James Knox

"I may be a radioactive disaster of a human, but I have feelings too."

- James Fukuzou.

James Fukuzou is a character in the Bruh Universe. He's a normal human man in his 30s, he works as an artist/animator/cartoonist. He wears a black suit jacket with a white dress shirt, a slightly disheveled black tie, black suit pants, and glasses. His eyes are completely whited out with a slight glow to them, his skin is gray, and his hair is a greyish-brown.

## James Knox

### Age

27 at time of incident, stopped physically aging around 34 due to radiation effects. Is currently 36.

### Nicknames

Jimmy, Jamie, Jimmy-Boy, Jim-Jam, Slippin' Jimmy, Jameathan, Jimbo. (All used by Mogujiro)

### Relatives

Unmentioned family in Australia. Uncle at Powerplant (Deceased)

B [Daughter]

[James Knox's design and name is an homage to James Lee and his NOX character.]

## Personality

James is very laid back, but also very socially awkward. He usually doesn't talk a lot, and if someone he's not familiar or comfortable with tries to talk to him, he'll make some sort of excuse not to. James can be slightly standoffish, unfriendly and stubborn at first, so it's a bit difficult to gain his trust. He has some self-esteem issues due to his gray appearance, so usually he avoids public appearances. James cares a lot about his husband and daughter. He's literally thrown hands with a god (Mogujiro's creator) because he was treating Mogujiro terribly. He can be a bit short-tempered at times. To sort of sum up James's personality in a few words, I would say "Elusive, but friendly."

## Biography

James was born November 21, 1986, in Geraldton, Australia. He grew up as the middle child, he has an older brother and a younger sister. James was generally just average, he slacked off a lot in school, he was generally pressured by his parents to do better. He did graduate high school, and was actively looking for a career in animation, but his parents kept berating him for it, saying things such as "you're not good enough" and "you won't find one in this area." James does tend to struggle with self-esteem issues, due to his parents constantly invalidating him, and the fact that he did have a girlfriend for a short while, and she dumped him for seemingly no reason. Eventually James moved to America against his will to work as a janitor at a nuclear power plant, his uncle is a higher up at the facility.

Now, I bet you're wondering. "Why the man grey???"

Well, here's your answer. One day while James was just meandering around, shit in the facility went wrong, causing nuclear incident. James, at that time, had his headphones in, so he was slightly unaware of what happened. Before he knew it, everything went white for a couple seconds, and he woke up and his skin was discolored, his eyes have completely whited out, with a dull white glow to them, and he could suddenly and only speak French, (such a great super-power, lol) James "acquired" (and when I mean "acquired" I mean looted) his suit off of a dead higher up, and just wandered around the facility for a while before leaving. James doesn't really feel much empathy for this incident, he feels very indifferent about it. The surrounding town was affected, and James was possibly the only person who survived. Again, he doesn't really feel much remorse, because no one in there really cared about him in the first place. A lack of social interaction and self-esteem issues with his appearance caused his mental health to plummet, he eventually developed depression, and he has struggled with harmful ways of trying to cope, such as alcoholism and self-harm.

James tends to hang around in quiet (and possibly dangerous) parts of town to avoid crowds, but one day he found himself in a dark corner across the street from a bar. Thugs approached him and mugged him, trying to take his money, he didn't have much so the thugs began to beat up on him. James didn't really have enough motivation to fight back, but someone came out of the bar and intervened. This man is Mogujiro Fukuzou. Mogujiro proceeded to try to deescalate the situation, but the thugs continued to hurt James, so Mogujiro had to get violent, he beat up the thugs, just enough to keep them down on the ground and keep them scared of him. Mogujiro offered numerous times to help James, even to the point saying "You need help, you need to come with me." James kept refusing help because he feels as if he doesn't deserve help and he'd just get in the way. James eventually managed to get off the ground and weakly shamble away, but he passed out a few steps later due to injury.

James woke up in a bedroom in the second floor of the bar, while Mogujiro was tending to his injuries, he stayed there for a bit before leaving, though Mogujiro insisted that he should stay. James would stop by and visit every so often just because of the cat upstairs, Mogujiro's cat named Salem, but James started to develop an unexpected attraction towards Mogujiro, He would stop spending a lot of time with Salem and more time talking to Mogujiro instead. They would talk a lot, possibly 4 times a week. Mogujiro did develop feelings for him, but he felt very scared and awkward admitting it to James because Mogujiro isn't a human and doesn't really know how affection works. Mogujiro eventually admitted his feelings toward James and they started dating. About 3 years into the relationship, James proposed to Mogujiro and they got married, and have an adopted daughter named B. James now works as a full-time animator/cartoonist, and will occasionally upload comedic animations to the internet.

## Abilities

Due to radiation effects James has a few abilities, however, these abilities will only happen if he's particularly irritated.

Body heat - James's body will heat up, usually a greenish faint glow will surround him.

Magnetism - Metal objects will stick to him, or move towards him.

Voice distortion - Not much of an ability, the radiation just messes with his voice, which makes it sound distorted.

Hammer Time - James seems to have an infinite supply of hammers. It's unknown where they come from.

Enraged Form - If James is particularly very pissed off, say you hurt his husband or daughter, he will enter an enraged form. A green radioactive aura will surround him, his eyes will turn a bright neon green, green radioactive sludge will form and solidify into claws around his hands, his teeth become abnormally sharp, and his voice becomes heavily distorted.

## Favorites

* Movie - Taxi Driver
* Food - Instant mac n cheese
* Candy - Strawberry bon-bon
* Drink - Specifically McDonald's Sprite
* Musician - Rivers Cuomo
* Band - Weezer
* Cartoon - Hey Arnold!
* Show - The Whitest Kids U'Know
* Song - Buddy Holly
* Color - Green
* Flower - Peonies
* Animal - Frog

## Trivia

* As mentioned above, James Knox is an homage to the animator James Lee's "Nox" character.
* James is asexual.
* James's original eye color is greenish-hazel.
* James's original hair color is brown.
* James is allergic to shrimp.
* James's middle name is Mitchell, which is an homage to Jamie (James) Mitchell, the animation director for "Hey Arnold!"
* James has an irrational fear of Tom Cruise.
* James will get slightly irritated if someone asks him if he's British.
* James prefers 2D animation over 3D/CGI animation.