Jasper Balt

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## Jasper Balt

* Current
* Debut

## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Pablo Balt (father)
* Bianca Onile (mother)
* Jasper Sye (grandfather)
* Tabitha Balt (grandmother)

## Media

### Debut

Chapter 3

**Jasper Balt** is the True Guardian of World 5.

During Series 2: Destiny's Traitor, Jasper returned to World 5 alongside the other True Guardians via the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust.

## Appearance

Jasper is a small male guardian with scruffy blue-gray fur which covers his hooves and sweeps up toward his head which is adorned with two fur flicks on top. His hooves and nose are a darker shade, and his eyes, formerly brown, are tinted red from Rose Eye Disease. He was born with a split tail end due to radiation, and wears Lycra coverings (formerly bandages) over it and his forearms where they were infected by Raka's Disease, the skin underneath scarred and furless. He has large bite scars on his shoulders and neck caused by Orizon, and is missing both his top canines which are replaced by black metal ones.

His right canine was dislodged from a kick by Orizon during chapter 76, and the left was blown out by his consuming pure stardust while on World 1 during chapter 90.

## Personality

Jasper is extremely upbeat and energetic, never deterred when he sets his mind on something. He may be young, but he is bold and brave, viewing the world with an infectious enthusiasm that often brings a breath of fresh air to the group. He can struggle to react to serious situations and can even shut down when under sufficient stress. He can be impulsive, making him seem somewhat reckless, but he is an honest and true guardian that wears his heart on his sleeves, and is someone everyone can get along with. He needs little rest and lots of stimulation, often seen bounding around and making the most of his life despite all that has happened.

## Relationships

### Tommy Karter

After meeting on World 8, Tommy and Karter quickly developed a father-son relationship due to the former’s loss of his unborn son (often mistakenly referring to Jasper by his unborn son’s planed name.) and the latter’s loss of his father at a young age. While the two were reluctant to admit such a relationship existed between them at first, Tommy eventually accepts Jasper as his son, both content in the belief that neither had truly replaced their lost loved ones.

### Cara France

Jasper meets Cara while having his Raka’s disease treated. The two hit it off well, both looking for any excuse they can to see one another, consequently helping Jasper’s fear of the hospital that had caused him to let the disease fester so long. Neither have admitted their feelings for the time being for fear of losing their relationship, but urging from his peers may lead Tommy to change that.

### Pablo Balt

After Jasper’s mother died moments after giving birth, Pablo took sole care of Jasper over the years, naming him after his own father and vowing to never leave him. The two would live for some time raiding food from Doeforran factories, and stuck together even when the pickings grew scarce. When a young Jasper notices Orizon’s large hoofprints in the snow, he follows only to get ambushed by the destroyer god. Pablo rushes in and attacks Orizon, only able to distract Orizon long enough to tell Jasper to run away before being killed.

## History

### Pre-Series

Jasper Balt was born a Guardian with protanopia color blindness, in Cantar, Zone Y, World 5, to father Pablo Balt and mother Bianca Onile. Unfortunately, Bianca passed away very shortly after his birth due to complications with the pregnancy. Pablo named his son after his own father who he had loved dearly, and they would go on to live together in the wasteland. The radiation in the world caused by the Doeforrah left a lasting effect on him as it did most, he was born with a mutated split tail end and protanopia color blindness, as well as this he would eventually contract Raka’s disease from Pablo on his forearms and tail tips as well as develop Rose-Eye. Despite most Guardians living solitary in World 5, Pablo never abandoned his son instead choosing to live alongside him as he had with his own father prior.

The duo would make a living stealing food from the factories to survive, there was little else to eat, and later in life Pablo worried about them needing to split to be able to even make it. One day while traveling to a secondary location in search of sustenance, a trail of large hoof prints in the snow catch Jasper’s eye, and he wanders off to follow them, in doing so he is met with Orizon who offers him a chance to save his world and father if he can beat him, the god proceeds to attack Jasper, deeply biting him across the shoulders and neck. Pablo hears the commotion and comes to his son’s aid only to be apprehended himself, in an attempt to anger Jasper into fighting, Orizon tears his father in half in front of him. Pablo takes his last seconds to tell his son to run, and much to the god’s fury, he does.

In the weeks following the attack, a solitary Jasper starving alone feels his sadness turn to rage, as the world becomes victim to Orizon he basks in the previously lethal warmth of the factory search lights now unmanned in the commotion to alert the god to his location. Orizon pulls him into the Stardust realm to fight, though weak from hunger and small in stature, Jasper manages to put up little struggle before inevitably dying as his spine is crushed.

He is revived on an uncharacteristically cool ra iny day on Custos Isle in August 2019 out in the fields near Altrum, in his state he finds himself able to do little else than lay down and cry, Mica eventually spots him passed out on the grass and brings Holly back with him to collect the True Guardian should he be dangerous. Holly carries Jasper back to her house and attempts to warm and dry him off from the rain, though upon waking up he is understandably terrified of the others, he quickly realizes he has little other option than to accept their help, and ends up completely disregarding Orizon’s promise to revive his father should Jasper kill Holly, seeing right through the lie. He is later given eye drops to calm his Rose-Eye though still refuses to allow his bandaged arms and tail any medical attention.

### Series 1

It is clear from the start of series one that over his time revived Jasper has been forming a strong bond with Tommy, and can often been seen riding on his back, though nothing is initially said, the older definitely fills the gap of a father figure he longs for. During a Dark Guardian scrap shortly into the series, Jasper from his life around the factories successfully identifies a chemical from the lab equipment that can take down DG’s, which would later be repurposed into the J-162 bombs and land him a part-time job working with Karma. Eventually the pain from his Raka’s disease becomes to much to bare, and Jasper finally accepts medical treatment for them, meeting nurse Cara at the clinic who he immediately takes a shine to and having his bandages replaced with healthier lycra covers after the wounds heal, on the night before the final fight, he works up the courage to ask Cara out for a drink should he survive the day. Whilst clearing the city the next morning, Jasper and Tommy are mistaken as father and son after both being covered in white paint, leading to an ultimatum discussion where Tommy openly admits to seeing Jasper as his son, and the latter hopes to one day be able to address Tommy as his father too, during the fight Jasper takes a kick to the jaw from Orizon resulting in a fracture and the loss of his upper right canine tooth, which would later go on to get a black metal replacement. Jasper stands as one of the only characters to keep his optimism throughout the series, though as it ends it becomes apparent how his trust for the group has grown and how much more open he now is, looking forward to a hopefully bright future with his new found love interest and family.

## Series 2: Destiny's Traitor

During Part 13, Jasper returned to World 5 alongside the other True Guardians via the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust.

## Trivia

* Jasper would be approximately 16 years old if he was human.
* Jasper is the only True Guardian who is colorblind.
	+ Additionally, Jasper is the only True Guardian to have or have had a lasting skin or eye disease, or a mutation/birth defect.
* He requires little sleep and falls asleep quickly, but wakes just as easily. If he hears anything, he will look around for threats before returning to sleep.
* He dislikes the heat and often keeps the AC on high.
* He loves swimming
* He likes meat, fish, sour foods, and ice cream.
	+ His favorite dish is leg of lamb with mint and basil.
	+ He likes iced tea, but hates hot drinks.