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PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Cirrus
ARE YOU AT LEAST 16 YEARS OLD?: Ya. 28.
CONTACT: Discord: Cirrus #3810
 CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Khada Jhin ( Western: Jhin Khada)
CANON: League Of Legends
CANON REFERENCE:
AGE: No canon age given. Assumed 35.
GENDER: Male
CHARACTER TYPE: Meta-human(previously), cybernetic(currently)
APPEARANCE:

PERSONALITY:
YEEHAW MOTHERFUCKERS, Y'ALL BOUT TO REGRET ME IF YOU AINT YET.

Anyway, I would like to state that in Jhin's original canon, the character hates himself and how he appears, and only feels confident and normal when wearing the costume he wears when murdering others. This can be seen directly in his color story when he states so while looking at and musing over his reflection in a mirror.

However(comma), I generally play Jhin as being more confident and narcissistic than that, based off of his quotes in game, which were released before his color story, and will very much incorporate that into his personality instead because I believed the self-loathing to be a cheap attempt to make a sociopath seem like a sympathetic villain.

HOWEVER(COMMA), considering in this AU, Jhin has died and was forcibly resurrected into a body NOT of his own design, I will introduce some of that self-loathing as, instead, bitterness and loathing for his cybernetic body, but he will still not outright hate himself.

Considering the nature of Jhin as a sociopathic/murderer, manipulator, and overall dangerous antagonist, I am very thorough and meticulous about the guidelines I follow when roleplaying him, and have an extremely clear view of how to play him. I really hope that Jhin can and will be used in plots to help drive the story along and keep things from getting stale. That said: TIME TO SUFFER!!!!!!
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To put it simply, Jhin is a very dangerous individual. Quite often, he's intentionally so, but his baseline behaviors also lend to a toxicity in how he engages with others that is equal parts unintentional.

He exhibits and acts regularly upon multiple common markers for Sociopathy, such as inverted or imbalanced anger in reaction to stimulation. Large things that would typically irk other people don't seem to bother Jhin too much, and he's quite skilled at either completely ignoring or being unresponsive to these stimuli, or he can approach it cooly and quickly enough to create an artificial response that would not only suit the situation, but benefit him one way or another. Examples of these might be interpersonal conflicts, or calamity in the environment around him. Conversely, small things, such as being late for dinner, moving books around the house, moving or tilting a painting, forgetting to do a task, or failing to listen to him in a conversation, will illicit wildly disproportionate anger responses. Temper tantrums such as yelling or slamming things open or closed, cold, cutting remarks, or passive aggression.

These traits stem from a display of control, specifically, his control over the environment.

Jhin is somewhat unique in that he isn't a creature that demands complete domination over his environment. He does not need to run a dictatorship in order to feel in control, and he isn't easily or immediately intimidated by the brief loss of it, as he's quite confident in his abilities to tip the scales back into his favor. Then again, he also doesn't need, nor want complete and total control. He is, in fact, quickly bored by that idea. He only prefers to be influential, rather than in complete control, as that fits better with the dynamic nature of art, itself.

Jhin is a manipulator that prefers to be more reactive to his environment, and is much better at redirecting the energy of an environment and bending it to his will. He sees as trying to create or force something to adhere to his wants is a waste of time and energy, and is often more transparent than being reactive. As such, he often leaves people to their own devices, and is one who tends to only nudge situations into favorable positions, and typically plays off of the emotional responses garnered when people begin to believe that the situation was their fault because they reacted.

In short, he subtly gaslights individuals a lot, and entices them, quietly, to put the noose on their neck for him. Sometimes he pulls the lever and drops the platform. Sometimes he prefers they do it for him.

This behavior comes from his want--his need to create a very specific atmosphere for the individual he chooses. He sees people as nothing. As canvases waiting for his brush. Without his attention, people are nothing worth noticing. When an individual is worth his attention, it's because he intends to kill them, and with Jhin, it's never as simple as putting a bullet in them.

Each victim--each canvas--is chosen for their potential. To him, they are ready for their fourth act. The final act. The curtain call. There is no specific set or list of traits, it's simply something Jhin is struck by and feels, much how an artist is struck by their muse to draw. But when he chooses to kill someone, it very much becomes a theatrical experience. Their death holds some meaning, idea, or vision that, as an artist, Jhin strives to convey to the audience. So, the circumstances leading up to, and surrounding their death must be exact. If he wants a high-profile target to die shrouded in an enigma, he will intervene and stir up controversy and uncertainty, and their death will both vilify and vindicate them, leaving the decision up to the eyes of the audience.

