Jasper Mudbaum

Jax, now as a cyborg

"*"Ah. Yes. Well, when your home on South Island becomes a battlefield, and later turned into a fancy-pants resort after you've been gone from the real world for awhile due to said war, and resulting war-crimes, you build up a slight chip on your shoulder."*"

    ―Jasper Mudbaum, Organization Chaos, Phase 1

**Jasper Mudbaum**, better known as simply **Jax**, is a simple Mobian tortoise living in increasingly complex times. And time has left it's mark on him. For Time waits for no one. Not even a tortoise.

## Biography

Jax has had a very long life already. He can recall life on South Island before Robotnik’s forces invaded, and he can recall how the Resistance stood against impossible odds. He’s fought on the front lines of the Resistance, and has a few scars on his shell to prove it.

Jax was a member of the resistance on South Island, and was the strongest of an elite team called ‘the Wreckers’. The three of them, (Jax, Bozo, and Twitch) were often used as a last line of defense for outposts that seemed hopeless to maintain. They very rarely failed to defend such outposts, and the group can count on their fingers the number of times they’ve had to retreat and leave an outpost for dead. More often than not, they would hold out till greater powers and reinforcements would arrive.

The threesome has fought briefly here and there with Sonic and gang, but they are hardly friends with such legends. Tails is probably the only one who might recall their brief reports or awestruck interactions with the legends they hold so high in esteem.

Unfortunately, when the war ended, and GUN came to claim credit and resources from a well-stocked and potentially threatening Resistance on South Island, Twitch was one of the people who helped GUN infiltrate and ‘re-incorporate’ the people and resources of the Resistance back into society. For a cut, and some other benefits. Bozo and Jax were surprised by this, but Jax took it personally, and he, along with others, continued to resist, not willing to give up or stop fighting. His sense of loyalty and justice refused to back down and let GUN simply "replace" Dr. Eggman's rule over South Island as the supposed "new government". Even if it meant that they would receive protection, recovery relief, and general aid from the mainland. Jax was nearly a leader of a new resistance against GUN’s takeover, before he was tricked and backstabbed by "negotiations" that Twitch set up with help from Bozo, who didn’t want Jax to get hurt.

Having successfully been tricked by his best friends, Jax was captured and sent to jail for being an "extremist" and a "danger to society".

Because of this, he’s spent a lot of time in jail, which both soured him considerably beyond his years against people in general, and also mellowed his warrior's spirit.

Now, recently out of jail, Jax is just trying to get his life back together and find something fulfilling to do now that there’s no war to be had and his old beach life is long gone, replaced by a Fancy Resort belonging to Ritz "Twitch" Rakghoul, who, having been instrumental in helping GUN take over, is now extremely rich and well set up. . . .

## Personality

Jax looks very imposing, but inside, he’s actually very kindhearted. Fiercely loyal to those whom he trusts, Jax will do anything to protect his pals. While not physically fast, Jax has a quick mind, and is often musing about multiple things. He’s learned to use the stereotype that follows him of slow and stupid turtles to trick people into revealing things around him that they otherwise wouldn’t. He either holds you at arm’s length as a stranger, or you are pulled in for a big hug as one of his fast friends. However, his age and unfortunate experiences have tempered this once optimistic viewpoint of people quite a lot, as he has learned that the world is sadly not as black and white as he prefers it, and he has been hurt in the past by those with ulterior motives. This makes it harder for him to make "friends" with anyone, making him unnaturally standoffish, even if his heart is obviously "on his sleeve" for anyone to see.

Due to learning the hard way that people are not always how they seem, Jax has made it a point to learn how to "read" people. He has gotten very good at reading body language, but still lacks the tact and finesse to smooth-talk people. He also is not very technology-savvy, being a sort of country bumpkin/beach-bum and only just now learning basic details of city life.