Jang Dae-Ho

Jang Dae-Ho, or "Janga," is a minor character in Hellper Season 1: Madman and a major character in Season 2: Killberos. He is the ex-vice president and former No.2 leader of the Nine Snake Family criminal organization before he was "purged" and excommunicated by its president: his former sworn brother Gu Sang Ryong.

Afterwards, he began an orphanage where he secretly trained the children to become assassins to take revenge on the Nine Snake Family. Among those orphans were Jang Gwangnam, Jang Deukchun, and Kim Hang.

## ▴▴Appearance▴▴

Janga is a middle-aged to older korean man of average height. In some depictions, he is seen extremely muscular, especially in his youth, but other times he is drawn rather scrawny, such as in the first season and start of the second season (possibly due to his design not being fully fleshed out yet). He has visible wrinkles on his forehead and near his eyes and has short, gray, slicked-back hair and is clean-shaven. Janga has a distinctive tattoo of a green, hooded cobra head flicking its tongue. Ever since the purge day, there is a massive x-shaped scar in the middle of the tattoo and some time after that he had a smaller tattoo of the Killberos logo in the scar.

Janga has no distinctive outfit, but he is often seen wearing a baseball cap, baggy pants, and some form of t-shirt or baseball shirt. He has a t-shirt with a design which he commissioned from Bang Ocean of Jesus Christ with the Killberos dog making up his hair. When dressing formal, he wears a black suit with snake-skin details and a fedora. After the purge day, he is almost always seen wearing white-rimmed glasses or sunglasses.

## ▴▴Personality▴▴

Janga has a lighthearted and joking facade that hides a much more cold, callous, and unstable persona underneath. Under non-stressful cirumstances, he is quick to crack jokes and enjoys reading comic books (presumably) targeted towards young teens.

Underneath that, Janga is a heartless killer with dozens of onscreen kills and countless offscreen. Kim Hang, whose father was a cannibal serial killer with the highest officially recorded death count in the history of Korea, admitted that Janga has probably killed more than even his father. Janga has murdered people from all walks of life, including assassins, Nine Snake Family grunts, gangsters, women, and animals without a semblance of remorse. He is also not abject to murdering civilians, although he finds it troublesome since it draws the most attention. He routinely beats the children at the orphanage he runs nearly half to death with a baseball bat and delights in watching them fight each other to the point of exhaustion.

Janga is also a longtime drug addict, stemming back all the way to his time as the vice-president of the Nine Snake Family (which is also one of the reasons for his purging). At an unknown point after the Purge Day and before the story of Season 2, Janga began abusing a drug known as 'FA' which has considerably damaged his mental state and memory. It causes him to see vivid hallucinations and even rewrite/block crucial memories.

Despite his many flaws as a human, Janga has a small amount of compassion within him. Regarding the children at his orphanage, despite his horrific maltreatment of them, he feeds them incredibly well and on multiple occasions demonstrated regard for their lives. During the first mission for the most elite of the children, known as his "Hunters," when the mission was going awry, he personally stepped in to save them. He was also incredibly upset at Sole for causing the aforementioned mission to nearly fail and subsequently cause his first "son" Jang Jae Hyuk to be fatally injured.

## ▴▴Trivia▴▴

* Janga owns a social media account, presumably an Instagram account, called "I Love You <3 Janga Orphanage" where he posts photos of himself and poses with the children. In the bio for the account, he includes a link for people to help fund the orphanage. The account is incredibly unpopular, much to Janga's dismay. His handle iz ZZANGAMAN9
* Much of season 2 of Hellper is told through the point of view of Janga and is, therefore, unreliably due to his hallucinations.