Jhin is quite fluid in how he executes these things, and he has little to no difficulty changing his tactics to meet the changing needs of a situation. He does get grumpy and irritated about it(and anyone interacting with him will note his agitation and how quick he'd be to snap at them over stupid things), but he does go with the flow, and work with the new circumstances to maintain that atmosphere leading up to their death.

It's when the 'script,' so to say, is broken, and he's denied the means or opportunity to set this atmosphere that he becomes enraged, though it's rare that his anger is explosive. It's frightening and sharp--he's an intimidating, dominating individual--but it's never loud. He will say cutting things, stir up drama around them, and possibly even harm them, but he never lets an idle bullet fly from Whisper. He kills often, and his whims are mercurial, but he only kills when inspiration and his muse dictates it. Not casually over petty squabbles. If pushed or cornered, though, he will fire non-lethal shots, but it isn't easy to push him to those extremes.

His anger is easiest to entice during a murder, wherein someone behaves in such a way that throws them wildly off of his intended script, and he has to rewrite it on the fly as he goes. He fucking hates that, but even then, he still doesn't idly waste bullets to punish them. He still has very explicit plans for how he intends to mutilate their corpse, and he doesn't want to ruin that because he's angry.

Another few traits that he exhibits is tied in with his fey and whimsical nature, and how unconcerned he is with consequences(for the most part, anyway). Sociopaths are typically very mercurial, and most psychology journals and articles list sociopaths as having difficulty committing to tasks unless the long-term goal serves to benefit or entertain them in some way, and most sociopaths tend to wildly ignore consequences by skirting around them by one means or another.

Jhin, as both an artist and murderer, is very mercurial and whimsical in nature. He has no set schedule, and loathes being forced into one. He holds down no regular job, nor does he even pretend to ever want one. He wakes, sleeps, eats, paints, reads, sculpts, gardens--all at his leisure. He does these things when and where he pleases, and with whom he pleases. He does things as the want strikes him, for as long as it entertains him to do so, and he'll suffer them not a second longer. Generally, as it applies to smaller tasks like painting or talking to someone, he'll disengage whenever he pleases, but he shows an uncanny level of commitment to creating, maintaining, and executing both the leading atmosphere, and the eventual murder of an individual.

Like some sociopaths, Jhin is wholly capable of faking entire romantic relationships(though it's rare he will, because that requires a lot of time and energy, and he might get distracted by another idea, or lose interest in this murder in the process), and willing to engage in sexual activity if it will yield the results he wants in the end(jhin is, otherwise, staunchly aromantic and asexual. The qualifier of grey in his asexuality stems from his willingness to do what he thinks best to achieve the atmosphere he wants. Otherwise, he really doesn't want or care for sex), and he will not sway from that facade for anything in the world.

Jhin's behavior always relies upon his flagrant disregard for consequence. It just does not apply to him, and never will, because he is an artist. A maestro. Individuals that aren't good enough to be noticed and killed by him don't matter. Their rituals and beliefs don't matter to him--they're just objects that enact upon his targets. So why should he care? Police forces are annoying at worst, and entertaining to evade at best, as he does often enjoy toying with the authorities and taunting them, or setting up one or two individuals for a little ditty--a small, spontaneous murder. Those that try to stop him and show any promise or interest are, often, wound around his fingers, and tangled in an obsession with him. They justify it as a need to stop him and prevent other deaths. Jhin sees them as his puppets to dance at his behest.

Jhin has lost fights before, and while angered, he isn't above fleeing as necessary to survive and try again. But. He was captured once(and once was all it took). Jhin drew upon his best acting skills and plead for pity, stating that he wanted to stop and couldn't and needed help(which was a lie, but Jhin wanted to survive, and if that's what it took, so be it. Jhin has no shame, nor is he too proud to try the tactic of convincing others he's a pitiful creature if need be or the situation dictates, because their opinions ultimately don't bother him). His life was spared on scene, and he was sent to a maximum security prison to be tried before a jury of peers as any other criminal would be. His pleads of insanity and instability would not save him, nor would his acting skills, but death did not entirely tame his ego. Not when his resurrection was only an act of greed and an exercise of control by the Douman Zaibatsu.

Jhin has one major shortcoming, though, that denies his ability to be labeled or diagnosed as a sociopath, and that being his ability to form relationships. It's so, so rare and requires extraordinary circumstances and individuals, and his relationships are often toxic and harmful to the other party, but he can.

