Jacques

## Overview

Chicagoverse

Jacques Jarreau is the current host of Maquis's DID system, and he is the primary alter that usually takes over the body. He was born after the Divine War, and the ascension of Jay the Arellan deity of chaos and creation. Jacques appeared when Marquis disappeared, at 13, and has taken care of the body ever since. Jacques is a very intuitive psychic medium with clairvoyant abilities, and part of the 'Pantheon of Protectors' which takes care of the system. The alters each have their own magical ability, but no one knows where their abilities originated from, even though some alters believe Marquis's father was a descended deity, or Marquis's mother had magical genetics which passed down from her Romani or European genetics, or both (or neither). The speculation of where their magic comes from is one of the biggest mysteries to the system.

## History

Marquis was born to a Euro-Romani mother, and a Creole father in Lafayette, Louisana. Early in his life, his mother and father died in a car accident and he was given to his uncle at 3, who abused him in every sense of the word. Ever since he was 5, Marquis would slowly begin to stop answering to his own name, and at 13, he was convinced his name was Jacques, and discovered he had psychic abilities, revealing to his uncle from a doctor that he had DID. His uncle gave him up for adoption and Jacques went into the foster care system. Jacques was a very shy boy who didn't really hang out with anyone, so he was a bully magnet. In the foster care system, Jacques faced, even more, abuse and bullying from the other orphans who were there, while still dealing with poor mental health. Everyone at the orphanage would yell a slur of insults at him, like, 'fruit' or 'fairy'. His treatment at the orphanage was cruel for any child to face, and it consisted of him getting a bottle broken on his face and getting left with a gash, neglect from many foster parents and social workers, and many cases of physical assault by other orphans. One Christmas Eve night, when he was 15, a week before his birthday, Jacques was roaming the forest around the orphanage attempting to contact a spirit he had seen the night before. But, all he found were teenage boys drinking and doing drugs. They chased him into the forest, caught him, and he was held down by the group of teenaged orphan boys, and as they very violently, sexually assaulted him and planned on leaving him for dead. But another alter, named Gianni, took over for the remainder of the assault. After they were done, Jacques took over, sat in the rain, bloody and bruised, wanting to die. But, then the spirit he attempted to contact in the forest appeared to him, healed him, and urged him to leave. Finally, Jacques ran away at 16, on his birthday, first to New Orleans then finally to Chicago when he was 18. On arrival, Jacques fell asleep on the train ride there and was woken up on a cloud in a city that looked a lot like Olympus. He now refers to that city, which was his inner world, as 'Olympica', which was where he met all the other known alters of the system, and officially formed the 'Pantheon of Protectors' (consisting of himself, Jamie Sommers, Gianni the Mumbler, Mathieu, and Solomon). When he woke up, he was in an apartment looking down at the city of Chicago, months in advance. He later finds out that the alter known as 'Solomon' had taken over the body to allow Jacques to heal mentally for four years. Jacques now works as a bartender at a Chicago strip club known as 'The Heat'.

