Jackie Butcher

**Jackie** was the deuteragonist and a central character in Part 1 of the *Hitman Runnerman Novel* Series. He was the captain of unit X and had pacts with the Cursing Disorder, Slasher Disorder, Injustice Disorder, and a foregoing pact with Iris and the Hound Disorder.

During the events of the Mercy Disorder arc, he was force-possessed by the Sorrowing Disorder due to his pact with Iris, with the task of killing his sister and anyone in his way.

## Appearance

Jackie was a tall, young man with long black hair that went below his shoulders and had a notably defined masculine body. He had a lightly maintained scruffy beard with tiny scars across his face that further determined his virile appearance. His brown eyes complimented his tough-gloomy personality as noted by Graves.

He was often seen wearing the official A.A.D assigned suit over his shirt and tie. His most notable feature is that he has a missing right arm, he gave up his arm in order to follow the conditions in his pact with the Cursing Disorder.

### Possessed State

After he was possessed by the Sorrowing Disorder, the right side of his jaw and mouth remained exposed showing rotten bones and teeth. His body was elongated and he was visibly taller while the majority of his general appearance remain unchanged. His arms had grown back due to a disorder's natural healing factor and his eyes seemed ''sharper'' as stated by Graves, not being able to even recognize Jackie until the second wave of attacks.

## Personality

Jackie was generally shown to be a care-free, self disciplined and a confident man. At first, he was shown to prioritize himself and based his opinions and thoughts on people through their ranks. He was honest to the point and came off as blatantly arrogant and rude to most people he met, he called Graves a reusable meat shield for the organization's needs and claimed to show no empathy for the people he executed. When Graves compared their line of work, he condemned him and told him that a life of an executioner is noble while a dirty hitman like Graves takes others' lives for business. He was shown to put himself on a pedestal in that regard and was show to even ruthlessly torture a disorder with an ''edging exorcism'', prolonging its exorcism for a total of eighteen days before sending it back to the cluster.

While his demeanor as a person was disrespectful, he was very respected as the captain of unit X. Despite seeming unapproachable and strict amongst his comrades, he was shown to have a soft spot for them and prayed painstakingly when his teammates would die during an assignment. He worked hard to rise in ranks, making any pact at any cost to achieve his goal of saving his sister. He said he was not ready to die until his sister was in safe hands and that was his motivation to keep on surviving, he still took care of her after her possession despite his undying hate for disorders.

In spite of his first opinion on Graves, he grew closer to caring for him and Vamp, intentionally resigning them from the mission to capture the Mercy Disorder to keep them safe. Upon realizing the truth about Iris, he rethinks his final moments with Graves and Vamp, calling them ''a pain in the ass'' while subtly smiling.

As the novel progressed, Jackie showed to be willing to get more and more help from the people around him. Originally telling Graves that he would not save him regardless of what happens to him but proceeded to fight back against Rile to save his life. He also told him that he would not take help from ''someone as pathetic as him'' but impassively asked him for help against Widow, both instances showing that he trusted Graves with his life.

Jackie's motivation to hunt down disorders in the first place stemmed from the fact that he wanted to save his sister. He was shown to be vulnerable to his sister's life, giving into the Risk Disorder's illusions undeterred by his cocky personality. He teamed up with Lie in hopes of making a pact with the conditions of rewinding his sister to before she was possessed but ended up showing that he cared for him as revealed through his relationship with the disorder.

## Abilities

### Pre-Possession

#### Physical Abilities

* **Executioner's Sword Mastery**: As an executioner, Jackie showed immense proficiency in using an executioner's sword. He was capable of cutting off sentenced criminals' heads in less than three swings. After making a pact with the Slit Disorder in which the conditions gave his sword its abilities, he was noted to be more of a lethal threat by the people around him.
* **Exceptional Endurance**: Jackie showed incredible endurance when it came to battle, being able to survive and successfully utilize Graves during his encounter with Widow. Even being able to take an indirect hit from her and surviving it with internal bleeding. He was the last person to succumb to the Blindness Disorder's force, even managing to stay conscious despite the concerning loss of blood to try and kill it.

#### Pacts and Contracts

* **Cursing Disorder**: To date, Jackie had made only one known pact with the Disorder of Cursing. The pact was made under the condition that the disorder would provide Jackie's sword the ability to curse its target in exchange for one of Jackie's body parts. Each time Jackie used the blade, he had to give up a body part to feed the Cursing Disorder in order to fulfill the criteria of the pact.
	+ **Curse Inducement**: Jackie had the ability to curse a target as long as his victim was living, had a heartbeat and had a breath. The scale of the curse depended on how much of himself he would feed the disorder. To curse and exorcise a very dangerous disorder, Jackie had given up his right to arm to feed the Cursing Disorder in order to fulfill the criteria of his pact. He also gave up three toes to curse his sister's bullies as a child, unaware of how minacious it is to deal with a disorder.

