Jean

"This Game isn't against the Reapers. It's against yourselves."
Jean is a Officer Reaper from Week 11, a Shopkeeper from Week 12, 13, and 14, the Conductor of Week 13 and 14 and the Composer of Week 15 of The Reaper's Game. Originally from the Kawasaki District, he initially transferred to Shibuya, needing a break from the way the former district was run. As well as having an active presence in the Shibuya District, he also was Conductor of the Marseille District. With firm morals and a generally relaxed attitude, he aims to help the Players as much as possible; whether that involves pushing along the Players who try or convincing the Players who don't to do so. He is also the younger brother of Carel, who played and won Week 10.
==Appearance==
Jean is a 6'0" man with broad shoulders and long lean legs. He has a tanned Southern French complexion and short chestnut brown hair that he generally styles swept over to the left side. He has heavy lidded grey-blue eyes, a narrow nose, thick eyebrows, thin lips, and a strong jawline. His default expression is almost always serious. He wears a pair of small rectangular glasses.
His wardrobe contains endless amounts of dress shirts, cardigans and dress pants, mostly in dark colours. He is rarely seen in anything more casual, and generally wears his dress shirts with the collar open and popped, with the sleeves rolled up, nice pants and belt, and nice shoes..
During Week 11, he sustained 12 claw wounds on his forearms and on the back of his right bicep from intercepting an attack by Naruaki to protect a Player whose partner was erased. Not wanting to draw attention to the scars, he began rolling his sleeves up to his mid-forearm instead. In addition to these scars, he has two long slashed scars on his back and several small scarred bite marks on his shoulders. These were all obtained through protecting Players during games.
==Personality==
Jean’s personality and general personal identity has changed drastically over time, and the Jean now is very different than the Jean in Kawasaki, the Jean before the Game, and the Jean as a child. Now, saddled with responsibilities as Conductor of Shibuya and Marseille, Jean is extremely insecure, scared, unstable, and exhausted. When he able to push these feelings away, Jean is able to let himself act as his dorky self, getting excited over stupid things and dork screaming over others. He is extremely caring about his friends and loved ones, doing whatever it takes to make them happy and to protect them, even at his own expense. He enjoys keeping busy and having a sense of purpose, preferring to keep his job in the RG as well as his duties as a Conductor and helping out Carel at Ribbonshades. He loves many and loves easily, falling romantically in love with people easily if he lets himself do so. Jean is also rather modest, and easily flustered; things that others would proudly show off to the world are what Jean would rather hide or downscale, such as his personal wealth and his strength as a Conductor. He is rather open and is willing to share most details about himself as long as he is asked to or he believes that it would benefit if he did so, and is very eager to do whatever it takes to help his friends and Players through their problems.
As a Reaper, Jean is very fair and has strict morals. If he believes that a Player does not deserve to win because of their poor behaviour, he will try to draw out their full potential, but if they continue to have a poor attitude, he will leave them alone completely. Though to him, he is seeing it as focusing his efforts elsewhere, it can seem very cruel to outsiders; an example of this being during Week 13, when Mazuki passed up the opportunity to save Judai during the fight against the Draco, leaving Judai with a very real possibility of being erased, Jean could not see any worth in her from then on, and very little could convince him otherwise. However, for the Players that he does want to help, he will go to the ends of the Earth to assist them, by running training battles and summoning noise fights to help them get stronger, buying useful food items for them as prizes. He is also stupidly and impulsively brave, unafraid to jump in front to protect somebody from an attack, even if it would risk himself in the process. As a whole, while on the field, Jean prefers to sit back and observe and only to interfere when he believes it is necessary; though in Shibuya, this tends to happen quite a bit more often than he has been used to.
As a Conductor, Jean simultaneously has a very firm sense of responsibility as well as insecurity. He understands the weight of his duties and tries to carry them out to the best of his ability. When the time comes, he can think quickly to make sure that the city is safe, evacuating Players and making orders to protect them from the threats, as in Week 13. He is very capable of being Conductor, but in many cases, unless there is a crisis happening his insecurity takes over. He is extremely insecure about his ability as a Conductor for many reasons; the raw power he has as an inexperienced Conductor, as signified by his magnificently large wings, his ability to protect the city, Players, or Reapers from threats, and his ability to be a figure of authority. He strongly dislikes being referred to as any sort of title that implies that he is of a higher rank, such as being called “Conductor Jean”, “Sir”, “Mister”, etc. He greatly prefers to be more of a friend to the Reapers than a boss, but can dish out discipline when it is necessary, such as whenever Nanami’s antics are starting to scare a Player. He also dislikes his wings, finding them too large and showy with how wide the wingspan is, along with the sparks of electricity that dance along the wingframe. He only takes them out when he needs to, such as when he is flying. He does not like his wings both because of the attention grabbing factor as well as the fact that it is a reminder to him of Reaperdom, though he is growing more accustomed to the latter now.