## Alters

* **Marquis Jarreau:**The original persona of the body, the system's core personality is named Marquis Jarreau and he disappeared completely from the system when he was 13. Now, he lives in the depths of their mind. The alters all live inside his body and mind. Marquis is a Creole boy, with curly black hair, and dark brown eyes with no powers to speak of.
* **Jacques Jarreau:** The host of the system, and first alter to appear since the disappearance of Marquis, and the primary protector of the system along with Solomon, Jamie Sommers, Mathieu, and Gianni the Mumbler. Jacques is also one of the only alters in the system whose age corresponds with the body's age and feature, except he has light brown eyes.
* **Solomon:** The mental protector of the system and secondary alter, Solomon makes all the 'tough' decisions and is the smartest alter in the system. Solomon has a vague French accent, wears glasses and hipster clothing, and is at a fixed age of 26. Solomon is modeled after the 'Solomon the Wise' from the Bible. Solomon can also be identified by his icy blue eyes and clumsiness. Even though he is wise, he is also an idiot savant factor to his personality.
* **Jamie Sommers:** She is the physical protector of the system, and an avenger alter as well. Jamie is based on the 'Bionic Woman', which was one of Jacques' favorite shows as a child. She is constantly seeking retribution for the body's abuse. Jamie, internally, is a short, young, blonde woman with peach skin, a dozen ear piercings, tattoos, and is not at a fixed age, and doesn't age at all. She often wears dark tones, with some splashes of color, occasionally. Jamie can also be identified by her light brown eyes and her harsh temper.
* **Gianni the Mumbler:** The verbal and sexual protector of the system, and also a memory holder of the sexual abuse memories. Gianni never speaks over a soft whisper and is often very shy and scared of getting touched or stared at too long by anyone. Gianni is at the fixed age of 17 and has dark, messy hair and is a pale brown. He usually wears all black, loose clothing, with dark circles around his eyes as if he hasn't slept in years. Gianni can be identified by his silver eyes, with dark circles around them.
* **Mathieu:** Mathieu is another alter who also ages with the system. Mathieu is a young white boy with dark curly hair and a gold nose ring. He is also the emotional protector of the system, completing the 'Pantheon of Protectors'. Mathieu can be identified by his topaz-colored eyes.
* **Mama:** The internal helper of the system, Mama is like a therapist to all of the alters and is one of the caretakers to the infants and littles. This alter is modeled after Marquis' late mother. Mama dresses as somewhat of a hippie, always wearing flowy dresses and blouses, with long brown, straight hair down to her back. She also dark brown eyes, olive skin, and an accent. She is also at a fixed age of 43.
* **Jenna:** The other caretaker for the littles or infant alters, Jenna grows with the body, and is always at the same age as the system. Jenna is an upbeat girl with a soft voice, dark brown skin, and an easy-going personality. She wears lots of bright colors, especially her favorite, pink. Jenna can be identified by her violet eyes and bubbly personality.
* **Peter the Saint:** Peter is often known as the 'Gatekeeper', inside the system, and he helps alters travel to the 'surface' and back into the system safely. He is a Jewish-Hebrew man with olive skin, curly grey hair, a brown tunic, brown lace-up sandals, and a rosary wrapped around both of his wrists. He is modeled after Peter the Apostle from the Bible, who is said to guard the gates of Heaven.
* **451:** One of the main persecutors of the system, 451, is a middle-aged white man, with dark brown hair, and dresses as a biker. He is the embodiment of the system's internalized hate and negative emotions and looks like Marquis' uncle. He is constantly trying to find where Marquis is hidden, and take control of the system. 451 was created after Marquis watched 'Fahrenheit 451' as a child directly after his first time being abused by his uncle. 451 can also be identified by his fiery red eyes.
* **Kàn Bùjiàn:** This alter is known as a 'legend' in the system, largely because no other alter has ever seen him. He is an avenger and memory holder, who carries a huge backpack on his back full of scrolls, which hold memories. It is also said that he appears as a young, Asian man with scars and bruises all over his bloody body, which is every bruise or scar the system's body has ever received.
* **Kai:** One of the only known littles in the system. Kai has a burn on his arm after 451 attempted to use him to find Marquis. Kai is the embodiment of what Marquis's childhood would've been without DID. He is the embodiment of Marquis's lost innocence, and will forever be 5 years old, the age that marked the beginning of dissociation for Marquis.
* **Minnie:** Minnie is another known little in the system, not much is known about her except the fact that she's a fixed 6-year-old who embodies Marquis's undeveloped child personality. Minnie often doesn't respond to her own name and likes little-to-no affection. Minnie also doesn't like to talk a lot or be touched by anyone except for Mama and Gianni, who is like her big brother.
* **Isadora:** A known 'middle' of the system, Isadora is a tomboy 9-year-old, who excels at dancing like her namesake, Isadora Duncan. Isadora usually has one dark brown braid reaching all the way to her waist and wears boyish clothes, besides her black or white tutu.
* **Fabien:** The last known memory holder and another 'middle' in the system, Fabien, holds Marquis's memories of the bullying that Marquis went through during his time before the foster care system, in school, and in the foster care system from other orphans. Fabien is a very quiet 13-year-old who loves to draw. Fabien has a large scar on the left side of his face, to match the system's body after a bully in the orphanage hit him with a glass bottle.
* **Glass:** A both literal and metaphorical fragment of the system. Glass holds the very traumatic memory of a sexual assault that happened to Marquis when he was 15 after three teenage boys from his foster home held him down and raped him. After both Jacques and Gianni couldn't handle the extreme emotional trauma and guilt of that day, Gianni attempted to delete that memory from his own personal mind. Glass now resides in the 'Fragment Fields' where all of the fragments are. Glass is a humanoid literally made of glass and is neither a male nor a female, and just is. Glass is also ageless and never moves. Glass is the only known fragment of the system.
* **Unknown:** Another alter with no set gender or age, this alter protects Marquis and is the only alter, besides Mama, who knows where Marquis is. Unknown has also never been known or seen by any other alters. Not many alters know about Unknown, for Marquis's safety.

