100 Questions - Jack Greco

[Jackson Greco]

Mandatory Questions
1. What about you is heroic?
Heroic? Me? Yeah right. Other people have used that word to describe me before, but it's all fluff. As hard as I try, who can I save? Don't get me wrong, I want to, but I don't think I can.

2. What about you is social? What do you like about people?
I'm a fan of dancing, specifically hip-hop. I try to be nice, even if most people don't think I am. I meet most of my guy friends throguh sports and girl friends through dancing. I admire people who are passionate about something, even if it's somethign I'm not exactly interested in.

3. Of what benefit could you be to group you're currently affiliated with/intend to be affiliated with?
I don't know. I'm good at a few things, but are any of them really impressive enough to make a difference? I suppose my strength and resistance to harm is useful, and I guess I stick my neck out there for others pretty often.

4. Why would/did you choose to join this group?
I didn't choose. My father did. I'm nto saying it was a bad decision, I love it here. I guess when I was younger I wasn't scared of my powers like other people, I thoguht they were cool. Boy was I wrong. Look at all this tragedy that's happened all because we are mutants. More reason to fight the good fight I guess.

[Jackson Greco]

Personal Questions
5. What is your real, birth name? What name do you use?
Jackson Nicholas Greco. I prefer Jack.

6. Do you have a nickname? What is it, and where did you get it?
Some of the faculty started calling me Pinnacle this year. It's going to be my code name. I got it because they say I'm good at a lot of things... but they probably haven't seen my Poli-Sci grades.

7. What do you look like?
I'm pretty tall at 6'3", though tall could have a whole new meaning when you're a mutant. I have black hair, and my Dad was Greek and my mom was Czech. Makes for a pretty interesting look. I've got thicker lips than most guys, my jaw is square. I usually keep my hair pretty short, it's just easier.

8. How do you dress most of the time?
I like comfortable clothes, and you'll probably see me in a sports jersey and jeans, or a matching set of sweats. White sneakers. If you're lucky I could be wearing a polo.

9. How do you "dress up?"
Black slacks, some classy white suspenders, and a black shirt. I always keep my shoes well-polished. Some women tell me I'm a metro-sexual. Whatever. I just like to look good.

10. How do you "dress down?"
Usually a wifebeater or shirtless with sweats or a pair of PJ pants.

11. What do you wear when you go to sleep?
Just a pair of boxers will do. If it's really cold I'll throw on a white-tee.

12. Do you wear any jewelry?
Sometimes a gold herring-bone necklace, but usually not.

13. In your opinion, what is your best feature?
I suppose my upper-body, but that's not my fault. It's the mutation.

14. What's your real birth date?
January 3, 1989

15. Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse, etc.?
A dorm in the mansion. I usually keep it neat, I'm the type that makes the bed every day. You might find a few crumpled papers littering around near the waste basket when I'm having an off day. It's usually pretty plain in theere, too much stuff and my brain might start doing things that would keep me from gettign a goodnight sleep. Maybe a few penants behind my bed.

16. Do you own a car? Describe it.
Yeah, right now I have a dark green Mitsubishi Eclipe '06, but I don't leave the mansion too often. Dad got it for me for my birthday last year.

17. What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so much?
Easily my gym bag. I keep half my life in there. It mgiht as well be a purse.

18. What one word best describes you?
Solid

[Jackson Greco]

Familial Questions

19. What was your family like?
I was an only child, so understandly a lot of focus was always put on me. My mother seems overly accepting and optimistic, and my Dad might be too smart for his own good. They both seem to be a lot different from me.

20. Who was your father, and what was he like?
Raymond Greco. He's a mutant to with technopathy powers. He's pretty smart, but he also keeps secrets.


21. Who was your mother, and what was she like?
Elena Greco. She seems clueless half of the time. As much as I am different from my Dad, I can barely believe I'm related to her.


