Likes:
Fighting and cutting, because they are his only ways to release his insanity. He equates power with the ability to deal physical harm to people, and so the two give him a rush of power. Also, he is fascinated by blood, finds it beautiful. Scaring people, because he thinks most people are stupid and annoying, and recognizes their fear as acknowledgement of his power.
Dislikes:
Substance abusers, especially alcoholics, because they remind him of his father. God, because Jei blames him for all the bad things that happened to him (and some of the bad things he himself did) and the clergy, because they represent God. Most people, because he finds them, especially people who talk too much, annoying. People who try to control him or delve into his past. Weiss, because they try to prevent him from killing people; also, they didn't die when he thought they would... that really bothers him. ;)
Favorite Food:
Spaghetti and meatballs, with a side of bread. He always eats it right before an assignment, because he thinks it gives him the energy to kill people.
Hated Food:
Potatoes. He ate them too damn often as a child.
Favorite Subject:
Religion, because he thought it would provide him with an escape from his father.
Hated Subject:
Public Speaking. It's hard to give a coherent speech when there are voices in your head telling you to kill everyone in the audience; it gets even harder when you think the speech you've been forced to give and the audience you're forced to give it to are both stupid beyond belief.
Organization:
SS.
Personality:
Jei is constantly preoccupied by his own insanity; his thoughts jump from one topic to another with little or no coherence. However, at some points he is more lucid than at other times. When at his calmest, he exhibits a cold, withdrawn personality with flashes of grim humor, and enjoys scaring people with his words and actions. At the other end of the spectrum is when he fights, with unleashed insanity. He never makes a noise while fighting, just grins as his eyes blaze maniacally. Moreover, whatever the cost to himself, he just doesn't stop until his opponent is dead. If he is fighting someone Schwarz wants alive, someone has to psychically stop him (physically stopping him is out of the question).
Jei fights because he is obsessed with power, blood, and with the thrill of fighting itself. When he was a child, his father severely abused him, and as a result Jei's idea of power is the ability to cause physical pain to people. Thus, fighting people makes him feel as if he has power over them, and the fact that he himself feels no pain adds to that belief. He cuts because the opportunities he gets to fight are not enough of an outlet for the turmoil bubbling inside of him, and on those boring days when he can't spill others' blood, he spills his own.
To most, Jei is cold and either creepily insane or bitingly sardonic. He manages to shove many people away with this icy exterior, and that's just the way he likes it. The only exception is how he acts around clergy. Only then does he ever exhibit fury, as he questions them about- or rather, accuses them of- God's crimes, or supposed cruelty towards humanity. He enjoys watching them squirm as they try to answer him, just before he rips their guts open.
Appearance:
Jei is 6ft, with short, choppy silver- white hair and tawny gold eyes, or rather, eye. His left eye is gone, lost in one of his many fights, and is covered with a black eye patch. While his build is wiry and thin, he also has visible muscle. All over his body, including his face, are the scars from knife fights and from his cutting episodes. They are livid red against his pale complexion.
Jei prefers to dress in blues, blacks, and whites, not to mention bondage straps. He typically wears a blue v-neck with ripped off sleeves, dark blue pants, black fingerless gloves, black boots, bondage straps, multiple ear piercings, a black buckled choker, and lots of knives. At any given time he has bandages wrapped around some part of his body, because he is constantly in some state of injury.
Family/Friends:
Frank Adanodan (deceased): Jei's father, a cruel alcoholic. He was a bitter failure, having spent his life in a slum of Dublin with no hope for anything better. He had been a foreman in a construction company, had thought he'd have a chance, but had lost his job and been forced to go back to regular labor. Gradually, he even lost those badly- paying jobs to younger, healthier men. From then on he hated everyone, his children and wife included, as part of "the world", which he saw as out to get him. He constantly abused his wife and children, and seduced Sister Ruth, not out of affection, but in an effort to hurt his wife. When Jei was born, Frank forcefully took him away from Sister Ruth, and terrorized his wife into keeping the child as her own. Thus, not only was he able to physically abuse her, but mentally as well, taunting her at every turn with Jei's existence, living proof of how much he despised her.
