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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Jason Compson IV
Age: 35
Canon: The Sound and the Fury (novel)
Canon Point: April 8th, 1928 (evening of the last chapter)
Character Information: The Wikipedia page summarizing The Sound and the Fury and the Compson Appendix. I have linked to the subheader for Jason’s chapter, but he appears throughout the book.
Personality: Jason's often described as cold-hearted, ruthless and brutal by the ones around him. He holds no warm feelings for a single other person, living or dead. He curses at his servants, hits his niece and brother and snaps at his bedridden mother. When he's not outright aggressive, he's passive-aggressive; his only gestures at kindness are obvious pretexts for malice later, such as offering a good cut of meat to Miss Quentin over dinner just so he can look kindly before he verbally harangues her. He writes hate mail to telegram companies, always sends collect and lies habitually for no good reason but just because he can. He gets off on making people grovel to him, if only because he feels so powerless elsewhere in his life.
Jason uses anger as a means of interacting with the world because he can’t properly process any other emotions, having repressed and denied them since childhood. The child of abusive parents and the younger sibling to at least one overachiever, Jason learned at a young age a pattern of behavior to get attention: act out against his siblings, get beaten or whipped by his father, be rescued by his mother and coddled. His mother played into this by setting Jason up to do things that would upset his father (such as having him tail and spy on Caddy), leading to further strife in the family and an opportunity for her to play up her role as Jason’s only protector. As such, as an adult Jason’s both unable to process emotion adequately (he cannot even recognize that he’s feeling grief at his father’s funeral) and devoted to his mother, even though he treats her with open hostility. Jason remains the prisoner of self-imposed chains because he refuses to stop supporting his mother, niece, disabled younger brother and alcoholic uncle, as well as the salaries of the servants that wait upon them.
Rather than receiving positive enforcement from personal interactions, Jason, ever an embodiment of toxic masculinity, derives his sole pleasures from hoarding money and purchasing people’s affections, such as his prostitute mistress’. Jason’s psychology lends itself to interpreting the world in terms of losses and gains, and as he was raised a rich white Southerner, now working a menial farming supply job while his older siblings received a substantial dowry and a Harvard education, he feels as if he’s been left at a substantial loss. The world, in Jason’s mind, owes him for the shitty childhood and adulthood he’s had to endure when he was promised so much more. Since Jason will never really get what he believes he deserves, he thinks himself a martyr, and takes every possible opportunity to remind others of how much he suffers and how unfair life has been to him. He truly believes himself to be the greatest victim of his family’s dysfunction, as well as of the systemic collapse of the Southern aristocracy, and sees himself as a loser in a zero-sum game against the advance of women and racial minorities.
All of this self-pity and unhappiness just fuels his sense of hopelessness and depression, and though Jason is never suicidal like his older brother, he has difficulty conceiving of the future and finds no beauty in the world. He’s quite nearly as miserable as he makes the people around him, and his explosive anger and sudden turns of nastiness are a sort of pressure-release for him. Unfortunately, because being nasty to people inevitably causes a backlash, Jason remains stuck with only taking people’s unpleasantness back at him as fuel for his well-tended victim complex.
Possibly Jason’s only saving grace is that he is both practical and humorous. He uses bitter sarcasm as a way to deflect emotion from otherwise serious or tragic events - for example, he refers to his father’s alcoholism and his brother’s suicide by stating that at Harvard they don’t teach you how to swim, and at his father’s alma mater they don’t teach you what water is. He’s clever, even though he ends up self-sabotaging more often than he’d ever admit, largely due to allowing his perceptions to be skewed by his sense of self-pity. Jason is “sane and rational” in that he sees the world in material terms, although an actual financial calculation of his exploits in his chapter of the book show that he allows his temper and pettiness to get the better of him more than not, such as neglecting his stock-watching to embezzle his sister’s checks even though he has more at stake in the stocks.
Jason’s misogynistic and racist even by the standards of the day and likes to deal in generalities. He frequently uses sexual and racial slurs. Naturally, I will content-warn if any of these come up and will always clear them by my thread partner beforehand. He also has an opt-out here.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Headstrong, Petty, Deceitful, Self-Pitying, Quickwitted, Pragmatic, Selfish, Paranoid, Depressed, Violent
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Either!