* **Slasher Disorder**: To date, Jackie had made only one known pact with the Disorder of Sharp tools. The pact was made under the condition that the disorder would provide Jackie's sword the ability to instantaneously slash and cut open his opponents in exchange for feeding it a disorder's flesh per month. If Jackie failed to comply to the pact, his head would have been chopped down even a second late into the deadline.
	+ **Incision**: To use the disorder's abilities, Jackie would have had to touch his target's body part with his sword once and say the word ''cut'' at most thirteen seconds after doing so or the effect would be nullified. The target in this case should have had to been ''a physical entity'', which includes living organisms, inanimate objects and natural phenomena such as water or even wind. He would use the wind around him to create a gust of cuts which would deal fatal injuries to his opponents, as seen it was used against his fight with Widow.
* **Injustice Disorder**: To date, Jackie had made only one known pact with the Disorder of Injustice. After he lost his pact with the Hound Disorder, he was contacted by the A.A.D to get a new pact in pursuit of more strength. Due to the events of the May 7th Incident, Jackie's perception of what he saw as justice ended up deviating. The pact was made under the condition that the disorder would give Jackie the ability to perceive the world around him in various forms of senses; boosting his sense of smell, sight, touch and even identity in exchange to execute Eric Carson, an innocent captured war criminal from a neighboring nation who had a family to live for and who had been brutally tortured for eight days straight prior to the pact.
	+ **World Perception**: After fulfilling the conditions of the pact, Jackie's sense of self was sharpened greatly. Being able to differentiate between complex smells and memorizing unique scents, being able to see ''beyond the horizon'', being able to tell what ingredient is what with the food he would eat. He was able to guess through Iris' lies which surprised the disorder herself, praising Jackie to be able to see through the world for the first time before ''killing him''.
* **Hound Disorder**: To date, Jackie had made only one known pact with the Disorder of Hunting. The pact was made under the condition that the disorder would share its sense of vision with Jackie through his right eye in exchange for the young executioner to avoid ''seeing evil'' with the contracted eye. The pact was terminated after the Blindness Disorder took away Jackie's right eye.
	+ **Summoning**: According to the conditions of the pact, Jackie was allowed to see ''no evil'' with his right eye which included a chaste woman's bare body, pornography of any kind, gambling related activities, gluttony and other anti-religious tasks. As long as these circumstances were satisfied, Jackie had the power to summon the Hound Disorder by closing his non-contracted eye and staring at whatever he wants the disorder to bite by saying the word ''devour''. Jackie would have to say ''swallow'' in order for it to ingest it.
* **Iris**: To date, Jackie had made only one known pact with Iris or the Disorder of Mercy. The pact was force-made under the condition that Jackie would have to kill his sister and exorcise her in exchange for gaining the abilities of the Sorrowing Disorder by acting as its vessel of possession.

### Post-Possession

#### Physical Abilities

* **Exceptional Strength**: The Sorrowing Disorder showed impressive strength during its fight against Graves, being able to blow him back through blocks of buildings by just a kick, bursting his intestines from the pressure of the attack. The disorder's jump managed to break through the ground below it and send a violent wave of dust that shattered nearby structures.
* **Exceptional Endurance**: The disorder displayed immense durability during its encounter with Graves, managing to take his axe to the shoulder. Despite being cut from the chest up several times, it only smiled back at Graves while it caused havoc. In Iris' words, ''the disorder loves to cry, but bad things make it cry''.
* **Exceptional Speed**: The Sorrowing Disorder's speed was deadly, it was capable of traveling half-way across the country in under two seconds. It moved so fast, Graves was not able to make it out where and when it was moving, dashing faster than his head could process anything.

#### Disordered Abilities

* **Sorrow Inducement**: As a disorder that embodies sadness and sorrow, it had the ability to induce feelings of misery and despair into the hearts of people through causes of calamity, making it stronger from their overburdened emotions. It sucked up all the air in District-K during its attack in nearly an instant and blew out lung-burning wind to replace the atmosphere around it. It had the ability to compress space, being able to launch space-compressed lead that would rupture anything they touched. It decayed fresh plants and flowers through just its presence alone, killing as many lives as it can to feel the pleasure of sadness.
	+ **Calamity Inducement**: To spread dejection, calamity and massacre was needed. The disorder smiled while the world around it went to rubble, being able to affect nature's way of living through inducement of destruction.
* **Immortality**: Due to its nature as a disorder, death is not possible when it comes to them and they can only be exorcised back into the cluster. While exorcism is a painful process for many disorders, it is not the same as death because they can continue to escape the cluster time and time again. On account of this, disorders are immortal and can never actually die.

#### Pacts and Contracts

* **Veto Alliance**: The Sorrowing Disorder was captured in the year 1983 where its body was forced-fragmented and divided amongst the countries with Veto power. 22% of the disorder was given to the United States of America, 31% to the Soviet Union, 16% to China, 20% to Britain and 17% to France. The Veto Alliance treaty was signed in 1985 by all the major countries in agreement to keep the disorder captivated. The treaty was broken in 1995 when Russia launched an attack on Germany using the Sorrowing Disorder, sparking a worldwide war in hunting down the Disorder of Sorrow.

* **Iris**: To date, the Sorrowing Disorder has one known pact with Iris or the Disorder of Mercy. The pact was force-made under the condition that Iris would grant it freedom from the Soviet Union in return for possessing Jackie Butcher. The pact was terminated after Jackie's death.