Jestro/History

## History

### Prior to the series

Jestro is from Knightonia. As a child, a Knight enrolled Jestro in the Knights' Academy. While in the school, he found a friend in Clay and the other Nexo Knights. However, he had poor battling skills and was often berated by Lance Richmond.

Jestro eventually left the Academy, and after this, Merlok took him under his wing and helped him get a proper job. He tried to be a knight, then a wizard, before finally becoming the jester of King Halbert's court. As the king's jester, he would always ruin his own performances, which caused him to be the laughingstock of Knighton.

### Season 1

#### The Book of Monsters - Part 1

At the Knights' Academy Graduation Battlebration, Jestro was supposed to be one of the performances. However, he ended up being incredibly nervous, despite Clay's attempts to cheer him up, and messed up his entire act, even causing a massive power outage after trying to juggle a power mace.

Embarrassed and upset, he ran away, finding himself near Merlok's Library, where a mysterious voice offered to help him be good at something, "being evil." The voice, he soon finds, belongs to the Book of Monsters, who was freed when the power went out.

Intrigued by the Book's promises, he steals some evil books and a staff from the library, until Clay interrupted him. He hesitantly summons Sparkks, then some Globlins and Scurriers more confidently, following the Book's commands. The monsters prove effective against Clay, but Merlok comes to his rescue, and uses a spell that blasts Jestro and the Book out of his library.

#### The Book of Monsters - Part 2

Now far outside Knightonia, Jestro and the Book of Monsters plan to find all of the evil books scattered around Knighton by the explosion from Merlok's spell. The first one they find, the Book of Evil, corrupts Jestro, giving him a much more evil appearance and making him feel evil. Jestro then summons the Lava Monsters.

### Season 2

#### Open Mike Knight

When he and the Book of Monsters arrive at the village of Funnyton, planning to find the Book of Betrayal, they find the entire town captivated by comedy instead. This leads to the Book suggesting they become comedians, and they end up doing so well that even the Nexo Knights enjoy their act.

While the Book insists they focus on using this for their own evil gain, Jestro starts to reconsider being evil at all, especially when the knights compliment his act and encourage him to stick with it. Taking it a step further when the Book is stolen, the knights even insist Jestro continue his act alone while they find it for him.

At first, he's nervous, feeling like he can't do anything without the Book, but everyone loves his jokes, restoring some of his self-confidence. Once the knights find the Book, it tries to convince Jestro that he's the "chosen one", which almost works, but the Book of Betrayal causes him to run off, and ultimately give the final spellbook to Clay instead.

#### The Fortrex and the Furious

Now working with the knights, he tells them what he can about the Book of Monsters' plan, though not much. When the Book comes after him, the knights form a plan to try to trick him while Jestro and Clay escape, but they end up being caught.

During a massive chase, Jestro sacrifices himself so Clay and the Book of Betrayal can still get away. He's tied up by the Lava Monsters, and taken back to the Monstrox's castle. There, the Book of Monsters reveals he's actually Monstrox, and needs Jestro to bring himself back in human form, using him as a pawn this whole time.

#### Kingdom of Heroes

However, when Clay comes to rescue him, they switch places, and Clay became the one chained up for the spell. Jestro runs outside, and helps guide the other Nexo Knights through the lair to the ceremony so they can put a stop to it. He even attempts to help them fight some of the smaller monsters. When Monstrox is defeated soon after, Jestro is removed of his corruption, and joins the celebration thanking the Nexo Knights for saving the realm. When he glances up at the sky, he thinks he sees Monstrox's face in the clouds, but brushes it off as nothing.

### Season 3

#### Prior to The Cloud

After Monstrox's defeat, Jestro became the weatherman on Knighton Morning, hosted by Lance Richmond. After his work hours, he was instructed by the king to go to the houses of Knighton and apologize for his actions.

#### The Cloud

As the weatherman, Jestro tried to explain the weather, but often ended up confusing the audience more than informing them, and frequently hit the screen displaying the weather too hard, causing his segment to end when it inevitably fell on top of him again.

