Jimmy Hopkins (Outlaw’s Saga)

James Hopkins, more commonly known as Jimmy, is a mentioned character in The Outlaw’s Saga. At the age of fifteen, Jimmy was a troublesome kid who committed numerous crimes and acts of violence and was nearly sent to juvenile hall. When his mother married a wealthy man, Jimmy was sent to Bullworth Academy in Bullworth, New Hampshire as he only had one last chance to be enrolled in a school before he would be sent to jail. In the saga’s canon, he is only mentioned, while in unreleased gameplay videos, he is the primary protagonist. He is the main playable character in Bully.
== Biography ==
=== History ===
Jimmy Hopkins was born around 1991, as he stated he was fifteen by the time he attended Bullworth in September of 2006. His mother was either divorced or separated from his biological father. Jimmy was presumably raised in or near the east coast. At some point in life, he started misbehaving badly in schools, such as acts of violence, vandalism, and profanity. It got so bad to the point that he risked going to jail for his actions. By 2006, Jimmy’s mother married a wealthier man, whom Jimmy disliked deeply. Having been kicked out of most of the schools in the country already, Jimmy was given one last chance at a new school known as Bullworth Academy, located in a rural city known as Bullworth in New Hampshire.
=== Attending Bullworth ===
By September of 2006, Jimmy was driven to Bullworth Academy in New Hampshire, while his parents went on their honeymoon, leaving Jimmy alone at the academy for a full year.
Initially, Jimmy started off with a lot of hostility with the other students, but as time went on, Jimmy developed a reputation of being one of the toughest students, being perfectly capable of beating up the biggest and meanest kid, Russell, the Jocks, and the Townies. However, at some point, his first “friend”, Gary Smith, who was medicated and had a desire to rule the school, betrayed Jimmy and attempted to turn the entire academy on him. He temporarily succeeded until Jimmy exposed his lies and actions and turned the entire school against him in his own favor. In the end, Jimmy defeated Gary after a dangerous fight atop the admin building and after Gary was expelled, Jimmy was praised for bringing normality back to the school.
Jimmy’s life afterwards remains largely ambiguous, but Joel Wallace mentioned how he once toured Bullworth Academy around 2006, and noticed “a bald kid, mean look, running around, beating the shit outta other kids”. This matched Jimmy’s description, and Joel also pointed out that he heard about “some bald dude that looked like that one kid from Bullworth was involved in some dangerous racketeering shit out on the east coast, somewhere near Massachusetts or New Hampshire.” It can be implied that in the saga canon, Jimmy did not reform from his time at Bullworth, but rather, made his behavior slightly worse than before. By 2023, in the criminal underworld, Jimmy may have became a racketeer around the New England area, notably Massachusetts and/or New Hampshire.
== Appearance ==
Jimmy has a pale complexion with a stocky but somewhat nimble build, where he is smaller than a lot of the students that are roughly his age. Despite this, he proved to be significantly tougher than each one of them, with the only ones that proved to be difficult was Russell, Edgar, and Gary.
Jimmy was initially bald and had a scar on his head, presumably from one of his fights.
== Personality ==
Jimmy was a carefree, hardened, and violent young man with a short temper and a willingness to fight anyone who opposed him. Even when he appeared to be outmatched, Jimmy always stood his ground. Although he initially came off as a brutish kid, he has some smarts present as he was capable of crafting weapons and tools from a chemistry set and knew some subjects.
Jimmy at a young age was somewhat of a womanizer. He had an ability and personality where he was able to get girls to be interested in him without fear or effort, even getting the preps’ popular girl to like him.
Although Jimmy was a violent kid, he held soft spots for people he genuinely cared about, such as one of his first friends, Peter, and Russell after he settled their score.
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* Jimmy’s appearance in the gameplay videos are not canon to the saga as MinneEagle recorded fun gameplay without much relation to his story.