Born in New York, Jackie is the single child of his wealthy philanthropist parents, a prodigy in school, and extremely talented show jumper.
Jackie’s natural skill on horseback led to him enlisting in local shows and eventually going national. 6 years into his career, his filly Missfitt endured a severe injury during a show and was put down. Jackie was also injured during this event and as a result became addicted to prescription pain pills.
Disgusted by the drive of others to push him back into the sport with a new horse, Jackie moved to Florida to be with his parents.
6 months later his father endured a heart attack and passed away suddenly during an argument about Jackie’s addiction. His mother followed suit, unable to deal with the pain of losing her love, she committed suicide 4 weeks later.
Jackie sold the home and moved into the streets, his mind burdened with death and grief. He overdosed, but was saved by a woman known as Melanie and an anarchist group known as Amence.
Jackie befriended the group and aligned himself with them, while eventually going on to date Melanie. His addiction continued in secret as he attempted to fight it without outside assistance.
2 years later, Melanie left him after his second overdose, he finally attended rehab and officially came clean as a result.
One drug addiction overcome later, Jackie began attending ex-addict meetings where he met Blair and smoked a joint outside with him, while discussing the particulars of the universe and society.
Blair later tells Jackie that he has a spare room if he wants to live somewhere fresh and new, and Jackie accepts.
Dear Mr. Kenny,
As I know you are well aware, Mr. Jackson Shelton will be arriving tomorrow at your ranch. While I have given you the most important information about Mr. Shelton prior, I find it necessary to mention some key details on Mr. Shelton and his personality so that you are not thrown off guard. I understand your clients at the ranch are primarily there more than willingly, Mr. Shelton is a different case. I’m only a step away from bribing him into going, and it was the result of a bet between us that he even agreed to go at all. First of all, and more of a formality than anything, is that Mr. Shelton prefers to be called Jackie vs. Jackson or Jack. He especially despises the latter, stating that “Jack is a little kid’s name.” Secondly, Jackie has stated several times that if anyone at the ranch asks him personal details about his father or mother, the deceased William and Barbara Shelton, he will not hesitate to leave the ranch and not return. I have more than enough reason to believe he will actually leave the ranch, so if this could please be discussed in a house meeting to ensure it doesn’t happen, both I and Jackie would deeply appreciate it. Third, Jackie is quite knowledgeable about horses, as I’m sure you know. He tends to react, negatively, when given instruction he is already aware of. Please do not patronize him. Fourth, I know this email is making Jackie out to be a spoiled brat who can’t be told no, and trust me, that is how I feel with the guy most of the time as well. However, I really want to help him, and believe he can be saved. Over the past 8 months since that night on the bridge, I have seen and heard his story first hand, and I know a redemption arc is in his future if he holds out for it and finds meaning in his life once more. I truly believe that being around horses once more will reinvigorate his passion for the animals as well as for life. Please, just give him a grace period to adjust. He will be moody, he will be snippy, he will most likely try to sleep with someone at the ranch (he’s a pansexual horndog, Cade,) which, I know you don’t have a policy on clients sleeping together, but just a warning. I told him he is not permitted to bring drugs to the ranch, but he likely has a marijuana pen somewhere on his person, I don’t exactly feel like fighting the guy on it, I don’t think I’d win. But there’s no way he’ll have enough to get him through his entire stay at Rosemary.
Thank you, Cade, for helping me out here. I am happy to call you a friend. Let’s hope we’re both right about this guy.
– Skip Andy
1960 – William Shelton is born
1975 – Barbra Steinberg is born
1980 – Blair Sinclair is born
1981 – William Shelton begins his videogame company, Jorvik, and sees near immediate success.
1986 – Barbra Steinberg gets her first role in the movie “Child of Mine,” as the child.
1990 – William Shelton and Barbra Steinberg are married. Barbra is 16 and William is 30.
1991 – Jackson Shelton is born
1992 – Melanie Balfor is born
1995 – Barbra Steinburg attempts to return to acting at the age of 20 and stars in several B-films.
1999 – Miguel Maloles is born
2003 – at the age of 12, Jackson begins horseback riding on his showpony Malloy and enters jr competitions.
2006 – Jackson adopts Missfitt, his future champion Palomino filly, at age 15.
2009 – Jackson wins his first international showjumping competition with Missfitt.
2010 – Jackson attains world fame after representing the US in the Summer Olympics.
2011 – Jackson is offered a role, along with his mother, in a made-for-TV movie based on his chosen sport. His popularity with young girls peaks overnight.
2015 – During an international show, Jackson is thrown from Missfitt and is hospitalized, ending his career. Missfitt is put down under the order of William Shelton. Jackson becomes addicted to opioids, William Shelton dies suddenly from a heart attack, and Barbra Steinberg follows in a suicide using her son’s painkillers.
2017 – Jackson loses his family’s fortune in a bad business deal, becomes homeless, and extends his addiction to heroin. Jackson overdoses on the street and is saved by Melanie Balfor. Melanie agrees to a date with Jackson if he attends rehab. Jackson lies about completing his stay at rehab and the two begin to date. Jackson begins to attend meetings with an anarchist group known as Amence, much to Melanie’s disapproval.
2019 – Melanie becomes pregnant by Jackson but undergoes an abortion after having to save him from a second overdose. Melanie and Jackson break up. Jackson throws himself in further with Amence and begins to become politically involved. He officially starts his journey towards getting clean from heroin.
2020 – Dick Marshall is elected president. Jackson reignites his popularity by furthering the anarchist agenda and spreading conspiracy theories about the government. He still struggles with his addiction to heroin.
2021 – Jackson officially makes it a year without heroin and begins to gain tremendous success in his political commentary. Scientists notice a fast-moving meteor hurdling towards earth. They predict it will hit in a matter of years if nothing is done. Nothing is done about it.
2023 – Jackson relapses after a year of sobriety and overdoses, landing him in the hospital again. Scientists warn that the meteor discovered two years ago is imminent and there is no longer anything that can be done to stop it. It is predicted to hit somewhere in the United States.
2024 – Brandon Welles becomes president. The meteor hits Los Vegas, Nevada and wipes out an entire city block. Jackson attends a meeting for ex-heroin addicts, where he gets harassed by a woman who tells him he deserves his crippling addiction because of his political leaning, and steps outside during a panic attack, where he meets Blair and lights up a joint with him. Blair offers him a new place to live if he promises not to do heroin around his baby cousin, Miguel.
2025 – Events of game occur. Miguel and Jackson fall in love. Paradise 33 is revealed to be a forced testing facility. Brandon Welles is reelected at age 80. Miguel and Jackson run away to the woods and Jackson tells Miguel that the world outside has officially turned to ashes.
2026 – a second meteor hits earth, this time wiping out a much larger portion of the population upon impact. Civilization begins to fall as Norovid becomes completely impossible to control. The only people remaining are the immune. Jackson finds and adopts a baby girl and raises her as his daughter with Miguel.
2027 – Andrea abruptly goes missing. Jackson finds Miguel a pair of glasses that work for him and the two venture off to find her. Jackie confesses to Miguel that the world only recently ended, and that things were pretty much normal for a year before the second meteor hit. Miguel is betrayed and leaves Jackie, unable to forgive him for stealing one more normal year away from him.
