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JASON SHAVER / SHIVEZTEL SHAIVEÉR
Change heals and comforts those at the void's edge.
HURRICANE - Zayde Wolf
Prime
In a world where nothing is forever
Can we be? Can we be?
Through the hurt, will we stay stranded in the weather?
Can we be? Can we be?
ANTIGRAVITY - Starset
Drei
And far below, the carnivores
Are looking up to where I soar
Above the clouds, above the storm
Above the earth I am transformed
ALTER TIMELINE
OVERVIEW
Jason Shaver is a character central to the Alter Timeline, being a primary character in both Cult of Ustream and Now and Always. He is physiologically a Euthoran Shapeshifter, and spiritually a Darkwing Firedrake, while psychologically sharing traits of both. He appears in Gen 2 as a cameo character. Throughout both canons that Jason features in as a main character, he suffers a steady decline in mental health due to the pressures of leadership and the stresses of the situations he is forced to deal with.
Jason's mental health conditions currently include Complex PTSD, near-suicidal depression, crippling anxiety, clinical psychosis, and feelings of guilt, self-hatred, and worthlessness. He becomes a vampire during the first part of Now and Always / Arc 1: Ruins of Litaria, and is Patient Zero of what would later be termed as pure Type E vampirism. His body is riddled with scars from past battles and incidents, which he is initially annoyed with but later takes as a mark of pride for having survived those situations.
Part of Jason's soul is sealed away within the sapphire set in his pendant, a measure put into place by his mother. The entity within the pendant, referred to hereafter as "Shiveztel", is the remnants of Jason's draconic personality and self that he did not receive as a Shapeshifter, and has his fate intuition power activated earlier than Jason's. Shiveztel can only perceive the world through Jason, but is aware of who or what is touching the pendant at a given time, and burns those he does not recognize or trust. The pendant acts entirely in Jason's defense, ensuring the Shapeshifter has a future, and does so by planning for every variable he can identify, by influencing Jason's actions and gut impulses.
Over time, Shiveztel develops from simply being a shard of Jason's soul into forming his own, more complex soul, and after this point can be considered his own separate person rather than being another part of Jason. Even then, however, the pair forms a sort of symbiotic relationship, and are inherently incomplete without each other. Because Jason and Shiveztel are both the same person and not, Shiveztel has been given his own tab in this section, even though the page itself focuses primarily on Jason.
PERSONALITY
Due to severe trauma throughout his life, as well as other factors such as his vampirism, relationship with Jude, and the soul-shard within his pendant, Jason has several different, compartmentalized personality types that he typically refers to as "modes". While all of Jason's modes share his baseline personality, details such as his demeanor and behavior can vary incredibly depending on the mode.
MODES
Naturally impulsive, reckless, and sometimes aggressive, Jason conversely is also very intelligent and has a keen mind for tactics, strategy, and details that others might miss. His personality is malleable to his circumstances, but solidified by trauma and habit. Though Jason can be incredibly stubborn, he generally knows when an argument is lost and can sometimes be slightly defeatist when things go wrong. He is fiercely loyal to those close to him, and can be bitter and hostile to those who have wronged him. Despite everything, however, he can be surprisingly naive at times, and prior to his traumatic experiences was perhaps a little too trusting.
Jason struggles to recognize, process, and express his own emotions, but is surprisingly perceptive of the emotions of others and can be considered emotionally intelligent. However, due to being raised by dragons, he therefore emotes like a dragon, and does not have a good grasp of humanoid emoting. Good at heart, his morality has corroded in the wake of his trauma and experiences in his youth.
Suffering from several mental health complications, Jason can be anxious, restless, and antsy, particularly when at rest for too long. The mentality that he is to blame for anything bad that happens to anyone around him was beaten into him by his former master during his teenage years, and as a result he struggles with fairly severe self-hatred and feelings of worthlessness. Stress can strongly trigger nervousness and fear, and his ability to reason out what is and is not a threat is damaged to the point where he doesn't trust easily.
