Mason-Veronica Kingsley (Roleplay)

**Content Warning: Descriptions of emotional and physical abuse and manipulation; mentions of LGBT+phobia, conversion therapy, self-harm, suicide attempts and general horrific handling of mental health issues. Proceed with caution.**

Mason-Veronica is a 20-year-old English medical student, born in Scotland and living in or nearby Cheshire. He was the twin brother of Jack-Mary, and is the older brother of Vanny. He is the User of the Stand Thanks for Nothing.

## Mason

### Alias

M.V.
Little scared gay boy
Twink
Kingsley

## Profile

### Nationality

Scottish (but calls himself English or British when asked)

## Favourites

### Hobbies

Playing games with friends, cooking, sewing (secret), looking at nice places outside

## Appearance, Biology and Identity

### Accent

Posh English, Scottish when drunk, angry or trying.

### Hairstyle

A little long in the back but mostly short, curly

### Markings

Heavily freckled, small birthmark behind right ear

### Scars

Several faint ones on back, particularly bad one on collarbone area above heart, faint burn scar on right hand

## Psychology

### Likes

Pink, rainbows, dogs, entertaining kids, helping people, vests, being treated with respect, Minecraft sheep

### Dislikes

Things that are "unholy", mentions of homosexuality, violent self-destructive behaviours performed by others, others' suffering

### Phobias

Being "sent away", violence, guns, horses

## Relationships

### Family

Two parents, one sibling, and some extended family as well.

### Friends

Nat Wright (best friend), Noelle Reaper (well-established), Bug Pallas, Christopher Auclair, Trongle Pilkvist, Giorno Giovanna, Salem Penner, Limbo Adkins, Merlin, Elliot

## Skills and Powers

### Language

English, Scots Gaelic, School-taught French, German and Spanish

## Affiliations

### Allies

The Kingsleys, The Auclairs, Starlight Zingel (and her adopted children), Passione,

## Metadata

### Voice/Voiced by

Almost the same as Jack's, with more emotional fluctuation and a slight waver

### Handle

loyalObedience (initial) libertyObtention (post-Jack death)

## Appearance

Mason is a lean but muscular boy with heavily freckled tanned skin. His features are generally soft compared to his muscular structure, though he does have a somewhat defined jaw shape and a slightly hooked nose. He has faint scars scattered about, most hidden on his back, but one particularly bad scar is located on his collarbone just above his heart, and on his right hand, he has a just-notable burn scar. His skin is mostly indistinct aside from his freckles, although he does have a small asymmetrical birthmark behind his right ear. He has curly, short, bright ginger hair in a style identical to Jack's side-parted semi-curtain cut but slightly longer, looser, and with more curls. He has soft eyes that are typically bright and emotional. He also displays heterochromia, either segmented or central, wherein one section of his iris appears blue and another lesser section appears green. He is often seen bruised or otherwise bandaged. His typical casual attire consists of a white, grey or beige dress shirt, black slacks, a black and silver belt and black loafers or oxfords. Sometimes he may wear a vest or sweatervest over his dress shirt in various colours, and often he may also wear a tie with his dress shirts. His clothing generally seems incredibly expensive. He also typically wears an intricate silver cross necklace around his neck.

## Personality

Mason is an incredibly anxious boy. Although exceptionally polite and respectful, he tends to seem afraid of or anxious around people. He is incredibly subservient and submissive and rarely argues or goes against things he is told unless they specifically relate to one of his pre-existing beliefs or something of that sort, i.e, his Catholic religion. He is very devout, although this is somewhat forced, and he is obsessed with staying "holy" to a fault. Although he generally seems open, accepting and tolerant of others' beliefs and identities, his background involved having been raised in an intolerant environment. Instead of making him inherently bigoted, his background put him in a position of ignorance, in which even if he is tolerant or seeming accepting, he has a very poor understanding of the issues or concepts themselves and while he finds no personal fault in any of it, he becomes generally uncomfortable when it is brought up and is afraid to experiment.

Despite his background, he's a very compassionate and empathetic individual who hates to see anyone suffer, but shrugs off his own suffering as he has grown unhealthily accustomed to it. He's shy and modest, but once he is comfortable around someone, he may become more talkative and enthusiastic, though still remaining somewhat reserved. He is also considered as being incredibly generous, using his wealth often to the benefit of his friends and those he cares about. He is eager to lend people his assistance. Although spoiled by his family's power and wealth, he is not greedy, and though somewhat entitled, he tends to be self-aware.