Along with the above, Jean is burdened with a near ridiculous amount of insecurities and fears, all developed through his past experiences in the UG. It has been determined that by the way Jean reacts to certain things reminding him of past events that he has severe PTSD and anxiety, and he is at a loss for how to deal with this. Though he has several different traumas, one of his largest insecurities is his lack of self control. He feels that he is too weak to be a Conductor or to be a good friend, and even if he has the raw power, he lacks the self control to be able to utilize it well. He is also terrified of his ability to protect others and in extension losing his loved ones due to losing his partner in his own game and overcompensates, to the point of giving off the feeling that he is not confident in their own strength. He feels the need to take every burden onto his own shoulders so others would not need to suffer, even going so far as to accepting the position of Conductor of Shibuya because he was afraid that if he did not do it, that Des would be thrusted with the position.
Jean can also be fairly childish and vulnerable when he is especially scared, only reminding others that even though he puts up a front of being an adult, accomplished and able to take care of himself, he is still just a kid. Even though he has existed for 21 years, he died at 17 years old and thus still has a 17 year old brain. He hides this well, however, so there are very few instances where Jean will truly seem to act his age.
In addition to all of this, Jean has an extremely deep hate for himself. He despises how weak he feels and how easily set off he is due to his lack of self control and his PTSD, and at the same time truly believes that he deserves to suffer an eternal torture. He is content with the idea of never being truly happy, even when parts of him desperately wants as normal of a life as he can get, because he sees it as a punishment or serving a sentence in exchange for murdering so many Players so brutally while he was in Kawasaki. He jokes very frequently about matters regarding self harm and suicide, and although he is rarely serious in the moment, it is a very real burden of his otherwise.
==History==
===Pre-Game===
Jean was born on May 30th, 1995, and grew up as the younger brother of Carel to the Duvert family. The siblings were very close growing up, and Jean frequently tagged along with Carel's extra curricular activities, such as her ballet classes. In their adolescent years, the siblings began to become more and more neglected by their parents, and between them Jean was more aggressive with his grabs for attention. He ended up taking out his suppressed frustration and loneliness on his classmates at school, frequently getting in trouble, with Carel often the one to help bail him out but in return winning the attention of his parents. Negative attention to him was better than none, so there was no real reason for him to try to stop getting into fights. Despite this strain in relationship, the two remained close and Jean occasionally acted as a model for Carel's interest in fashion design and as a conversation partner when she decided to learn Japanese. However, their parents were unwilling to deal with Jean's behaviour and sent him off to a prestigious private school for secondary school, calling him too volatile and needing to learn self control.
His time in his secondary years were rather uneventful. Jean calmed down considerably and learned to become independant. He spent much time reflecting upon his "old self" and was determined to make his parents and Carel proud, and to come back ready to be the younger brother that Carel deserved. Each time he visited during Christmas and the summer, it was evident that he had grown, but Carel had done the opposite. Though she had been scouted for a modelling agency and was doing well in school, she still seemed more and more miserable everytime he saw her. Things seemed to turn around for her, though, during Jean's last year when she was offered to study fashion design abroad in Japan while working a contract. She took the offer and moved to Japan, and Jean returned to school for one final semester.
Because of his hard work, Jean was able to graduate early, and he was deciding between going to a university in Tokyo or France to study to become a school counsellor. In December 2012, the winter break after his graduation, Jean travelled to Shibuya to spend Christmas with his sister. However, on his way back to the Haneda Airport to go home, he was involved in a fatal car accident, and ended up in Kawasaki's Reapers' Game.
=== Kawasaki Game (Week ??) ===
The Kawasaki District's entry fee is consistent from week to week, therefore it is always a trait or characteristic that the Player has spent time improving upon themself. In Jean's case, this was his self control; something that took his years in secondary school to build. Though the district is classified as a dump district, Jean's soul arrived in the Game because he died within the city boundaries. The Marseille Composer had a problem with this, and wanted Jean to play in Marseille, but the Kawasaki Composer stood firm against her.
Jean partnered with a girl named Machiko, whose entry fee was her motivation. Initially, before the Game started, the two were determined to win the Game together and come back to life, but once their entry fees were taken the two were completely incompatible. Jean at least had enough self control to divert his anger onto the Noise and Reapers instead of his partner and was slowly able to compose himself. Unfortunately on Day 6 of his Game, Machiko self-erased. Jean panicked, looking to see if there were any other partnerless Players at the time, but the very few Players remaining all had partners. Fortunately, the Conductor, impressed with Jean's growth and determination and sympathetic at his circumstances, offered him Reaperdom. Though this would mean that Jean would likely never be able to see or communicate with any of his friends or his family again,  it would mean he would survive. He took the opportunity and started working during the same Game.
=== Kawasaki District ===
Jean was rather popular amongst the Reapers when he began working in the district due to his looks, but as time went on he realized how shallow all of his friendships were. There was an overwhelming sense of shallow apathy towards Players and even fellow Reapers, and if anything the Reapers in Kawasaki had one or two real friendships or bonds with one another, the rest being very casual. During his first Game, after one Player in a partnership self-erased, he blocked a hit from a pair of Minks summoned by a Reaper to finish off the other Player, wanting that Player to have their chance at a peaceful seven minutes or a re-pact. This empathetic display towards a Player was disgusting to the other Reapers, and Jean realized that if he didn't adopt the same attitude as the others, he would be completely alone. Powerless to change the district and without any other option, Jean forced himself to become a ruthless killing machine like the other Kawasaki Reapers, becoming more unstable and feeling more numb as time went on.
