Jasper

***Spoiler Warning:** This article contains spoilers for the comic!*
> This is how your sister repays me for protecting this pride, Vicious. She spreads pathetic lies about what happened to her mate. Now your daughter believes cacklers to be innocent over their King.
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> **Jasper**  to **Vicious**, Chapter 14: No Contact

## Relations

### Offspring:

Hopeful, Adamant and Quiet (with Vicious)Joyous, Troublesome and Aggravating (with Careful)

### Mate(s):

Vicious and Careful

**Jasper the Second,** known simply as **Jasper,** is one of the main antagonists in the webcomic, *I Hope So.* He is the current King of the Golden Grove and the mate of Careful and Vicious.

## Summary

> *The plains lions tend to be more gold in color, so judging from his looks and name, he's definitely not from around here. Just the same, he's made his kingdom in the Golden Grove, and his pride has very few complaints about him. Mainly because it would be bad for their health to voice them.*
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## Appearance

Jasper is a brown lion with a long and shaggy darker mane. He has striking orange eyes and a black spot with a pale marking on the back of each ear. His belly and mouth are a pale brown color, and his tail has a black tip. In Chapter 14, Jasper acquires a permanent scar over his face.

## Personality

Jasper is an entitled and abusive individual, who is obsessed with power and controlling those around him. He has gained his position through manipulation and schemes, including teaming up with Edge to assassinate the Golden Grove's former King, Merry. Knowing that his new subjects are dependent on him and will not drive him away, Jasper is awful to pretty much everyone in the Grove, including his children. It is also clear he has no respect for laws or authority, as he was willing to kill a newborn Hopeful for being born sickly and with a missing limb, something which is highly frowned upon in his society. He also attacked his Knight, Obsidian, which ultimately led to his exile from his birth pride in the Thundering Mountains. Additionally, during his outbursts, his mate, Vicious, squirms and seemingly tries to move away from him, implying that Jasper has physically abused Vicious in the past (although she's almost as abusive as he is).

Like all bullies, however, Jasper is a coward and not particularly proficient in combat. He needed Edge's help to take down Merry and drive away the hyenas, for example. He is also shown being easily pinned down by Clever and fearful of Hopeful when she yells at him for killing her.

## Trivia

* Name meaning:
	+ Jasper: *"An opaque impure microcrystalline form of quartz, red, yellow, brown, or dark green in colour, used as a gemstone and for ornamental decoration."*
* If Jasper changed his name when joining Golden Grove, it would have been "Malevolent."
* He was partially inspired by Joe from The New Adventures of Kimba the White Lion.
* Jasper killed Clever and Merry with the assistance of Edge.
* Jasper has Barbary lion ancestry through both of his parents.

## Gallery

Reference artwork of JasperConcept artwork of Jasper as a cub
## References

1. ↑ https://ihopesocomic.tumblr.com/post/650349182363762688/as-of-the-most-recent-chapter-how-old-are-all-the
2. ↑ https://toyhou.se/8161102.jasper