22. What was your parents marriage like? Were they married? Did they remain married?
They are still together, but my Dad keeps secrets from my Mom. I can't say that is too healthy.

23. What were your siblings names? What were they like?
I had none.

24. What's the worst thing one of your siblings ever did to you? What's the worst thing you've done to one of your siblings?
Not applicable.

25. When's the last time you saw any member of your family? Where are they now?
I saw my parent's New Year's Day. We celebrated my birthday a few days early. They live on Eastern Long Island.


26. Did you ever meet any other family members? Who were they? What did you think of them?
Sure. My father's side of the family was always very close. My mother's not so much. There's no one in teh family i really have a gripe with, though my one Uncle thinks he's a great cook. He's actually really terrible.

[Jackson Greco]

Childhood Questions

27. What is your first memory?
I remember playing this stupid game where I'd run around the living room in a circle and then take a bite of my PB&J. Man, kids do weird things. I was probably 4.

28. What was your favorite toy?
I didn't have the imagination most kids had. Action figures and all of that felt like useless piece of plastic to me. It had to be my football that I got when I was 6. Sure, it was retired afetr a year, but I always got another one right away.

29. What was your favorite game?
That's a toos up. When i was younger, hide and seek. As I got a bit older, it became football.

30. Any non-family member adults stick out in your mind? Who were they, and how did you know them? Why do they stick out?
My football coach when I was younger. He coached me for 3 years, and he was practically family to everyone on the team. He always tried to teach us all lessons at every practice.

31. Who was your best friend when you were growing up?
Jason from down the block. He played Wide Receiver and we sort of grew into teenage-dom together.

32. What is your fondest, childhood memory?
When my Dad sat me down and explained my mutation. It relieved me so much, and it made me feel normal.

33. What is your worst childhood memory?
The day my mutation started creeping up. I was reading a book and suddenly I felt like there were ten people in my head reading the book alongside me, all at different parts of the page. I started failing at school. It made me feel so terrible.

[Jackson Greco]

Adolescent Questions

34. How old were you when you went on your first date?
Real date? I guess id you call our parents dropping us off at the movie theater together a date then age 12.

35. It is common for one's view of authority to develop in their adolescent years. What is your view of authority, and what event most affected it?
I respect authority, but if I don't agree with soemthing or feel uncomfortable I might sow signs of rebellion. 90% of the tiem thoguh, I trust my superiors. My father sitting down with me when I developed my powers and talking to me like I was an adult really made me realize authority figures usually aren't out to get you.

36. What were you like in high school? What "clique" did you best fit in with?
I fit in with the jocks. I'm no meathead, but I was always more interested in physical activity than books. A lot of people are put off by iut and judge me by the people I play sprots with rather than talk to me and figure out who I am.

37. What were your high school goals?
I always wanted to take the lead somewhere, but I never really felt capable of it. As I reach the end of my tenure as a student, I more and more want to teach at the institute.
38. Who was your idol when you were growing up? Who did you first fantasize about in your life?
After the Stryker invasion, I suppose I idolized Rasputin a bit. Before that it was always Cyclops because of his position on the team. Who did I first fantasize about? Oh I rememebr that quite a bit. It had to be one of my first night's here, and it was Professor Munroe. Can you blame me?

39. What is your favorite memory from adolescence?
My first birthday after coming to the Xavier school. I had learned to control my powers a bit better so I didn't feel stupid anymore. My mom treated me like I was a genius, and my Dad put togetehr this great four day trip to the Southern California shore. I even went to a Raider's playoff game.

40. What is your worst memory from adolescence?
When the Stryker invasion hit the mansion. We were all holed up and couldn't do much. I felt useless, and pretty scared.

[Jackson Greco]

Occupational Questions
_{can also be applied to *team* if X-Men/BH rather than to paid employment}

41. Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? If no job, where does your money come from?
I don't at the moment, but I try to work on and off near the mansion when we're out of term. Usually at a pizzeria or something. Most of my spending money comes from a stipend my Dad sends me each month.

