Julian Asker

:‘Someone wins. Someone loses. Something is recovered and something is destroyed. That’s the way it’s always been.’ - Asker's philosophy on investigations.
Inspector Julian Asker is a primary character from The Yellow Butterflies. He appears in Windmill on Sin Hill and, later, Clusby & Gray. He is a former detective (he resigns after Windmill on Sin Hill) and is implied to have previously been a professor of law.
== Character ==
=== Appearance ===
He is a dark-skinned man with slicked-back black hair. He is somewhat tall and proudly built, described as having rigid, flat features but a perfect neatness about him, compared to a wooden mannequin. He has one prosthetic foot.
=== Personality ===
He has a very strong, keen attentiveness for justice. He is very straightforward in his thinking, always with a clear plan and a firm mindset that he is in the right and will succeed, and if anything impedes his goal of justice, he becomes extremely frustrated, although all the more determined, and he will often not give up unless broken. Although mostly calm, if a little stoic, he is shown to be prone to extreme self-preservatory or righteous anger, as well as tenderness and occasionally deviousness.
=== Skills and Abilities ===
He has an intense and thorough knowledge of the legal system, occasionally bending it to his will to achieve the justive he strives for. He is also incredibly intelligent, as well as physically and morally strong, and he has a keen sense of self-preservation.
== History ==
Before he became a detective, Inspector Asker was a law teacher, but quit after having his nose broken by Wren Candle during an exam. At somepoint during his career in the force he contributed to the apprehension of serial kidnappers Raymond Clusby and Lou Orson Gray. After this case, he had to have his foot amputated, due to an accident.
During the investigation into Sycamore Mill's disappearances, he became entangled in the supernatural mystery of Salt Hill's windmill, eventually driven to resign when he could not solve the case. 
Apparently, he took up gardening, but this was evidently short-lived, as by the time he appears in Clusby & Gray, he lives in a two-bedroom apartment. After this story, he allows a now-homeless Logan to move in with him.
== Trivia ==
* He was also the detective that researched the disappearance of Elijah Manning, son of Mrs Manning of Manning's Meats.
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