Ace King Jack Pecto

Ace King Jack Pecto, mostly known as Ace, is the main character of the currently being written story Take Flight.

## Appearance

Ace is rather short and skinny, because he didn't have much to eat when he was smaller because of his dad. He has short, messy, bloodred hair that covers one of his eyes, which are peach colored. He has a dark skintone. He wears a red, long sleeved T-shirt. He wears a black vest over his T-shirt. He wears green pants and dark green boots. He has an eyepatch over his right eye.

## Personality

Ace is not very social towards strangers. He can be a bit mysterious sometimes and many people don’t trust him when they first meet him. He can be a really good friend when you get to know him better, however. Ace is very loyal to the people who he sees as his friends. He can come over a bit creepy sometimes since he often seems to be able to blend in with the shadows and can suddenly come out of corners while no one even knew he was there. He can be very manipulative if he wants to, but he doesn’t often make use of this. Ace is quite smart and can quickly come up with, for example, escaping plans. He likes card games, specifically solitaire because you can play it on your own.

## Backstory

Ace has never had a good relationship with his dad. He’s been beating him up from when Ace was 6 years old. Aki Corda, Ace's mom, has tried to hold Hideki Pecto, Ace's dad, back, but it didn’t work. Ace has had to go to the hospital more than 5 times because of his father’s abuse. Ace didn’t often go to school when he was in primary school, because his dad forbid him to. He said he didn’t want to “waste money on him.” When he did go to school, however, the people there severely disliked him. They called him creepy because he almost never spoke and always walked in the hallways letting cards float in front of him so he could play a card game with them. The people at school started calling him: card boy, at first mostly because they didn’t know his actual name, later as a way of bullying him. They found him strange because he always showed up with bruises everywhere. On one evening when Ace went for a walk, he hid from his dad in The Sheep's Horn Bar, where he met Hitsuji. Later, when Ace's dad got arrested, Ace moved in with Hitsuji, who let Ace help her in the bar, giving him extra allowance if he offered her help.

## Relationships

**Auryn Aurelius Aurum** - Ace's best friend. The two met each other on Ace's first day of school and they've been very close since, even though Auryn is a popular boy and Ace is more like an outcast.

**Calico Felis** - One of Ace's friends who he met because of Auryn. Calico is Auryn's boyfriend

**Nixie Aestus** - The owner of the harbor and one of Ace's best friends. Ace and she met each other when Ace got lost in the harbor and they became friends

**Copper Modicus** - A part of Ace's friendgroup with Auryn and Calico. Ace and and Copper are less close than the rest of the group, but they're still good friends

**Nene Uehara** - Ace's friend and romantic interest. They're in the same class at school and Nene is the only one who actually was ever nice to Ace from their class

**Hitsuji Kimura** - The owner of a popular bar The Sheep's Horn in Dasaki that Ace at one point fled into. She and Ace are pretty close, having a sort of mother-son dynamic

**Lapis Modicus** - Copper's younger sister, they dont really talk much but they've met

**Malice** - A dangerous arsonist who lives in the forest with her gang Inimicos. Ace and she dated for a month just because Ace felt like that was the only way to keep himself safe from her. They broke up and do not have contact anymore

## Project SEKAI AU

In the Mantelverse Project SEKAI AU, Ace belongs to the unit Rainy\_Days together with Nene Uehara, Yuuki Takeda and Ai Amano (from the Mantelverse, not some anime). Their SEKAI is the Flowerfield SEKAI. More information on this SEKAI is in Project SEKAI AU.