Inspector Javert

Javert is currently serving as an Enforcer in Lab of Nature. Part of his privileges includes the ability to travel to any floor using a limited-access elevator, and he is also able to enter and exit other players' cells at will.

By opting into this post, you are choosing to allow Javert to enter your room while your character(s) are away and sift through your things for interesting personal information. The information relevant to his interests is anything that can be used against your character to elicit more suffering/generation of 'Light' for the scientists of the Lab.

All you need to do is reply below with permission for your character(s) along with potential findings he can dig up. Alternatively, if you'd like to keep it 'secret' from other players' eyes, you can DM me or reach out to me on plurk chickenfriend with the information. I'll reply to you with the date he takes anything from your room (if he does), so your character can react accordingly.

If you do not reply to this post, I will assume permission has not been granted and will not raid your character's room unless otherwise discussed. I will also not make any assumptions about finding anything relevant to your character's deep dark secrets worries and pains unless he witnesses it or draws wrong conclusions firsthand.

Thanks, folks!

🦋 Player

Name: Larissa
Active Times/Pace: I tend to be most active in the afternoons (eastern US time), some evenings. I try to hit back all open and active threads at least once per day, but occasionally I'll have the energy to boomerang, too.
Brackets/Prose: I roll with both!
Offensive Subjects & Triggers to Avoid: Honestly, almost anything goes for me. If you are not sure you can contact me ahead of time just to be safe, but in most cases I'm willing to go as dark and awful as you'd like to. I have fun tackling really dire subject matter.

🦋 In Character

Physical Affection: Go for it! But it'll probably confuse and confound Javert.
Physical Violence: Absolutely, yes. I eat fictional violence for breakfast.
Relationships: I really enjoy shipping with Javert, but I tend to take a very complex and often unforgiving angle. Javert is an extremely troubled character who needs a lot of work before he's capable of having healthy romantic relationships, so he may be inclined towards some toxic traits while expressing and giving in to his fondness. This is absolutely a case-by-case basis, though, and if he finds your character attractive, he is capable of becoming a very loyal and devoted partner to a fault. I'm also a fan of complex friendships and frenemies, too! Negative CR is some of my lifeblood!
NPC Interaction: YES please!
Psychic & Psionic Information: If your character is psychic, please give me a heads up and I will be happy to describe Javert's mental state within the thread. It's hard for me to cover everything that'd be on his mind in a permissions post, and I want to make sure you get the experience you want out of it. So as long as I know about it I'll give you some food to work with.
Magical Information: Same as above for psychic characters! Javert has no magic of his own except for what the Fae have given him, so he will not have any defenses against magic at the start of the game.
Medical Information: Javert is a victim of suicide by drowning, and he'll have some marks from his experience, including bruised ribs. He's also worked for decades as a grizzled police officer in the streets of Paris and suffered the standard abuses associated with the job, including the odd knife shanking and lashes on his back from his youth. These are mostly presenting as very old scars on his body, unlikely to be seen unless he happens to be shirtless for some godforsaken reason.
Offensive Subjects & Triggers Associated with This Character: Javert is a victim of suicide by drowning, and a lot of his most triggering subject matter will deal with themes of self-hatred, depression, mental distress, emotional turmoil, listlessness, and self-destruction. I will do my best to be courteous and content warn, as well as reach out to my RP partners if I'm seeing a thread head towards a very dark direction. If you're ever uncomfortable with the subject matter in our threads, give me a heads up and I can edit or redirect as needed.

Additionally, Javert is canonically a racial minority (at least half-Romani), and he has experienced racism. He has a tendency toward harboring his own internalized racism about his heritage, but I do my best to side-step this characteristic about him when it mostly has no relevance in RP. It's just something to be aware of if your character brings up anything Romani-stereotype-adjacent.

🦋 Out Of Character

Backtagging: Absolutely!
Threadhopping: ANYTIME I thrive with this!
Fourthwalling: Sure, but give me a heads up first!
Not Interested In: Anything goes. I'm serious. Give me your negative and positive CR, Ill take it all!

If you wish to opt out of tagging Javert or opt out of having Javert tag your characters, please comment below on which characters, journals, and games apply. I know the nature of Javert's character can be triggering if his past comes up, so if for any reason this makes you uncomfortable, let me know!

All comments are screened. Thanks for giving me a heads up!

EDIT May 31, 2020: With regard to current events, I understand if you at all feel uncomfortable getting tagged by an establishment-inclined cop character. If you don't want to be exposed to this kind of content, please, please, I urge you to use my opt-out below. I am not at all my character, and I do not condone police actions in the US in response to protests. I want to keep everything fun for everyone!

