I am going to die eventually, even if it's not soon. But I am, like, twenty eight now and ancient. I want the story of how we, myself and the rest of the band, became who we were...

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We were but a simple band of musicians that sought world wide renown, the clangs of cymbals, the thick beats of drums, the twangs of guitar strings, the bass guitar, the keyboard, the vocal harmonies and me. I'm, or should I say, I was the vocalist.

Our band didn't get too far, not on a worldwide scale, we were known, just not the 'best' as every young rock star would have hoped. In our minds we were always the best though.

Loki was our lead guitar, and bloody good. I didn't understand much about how instruments worked, I could barely handle a triangle without making a balls up of it. It was a good thing I could sing. But Loki understood it all. He could play anything but he preferred the guitar. He was just a free spirit, his hair was wild and he was very thin. We all called him Iggy, as in Iggy Pop because of that. He'd eat hamburgers, fries and milkshakes and stay like that. Lucky bastard.

Pixie was our drums. She was destined for huge things and stuck with us. Not that any of us complained, neither did she. She was crazy, covered in as many piercings as she could possibly get without being more metal than human. I loved going through airport security with her. Or any place that had metal detectors, which as it turned out, any big arena.

Lolita played our bass guitar, sometimes the keyboard and did the harmonies. I think she was the most normal of all of us. She was from a big middle class family like me, so we both had the 'posh' accents of the group. But she was the most strait laced. She had short clipped hair and it was a normal color.

Then there was me. I was just lead vocals, and if we could use the loop recordings I was also in some of the harmonies, but not often. I had my hair in long braids and tried to get them each a different color. Seeing as that would have been too difficult I had them in green, pink and black and laced silver ribbons into the braid. It looked good. I had, well I still have lots of tattoos, some of them on show, some not, and like Pixie I have some piercings, nose, bellybutton and up my ears.

Together we called ourselves Jack $!#$. That was a funny story, thinking about it. We couldn't think of a name, so we decided to jam in Lolita's garage and think among the atmosphere of our music, smoke and grime. Her parents were to blame for our name really. Her dad (Dave) came in and said "Will you guys stop dreaming of nothing, stop doing jack %*^! and get jobs! You're a total waste on taxpayers like me!" The name stuck. It was great when we got asked that by an interviewer the first time. It felt like we were just going to get going...

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Author: Rouxedwards (Me)
Viole (short for Violet)
Place in band: Main Vocals
Personality: Quite profound and spiritual but not religious, very chilled and a bit of a new-age hippie really. Optimist until things bog her down.
Appearance: Long braided hair in Green, black and pink with silver ribbons in some.
Arm sleeve tattoos (tribal design), line of butterflies on collarbone, moon and stars on back and big lizard on her stomach. Nose, bellybutton and multiple arm piercings. Grey eyes, 'hipster' glasses and an average sort of height and weight.
Background: Originally from middle class family that isn't very wealthy anymore, keeps a 'posh' accent because of this and had a good education.


Author: Kai-Chan
Name- Lolita
Place in Band- Bass Guitar, Harmonies, occasional keyboard
Personality- Confident and loves being sarcastic. She's laid back and very straight laced. She's the most sensible in the group and takes the blame if they get into trouble.
Appearance- Average height, normally messy bed-hair style short clipped chocolate brown hair with a side fringe, strong facial features, long curly eyelashes that compliment her emerald green eyes.
Background- Came from a middle class family, got good grades and had a good education. Use to have a part time job in a 4 star hotel, which is why she has a posh accent.


Author: Dancingshoes14
Name- Loki Young
Place in Band- Lead guitarist, but can play any instrument.
Personality- Very chilled, never makes a fuss, doesn't really care for anything apart from his band mates, competetive, kind.
Appearance- Black hair with metallic blue tips that's quite long, a thick fringe swooped to the side, very messy, extremely skinny, can eat anything and not gain weight, blue eyes, tattoo of a peace sign on his hand saying "LIVE FREE", often wears jeans and band tees.
Background- Has lived on a circus all his life,but doesn't perform, quit the circus when he joined the band, is an orphan.


Author: lovemay
Name- Kylie Arthoreen
Place in Band- song writer (can play most instruments)
Personality- Couldn't have a care in the world but has skills in writing songs. She is very laid back but can be very caring.
Appearance- Around 5 foot 6 and has long blond hair that has streaks of random color. She wears almost anything that she likes.


Author: CrystalRose
Name: Natalie Andrews
She's part of Hardcore Underground as the singer and bass player.
Personality: She's cool and collected. Sometimes she's quite peppy but others she's in deep thought. Doesn't do anything without thinking it through. She's very good at charming the crowd having had experiance.
Apperance: Raven black hair with highlights of blue, it falls in curls to halfway down her back and she has a side finge which hides her right eye. Her eyes are a sort of silvery blue, a mix of grey and blue. She has pale skin and a slim build but with curves. She stands at 5"6.
Background: Her background before her band is a mystery but from then her life is always in the highlight. She's very famous and been in the spotlight for 2 years now going on three.

updated Apr 22 '11 by RouxEdwards