Jerome

**Jerome** was a pet artificial intelligence fox owned by the Taftia government, however, he lived in LocalTheorist's house, prior to his death. He was an artificial intelligence created specifically to destroy an LGBT fish pride parade in Turtle Town. He was the first and so far only A.I. pet in Taftia. There are very few living artificial creatures in Taftia, due to them being outlawed by the government, however, Jerome was given a special permit to live.

## History

### **Creation of Jerome & the Fish LGBT pride parade**

Jerome was created along with a few other A.I. foxes to destroy the LGBT fish pride parade in Turtle Town. Things turned ugly as Jerome and the other foxes began eating the various fish at the parade, killing many of them. Some local citizens got mad at Jerome for this and called him an "evil creature".

After all the fish drowned (on land) and got eaten, the foxes split up into the forest around Turtle Town, a few days later LocalTheorist found Jerome in the garage of his house. The Taftia government was believed to have given Etheri the legal right to have Jerome at his house, however, the government still wanted Jerome dead as he was still an illegal artificial creature, but Etheri refused to let the government kill him.

### **Jerome's Presumed Death & Court Case**

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Etheri was evacuated from his house and was forced to pay a ton of money to get it back, due to various crimes he committed. The Taftian government ordered Etheri to leave Jerome at the house.

Etheri asked blockminer88 one day about how Jerome has been doing. Blockminer responded by saying that Jerome was killed due to being an artificial creature. Etheri was quite upset by this news, and decided to hold a court case against Blockminer, a historical court case in fact, as this was the first-ever court case in TaftCraft history. JerryDZH was the judge (and the jury). Etheri was proven to have murdered multiple artificial creatures without government permission, and Block was found guilty of murdering Jerome also without government permission and had to pay Etheri sixty-four diamonds, Etheri also had to pay sixty-four diamonds to the Taftia Animal Foundation (TAF) for his crimes against artificial creatures. The TAF loaned Block sixty-four diamonds, and then Block paid the sixty-four diamonds to Etheri, then Etheri paid sixty-four diamonds to the TAF.

After the court case concluded, Etheri asked to go to his house to check on Jerome and check if he was really dead, to which Judge Jerry agreed, however, both him and Block decided to go along as well, to make sure Etheri didn't get up to any crimes while at his house. After hearing random fox noises from the chimney, they investigate the house's chimney, and they find that Jerome is alive and in the chimney. Block proceeds to admit that he was joking the whole time. All charges on blockminer88 were dropped. However, he was required to hand ownership of Jerome over to the Taftian government, and if he refused, Jerome would be killed. Etheri agreed to hand over Jerome, as he grew to love him and didn't want him to die.

### **Jerome's Return**

After Etheri purchased his house back and got permission to permanently live in his house again, he immediately went to see Jerome. However, once looking in the chimney where Jerome was, there were over 15+ A.I. foxes all named Jerome that looked exactly identical to Jerome in the chimney, likely other artificial intelligence models of Jerome. Etheri was no longer sure which Jerome was his.

Etheri and Blockminer came up with a plan to create a maze for all the A.I. foxes, and there are pools of lava all around the maze, so the foxes would have to successfully navigate the maze without falling in the lava. The last fox standing would be declared as the true Jerome since Etheri "taught him well". One fox cleared the maze, and Etheri declared him "the real Jerome" and put him back in the house.

### Death

After Etheri killed a cow partially belonging to Caso which really infuriated and disturbed him, Caso decided to get revenge by building a giant death trap prison inside of the Creeper Games Stadium and he put Jerome inside of it. The prison was surrounded by TNT, sculk sensors, so that way Etheri couldn't get close to it. There was also a lever that would trigger the explosions surrounding the cage. Etheri broke the lever trying to stop Caso from triggering it, which caused Jerome to be exploded and burnt in lava.