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Larissa
AGE: 32
CONTACT: Plurk kriskristofferson
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
RESERVED? No

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Javert
CANON: Victor Hugo’s novel-verse of Les Misérables
CANON POINT: Post-suicide. Or mid-suicide; perhaps he’s failed and was spirited away by the Fae before the act was complete. He won’t know the difference, and the memories of burning lungs and sewage-tinged, muddy rapids will forever haunt his nightmares.
AGE: 52

HISTORY: Javert's Shiny Wiki Link but I’m happy to provide supplemental, detailed history (including some headcanon) if necessary.

PAST GAME MEMORIES: N/A

PERSONALITY: Javert is a walking paradox, his complete character far more complex than the sum of his parts. There exists in him several facets: the man on the surface, described by Victor Hugo in prose; the man shown to us, described by his actions and speech; and finally, the man he becomes the night he takes his own life.

Prior to his suicide, Javert was utterly devoted to the Law. His only joy was to uphold and enforce law and order. He hated crime with a passion – each criminal was just as bad as any other criminal in his eyes, and the severity of the crime committed or its extenuating circumstances mattered little. Javert was the type of man that would turn in his own child if he slit a throat or jail his own wife for theft without a moment's hesitation. He had extreme respect for authority and a blind faith in his superiors. He was hardworking and brutally honest to the point of abruptness. He was just as harsh to himself as he was on everyone else; his admirable integrity and perseverance pulled him out of the streets, and he knew that one slip in his behavior, one blight in his record would throw him off his pedestal. That made him a fair man, at least, if not a kind one.

Javert's life was his work. He was not known to have much in the way of friends, and he had no family. He peered in on society from the outside with the full cognizance that he would never become a part of it. Yet rather than choose to destroy it out of some misguided revenge, he was strong enough to protect it as a police officer. He did not indulge in any vices and outright denied himself human intimacy. He read in his rare free time, but strictly to educate himself. Every now and then, when he felt particularly proud of himself, he would take a pinch of snuff, thereby proving his humanity.

This was the man described to us. The man shown to us hinted at something more… feisty.

For enjoying the oft-begrudged work of a lowly police inspector did not mean he was simply another mindless robot to the government. In fact, unlike many of his bureaucratic colleagues, he had a rather dark, wry, and outright sassy sense of humor that extended its claws in the most dire of situations. He was flamboyant in how he executed his arrests, exhibiting a certain artistry that he strove to perfect. Most of his work was done with a spectacular flair for the dramatic. He behaved as if he was orchestrating his own personal circus of criminal captures. He positively delighted in his work, and his unique passion showed in his dedication and verve. But keep in mind that despite his eccentricities, Javert was a relentless perfectionist, always thorough, always fastidious, never delivering a criminal until he was absolutely certain he could pull off a grand dénouement and a solid case.

In terms of interpersonal relationships, Javert is a difficult shell to crack. It takes a hell of a lot to get close enough, but once he swears fealty, he will abide by his promise for life with strict honor.

Yet on the night of his suicide, a convict named Jean Valjean spared Javert's life, and something inside of him changed irrevocably.

All his life, Javert was unyielding and above reproach. He did not doubt. He was proud, he held his head high, completely assured and ashamed of nothing. But his black and white, very simple world fell out from beneath him in one fell swoop, and he no longer understood the universe in which he lived. His entire understanding of law, order, and the universe flipped inside out. A part of him realized that Valjean, a criminal, a man who he always believed deserved nothing better than perpetual hard labor, was a man worthy of veneration and respect for his mercy and the genuine good he had given the world. It was a criminal who was also a saint; a thief who was also a good man. It was a new shade of gray that colored every single interaction he ever had with a criminal, and opened up to him the possibility that criminals may have —dare he say—just and kind motivations. This horrified Javert, who could not integrate this new information with his world view. He could not arrest Valjean and deliver him to the law, his conscience would not allow it. He could not return to work without arresting Valjean, that made him unworthy of his badge. So what order should he have bowed to? The supreme being, God's authority, whom he never before considered very deeply?

Javert's two paths were impossible, irreconcilable. He rejected his options and selected a third out: resignation from work, resignation from the world, resignation to God. He killed himself.

Thus will begin Javert's experiences in Ainmhian, with a single narrowed eye begrudgingly open to the gray 'middle ground' between good and bad, right and wrong. He will still exhibit mostly the same (unpleasant) personality traits of the man he was in life, but now, he simply does not understand where he fits in this world. His first big struggle will be to work through his cognitive dissonance over his shattered world view, discover what it is he is meant to do and channel it productively. Presumably seeking out simple, menial work to occupy his body and mind in the meanwhile will be his first priority, after settling in and realizing the futility of longing for the grave. But until he is able to reconcile his new and frightening realizations with his life's calling in police work and investigations, he will remain uncertain and doubtful.