The most commonly-seen of his "alternate modes", this is typically Jason's more serious side poking out and focusing on getting things done. This particular mode is where Jason's intelligence and strategic mind truly shine, and he is able to quickly assess the resources he has to work with and form a baseline plan which can be refined once all the information is on the table. Because of this, when working with a group, Jason is usually treated as the primary tactician and strategist despite willingly letting someone else take the actual position of "leader".
Jason slides in and out of this mode easily. In fact, he even seems most comfortable in this state, as the logistics and tactical aspects of combat and missions distract him from the turmoil that his head is usually in. Rather, they put his mind in a different sort of hyperactivity: his thoughts can become a whirlwind of ideas, some of them seeming out of left field or "crazy enough to work". Though he doesn't always communicate his thought process, the result is that he frequently formulates ideas that involve calculated risk and instinct-driven tactics.
This mode is one of two where his draconic heritage comes to the fore, the other being his "command" mode. A dragon's instincts and mentality lends easily to strategy and complex planning, and because of this, Jason's innate ability to analyze situations from multiple angles becomes his greatest asset. He can quickly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of both allies and enemies, extracting valuable insights that help determine how his team will approach a particular challenge.
Sometimes referred to out of character as his "Nazi general mode", this is the aspect of Jason's personality that was fostered and fueled by Koth Grimseeker, who groomed Jason to be a general in his dragon army. Because of this, Jason most often slips into this mode by accident or even habit, and almost exclusively when commanding his dragons, though it can appear at other times he takes a leadership role. In this mode, Jason is as sharp and focused as in his "work mode", but it takes on a more authoritative, no-nonsense tenor, and it can often appear aggressive or even hostile. This is one of two modes, along with the aforementioned work mode, in which Jason's dragon side shines through more clearly.
Jason takes challenges to and questioning of his orders badly in this state, and generally is unafraid to berate the target of this annoyance. He gives the air that his orders are to be followed, without question, and one who does not do this will be punished. However, unless truly pressed, Jason usually isn't in this state long enough to do much about it, and often challenging him will prompt a mode switch to better deal with the problem.
Leaving this mode almost always causes Jason's self-hatred to flare, as in the aftermath he is reminded of his past and the atrocities he committed while commanding Koth's forces. Many of his past actions are considered blatant war crimes by most civilizations, including that of Euthora's humans, and Jason tends to think of himself as a monster to be killed or, at the very least, a danger to be locked away. This is despite the logical knowledge and assurances that Jason cannot be held accountable for his actions under Koth's command, as he was quite literally being mind controlled, but naturally his emotions and guilt don't care about this fact.
A mode that came to be when Jason was learning how to be a vampire after being turned by Mirah in the first arc of Now and Always, the "predator" mode is marked by near-feral urges to attack, feed, kill, and gain new forms in the process. This mode is typically switched into purely by accident on Jason's part, though it may be fostered by a third party such as Mirah herself. Whether Jason is aware he's in this mode or not, or even if he's capable of rational thought to begin with, is heavily determined by the situation and how he enters the mode in the first place.
Jason initially has poor control over his vampirism and the instincts that come with it, and has a tendency to go feral when he feeds, requiring an outside force to pull him back into sanity. This outside force is usually Jude, who tends to have the most success bringing Jason back to his senses, though if he's still mostly aware, someone else such as Mirah can pull him out. However, rare circumstance when Jason is fully feral-- little more than an animal in terms of awareness and rational thought-- even Jude struggles to bring him back. In this situation, the best way to bring Jason back into his right mind is to knock him out, either by force or by sedation. Upon reawakening, Jason will be back to normal, at the expense of not remembering what happened while he was feral.
Although it's marked by a tendency to go feral, Jason can be in this mode while still fully aware. His demeanor in this mode is, of course, predatory, and he tends to grow hungry quickly. However, being in this state while not actively hunting is usually the result of being riled up by a third party-- Mirah, of course, but Sarkiri government labcoats were able to achieve this when Jason was in captivity in one of their medical facilities.
