Kasper

## Description

Kasper is a human male with swept back unkempt brown hair with blonde highlights, scruff, narrow eyes which are amber in color, and sharp facial features. He's medium built and 6'3" in height. He wears high waisted navy blue dress pants and a casual white bishop sleeved shirt. He also wears glasses, which he tends to keep on his forehead rather than wearing them. Though it wasn't mentioned in his initial description, his design in the episodes' thumbnail's also contains a golden dangly earring with a green gem, perhaps an emerald, in his right ear.

## Personality

Kasper acts in a very casual and relaxed manner, even in the face of danger, but when he is by his lonesome, usually during the evenings, he often cries as he deeply wishes to remember more of who he was. His mood seems to change quite quickly and unpredictably. He often pays no mind to important matters, only to later break down over small inconveniences. Kasper was described by his own player as "having mood swings".

## Character Information

### Connections

Alastyr Cross
Flynn Gustwind
Kroe Wyse
Strangle Macock

## Background/History

Kasper suffers from amnesia and does not remember anything about his own past. Additionally, his condition seems to progress throughout the campaign, as he forgets more and more, even events that happened just a few days ago. From the start of the campaign he keeps a picture of himself and a woman he does not recognize in his pocket. He acts in a very casual and relaxed manner, even in the face of danger, but when he is by his lonesome, usually during the evenings, he often cries as he deeply wishes to remember more of who he was.

Kasper makes a comeback in a later JRWI campaign, Riptide, under the name Mr. Kas. There, he works as a showman at a carnival in the Feywild realm. Kasper's player and DM of the Riptide campaign, Grizzly, said that the time that passed between the end of Convergence and episode 73 of Riptide was approximately a decade, although it is unknown what went down in that time that led Kasper to the Feywild, or what happened to the rest of the Convergence Crew. Although, Grizzly did mentioned in his Discord server that Mr. Kas has a painting of Strangle hung up in his tent.

## Relationships

### Strangle Macock

Kasper seemed to develop somewhat of an infatuation with Strangle ever since they first met, and was the most distraught of the group after Strangle's premature death. Kasper's player, Grizzly, later explained in his discord server that he didn't plan for this behaviour to be read as a crush, but because so many people saw it that way and Grizzly himself also liked that interpretation, he went for it. He also later mentioned that meeting Strangle was how Kasper realized he was gay.

While there were implications of mutual feelings between Kasper and Strangle, their relationship never developed any further, as Convergence was cut short soon after episode 9.

Upon Kasper's comeback as Mr. Kas in Riptide, Grizzly was asked multiple questions in his discord server concerning Kasper's future after Convergence, one of them being whether or not Kasper and Strangle ended up getting married after the events of the campaign. His response was that, although he would love to say 'yes', because of the way Convergence ended, he cannot confirm nor deny any theories of the sort.

### Alastyr Cross

Kasper's relationship with Alastyr is portrayed to be father-son like. The two were good friends ever since the campaign started, and references to them being like father and son began as a half-joke during episode 2, when Alastyr first got Bingus the Frogtopus. Kasper then warned him about how much of a responsibility pets are in a tone that resembled parental concern. Nada, the artist responsible for JRWI thumbnails at the time, made art of this scene on her twitter, calling Kasper 'the dad of the group'. Later in the episode, when trying to deceive a shop owner from Bubbletrench, Kasper lied about Alastyr and Flynn being his sons. He did this again in episode 4 when talking to Tobias Avenforge.

Kasper is very protective of Alastyr, though his good intentions are sometimes misinterpreted as being too harsh on the kid. He avoid physical affection, like hugs, and doesn't seem to really enjoy talking about his fatherly feelings too openly, but will casually compliment Alastyr on his fighting prowess and quick thinking.

During episode 8, the two have a big argument and falling out. It turned out the frozen samples Alastyr picked up from the City of Nightmares unfroze in his bag, taking Kroe's magic conch shell and Strangle's journal, and then teleported away using the golden eggs, also taking those with them. This infuriated Kasper and led him to take out his rage on Alastyr, yelling at him about how Alastyr thinks he is a hero, but is really acting like a villain. They made up at the end of the episode, with Kasper telling Alastyr that from now on, he can't keep things from the crew anymore.

### Flynn Gustwind

Flynn is another example of a character whom Kasper treats with almost parental care, though their relationship is not as strong as Kasper and Alastyr's. Though he pretends to be Flynn's father in episode 2, this remains an off-handed joke and doesn't develop much further besides that. In any case, the two are still friends, though they do not always agree. Flynn's rational thinking doesn't quite match Kasper's overdramatic personality, causing them to sometimes misunderstand each other.

### Kroe Wyse

Kasper and Kroe are good friends. Apart from Strangle, Kroe is the closest to Kasper in age, making him the only person who he can truly befriend as equal.

The two seem to understand each other well and have some great moments of cooperation together. They often bond over their mutual desire to look 'cool', as well as feeling responsible for the safety of the younger members of the crew, especially Alastyr.

## Trivia

Kasper has a fear of heights.

Kasper keeps a journal in which he writes down all of his adventures as not to forget them.

Kasper has a soft spot for kids.

During Kasper's wild magic surges, his outfit changes into showman attire and a spinning wheel appears behind him, akin to one from a game show.