Jack Dawkins

Tilan has way too many Evensol assassin people.

Jack "Jackdaw" Dawkins, is a young assassin residing in Levispolis. He is currently employed by Dylan Cox, which leads to certain difficulties as his assassin friend Steve Stevenson happens to work for the Hayburns, Cox's primary business rivals.

Dawkins and Stevenson have a teacher-student relationship, with both of them being familiar (but not overly familiar, of course) with their other colleague Emrys Sanders.

## Appearance

Jack is a short ~~child~~ young man of nineteen with dark tan skin and a mop of black hair. His eyes, perhaps due to his desert ancestry, have the whites coloured as an inky blue instead of the typical, uh, white, and a glittering galaxy-like array of stars can be seen scattered in his iris. He almost seems to *twinkle* when he smiles.

Needless to say, Jackdaw here is a very pretty boy.

He has yet to completely find his own confident stance in fashion, though he does have a heavy preference for midnight-blue frock coats with gold trimmings, complete with dark knee-high boots, a plumed tricorn, ruby earrings, and eye shadow. He carries both himself and his ruby-hilted rapier with a flourish that nearly, but not quite, manages to flourish, and, despite all the dark gilt around him, there always appears to be a certain element that is missing from the mix. Perhaps it's the constant underlying atmosphere of awkwardness and suspicious insomnia that follows him wherever he goes.

His assassin attire includes a pair of fingerless black leather gloves, the insides of which are lined with silk. The fact that these gloves are only fingerless because he had crudely scissored the fingers off after realising the sheer lack of manueverability while wearing them says a lot about his attitude to these things.

## Personality

He's trying, he really is. He wants to be as cool as the people around him. He just hasn't realised that he's trying too hard.

Jackdaw is shy. He is also an extrovert. These two statements do not contradict each other. He loves to hang around people and actually enjoys the balls and parties; that unique glittering smile of his, together with the bashful blushes that so often accompany his appearance, make for a distinctly attractive persona. Nevertheless, often are the times when he finds himself being embarrassed of himself, especially when around the two other assassins.

He is very much aware that Steven and Sandy are at the very top of the profession. He is also aware that he has a long way to go before he can even dream of reaching their level, and that he is by far the weakest one in the party. While the standards for being an official assassin are pretty much nonexistent, in Jackdaw's mind there is a clear dividing line of skill between the assassin and the assassin wannabe - a line which Jackdaw cannot quite yet reach.

He suffers from a medium case of imposter syndrome. He is also just *slightly* a bit of a psychopathic sadist, a trait that came from no one knows where. The constant need to prove himself thus tends to manifest itself in somewhat questionable practices, such as sudden inexplicable desires to murder people. Fortunately, the bloodlust side of him is hindered by the naivete in the actual killing people knowledge part of his brain, and while his friends take his darker tendencies completely seriously, no one ever thinks of this as a sufficient reason to stop being relatively relaxed in his presence.

...because he really is far too naive. Jackdaw here is the kind of person who would attempt to use a rapier to assassinate someone, which is the 18th century approximate of trying to bring an ipad to a computer science class in university. He might be self-aware about his lack of skills, but he has yet to notice that his inexpertise is primarily because of his utter obsession with the fanciest item on the market.

That, and the bloodlust. Who has ever heard of a professional killer who does it simply because they like to?

## Trivia

1. The nearest thing to a cat counterpart he has is Nighty, who is also a pretty sadist. The main difference between them is that Nighty has much worse mental health.
2. His eyes have absolutely no relationship to the OSaS cover.