Steven Jenkins

**Steven Jenkins**, more frequently referred to as Ace, was a character played by Flurar Inuyi for the campaign Welcome To Arcana. He is a farmboy from the midwest of America who moved to Arcana to attend McCoy University under a football scholarship, playing for the McCoy Minotaurs. He is currently in a romantic relationship with Lena Petranova.

## Storyline

Ace was originally a normal college student, but ends up stumbling into the world of the occult after accidentally hitting a dog with his truck and returning it to its owners; a ranch hand on the outskirts of town named Raymond. Raymond and Ace investigate a noise from the farm and end up stumbling on a group of kitsune, along with Anatol, Lena, and her grandfather Peter. Lena and Peter attempt to erase Ace's mind of the entire incident, but fail. After another run-in with the kitsune and another failed attempt to erase his mind, Peter invites Ace to join the secret group called the Library Of Alexandria.

Ace had many run-ins with near death, and his body received the brunt of the abuse. While assisting a former enemy turned ticking time bomb he received severe burns on his chest which never fully healed, and while facing down a mechanical monster designed to look like an iron maiden he attempted to channel magic through Lily's staff, causing his arms to turn obsidian black from the elbows down.

Ace was vital in the defeat of The Hand, in which he used a pair of scissors to forcefully rend The Hand's mask from his face.

## Description

Ace is a tan-skinned man with an extremely athletic build. He has scruffy blonde hair which is frequently hidden by a cowboy hat and green eyes, though they're depicted as yellow in the character art originally found on Pinterest. He is frequently seen in his red and white letterman jacket and cowboy boots. A white number one is displayed on the back of his letterman jacket.

He drives an extremely beat up red pick-up which he frequently reminds people does not have back seats. In the back of the truck he carries a hunting rifle and an old woodcutting axe, though both are hidden under a heavy blanket most of the time.

Ace is extremely self-confident and blunt, though he feigns politeness with his Midwest vocabulary, leading many of his sentences with "with all due respect" and throwing in titles like sir or ma'am. Despite being from the Midwest, Ace's accent is heavily southern. Though originally happy-go-lucky, Ace is extremely internally traumatized by the events of the campaign and ends up becoming very apathetic and picking up smoking half-way through.

## Relationships

### Chandler J. Halpert

Ace and Chandler begin the story as roommates, with Ace being oblivious to Chandler's true nature. After joining the Library, Ace learns of Chandler's true nature, which further shatters his reality. Ace continues to interact with Chandler as though Chandler is not a demon, but does not give a particularly interested reaction when Lena asks if they should go looking for Chandler after he goes missing near the end of the campaign.

### Lena Petranova

Ace and Lena begin the story as being table partners and frequent project partners in their science class, though their relationship evolves into a professional one when Ace joins the Library before becoming one of mutual respect. After Ace nearly dies trying to save the group from the iron maiden monster Bloody Mary, Lena is the first to assist him, and he calls her an angel in his delirium. Later in the medbay, Ace and Lena share their first kiss and begin dating.

### Anatol Wolski

Ace and Anatol do not interact much, though they share many personality traits by the end of the campaign. The two main times Ace and Anatol interact were directly after Ace's big game in which Anatol came to drunkenly congratulate Ace on his win and badmouthed Lena and Chandler who had not shown up. In reply, Ace punched Anatol in the face. The second time was before fighting The Hand, Ace and Anatol went to Bunker Bill's to drink together and ended up getting in a bar fight.

### Lily Jones

Ace and Lily do not have much in common and do not interact much. Lily and Ace's major interactions occur most frequently with a monster between them, such as when they assisted Charles to be quarantined and returned to normal in the Library or when Ace attempted to use Lily's staff against Bloody Mary.

## Trivia

* Ace's nickname comes from the fact that his jersey number is one.
* Ace's letterman jacket is red and white despite the school colors in the campaign being described as blue and gold.