Being submissive and easily controlled, he may find difficulty in forming and expressing opinions that are his own, only becoming familiar with doing so more recently. In the particular case of his family, especially Jack, he will generally do anything they tell him to with little resistance as he is familiar with. A similar rule generally extends to anyone else in a position of status or power like he and his family. Despite his obedience, he has devised rather sly countermeasures when it comes to certain matters. For example, although he holds no expectation of privacy, he has a system of secrecy, especially on his phone due to Jack's controlling nature and tendency to take it. He is often used to taking the blame for wrongs done by Jack.

He can also be seen as very naïve due to his fierce insistence on jumping to Jack's defense at the first hint of criticism in the past and belief that his brother would do no wrong, especially not to him. He managed to live a rather sheltered life growing up, but is not stupid by any means, showing proficient academic and intellectual value and is also not affected by any developmental disorders, giving him the upper hand in such matters. He often gives others advice, specifically as a voice of reason or for medical matters. The only time he generally speaks firmly is when he's in 'doctor mode', being stern for the sake of making sure someone takes their health seriously.

In more recent times, he has developed a sort of rebellious streak, beginning to keep more secrets, sneak out of the house, go against what he is told, and even going as far as to fight back against Jack when Jack hit him in one instance. Some of this is spurred on by the development of his Stand, though he seems to be scared of it and often denying its advice and opinion, labelling it a demon or delusion.

## History

### Backstory

Mason-Veronica Kingsley was born along with his twin on February 28th, 2002, to Melanie and John Kingsley in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the first born twin, though this information is sometimes miscommunicated. They were best friends as brothers and lived relatively as normal until the age of three, which is when their little sister, Victoria, was born. It was also around this age when Jack began displaying odd behaviour, acting out and being somewhat belligerent, which was initially perceived as having to do with their baby sister getting more attention than them. Some of these outbursts were misattributed to Mason, and he'd often get in trouble in Jack's stead, which was a situation often rewarded by gratitude from Jack. While punishment made Jack resentful, it made Mason submissive. Jack began notable *manipulative* behaviour as early as the age of five. This manipulative behaviour led Mason to slowly lose independence and steadily become emotionally and socially dependent on Jack. While Jack often displayed malicious or cruel behaviours to Mason, they were often downplayed by a balance of kindness, generosity and praise. Around three or four years after their sister was born, they moved from Scotland to England. Mason bonded very strongly with his little sister but was often driven away, driven to inaction or driven to poor action by Jack's malicious behaviour. A notable incident was Jack pushing their sister from a treehouse platform and holding Mason back from going to get their parents for help. At a later age, Mason made the attempt to teach Victoria to cook, and, in a moment of apparent impulse, Jack grabbed Mason's hand and stuck it in the stove fire, leaving him with burn scars. Mason was generally oblivious to Jack's cruel and violent nature, even though this nature was often carried out towards Mason himself. He was chastised for "girly" things and began to keep his opinions to himself and conform to expectations, joining any club or sport Jack seemed interested in joining. He watched Victoria's mental health deteriorate along with her physical health from self-harm and he tried to help her through it, despite having a poor understanding of the underlying issues.

He had always had the vague understanding that he was never romantically attracted to girls, but he tried to fake it for the sake of fitting in and being "normal". Around the age of 14, he met and befriended a girl named Natalie, and at one point, they went together as dates for a school dance, Mason tense and nervous the entire time, uncomfortable with the slightest show of affection. At the end of the night, Nat thanked him for going to the dance with her, but revealed she wasn't truly interested in boys. His reaction was surprisingly mostly relief, though a bit disheartened as he somewhat took it the wrong way. They lost contact for a bit of time, but reunited after a while, possibly a couple years at worst.

His first most major exposure to his family's homophobic tendencies was an incident in which the family lawyer and occasional babysitter, Cinna, reported to their parents that Victoria had expressed interest in a girl, and their response was to send her off to a conversion camp for a time. When Victoria came back, her mental state was far worsened, and the incident presented Mason that homosexuality was bad, and if he "acted gay", that would happen to him too. Victoria's unmonitored, exacerbated and severe mental issues led her to attempt to take her own life twice. Both were incidents in which Mason had to stop her, call for help, and try to help her stay alive, and one in which their mother had actually begun yelling at Victoria. Mason was the closest thing Victoria had to a support system, whenever he wasn't being dragged into undesirable things by Jack.

