John Wellington

The racist of the Easter branch

## Background

John Wellington was originally a mere scammer, using his high deductive abilities to discern the easiest victims, ensuring that his diverses scams work. He's notably the responsible of the "Scottish mania", the largest scaled scam the country has ever known, based on a well-made ponzi scheme, an ingenious pyramidal system. Even by doing so, he managed to get away and avoid every legal consequence that could've touched him or his family, even managing to fool a former investigator of Vex.CO. However, during his scam, one of the people implicated accidentally triggered a certain Vex. In the process, most of his friends that took part in the ponzi scheme died, and his family was put in danger. Vex.CO wasn't inclinated to act immediatly and take more risks considering his family was implicated in the pyramidal system, that took the happiness of many people.

"I'm not trying to act as if I was a good person. Nor I try to act as a hero or a moralizator. But I know my worth: I know that, for a group that aim to untie the node of mysteries and dangers of supernatural beings that surpass the comprehension of most of us mere mortals, the benefits my mind can bring surpass the risk you take by saving them. Save my family, and I'm yours"

By striking this deal against all probabilities, John Wellington managed to force the compagny to act and save his family. As a price, he had to cut all the ties with evey person he knew, divorce his wife, and have everyone having every memory of him erased. He then begun working as an investigator for the Eastern branch of Vex.CO, knowing perfectly that he would never be allowed to quit considering his circumstances but still keeping his word nonetheless.

"After all, when you have nothing left but your word, you should do your best to keep at least it, aren't I right Jean ?"

John Wellington, now inspector Wellington, invests his best in every of his cases, using all of his experience at thinking, planning deducting this time to make the world better. Even when it implies going against the implicit or even sometimes explicit orders of the higher-ups, he still manages to bypass it, finding a way around. He's a scammer in soul, after all.

## Personality

John Wellington isn't a bad person, but he's clearly not a good person either. He's devoted, but egoïstic. He can be obedient so long it doesn't go against his interest, but will separate and act on his own the second he feels like his orders and his motivations are going in opposite directions. The only reason the compagny didn't dispense themselves of him is because, despite being egoïst, ruthless, and not caring about the hierarchy in the slightest, Wellington learnt to see the line : comparing his wrongdoing with his achievements, taking in account the current situation of the compagny, the mood of the higher-ups, and their current stance about him, and giving himself just enough margin in case of an unexpected complication, he always stays just below the line of unacceptable.

Also, despite his egoïsm, and not caring the slightest about most people in general, he's very caring about his close ones. Even after the lethal-level Vex that killed his friends was apprehended, he still keep immense resentiment toward them. Why would his friends be dead and his family fractured while those abomination live comfortably into warm cells? Quickly, he took the habit to use Hazard instead of Vex to qualify the entities the compagny was made to contain. In the Easter branch, it's known to be considered as a slur to a certain extent, which gave him the title of "racist of Vex", which is however used more as a joke than anything else.

Not that he cares. He now only cares about his cases, mainly the most difficult ones. However, the one he's the most obsessed with is the one implying Jean de Bergerac, classified as Vex-388, also known as the Inevitability case.

## Appearance

He's a man of average height, wearing mostly coats over a shirt and a tie. his hair is straight, between blonde and brown. His eyes are common brown, and he would probably be called average by most if not for his sharp features, and most importantly his sharp gaze.

## Trivia

John Wellington, deserving his humoristic title of "racist of Vex", tolerate very few Vex or Hazards, as he prefers to call them, and among them, the only one he's close to Vex-388, going as far as calling him by his true name. Even if he would almost never admit it, he considers Vex-388 as a true friend. Perhaps his best friend in this unreal compagny. Perhaps his only one.

He's relatively competant in both close combat and firearms wielding, but for some reason is awful at every martial art or even fighting style he ever tried to learn.

He admitted himself that he sucks at cooking, except spicy dishes.

Once, while dead-drunk, he said that he was jalous of Kris Nolt, the one taken by Vex-388 as a "younger sibling", because he would've loved to go on a travel with Vex-388 across the different worlds of the prism, and this chance was taken by the former compagny member that he qualifies of "little shitty drama-queeny bastard". He later denied ever saying this once sober, a bit not to make Vex-388 uncomfortable, a lot because Kris Nolt was an elite soldier whose flexed arms probably be bigger than his head.