[Jasper Valentine]

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JASPER AZIEL VALENTINE

"I found my nicotine, amphetamine
The only thing that's good to me"

BASICS

NAME: Jasper Aziel (Ay-zee-El) Valentine, sometimes referred to on the force as Val

AGE: 40

BIRTHDATE: April 2nd (Aries)

PRONOUNS: He/Him

SEXUALITY: Insists he's heterosexual; bisexual in denial

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Divorced, Single

OCCUPATION: Patrol Officer

NEIGHBORHOOD: East End

MEMBER GROUP: Human

THE LOOKS

HEIGHT: 6'2½"

WEIGHT: 230 lbs

HAIR COLOR: Light brown

EYE COLOR: Hazel-green

FACE CLAIM: Joel Kinnaman

OVERALL APPEARANCE: Most noticeably, Jasper is tall and muscular, with a posture that screams 'military or police'. He has a few scars in various places on his body (including but not limited to a cut through his right eyebrow) and his nose has been broken a few times, but nonetheless some may consider him handsome with his neat brown hair, light facial stubble, and hazel-green eyes that appear much darker in low lighting.

He cares little for fashion and therefore when out of uniform he tends to wear simple, 'typical' men's clothes such as jeans and plain t-shirts in dark or neutral colours. He is a smoker and a heavy drinker, which is made obvious from the scents of nicotine and bourbon that tend to cling to him.

INSIDE

LIKES:

• Smoking and drinking - He really doesn't have a preference for any brand of cigarette, but bourbon tends to be his drink of choice.
• Gardening - A little known secret, he's turned the balcony of his apartment into his own private greenhouse.
• Money - It buys happiness.
• Feeding strays - Just something he does sometimes if he's got a can of tuna or packet of ham to spare while he's smoking outside his apartment.

DISLIKES:

• Hyper-active, bubbly, and/or nosy people. Officers who think they're going to 'make a real difference'.
• Social gatherings. Dancing. Nightclubs where you can't hear yourself think.
• Musicals and quirky-comedy TV shows.

STRENGTHS: Self-serving, honest, observant, physically strong, high endurance, trained police officer, has a fair few criminals who owe him favours.

WEAKNESSES: A heavy drinker who refuses to admit he has a problem, bitter and covetous, selfish and disloyal, impatient, moody, in denial about his sexuality.

OVERALL PERSONALITY: Corrupt / Short-tempered / Bitter / Covetous / Repressed

Once a bright-eyed and ambitious man, Jasper's energetic years of enthusiastic service are long behind him. He no longer cares so much about the laws he vowed to uphold, and he may even let certain criminals slip away – for a price. He is prone to threats and anger, and has very little patience for bubbly personalities and newcomers to the force (or for most people in general, if we're being honest).

"Human" is Jasper's defining trait, his main excuse; he's only human, to err is human, it's human to make mistakes, etcetera, etcetera. Being in his line of work for as long as he has, he's aware of the existence of gifted. And he's jealous. While it started off as a small disappointment, a quiet wish that he could have powers of his own, this feeling has festered into something far more bitter and spiteful. Why try to be good at anything if there's someone supernaturally stronger or able to perfectly replicate a move after only seeing it once? Why bother helping if there's someone fireproof around or able to predict crimes before they happen? And why try to lock away bad guys who can just laser-beam their way out of their cell?

Gifted or not, Jasper is often jealous of the other things people have as well; material possessions, loving families, nice homes, cosy jobs, freedom – the list goes on, anything he perceives to not have for himself.

Despite the foreboding figure he presents and the snarky remarks he's prone to making, Jasper doesn’t often get into physical altercations outside of work. While he does often feel angry, he's not one to seek out scuffles or rise to taunts unless he's had a really bad day; someone could punch him in the face and in most cases he’d raise a brow and ask who pissed in their cornflakes. He mostly relies on his physique to intimidate others and dissuade them from approaching, but when someone refuses to leave him alone he's usually pretty confident that he'll come out on top against the average Joe. He may be a drunk, but he's experienced and very much in shape.

The easiest way to get a rise out of him would be to prod at his sexuality. He's not at all comfortable with it and will throw hands if it will make the other person shut up. He has moments of 'gay panic' where, if he catches himself finding another man attractive, his brain may shut down for a second and then he'll either remove himself from the situation as quickly as possible or become verbally (or in rarer instances, physically) aggressive and sarcastic to cover it up.

BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN: Los Eurosia, CA

FAMILY:
Melinda Tiana Coates – Mother – Human – Alive
Viktor Valentine – Father – Human – Probably Alive
Roxanne "Annie" Sulpicia Roberts – Daughter – Human – Alive

PETS: None – they're not allowed in his apartment. He does feed any strays nearby his building though, and one persistent feline has snuck her way into his balcony-garden more than once.

HISTORY:

Jasper's mother, Melinda, was freshly out of college and greatly unprepared when she gave birth to him, and although he has his father's last name, Jasper's dad did not stick around for long enough to help out. Instead, his care was shared between Melinda and her similarly young roommates, with occasional help from his grandparents.

His mom was (and still is) extremely immature and untrustworthy with money. As soon as he was old enough to work (and for a while before he was old enough), it was up to Jasper to ensure their rent was paid by taking on whatever odd jobs he could find. To this day he pays his mother's bills and occasionally checks in on her to see if any maintenance is needed in her home. She is not grateful.

He grew up with aspirations of cleaning up the streets and making them safer for everyone, being very anti-crime and anti-drugs because of his mother's use of them (especially in her 'partying years'). He managed to get into a police academy after high school and at twenty-one, he graduated and met the age-requirement to become a police officer straight away.

At twenty-five, he met Casey Roberts. At twenty-eight, he married her. At twenty-nine, he started to lose faith in the law and his work and he started drinking, and by thirty-one, Casey decided she'd had enough and they divorced.

For the next few years not much happened. Jasper simply kept on living. Working, drinking, sleeping, growing increasingly resentful of the criminals he put away and the ones he didn't, of The Sector and then of gifted, and then finally of everyone else in the world. One fateful day, a burglar offered Jasper fifty dollars to let him go. Jasper had been offered far greater bribes to do far less, but he just… gave in. Realised how easy it was to get away with it, and has been corrupt ever since.

At thirty-seven, nine months after a reckless encounter with his ex-wife, Roxanne Suplicia Roberts was born.

Jasper undoubtedly loves his daughter. Her name, on the other hand… not so much. He calls her 'Annie' instead, and in retaliation Casey has taught Annie to call him 'Jazz' rather than 'Dad'. Needless to say, Annie's birth did not inspire Casey and Jasper to get back together. They're sort of co-parenting. Casey is happy to be given breaks and she texts Jasper every other week to talk through any decisions regarding their daughter, but legally, she has full custody, and she's still very aware of Jasper's drinking habits so his time spent with Annie is relatively little and under the strict condition that he neither drinks nor smokes when she is in his care.

THE PLAYER

NAME: Mirror

AGE: 24

TIMEZONE: BST/GMT

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Excited to see him finished and can't wait to snoop him around the site!

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