This stems from one of Jhin's most defining cruxes: for his obsessiveness with murder and perfection in death, Jhin is as much in love with life as he is with death. The irony and love for this juxtaposition is something Jhin is keenly aware of, and often muses over, himself(please follow this link and read this post). He is an extremely passionate individual that loves what it is to be human. He loves the concepts of love, of hatred. Comedy, tragedy, deception, disgrace--the human condition enamors him, and he often wants to indulge in those things.

People, aside from his canvases, are objects--mostly. There are a few individuals with a strong enough personality and sense of self-confidence and will to tolerate him.

He is drawn to people as passionate and Machiavellian as himself. People who see what they want and take it without question or care, who pursue it ruthlessly and lovingly, and are in love with what and whom they are. Sometimes he's drawn to the weak-minded or uncertain, but only because he loves the idea of what they could be, or what he could make them become.

He does not seek, nor need validation, but he does easily get agitated at and with people who can't see and appreciate his genius. He sees them as lesser and not worth his time, but those that do, he tends to gravitate to. If they have a personality that can stand up to him, it's just a bonus. If not, oh well.

He generally gets bored, quickly, of people that can't match his personality, and Jhin tends to be a serial offender of narcissism and emotional whiplashing.

People often fall in love with and want to befriend the charmed image of his personality they get--of a passionate man who is absolutely gluttonous for everything life has to offer. A man who likes to cook exquisite meals for people, sketch them on summer afternoons. A man who will sing for them, who has his head in the clouds and stops to feel the planet breathe under his feet. A man who loves attention when he wants it, and loves the idea of romance such that he evokes it just to indulge in the atmosphere of it. A man that can speak volumes about an artist's passion and love for a poem, who will muse, lovingly, for hours over a poem. Who will dance in the moonlight with someone while humming a warm legato, simply because the moment overtook him and he wanted to. He needed to sweep them up in the moment with him. A man who loves to have his hair combed through, his back rubbed, feel kisses on his neck, or watch someone shudder under his fingers--when he wants it. Only. When he wants it. The second he is glutted or bored, he immediately cuts the other person off and goes to do more of what he wants to do, which often leaves others unsatisfied or reasonably upset.

Which isn't his problem. It's their problem. And he will not tolerate them whining to him for their problem, or demanding he fix their problem. Demands and pushing to do so will illicit his anger and ire, and he'll often say cutting things, or punish them subtly. As time wears on and this honeymoon phase of friendship passes, he becomes more and more demanding that the other satisfy his whims, and more and more scathing in his punishments when the other asks for more than he wants to give. He makes others hesitant to ask for their wants, because they want Jhin in their life more than they want whatever stimulus they want. And they want Jhin in their life more because the highs are sky high, but the lows are terrifyingly stressful.

People often tolerate Jhin and stick around him because the lows start out very short and fleeting, as if he just had a bad day, or he's in a bad mood. It happens to a lot of people. But slowly, imperceptibly, these lows get longer and more stressful, but the highs are just as drunkeningly high, and people aren't wont to easily give that up or walk away from it.

Those who can reasonably and consistently brush off his narcissism and/or match his temper and whiplashing, and still want him around and is someone Jhin wants to keep around, his personality never breaks, but it does yield. Subtly. And in different ways, depending on the person and the circumstances of their relationship.

Another key difference is that Jhin rarely ever lies, which also plays into why people can often be so enamored with him--or, the idea of Jhin.

If asked a question--any question, even if it's to question whether or not he will murder a person, his answer will always be honest and frank(unless he suspects there's foul play at hand, but even then, he isn't wont to lie as much as he might be to evade), and he will give that answer unapologetically. In this way, people fall in love more with this man who stays behind a mask, because this masked man is more honest and raw than the bare-faced people they deal with so often, which is a very refreshing concept to people. Especially those who feel jaded by humanity.

Jhin also, though, has a tendency to create a character, spontaneously, and act as that character in real life. As if he really, truly were this person he just made up.

Usually he does so out of boredom, but he often forms bonds with other people and this character just to make the charade more true. Often times, these characters are presented at face-value to people whose company he enjoys, and he'll outright tell them it's just a character he's pretending to be, and it's usually a weird, but charming thing. Strangers either are or are not let in on the truth of the matter, depending on how interested he is or is not to extend and deepen the charade further than a day--maybe a week at most.

