James Hernandez

**James Hernandez** is the father of Cj Hernandez and a teacher at Non-Such Highschool.

Following his parents' divorce, Cj suffered an extended period of abuse from his father, as he would go to visit him every so often. James would brutually beat Cj and trap him in a cardboard box, with the cycle continuing for over 5 years due to Cj being scared to tell his mom, which led to his own tail becoming deformed. It would be apparent that James only did this out of grief over his ruined marriage leaving him alone, and that he didn't want to take his anger out on his daughter from another mother Skylar.

Even so, James seems to consider Cj a disappointment due to his apparent weakness, giving him disapproving looks and ignoring him at school. In "The Start of Something New," he even demands for Cj to leave his class right in front of all the other students, thinking he had escaped having to see his son by moving to America. In "What Has Been Lost" though, he doesn't have any issues with Cj being in his class and even refers to him by his requested name.

## Appearance

James bears green eyes and light, creamy coloured hair and tail, with the bushy tail. As he gets older, he also starts wearing glasses.

## Story

James and Doti first met eachother at highschool when they were young and originally hated eachother, pulling pranks upon one another and fighting often. Later though, the two were pit together for a class project and found themselves enjoying eachother's company, which developed into a relationship and the two got married. They had a son who they named Cj, and things seemed to be going well until he revealed to Doti one day that he had cheated on her with another woman and that she also had a child of her own with him. Doti was dismayed by this but little Cj was not understanding of the situation, and would sometimes find his parents violently arguing, even with James once calling Cj a freak.

Before divorcing Doti and moving away to another house, James tried to get Cj to play things he liked doing such as sports, but Cj was not good at any of them which was apparent to him. After the divorce, Doti revealed to Cj he would get to see him every week for 4 days which he originally found exciting as it would be a chance to see his father again, but things escalated greatly when he got there. James would beat his own son, and throw him in a cardboard box leaving him there for the 4 days without food or water. But as Cj was afraid to tell anybody about what his father was doing, he would cover up the marks and act like nothing was wrong towards his mother, which as a result led to her keep sending him to James as she thought nothing was wrong. After almost 5 and a half years of this, one day Cj didn't hide all of the bruises from the visit, which led to Doti finally realising what was going on and demanding to Cj that she should tell him if his father was doing this. As a result, Cj didn't hide any injuries the next time he came back from his daf's house and so Doti decided to press charges against him in court.

After this, James moved away to America and became a teacher at a high school. Many years later though, his own former family also had moved to America for new beginnings, with his son attending the school he worked at. Even all this time later he continued to show disliking of his son, sending him out of class in front of the other students and giving him annoyed glares out in the halls. However, later on he starts caring less about Cj’s presence there and accepts him as part of his class, but presumably still is not too fond of it.

“The Visit” shows an alternate universe in which James was arrested for his abuse of Cj and sentenced to many years in prison. Cj goes to visit him 2 years before he was to be released, and at this point he had already gotten married to Sammy and Lisa and was expecting his first child in a few months - his father showed a lot of guilt and apologised sincerely for his actions over those 5 years. He even met the two girls and telling them what his motivation for what he did: he was in grief over his divorce and didn’t want to take out his anger on Skylar. However, this isn’t canon to the main story.

## Episode Appearances

### Mainstream

* s1e02 "The Start of Something New"
* s1e08 "Living or Lost?..." (Cj's thoughts)
* s1e10 "Saint or Sin?"
* s2e02 "What Has Been Lost"

### Bonus Episodes

* "Cotton Candy Boy"
* "The Visit"
* "It all started when-"