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Jimmy Saint is your average fifteen year old teenager, well al least for the most part.

Jim is about 5’9 feet tall and weights around 154 pounds. So one could say he is relatively tall for his age and rather skinny. Despite of not being a heavyweight, Jimmy is much tougher than he looks, which is kind of hard to believe, since he looks kind of like a wimp.

In spite of being rather skinny and not having any muscles whatsoever, Jimmy is supposedly in decent physical shape and he even claims to be able to do five hundred pushups without even breaking a sweat.

Jimmy has deep brown eyes and dirty blonde hair, which is starting to get a pretty shaggy by now, since it’s been some time since his last haircut.

The Canadian boy generally dresses himself with colorful short-sleeve t-shirts with distinctive logos that usually make reference to videogames or other geeky influences. Other than that, he sports your regular blue jeans and converse sneakers, he occasionally uses shirts for special occasions.

Overall, Jimmy Saint is a pretty decent person. However he is pretty absentminded, he lives in his own reality and his head more often than not is floating in the clouds.

He also thinks of himself as being the hero of his own movie and a Paragon of Virtue. He is not very ambitious person and doesn’t think much about the future. He prefers to live in the now and react to things as they present themselves.

These traits of his personality had led people to believe the misconception that he is dimwitted (including his parents), a lazy person and at times it makes him look kind of like a Jerk, but nothing could be farthest from the truth.

Okay, it is true that Jim is sometimes slow and a bit forgetful, but he isn’t really that dumb. Also he is a kind-hearted person and is generally very nice. Although he does have a darker side of his personality that he normally doesn’t like to show.

The Canadian boy is normally a very passive person, but on certain occasions he will act out of impulsively.

Macy (Jim’s older sister) teases him on being a lady-killer, because Jim had romanced one or two of her friends in the past. However, Jimmy always gets embarrassed when she brings it up and states that "It was not what it looked like" trying to deny it.

Jimmy claims not drink (sometimes he does) and he hates smoking so bad that he considers anyone who smokes to be evil.

James Westley Saint was born in Toronto, around a year before global tragedy occurred. The catastrophe had massively transformed the way of living in Canada, the weather suffered the most. Thankfully, the Second Impact did not hit the Canadian flocks as bad as it had hit the Americans.

Jimmy’s Parents, his father an engineer and his mother an architect got jobs on the United States, helping with the restoration of the cities on the East Coast. This forced his parents to travel a lot while he was growing up. Sometimes one of his parents was away, other times both of them. When both of his parents were away, his oldest brother Stewart usually took care of Jimmy and his sister Macy. Because of this, during his childhood years Jimmy developed a very strong bond with his older brother and looked up on him.

Stewart had inherited his parent’s intellect (something Jimmy clearly didn’t), in fact he was sort of a genius, but he didn’t truly unleash his potential until he went away to collage in Germany. Needless to say, young Jimmy really suffered the sudden departure of his older brother, but Stewart promised him that once he graduated from collage they would see each other again, a promise that unfortunately he wasn’t able to keep.

When Stewart graduated, he got a job doing research for a foreign company. Apparently these people were really impressed with his final thesis and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. When Jimmy tried to contact his brother over the phone, he was rather cryptic, explaining that he wasn’t allowed to speak about his work or the company, but he told his little brother that what he was doing was for the good of mankind and that it would help the world. When Jimmy recalls that conversation he remembers his brother’s voice, his tone was rather severe but he seemed to truly believe what he was saying. The only thing Jimmy managed to get out of his brother was that in two weeks he was going on a research trip to Antarctica.

About two months later the Saint family received the news that there have been some unspecified complications on the excursion and that Stewart had passed away. Jimmy didn’t take the news very well and was greatly saddened by the death of his brother.

When Stewart went away to collage, he had left behind most of his possessions, his parents kept his room as it was when he left, in the hopes that he would someday return back home, but that was sadly not a possibility any more. Jimmy eventually moved to his brother’s old room and inherited all of his stuff. Amongst Stewart most noteworthy possessions there was a Fireglo Rickenbacker 4003 bass guitar and a massive videogames collection.

Ever since then, Jimmy got addicted to videogames and was totally immersed in their subculture. So when he was not at school or hanging out with his friends, he spent most of the time playing games, occasionally we would spend entire weekends in front of a screen.

By the time Jimmy was eleven, he started to develop an interest in music. He had previously tried playing his mother’s old guitar, but he wasn’t very good at it and after a couple of weeks he realized how bad he sucked and decided to give up.

Jim figured since the bass guitar had less strings than the regular guitar, it would be much easier to play and for the most part he was right. So he started to practicing every now and then with his brother’s bass and also listened to some of his records. Through somehow interested in music, Jim didn’t spend as much time practicing as he did playing videogames.

When Jimmy began attending high school, things started to look up for him. Even through at first he had trouble adjusting to school and got into a couple of fights, he eventually managed to form a solid group of friends and he even got himself a girlfriend. Gloria Wilson was a quiet mousy girl, who was really into anime and owned a lot of dorky toys. So for Jimmy she was the perfect girl and he fell deeply in love with her.

Still to this day, Jim probably thinks that the time that he spent with Gloria was quite possibly the best time of life. For a short period of time in Jimmy Saint’s life, everything was milk and honey, but such sweet things are never meant to last.