Over the course of his time as a Reaper, Jean worked 22 Games in Kawasaki. Because of the Reaper Rule dictating that each Reaper, regardless of type, must erase one entire partnership, he has erased over a hundred Players. To distract himself, he involved himself in casual relationships with many of the Reapers, like Haruki and Nagito, but all of them were short-lived due to how shallow they were. As well, he held a job as a chef in a local restaurant, working more hours than he needed to per week to distract himself more. In April 2014, he accepted a promotion to become an Officer some time after his repeated attempts to erase a Player (Shiori Kita) resulted in him become a Reaper. He took the opportunity to drown himself in Officer work, unable to accept who he had become, only leaving the Reapers' Office to complete his erasure for the week. He became extremely insecure about his sense of humanity, disliking how many people he had to erase without justifiable reason other than for his own survival. In what ended up becoming his last Game of in the District, he was determined to prove to himself that he still had some sense of humanity left, and protected another Player from a Drake early on Day 7 from a Reaper who has already gotten their erasure for the week. He was mocked for "being soft" again, which angered him. To him, he felt that he was not being soft, he was just acting like a normal human being.
Tired of the district and needing a break, he requested a transfer to another district in November 2014. The Composer, Hideki Aizawa, was fortunately very understanding of Jean's issues and offered a transfer to Shibuya, a district that was known for having unusual but Player development focused Games. Jean remembered that Shibuya was the city his sister lived in, and with the hope that he would be able to see her again, despite not being able to speak with her, he transferred to the district.
=== Transfer to Shibuya, Pre-Week 11 ===
Jean's first few weeks in Shibuya were quite eventful. He applied and got a job with Chez Matsuo as a cook, and moved into an apartment in Molco. He felt more at ease in the district and slipped into his old habits as a charming Frenchman. This behaviour was quickly stopped as he was punched in the mouth by Yasumu for kissing the hand of Lee. On the bright side, he found that he in fact, was able to communicate with Carel, as she had played the Game the month before and retained her Sight of the UG. The two siblings had a rather strange reunion that involved Yasumu beating him for Carel's sake. Though the entire day was painful as a whole, he felt much happier in Shibuya already.
He met a few Players and Reapers as he prepared for the Game to start; Kogasa, an intelligent 12 year old Player that gave Jean the wrong impression for scaring Daichi, another Player, and Sayoko, a sweet Player who tagged along with Kogasa. He also met Kaito, a Reaper who had also transferred to Shibuya that week, and the two teased each other whenever they saw each other. He also met a Player named Aiichirou, who Jean found interest in. He seemed rather reserved but sweet at first glance, but after a heated and cutting argument between the two, Jean became more interested in his growth with the Game. Overall, the weeks up until the Game were rather peaceful, with frequent visits with Carel.
=== Week 11 ===
Week 11 in February 2015 was Jean’s first game working in Shibuya, after doing Officer work in the district since his arrival in November. He resumed his Officer position under the new Composer, Kei, and quickly made a rather interesting impression of himself on everyone. He met some interesting Players and Reapers, among them Daichi, Kogasa, Sayoko, Takumi, Naruaki, Naota, and Kaito. To some, such as Sayoko and Aiichirou, he seemed to be a caring Reaper, making soup for them and the other Players on the colder days and making sure that they were able to rest in sheltered areas rather than sleep on the streets. To others, such as Naruaki, Kaito, and Kei, he seemed to be a, in nice terms, a piece of garbage. Earning the nicknames ‘gomikao’ (trash-face) and ‘dumbass rabbit’ from the former two , he became more comfortable in the district, although at a slight loss for where he fits in; whether he should act the way he wants to and allow himself to care for Players, or to put on a front similar to how he acted in Kawasaki and try to erase them all.
Jean (foolishly) allowed Aiichirou to stay at his apartment with him until the game started, knowing ahead in advance that his entry fee would be extremely debilitating in the game. At the beginning of Day 1, he watched everyone’s entry fees get taken, and decided that he wanted to help the Players as much as he could. Near the beginning of the week, however, his morals were tested as two Players seemed to stand in the way of others, threatening to harm their progress. For Koi, who was harassing Sayoko and making jokes about their erasure, Jean confronted her and as a result got angry at Koi’s lax attitude about having a second chance. For Hana, Jean was furious at his attempts to build upon his own success by convincing other Players to buy food for him, and attempted to erase him.
On Day 3, Jean found himself in the same situation that he had faced twice in Kawasaki; Naruaki was sadistically erasing a pair of  Players, and after erasing one, they began to attack the other one, regardless of the unspoken rule allowing for a Player with an erased partner to have their 7 minutes before their erasure. Jean jumped in front to shield the Player and let them escape, getting gashed badly by the Grizzly Noise, and fought the Noise until it was erased. Kaito patched him up, and while he was shaking his head at Jean’s stupidity, this was also the beginning of a close friendship between the two.
Throughout this, Jean was by Aiichirou’s side whenever he needed to, trying to help him through the game and protect him from Naruaki, who seemed to want to utterly destroy him. After a confrontation by Naruaki, Aiichirou began to have a severe panic attack, throwing Jean into a panic as well due to his inability to watch people he cares about shut down. This resulted in Takumi and Yasumu helping the two of them recover.
