Jordon Rivers

Jordon Rivers is a major character from Single-Handed Alchemy. A celebrity in the world of alchemy, he is renowned for his unique ability to bring homunculi to life.
===Appearance===
Jordon has white hair and red eyes, both traits of albinism. He wears a navy blue turtlenecked jumper and light denim jeans, along with blue fingerless gloves and a blue scarf.
===Personality===
Jordon has a typical celebrity-like personality - outwardly confident, lively and showing a constant smile in public, though in everyday conversations he is often arrogant, talkative and at times condescending.
Around close friends, Jordon often tries to keep them on his side, usually through random acts of kindness or rapid-fire apologies. This causes his friends to think highly of him, though they would come to hate him greatly if their friendship becomes broken.
Jordon seems to get along much more healthily with alchemists, and often says that this is due to overlapping interests. In actuality, however, this is due to an insecurity caused by his weaker knowledge in general alchemy. He hopes that by spending more time with more talented alchemists, he can improve his understanding.
===Story===
Jordon was born and raised in Chrysdon, a city where alchemy is a very popular practice. He picked up an interest in alchemy at five years old, mostly playing around with a homunculus that he bought in a store. This homunculus, through continuous experiments, eventually achieved sentience, gaining the name “Spindle” and being brought with him on most of his travels.
Jordon gained much popularity among his peers, and later throughout the city for his skills in alchemy, being seen as a prodigy in alchemy. However, this was mostly judged for his creation of sentient homunculi - his other talents in alchemy were half-baked by comparison. He took the praise to heart, however, not knowing the full truth behind its reasoning for some years.
As an adult, Jordon had become a Chrysdon celebrity, being featured often in alchemy magazines and once claiming that he was writing a book on homunculus sentience. He was one of the first to meet Flynn Rainridge when he arrived in Chrysdon, and initially had a low opinion on him, mainly due to his rough attitude and disability. The two alchemists stood as rivals as a result.
==Relationships==
===Flynn Rainridge===
Jordon and Flynn get along poorly due to Jordon's initial accusations. The two consider one another as rivals, and compete in alchemy duels fairly frequently.
==Gallery==
===Official Art===
Spindle.png|Jordon's homunculus, Spindle.
Jordon and Spindle.png|Group art with Spindle.
===Fanart and Other Unrelated Art===
Slime Jordon Rivers.png|A "slime form" created by Samtendo09.
==Creation==
Jordon was inspired by the "jerk rival" trope, being a character who competes with the protagonist and often puts him down. In order to connect him more to Flynn, they were both given a theme of water - as evidenced by their surnames and blue clothing. The two were also made somewhat opposites in their alchemy skills, with Jordon having one obscure skill he is popularised for but being half-baked otherwise, whereas Flynn is looked down on for his disability but actually extremely talented despite it.
The idea of Jordon being accompanied by a sentient homunculus was inspired by several pairs of characters, including Meta-Form and Cubey, Milo and Ecto from Kingdombound, and Link and the various fairy companions he has had across the Zelda series, including Navi and Proxi.
Jordon ended up being an albino because Mirror simply wanted to give at least one of his characters this trait.
==Trivia==
*Jordon's name may be derived from the River Jordan, which, in Christian mythology, Jesus of Nazareth was baptised in. This connects Jordon's popularity to the influence Jesus has on the Christian faith.
*Jordon has Raynaud's syndrome, meaning that when his hands get cold, they cut the blood supply to his fingers, causing them to turn white. As a child, he was known to use white fingers to freak out other children on the school playground.
*Jordon has, according to some of his fans, been on television seventy-six times, been quoted over two hundred times, and been on the front covers of four alchemy magazines.
*Jordon has shown interest in founding a company to make the sentient homunculi for him.
*Jordon's sentient homunculi are more prone to spontaneous decomposition than their non-sentient counterparts.
*According to one of his fans, Jordon's yearly spendings in chrysopoeia and alkahests are about half his yearly spendings on food.
*Another of Jordon's fans claims that he has "fourth-tier" alchemy crystals in his collection, though no other reference is made to them and they cannot be found in-game.
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