Jason Voorhees

*"Jason... Don't be scared my special, special boy. Be strong. Be strong for mother. They must be punished, Jason, for what they did to you. For what they did to me. Kill for mother."*
―Jason's hallucination of Pamela Voorheese
***The Boy Who Drowned***

## Biography

### Origins

#### Early Childhood

*"Jason... My special, special boy..."*
―Pamela Voorhees
Jason Voorhees was born to Pamela Voorheese on Friday, June 13th in 1946. Jason was born with severe facial scars and deformities, something that caused Pamela to elect to homeschool him and keep him isolated from the community on the outskirts of Crystal Lake, as she feared the world would be unjustly cruel to her son. Due to this, Jason can be considered to have a rather limited education, but Pamela sought to make up for that fact by teaching Jason a number of practical skills, such as cooking, engineering, and hunting.

In 1957, Pamela was hired as a cook at Camp Crystal Lake. Having no living relatives to be left with, Jason was brought along. In the month leading up to the opening of the camp, Jason roamed the camp freely. In this time, Jason learned the layout and spent a considerable amount of time at the archery range. Once the Camp opened up, Jason remained by Pamela's side for the majority of the summer, continuing his thread of isolation from others.

However, that changed when Jason met a councilor by the name of Alice Hardy. Alice took pitied Jason's predicament and sought to treat him with kindness and respect. While Pamela was suspicious of Alice, Jason took a liking to her and it wasn't long before he considered her a friend. As his friendship with Alice grew, Jason became more confident in his appearance, starting to ask his mom if he could play with the other kids at the camp. By the end of the summer, Jason's relationship with Alice had managed to shake Pamela's skepticism regarding how the world would treat Jason and she reluctantly agreed to let Jason play in the open with the other kids when the camp opened again the next summer.

#### Drowning

Jason eagerly waited for the next summer to approach. When it arrived, Jason was one of the first to greet the new campers, who reacted to his appearance with fear, disgust, and mockery. Fortunately for him, Alice came to his defense and scolded the mean-spirited campers. Unfortunately, the mockery and torment did not end there, as the campers, now aware of Jason's existence, schemed for ways to publicly humiliate him, with most being thwarted by Alice and other counselors, and some succeeding. Jason was losing confidence in his appearance yet again, expressing in a conversation with Alice that he wished he never revealed himself and that life was easier when he remained hidden. Alice told him that the other campers just needed to know the "real him" and that next time they pick on him, he shouldn't be afraid to stand up for himself.

The next day, when Jason was met with more jeering campers, Jason attacked one of them, biting off part of their ear. Alice arrived on the scene before Jason could move on the others, scolding him for his actions, telling him that this isn't want she meant by standing up for himself, before taking the injured camper away to the camp doctor. As soon as she left, the remaining campers ganged up on Jason, now aggravated by his actions. They swarmed him, calling him a "Freak-Show" before forcing a sack on his head and pushing him into the lake. The campers laughed and jeered before leaving, oblivious to the fact that Jason was actually starting to drown due to the sack on his head. Within moments, Jason's body disappeared from sight.

#### Return

*"You need to be punished for what you did to him! You took him away! You let him drown! He was my son! You should have been watching him! EVERY MINUTE!"*
―Pamela Voorheese
Unbeknownst to anyone, Jason had survived, but had washed up away from Camp. By the time he had made his way back to the camp grounds, his mother had taken matters into her own hands and was nearing the end of a homicidal rampage across the camp. From the trees, Jason watched as his mother cornered Alice, angrily and tearfully blaming her and the other counselors for allowing Jason to drown. However, right before Jason could make his presence known, his mother lunged at Alice, and Alice, on the defense, swung a machete and decapitated Pamela Voorhees, killing her before Jason's very eyes.

After Alice departed in tears, Jason approached his mother's corpse. Overcome with intense feelings of grief and betrayal, Jason began to hallucinate his mother's voice, telling him that he needed to punish those who hurt him and his mother, that he must kill for his mother. Jason grabbed Alice's discarded machete and went after her, finding her laying exhausted on a row boat that she had intended as an immediate escape from the camp. Jason emerged from the water beside the boat and pulled Alice underwater before killing her with the machete, claiming his first kill.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Revenant Zombie Physiology**
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**
		- **Resurrection**
	+ **Superhuman Durability**
	+ **Superhuman Strength**

### Abilities

* **Stealth**
* **Toxic Immunity**
* **Weaponry**
	+ **Archery**
	+ **Swordsmanship**
	+ **Throwing**