42. What is your boss or employer like? (Or publisher, or agent, or whatever.)
The teachers at the mansion are the closest thign I have to regular bosses. Most of them are pretty fair, no real hardlienrs. I suppose it's cause they've all grown up with this already.

43. What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in particular? Which ones don't you get along with?
I get along with most peopel i meet at the school. Overly rebellious types just aren't the type of person I make friends with. Most of the peopel at the school don't know me too well, even if they know about me.

44. What is something you had to learn that you hated?
Political Science, English Lit. Hey, name anything that takes non-logical thoguht and I probably suffered through it. On a mroe seriosu note thoguh? That there were peopel in this world who'd kill mutants just for being mutants.

45. Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why?
Save because I don't have much to spend it on. There's not much out tehre I want to buy besides clothes and sports equipment. Maybe CDs and soime non-essentials like an Xbox.

[Jackson Greco]

Likes & Dislikes Questions

46. What hobbies do you have?
Sports. I do a lot of extracurricular stuff that relates to it, like captaining the intramurals club. I suppose if there's time between studying and sports I'll goof off a little with a video game. Yeah, and I like hip-hop dance. If you laugh, you're goign through a wall, buddy.

47. Who is your closest mundane friend? Describe them and how you relate to them.
I don't have any really close friends, just a bunch of friends I keep at a distance. I don't really like it when people know too much about me, it ends up leadign to conversations that waste time... okay I'm lying. I could really use a best friend, rather than a bunch of shallow ones.

48. Who is your worst mundane enemy? Describe them and why you don't get along.
Luckily, I've made no enemies yet. I doubt it will be that way forever.

49. What bands do you like? Do you even pay attention?
I like hip-hop and R&B music mostly. Linkin Park and Fort Miner are at the top of my list along with some of the great modern rappers and R&B groups such as Jagged Edge.

5.0 What tape or CD hasn't left your player since your purchased it? Why?
The Rising Tide by Fort Minor. It's great to work out to.

51. What song is "your song?" Why?
Realistically? I think it's "Hit The Floor" by Linkin Park, since right now I seem to be on top of my game, and I could end up flat on my face if I do anything wrong.

52. What's been your favorite movie of all time?
Space Jam.

53. Read any good books? What were they?
It's hard for me to get through a fiction novel without goign a little nuts. I mean, I love it, but imagine havign a brain that tries to read everything on the page at once. Tell me how you can interpret imagery and symbolism when all you see is words? So, I'll say my Biology textbook.

54. What do you watch on the Television?
I don't have much time for TV, but if I end up in the common room at late hours I'll watch sports center or the tonight show.

55. When it comes to mundane politics, do you care? If so, which way do you tend to vote? If not, why don't you care?
This being the first year I can vote, I plan on voting for whatever candidate shwos the most sympathy for the mutant cause. Maybe Dr. McCoy will run one of these days. I don't care about much else in the political world.

56. What type of places do you hang out in with your mundane friends?
The movie theater or the mall. More often thoguh, the back lawn of the mansion playing some games.

57. What type of places do you avoid like the plague?
Any place that is overly decorative. Man, that sends my brain reeling.

58. What annoys you more than anything else?
When my cognition powers start getting wonky. Specifically, when I try to study.

59. What would be the perfect gift for you?
A signed piece of sports memorobilia.

60. What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
The mansion grounds at night after a snowswotrm

61. What time of day is your favorite?
Early morning just afetr sunrise. I get the msot done at that time.

62. What kind of weather is your favorite?
A hot sunny day, which makes it perfect for some back lawn football.

63. What is your favorite food? What is your least favorite food?
My favorite food would have to be a big helping of beef tacos. Least favorite would probably be something fishy.

64. What is your favorite drink? (Coffee, Coke, Juice, Beer, Wine, etc.)
Unsweet Iced Tea

65. What's your favorite animal? Why?
A lion. They have a certain sense of nobility and power.

66. Do you have any pets? Do you want any pets? What kind? I'd love to have a dog, but I'd want a big one, and I don't think the staff would approve.


