Jax

Status: dead

Sexy clanless guy (By Priya Lacroix)

Clanless Mutt (By The Baron)

Mr. Big Shot (By April, S2, E1)

Bloodsucker (By Cal, S2, E4)

Big Tough Sword Boy (By Serafine Dupont, S2, E7)

Bladerunner (By Tourist, S2, E10)

Newblood (By Gaius, S2, E16)

Boy (By Takeshi Watanabe, S3, E9)

Jax Matuso, from the Bloodbound series, is one of the Clanless vampires and the leader of the Clanless. He is also one of April's love interests. In Season 1, Episode 16, he is selected as the new member of the Council taking Adam Vega's place, making all "Clanless" vampires now of Clan Matsuo. He is first seen in Season 1, Episode 3. This is a RPG based off of of Choices. We do not claim any of it.

## Personality

Jax is a cynical individual with a strong sense of justice and loyalty. This can be attributed for having lived as a Clanless vampire for approximately fifty years, and as such, having to hide from the Clans and survive without their support or resources. He has never been one to simply walk away if he sees someone being treated unfairly, crediting his grandfather and then later his stepfather for instilling this passion in him.

He feels that when he was a human, he was young and reckless and made the wrong decisions. Being Turned made him become a better person, even though he went through a period of time like "younger" Vampires when he had a wild side, did unspeakable things, and acted on his urges. Since then, he has tried to do better.

## Background

Born in the 1950s or 1960s, Jax was raised mainly by his grandparents as his mother and stepfather were activists who were often in jail due to their activities. His father was absent, and his mother met his stepfather during the student protests of the 1960s; they both were sent to prison for the first time because they set a white supremacist's bar on fire. When his parents were around, his mom did her best raising him but he was a troubled kid. His stepfather was the one who taught him decency, honor, and justice. He mentions that when he was 15 years old, he was forced by his stepfather to join the student council; there he shared his first kiss with a girl named Emma Nielsen, who was also a part of the student council.

Jax attributes his sense of justice to his grandfather. During World War II, his grandparents were taken to a Japanese internment camp in California. His grandfather rallied the people to get better conditions and helped the community as much as he could. Later, his grandmother ran a clandestine restaurant from her kitchen, feeding neighbors and strangers alike, and he helped her.

In the 1970s, Jax moved to New York to attend college, as per his stepfather’s wishes and met Margot, a mysterious woman, who flirted with him in a nightclub he frequently visited. When Margot invited Jax back to her place, they passed a Homeless Man (later revealed as Takeshi Watanabe) begging for money. Margot treated the man with distaste while Jax gave him cash. It turned out that Margot was a vampire, who fed on Jax and left him for dead. Takeshi saw this and took pity on him, and Turned him to save his life. He could not bear to tell his family that he had been Turned. To them, he just "vanished" one night in 1974, never to be seen again.

When Jax was transformed into a vampire, he and Takeshi wanted to right the injustices of the Clan system. However, when their informant was killed and later Takeshi disappeared (presumed dead as well), their plans went astray. Years passed until he found a purpose again: to help Clanless vampires survive. He founded the Shadow Den approximately 10 years ago with the hope to keep them safe and get them branded eventually.

## Relationships

### **April**

Jax is one of April's love interests. He is first seen at the end of Season 1, Episode 3, watching April and Lily from her apartment or at the club when April went out with Lily. In Episode 4, after April hands the Baron a summons from Adrian, he rescues her from being thrown into the Bloody Cellars. April allows him to feed on her to heal the wound he got by saving her. Jax also gives April his contact information just in case and the two openly flirt with each other. In Episode 6, he offers to listen to April's woes and, he saves her purse from a pickpocket. In Episode 10, when April and Lily need somewhere to hide when a possible Clan war is brewing, he allows both to crash at the Shadow Den. He offers to cook for April in his room, and Jax and April become intimate as well. He admits that he has wanted April ever since he first saw her.

