to help somebody in need. Whilst he's grown up a lot in his time at Deveraux, Harry had a very rebellious streak in his younger years and struggled at times to stay on the right side of his teachers and Senior Tutor Matthew Andersen.
History
Much as their rivals, the Rothschilds, the Jennings family are a wealthy banking family, with gold-rich land throughout the Americas in their personal possession. With parents whose views and opinions hark back a good century or two, Harry was brought up to believe that as a Jennings he was a cut above the rest.
An only child, at his father's behest Harry was sent to a boarding school from the age of five. Although his father always assured him it was "where a boy should be," Harry knew even from that young age that his father's affections lay in more prosperous operations. This undoubtedly contributed to his rocky relationship he has had with his parents.
At the age of nine he was expelled from his boarding school for 'Persistent Defiance' after one incident too-far. His father would often cite that he wasn't a trouble maker, but simply an attention seeker. To which his mother would counter the two terms were synonyms for a naughty and unruly child. When the second most reputable Canadian boarding school refused to receive him, Harry instead was forced to spent his next few years abroad in a top English boarding school. His stay lasted for three years before he was once again being expelled, managing to keep his head down only for the first few months. His expulsion from two of the top boarding schools in the Commonwealth caused his pompous parents more than just a little social embarrassment, certain that their son was blazing through prestigious institutes sheerly to undermine them. Just as his parents began to fear for the worst - that they would have to bare the social disgrace of having their son private tutored, they were amazed, and suddenly proud, to receive an invitation for the Deveraux College. Out of the blue, the most elusive of boarding school in all the world, the one not even the Rothschilds had been invited to attend, had offered their son a place without even a mention of his track record!
After graduating from the prestigious Deveraux College, having taken a few subjects whose place in the curriculum his parents would perhaps have questioned, Harry found himself situated in Region White. The culmination of a row over his decision to relocate to Russia - or the Soviet Union as his father insisted on constantly referring to it - Harry found himself disinherited from the Jennings estate, inheriting only from his grandmother Harriet's.
His Deveraux career took a nose-dive when when he caught hypothermia on a mission to halt the sale of arms to an unscrupulous gang of dissidents. A week after being flown back to Deveraux, Harry awoke from his coma. After making a full recovery he was diagnosed by Sian Medina in a routine appointment as suffering manic depression. Suspended from duty due to his disorder, he has stayed at Deveraux since, taking the a semi-formal role of the Senior Tutor's assistant in an effort to fill his time.
Details
Personal
- Nationality
Russian- Born
- 24th September 2091
- Age
- 25
- Height
- 6'1¾"
- Gender
- Male
- Sexuality
- Heterosexual
Background
- Languages
- English — native
- Russian — fluent
- French — minimal
- Hometown
- Yellowknife, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories Region, Canada
- Location
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Address
- 9 Arsenalnaya Embankment, Finl…9 Arsenalnaya Embankment, Finlyandsky Municipal Okrug, Vyborgskaya Storona, Kalininsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Education
- Deveraux College
- Eton College
- Employment
- Acquisitions Officer @ 2×2 — TV channel
- unemployed
- Intern @ Gazprom-Media — media corporation
Deveraux
- Rank
- Agent
- Role
- Field Agent
- Team
- Hannay 2108
- Codename
- Harry White
- Zone
- 3 — Roja
- Region
- White
Factoids
There are facts available about this character which may aid your knowledge.
- Harry was a Canadian citizen by birth, though he traded this nationality for Russian upon returning to his region.
- Harry drinks his coffee with milk
Associates
A belligerent Russian citizen in the employ of the Deveraux Organisation, Анна Руслановна is often reviled by the agents she handles. Upon first meeting her most are struck by her reluctance to speak English despite having an enviably fluent grasp of the language, a fact which means no agent has left her tutelage without a strong command of the Russian language — whether willingly or begrudgingly so.
An American from the state of Nevada, Holly Yates is a Region White graduate who was based in Moscow, Russia up until recently. Having harboured a crush on Harry Jennings since she first joined the College, this has now blossomed into a full relationship. After their own fair share of stumbling blocks from both sides, Holly is now living with her partner in St Petersburg.
Nicholas Jennings, or Kolya, is the son of Deveraux agents Harry Jennings and Holly Yates. Conceived on his father's first night back in the region with his mother, although unplanned Kolya is the apple of both his father's and mother's eye.
Raised in Russia, Nicholas Jennings, or Kolya, is the son of Deveraux agents Harry Jennings and Holly Yates.
In this world there are both family men and there are business men; Peter Jennings is very much the latter, if at all the former.