Because he was allowing himself to feel emotions and care for Players, the constant threat of their erasure proved too much for him to handle. Whenever he saw Kogasa, Sayoko, Daichi, or Aiichirou get thrown into a noise battle, he began to fear that they would not come back. This fear overtook him, and he was nearly unresponsive on Day 5, especially because of the GM’s vocal thoughts of feeling that everything in the UG as a Reaper is pointless in the end, questioning his and the others’ humanity. That evening, shaking off these feelings, he decided to host a training spar for the Players, buying food items as prizes for the Players. However, during the battle, Aiichirou’s partner, Eleonore used Aiichirou as a meat shield from one of Jean’s attacks, claiming that the whole spar was a secret plan to erase them all. Shocked, Jean stopped the battle and left to sort out his feelings. Kogasa called him back to talk about it, and the two sat down while the Player attempted to get Jean to open up, claiming that it was only fair.
Over the next day, Jean was mostly absent, mulling over his thoughts. He thought over what Ethan said, and how strong his fears were about the Players he cared about being erased. He felt the most unstable that he had since coming back from Kawasaki and began to believe that it truly was all pointless, especially for someone like him who had such a poor grasp on his self control. He was not able to withstand being in Kawasaki, but he felt that he was no better here, leaving him scared and feeling that there was nowhere that he could go. Because of this, at the end of day 6 he came back and suggested a fun spar with the Players along with Kaito in their noise forms. He at first had the feeling that if he was so terrified of the Players being erased, he should be the one to erase them so nobody else could take them away from him, and began a downward spiral from this line of thinking. Halfway through the fight, he stopped attacking, asking for the Players to erase him instead. In disbelief, the Players stopped attacking him and attempted to talk him out of it, and Kaito and Naota attacked him to smack some sense into him. He eventually fell to his knees and apologized while in tears, and the group went back to the UG. There, the Conductor at the time, V, punched the shit out of him for “trying to terminate his contract without permission”, though healing him directly afterwards. Jean spoke with Aiichirou and the two of them talked about their feelings regarding the game and each other, and made a promise to date if Aiichirou survived the next day.
On Day 7, Jean wore the Dragon Lady dress as a copycat of Yasumu’s Day 7 tradition as told to him by Carel, and supported the GM battle, disgusted and feeling sorry for the deteriorating Game Master. After Kogasa, Sayoko, Daichi, William, Aiichirou, and Eleonore came out from the battle, he joined in the celebrations for the winners, grateful for all of their reincarnations. He quickly assumed a fatherly role for Kogasa and Sayoko, making sure that they would be able to continue on with their lives alright after being in the UG for three months, paying for Kogasa’s phone bill and helping Takumi with groceries for Daichi and giving them cooking lessons. He also began to date Aiichirou, and let him move into his apartment with him, feeling shaken from the game but determined to improve himself and get better.
=== Post-Week 11 ===
Jean began to settle more comfortably after the week ended, living with Aiichirou and working at the restaurant and helping at Ribbonshades. He kept in contact with the other Players from the week and led a fairly uneventful but calming life. He decided to visit home during March 2015 as he had not been able to return to Marseille since before he died. There, he found himself scouted by the Marseille Composer and was asked to stay to help out with a game week there. The Marseille Game was painfully different than the Shibuya or Kawasaki games, a lot tamer than he was used to. Because the majority of the Players were Catholic, they did not see the game as a way to come back to life, they saw it as Heaven and were content with not playing. Jean spent most of the week trying to motivate the Players, somewhat succeeding. He gave the Composer suggestions to improve the game there and to keep the balance of souls, mostly regarding ways to motivate Players and to use Reapers to ensure that the Players actually tried to win.
He returned to Shibuya shortly afterwards, then being contacted by the Kawasaki Composer to check up on him. The Composer was surprised at how much Jean had improved since going to Shibuya, and asked him whether he thought that other Reapers could benefit from being sent to Shibuya as well. Jean considered it, saying that there was a possibility of improvement, and the Composer inquired about an alliance between Kawasaki and Shibuya, where unstable Kawasaki Reapers in need of rehabilitation are sent to Shibuya, and Shibuyan Reapers needing to take their job more seriously would be sent to Kawasaki. With Kei’s cooperation, the alliance was set for a trial run at the next Kawasaki and Shibuyan games, where Des was sent over to Kawasaki. Jean decided not to work during the next week, under orders from Kei to take a vacation, so he acted as the ambassador for the alliance.
Two Reapers were to be sent from Kawasaki, two of which were very present people in Jean’s life at Kawasaki. One was Nagito, an old bed friend, and the other was Haruki, his ex. Jean became scared of Haruki’s true motives, knowing that he was extremely obsessive of him after they broke up, and became afraid to expose Haruki to people he was close to. Haruki picked up on this, and began a ridiculous psychological warfare to get to Jean by leaving notes on Ribbonshades, getting close to those close to Jean like Takumi, and making his presence very obvious to him. Jean became paranoid about being able to protect the people he loved from Haruki, especially Aiichirou, since he also was very aware that Haruki would not hesitate to kill people close to Jean if it meant getting together with him again.