## Powers

#### **Jacques Jarreau:** The first alter, primary protector, and the host, Jacques has psychic-medium powers.

* **Psychic:** Jacques is able to clearly interpret his predictions and the messages of spirits.
	+ **Mediumship:** Jacques is able to see, hear, and talk to the dead or spirits.
		- **Clairvoyance:** Jacques is able to fully interpret connections through images and objects.
		- **Claircognizance:** Jacques can gain and interpret information about people, places, time frames, objects, etc., as it comes into his mind.
		- **Clairempathy:** Jacques can sense and interpret emotional connections through objects, beings, and spirits.
		- **Evocation:** Spirits can sometimes physically interact or Jacques can pull their influence into the physical world.

#### **Solomon:** A protector of the system, and a secondary host, Solomon has 'wisdom', and superior knowledge of the occult.

* **Occult Detective and Expert Occultist:** Solomon has expert knowledge of the occult.
* **Supernatural** **Wisdom:** Solomon the smartest alter in the system, and makes most of the tough decisions for the system.
	+ **Knowledge Anchoring:** No magic or anything else could make Solomon lose his wisdom.
	+ **Intelligence Infinitum:** Once Solomon knows something, he never forgets and his intelligence continuously grows.
	+ **Enhanced Wisdom:** Solomon gets his wisdom supernaturally, and is probably one of the smartest and wisest minds on the planet.
	+ **Intuitive Adaptation:** Solomon can use this ability to sense how something works, and gets a full understanding of it, once her imprints on it.

#### **Gianni the Mumbler:** The verbal and sexual protector of the system, Gianni has the ability to cast powerful spells or 'mumble'. Gianni is also a very excellent occultist and is an expert, but he never attacks unprovoked. Overall, his powers are very underestimated and misunderstood.

* **Expert Occultist:** Gianni doesn't like to get involved with any conflicts or issues, so he only provides knowledge when needed.
* **Spell-Casting:** Even though Gianni appears to be very timid and shy, and never speaks above a whisper, he is able to cast very powerful and potent spells.
	+ **Rituals:** Gianni can perform ritual magic.
	+ **Abjuration:** Gianni can many spells, but he mostly uses his magic to heal others or himself, and cast protections.
		- **Healing:** Gianni is a very good healer, and can use spells to completely heal any ailment.
		- **Sealing Magic:** Gianni is able to bind spirits, demons, and any other beings. He is also able to create barriers, protection wards, or force-fields to ward off any attack.

#### **Jamie Sommers:** The physical protector of the system, Jamie is modeled after the 'Bionic Woman' with similar abilities.

* **Super-Strength:** Jamie can lift up to 17 tons, and is able to control her strength based on what she wants to do.
	+ **Peak Speed:** Jamie can run at peak human speed.
	+ **Enhanced Hearing:** Jamie can hear things more advanced than the average human, even if she's far away.
	+ **Super-Leap:** Jamie can jump to reach over very far or high distances.

#### **Mathieu:** The emotional protector of the system, Mathieu is able to connect to different realms and is empathic.

* **Realm Connection:** Mathieu can combine different planes and realms together, personally.
	+ **Empathy:** Mathieu can sense emotions clearly and protects the emotions of the system as well.
		- **Apathy:** Mathieu is able to completely shut off the system's or his own emotions in order to protect them.
		- **Empathic Induation:** Mathieu can inflict emotions onto his victims or anyone he wants.
		- **Empathic Projection:** Mathieu can share his feelings or the feelings of others.

#### **Mama:** The system's internal helper and caretaker, Mama is a mother figure for everyone in the system, is even impartial to the persecutors of the system, and the only one who is able to find and see Marquis on a daily basis.

* **Comfort:** Mama induces comfort around those near her. She is not able to manipulate the comfort of those around her, but she can change the way the atmosphere around her is and it's up to them to accept it or not.
* **Anatomical Intuition:** Mama refers to this as 'Mothers' Intuition', Mama is able to diagnose anyone with an ailment or disorder.

#### **Jenna:** The second caretaker to the littles and middles in the system, along with Mama. Jenna uses her soothing voice to cause people to fall asleep or calm them.