67. What do you find most relaxing? (Not as in stress relief, but as something that actually calms you down.)
Eating.

68. What habit that others have annoys you most?
Procrastination.

69. What kind of things embarrass you? Why?
When a psychic that's not used to their powers accidentally reads my mind. They usually either freak out a bit because there's so much going on, or they laugh because I may be 6'3" on the outside, but on the inside I doubt I'm an inch above 5'.

70. What don't you like about yourself?
That I question myself so much, but I can't help it.

71. How would you like to look?
My looks are one area I don't worry about. I think I do a pretty good job of looking good. Besides, looks should be the last thing in the world I worry about... though I do take a logn time gettign ready.

[Jackson Greco]

Sex and Intimacy Questions

72. Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why?
Straight. I just never had any inkling of feeling any other way.

72. Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What was it like? How well did it go?
I was 15, she was 16. The names have been chanegd to protect the innocent. Anyway, it went as good as it expected... i mean she was more experienced than me and I was young, so I kinda got guided through. It was a learning experience more than anything. If you want me to say it wasn't good then I will, but I can't say I've had many dissapointments sicne that first time.

74. Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and how did it go?
Nope. I mean, it's not a bad thing, but I'm just not attracted to guys like that.

75. What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever try it?
Are you kidding? When I first heard about mystique's power to change forms, that was it right there. Just think, she could look like whoever you wanted her to. Rumors say she's workin for the bad team again, but of course I'd try it if it ever happened to come up. Of course, I'd turn her into the x-team afterwards.

76. What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with and when did it happen?
A girl with soem sort of illusion power did thsi weird thing once where we didn't really have sex but it felt like it. Whatever, it was weird.[/ii]

77. Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that can be considered non-standard? (Bondage, Fantasy Play, etc.) Why do you like it?
Nothing out of the ordinary.

78. Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances, do?
I probably wouldn't do anythign that could put my partner in danger, ebcause who knows, if my pwoers went off and distarcted me or something... well yeah. I'll probably never do anything with a guy either.

79. Do you currently have a lover? What is their name, and what is your relationship like? What are they like? Why are you attracted to them?
Nope.

80. What is the perfect romantic date?
A walk on the beach at night in summer.

81. Describe the perfect romantic partner for you.
I have no idea. I'll let you know when I find them.

82. Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this happening?
Sure. I see it happening once I've accomplished some minor goals and actually meet teh right person. I'm hoping before age 30.

83. What is more important - sex or intimacy? Why?
I've had a lot of sex, but it's been meaningless mostly. I'd trade it all in for something that was intimate and really meant something. I sort of regret losing my virginity so early, it changed me for the worse.

84. What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not need to be sexual, merely romantic.)
I've managed to keep sex out of the picture for almsot half a year now. Oh wait, scratch that, New Year's Eve a girl back home and I hooked up. Yeah, anyway... I've never really dated a girl for more than a 4 month period, usually because they turn out to be shallow and either I realize it and lose them, or they realize they liekd me for the wrong reasons.

85. What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved?
I can't say I've really been in love. I wish I had, or wish I was.

[Jackson Greco]

Drug & Alcohol Questions

86. How old were you when you first got drunk? What was the experience like? Did anything good come out of it? Did anything bad come out of it?
I've never been drunk. My body metabolizes alcohol liek it's practically water, so it'd take a few kegs of beer I think, and I don't feel like pissing that much.

87. Do you drink on any kind of regular basis?
Sure, I'll have a beer to fit in with the guys... but it doesn't really matter.

88. What kind of alcohol do you prefer?
I don't really prefer any, it's not enoguh a part of my lifestyle.

89. Have you ever tried any other kind of "mood altering" substance? Which one(s)? What did you think of each?
Pot once, but just like alcohol it has next to no effect.