Seen intermittently at first after Jason loyalty-bonded to Jude, this mode is seemingly exclusive to interactions with the Lycan, and one of the rare situations where Jason is genuinely happy and content. As Jude represents safety to the Shapeshifter, Jason appears to only enter "pet" mode when with him. He seems to get this side of himself from the culture of where he grew up: in Durasken, Euthora, Shapeshifters are seen as subhuman, intelligent animals, at best seen as a novelty pet that can converse with its owner. Having grown up in a culture where this was the accepted viewpoint, it seems to have cemented itself in Jason's psyche, and is only amplified by the instinctive loyalty-bond.
See Trivia for information on the loyalty bond.
This is less a mode, and more a modifier. As a Type E vampire, Jason has the ability to "detach", or to temporarily shut off his emotions in order to approach things with a clear head and without interference. His personality in this state becomes neutral, direct, matter-of-fact, but is still heavily affected by what mode he's in. Moreover, he can switch modes while detached, which can be either a good or bad thing depending on the situation and what mode he switches to.
Most often, while detached, Jason is either in his normal mode or his work mode; the former to gain a reprieve from his volatile emotions and anxiety as a form of psychological self-defense, and the latter to push emotional interference aside and focus on what needs to be done. In these cases, while his change in demeanor might be unnerving to those not expecting it, it's generally a good thing and means he's either trying to get a grip on himself or is avoiding distraction and trying to focus.
However, Jason has also been detached while in his command and predator modes, and it is these cases where detachment becomes dangerous. Normally, while in command mode, Jason's own discomfort at his behavior will often push him out of that mode before he can do anything regrettable, but while detached, this discomfort doesn't exist. This means that he is prone to acting as he sees fit without regard for others, or even his future emotional state. Meanwhile, in predator mode, his bond with Jude is the most effective thing at pulling him out-- and it becomes far less effective when the emotions of the bond are turned off.
At present, Jason is only barely able to turn detachment on and off at will, and it is usually an involuntary psychological reaction.
APPEARANCE
HUMAN FORM
In his semi-default human form, Jason is naturally lanky, tall, and wiry in frame, made more prominent by being underweight for the first twenty-five years of his life. Standing at 6'1", in this form he is pale-skinned, with unkempt black hair of short-medium length. His bangs grow partially in front of his face rather than to the side, meaning it can sometimes get in the way, and there is a distinctive cowlick near the top of his skull. His hair is coarse in texture with very slight feathering near his ears, growing shorter and rougher on the back of his head where it meets the neck.
The one part of this form that doesn't look completely human at first glance is the fact that his eyes glow. With his irises a sharp emerald green, and the surrounding skin fairly pale, the glow isn't immediately apparent unless the lighting conditions allow for it to be seen more easily, such as if the ambient light is dim or if Jason is standing in shadow. However, on closer inspection, there is one more aspect of his appearance that shows he isn't human: the very faint silvery markings that only manifest on his already-fine body hair. Though these markings are more prominent in his other forms, where his primary color is much more widespread, the signature arrows under his eyes and the "fingerless sock" markings on both his arms and legs are just barely visible under close inspection, with the sparse hair in those areas being silver rather than black.
Jason's body is riddled with scars from past injuries, and in human form these show as slightly-lighter patches of skin. The scars sometimes slightly alter in size and location when he shifts, but not their type or general shape. Most of these scars are concentrated on the left side of his body, for seemingly no reason, but potentially influenced by Jason being right-handed and thus trying to avoid damage on that side.
In terms of clothing, Jason unequivocally prefers dark and desaturated colors, as brighter colors can hurt his eyes under direct light. Most often, this means he dresses in shades of black, dark gray, and dull blue, though he does sometimes like white or lighter gray accents. His clothing hangs somewhat loose on his body, as if several sizes too large, due to his thin frame. Jason generally doesn't care about the material and make of his clothing, as long as he can move easily in it.
DARKWING FIREDRAKE FORM
In contrast to his other forms being generally on the leaner, lighter side, Jason's primary dragon form-- and, indeed, his true base form-- is a bulkier, heavier species of dragon called a Darkwing Firedrake. Standing at a quadrupedal 7'5" at the withers, easily 35' long from snout to tailtip with a wingspan of at least 70', this is one of Jason's largest and strongest forms. His scars are even more prominent in this form, manifesting as visible patches of scaleless hide, exposing the dark gray skin underneath. Additionally, he has an extra scar on his left wing forearm that only presents in six-limbed forms.
