Captain Francis Jones

Basics
Name: Francis Jones

Age:

Occupation: Military Captain

Physical Appearance
Captain Jones is described as an older man and an officer who rarely, if ever, smiles.

Personality Traits
Captain Jones is extremely conscious of how people see him. He tends to consider everything in terms of assets and liabilities. His chief concern with his daughter is apparently how her actions reflect on him. He tends to be cold, with a rapid, lecturing kind of speech pattern. He does have a moral compass, but it revolves around his job responsibilities and how upright he wants others to see him as.

Biography
Jones married Evelyn Jones's mother when Lyn was three years old, and formally adopted her when her biological father passed away. He is a career military man and is more dedicated to his job than his family. When Lyn was a child, he was never home. He has told Lyn that she is unimportant to his career and his life with her mother, and the only thing he feels toward her is a duty to ensure that she is basically equipped to survive as an adult.

In Extreme Honor, he sponsors Lyn so she can take on the case of Atlas - a military dog suffering from PTSD and depression after his handler died overseas. As it turns out, however, he was merely using Lyn to keep an eye on David Cruz, who was friends with the dead man and found his death suspicious. Captain Jones is operating undercover in an attempt to root out an unethical group within the military. He returns again in both Ultimate Courage and Absolute Trust as further events prove to be connected to his goals.

Relationships
Captain Jones is Evelyn Jones's step-and-adopted father, having married her mother when Lyn was three. He has many contacts within the military, but whether he actually calls any of them "friend" is currently unknown.

Trivia
Captain Jones...
 * insists that Lyn call him "Father," instead of something she is more comfortable with, so Lyn calls him "Captain Jones" - much to his irritation.
 * is one promotion away from Rear Admiral.

Quotes
"It's amazing you ever graduated from college. Even basic classes and interaction with professors should have demonstrated that perception is a distinct advantage in every situation. Never underestimate it."

"And I would like to remind you that life isn't about getting people to like you. It's about ensuring that what needs to be done, is. They can hate you and it wouldn't matter so long as they do what needs doing."