In Episode 11, he is saddened when April leaves to help Adrian at the Tribunal. April persuades him to help her free Adrian from the Bloody Cellars but after she retrieves Adrian's serum from Raines Corporation, Jax tells April this is where the two depart. He would like her to stay with him, but April leaves with Adrian and Kamilah. In Episode 15, he and the Clanless (as well as any prisoners you may have freed from the Bloody Cellars) come to April's aid at Adrian's old homestead. He tells April that his people were watching Vega and saw him drive the semi-truck out of the city. They followed him and thus found her. He helps her in her fight and comes back with April to the next Council meeting, where Adrian has him voted in to take Vega's place. They all celebrate at Adrian's office, and April goes with Jax back to the Shadow Den to give them the news. There they become intimate again.

In Season 2, April visits him in the Shadow Den to see how much has changed and improved. When she informs him and her friends that Gaius has returned, he accompanies them to retrieve the Amulet of Nero from the collector in Las Vegas. Despite their best efforts, Gaius gets the vial and drinks the blood from the First Vampire, regaining his strength and powers. This causes Jax to go with April and Adrian to Paris to find a way to stop Gaius by finding the Tree of Life. In Episode 8, after April retrieves the Book of Blood, April has a threesome with Jax and Adrian. Afterwards, a battle against The Order of the Dawn ensues which shows him how awful vampires in Europe are treated compared to the ones in New York. After retrieving the Eye of Bathory and later a stake from the Tree of Life, he and her friends fly back to New York to face Gaius.

In Season 3, Episode 3, he trains April how to move your body and fight. He stated after she was stabbed by Gaius with his sword, he hesitates to use it again to fight as it was the weapon that killed her. She tells him that it means so much to him, that he treasured it, and that she does not blame him or the sword for what it did to her. April encourages him to use the sword to fight for the Clan, the Council, and for his friends and the future. They continue training and he gifts April the sword as her new weapon.

## Powers/Abilities

**Immortality**: In Season 1, Episode 2, Adrian confirms that he does not age. Thus we can assume the same can be said for Jax.

**Super-Strength**: In Season 1, Episode 2, Adrian confirms that he is strong enough to lift a car. Thus we can assume the same can be said for Jax.

**Healing Factor**: Accelerated healing is an ability that vampires possess that allows them to heal from physical injuries at supernatural speeds. If a vampire uses their blood such as when Adrian was done feeding on Nicole, they can heal the bite mark as well. Thus we can assume the same can be said for Jax.

**Heightened Senses**: In Season 1, Episode 6, Lily mentions how she can feel the slightest air currents, how she can even see the tiniest pores in Your Character's skin and can hear the water running through the pipes three stories up. Thus we can assume the same came be said for Jax.

**Swordsmanship**: Jax has been shown to be incredibly skilled with his Katana, he was able to swiftly kill a vampire by decapitating it.

## Weaknesses

**Sunlight**: Sunlight is one of vampires' weaknesses. As Adrian stated, sunlight does hurt him and can prove fatal after more than thirty minutes of exposure. It's akin to hypersensitivity; overexposure causes, as Adrian describes it, an accelerated heat stroke. This same weakness can be assumed for Jax.

**Decapitation**: Dismembering or manually removing the head of a vampire will result in instant and permanent death.

**Heart Extraction**: Removing and subsequently destroying the heart of a vampire will also result in permanent death.

**Unquenched Bloodlust**: When Adrian first became a vampire, he felt the powerful thirst for blood which no amount of water can relieve. In the brief period where he resisted the urge, Adrian experienced severe discomfort whereby he eventually gave in to his instincts. It is unknown yet how long a vampire can remain thirsty or what the extent of pain is when this need is unmet. When vampires don't consume blood for extended periods of time, they tend to give in to their instincts and attack the nearest human nearby in order to suppress their thirst. Newly turned Vampires like Lily are the ones mostly affected by this problem.

**A Feral's Bite**: A bite from a feral vampire is infectious to regular vampires because it can turn them feral too. When he was a clanless vampire, Jax ran a higher risk of turning feral at any moment. But since becoming the leader of Clan Matsuo, this no longer a problem.