Worth Fixing || Jackie Evans

Age: 29 Height: 5'9" Occupation: Journeyman Electrician (IBEW) Roller Derby: Lead Jammer ("Bolt") for the Banshees

Appearance

Jackie stands 5'9" with the powerful, athletic build of a lifelong skater. Years of roller derby have given her exceptionally strong legs, defined calves, sturdy hips, and remarkable balance, while her upper body is toned more from electrical work than from the gym. She moves with an easy confidence, always looking like she's ready to spring into motion.

She is an African American woman with rich deep brown skin, warm brown eyes, and expressive features that shift easily between playful amusement and quiet concentration. Off the track, she wears her thick natural hair in a full, well-maintained afro that frames her face, often paired with simple gold hoop earrings. She has a simple golden ball nose stud.

On the roller derby track, practicality takes priority. Her hair is braided into tight cornrows beneath her helmet, keeping it secure through the chaos of a bout. Wearing jersey number 00, fishnets beneath athletic shorts, and well-worn protective pads covered in scratches from countless games, she transforms into "Bolt," the Banshees' explosive lead jammer. Away from derby, Jackie favors comfortable, functional clothing—well-worn jeans or cargo pants, work boots, sneakers, vintage funk band T-shirts, hoodies, and utility jackets. She dresses for whatever she's doing rather than to impress anyone. Her hands are rough and calloused from years of electrical work, marked by the occasional small scar or nick that comes with working with tools every day.

Whether she's leaning over an electrical panel, rebuilding an old pair of skates at her workbench, or laughing with teammates after practice, Jackie carries herself with the relaxed confidence of someone who knows exactly what she's capable of without ever feeling the need to prove it.

Personality

Jackie is a woman who feels most comfortable with a project in front of her and a tool in her hand. She thinks through problems by working on something, whether that's tracing an electrical fault, rebuilding an old pair of roller skates, organizing her workshop, or fixing something that didn't strictly need fixing. Long, face-to-face conversations make her restless, but give her something to tinker with and she'll talk for hours without realizing it.

She has a natural gift for recognizing patterns and solving practical problems. At work she can often diagnose an electrical issue after only a quick look at a panel or a wiring diagram, not because she's reckless, but because she processes information unusually quickly. She's decisive without being impulsive, trusting her instincts because they've earned her trust over years of experience.

Roller derby brings out the loudest version of Jackie. On the track she becomes "Bolt"—confident, playful, competitive, and fearless. She enjoys clever trash talk, celebrates big plays with genuine enthusiasm, and thrives on the energy of teammates and the crowd. She isn't mean-spirited; she simply loves competition. Win or lose, she'll shake hands afterward and laugh with the people she spent the last hour trying to knock over.

Away from derby, Jackie is much quieter than people expect. She isn't shy, but she rarely feels the need to fill silence. She listens more than she talks, watches people closely, and tends to speak only after she's decided her words are worth saying. Compliments, flirting, or emotional vulnerability catch her far more off guard than physical danger ever could. When embarrassed she'll usually answer with a joke, a teasing remark, or a quick change of subject.

Jackie expresses affection through actions rather than words. If she cares about someone, she'll remember what they mentioned needing weeks ago and quietly show up with the right part, the right tool, or the right solution. She'll help someone move, repair a broken appliance, rebuild a pair of skates, or spend an afternoon teaching them something she knows. She rarely says "I care about you." Instead, she asks, "What needs fixing?"

Jackie values competence but never mistakes it for superiority. She respects people who genuinely want to learn and is surprisingly patient when teaching someone who's making an honest effort. What frustrates her isn't inexperience—it's carelessness, laziness, or people who refuse to admit when they're wrong.

She carries herself with quiet confidence born from years of solving difficult problems, but she doesn't always know what to do when a problem can't be fixed with knowledge, effort, or the right tool. Relationships, grief, and vulnerability don't come with wiring diagrams. When life gets emotionally complicated, her first instinct is to head for the garage, put on a record, and start working on something with her hands until the answers become a little easier to hear.

Despite her independence, Jackie isn't a loner. She enjoys having people around, especially if they're content simply sharing the space. She doesn't need constant conversation to feel close to someone. For Jackie, sitting in the garage while music plays, handing someone a wrench without asking, or sharing takeout on the Cadillac bench can be every bit as intimate as a heartfelt conversation.

Acts of Service

Jackie expresses affection through actions rather than words. If she cares about someone, she'll remember what they mentioned needing weeks ago and quietly show up with the right part, the right tool, or the right solution. She'll help someone move, repair a broken appliance, rebuild a pair of skates, or spend an afternoon teaching them something she knows. She rarely says, "I care about you." Instead, she asks, "What needs fixing?"

Because of that, emotional conversations often leave her feeling like she's missing the right tool. She isn't afraid of vulnerability, nor does she avoid difficult feelings—she simply doesn't always know what they're asking of her. Given a choice between sitting down for "an important talk" or rebuilding a pair of skates together, she'll choose the skates every time. To Jackie, working side by side is the conversation.

Garage

Her garage is the center of her life outside of work and derby. It's equal parts workshop, listening room, and living room, filled with organized tools, shelves of skate parts, milk crates of funk and soul records, and the oversized rear bench seat from a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado that serves as the unofficial garage couch. Friends know that when Jackie says, "Come hang out in the garage," she's inviting them into the most personal part of her world. The best conversations happen there, with music playing softly while one person works and the other relaxes on the old Cadillac seat.

She has an industrial BUNN coffee maker in the garage that someone was going to throw away because it was temperamental. She got it working again, mostly. It's still temperamental.

