Jerome Napier (Old)

Jerome is the son of Jeannie Napier & The Joker. Jerome does not know about who his father is and doesn't really care, instead his life is much more shaped by the fact that his family was poor and as a young teen he started working as a goonie for Gotham's Rogues for cash along with other illegal things.

## History

### Youth

Jerome's mother, Jeannie Napier was in a abusive marriage with Jo Ker, mainly due to Jo's untreated trauma. Either way Jeannie knew that if she stayed with Jo they'd both likely end up on the streets and that Jo wouldn't let her go, no matter how much she needed to have her own space. So she did the only thing she thought she could do, she faked her death with the help of a few police officers. Only the next day Jo went missing but was last seen in a crime scene dressed as Red Hood.

Jerome grew up with no info on his father nor his father's side of the family, all he knew was that his father was a comedian, which made Jerome decide that he hated jokes, humor and as a whole everything he felt was tied to his father, mainly out of spite as Jerome believed that his father had ran out on him and his mom.

As a young teen Jerome started to notice how little money his family had, so Jerome started doing what he could to make money, which was mainly illegal things like selling drugs for people, stealing stuff to pawn off and working for Gotham Rogues while pretender to be older than he was.

While working for rogues Jerome grew close with the other people working for the rogues and learned the subculture of the goons of Gotham and as a whole the more normal criminals of Gotham. Jerome kind of at this point stopped relating to other teens and started to mainly relate to criminals that he worked with, which only made him feel more like his only path was crime.

### The Beginning of Ringleader

After growing anger at the way the Rogues of Gotham treat normal criminals that work for them Jerome formed The Union, a group made of goons from all kinds of gangs all over the city, with the goal of having them being treated with respect, though Jerome own goal of being in the spotlight did help him decide to make the group.

The Union's first action was to start to protest how Oswald Cobblepot treats his workers along with the crap pay he gives them for all the work they do. A lot of the people protesting were fired but still being paid due to other members of the group that were being paid by other rogues. This protest was noticed by two very notble people: Jason Todd who liked that Jerome's group was sticking it to Oswald and Osborn Cobblepot who really liked the group stinking it to Oswald and decided to take Jerome under his wing.

After that Jerome decided he needed a villain identity so picked the name Ringleader and got a costume from Osborn, from that point Jerome started helping with Osborn's planing.

Then something very odd happened, his father seemly came back, but Jerome could tell based off how his mother was acting that there was something deeply wrong, even though the man was acting nice. Jerome decided to lot into his father with Osborn's help they went to Jo's old family home which was left to the Napier family after his "death". The pair found clues that Jo/Jeremiah had a brother named Jerome Valeska, who seemly tortured Jeremiah in their youth. There were also signs that Jerome's grand parents had been murdered. Jerome & Osborn became very worried and grossed out, and realized it was likely that it was the cruel brother that was with Jerome's mother.

Jerome decided that someone needed to deal with the man so poisoned his coffee, at which point he found out that his mother had became in contact with Red Hood and had been trying to get his help to deal with the man, the pair tired to get Jerome Valeska to a hospital so Jerome Napier wouldn't be a killer, but they were too late. While Jerome coped with what he had done his mother spoke with Red Hood.

## Personality

Jerome is a very flat person when it comes to how he shows his feelings, almost always speaking and acting in monotone even though that isn't how he truely speaks normally nor is how her feels, he's good very good at hiding those feelings under a act that's along the lines of a emo teenager. In truth Jerome's feelings tend to flip falp between extremes, both in feelings like happy & sad along with feelings about people. since act of being non-feeling mainly comes from his feeling that his father was a emotional person along with someone who tried to be funny and the thing is that Jerome tries hard to be nothing like his father, as he hates everything connected to his father. Even though Jerome is by nature a silly person.

Jerome can be a very charming person when he wants to be as he tends to take note of things that people care about & want, which when/if he wants he can use to get someone to do what he wants or like him, though the type of charming he is, is best suited for charming bigger groups as he is good at noticing the stuff that connects big groups of people. He doesn't always put on this charm though, most of the time in his day to day life Jerome just acts in a way that makes him not to notable since in the area he lives being notable means problems.

Jerome is the desire to be in the spotlight along with a bit of a ego, as he feels that he is above other criminals purely based on the fact that he has taken up being a leader, because he feels like he's smarter than those working under him and feels that's he's also smarter than a lot of the people above him. As a whole he's a bit of a showmen even though he tries hard not to act like it, but he's willing to put himself in harm's way if it means people will look at him.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Toxin** **Immunity**: Jerome was born immune to most toxins, which Jerome knows about due to working for many rogues that use toxins. Jerome not immune to natural toxins like what Poison Ivy uses.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Over the years Jerome learned how to fight while working for rogues, his style is mainly based off street fighting but Jerome tries to learn other fighting styles through online research. He is also starting to be trained by Osborn.
* **Driving**
* **Leadership:** Jerome is a very charming person who knows how to get people behind an idea, he also knows how to plan for a big group of people and not just a small group.
* **Tactical Analysis**