When going around town, he mentioned that he had planned to just send cards, but King Halbert insisted he go door to door, as it's more "personal". However, most people were usually just annoyed by him instead.

One day, while out apologizing, he encountered a strange cloud, which quickly revealed itself to be Monstrox in a new form. He immediately panicked, and angrily refused Monstrox's request for Jestro to join him again.

Then, he tried to run away, but wasn't fast enough, and Monstrox was able to zap him with lightning, turning him evil once again. With the evil duo back together, the two head to a crumbling old castle in Ghoulia filled with stone statues, which Monstrox zaps to life to demonstrate his new ability.

The new Stone Monsters take them to the old castle, now being reopened as the "Lava Lands Amusement Center", and distracts Lance while he and Monstrox find Monstrox's old book cover and staff. They also retrieve Jestro's old Evil Mobile, which they use to make their escape from the Lava Lands along with the Monsters.

#### A Little Rusty

As they travel, Monstrox asks Jestro if he missed him. This causes Jestro to reminisce back to not even a few days ago, before he encountered Monstrox, and the lightning under his skin vanishes. He lies on the floor of the Evil Mobile, muttering about missing how everyone was nice to him, and his job as a weatherman, and how he felt good about himself, amongst other things.

Before he begins to question his evil ways, Monstrox zaps him again, causing the lightning in him to reappear and reinvigorating his evil. With Jestro's motivation back, Monstrox then explains Forbidden Powers to him, and helps him obtain the first one, Relentless Rust, when they find it.

#### Mount Thunderstrox

On their first trip to Mount Thunderstrox, they also encounter sculptor Roberto Arnoldi, who joins their army and sculpts new monsters for them.

### Season 4

#### The Gray Knight

When Clay is zapped evil by Monstrox, Jestro seems very enthusiastic about having Clay on his side, because he is happy to be on the same side as his former friend.

#### In His Majesty's Secret Service

He also immediately trusts "evil" Clay when he comes to their camp, despite Monstrox's suspicions, and is completely oblivious to Clay's act until Clay saves Robin.

#### Heart of Stone

Jestro and the Cloud of Monstrox become impatient, and decide to quickly find the last Forbidden Powers they need. However, Clay ends up going rogue again, and comes directly after Jestro, with the intent of actually killing him. This freaks Jestro out, and the Forbidden Power he had with him, Confounding Confusion, ends up being destroyed in Clay's wrath, though Macy Halbert distracts Clay so Jestro can get away.

#### Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Once Jestro and Monstrox manage to get the last Forbidden Power they need, they rush to take it up to Mount Thunderstrox. The Stone Monsters battle the Nexo Knights, distracting them while they run up the mountain. They complete the Standing Stones there, awakening the Stone Colossus.

#### March of the Colossus

Jestro accompanies Monstrox, now controlling the Stone Colossus, in his rampage towards the castle in Knightonia.

#### The Fall

Once the Colossus is defeated by Clay, Jestro is uncorrupted again. Rather than join in the victory celebrations again, however, Jestro and Roberto are forced to do community service to make up for their crimes, and have to clean up all the debris left from the Colossus.

### Season 5

***The following events occur in the unproduced Season 5, and thus, weren't seen to happen.***
After the fall of the Stone Colossus, Jestro was sentenced to community service with Roberto Arnoldi, where he swore never to do anything evil again. He was scared to see Monstrox again reborn as a digital virus.

During this time, Clay and Jestro would be estranged as friends, though he would still be away from the influence of Monstrox.

Monstrox, missing Jestro, would build a robot in his image, JestroBot, and they would soon be combined into JestroBorg. He would also find his strengths as a programmer to battle Monstrox within the system.

***Season 5 events end here.***

## References

1. ↑ *Character Encyclopedia*
2. ↑ "Knights of the Realm - Part 1"
3. ↑ "Knights of the Realm - Part 2"
4. ↑ "Jestro the Bad... the Really, Really Bad"
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1281581806026924032
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/989059457320652800
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1071760630586187776