Jeremiah Carmichael

Jeremiah Carmichael was born on September 30, 1977. He is the CEO and owner of Capital Investments, an angel investor firm that invests in start-up companies and makes money off of their profits. Jeremiah married Felicia Wentworth on June 3, 1994 and had their first and only child, Sebastian Carmichael on August 18, 1997. Jeremiah spoiled Sebastian throughout his entire childhood in order to gain favor with him. When Sebastian turned 18, Jeremiah bought him a house and paid for it in full as the final gift and act of favoritism. He then attempted to blackmail Sebastian into getting groomed as the successor to his company in exchange for 18 years of generosity. Not wanting to see her only son go through something so horrible, Felicia divorced Jeremiah roughly a month later.

After being guilted by Jeremiah, Sebastian opened a store called Things N' Stuff. Under Jeremiah's orders, he hired Amber Ryann in order to manage a staff. Jeremiah believed that Amber was an eyesore and a misrepresentation of the business and ordered Sebastian to fire her. Jeremiah even went as far as to hire Kaito Akihiko as Amber's replacement. When Sebastian still refused to fire Amber, Jeremiah fired the entire staff and put the store up for sale through a friend of his named Pat who owned a real estate agency. Jeremiah gave Pat strict orders to sell the store to anyone except Sebastian.

After Amber, Kaito, Lynn, and Takumi conspired together and won the BlazeCON Invitational Tournament, Jeremiah's plans were thwarted when Kaito's father Yuujiro Akihiko used their prize money to buy the store and then sell it to Sebastian for an entire dollar. Jeremiah and Sebastian had a major falling out with one another as they disowned each other.

Jeremiah disappeared until his top advisor got sick and tired of Jeremiah not paying him more for his business acumen and information network. Seeking revenge, he fed Jeremiah false information and took all of the money he was to invest in poor start-up companies and invested it in what he referred to as a golden egg company. Realizing that Jeremiah would sign just about anything, the paperwork to make the investment official was slipped into a stack of papers Jeremiah needed to sign. Wanting to go home as quickly as possible, Jeremiah signed each and every one of them without reading it. Because as such, the money went straight to his advisor, leaving Jeremiah with nothing but ruined companies that returned 0 investments.

Because of his error, Capital Investments went bankrupt and Jeremiah lost everything, including his house. He ended up living out of his car and paid a visit to Sebastian in order to seek help; however, he was met with resistance. On Christmas, a blizzard gripped the city and Jeremiah's car got trapped behind a snowbank in a shopping plaza parking lot. There, he ran out of fuel to run his car and nearly froze to death. He was only saved when a random police patrol spotted his car and decided to check on him.

Jeremiah was taken to the hospital where he contacted Sebastian once again. Sebastian couldn't let this happen to his own flesh and blood and caved, offering Jeremiah his home to him. Jeremiah sought work and found a job a retail store along with a part time job as a library aide. Eventually, Jeremiah was promoted to Store Manager and then was made an offer to come work at the corporate office in their marketing department. As a result, he was able to move out of Sebastian's house after making amends with his son.

## Appearance

Jeremiah wears a dark, navy blue business suit, white dress shirt, black belt, and a brown striped tie. He has brown eyes and long brown hair that is usually tied back in a ponytail along with a chin goatee.

## Personality

In the beginning, Jeremiah was a ruthless businessman who used dirty and underhanded tactics to gain profit for himself. After his business went bankrupt, Jeremiah tried to use his cunning to, once again, gain favor with Sebastian but ended up becoming humbled after nearly freezing to death during the holidays. Since then, Jeremiah had become remorseful with a pure intent to help his son out.