Maybe as a natural result of adolescence or perhaps the evil powers that be which rule our universe, Jim’s girlfriend started to change. She started to smoke, she threw away all of her anime stuff and her girlfriends started calling her "Lori" as for the diminutive of "Glory" which was the diminutive of her name. Gloria also began to dress up more fashionably and her personality also changed. She stopped being a quiet girl, becoming more callous and assertive. Also the magical fairy of puberty had waved her wand over her and had transformed Glory from a cute nerdy girl into a beautiful young woman.

However Jim as usual, was too absentminded to notice any this. He only realized that something was wrong when one night, while he was playing Mario Kart with his friends and Gloria. She complained about the game being stupid and then left.

When the school year was over, Gloria went away to America for the Holidays. Jim as always stayed in Toronto and hang out with his friends playing videogames. Out of boredom Jimmy even considered putting a band together, alongside Christie Road (one of Jim’s friends) who played the keyboard, but after a few rehearsals they came to the conclusion that they sucked and drop the idea altogether.

A few weeks after the Holydays were over and returning back to school, tragedy befell once again into Jim’s precious little life. Lori brutally broke up with him, breaking his heart into a million pieces and then two weeks late moved to America. This left Jim completely devastated and emotionally crushed. Something which, to this very day he still hasn’t entirely recovered from.

That very night, Jim’s friends gather up to comfort him and brought some stolen alcohol to cheer him up. Jimmy got really drunk than night and almost blacked out. Ever since then, his memory has become a little fuzzy. Even to the point of not remember many thing that happened the year he broke up with Lori, Jim blames this on the alcohol and decided not to drink alcohol again.

After the break-up, Jimmy elapsed into a perpetual state of infinite sadness for at least two weeks, in which he would spend most of his time locked up in his room crying in the darkness and laying over the floor as he felt feeling miserable and drooled all over his carpet (he might have also written a couple of sad songs too).

While Jimmy was still bummed out about his break up, the world kept moving and unbeknownst to him, recent world happening had triggered a chain of events that would change his world forever.

After many years of hard work, reconstruction of the American East Coast cities was finally finished. Suddenly the United States economy, which had built itself around the rebuilding of its cities, plummeted into a massive recession as nearly 22% of its population found itself unemployed within the span of a few months, despite attempts to channel the industrial workers into other fields. This huge blow put the United States economy out of balance.

Needless to say, Jim’s parents quickly found themselves unemployed. Macy (Jim’s sister) started working part-time after school to help her family to make means. Jimmy’s parents tried getting new jobs outside their field of expertise, but they had little or now luck since the unemployment situation in their county was almost as had as in the USA, since a lot of Americans had crossed the border hoping to find jobs in Canada.

Literary out of nowhere, Jimmy’s parents received a mysterious offer to move to the Marshall Islands, in order to work at an artificial island in which they were building "The City of Tomorrow". The Saint family viewed this as a god sent miracle that would save them from their economic problems and provide them with a better life. And so, Jim and his family moved to the city of Ankh-1.

Living in Ank-1 seemed surreal and most of the Saint family was pleased with having moved there, even Jim was feeling a lot better lately. However, one day after returning from school, Jim found a black car parked outside of his home. When he entered he saw his parents having a very vivid conversation with a pair of suited man.

He figured it was something work-related and went to his room. Some minutes later, his mother knocked on the door and told him to come to the kitchen. Once there he took a seat at the kitchen’s table, the suited man where waiting for him there.
The suits informed him that they worked for the same company that his brother used to work when he was doing research back in Germany, Nerv. They asked him if he recalled the series of special tests that he was given several months ago, when he was back at his school in Toronto.

However, Jimmy didn’t remember taking any "special tests", he remembered taking many tests, but none of them were that "special". Both of agents were rather frustrated but the boy’s reaction and with a lot of patience explained the situation.
Several months ago, a special series of tests had been issued at Jim’s school. The pretext of the test was that some major corporation was going to give charitably donation to whatever school scored higher in a series of exams that were meant to test academic excellence.

Nevertheless, that was of course all a sham, in reality the students were all being tested to find possible matches for future pilots. Most of the tests were bogus and the donation money was used to buy the silence of the principal and the rest of the school’s staff. The men also hinted that some of his schoolmates tested positive and were sent to America, Germany and Japan. As many others, this whole incident had completely slipped Jimmy’s mind, of which consequences he had not yet truly entirely began to understand.

The suited men also said apologized for having it come to this, Nerv had tired other candidates but before even considering the possibility of contacting him, but none of them resulted being responsive. They also told him, that his brother had worked very closely this project, and this would be what he would have wanted.

The agents told him that he was the only man for the job, that they needed him to join Nerv.

Still shocked and a bit overwhelmed by the entire situation, Jim rashly accepted their proposal in the hopes of fulfilling his brother’s wishes.

Jimmy Saint has yet to meet his Evangelion (the beast) or any of Nerv’s facilities.

Nerv representatives have kept him and his family mostly in the dark and have only briefed them vaguely on how Evangelions are huge mechas that are meant to fight alien creatures known as "Angels".

When trying to ask more about his unit, the G-Men only deflected Jim’s question saying things like: "We don’t have the liberty to disclose such information", "Everything will be reveled in due time." And "We are working on a need to know basis."

The only bit of useful information the suited man revealed was this. "Your unit will soon be moved from an undisclosed location to Nerv’s Headquarters at an undisclosed time in the near future. When that happens, you will be contacted by a member of our organization that will provide you with further instructions."

Regardless of this, Jimmy shows himself to be fairly excited about visiting Nerv to meet with his Unit and pilot it for the first time.