Jeku Eshivil

Jeku's playful expression in Dark Place

**Jeku Eshivil**, generally just called **Jeku**, is a self-aware character that can be found out of the bounds of the first map in Floor 1 in *Dark Place* as both a shopkeeper and an upcoming boss.

According to his own words, he has appear in Dark Place for the simple reason that he comes in any universe his creator mess with in one way or the other. He decided to force Kristal to recognize him as a shopkeeper so he could easily talk to the player while selling them a bunch of broken or overpowered items. He also sells the Blue Key, necessary to start the Skies Forever Blues side quest.

## Appearance

In the shop screen, Jeku looks like a jester with pale skin and blue messy hair. His eyes are yellow with stars of the same colors. He wears a dark gray long sleeve sweatshirt with above a tank top and a cape buttoned by a yellow button next to his neck, all in dark blue. On his head rests a dark blue and yellow jester hat. He also wears a blue choker with a purple heart ornament.

## Personality

Jeku is an unstable energetic and playful character whose goal changes almost every day. In Dark Place, Jeku is only here to admire the mod builds up thanks to the contributors' pull requests (although he notes that he could easily destroy the mod if he feels like it). Despite his bursts of insanity, Jeku seems to still be partly sane, being able to answer the player's questions without really giving them random insane bullshit. Though to characters not self-aware, Jeku is often seen as completely insane as he will often talk to them about the "truth" and how the world they live in is a roleplay.

## Trivia

* Jeku is a roleplay character created by Simbel, converted to a self-aware character that tries to appear in almost everything he works on.
	+ Jeku is one of his few OCs to have a family name.
* The first part of his first name and the last part of his last name forms "Jevil". While this was on purpose, another word can be formed with the first and last parts of his last name: Evil. This one was accidental.
* Jeku always talk to the Player themselves, referring to them either by "Player" or by the name they used for their save file.
* In his shop, Jeku mentions a game of murder and trials, of "Vivants" and "Tueurs" and of characters controlled by players. He refers to Danganronpa roleplays.
	+ "Vivants" and "Tueurs" are the French words for alive and killer respectively. They are two roles often given to players in DR Roleplays and are mentioned in French because he appeared in French roleplays.
	+ The roleplay he was in got cancelled for inactivity, which got used in his backstory that lead to his self-awareness.
* Jeku is a highly self-aware character who has basically achieved godhood in the virtual realm.
* Jeku has reality-bending powers. Whatever he wants, it will happen.
	+ Canonically, Jeku gains more power on Dark Place, Kristal and the player's computer as time goes on. However, he prefers not to abuse it if it's not necessary.
* Jeku can kill the player in the shop if threaten 5 times. This also grants the achievement "Mess with the OP". Afterwards, Jeku will always remember that he killed the player in this save slot, even if the player erases his save or never saved in the first place.
	+ In reality, his self-awareness is caused by a file created in Kristal's saves folder.
	+ When that happens, Jeku will talk in the Game Over screen instead of the party members.
* There's a low chance (1/100) that the "Threaten" subject changes to "Flirt". This was a last minute addition because Brenda thought Jeku was cute and implied being okay with dating him.
* When Jeku successfully tells the truth to someone and they believe it, they become insane in some way but gain a reality bending power.
* Jeku has 2 close female friends, who are the only ones who didn't break when learning about the truth. He quickly mentions them when flirting with him.
	+ One of his friends' name is Maki, as revealed by the Syringe's id, being "`makissyringe`".
* Jeku will have a boss battle later on.