Jasper

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**Jasper** is a Weavile in his late thirties acting as one of the heads of the mafia known as the Murtaugh Family, stationed on an island off the shores of Kittlescor.

Born into the Solustran Starre tribe, Jasper was at a young age adopted away to a family in Rickland, where he spent most of his youth until he met ████ █████ in Deloria and was living a regular civilized life. Although, he would soon turn to a criminal life, which better suited his preferred lifestyle.

Between the start of his criminal life and the forming of his current gang, he took part in a lot of gang activity. Not being one for taking orders from other people, he would form the Murtaugh Family with the help of Siobhan, Engelbrekt and Tyr as soon as he got the chance.

Due to his more tribal background, he lacks most comprehension of modern social convention and mannerisms, leading to him often behaving in a chaotic and obnoxious manner. He is also highly experienced in manipulation, using information gathered by his cohorts to recruit vulnerable individuals or intimidate rivals into joining his "family".

## Early life

Jasper started his life as █████ and spent most of his early years growing up among his mother and numerous siblings in the Starre tribe, living off the lands. His father is to this day unknown, but is thought to have been an Incineroar, due to Jasper's obtrusive behaviour and massive interest in fighting.

At a relatively young age, his mother unknowingly signed him up for adoption, believing what she signed were papers to send him to school for a chance at education. Instead, the papers she signed had him adopted into a family in Rickland. Jasper himself has no memory of this, however.

The family he was adopted into was strict. He often clashed with his illegitimate parents, to the point that he decided a few years later to leave his home and fend for himself. This new lifestyle had him travelling a lot more in search for shelter and food and he soon found himself in Deloria, where he would spend the following years. One day, while scrounging for food in the backyard of a suburban house, he was found by ████ █████, a mischievous Scraggy living in said house who offered food to the Sneasel. Jasper would often return when food was difficult to come by, leading to the two building a close relationship, until the Scraggy managed to convince his own parents to take the Sneasel in, giving him the name ███ to better fit in.

████ would some years later bring Jasper to Delorian authorities to have him registered as a citizen, disguising him as █████ █████, a █████ refugee seeking asylum to circumvent the need for birth certificate and identification. Jasper had at this point learnt how to speak Common, albeit not very well and due to his speech being very broken at the time, they were able to sell the lie and got him registered after a lot of legal paperwork struggles.

## Criminal career

Jasper, along with ████, began a criminal career in his teens to try and cover living expenses, following many failed attempts to acquire a more legal occupation. Due to the community's less-than-friendly bias against dark type pokémon and their situation getting increasingly dire, both him and ████ found this as their only option and went onto joining their first gang after a recommendation from one of their mutual friends.

### Dragon's Gaze

Dragon's Gaze was a relatively small gang. With roughly 130-150 members in its height. Their aim was mainly small-time burglary and was relatively peaceful, as the leader, an elderly Drampa named Jorm, was strongly opposed to violence, believing that one's survival should not be a detriment to another's. The dark fur of a Sneasel proved to be very useful for night-time operations, which became Jasper's main task. In the beginning, he had many periods of jailtime due to inexperience. However, with ████'s task being lockpicking, it was rare he ever sat a full time.

Following the leader dying in illness, one of the former leader's right-hand men assumed the leading position. Rather than small-time criminality, the new leader had a mind more set on growth, often sending members on jobs even outside of their operating town and adopting more aggressive methods to spread the name and gain notoriety. This was seen as controversial by many members, including Jasper and ████, thinking it was disrespectful towards the former leader's virtues. Their complaints went unheard, but still not having anywhere else to go, the two were forced to stay with the gang, despite their disdain for the new leader.

Jasper was later assigned to Kánitore to steal a golden trinket in order for the gang's name to be spread even to other countries. The trinket was owned by one of the Kánitore Betas and was therefore a very risky assignment and, Kánitore being so far away, would take several weeks to complete. Knowing this, the Sneasel declined the assignment, but was persuaded into going after being locked in his room and starved for close to a full week as punishment. ████ joined him on the job.

In Kánitore, he made his way to his destination, but found that his objective had already been stolen by the Legion of the Noble Sword leader, Eginhardt. The two got into a violent conflict about the trinket, which ended with Eginhardt devouring said trinket, which in turn prompted Jasper to use one of the closeby Honedges to attempt prying Eginhardt open. He was not successful, as the two were soon in pursuit by authorities and Jasper had to make a quick escape.

Jasper quickly chased after Eginhardt when the coast was clear. When finding him, Jasper began loudly ranting to the Cofagrigus about the situation with the gang's new leadership and the undue importance of the trinket. Eginhardt would still not surrender the trinket, instead lecturing the Sneasel about his thoughts on the matter, including advice to break off from the gang. Not being very fond of the Cofagrigus, it would take Jasper some time, but after he and ████ came back empty-handed from their job, they discussed this among themselves, ultimately defecting from the gang with a handful of members, creating "Jorm's Gander", named in honour of the late leader.

### Jorm's Gander

In its height, Jorm's Gander only had roughly half of the former gang's members (≈70-80) and was mainly aimed towards small-time burglary and thievery, following in the footsteps of older Dragon's Gaze. After breaking off, it was in a heavy rivalry with the Dragon's Gaze and would often get in violent conflict with their members.

The gang's existence was short-lived. Merely one year after its formation, their rivalry with Dragon's Gaze escalated to a gang war. Both sides suffering heavy casualties, the war ended with the death of the Dragon's Gaze's leader. The survivors all went their separate ways, officially dissolving both gangs. Jasper would even at this point split from ████, making this the first time he has had to fully fend for himself since meeting them, twelve years prior.

## Personal life

Jasper spends most of his time in the Murtaugh Family Headquarters on a cavernous island in Kittlescor with the other eight heads of the "family".

Jasper is allied with Eginhardt, the Cofagrigus leader of the Legion of the Noble Sword, who he considers a very close friend and whom he visits as often as possible.

## Trivia

* Jasper can neither read, nor write and has no intention to ever learn.
* Jasper has a big interest for bug types.
* Jasper is disgusted by frogs.
* The scar on Jasper's chest is the result of trying to cook a Magikarp in a pool of lava.
* Jasper once swallowed a raw potato whole, as a bet.
* As the founder of the Murtaugh Family, Jasper is named and referred to by the number 1.