Jeston Jones

Jeston Jones is a character role-played by Stretford\_Sean

## Description

Jeston is just an English guy, looking for a new home to drive fast cars and enjoy life. He is loyal, trustworthy and protective to those closest to him. Friends and family are the only things he holds closer to his heart than racing. He has no desire to be a gang member or commit violent acts, unless someone he cares about needs him or is wronged. Jeston is always respectful, including towards law enforcement, however his racing Alias ‘Red J’ will not be stopping for a traffic stop.

## Background Info

Jeston grew up in a small town in the middle of England with his older brother. He spent most of his teenage years hanging out with his brother and his friends at car shows/meets. As soon has he was of age, Jeston learnt to drive and began joining said success. This is where he developed his alias of ‘Red J’. His favourite colour is red, and J is his first initial, he didn’t put much thought into it but felt cool having a  nickname when racing. Eventually, country roads became city roads, English roads became European roads, and now Jeston has found himself in Clear County.

## Clear County Life

### 1.0

When Jeston arrived in Clear County he was lost, and knew no one, however this meant a fresh start. He spent his time making some money through mining for gems/gold and working the local garbage collection routes. Eventually he'd earned enough money to buy his all time favourite car the Bravado Banshee. However, all he wanted to do race it, but there was no racing scene in CC.

After a short while Jeston was contacted by an old friend from his European racing time Paul Specter. He was looking for a fresh start and Clear County was the perfect place. Once Paul entered the city Jeston had a new lease of life. After Jeston gave Paul the grand tour of Clear County they got to work earning their money and getting to know anyone they met.

Paul used his incredible social skills to help them both make a name for themselves in Clear County. Two of the people they met were Clay Knorr and Dr Callista Grey, the owners of 'Hayes Auto Body Shop'. Paul applied to work at Hayes as a mechanic, putting his previous skills to good use. Clay offered a mechanic job to Jeston too, however he turned him down due to recently applying to open his own mechanic shop and didn't want to accept, then leave Hayes instantly. Due to the demand for mechanics, Paul was working at Hayes a lot and Jeston came up with the idea of working for city tow during that time. He was unofficially working out of Hayes as the city's only tow driver. After watching Paul work on cars all day, Jeston was getting the itch to get under the hood and tinker. He gave up on his dream of owning his own mechanic shop and finally accepted Clay's offer to work at Hayes Auto. However, Clay wanted to utilize Jeston's towing skills so purchased a tow truck for Hayes and hired Jeston as a mechanic and a tow driver. This is when Jeston coined himself the 'Fastest Tow in the West'. Hayes quickly became a very popular place to get vehicles worked on due to Jeston and Paul's skills on the job and opening hours. Many people came through the doors and introduced Jeston to many potential racing competitors.

During his time at Hayes Auto, Leon Diamond, the owner of 'Diamond Autos' in Paleto spoke to Jeston while testing one of Leon's many cars. They were talking about how Leon wanted to move his shop from Paleto down into the city and they just so happened to be parked in front of the abandoned Auto Exotic garage. While there they both showed an interest in owning that shop, Jeston was waiting for approval on his application and Leon was scouting places to move into. Due to them both getting on pretty well, Jeston was hoping Leon would take onboard that Auto Exotic was in his sights and look for a better, less occupied location. That did not happen. Jeston found out via Twitter that 'Diamond Exotic' was now located in the exact garage he was trying to get operational for months. Jeston and Paul took this move as motivation for making Hayes the best mechanic shop in Clear County. From poaching potential mechanics and tying up Iron supply chains, they made sure Leon's business struggled.