Faith Adanodan (deceased): As a young girl, Faith fell in love with Frank Adanodan, then a bright, handsome man, and married him. She soon found herself trapped in the hell of life in the slums with an alcoholic, abusive husband. But her personality was too frail to take the children and leave him, so she stayed, still in love with the man she convinced herself he still was. It was only when Jei was born, that she finally realized who she was shackled to for the rest of her life, and what he had done to her. She could neither bring herself to forgive him or hate him, so she retreated into her mind and spent her last years little better than an automaton, remembering to prepare food once or twice a week, leaving her children to the mercy of the neighbors or the alms of the church.
Sister Ruth (deceased): A young, naive and idealistic nun, she came to the slums of Dublin to spread the Word of God and bring hope to the poor. Instead, she found herself ensnared by Frank, still handsome and charismatic when he wanted to be. Inexperienced as she was, he was able to trick her into believing it was love, and she realized too late that he was lying. Appalled by the sins she had committed, she let him take her baby, and tried bravely to continue her mission. Years later, met Jei again and tried to save his soul, but was killed by him.
History:
Jei grew up in the poorest, most destitute section of Dublin, in a small fringe shantytown. As a child, he watched a friend's sibling die from hunger, and others he knew died from infections and diseases. His father, Frank Adanodan, was a strong man past his prime, a construction worker who was beginning to lose what meager jobs he had to younger men. He manifested his growing frustration by drinking and then beating Jei, his siblings, and their mother. Faith Adanodan was a frail, wispy woman who never stood up to him. In addition to beating her, Frank heaped verbal abuse on Faith's head, taunting her about "the bastard you've had to raise like your own flesh and blood, if you know what's good for you." Jei never understood what this meant, but noticed that after these sessions, his mother seemed to grow a bit more remote to him. Not that it particularly made a difference; half the time she seemed to be asleep or dreaming of a better life for herself, treating her children with indifference.
The only thing he had to lighten an unbearable existence was the weekly visits of a young nun named Sister Ruth, who taught Sunday School. She gave him and his friends her view of a kindly, benevolent God who grieves to see us suffer and wishes nothing more than to bring us to supreme happiness in Heaven. However, Jei interpreted "God's absolute power" to mean someone akin to his father; perhaps nicer, but still ready to damn you to Hell for eternity for the slightest infraction. Jei had no hope for a better future in his lifetime, but became obsessed with honoring God's laws, in an effort to live better in the next world. He also became a sneak, spying and then telling other peoples' sins to the parish priest. He rationalized this by saying that, like an injury, one's sins cannot be cured until the doctor (or priest) knows what they are. Also, Jei himself believed that since he was helping others cure their sins and get to Heaven, he himself would get extra merit. As a result, children began to avoid the "tattletale", and Jei became very lonely. This loneliness, coupled with his obsession, served not to drive him insane, but unbalanced him enough so that what came next did push him over the edge.
One day while praying, he saw Sister Ruth herself slip into the confessional. This shocked him: since she was her role model and inspiration, he hadn't imagined she could do anything wrong. Other than him, the pews were empty, so, overcome with curiosity, he crept over to the confessional and put his ear to the door.
What he heard was a terrible secret that had occured more than ten years ago: Sister Ruth had allowed herself to be seduced by a man, a married man, then had given birth to a child by him and had allowed him to take the baby away from her. All she had done was name him James, in the hope that the name of a holy disciple of Jesus would allow the child to be better than his sinful parents.
Slowly, Jei began to realize the truth: the married man was his father, and he... James... was the baby. Frank had been more cruel to Faith than he had ever guessed, forcing her to take in his bastard, and forcing her to pretend to everyone, even Jei, that he was her own. Fighting nausea, all Jei could think of was that he had to get away, had to shun this harlot. And so he ran nearly all the way home, hardly noticing where he was going, allowing habit to guide him. This was a fatal mistake, for just before he opened the door to his house, the final revelation occured to him.
He was a bastard, the product of flagrant disobedience to God's Commandments, a nun's bastard, no less. No matter what he did, how much he repented, he would always be damned to Hell. It was his own strict interpretation of God that led to this revelation, so he passionately believed it. His rage suddenly kindled out of control, and his only thought was to get revenge on those who had sentenced him to Hell before he was even born.
