Johnathan Keplan

Johnathan Keplan has been the Head Councillor of the Blaze City Senior Council and Lead Overseer of the Blaze City Council since the senior council's resort in 2309.

## Background

Johnathan Keplan was the first born to a wealthy novelist father and biological researcher mother in Basil Valley, Blaze City. He had a standard life, with the Keplan family being one of the more wealthier families in the middleclass sector of the city. However, around the time of his sister, Candace Keplan's, birth, his father was killed in a drunk driving incident, leaving his mother widowed and him and his baby sister fatherless.

Despite his mother, Alcine, never remarrying, she still was able to take care of him and Candace with the insurance money from her husband's death through till when both were the age that they were able to take care of themselves, having quit her last job permanently to take care of her kids . In 2299, When Johnathan turned seventeen, Alcine told her children that she would have to leave them for her new job as a biological researcher at a secret, underwater base for Genotech Research, a subsidiary of multi-industrial conglomerate Genocell Pharmaceutical.

With Candace being three years younger then him, Johnathan found it to be hard to look after his fourteen-year-old sister, especially as she entered the rebellious stage of teenage years. However, with Alcine's past knowledge of biological research, she was swiftly promoted to a lab head and was able to give her kids more lavish lifestyles, even getting a big house with staff to look after them which Johnathan moved out of half a year later to go into the Executives Society at the remarkably young age of nineteen in 2301.

### The death of Alcine Keplan in the 2304 Beta-3 Facility Explosion

Unfortunately, three years after moving out, having almost drifted away his family completely, Johnathan returned home to tell his mother and sister that he'd been given a seat in the Blaze City Council, but upon returning to his home, he found both his sister Candace, her lovers, Roland Cole and Sandra Smith, and the house staff in the main hall all in tears with Genotech Research's Doctor Harlo Duvall standing in front of them. Duvall, who was the recently promoted head scientist at the Beta-3 Facility, informed Johnathan that his mother, Alcine, had unfortunately died in a test that went wrong, blowing up the lab she and several others where in. Devastated by this, Johnathan returned to his condo in Sudo Plaza almost immediately and fell into a state of depression, focusing solely on his work in the council.

The next several years quickly passed for him, with both the marriage of his sister to Roland and Sandra Cole and the birth of his niece Rebecca happening during them, Johnathan found himself in the roster of candidates to become a member of the Senior Council during what ended up being the last resort for over twenty years. Originally, Johnathan had high hopes to be on the council, considering both his hard work at close relationship with the seniors or most notably Head Councillor Richmond Herring, but was shocked to find that he had been appointed to take over the role as Head Councillor, which made him very happy.

### Meeting and loosing his wife Hannah Mayhew and son Wilbert plus the lose of his nephew

During his time as Head Councillor, Johnathan soon met and fell in love with a woman called Hannah Mayhew, with the two meeting for the first time in 2310 and then marrying in 2311 after Hannah fell pregnant with their son, Wilbert Mayhew. For the next eleven years, Johnathan's life was the best it could be, he had a loving wife, a smart and confident son, the highest ranking role in the city and becoming closer to his fellow Senior Council members, though he had drifted apart from his family, having not spoked to them since two years after Hannah and his' wedding day.

Unfortunately, whilst Johnathan was at a council meeting, he received an emergency call from the Cahoney Place Medical Centre, who told him that both Hannah and Wilbert were in an almost fatal car accident in Billboard Square and were currently fighting for their lives in the hospital. Johnathan immediately left to the hospital, putting his most trusted aid, veteran Senior Council member Sandrine Telesco, in charge of the meeting. Once at the hospital, the doctors told him that the surgery wasn't going all to well and there was a high possibility that both would die, leaving him distraught as he sat in the waiting room.

Whilst waiting, he quickly spotted his brother and sister-in-law Roland and Sandra Cole waiting there as well with his niece Rebecca and his then ten-year-old nephew Damion, who Candace never even told him they had until that night, all with saddened expressions. Going up to them, the two adults told him that Candace was eight and a half moths pregnant with their third child, a girl they planned to call Alcine after his and hers mother, but she turned out to also be involved in the car accident that Hannah and Wilbert where in, with her being in one of the cars that crashed into his wife and son.

Before any of them could get angry, two doctors came into the waiting room, one for the Coles and one for Johnathan. Roland and Sandra where informed that Candace was not only paralyzed at the waist down, but also lost their baby, whilst Johnathan was told that Hannah had lost too much blood and died, with Wilbert in a coma and slowly dying with only days left to live.

The broken Johnathan suddenly went into what he could only describe as an out of body state, with him making decisions that he wouldn't normally make. This included contacting Doctor Duvall, who he had made contact with as a part of his Head Councillor duties, and having him take the body of his wife and the comatose Wilbert to a building in the hospital's premise that belonged to Genotech Research to try and keep his loved ones alive for as long as possible. Following this, Duvall and his team where able to place Wilbert into a cryofreeze chamber that would keep him alive for as long as Johnathan wanted and, with the help of EnigmaTech scientist Sisca Abbitt's DigiMind Project, which evolved into the NeuroLife Project, where able to take Hannah's conscious and place it into an A.I. system, which Duvall and Abbitt had programmed to be addressed as Judie Christiansen, Johnathan's new wife.

Following this, he had a shared funeral set up for Hannah and Wilbert the day after his deceased niece's funeral, but only revealed the existence of Judie three months afterwards, saying that he had started to see someone and got married to them at a time he neglected to share with others. For the longest time, people believed Johnathan that Judie was in fact a real person helping him out, despite never seeing any pictures in the office of her or even in real life, with Johnathan saying she worked for Genocell and had to travel around a lot.