=== Week 12 ===
Jean did not work this week, taking Kei's order to have a vacation and worked as a Shopkeeper at Ribbonshades to keep an eye on things. He was unfortunately involved regardless, as the Game Master Jessamyn took quite a shining to him and decided to follow him around and pay him visits to work. He occupied himself with making sure Juste was well equipped for the game, and making sure that Haruki and Nagito were doing fine in the Game to keep up his role of an ambassador to the potential alliance between Shibuya and Kawasaki. Late in the week, however, he was brainwashed by Jessamyn. He was brainwashed along with several other Reapers into believing that his biggest insecurity was real; and for him, it was his ability to protect others. This was amplified by the fact that the one he considered his brother and best friend, Kaito, was working in Akiba that week, and his safety was of concern to Jean. Juste as well as the other Players knocked him out of the brainwashing, however, and he continued the rest of the game as normal, observing how Haruki changed by the end.
=== Post-Week 12 (Marseille District) ===
After Week 12, Jean was asked to return to the Marseille District- not to be a Reaper this time, however, but to act as Conductor for one week until Amelie was able to find a suitable replacement. He obliged, taking the position and working the week, his suggestions at the end of last week having made quite the difference. The week ended with all of the winners who fought hard til the end requesting for Reaperdom, so they could help future Players win and come back to life. The changes in Marseille were underway.
Satisfied with his work in Marseille, Jean returned to Shibuya, unaware that he was still considered Conductor of Marseille. He quickly learned this when he tried to phase his wings in, and they came in extremely large. He was very embarrassed by this, and needed the help from Chris to put them away. Des had returned from Kawasaki as well, and Jean, Kei, Amaryllis and Des' family-like life resumed. However, Jean noticed Des' hesitance, and the fact that she had been doing Conductor level work to pass the time. Kei was also looking for a new Conductor at this point, and Jean had a sinking feeling if nobody stepped up, Des would be thrust with the position. When Kei came to him asking him to take it, he accepted it right away, not wanting Des to carry the burden after she was still recovering from Kawasaki. Though with great insecurity of his ability to do this job, Jean prepared himself for the game, which promised itself to be a light hearted week.
=== Week 13 ===
It was not a light hearted week.
Jean went into the week feeling slightly more confident with newly gained respect of several, old and new Reapers included. With a steady support system around him, he was ready to watch over the district during Grizz's week as Game Master. Even so, he was frightened of not being good enough or strong enough, and especially not being able to protect the city and do his job. With the reassurance of his friends, he was ready to move forward.
Unfortunately, this game pushed Jean to his absolute limits. On Day 0, he was forced to offer Hawk Reaperdom because he was the odd Player out- directly afterwards, he had to take the entry fees of all of the Players. The theme of the week was "what gives you hope", and it promised to have devastating results. He experienced the first of many PTSD breakdowns where he fell back on his hold coping mechanisms from his Kawasaki days, hurting some Players and scaring others. Keiss, Nagito, and Seijirou helped snap him out of it, and he promised that it wouldn't happen again- but to his misfortune, this was just the beginning.
His own insecurities aside of his Conductordom, the game week itself was looking to be fairly grim. Just on Day 1, he was forced to run an evacuation of the Players due to the monstrosity that Grizz became shortly after the week's begun. Throughout the week, Jean evacuated Players, delegated watch for Reapers, searched the Static with Kei for clues, and even had to put the district on emergency lockdown, having all Reapers in the district on duty to either watch over the Players or watch over ex-Players. 
In his unstable state, Grizz lured people close to him to approach him. When Kyoka followed after him, Jean desperately tried to save her before she would get killed, but was too late and was left with her dissipating body in his arms. The next day, April also fell for Grizz's trap, and though Jean attempted to directly attack Grizz, it was too late as well and Grizz blasted April and Jean away from him. Jean grabbed onto April to take the brunt of the blow, but April was still in a horrifying state of static. Jean was also left with severe injuries, but despite this he exerted more energy to help Kei convert April's static into a Noise pin.
At the end of the week, Grizz dragged all of the Players into the Static Plane for the GM fight, and under Kei's order Jean took all of the Reapers with him to help the Players out. The battle itself felt like both a cinch to him but also a real test of his power, especially when more and more Reapers had to run from the battle. In the end, he left the final blow to the Players- a decision he now deeply regrets- leaving Seijirou to presumably finish off the Game Master. With Grizz gone, the week was long, exhausting, terrifying, and a wake up call for Jean- one that he really didn't need. 
The week was not completely horrible, however. His friendship with Yasumu, Chris, Toyo, and Nagito grew stronger, and the Conductor-Composer dynamic with Kei that Jean later grew familiar to began to form. He met new friends and new respect for some of the Players and Reapers, including Emiko, Hawk, Takenaka, and others. 
Jean's relationship with Keiss and Seijirou also steadily bloomed, with Seijirou confessing to Jean during a wall. He wanted to have learned from his relationship with Aiichirou during the Game, and when the three of them confessed their feelings for each other, he promised that they could do something about it once the two of them won the Game. 
However, the bitter end of the game resulted in Seijirou leaving him and Keiss in the wake of the trauma of having essentially murdered a loved one of the district. Keiss grew distant as well, wanting to give them both space after the past events. Jean took to smoking heavily to cope with what had happened during his first week as Conductor.