When Victoria was arrested at age 15, Mason was devastated when she didn't come back, but had to adjust to life without any contact with his sister quickly. This caused him to become even more emotionally dependent on Jack, and Jack consequently doubled the amount of cruelty he treated Mason with as a way to keep him loyal and dependent. In the winter, after Victoria, now known as Vanny, had had a heated conflict with one of her "new sisters", she impulsively decided to make the decision to "go back home", texting Mason asking him to leave the door unlocked for her. He missed this message at first, but opened the door as soon as he could to let Vanny in. She apologised, gave a very abbreviated account of what had happened, and headed to her room to settle. Upon returning to his and Jack's room, Mason gave a brief explanation of what was going on, and Jack callously suggested they "prank" her. Ignoring Mason's nervous protests and reservations, Jack carried out the "prank" of throwing ice water at Vanny, who'd just been heading to the shower. At her wits end, Vanny had fled the house into the cold winter and when Mason had tried to go after her to make sure she was alright, Jack had knocked him out- either accidentally or purposely. When Mason finally came to he made desperate attempts to contact Vanny to ask if she was alright, sending a flood of texts and making an excessive amount of calls, and when one of these calls was finally answered, he was promptly yelled at, berated and hung up on. In response to this, it was Jack's idea to visit the hospital Vanny was staying in, and when confronted with the dangerous dynamic duo of Bluff and Joy, Jack refused to step down despite Mason's pleas and was consequently stabbed in the shin, causing them both to run off.

Despite this, Mason and Vanny reinstated their relationship on good terms. He tried helping out in situations where it seemed like his family didn't want anything to do with her. He formally met her "new sisters" and though some of them held their reservations on him, they eventually befriended him to some level. Vanny was also how he happened to meet Chris, who he initially mistook for a boy, and Trongle, who initially mistook him for straight.

### Hotel and RP History

One day, Mason arrived at the Skylands hotel. The first meeting(s) with the staff were fairly uneventful, but things changed when he arrived one day with his brother. After the staff saw Jack's treatment of Mason, they labelled him as what equated to the hotel's version of being blacklisted, and caused him to "disappear" for a time, and in the meantime, Noelle befriended him and he grew very attached and trusting of her due to her incredible kindness towards him and her gentle encouragement. After some time, he was added to the Staff Group Chat, and got acquainted with the others. Although never officially being a part of the staff, he was considered a staff friend and was given a room on the staff floor. During his time at the hotel, he also happened to meet Merlin, although the occurrence wasn't major.

At some point, someone came along, apparently looking for someone matching his description- unaware he was an identical twin. They broke into his hotel room and accosted him, only for him to be saved by Giorno Giovanna's interference. A short few days after, someone else came by to apologise to him, albeit aggressively.

After this incident, a very severe-seeming illness spread throughout the staff, during which Mason insistently stayed with Noelle to watch her condition and make sure she got better. However, after she did get better, he himself proceeded to fall ill, and during this time, he developed his Stand. His behaviour shifted after this, as his Stand tried to provoke him to stand up for himself and used its ability to dissuade him from lying, usually in pertinence to his condition; i.e., saying "I'm fine" when he wasn't. He wound up having incidents of actually fighting back against Jack, even punching him in one instance, and seeing strange things, such as a creature that Jack said he could not see. Mason also saw some odd distortion in the air around Jack after Jack had fallen ill, but paid it little mind.

There was then an event in which Noelle had disappeared, and Mason, Giorno and Narancia had banded together with Ilta to try and find her. He drove out to Maidstone, met a stranger who he had a rather civil conversation with, then went to the hotel and came back with the others. It wasn't until this event that anyone had tried to explain that the apparition following him around was his Stand. Narancia and Giorno eventually had to give a very simplified explanation of the concept after the Stand had summoned automatically in response to his distress and wandered away from him towards the warehouse to aid in 'interrogating' their suspect.