Opt-Outs: Vampire, Werewolf, Troll, Nymph, Faerie
Roleplay Sample: Ryslig TDM
Name: Lisa
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Other Characters: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Jason Compson IV
Age: 35
Canon: The Sound and the Fury (novel)
Canon Point: April 8th, 1928 (evening of the last chapter)
Character Information: The Wikipedia page summarizing The Sound and the Fury and the Compson Appendix. I have linked to the subheader for Jason’s chapter, but he appears throughout the book.
Personality: Jason's often described as cold-hearted, ruthless and brutal by the ones around him. He holds no warm feelings for a single other person, living or dead. He curses at his servants, hits his niece and brother and snaps at his bedridden mother. When he's not outright aggressive, he's passive-aggressive; his only gestures at kindness are obvious pretexts for malice later, such as offering a good cut of meat to Miss Quentin over dinner just so he can look kindly before he verbally harangues her. He writes hate mail to telegram companies, always sends collect and lies habitually for no good reason but just because he can. He gets off on making people grovel to him, if only because he feels so powerless elsewhere in his life.
Jason uses anger as a means of interacting with the world because he can’t properly process any other emotions, having repressed and denied them since childhood. The child of abusive parents and the younger sibling to at least one overachiever, Jason learned at a young age a pattern of behavior to get attention: act out against his siblings, get beaten or whipped by his father, be rescued by his mother and coddled. His mother played into this by setting Jason up to do things that would upset his father (such as having him tail and spy on Caddy), leading to further strife in the family and an opportunity for her to play up her role as Jason’s only protector. As such, as an adult Jason’s both unable to process emotion adequately (he cannot even recognize that he’s feeling grief at his father’s funeral) and devoted to his mother, even though he treats her with open hostility. Jason remains the prisoner of self-imposed chains because he refuses to stop supporting his mother, niece, disabled younger brother and alcoholic uncle, as well as the salaries of the servants that wait upon them.
Rather than receiving positive enforcement from personal interactions, Jason, ever an embodiment of toxic masculinity, derives his sole pleasures from hoarding money and purchasing people’s affections, such as his prostitute mistress’. Jason’s psychology lends itself to interpreting the world in terms of losses and gains, and as he was raised a rich white Southerner, now working a menial farming supply job while his older siblings received a substantial dowry and a Harvard education, he feels as if he’s been left at a substantial loss. The world, in Jason’s mind, owes him for the shitty childhood and adulthood he’s had to endure when he was promised so much more. Since Jason will never really get what he believes he deserves, he thinks himself a martyr, and takes every possible opportunity to remind others of how much he suffers and how unfair life has been to him. He truly believes himself to be the greatest victim of his family’s dysfunction, as well as of the systemic collapse of the Southern aristocracy, and sees himself as a loser in a zero-sum game against the advance of women and racial minorities.
All of this self-pity and unhappiness just fuels his sense of hopelessness and depression, and though Jason is never suicidal like his older brother, he has difficulty conceiving of the future and finds no beauty in the world. He’s quite nearly as miserable as he makes the people around him, and his explosive anger and sudden turns of nastiness are a sort of pressure-release for him. Unfortunately, because being nasty to people inevitably causes a backlash, Jason remains stuck with only taking people’s unpleasantness back at him as fuel for his well-tended victim complex.
Possibly Jason’s only saving grace is that he is both practical and humorous. He uses bitter sarcasm as a way to deflect emotion from otherwise serious or tragic events - for example, he refers to his father’s alcoholism and his brother’s suicide by stating that at Harvard they don’t teach you how to swim, and at his father’s alma mater they don’t teach you what water is. He’s clever, even though he ends up self-sabotaging more often than he’d ever admit, largely due to allowing his perceptions to be skewed by his sense of self-pity. Jason is “sane and rational” in that he sees the world in material terms, although an actual financial calculation of his exploits in his chapter of the book show that he allows his temper and pettiness to get the better of him more than not, such as neglecting his stock-watching to embezzle his sister’s checks even though he has more at stake in the stocks.
Jason’s misogynistic and racist even by the standards of the day and likes to deal in generalities. He frequently uses sexual and racial slurs. Naturally, I will content-warn if any of these come up and will always clear them by my thread partner beforehand. He also has an opt-out here.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Headstrong, Petty, Deceitful, Self-Pitying, Quickwitted, Pragmatic, Selfish, Paranoid, Depressed, Violent
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Either!
Opt-Outs: Vampire, Werewolf, Troll, Nymph, Faerie
Roleplay Sample: Ryslig TDM