Paradox

**Paradox**, real name Jacob, is a member and an Agent of the Ink Tank's Discord server.

## Appearance

Paradox is a young Caucasian male of average height. He has dark brown hair that curls around the base of his skull; he wears his bangs parted on the right. Paradox tends to wear graphic T-shirts with blue jeans, along with his signature “gun mettle grey” glasses with rounded rectangular frames.

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## Personality

Paradox is usually reserved around people he doesn’t know, but can open up when a common interest is expressed. He holds conservative beliefs, but is open to others expressing and holding their own beliefs, even if they don’t align with his own. Paradox is a creative individual, often excited to engage in conversations about art and especially music, often trying to give feedback for improvement to other users whenever he is active enough.

## History

### Arrivial & Moderation

Paradox first joined the Ink Tank Discord server (then Kuro the Discord) after finding Kuro the Artist’s YouTube channel (currently The Ink Tank YouTube channel). After watching his early drawing videos at the time, he noticed the link to the server in the description and joined, being the 150th member of the server.

He arrived at a point in time where the only role, beside Security and Ink Tank, was Party People (Fizzy Gang). The Party People role could be obtained at the time by simply being active for at least 3 days and then informing a moderator or Kuro. This made Paradox one of the few members to achieve this role before the level system was implemented for automatically applying the role to members.

Paradox quickly became a prominent member in the community and only two months after joining, was asked to join the Security team. After a hilarious ten minutes of AJ struggling to properly give him the role, he officially became a member of the fledgling Security team.

As time went on, he became less active as newer mods came, and others left or were demoted, though he continues to try to help out as much as he can.

### Ben 10’s 15th Anniversary

On December 2nd, 2020 Kuro DM’ed Paradox about creating an instrumental theme for the Ink Tank’s Ben 10 15th Anniversary Celebration event. Over the course of two weeks, Paradox composed and produced the theme which would be used for the event’s trailer, as well as during the event and in future Ink Tank YouTube videos. To coincide with the trailer, Paradox produced a video on his own channel, Paradox Multimedia, showing the behind the scenes of working with Kuro and composing the theme. He also released the theme in its own video on his channel the day of the event. The  music video for the theme and the behind the scenes video are the third and fourth most viewed videos on his channel, respectively.

## Trivia

* Paradox is a member of the Gamespherecast (formerly G Cast), a podcast originally formed by four members from the Ink Tank discord server, prominently AJ/Scooby and X\_Ninja555.
* Paradox is the only remaining Security from before 2019.
* Paradox is the second oldest of his siblings, having one older brother and two younger sisters.
* Paradox’s original nickname was Prof\_Jake\_MQ, his Minecraft IGN. He changed it to Prof\_Paradox amongst an influx of people roleplaying as Ben 10 characters in the early days, and in 2018 rebranded his entire online presence to Paradox Multimedia as a result.
* Paradox gave Kuro feedback on the original Ink Tank logo.
* Paradox has posted several photos of himself in selfies and personal fun over the years, one of which has become the image for the !stop command.

 Joined in 2019
 Joined in 2021