=== Post Week 13 ===
=== Week 14 ===
=== Post Week 14 ===
=== Week 15 ===
==Relationships==
=== Kei ===
The former Composer, and Jean's former partner. When they first met, the two's first impression on the other made a great distaste grow between them, but an an attempt to bridge a gap of understanding helped bring them together. Their relationship continued to develop from there, Jean going from Kei's personal weekly chef, to also acting as an advisor and a caretaker for Amaryllis and Des; a vague part of a sense of family. Shortly before Week 13, Jean was asked by Kei to be his Conductor, saying that he was who he trusted most to do the job.
From there, their relationship grew to be close not only on a professional level, but an emotional (and physical ;) ) level too. The two of them co-adopted Amaryllis, having her take the surname Arata-Duvert, and got (jokingly) married during Week 14 for a wall requirement. Despite the joking nature, the two had a surprisingly domestic and emotionally involved relationship, both continually wearing the wedding rings from the "wedding" long afterwards. The two also referred to the other affectionately as well, Kei using "anata" with Jean, and Jean calling Kei "mon partenaire".
It was only after Kei's disappearance that Jean realized just how much Kei meant to him. He immediately went searching, resulting in being missing for two weeks and in a coma for two more. He was willing to risk his life to bring him back, and even now would not hesitate to die for Kei's safe return. He learned from Tonbo that their relationship was considered "queer platonic", which explained their closeness sans romantic feelings. After his disappearance, Jean found Shiro, a humanized form of Kei's bird Shiroberri, who referred to Kei and Jean as her fathers. She also gave Jean a gift Kei was planning for him- a katana inscribed with "mon partenaire" on the handle. The sword, wedding ring, Shiro, the ring of Kei's that he found in the static are all very valuable to Jean, as they feel like the only things of Kei that he has left. He leans on Kei's presence for support now, especially while acting as Composer.
After gaining his Composer power fueled pianist skills, he spends quite a bit of time in Kei's music room, playing his piano. He also tends to pray to him at the memorial, feeling like despite everything, Kei may not be gone completely. Against his better judgment, he will probably always hold hope.
=== Carel ===
His older sister. The two of them grew up to two rich parents in Marseille, and due to their neglect early on in life, the two were very close. Carel helped Jean get out of tight situations all through their schooling, but also used him as a model for her sewing projects, a conversation partner while learning Japanese, and a baking and cooking partner. The two had a tight relationship despite differences up until Jean was sent away for boarding school.
It wasn't until around Jean's final year and graduation that the two became close again- but tragically, their reunion was cut short with Jean's death. When they were finally reunited for good (hopefully), they quickly became close again, resuming their roles as alternating between the smart and the dumb one. The two of them struggled with how the game changed them, but they both agree that it was for the better. Carel means more to Jean than she could ever imagine, and he wants to devote his (un) life to being a better younger brother for her. Despite it all, he is genuinely terrified of her when she gets mad.
=== Charles ===
His bunny and little brother or... "son"? When he first found the grey bunny in his garden, he did not expect that the rabbit would really be a Reaper, and later on one of his most trusted ones too. He feels some sort of familial connection with Charles, and the boy acts as a spy for him as well as a second pair of eyes to wander the district. He trusts Charles more than most anyone, especially due to his prior habit of ranting to the bunny, this resulting in Charles being privvy to quite a few personal and UG secrets. Charles acts as a sense of reason, as the boy often verbally or physically smacks some sense into Jean. For this, as well as his other misadventures, he is grateful for the bunny having stuck around for so long.
=== Kaito ===
Jean's "little brother" and a Reaper partner equivalent. Jean couldn't imagine life without the dumb ferret slinking around. A bit of a mismatched pair, the two surprisingly bonded during both of their first week in Shibuya, and quickly became very close friends. The two have had quite the tumultuous friendship but while Jean worries extensively for Kaito with his involvement with Akiba, he has tried to keep his distance. Recently, he's felt that this was obviously not working- and Kaito was way too precious to lose by being passive. Kaito as a whole is most of his impulse control and is his rationality, and the main reason why Jean's been able to make so much progress on his entry fee. Even if Kaito's views are too rationally oriented for a situation, his viewpoint helps keep Jean on the ground.
=== Toyo ===
Jean's "little sibling" and also a Reaper partner equivalent. They met with varying opinions of the other, though that has changed to be a deep, devoted mutual respect. As like most of Jean's closest relationships, the level of affectionate intimacy is more than what Jean would hold with most. The eccentric Reaper originally was an eternal floater between living spaces and district, but gave a sense of stability to Jean during a rough first week as a Conductor. Years later, after kindly offering to accommodate Toyo's strange request to sleep in the outdoors, the peculiar Toyo is now a staple in Jean's daily life, and he looks forward to seeing them lounging on the couch or watching TV with Charles when he comes home. He gladly helps them with their discomfort with their gender identity and gender presentation by encouraging them to wear skirts and feminine shoes when they want to. As well, he has managed to help them sort out their feelings towards home, by offering his own apartment and the district to be it for them.
He goes to great lengths for them, this being because Toyo acts as amazing emotional stability for him, and not in the same way as many. He is always aware that Toyo is always there for him when he needs them, and through this they act as a tether for Jean to the ground, as a constant reminder of those who care for him.
