Jasper Giovanni
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
-Dennis P. Kimbro
NameJasper Giovanni
NicknamesGio: Essentially people call him an abbreviation of his last name. No one is exactly sure how this started, and Gio just sort of rolls with it.
The Original NameJabberwock/The Dragon
Story of originJabberwocky/various dragon stories
AgeHe looks 26, however his real age is unknown. He kind of stopped counting. He ages extremely slow.
GenderMale
Sexual OrientationHeterosexual
MagicHe is actually extremely resistant to magic, almost to the point of immunity. He cannot use any himself.
Job/PositionOwner of the Casino 'J's palace.'/Supplier of Black Market Magic(Vale)
AppearanceGio stands at a rather impressive 6'3", and has a rather muscular build. This is probably due to the time he spends keeping himself physically fit. He is attractive in a rather intimidating and rugged way. Jasper tends to throw on whatever he can find in his closet. Usually a pair of jeans and a short sleeved t-shirt with a brown leather jacket. He has a rather disarmingly friendly smile.
He doesn't really seem to care much about appearances or what people think of him for the most part. However, he does have a sense of fashion and has no problem finding fancy clothing if the need arises. However, he prefers dressing comfortably, sometimes in whatever was on his floor the night before.
He has an awful habit of smoking, and keeps a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in his jacket pocket, along with various shiny trinkets. (what do you expect, he's a dragon, he likes shiny things!)
"I do what i like. You aren't going to stop me."
PersonalityGio has a very blunt way of speaking to people with an occasional sassy comment wrapped in thick sarcasm. Unless it is in his best interest to lie, he will always tell the truth, even if its offensive. He enjoys feeding into his target's addictions with a great glee, and will often refer to them as his 'prey.' He tends to be something of a free spirit, sometimes vanishing from his regular haunts for months at a time with no word to anyone he knows. He can be extremely cocky at times, to the point that he almost has a god complex. Despite all of these facts, Gio is actually alarmingly charismatic. Though he seems to have a severe hatred for knights or hero type archetype fairy tales.
Just like the stories claim, Gio used to have a thing for riddles. However, in the many years of his life, new and original riddles are becoming less and less common. Therefore in more recent years, he has become disenchanted with riddles and enjoys doing Sudoku instead. He can actually be quite clever, and often uses drugs or alcohol to manipulate people.
He has a secret softer side in which he enjoys reading sappy romance novels and watching soap operas on Television. However, he is so in the closet about this, he would literally die than have anyone ever discover this fact about him.
He tends to hang around the more seedy areas of town, and not much is known about him by his fellow fairy tale creatures. He can be convinced to come out of the shadows to help if one knows how to contact him. He is considered extremely dangerous, and his bad temper is well known by those who know his name. He has the uncanny ability to tell when a person is lying, and he does NOT like being lied to. He tends to be very vengeful and holds a grudge to those who have wronged him over the years. He will often collect on these grudges years after the other person has completely forgotten. He tends to have something of an iron trap of a memory, often recalling things others have long forgotten.
Considering his species, he is something of a hoarder. He is constantly keeping shiny things buried under the floorboards in his home, and in the yard. If someone dares to try and touch his 'shinies', he's going to try and break their face in.
If one is fortunate enough to have Gio as a friend, he is extremely loyal. He tends to go above and beyond for the people he cares about, and will even sacrifice his own life if it means protecting those he cares about. Can be the slightest bit over-protective.
Strengths- Physical Strength
- Clever-minded
- Charismatic
- Intimidating
- Mental Fortitude/Memory
- Nearly immune to Magic
- Intimidating
- Hot Temper
- Kleptomaniac (For shiny things)
- Riddles (if someone can manage to find a new one)
- Careless
- Douchebag Cocky
- Smoking
- Mortal Weakness He keeps his heart in a box hidden somewhere safe. If someone manages to get a hold of it, they have complete control over all of his actions, and they can kill him whenever they like.
Afraid someone might find his heart and take control of him. Afraid of not being taken seriously. Afraid some hero archetype will come along and kill him.
"Pay up, or i will make you regret it."
HistoryAs 'the dragon' Gio has always been the one everyone fears. He's always sort of been the outcast, pursued by knights who want glory or fame. It doesn't help that as a dragon his Kleptomania was far worse. Villagers used to offer up virgin women to him to keep him from stealing their belongings and killing their livestock. Most of his 'dragon' brothers and sisters have been killed over the years. Gio is normally all alone.
Coming to Cedar Grove was supposed to be a fresh start for Gio. However, people of the fairy tale world continued to shun and ignore him for the most part. For some time, he was actually extremely poor and lived on the street, collecting what little shiny things he could find. He soon fell in with the wrong type of crowd, and discovered magic. To his disappointment, the drug had no effect on him. However, after he saw the amount of cash which was exchanging hands, he may or may not have wormed his way into the position of drug dealer.
With the money he made dealing magic, Gio funded and opened his own Casino so more 'shinies' would come flowing in. Using both of these slightly less legal and less ethical trades, Gio has started amassing something similar to a hoard again.
Gio misses his old cave and hoard dearly. The shinies he had to leave behind when he moved to Cedar Grove, and even terrorizing villages by pretending he could breathe fire. He owns a nice house in the more expensive part of town where he stores his hoard in the basement and hides out if he ever gets in trouble.
Likes- Fire
- Shiny things
- Cigarettes
- Manipulating others
- Reptiles
- Caves (Spelunking anyone?)
- People who owe him money
- Authority figures
- Those who are dedicated to 'good.'
- Feeling inadequate
- Knight type archetypes
- Swords(Knights killed most of his friends and family)
"Man, i am the greatest thing since sliced bread."