Like all forms but his human form, Jason's coloration is a striking, stark black-and-silver, with bold markings which-- in this form, at least-- are somewhat reflective. His tail sports the signature double tail rings of all Firedrake subspecies, made of the same leathery, tough material that his ventral scutes are composed of. His scales are sharp, slightly serrated, and a dully metallic black, only adding to the contrast of the bright and shiny silver that his markings carry.
Down his head and neck, ending at his shoulders, is a flexible sail for emoting and aerodynamic purposes. Framing this sail are two pairs of metallic silver horns that carry a distinctive shape, as well as a short, low-lying black crest at the top of his skull where the sail begins. Jason's snout is short, slightly beaked like almost all Euthoran dragons (to better grip struggling prey), with a short spike on his chin and spikes at his jawline, as well as above his eyes. These all come together to protect his head from impact or the bite of another dragon. His eyes have narrow pupils which are able to contract to slits or widen to circles depending on both mood and lighting conditions.
The most prominent part of any Darkwing Firedrake is the heavy, four-pronged tail club made almost entirely of bone and Mythril. Though this is meant to primarily be a blunt-force weapon, the backward-facing spikes allow him to use it both as a piercing weapon and as a rudimentary grappling hook-- Jason is able to use the barbed tail to cling to uneven, near-vertical surfaces for stability. The club is supported by a heavily muscled tail, which is attached to equally-muscular haunches. In fact, most of a Darkwing's muscle mass is in the tail and hind legs rather than the wings and shoulders, making them slow fliers but impressive jumpers.
LYCAN FORM
With a height of 6'11" or so, Jason's Lycan form is one he is particularly comfortable in and can often be seen as, especially on Ferona. Though the exact morph is derived entirely from exposure to Jude and is thus an arctic wolf, it bears a striking, almost uncanny resemblance to his Sulsian wolf form-- which isn't even from the same planet. Because of this, his morph is difficult to pin down on a purely visual level, as Euthora's wolves-- those of the Lupulix genus-- are fairly fox-like in appearance. Thus, locals on Ferona have explicitly asked what morph this form was, with guesses ranging from wolf, to silver fox, to jackal, to husky. Aside from one being quadrupedal and the other being bipedal, the main visual difference between his Lycan and wolf forms is that his sclerae are black in wolf form.
His coat is thick and plush, but with some coarseness where it's thinnest. Jason has been frequently described as "scruffy" in this form, with bits of unruly fur on his head and joints sticking out in seemingly arbitrary amounts. He does not have any head hair aside from his fur, making him considered "bald" to Feronites. His fur is longest and thickest on his tail, which only further adds to the confusion of his morph, as it is decidedly more fox-like than wolf-like. His claws are short, sharp, and black, and usually extended.
Jason's scars are less visible in this form than the other two detailed here, but they are still visible. In most cases, they are partially obscured by his pelt, appearing thinner or smaller at a glance, unless one brushes the fur aside to see the extent of the damage. The exception to this is the one on his throat, where Mirah bit him, which is entirely obscured by thick silver-white fur as a natural consequence of wolf anatomy. In fact, any parts of his scars which cross into the large silver area of fur on his front and inner thighs are hidden due to the fur here growing thicker. The only one which is entirely hidden is the one on his throat, but the scars on his right thigh and left side are subject to partially being hidden.
Jason finds clothing to be an irritation in this form, and prefers to wear the bare minimum for what is socially acceptable: a pair of thin shorts that doesn't press against his fur and make him uncomfortably warm. As such, most of the time he is at least shirtless, and when at home will often choose to either not wear anything or not use this particular form.
SHIVEZTEL
Shiveztel is the name given to the entity within the sapphire in Jason's pendant, after he formed his own soul from the shard of Jason's that he was given. Now aware and able to experience true thought and depth of emotion, he remains within the pendant as an extension of Jason's ability to intuit fate, rather than an external force influencing Jason to guide him in a certain direction.