* **Sound Magic:** Jenna uses magic to manipulate sound.
	+ **Siren Song:** Jenna sings lullabies and tunes to lure people to sleep or to lure them closer to her, almost a hypnotic trance.
	+ **Sonic Scream:** Jenna has only used her voice for this purpose once, but she is able to scream sonically causing a concussive force to push things in front of her back or incapacitate someone.

#### **451:** A known persecutor to the system, 451 has abilities over fire.

* **Pyrokinesis:** 451 is able to control, manipulate, and generate fire.
	+ **Pyrokinetic Flight:** 451 is able to use fire to fly and levitate.
	+ **Pyrokinetic Constructs**
	+ **Thermokinesis:** 451 is able to create, generate, or manipulate large amounts of heat energy or control the heat in a closed area.

#### **Kai:** The best known little in the system, Kai is the 5-year-old embodiment of Marquis's lost childhood and innocence.

* **Karmic Manipulation:** Kai's only known ability is manipulating energy around karma, as a defense mechanism. This ability allows anyone who tries to pervert or steal Kai's innocence to get immediate karma. Kai's innocence should always be preserved which is what this ability ensures.

#### **Minnie:** Another known little in the system, Minnie is a 6-year-old alter.

* **Invisibility:** Minnie's only known ability is that she is able to become completely invisible, making anything she touches become invisible as well.

#### **Isadora:** A 'middle' alter of the system, Isadora is a 9-year-old dancer who can induce hypnosis.

* **Aura Manipulation**
	+ **Hypnosis:** Isadora can induce hypnosis by dancing. Whenever someone looks at her dancing, she is able to draw them in with her aura, controlling their mind, body, and soul. She is able to command them to do things or erase their memories.

#### **Fabien:** Another known 'middle' of the system, Fabien, is able to warp reality to certain degrees.

* **Drawing Creation:** Fabien can create drawings, and if he wants them to come to life they are able to become alive.
	+ **Imagination Manifestation:** Attimes, when Fabien feels strong emotions or focuses closely, he is able to create things from his imagination and make them become real.

#### **Unknown:** A very powerful telepathic alter whose sole purpose is to guard and protect Marquis.

* **Telepathy:** Unknown is a very powerful telepath who can perform many telepathic feats.
	+ **Thought Inducement:** Unknown can place thoughts, ideas, illusions, and actions that weren't originally there.
	+ **Telepathic Constructs:** Unknown can create force-fields and constructs our of mental energy.
	+ **Mental Manipulation:** Unknown can control people using telepathy.
	+ **Mental Possession:** Unknown can use her mind to influence others and take over their mind completely.
	+ **Telepathic Field Generation:** Unknown can set an extremely telepathic field out that almost mimics echolocation and use it to know when something is in their vicinity.
	+ **Mental Amnesia Inducement:** Unknown can cause people to lose their memories or pieces of their memories.
	+ **Comatose/Mental Paralysis Inducement:** Unknown can break someone's mind to so much that it can cause them to enter a vegetative state, but they rarely use this ability because of their status as a pacifist.
	+ **Pain Inducement:** Unknown can induce pain on different scales to hurt someone mentally, which they also do not use because of their pacifist beliefs.

## Weaknesses

* **Mental Health:** Jacques and his system have several mental health complications, and each of the alters might have their own as well.
	+ **Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID):** The system and alters exist to cope with the trauma the body has gone through, to protect Marquis from more trauma, and also to not remember their past trauma. Marquis's system gets magical abilities from his family lineage, so since his brain has 'split' the alters of his system each has its own magical-based abilities.
		- **Amnesia:** This is a vital part of DID, amnesia is important to the system so that only certain alters can remember or hold certain events.
			* **Depression:** Some alters suffer from depression, like, Gianni the Mumbler, Jacques, and Fabien.
			* **Anxiety:** Some alters also suffer from very severe anxiety, like, Minnie, Jacques, and Gianni the Mumbler.
			* **Anger Issues:** Solomon is the only known alters to suffer from anger issues.
			* **Mental Insanity:** 451 is the only known alter who suffers from mental insanity.
			* **Epilepsy:** Isadora is the only known alter that suffers from rare epileptic episodes which can knock out her abilities for up to three days.
* **Marquis:** If anyone finds Marquis they are able to gain control of the entire system but, luckily, Unknown protects him against anyone who could potentially hurt him.

## Trivia

* Jacques doesn't necessarily do magic himself, but he follows an old, otherworldly religion and came across Arellan gods. The Arellan deity, Apari, came to him after he was brutally beaten where he revealed himself as Jacques' patron.