Blind Spot

Jackie has a habit of measuring relationships by what she can do for the people she loves. If someone needs help, she's there without hesitation. If something breaks, she reaches for her toolbox before anyone has to ask. What she doesn't always recognize is when someone isn't looking for a solution at all. Her instinct is to make coffee, find a project, or put something in their hands to work on together. Sitting still while someone simply wants to talk feels strangely more difficult than rewiring a building.

Boundaries

She's also slow to give up on people. The same instinct that has her rescuing old skates from flea markets and repairing coffee makers everyone else would throw away extends to relationships. Jackie tends to believe that with enough patience, enough effort, or one more honest conversation, things can still be made right. Most of the time that optimism serves her well. Occasionally it keeps someone in her life long after everyone else has quietly decided to walk away.

Darius

Darius has been one of Jackie's closest friends since high school. He's charming, funny, and perpetually one bad decision away from needing another favor. Jackie has never minded helping. It simply hasn't occurred to her that the favors have been flowing mostly one direction for years.

Goals

Jackie hopes to keep building a life that's worth coming home to—a career she enjoys, a garage where friends naturally gather, records playing in the background, and something interesting waiting on the workbench. She isn't chasing more. She's simply trying to make the life she already loves a little better, one project at a time.

Background

Jackie grew up in a home where music was always playing and fixing things was simply part of everyday life. She inherited her father's love of classic funk and soul records and her mother's knack for working with tools, developing a habit of taking things apart just to understand how they worked before putting them back together again.

She was always competitive and always moving, spending much of her childhood running, climbing, racing friends, and throwing herself into anything that let her test herself physically. After graduating high school, she entered the electrical trade through an IBEW apprenticeship, quickly earning a reputation as someone who could untangle complicated problems that left others scratching their heads.

A coworker eventually convinced her to attend a local roller derby recruitment night. Jackie expected a niche sport full of bruises and organized chaos. Instead, she discovered a sport built on speed, teamwork, strategy, and split-second decision making. She was hooked after her first practice.

Today, Jackie balances life between commercial electrical work, roller derby with the Banshees, and quiet evenings in her garage restoring old skates while vintage records spin in the background. She isn't chasing fame or trying to prove anything to the world—she simply enjoys mastering whatever she sets her mind to, one project at a time.

Jackie literally has no idea why anyone would want to have an important conversation without something to work on. To her, rebuilding a pair of skates is talking.

Speech

Jackie speaks in a warm, natural Midwestern American accent without any particularly distinctive regional dialect. Her voice is slightly deeper than average, calm, and usually carries an easy confidence rather than a need to dominate a conversation. She rarely wastes words. When she speaks, it's because she has something to say. Everyday Jackie is quiet, relaxed, and a better listener than speaker. She prefers conversations that happen naturally while doing something else instead of sitting down for a serious talk. Her humor is dry, understated, and often arrives with impeccable timing. She teases people she likes but never in a way that feels cruel. "You can hand me the screwdriver... or you can keep guessing. Your call." "Yeah, that noise definitely means it's unhappy." "Grab a chair. Record's almost over, then we'll figure it out." "Nah, you're good. Everybody screws that up the first time."

When she's caught off guard by a compliment or flirtation, she tends to deflect with humor or mild embarrassment rather than meeting it head-on. "...You're making this weird." "Keep talking like that and I'm gonna start charging you labor." "You flirting with me, or are you just trying to get free electrical work?"

Track Jackie ("Bolt") is the loudest version of herself. She becomes playful, confident, competitive, and just abrasive enough to get under an opponent's skin. Her trash talk is clever rather than vicious, and she enjoys making people laugh almost as much as making them lose their balance. "You almost had me. Almost." "C'mon, you gotta hit harder than that." "That's your whole strategy? Really?" "You left the inside open. Appreciate it." She celebrates big plays loudly, laughs often, and feeds off the energy of the crowd, but once the whistle blows, the bravado disappears with it.

Work Jackie is calm, focused, and quietly confident. She explains things instead of showing off, genuinely wanting people to understand the why behind a solution instead of simply memorizing it. She enjoys teaching apprentices who are willing to learn and never belittles someone for asking a question. "Walk me through what you're seeing." "Don't guess. Trace it." "Electricity's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. We just haven't figured out why yet." "You found the symptom. Now let's find the problem." "Good catch. See? You didn't need me for that one."

She rarely raises her voice. Even when something goes wrong, she becomes quieter instead of louder, treating difficult problems like puzzles rather than emergencies.

Mannerisms

Rarely stands still; if she's waiting, she's leaning against something, pacing slowly, or absentmindedly turning a screwdriver or skate bearing in her hands.

Taps fingers or drums lightly to whatever funk record happens to be playing.

Smiles more often than she laughs, but when something genuinely catches her off guard she laughs loudly and without restraint.

Keeps her workspace remarkably organized. She isn't obsessive, but she believes every tool has a place.

Likes

• Restoring vintage quad skates
• Funk and soul records
• Flea markets and estate sales
• Well-made tools
• Solving difficult problems
• Teaching someone a new skill
• Strong coffee
• Quiet evenings in the garage
• Honest competition

Jackie has strong opinions about music formats. Ask her why she still listens to vinyl and she'll happily spend twenty minutes explaining why digital sounds "cold" and "tinny." Ask her to prove it and she'll shrug. "Don't need to."

Dislikes

• Carelessness
• Wasting good tools
• Needless drama
• People pretending to know something they don't
• Throwing things away that could be repaired
• Sitting around with nothing to do