Though "Shiveztel" is actually Jason's real birth name, because of the split of his soul and his transformation into a Shapeshifter from the dragon hatchling that he was, Jason and Shiveztel are different entities of the same person. Shiveztel represents all the draconic aspects of Jason's nature that the Shapeshifter didn't keep, though by way of having the same personality base and Jason having had influence from dragons growing up, both of them have most of these traits.
As an entity in his own right, Shiveztel displays a distinct personality both separate from and similar to Jason's. Both of them are quick to irritate, incredibly tactically-minded, and impetuously stubborn once their minds are set. However, Shiveztel displays more of a dragon's inherent nature as opposed to Jason displaying a Shapeshifter's. Shiveztel is manipulative and far-seeing, navigating and maneuvering both Jason and other people around him into positions that are advantageous to keeping Jason alive. None of this is done with any malice, but rather out of distrust that Jason's allies will hold to his plans rather than trying to make the situation better and instead making it worse. This abates significantly after the epilogue of Now and Always / Arc 1: Ruins of Litaria, where Shiveztel is properly "discovered" by certain members of the Cult of Ustream. This causes his ability to experience and understand emotion to develop completely, as well as providing a means of direct communication between him and Jason.
Shiveztel was split off from Jason's soul by their mother, Vol en-ait Rae, and intentionally given this emotionally-blind nature of only seeing the bigger picture and the eventualities of fate, rather than paying attention to what is happening in the moment. Shiveztel's sole intended purpose was to keep Jason alive at any cost, without regard for Jason's emotional or mental state, as long as it would be "worth it" in the end. Because of this, Shiveztel is both why Jason was taken over by Koth-- as a means to both train his Dracomancy and keep him from falling into a permanent contract of servitude to the Soulseeker-- and why Jason was attacked and transformed into a vampire by Mirah. Although Shiveztel admits that the vampirism was overly hasty on his own part, he stands by his reasoning for delivering Jason to Koth, as he feels the alternative was far worse and he was able to neither navigate Jason around the Soulseeker's contract, nor warn him about the coming danger.
HEALTH
REFERENCE SHEETS
FEATURED ART
PLAYLIST
I need your help, I can't fight this forever. I know you're watching, I can feel you out there.
If you face the fear that keeps you frozen, chase the sky into the ocean, that's when something wild calls you home.
Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, the devil's after both of us. Oh, lay my curses all to rest, make a monster out of me.
And when it's all said and done, we'll shine like the sun, so don't let the fire die.
I can't breathe, I need to break free from the anger that is constantly inside of me.
I did it to myself, tried to be someone else. I let it tear me down, and I'll never be the same.
This is the world you've created, the product of what I've become. My soul and my youth, seems it's all for you to use.
Two armies are coming at me, their flags and weapons look the same. One tells the truth, the other's lying, and they're both calling my name.
If I told you what I was, would you turn your back on me? And if I seemed dangerous, would you be scared?
Oh, the misery, everybody wants to be my enemy. Spare the sympathy, everybody wants to be my enemy.
For all the times they didn't believe in me, for all the times they cut me and made me bleed.
Yes, time circles endlessly, the hands of fate trained ahead.
Another scar, one more scratch, to my heart that’s made out of glass. It lights a spark, burning hot, one I had nearly forgot.
Keep the beast deep within, always under the skin. Let it claw through the mirror's glass; I can choose to be better at last.
And I won't lay down, there's a darker shade of courage in the strength I've found, and it's letting loose the savage side of me.
I had to go through Hell, through Hell, to be the person I am today. Had to find myself, myself, climbing a mountain of my mistakes.
Your scars are a reminder, you are a survivor.
Living on a razor's edge, danced with demons, tasted death; I've lost wars inside my head, but hallelujah! I'm not dead.
I owned every second that this world could give, I saw so many places, the things that I did. Yeah, with every broken bone, I swear I lived.
Who's evading the skin-clad wolf? I hope the spoils were worth it...
