Once I got the specifics down on who JET BOY was as a character, the next step was to create his alter ego. Every hero has one. So I came up with PAUL PERKINS. The traditional formula for creating an alter ego for a superhero has always been to make him appear the opposite as what his superhero persona is. So the plan was to make him as average as possible. Therefore, he had to have an average name. And PAUL seemed pretty average. The next step was to have his initials be the same, as seen with PETER PARKER as an example. PERKINS came from an underground musician named DUDLEY PERKINS who I had grown to be a huge fan of around the time of JET BOY's creation. I always credited his music as life changing. Meaning it had the ability to make me see life in a different light. With that said, the name PAUL PERKINS had both elements of an average person and a savior.
PAUL PERKINS is a 10 year old kid who others see as average due to the fact that he keeps a pretty low profile. But thanks to SECTION 17 approaching him under the cover of THE GLOBAL 17 academic program, he was trained as a young agent and given his JET BOY status along with missions to carry out under SECTION 17 surveilence.
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