Most people should pray Jhin doesn't take any interest in them, though, for his attention--ESPECIALLY his favor and want to be friends or have a person in his life--is a sealed guarantee that he WILL murder them.

"This is my love," to directly quote Jhin. "Each bullet is a piece of me," he says. And this is very much true. To immortalize someone by murdering them--by showing them that they're worthy of his attention, his time and effort and willingness to put their names on the tongues and in the hearts of a nation..that is the greatest gift he can give. It is his love. No matter how close he gets, his hand will never hesitate. No matter how much he misses an individual, he will never regret killing them, or be any less proud, happy, or satisfied. If given the opportunity, he would always kill them again.

The only way to win is to really just avoid him.

POWERS & ABILITIES:
Jhin was once a meta-human, though he was unaffiliated with both the NSO and the Douman Zaibatsu. He was a free-lance artist, so to say.

Jhin is capable of manipulating and rearranging the human body by way of rapidly growing cancerous cells.

To do so requires infecting another human(technically it DOES work on animals, but Jhin has no interest) by way of his blood coming into contact with an open wound. Epidermoid, fatty, muscular, vascular, mucousal, organ, and visceral tissue all have different reactions, and no two bodies will ever react and deform in the same way. The same body will likewise never become deformed the same way twice, were it possible to affect a singular target twice.

Contact with these cancerous cells and growths post-humously will not affect other individuals, unless traces of his blood are left behind and come into contact with an individual by second-hand means of contact.

Jhin does not appear to be affected by his own mutation.

By way of careful years of experimentation and practice, he has learned how best to manipulate and influence the outcome of these growths to suit his artistic vision. However, during the onset of puberty, a secondary ability of kinesis in regards to tissue his blood has infected developed, and since then, all of these growths bear uncanny resemblances to flora.... Carnal flowers with fatty tissue, winding trees with bone and enamel, and exploding red lotuses with organ tissue. The list can, and does go on.

Upon initial onset of the infection, it is unclear if the injuries Jhin inflicts is what more often kills the target, or if the explosive growths account for more deaths. Though there are occasions where an individual is still somehow alive after infection and the rapid growth(within thirty seconds, the target's body explodes and rearranges itself with rapid cell development) stage. Case files detailing the states that briefly-surviving victims have been encountered in are various, and show no real pattern.

Unrelated to his meta-human powers, but Jhin is a very capable ployglot, painter, potter, writer, weaver, tailor, dancer, acrobat--he excels in nearly all of the arts, and died before his body began to slow down too much and made it too difficult to perform the breath-taking feats of parkour he once did. He's a very good smith and engineer, as he made his own dagger, masks, throwing knives, grenades, smoke/flashbang cannisters, and even the lotus traps seen in the Awaken video(those utilize palpable light, akin to the blades of lightsabers, to melt skin and hold fast to bone until the metal petals of the traps close around the limbs).

Jhin is a deadly genius whose mind is only satiated by his games of cat and mouse, especially with his favored mice.

AU HISTORY:
Jhin was born with no complications, and it was purely by chance that he didn't kill his parents and sibling sooner. Or maybe his innate ability hadn't yet developed. When exactly his abilities became apparent to himself remains a blur--he recalls a cat scratch, yowling and screaming, and a maimed(but still living) cat, but that's his first clear recollection of seeing something react so violently, and only later was he even able to pin it on his abilities.

He was a quiet, calculated, and deliberate child, though. In fact, he was the favorite of his parents, and most adults absolutely fawned over how well-behaved and easily managed he was, so it wasn't idly that those around him were affected by it once he started to take notice of it.

Jhin and his sister weren't dirt poor--his family was able to keep its head above the water with more ease than most other families around him, and as such lived comfortably(for the most part--there were long swaths of lean times on occasion, too, and he was no stranger to moving due to an inability to pay rent) in the middle ward. His parents were metal workers and technicians, doing repair work and cleverly pulling strings. They sold what they had to to get by, even if that meant selling theirselves to obtain and provide. In this way, they created a functioning network and were able to take on commission work on occasion for mayors or other small-time figures of authority until they could save up enough money to own and run their own business.

Jhin initially left because he cared nothing for money or influence or crawling along whatever social ladders his parents struggled to create. He had an innate talent for manipulating those around him, but he would immediately sabotage himself and his family's pursuits all because he suddenly grew bored with trying to wring a client's purse. Jhin only wanted the thrill of seeing how well he could maintain an illusion to clients, or to work in the smith and forge and create brilliant bronze roses or delicate copper butterflies, and possibly sell them as trinkets, but then he grew far too possessive of these things he made, and wasted too much material.