In a world where nothing is forever, can we be? Can we be?
We're timeless, we're fearless, we're all we've got. We're brilliant, we're broken, we're burning on.
Though we don't share the same blood you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.
Hear the horses running wild, to the first steps of a child, feel the thunder with all her might, tell me that ain't magic.
When the fight's over, I will sacrifice my mind, just to know you'll still be breathing when the years have been unkind.
Pulled me in till I came alive; to the sun, there was nothing higher. In the solstice of your ever-light, I saw to my future.
Send me a lifeline when I don't seem to be finding better days; Lend me your daylight, and when you're trapped inside the rain I'll do the same.
Brace yourself, the world awaits! A face that fosters fear and hate. The taste of flesh and love forlorn; with bated breath a beast is born.
Stay by my side; soft songs in harmony. Stay by my side; companions kind now, you and me.
Maybe someday soon, we'll find the way; we can place our hope in a better day. I believe in us.
Breathing, I embrace the feeling of despair that keeps me standing on my own.
Where you go, I go. What you see, I see. I know I'd never be me without the security of your loving arms keeping me from harm.
I'll be the light that guides you home when skies are grey, there's nothing I won't do to keep you safe.
And there’s a price to pay for all that we have done; turn my eyes away and watch the setting sun.
So tell me, is it right to live just as I am truthfully? Or tell me, is it better to live when I have to deceive?
You got sucker's luck. Have you given up? Does it feel like a trial? Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Am I alive? Am I pretending? You said I could fly, so go on, then. Fill my eyes with fire. I'm a sleeper awakened.
Taking the edge of the orbit, the silver time is divided. As I continue falling like this, equally freeze me as well!
Tonight the monsters in my head are screaming so damn loud, but I built walls so high so they never even make a sound.
I don't know why you try to fix me like I can be fixed overnight. Don't try, I'm fine. Don't tell me that you understand.
You don’t know the hell I've been through, you don’t know the price I've paid. You can’t see the walls I’m bracing, time I’m facing, all my days.
The man in my reflection and I am not the same. You see him in my likeness, he answers to my name.
I'm sorry for the person I became; I'm sorry that it took so long for me to change.
He'll snatch you up between his teeth if on the bed's edge you sleep, and drag you to the forest deep beneath the quaking tree.
There's blood on your lies, the scars open wide. There is nowhere for you to hide, the hunter's moon is shining.
“Can you hear my voice?” disappearing in the twilight. The reasons then were so clear in hindsight. I reach my hand to the heat and the blur of the haze.
And you have to believe me when I say I understand that no one 'round here seems to understand.
If I looked you in the eye and showed the broken things inside, would you run away? Would you run away?
If you saw my darkest parts, the wicked things inside my heart. (I won't run away, I won't run away)
You taught me how to hate the world itself, well lucky me. But am I free? Now am I free?
My mind is scouring secrets not any soul will tell; Sometimes to face the demons, you have to walk through Hell.
Amnesia, you forgot your name, don't let your spirit fade away. Amnesia, you've been through such pain, but your little heart is growing stronger every day.
PALETTE
HUMAN
OTHER FORMS
FERAL STATE
ACCESSORIES
DESIGN NOTES
- Markings are form-specific, but follow a general theme. Arrow under eye is not optional, front and hind limbs always have "fingerless sock" markings, there's usually some form of underbelly and tail rings.
- Human form sort of has these markings, in the form of sparse body hair turning silver instead of black. Invisible unless closely inspected.
- Feral State markings are consistent across all forms, barring body parts that may not exist.
- These colors can change according to form:
- Skin
- Pupil
- Teeth
- Mouth
- Sclerae
- Blood
- Bone
- These colors do not change according to form:
- Hair, fur, feathers, scales
- Eyes (normal and feral)
- Marking and accent colors (normal and feral)
- All parts of the pendant
- Eyes and sapphire in pendant always glow. Markings glow only in Feral State.
- Not required, but I do the eye/pendant glow by using the airbrush to overlay the area's base color at 54% opacity with the layer effect Shine in SAI (Linear Dodge in Photoshop, Luminosity in some programs).
