Jesper

Jesper is the owner and leader of Labyrinthine, a secret underground smuggling ring of a number of goods. He's constantly looking for his next play, and enjoys a great many vices.

Appearance
Jesper is a very handsome man, standing at an above average height, long limbed and well-built. He's almost always well dressed, well groomed, and sporting a grin that touches his sharp maroon colored eyes. His skin is dark brown and his hair is a dark black loose curls and with a fade. He's never without his trusty pair of polished revolvers.

Background
Born and raised in Ansan in a run down, underfunded orphanage, Jesper grew up without any idea who his parents were or why he was left at such a place. He knew absolutely no past, no ties to anyone, and neither did the owners. Thus, Jesper grew up quickly, and, one might say, very brutally. He often got into fights, as if to prove his worth, and while he didn't always come out on top at first, it set the deep seeded desire to succeed. At a young age, he began his quest at building his own home, his own legacy, Labyrinthine.

Sometime around his early twenties, deep in work and success, he discovered a weak, wounded and lost Crei girl, Iosefka, in the forests of the North. He took her in, nursed her back to health, despite how skittish she was, and began to teach her common. He used his own money to put her through college a second time, regardless of how little she told him about herself. He fell in love with her.

Now, he continues his work, a confidently charming man with aspirations.

Habits and Traumas
Make no mistake, his arrogance is not for show, it quite all his own, but it was built and strengthened by the years and years of being beat down into the ground and standing back up on his own two feet without anyone to help him back up. He's always done that, fallen and gotten back up on his own, and even now, despite having many people under him that respect him and some that even care about him, Jesper suffers his stubbornness. Something simply cannot be done properly if not done by him, with his own two hands, not that his associates are incapable, he has merely been on his own too long and built his organization all on his own with very little support.

Jesper, despite being a big playboy, never treats the women or men he lies with unkindly. In fact, Jesper is an intensely gentle lover. He has the heart to be so very devoted, completely taken over. He'd give them the world, all of it, with his bare hands, bloody if need be. And that's dangerous, far more than his daily life. Something he cannot afford. Unfortunately, he's grown so accustom to cycling through company, he thinks himself far beyond settling down with just one person. Not to mention his life is so chaotic, and all his own fault, at that. The man cannot stop. He is constantly going, as if, were he to stop, his whole being would shut down and he'd collapse in on himself. He continues to put himself into dangerous situations, when clearly he could designate others to do these jobs, to feel something, anything. Make no mistake, people are out to get him. He considers being attached to him a dangerous position for anyone to be in. He's grown so, so used to blood and bone and death, that he believes that, eventually, he will also return to that state. A state of decay. A state of ending.

Despite it all, to be close to him even a little, he's caring and thoughtful, always going the extra mile when necessary, or even without being asked. He's loyal to his friends, a ride or die man.

Skills and Talents
He would never confess it, but Jesper is an expert book binder. A strange thing for a man neck deep in violence as he is to enjoy, and those very large hands that don't seem as if they would be gentle enough to do anything of the sort. He has made many journals, often gifting them to people he cherishes in a style befitting of them in his eyes. He made the journal Iosefka uses for her flower pressing, but she has promised to never tell a soul about where she got it from.

Gunslinger
Outrageously amazing sharpshooter. He often flexes his marksman's abilities with flourishes, throwing his revolvers around. He's capable of shooting a hole through a coin without a second glance.

Hand to Hand Combat
Growing up, it was his fists that he relied on heavily. He's a dangerous man even without his revolvers, with great strength and force behind every hit.

Language
While fluent in common, Jesper knows a bit of Cretufei, the language of Angelou, enough to be a novice.

Extra

 * ★ Jesper's alignment is Chaotic Good.


 * ★ His name means “treasurer”, “treasure-bearer” and “holder of the treasury”.
 * ★ An absolute, disgusting playboy, but he drinks respect women juice.
 * ★ Adrenaline junky, probably. Always looking for his next gig.
 * ★ Ridiculously charming.
 * ★ He has a thick accent that would be akin to an Irish one.
 * ★ He owns a club called The Howling Abyss in Oriflamme.