=== Keiss ===
=== Seijirou ===
=== Yasumu ===
=== Chris ===
=== Amaryllis ===
=== Uso ===
=== Shiro ===
=== Des ===
=== Kogasa ===
=== Taiki ===
=== Nora ===
=== Meira ===
=== Tonbo ===
=== Kami ===
=== Usa ===
=== Tori ===
=== Nagito ===
=== Orion ===
=== V ===
=== Sayoko ===
=== Jing ===
=== Daichi ===
=== Juste ===
=== Koi ===
=== Kin ===
=== Eliot ===
=== Cheer ===
=== Haruki ===
=== Shiori ===
=== Akio ===
=== Takumi ===
=== Hawk ===
=== Grizz ===
=== Kazuya ===
=== Lee ===
=== Aiichirou ===
=== Naruaki ===
=== Maui ===
=== Stella ===
=== Kafu ===
=== April ===
=== Judai ===
=== Emiko ===
=== Sol ===
=== Nanami ===
=== Nagisa ===
=== Yamahana ===
=== Naoki ===
=== Yuji ===
=== Satsuki ===
=== Celfi ===
=== Mizuno ===
=== Runa ===
=== Kou ===
=== Tomoe ===
=== Ayumu ===
=== Dax ===
==Trivia==
Reaper / UG:
*His Reaper power is electricity; he is capable of creating mass blackouts or creating electric explosions with his power, as long as acting as a generator of power. He is also capable of affecting or tracking nervous systems in humans via body electricity signals (but god, he'd never end up knowing he can do that)
*His fighting style is with the use of a sword, whether that is his katana or a lightning blade. With the former, he fights in a similar way to how Ryoma uses Raijinto in Fire Emblem Fates. He throws shockwaves,
*More perks of his powers: he styles his hair with static electricity, he never needs any form of charger for his electronics, and Shibuya hasn't had an accidental power outage since he initially became Conductor.
*He has an extremely fast healing factor, but cannot be purposefully healed. He was only able to heal himself once, but he doesn't count it as he only closed wounds in his static. Angels and other Composers have not even been able to heal him.
*He has three Noise forms; Lepus Lentando (a small black bunny with cyan eyes and noise part feet), Lepus Vivamente (his former main Noise form; an 8 ft tall hare), and Lepus Scordatura (his current main Noise form; a 12 ft tall Al-M'iraj hare)
*His wings resemble lightning bolts at the spikes, but overall carry the features of Kawasaki wings. In Kawasaki, big wings indicate more power, while small wings indicate more experience, similar to Shibuya. Unique to Kawasaki, the length and sharpness of the wing spikes indicate power (longer / sharper = more powerful), wing frame width indicates stability of soul (thicker = more stable), and the width of the wingspan or curvature of the frame indicates influence on the UG (but also works for intimidation (wider / more curved = more influential).
**Pre-Shibuya, his wings were thin and sleek, and the spikes had a medium length and sharpness. They came from the tip of his ear to his waist.
**As an Officer in Shibuya, his wings became slightly smaller, though the spikes grew a bit longer.
**As a Conductor, his wings exploded in size, the top spikes reaching well above his head and the bottom spikes sweeping past his knees, with the spikes long and very sharp. The frame of his wings only thickened to accommodate for the size- they were still relatively thin. The wings gradually shrank over time, settling with them reaching tip of ear to just above the knee, with a wide wingspan.
**As a Composer, his wings grew drastically once more, the bottom spikes dragging along the floor. The frame thickened slightly, and the bottom spikes became long, curved, and sharp. The wingspan was even wider than before. They never had the chance to shrink before he stepped down. They also had blue-black feathers growing along the wing frame in a thin layer.
**Once he returned to being a Conductor, his large wings burst and split into two pairs instead. His new wings returned to its thinner shape, though they maintained the incredible length and sharpness of the spikes, adding a new top spike on his upper set of wings. The wings also have an enormous wingspan to reflect his strong influence on Shibuya, and they perpetually crackle with blue electricity. He's not a fan.
*On that note, he gets very embarrassed at how showy and big his wings are. He also hates it when people touch his wings (especially unexpectedly).
*Though he is fairly ashamed of this, he has erased over 100 people. He doesn't know the exact number, but that is over 23 games; approximately 4 Players per game, but this is also skewed because in the latter few games he only did his minimum erasure and no more.
=== Life / Interests: ===
* His favourite girl in Love Live is Maki. He was (jokingly) married to two tomatoes named after Maki. They were both horribly murdered, the First by Nora and the Second by Cheer. He doesn't tend to play Love Live anymore though, and he generally only plays it when he's depressed and has nothing else to do.
* He used to work as a Sous Chef, though he is on indefinite leave after his coma.
*He used to work somewhere between 40 - 80 hours a week. Even though he only does UG duties now, and does not help at Ribbonshades much anymore, his work hours still tops at least 40.
*He only needs to sleep 3 - 6 hours a night; he's trained himself to do this so he can spend time working.
*He owns a car, two penthouses, and the entire 7th floor of Pork City. His net worth is disgusting.
**His two penthouses are joined by the shared wall between the apartments with a static portal. Each penthouse is two floors with two bedrooms on the top floor along with two bathrooms (one connected to the master bedroom), and a kitchen, living room, bathroom, pantry, office space, and balcony on the bottom floor.