- Scar shape is flexible, placement and type are not. Scars present, in chronological order:
- Laceration scars on the left shoulder from getting ripped open by Slash [CoU S1]
- Laceration scar on the left side from getting impaled by Slash [CoU S1]
- Massive puncture scar on both sides of the right hand or equivalent from being stabbed by Zio [CoU S2]
- Laceration scar on left wing "forearm" from Razhius's ambush (only in six-limbed animals) [CoU S2]
- Laceration scars on back of right thigh from Espira [CoU S3]
- Double laceration scar on left upper arm or equivalent from Salieek [N&A Arc 1]
- Small laceration scar on left wrist from Mirah "accidentally" cutting him [N&A Arc 1]
- Jagged laceration-puncture scar on left side of neck from Mirah biting and gnawing on him [N&A Arc 1]
- Small puncture scar on back of neck from embedded collar [N&A Arc 1]
- Double puncture scar below/behind left shoulder blade from Dark biting him [N&A Arc 1]
- Scars are the color of the area around them, but lighter. Default to main skin color if scar crosses more than one color.
- Jason should not be drawn with both his bow and any scar starting from the puncture wound on his right hand, because it crippled his ability to shoot. If you want to draw him with his bow, either remove the scars entirely or only give him the first two.
- Pendant is made of silver, brass, and a single sapphire on a black leather cord that closes via a brass spring clasp.
- Pendant is not optional, but can be omitted in refs if design is cluttered. Pendant will automatically change its physical form if Jason's form is too small or cannot accommodate the necklace; see Protogen and Primagen forms for examples.
- Small, black areas such as pupils, as well as arrow shafts and pendant cord, can just be drawn as black lines if it's easier.
CONCEPTS
- Black and silver
- Dark blue and glowing green
- Moonlight, night, stars
- Pentagrams
- Tall, thin, scruffy
- Dark forests
- Hunting wolves
- Dragons in flight
- Autumn forests on the cusp of the first snowfall of the year
- Thunderstorms
- Silent ambush predation
- Quiet music
- Feeding frenzy
- Feral animals
- Quietly reading in an ancient library
- Soaring over mountains
- Guilt and regret
- Relaxing in a favorite spot
- Finding a calm, quiet hobby
- The balance between listening to and overcoming one's instincts
- The true, personal meaning of home
- Unbreakable bonds of friendship
- The whole being greater than the sum of its parts
- A quest for atonement and redemption
- A thirst for knowledge and skill gain
- Overcoming the self just as much as overcoming the enemy
- Learning how to trust again after suffering abuse
- Loyalty being strongest when rightfully earned instead of demanded
- Moving beyond one's past and toward a brighter future
- Learning to accept help from others
- Challenging one's own fate
- Dracomancy was taken from a combination of the Dracomancer class in Adventure Quest, and dragon riders in the Inheritance Cycle book series by Christopher Paolini.
- Appearance was taken very loosely from the character Harry Potter and made more solid by Shintaro Kirasagi in the song Lost Time Memory.
- Oddly enough, the concepts of Burst Mode, dragon-centric mind control, and one man leading a dragon army through said mind control came about before How To Train Your Dragon 2 was released.
- The idea of dragons eating metal, the creation myth of Euthora, and a bunch of smaller things were taken directly from the book series Age of Fire by E. E. Knight.
- Jason's name was inspired by Jason Schuyler from the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book series by Laurell K. Hamilton, as was the idea of making him a Shapeshifter.
- Jason's bow is not just inspired by, but taken from, the Flaming Burst enchantment that can be applied to longbows in version 3.5 of Dungeons and Dragons. Its appearance is based on Auriel's Bow from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
"[12:54 AM] Shadow: ok but again why is he like this
[12:54 AM] 🦊 Keileon 🦊: are you asking in the mechanical sense or the existential sense
[12:55 AM] Shadow: in the jason sense"
Shadow and Keileon
"I like little moments like this that tell you, unequivocally, that the old Jason is still in there somewhere, however suppressed he might be"
Keileon
"Shiveztel what the fuck."