90. What do you think of drugs and alcohol? Are there any people should not do? Why or why not?
People probably shouldn't do it, and i'm glad it doesn't effect me much. If I ever become a health teacher at the mansion, I'll have to start telling people not to do it. Imagine a mutant that can fry people's brains getting high? Scary.

[Jackson Greco]

Morality Questions

91. What one act in your past are you most ashamed of? What one act in your past are you most proud of?
I'm ashamed of not doing more when Stryker's men hit the mansion, thoguh I was younger then. I'm most proud of being where I am today, but worry tha tI can't maintain it.

92. Have you ever been in an argument before? Over what, with who, and who won?
Yes, but I try not to fuel the fire and let actions speak louder than words. I don't waste time trying to prove I'm right, so I don't care if I won or not.

93. Have you ever been in a physical fight before? Over what, with who, and who won?
Lots of times, usually when i was younger. Once the little league pitcher said I was cheating... this was when I first got my powers. I hit him once and put him in the hospital for a week. Only once have I gotten in a ifght since getting to the mansion, it was from another guy with a simialr strength power losing to me in an arm-wrestle. I managed to detain him and not hurt him, but I still got in trouble.

94. What do you feel most strongly about?
Doing the right thign in the face of adversity.

95. What do you pretend to feel strongly about, just to impress people?
I care too much about everything, it's probably what makes me so insecure. There's no pretending.

96. What trait do you find most admirable, and how often do you find it?
Passion for something, such as art, writing, sports, dancing, whatever. People who care about things.

97. Is there anything you think should not be incorporated into the media or art (sex, violence, greed, etc.,)? If so, what and why, and if not, why not?
There's been a lot of anti-mutant undertones in some movies. I hate that,

98. Do you have any feelings in general that you are disturbed by? What are they? Why do they disturb you?
Sometimes I've felt like I hated non-mutants, but then I remember my mom isn't a mutant. It disturbs me because I know that to follow that path is to go the way of the brotherhood.

99. What is your religious view of things? What religion, if any, do you call your own?
I'm a baptist, but not a very good one. I suppose I could be better.

100. Do you think the future is hopeful? Why?
Nope. I'm not so optimistic that things will get any better for mutantkind. I think everytime steps are made the right direction, things like the MRA creep back up.

101. Is an ounce of prevention really worth a pound of cure? Which is more valuable? Why do you feel this way?
Yes, at least for me. Some people can't help but fall into things and need a cure. I'd ratehr keep my distance to begin with.

102. What's the worst thing that can be done to another person? Why?
Give a mutant who depends on their power as part of their body the cure. Imagine someone who can't breath oxygen getting hit with it? Thye probably have no lungs, and they aren't going to just appear in time to fix their physiology.

103. What's the worst thing you could actually do to someone you hated?
I don't know what I'm capable of yet, but I usually don't take revenge on people. I'm usually the bigger person.

104. Are you a better leader or follower? Why do you think that? If you think the whole leader-follower archetype is a crock of shit, say so, and explain why?
I don't know. I'd like to be a leader, but look at what happens to great leaders. Scott, the Professor... jeez. Plus, I have doubts tha tI can shoudler the responsibility.

105. What is your responsibility to the world, if any? Why do you think that?
I feel a need to protect those that can't protect themselves. I don't really know why... I guess it's just when I saw how quickly the world can change, I realzied I had to be one of the few that coudl always adapt, and I'd have to look out for thsoe that couldn't.

106. Do you think redemption is possible? If so, can anyone be redeemed, or are there only certain circumstances that can be? If not, why do you think nothing can redeem itself?
I think people can be redeemed. I haven't thought much about it though.

107. Is it okay for you to cry? When was the last time you cried?
For someoen like me? No, it's not. I have to set an example, be as a solid as stone. The last time I cried I must have been 11.

108. What do you think is wrong with MOST people, overall?
Most people are too lazy and self-serving to make a beneficial contribution to the world.