Over New Years, Mason has been brought to a celebration by Trongle and Chris, had gotten drunk, and had talked to a boy who asked him if he'd like to have dinner another day. Being less restricted by his beliefs due to being drunk, he eagerly accepted, all while keeping the group chat updated. However, when Jack and his parents had found out he'd actually gone to dinner with a boy, even without any context to imply anything romantic, his mother chastised him and Jack pushed him around a bit, causing him to fall into a glass table and sustain rather terrible injuries. After being yelled at by his mother for breaking glass, Mason made his way over to the Hotel, where Salem awaited with medical supplies. Josuke, having happened to be there at the time, lent a helping hand with the injuries.

Mason was also present for the 2021 event in which the Hotel had disappeared and everyone in it had been transported into a Castle, though this had occurred while he was having a discussion with Giorno and Noelle, in which Giorno had offered some harsh but well-meant advice and urged Mason to stand up for himself a little. After the transition event happened, he formally met Joshua. At some point soon before April 8th, he confessed that he thought he might be gay to Nat.

On April 8th, Mason confronted Jack over his concerns, and Jack, refusing to tell the truth, was affected by Thanks For Nothing's ability, to the point of fatality, lying himself to death. Distraught by the event, Mason tried his best to revive Jack, only to find it futile. Stricken by despair, he took a few moments to reflect, and in the process, named his Stand Thanks For Nothing. Then, frantic, Mason left his home, intending to turn himself in after visiting church to confess. Being met at the church by Noelle and Nat, they offered their support and talked him out of turning himself in.

## Skills

### Stats

#### **Physical Strength**

Mason is, for what it's worth, surprisingly physically strong, being just as strong as Jack and having the ability to lift heavy objects with some ease to a certain point.

#### **Mental Strength**

Mason is rather mentally weak. His physical strength is rendered irrelevant by his unwillingness to use it, and he has no intentions of hurting people, even if he's in a position where he probably should fight back. Along with this, he's somewhat dependent on others, and doesn't like thinking for himself.

#### **Reflexes**

Mason's reflexes are on an average level, but his hand-eye coordination is rather good.

#### **Endurance**

Mason is very tough, partially due to his muscular structure and partially due to being used to pain and sustaining injuries often.

#### **Speed**

Mason has a slightly better running speed than Jack, but it's nothing exceptional.

#### **Technique**

Mason is very smart and good at critical thinking, but doesn't do too well under pressure. This coupled with the fact he's generally unwilling to fight means that his technique can be lacking if he really needs to fight.

#### **Cooperativeness**

Mason is very subservient and compliant, so he will generally go with what someone else says with little resistance. While his cooperation is thusly very good, the reason he is cooperative is questionable at best.

#### **Self-Control**

Mason had an excellent sense of self control when it came to anger, but his Stand often provokes him to act out when it feels threatened. Even with a good grip on his temper, Mason doesn't necessarily have "control" over his "self" as much as he should.

#### **Intelligence**

Mason is very intelligent and is unencumbered by developmental issues that may hinder him academically.

### Skillset

* **Medical Knowledge:** Mason is a medical student, so he has a pretty good understanding of medical concepts and first-aid practises
* **Influence:** Mason's family is rich and influential, meaning that he, as part of the family, has his own level of influence in society. If he felt the need, he could use this to his advantage.
* **Multilingualism:** Though not fluent in all of them by any stretch, Mason has at least a general understanding of 5 different languages.
	+ He is fluent or near-fluent in Scots Gaelic and English.
	+ He has knowledge of French, German and Spanish from school.
* **Mafia Involvement:** ...If we're to believe Bluff has any involvement in Mafia affairs!
	+ But, I mean, c'mon, let's not get ridiculous here.
	+ It's not much, but he does have *some* involvement regarding Passione, but that's... in 2003.
* **Domestic Skills:** Mason is capable of knitting, cooking and somewhat capable of sewing.
	+ But as these are seen as "effeminate" by his family, he doesn't do them often, especially cooking, after the fire incident.
* **Neurotypical:** Well someone's got to be.
	+ He does have that pretty bad anxiety though...

## Trivia

* Mason's favourite colour is pink, but he says purple or blue when asked.
* Mason's favourite animal is the pangolin, and his least favourite animal is the horse.
	+ His favourite breeds of dog are poodle and newfoundland.
	+ His least favourite breed of cat is King.
	+ He also likes chinchillas.
* Gullible
* Has a very nice voice. Choir boy.