So, when he wrenched the door open in the first of many berserk rages, he went straight for his father, armed with only his teeth, hands, and nails. His siblings tried to restrain him, but he literally tore them apart. He then proceeded to butcher his father, for begetting him, and his mother, for perpetuating the lie and not killing him when he was an infant. He would have gone after Sister Ruth, but at this point, the magnitude of what he had just done snapped him out of his wrath. He had just one horrified glimpse of the remains of his family, with blood coating the walls of their home, before he realized that this mass murder had truly damned him to Hell forever. He staggered out into the streets of Dublin, and unable to believe what he had just done, blocked the entire episode from his memory. All his fevered brain retained was the moment when he'd stopped and taken in the carnage around him.
He wandered the streets of Dublin for a few weeks, until, purely by chance, a Japanese priest found him. The priest, who had been visiting an Irish friend, took pity on Jei and asked him to come back to Japan with him, where he knew a childless couple who would love to take Jei in. Although he didn't know why, Jei knew he desperately needed to get out of Dublin; his subconscious was afraid that the familiar setting would trigger the memories he had suppressed. So Jei went with the priest to Japan, and once there, ran away. He found work in a fish market, eating whatever scraps were thrown his way, sleeping in the street, and gradually picking up Japanese. He stole an ice pick from the fish market, and spent days pounding it flat. He then sharpened the edges, and disappeared from the fish market for good. They couldn't have cared less about the sneaky little foreigner, and never connected him to the horrible murder of a priest a few days later.
After this, Jei lived on the streets for years, moving from one place to another. Sometimes he picked up odd jobs, but inevitably lost them, because his growing insanity was beginning to come to the surface. When he was around fifteen or so (he himself utterly lost track of his own age and birthday), a twenty-something gang leader recruited him for a savage new street sport: "the Game". It basically consisted of two boys forced to fight each other virtually to the death. Jei managed to kill his opponent the first time, due to his own strength and the fact that his opponent was even more inexperienced than he. However, it probably would have been better for Jei in the long run if he had lost, because from then on, he became the "prize fighter" of the gang's team. Jei held his position as the best for a few years, but at the cost of many injuries, badly healed bones, and lacerations. Eventually, he was challenged by someone better than him, someone who beat him so savagely, Jei was left for dead.
At this point, an SS recruiter, who had been watching Jei for a while, rescued him. He was brought to the hospital, and once he healed, more or less forced to join SS. Although he had no qualms with killing, Jei didn't particularly care to join; he wanted his contact with people kept at a minimum. He would've left, but thanks to the Game, he had become utterly addicted to fighting, and being part of SS was the only readily available way to kill with impunity. He even submitted to being tied up between assignments, so that he could stay in Schwarz and continue killing. He also continued murdering the odd clergy on the side, in his quest to "get even" with God.
During their first confrontation against Weiss, when he met Sister Ruth again for the first time in years, Jei's memory was restored. He knew himself for the monster he was, but it made no difference; he enjoyed killing so much that he no longer even pretended to be an innocent. He killed Sister Ruth with no hesitation at all; in fact, it probably made him stronger, as all his talent could now be devoted to blocking out pain.
Over time, his view of God shifted from utter devotion (even brown-nosing) to hatred, to a view of himself as almost, if not as, powerful as God. He thinks of himself as an Antichrist figure, sent to Earth to wreak destruction on God's creations, especially His clergy.
Talent:
Jei's psychic talent is a strong ability to block out his own pain. (Also, his subconscious originally used part of this ability to block any memory of his past, but no longer does.) Although this makes him virtually indestructible in battle, and indefatigable, it also means that after a tough fight, when blood loss and exhaustion finally force his body to stop, he utterly collapses, possibly for days. Also, blocking out his own pain makes him ignore the injuries he receives without noticing. He could, conceivably, bleed to death, or scald himself getting into a bath that he doesn't notice is too hot.
Interestingly, this power was only unlocked when he went insane. When he was living with his family in the slums of Dublin, he could feel pain like anyone else- and experienced plenty of it at the hands of his father.
Weapon:
Jei has many knives, but fights primarily with an expandable sword. Going into a fight, he will tuck a dagger into the calf of his left boot, and another very small knife into the bandages on his left arm, but he really relies on the sword. Because he fights with this weapon so often, he can't use throwing knives very accurately, and is an amateur with a gun.
However, from his experiences living on the street, and his natural survivor's instinct, he is pretty good at fighting without a weapon. He isn't strong so much as quick; if you're strong enough, you might be able to end the entire fight with one well- placed, extremely hard punch, but it's doubtful that the punch would ever hit him in the first place.