**The current living arrangements are;
***Penthouse 1 (Original): Master bedroom is Jean's, second bedroom is Kaito's, the office space is Jean's office, and the balcony is Toyo's. The rest of the penthouse has traditional furniture.
***Penthouse 2: Master bedroom is Amaryllis', second bedroom is Shiro's, the office space was fashioned into a bedroom for Charles, and the balcony is still Toyo's. The pantry was made into a music studio for Kaito, and there is a piano in the living room. 
**The Pork City apartments have been filled as follows: 
***701 - Kei 
***702 - formerly Amaryllis 
***703 - Uso / Sol + Orion 
***704 - Clair 
***705 - Tomoe 
***706 - Runa 
***707 - Kogasa, Taiki, Nori, and Mama Hiraoka 
*He is surprisingly good at cutting hair and does haircuts for his family and roommates often.
*His ring tone is the instrumental version of Daring!! from Love Live.
*He drinks coffee black, but also likes sweet lattes. The drink Carel makes for him (his "relaxy drink") is a chamomile tea latte with vanilla syrup.
*He actually enjoys playing video games and watching anime, but he only does so when he has the time.
*In high school, he was surprisingly good at math, but he truly wanted to pursue social work as a career. He was admitted to Keio University in the Faculty of Letters wtih the intention to study sociology, but unfortunately died before he could attend.
*He also played soccer as a midfield in high school. That is partially why his legs are so toned, his broad shoulders is genetic.
*He had a queerplatonic relationship with Kei Arata, though neither were conscious of what the relationship was. They used to wear matching Pegaso rings that they gave to each other during their mock (?) wedding in Week 14.
*In the past, he has dated Haruki Yoshida and Aiichirou Takeharu, and is currently dating Keiss Sinclair and Seijirou Ekigawa in a polyamorous relationship; open sexually.
*He has legal custody over 4 children; Amaryllis Lifaye Arata-Duvert, Aoi "Uso" Duvert, Shiro Arata-Duvert, and Des Astock, who are all adopted except for Shiro. He also assisted in the creation of Meira with Nora. In terms of pseudo-children, he acts as a father figure to many more; the Hiraoka brothers (Taiki, Kogasa, Nori), Sol, Sayoko, Yamahana, Daichi, and Juste. He also informally adopted Dax before they were erased, so they would have a family.
*Some extra, more NSFW facts. Hover over words to read.
=== Personal: ===
*He has PTSD, depression, severe anxiety. His PTSD is triggered by many things, but the most severe reactions are to spiders, Angels, having his loved ones taken from him, the idea of being too weak to protect anyone, abandonment, and certain people from his past. He also has a mild fear of tentacles for certain reasons.
*His native language is French, and he learned Japanese to be a conversation partner with Carel, and through immersion in Kawasaki. Prior to being Composer, his English was extremely limited. Though as a Composer perk he had access to fluency of every language, he only conscientiously wanted to keep a fluency in English, albeit with a thick French accent.
*He is an ISTJ, is Lawful Good, would be a Gryffindor, and a Firebender (lightning bender, specifically).
*He is Pegaso out of the 12 brands cast. 
*His theme song was once pinned as Trapdoor by Twenty One Pilots, and it has not really ceased to be fitting-
*He does have 3 playlists though. In chronological order, Side X: bad_news for as a Reaper in Kawasaki (pre-Shibuya), Side A: well these days im fine for as an Officer in Shibuya (Week 11), and Side Y: my time for his time as a Conductor (Week 13-14). I swear, I will probably make one for his time as Composer for this weird 4-sided disc--
*He doesn't quite have a voice claim yet-- suggested voice claims include Yoshihisa Kawahara (Both Sasahara and Twelfth), Ono Daisuke (specifically Shizuo Heiwajima, Mitsuya Maeno, Midorima Shintarou, Itsuki Koizumi, and kind of Sinbad) and unfortunately, Mamoru Miyano (...specifically Ignis, I guess). Free me from this fucking hell and help me choose one.
*He enjoys dressing in drag, but is 100% cis. (He checked this when he learned about what the word "transgender" means--) 
*He is pansexual, with heavy preference to masculine presentation / identity, and homoromantic- for convenience, he simply calls himself gay.
*Jean was literally made as a whim because I wanted a Reaper to use for Week 11 and decided that Carel's brother that was mentioned in Week 10 could have already died prior. Now look where we are. Jesus christ.
==Gallery==
jean_ref.png |Jean's reference sheet. Art by Nessa
jean1.jpg |Lepus Vivamente. Art by Nessa + Teru
Jean2.jpg |Art by pillowboat @ tumblr
jeandragonlady.png |Jean, participating in the Day 7 tradition. Art by Nessa
scordatura.png |Lepus Scordatura. Art by Nessa
jeanandkei.png |A selfie of Jean and Kei. This is currently Jean's lock screen.
wingref.png |Jean's wings. Currently, parts of them are also covered in blue-black feathers. Art by Nessa + Nico
dadoutfits.png |A selection of various outfit styles that Jean wears on a daily basis. Art by Nessa
Week15jean.png |Jean's Week 15 reference. Art by Nessa + Nico
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