Jacob of Haven

**Biography:** Raised in the eastern city of High Haven, Jacob is an orphan trained to be a thief with his siblings. When their caretaker Abner died mysteriously and they were taken in by a minor lord named Dominic, Jacob and his family were eventually separated from one another, and he spent his adolescence travelling the continent training and working. He is very good at his job if he does say so himself, and he specializes in political espionage. Now living in the Dolovin capital of Three Hills where his skills are most useful, Jacob inhabits the belltower of an old church/orphanage and sneaks out at night to commit crimes for fun and profit.

**Notes:**

* Jacob is ambidextrous
* Jacob speaks Daolo, Kyn, Gronnde and Chez’n and can read and write but not speak fluently in several other languages. He is also an expert codebreaker
* Jacob is an amateur astronomer who knows more about astronomy than most professional astronomers
* Jacob is never caught when he’s working. But he does occasionally get caught committing petty robberies for fun, mostly because he likes running away from the authorities
* Moreso than any of his siblings, Jacob is committed to his suave and mysterious thief aesthetic, despite not being suave or mysterious
* Jacob is the only of his family to work in permanently close proximity to Dominic. He’s not sure if this is acknowledgement of his skill or because Dominic feels he needs supervision
* Jacob works as a messenger and delivery boy by day and gives most of the money to the church where he lives. He also occasionally makes anonymous donations of larger sums of money
* Jacob sometimes feels guilty that he’s started to think of the kids at the church as his little siblings
* Jacob has never been sick or seriously injured
* Jacob burgles people for fun most nights. He usually stops several muggings or assaults along the way, also for fun

**Quotes:**

* “Don’t follow me, you idiot! Now they’ll catch both of us! And more importantly they’ll catch me!”
* “Not everything has to be my problem, Ivan. Sometimes you have to take responsibility for your own actions too.”
* “I didn’t forget your name. I just pretended I did so you’d think I was cool.”
* I’ve been waiting all night for you. I mean…Not all night. I have work, you know. Better things to do than wait around for you. I’ve only been here for a minute or so. I was thinking about leaving because I assumed you weren’t coming.”
* “We’ve only met three times. You shouldn’t trust someone you’ve only met three times.”
* “Mercy is for cuddly people.”
* “Do…you know where the ocean is?”
* “Don’t worry, I’ll disregard your feelings properly next time I see you.”
* “I, um, I work for this guy Dominic. He’s sort of like my foster father or something.”
* “If I had my way, I’d be an astronomer.”
* “Stop ruining my aura of mystery with your stupid magic tricks. I had a whole entrance planned and everything.”
* “I’m not shy, just mysterious.”
* “It’s just a bit weird putting your dick somewhere where your brother’s dick has also been.”

**Trivia:**

* By the time he was six, Jacob could scale a building and juggle knives, though not at the same time
* Prior to Isaac, Jacob had sexual encounters with a half-dozen different people (not counting his siblings), but only dated one person, a girl named Gemma
* Jacob isn’t quite as widely travelled as his siblings; he’s only left Dolovai once
* Size-wise, Jacob has always been slightly below average in many respects. This is not at all related to his vehement insistence, specifically among his brothers, that he is the oldest
* At eleven, Jacob was nearly trampled to death by a herd of angry oxen. To this day, he does not know who pulled him away at the last second; he hadn’t see anyone around
* As a child, Jacob exchanged sexual touches with all of his siblings at least once, though mostly with Roberta or Cyrus
* The highest watchtower in Bethel’s Frontier is Jacob’s favourite place in the world
* There are two weeks missing from Jacob’s memory when he was twelve. He remembers seeing a metallic object in the sky, a bright light, and then he woke up in a field two weeks later sore all over and with no clothes on
* Jacob has been cursed so many times that he has a favourite cursebreaker in every major Dolovin city
* Jacob feels that he has a lot in common with bats, and that he would make a very good bat

**Modern AU:** Modern Jacob is also a career criminal, raised in a crime family that valued sneakiness and duplicity. On paper he is homeschooled, though he’d have to have a permanent home for that to be true. After trying to pick the wrong boy’s pocket, Jacob now has more than one boyfriend and lives with Isaac’s parents part-time, helping out at their shelter. Though he still sneaks out at night to commit crimes for fun and profit, Jacob also works part-time as a messenger boy, donates money to centres for homeless children, keeps his schedule open for his boyfriends, and keeps in touch with his family when he can.