A rift grew between him and his family, especially between him and his father, as he made it clearer that this world they knew was too small for him. The glittering walls and flashing lights, the vehicles flying overhead and dull roar of a crowd living in two places at once and always being watched felt hollow and empty to him. These people were alive, but they didn't live. His father expected Jhin to carry on as successor to the business, but Jhin expressed more and more he wanted nothing to do with daily routines, mindless cycles, data-entry, repair jobs, rules, begging. He tried to just walk away and leave, but that wasn't an option. Jhin's father wouldn't allow leaving to be an option, and that was Jhin's first murder, at the age of 11. His father was followed closely by his mother and sister, and their bodies were all nothing but blooming masses of flesh in his wake.

Jhin then found and traveled with a group of brutal performers showing off exotic animals in wild costumes, flew dangerously through cages and flamethrowers, sold orgies and drugs during light shows, but Jhin's expertise was the creation of immersive plays. Virtual experiences where fools could play the parts of characters in his plays by wearing goggles and suits, and listening to the ebb and flow of his voice as he performed and walked them through these performances. But that was only by night. By day, Jhin was often miles away, stalking the streets and starting small at first. One or two dead mutilated corpses. Then five or six every few weeks. Then every other night. Until he broke away from following the carnal theater(it was far too boorish for him anyway, and he no longer needed it as a crutch as he began exploring his preferred medium and personal artistic style) all together.

Five or six inflated into dozens within a month, and entire swaths of neighborhoods would be decimated over night. Typically the boonies that crawled throughout the last ward's parish, but as years passed and Jhin grew into and perfected his talents, his mass murders began to target and terrorize the commercial district. The residential areas. The middle ward.

As he started to crawl with maddening ecstasy and anticipation towards the central ward, and more people learned of The Golden Demon, as civilians had come to call him in the past decade, powerful people wanted to own this man and his grisly talents. Because The Golden Demon, occasionally, could be called upon as an assassin, but as kingpins and CEOs quickly learned, The Golden Demon was not an assassin one called upon for a quick and quiet death. There was never only a single fatality wherein he was concerned, and everyone would find the victims within hours, giving others no time to move assets or prepare for the shifts in the stock markets the next morning, no. The Golden Demon was called upon when one wanted to leave a message. He was a terrorist that could no be swayed.

The NSO and Douman Zaibatsu alike have all tried on multiple occasions to 'commission' The Golden Demon, as he puts it, but they quickly learned how fickle this serial killer was, and that he cared nothing for anything they could promise him. They were often turned down. Dirty cops, political officials, business men and dying men alike have all tried, but few ever succeed in earning the title of 'customer' to The Golden Demon. The Douman Zaibatsu, especially, took such flagrant lack of control over so valuable an asset very poorly, but they had ways. Fear crept in as everyone who once tried to command and control The Demon as they would any other greedy assassin realized that they had no control at all, and could just as easily become targets as they had once been prospective customers.

Both the NSO and Douman Zaibatsu quietly turned on Jhin when it became clear that he held no allegiance or sway, and could not be bought. They both conspired to put him down as they would any other menace to society. When finally The Golden Demon was captured, his trial and execution were highly publicized and televised. The Golden Demon was revealed to only be an unknown man that went by the moniker Khada Jhin, and there were no surviving records of his identity otherwise to be had anywhere(which was in and of itself strange).

Many people realized that they had, at some point, come across and known this man, and were shocked to learn such a charming man could've ever been such a grisly serial killer. Only those precious few victims that made it out as barely-alive, traumatized husks of humans could ever understand.

His tale did not end there, however. The Douman Zaibatsu still coveted this talented assassin to maintain their control over the wards, prospective customers, and business 'partners' that started to get a little too bold, and showed just how much power they truly had.

They made a new body for the corpse they exhumed and resurrected, kept Jhin alive and in good condition, and afterwards, when his chassis was ready, butchered his body until only what was deemed necessary to his talents was left and placed into a robotic body.

Five years later, unbeknownst to, and unrecognized by most of the public, The Golden Demon still survives.


SAMPLES
https://neosapienooc.dreamwidth.org/935.html?thread=323495#cmt323495

I have more samples if needed on the tumblr blog I initially made to roleplay him, and can retrieve those as a sample of consistency, but they do not reflect the settings of this AU.

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