Due to Jeston and Paul's previous experience over in Europe, they were starting to get bored of wasting their cars potential around the city. LS Streets was what they came up with, underground street racing group, with the idea of using their previous Alias'. However due to the nature of Clear County it was much easier being the face of events in order to entice people to attend. They put on a car meet turned racing tournament in an old underground warehouse they had found. On the day of the event, Moe Joe, a good friend they had made and owner of Tequila-La-La, helped them get set up and Josh Diamond showed up to take part. Before they could even line up for the first race, FIB Commissioner Max Deagle rolled into the warehouse to break up the gathering. Paul gets chased out of the warehouse by Deagle with Jeston chasing after to help. Everyone loses each other so Jeston goes back in to retrieve the cars that were left in there, however while on the phone to Josh making sure he made it out ok, Deagle sneaks up behind Jeston with his pistol drawn and tells him to put his hands up. With no way of helping, Paul had to watch as Deagle took Jeston in and charged him with 'Inciting or taking part in street racing', a lesser charge than the illegal firearm and trespassing he could've got.

After serving a very reflective 10 months in prison, Jeston realised he lost his job at Hayes. After a talk with Clay and Callista about a raid that was conducted on Hayes, Jeston was offered his job back but turned it down for now as he wanted some time off to think about the trouble he has caused to his Clear County family. After about a week, Jeston was rehired at Hayes and was up for a promotion to Master Mechanic once he settled back in to work.

Most mornings would consist of Paul updating Jeston on the events he missed out on the night before. One of these was a shooting at Hayes, in which Paul was targeted by Matthew Coleman. Jeston took this as an attack on Hayes, and his best friend. Jestons poor memory lead him to create a hit list of sorts. This began with Coleman and Diamond Exotics, and chopped and changed depending on who caused him or the people he cared about trouble.

On one ordinary day at Hayes, Paul and Jeston notice a tweet from April Vonkeaton, a new name to them, saying she needs food, a job, and a bike. Paul opted to leave the shop to Jeston and help April. Eventually they both arrive at the shop where April is hired as an apprentice Mechanic. While out of earshot of April, Paul makes small comments to Jeston about how cute she is, however the comments weren't needed, he could see that already. A few days later, April tweeted about wanting a pet dog, with the encouragement of people hanging out at the shop, Jeston replied saying he could help. April turned up at the shop and mentioned she had also bought a house. After hearing that the house was in Mirror Park, Jeston suggests that she might want to move away from that area, which he was willing to help with. After a long few hours of adopting a dog named Scout, and house hunting, Jeston buys April a house just down the road from his own in Vinewood. A few days later, after pushing from Paul, Jeston and April finally talk about how they feel about each other and start dating.

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Jeston wanted to be upfront and truthful with April about everything, therefore he told her about his involvement in the Clear County street racing scene. He also told her about the fact he went to prison due to a racing event he helped plan. To his surprise April said she would love to join him in racing, as a passenger and eventually as competition once she got better at racing. Jeston took it upon himself to help April get better at racing which involved showing her the underground warehouse track. He helped her understand racing lines and pick out a new racing car, a Invetero Coquette D10. To his surprise she spent a lot of time at the track, even when he wasn't around and she improved greatly.

While at a party celebrating Buzz and Tilly getting married, a few of April and Jestons friends were joking about them being the next ones to be married. They hadn't been together long and hadn't even mentioned marriage to each other yet but talked about it after this prompt from their friends. They both agreed that it would be something they were interested in, however only on a small scale. It was at this moment Jeston knew he had to start planning. He asked his best friend and most romantic person he knew Paul for some advice on planning a proposal and they came up with a couple of ideas. After several days of planning, and countless "I need to talk to you" moments with friends, Jeston had it all set up for the 9th of September. Levi Jenkins was going to give the two of them a helicopter tour of the island, including some of the spots that they hold dear. He will end his tour at the Lighthouse by Mount Gordo where a select group of friends Paul, Sunnie, Moe and Hamish will be waiting with two 2020 Honda CBR1000RR-R bikes. They would take their place next to the bikes, and after a short speech from Jeston, he would ask April to marry him. They would then go back to Tequilala for drinks to celebrate with the rest of the city. Surprisingly for everyone involved the plan went off without a hitch, even when Aliens showed up at Hayes right as they were supposed to go meet Levi. April said yes, liked how it was all set up and was shocked that bike hater Jeston bought them both bikes as engagement presents. Next it was time to plan the big day.