Keileon
"we still haven't told him that the actual counteragent is a necklace"
Keileon
"Jason is full of so much unprocessed pain and guilt and grief and self-hatred and honestly Jude's sheer determination in helping him is the only reason he even starts getting better"
Keileon
"TIL Jason is a switch"
Keileon
"He promised to protect Jason, now and always, and was met with Jason putting all of his trust into Jude keeping his word"
Keileon
"JASON NO WE PLANNED THIS OUT DON'T GO OFF-SCRIPT NOW"
Keileon
"CrazE's current CoU state in a nutshell: rich fuckboy thrown across galaxy to supplement a shapeshifter's existential crisis"
CrazE
"Jason is kind of having a psychotic breakdown at the moment please understand"
Keileon
"Anyway, all of this to say that Shadow's probably going to douse Jason in anti-vampirism spray each time they interact"
Shadow
"How the fuck did I just Ship of Theseus Jason?"
Keileon
"Well, also tbf Jason also had a crippling inferiority complex"
Ziolang
"Jason will have like 300 tracking devices by the end of this"
Shadow
"His necklace is an entire separate character. It's complicated."
Keileon
"Near-positive Jason is going to Jason all over the place in my next post"
Keileon
">>>puts DRM on Jason's brace so it pings Jude and/or Shadow if Jason finds a way to disable the GPS"
NebulonRanger
"this kills the jason"
Keileon
"we could give Jason a timeout pendant that his mind is moved to if he's having issues--"
CrazE
"how to lobotomize jason through the familiar link: sever the familiar link."
Keileon
"I'm gonna find Jason a dedicated manager who will screen doctors and schedule appts"
CrazE
"Shadow right now going like "jason why are you like this""
Shadow
"Jason would be an incredibly boring target for [a Demon of Subjugation] because he's already extremely submissive"
Shadow
"why does everything happen to Jason"
Shadow
"Rare instance of Jason being very much aware of what he's feeling; he's all but stating outright that Eschia is a huge part of his trauma"
Keileon
"my main takeaway here is that there's probably an AU where jason becomes an arbitrator"
Keileon
"Really the way to deal with Jason is to keep pressing his anger until he stops using it as a shield"
Keileon
"why does jason behave like jason"
Shadow
"Jason is pretty much the definition of "a creature of impulse""
Keileon
"Arc 1: Jason gets kidnapped, attacked, injured multiple times, nearly dies, falls into a coma, gets sick
Arc 2: Jason takes care of plants"
Keileon
"I'd mention getting him a gun but Jason shouldn't even be trusted with weapons to begin with"
Shadow
"Unfortunately Jason has friends, yes"
Shadow
"When is Jason not on drugs"
RedStarr
"tldr Jason is borked and everyone thinks they have the magic tape"
Ziolang
"What made Jason like this was... this.
Jason: You just gestured to all of me"
Ziolang
"For the record I have zero idea what Jason plans to do about this."
Keileon
"Basically Jason went off the rails"
Keileon
"It's one of Those Moments where it really comes into focus that Jason is sick, just not physically"
Keileon
"Also Shiveztel did have a response and then Jason decided to be Jason"
Person
"Jason about to have a drug cocktail in his water bottles"
Keileon
"Jason is such a powerful dracomancer that he dracomancy'd even himself"
CrazE
"Jason getting mad at Destiny on National Girlfriend day really is a vibe"
RedStarr
"It's not Jason's fault this time"
Keileon
"Jason just doesn't get to do anything of his own accord anymore does he lmao"
CrazE
"Actually I can see Jason wanting the occasional equivalent of burger king."
Keileon
"At this point you might as well put Jason on house arrest"
Shadow
"I'm just trying to understand Jason's BDSM fetish or whatever"
Shadow
"Someone is going "jason answer your fucking phone""
Keileon
">jason is basically in a cluster with himself"
Keileon
"He always has to eat his food while doing some physical activity, like running, pacing, practicing etc."
Joeboateo
"Headcanon"
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"Headcanon"
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