Jack ❄️ (Poppy)

✩Basics✩

♂ | Adult

✩Occupation: Signage Designer (The Sign Shop)

Salesbab (freelance)

✩Species: Mantibab

✩Body Type: Jack

✩Personality: Cool | suave | clever | materialistic | sarcastic | skeptical | sly

✩Bio✩

A cool cat with a smooth tongue, Jack is able to sell just about anything to anyone. He's always looking for an opportunity to make some extra dough to fund his jacket collection. If he sees a monetary value in something, he'll find a way to sell it at the highest price, even if he has to travel to another city to do so.

His love for nice things have gotten him into a lot of trouble in the past, but nowadays he looks for somewhat more honest ways of making a living. One of these ways is making signs for others, whether it be for business, home, whatever! Trade is also his favorite way of getting what he likes, though it's known sometimes he can ask for rather unfair trades for items hardly anyone else offers.

When he isn't trying to sell something (well let's be honest, when isn't he trying to sell something?), Jack has multiple hangouts he drives to on his motorcycle. He can be found chilling under the shade of trees, in narrow alleyways resting on fire escape ladders, or in the darkest corner of a diner, quietly keeping watch on what's going on around him. Holding a conversation with Jack can be nice, however don't expect to get close to him since he doesn't trust many others. Having dealt with what he did in the past, Jack can be cynical at times and is suspicious of others' motives.

As long as you don't double cross him, Jack can be a pretty swift guy to hang around. Unless of course you threaten one of his jackets with dirt or food. Then you'll be asking for a snapping from Jack, perhaps even a fight.

✩History✩

✩Mini Backstory

Back when he went under the alias of "Frosty", Jack was into petty theft to get by in the harsh city he once lived in. After escaping from a bad home as an adolescent, this way of living became the norm for Jack. He got himself many extravagant and shiny things by break in, mainly from wealthy babs a part of gangs.

He managed to get away with it many times, but one bad heist got him mixed up with the wrong crowd. The big bab boss caught him mid-burglary, and was a Mantibab with many beautiful strange features but a horrible heart of rock. They used their looks to win favor in high places, and had plans for taking over the city. For a while he sold candy to pay his debts to the gang and fund their underground operations surrounding elaborate big heists and bank robberies. A lot of connections he had wouldn't last long as they were always out to take down those that he worked for.

One big heist involving fruit, Jack accidentally framed an innocent civilian who was just looking to get into the fruit business. Jack had heard what had happen, and unlike most of his time during crime, this time he felt his heart feel uneasy. After a few years of thinking about what he had done, Jack took a big risk and tried to clear the bab's name to get him out of jail. While it did work to prove the bab innocent and free, Jack got himself caught in the process and thrown in jail for the few crimes they could convict him of.

Through Jack's actions, the entire operations of this fruit heist were exposed, and the city authorities took down the entire gang that once imprisoned Jack, including the boss. He was relieved to hear what they had coming to them, but Jack knew once he got out, he had to move immediately. His sentence was lighten a lot due to his capture helping take down a gang that terrorized the city, and he soon got out and looked for somewhere to start anew.

In the new city he finally settled in, Jack changed his name to "Jack" to keep his identity hidden from anyone who held a grudge towards him. He found a hidden talent to create signs and logos, which he then used to make a living and obtain items he liked. While it's questionable whether or not Jack still does very petty theft here and there, one thing that's for certain is that he never wants to go back to the life he had before. With the new friendly faces he's met over the years, Jack has slowly started to learn how to trust again.

✩Full Backstory