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After attending a Peanut Rally hosted by Arleen as the Fastest Tow in the West, Stu told April he found something he wanted to show her and Jeston. He took them to meet a guy who was offering a job which involved retrieving cars and delivering them to another location for money. Seeing this as possibly boosting cars like he used to do with his brother back in England, Jeston asked the guy if he had any cars that needed retrieving. After one easy and successful "boost", Jeston and April went back for another. However it didn't go smoothly. As Jeston got into the car to hotwire it, a security guard showed up and started taking shots at Jeston. Jeston got hit in the right shoulder as he attempted to unbuckle a seemingly stuck seatbelt. By the time he managed to unbuckle himself the security guard was opening the door and ripping Jeston out of the vehicle. Jeston tried to pull a weapon of his own but doing so resulted in the security guard shooting him in the stomach, causing him to fold over on the ground. April then got out of their getaway car and took care of the security guard. She called Stu and they took Jeston to the hospital where he had surgery to remove the bullet in his stomach and stiches on his shoulder. The next day, against the advice of the hospital and as much as April didn't want him too, Jeston did a couple of jobs at Hayes. April and Jeston then met up with Paul and Sunnie to show them what they had found and they all did a run to test it out together. It all went off without a hitch but it did take a lot out of Jeston with his injuries.

Due to the exertion in the day, Jeston kept checking his bandages to make sure they were not bloody. By the end of the day the stomach wound had reopened so when he and April arrived home, she rewrapped his shoulder, and had to stich his stomach up herself. Due to her brief nurse experience, April was able to do a good job stitching up the wound, however Jeston had not taken any pain meds all day so passed out from the pain and slept on the bathroom floor.

After a few more successful boosts, Jeston and April were on a boost where Jeston unlocked the vehicle and hotwired it first try, however as he left a security guard showed up and shot April. Jeston rushed back and quickly transported April to the hospital where she was treated for a gunshot to the chest. A few days later Jeston was to be fighting at Fight Night at the Yellow Jack, and against Aprils advice he went ahead with it. April didn't seem herself at the event but Jeston was too focused on proving he was fine to fight to notice she had disappeared and she missed his unsurprising defeat to Michael White in the first round. After the event April was rushed to hospital for an operation on her injured chest. Once they returned home, April told Jeston about her being stitched up by a member of the Yakuza while at the Yellow Jack. April had no choice but be treated by Red, and felt indebted to her because of this. Due to their job at Hayes, Jeston and April have to deal with all members of the city, including the Yakuza and OTF (Green Beans) who seemed to be at war with each other. April told Jeston she was worried Red might try and use April and that relationship with OTF in the war, but Jeston assured her he would be right by her side no matter what happened. In the back of his mind he knew that if it were him in that situation he'd already be contacting Demarcus or any OTF member to explain what he knew. However this was April's situation, he would back her on whatever she wanted to do.

## Jobs

#### Past

* Garbage
* Mining
* Fishing

#### Current

* Hayes Auto Mechanic
* Fastest Tow in the West

## Relationships

* Engaged to April Vonkeaton
	+ Started Dating 08.22.2022
	+ Engaged 09.10.2022
	+ Married 02.12.2022

### Friends

* Paul Specter
* Sunnie Holbrook
* Moe Joe
* Morgana
* Stuart Jacobs

## Vehicles

* Bravado Banshee
* Bravado Bison
* Elegy Retro Custom
* Subaru BRZ
* Ford GT Mk1
* Dodge Challenger Demon
* Honda Civic Type R
* Modded Banshee 900R "The Super Banshee"
* Ferrari La Ferrari
* BMW I8
* Audi R8
* Nissan GT-R R36
* 2020 Honda CBR1000RR-R (Two of Two)
* BMW M1000RR
* Porsche Panamera

## Quotes

* "Lets gooooo!"
* "Hell yeah"

## Media

### Gallery

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