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Player Information
Name: Pax
Age: 25+
Contact: forzare
Other Characters: n/a

Character Information
Name: John "Jack" Kearns
Canon: The Monstrumologist series
Canon Point: Isle of Blood, end of Chapter 43; he has just been killed by Will Henry.
Age: Mid-thirties.
History: Here.

* The greatest of warnings is that John "Jack" Kearns is a bold heckin' liar who has never, ever been up front about his life's history and never shall be.

* A self-described American mutt of sorts, though English-born. Supposedly, his mother was an Abolitionist and he, a precocious young thing with a mind for such things that got him tossed into an asylum by seventeen. He subsequently escaped after a three-year internment and his poor mother accidentally fell down the stairs a few days after her wayward son returned home.

* Attended the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel as a highly skilled and popular trauma surgeon. Whether this was following proper education or a simple application of his mind and falsified information was never quite made clear. He was exceptionally well-liked by the doctors and nurses on staff.

* While traveling, he met Pellinore Warthrop and his then-assistant, James Henry (father to one (1) Will Henry, narrator of the series), in the Brazilian Amazon. He basically invited himself along on tour and proved better to have with them than against them. They separated in Tanzania and did not meet again until 1888.

* In April 1888, he was contacted by Pellinore Warthrop for assistance on a case related to the anthropophagi of New Jerusalem. At this time, Kearns was residing in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C and had been for an unknown amount of time. On his way to New Jerusalem (located in modern-day Massachusetts), he kidnapped and drugged a sex worker and used her as bait when tasked with hunting down the matriarch of the anthrophagi enclave. They're ultimately successful, despite Kearns's shady business.

* He returns to Dorset Street, London and the newspapers assist Will Henry in drawing the conclusion that Kearns is the infamous Jack the Ripper when he kills his last (canonical) victim: Mary Jane Kelly.

* As a surgeon, he was introduced to a rare Monstrumological specimen, which he sent to New Jerusalem into the care of Pellinore Warthrop and swanned off to the island of Socotra in an effort to hunt down his proverbial "Minotaur", the supposed pack leader of the infected peoples of Socotra. Oh, he also set the British Secret Service, Russians and various other dangers on Warthrop and Will Henry in the process but no matter! It gets him stabbed in the throat in the end, which serves him right.

Personality:

Though it is said that “he who hunts monsters should see to it, that he himself does not become a monster”, there really is no accounting for the monster wearing the guise of a man. Kearns is such a monster, masquerading as a smooth-tongued and golden-auraed English gentleman of no real taste or concrete pleasures. Self-described as ‘easily bored’, he embodies that jolly good upper-class irreverence of Victorian England and uses it to mask a complete lack of moral code. As a surgical genius, he masquerades by day as a leonine fellow of the upper echelons and by night, massacres sex workers in the streets with an inhuman ferocity.

There is no such thing as morality, to Kearns. There is only action and inaction to satisfy his need to be for stimulation, and in them: truths that are found in the immediacy of the moment. What this means is privy to none but himself, but it proves to be a dangerous and elusive belief system that defines a lot of his movements. A master of masks and a liar to his core, Kearns displays a serpentine ability to mask, overwhelm and misdirect attention from himself through rich, seemingly vapid conversational ingenuity. While he presents himself as a jolly, smirking sort of playful creature, when his mask falls, he reveals himself a black, stark thing, more akin to a hungering void than a man.

He has no issue with causing pain, tormenting and-or killing humans, placing them on the same level as animals if not inferior to them. Claiming that humanity is only a form of animality that has learned of hypocrisy, he toys with people for his own fleeting enjoyment, manipulates them skillfully and goads them into moving to the tune he plays. Being that he’s gifted with intelligence, well-read and educated, it’s not a difficult task for him to outpace other people on an intellectual level, and barring that, gut them either physically or emotionally.

Kearns admires monsters, despises humans and often places himself in the grandiose position of ‘God’ in particular cases, revealing a disdain for faith that borders on an anarchistic level. He’s very much into the breakdown of morality, humanity and society, enjoying the chaotic rather than the orderly. Though he places himself in a position where he is the central dogmatic figure, he-who-defines-who-lives-and-who-dies, he is ultimately an amoral human being more monstrous than anything. He's written and positioned as a foil to the all-too-passionate-and-controlled Warthrop, as the bright-but-empty-whirlwind-of-chaos that a serial killing surgeon ought to be.

Abilities & Skills:

Kearns is a normal human who has gained his skills through education and experience. That being said, he has a number of particular skills that are important to note.

* Medical Experience - Kearns is a surgeon, albeit a surgeon from the 1800s; he's used to seeing the grime, grit, gristle, waste and offal the human body can and will produce in a time when speed was still kind of prioritized over pain management. He was known as a highly talented surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, meaning that his duties were less specialized than a modern surgeon and more an amalgamation of his intimate knowledge of anatomy and near-psychopathic ability to hurt the human body in pursuit of healing it.

* He Who Hunts (Monsters and Men) - a fantastic hunter, Kearns has experience with a variety of weaponry from the 1800's, including rifles, small arms and blades ranging from hoof scrapers to surgical equipment. He's a skilled enough fighter, utilizing his knowledge of anatomy to cripple, maim and kill off any threats to be sure. Due to his wanderings with Pellinore Warthrop, he has a general knowledge of monster anatomy - enough to be entirely capable (and often enough called upon) to kill them.

* Brimstone Intellect - Kearns is the devil you don't want to know; brilliant and gifted with a generalist's acumen in the way that a tride-and-true sociopath can be. He fixates on philosophy, death, religion and humanity in equal measures and looks down upon all of them. He is multilingual, well-read for the time period he comes from and capable of verbally dueling Pellinore Warthrop to a mutual standstill.

* Ye Of Wit and Charm - There's a reason he's managed to fly under the radar, in terms of capture and discovery, as Jack the Goddamn Ripper. He is funny, handsome and chameleonic in nature, capable of stringing someone along dumb and blind until they're lead into his kill zone.

Inventory/Companions:
* Typical late-1800s hunting attire; lightweight tweed, loose shirt with no jacket, canvas gaiters over sensible leather boots, etc.
* A large-calibre rifle.
* Hunting knife.
* A lot of (his) blood, except it's on the outside.

Choice: Monster.
Reason: Vampire! In The Monstrumologist canon, John "Jack" Kearns is the notorious and elusive Whitechapel murderer known as "Jack the Ripper". A surgeon and masterful hunter, the sheer meta of him being a vampire would be hilarious as there's also the historical legacy of "the Ripper" serving as the "symbol of predatory aristocracy", which is a role that fictional vampires also serve. He's a quasi-legendary historical murderer.

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Comments

(frozen comment) OPT-OUT INFORMATION.

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Due to the historical nature of a certain murderer, I'm providing a screened opt-out for the following reason(s):

1) Kearns is a mysogynist. I love ladies and lady-presenting characters, but Kearns views women with a level of contempt that could (and should!) make anyone uncomfortable. It's a very subtle thing, until it's not. If narrative or contextual misogyny, as well as what amounts to "historical femicide", is something you Do Not Want, please drop a comment. If there is a certain degree to which you're able to interact with such, also let me know and I will communicate/toe the line.

2) He's the worst.

3) He's really the worst.

4) More reasons to come, e.g. nature of the series (gore, despair, etc).

OPT-OUT COMMENT.

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1) completely opt-out of interacting with Kearns,

2) leave details of where your soft/hard limits are or any add'l information.

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