Jesper

Jesper is a supporting character in ***Uriah***. He was **Uriah** and **Vincent's** schoolmate, and was later murdered by **Tomas** and his remains disposed of without a trace - causing quite a stir in Vildhamn, with search parties out to look for the ''missing'' boy for a long time.

## Appearance

Jesper is a young boy around twelve years of age. He has unkempt, blonde hair with long bangs falling across his face, and deep-blue eyes along with thick eyebrows. He is mostly seen wearing a blue hoodie paired with grey trousers and black shoes.

Jesper's features also have a striking similarity to his mother, **Johanna's**.

## Personality

Jesper was quite an impudent and mean child. Typical of any bully of his age, he got enjoyment from poking fun at those he thought to be weaker and inferior to him, including sometimes being physically aggressive as well. He also had a habit of swearing often, and in general talking rudely to most people - having been homophobic towards **Vincent** and calling **Uriah** a "retard".

However, it has been implied that Jesper's life at home wasn't the best and that created quite a bad influence on the boy. His family's environment reflected in Jesper's behaviour, and in the end, he was just a child that didn't know any better.

## Relationships

#### Vincent Hällberg

*Vincent* was Jesper's classmate. He was his prime target of bullying, mostly because of Vincent's withdrawn, timid nature as a kid and him liking boys. Along with treating him extremely harshly and calling him rude names, Jesper and his friend have also been implied to physically hurt Vincent on multiple occasions, and follow him on his way home as well.

Just like any other incident, while playing with his friend, Jesper had deliberately hit Vincent on the head with a football for fun and to tease him like usual. However, when **Uriah**, who was standing nearby, picked up the ball and threw it away instead of giving it back to Jesper, as a form of defending Vincent, Jesper was infuriated and retorted with harsh insults to the two - which was ultimately followed by a nasty fight among the boys.

#### Tomas Hällberg

Jesper had first come face-to-face with *Tomas*, while he was strolling around in the woods alone after having left his home in a fit of rage. His first impulse was to yell at him and claimed he wasn't going back home after how mad his dad had been about the fight with **Vincent** and **Uriah**. Jesper then turned away from an outstaring Tomas, muttering he was probably a freak just like his son - only to be met with a large knife in Tomas' hand and a sickening grin on his face.

The corpse of the unfortunate child and his clothes were then separated out in body bags by Tomas, and initially stored in a bin inside a secret room-like structure hidden away in the forest. Tomas later has **Bo** pick up Jesper's body and get rid of it, and his disembodied head was kept in their freezer - later to be discovered by an unsuspecting **Vincent**. And just like that, the merciless murder of the poor boy was covered up without a trace, while the rest of the townspeople had been frantically looking for the long-gone Jesper for days.

All in all, the entire incident with Jesper was to showcase Tomas' degree of brutality and his cruel ways of killing innocent people for enjoyment without any hesitation or thought

#### **Johanna**

*Johanna* is Jesper's mother. From her brief appearance, one could guess that she was a very concerned mother and deeply attached to her child.

When **Roland** and **Tomas** had arrived at Johanna's home to drop in a bouquet and ask how she was doing, she directly asked if they had found Jesper yet when it has been over a month since his disappearance. Then, to **Roland's** negative response, she sadly opens and looks at the bouquet of roses - muttering how flowers won't be bringing back her beloved boy.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Episode 91 (S3)
2. ↑ Episode 96 (S3)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode 97 (S3)