Jasper

Adventurer for Hire

Species

Jasper is a smeargle born to a mixed tribe of gold and blue painters that combine their colors when bestowing their maturity markings. Jasper himself is a gold painter, though he sometimes collects and uses other colors in addition to his natural, and has a small scar under his right ear that he usually keeps hidden.

Personality

Jasper is the eldest and most level-headed of the adventurers, typically acting as the big brother to keep the other two in line. He tends to be quieter, trying to plan ahead instead of rushing blindly into danger, and almost constantly worries about Kibou. He does his best not to show this worry, even if his hesitation is noticed by Mayra, but he's sure knowledge is the worst thing to have when it comes to the aipom. He's also not one to get angry easily but if his friends or territory are threatened he's been known to go into a blind rage that sends even Kibou and Mayra running for cover until he calms down.

History

When Jasper was a little unmarked smeargle he knew a living vibrant purple Kibou, they weren't good friends or anything but they played together from time to time. At some point though the aipom and his family moved away and as Jasper grew he didn't really give much thought to that childhood fun, he had other things to focus on. Once he reached adulthood and received his mark he left the tribe behind to find his own territory, a task that got sidelined some by Mayra's appearance and insistence on finding treasure. Traveling together was better than alone though and eventually they reached an agreement to form an exploration team, or tried to anyway. Her lack of care when exploring began to steadily grate on his nerves, sure she could teleport away at any time but if she would just listen to his plans they wouldn't have to backtrack so much. Her solution was for him to just sketch teleport but that was beside the point, he wasn't far from calling the whole team thing off when the duo ran into the ghost aipom. Seeing Kibou again brought back a flood of memories he quickly realized the aipom didn't have, there was no recognition there and as the aipom's condition become clear Jasper accepted that that was probably for the best. Still he refused to let anything else happen to Kibou and together the trio proved to be a more effective team.