Moving past his initial shock and post-traumatic stress, then, Javert will begin his ‘afterlife’ as a deeply emotional and highly disturbed individual encased in iron-clad self control. On the outside, he is cold, calm, disarmingly self-assured, and always ready with a sassy quip. Yet inside he is a veritable mess, constantly second-guessing himself, constantly displeased, constantly confused... and fatalistically learning to accept his outcomes as a form of punishment for his oversights in the past.

POWERS/ABILITIES: Just a sharp wit, excellent deductive capabilities, and hawkish eye, mostly garnered from his years of experience as a police officer. Nothing superhuman, though his quarry would sometimes argue he bore the mystique and magic of the devil himself with some of his more theatrical arrests. There were always rumors that perhaps he did have a thread of sorcery in him, considering his half-gypsy blood.

SAMPLES: Entries in the Test Drive Meme

ANYTHING ELSE? Nothing comes to mind!

CONTENT WARNING: This character deals with themes of successful suicide and suicidal ideation. Please proceed with caution if you are sensitive. Thank you!


OOC INFORMATION
Name: Larissa
Contact: chickenfriend discord @ chiknfriend
Age: I’m 36!
Other Characters: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Javert
Age: Eternally 52 in looks (though he's hit several birthdays during his time in Ryslig previously and has existed for about 55/56 years)
Canon: Les Misérables (Novel)
Canon Point: Post-Suicide
Character Information: Javert’s Wiki Link

Personality: Javert is a walking paradox, his complete character far more complex than the sum of his parts. There exists in him several facets: the man on the surface, described by Victor Hugo in prose; the man shown to us, described by his actions and speech; and finally, the man he becomes the night he takes his own life.

Prior to his suicide, Javert was utterly devoted to the Law. His only joy was to uphold and enforce law and order. He hated crime with a passion – each criminal was just as bad as any other criminal in his eyes, and the severity of the crime committed or its extenuating circumstances mattered little. Javert was the type of man that would turn in his own child if he slit a throat or jail his own wife for theft without a moment's hesitation. He had extreme respect for authority and a blind faith in his superiors. He was hardworking and brutally honest to the point of abruptness. He possessed an eagle eye and always took care to tie his cases in a neat little bow; he left not a single question unanswered, not a single detail unexplained. He was just as harsh to himself as he was on everyone else; his admirable integrity and perseverance pulled him out of the streets, and he knew that one slip in his behavior, one blight in his record would throw him off his pedestal. That made him a fair man, at least, if not a kind one.

Javert's life was his work. He was not known to have much in the way of friends, and he had no family. He peered in on society from the outside with the full cognizance that he would never become a part of it. Yet rather than choose to destroy it out of some misguided revenge, he was strong enough to protect it as a police officer. He became an expert in France's criminal underbelly; he observed carefully from the shadows for any hint of transgression against well-to-do citizens. He did not indulge in any vices and outright denied himself human intimacy. He read in his rare free time strictly to educate himself. Every now and then, when he felt particularly proud of himself, he would take a pinch of snuff, thereby proving his humanity.

This was the man described to us. The man shown to us hinted at something more… feisty.

For enjoying the oft-begrudged work of a lowly police inspector did not mean he was simply another mindless robot to the government. In fact, unlike many of his bureaucratic colleagues, he had a rather dark, wry, and outright sassy sense of humor that extended its claws in the most dire of situations. He was flamboyant in how he executed his arrests, exhibiting a certain artistry that he strove to perfect. He gleefully banters with his quarry and the worst of his enemies, his tongue just as sharp as his unyielding nature. Most of his work was done with a spectacular flair for the dramatic. He behaved as if he was orchestrating his own personal circus of criminal captures. He positively delighted in his work, and his unique passion showed in his dedication and verve. But keep in mind that despite his eccentricities, Javert was a relentless perfectionist, always thorough, always fastidious, never delivering a criminal until he was absolutely certain he could pull off a grand dénouement and a solid case.

In terms of interpersonal relationships, Javert is a difficult shell to crack. It takes a hell of a lot to get close enough, but once he swears fealty, he abides by his promise with strict honor. This implies that it is, indeed, possible to squirm into a place in his heart, despite appearances, and hints at a certain amount of passion and sensitivity regarding loyalty and honor of his closest allies.

Yet on the night of his suicide, a convict named Jean Valjean -- a man whom he doggedly hunted across decades -- spared Javert's life, and something inside of him changed irrevocably.

All his life, Javert was unyielding and above reproach. He did not doubt. He was proud, he held his head high, completely assured and ashamed of nothing. But his black and white, very simple world fell out from beneath him in one fell swoop, and he no longer understood the universe in which he lived. His entire understanding of law, order, and the universe flipped inside out. A part of him realized that Valjean, a criminal, a man who he always believed deserved nothing better than perpetual hard labor, was a man worthy of veneration and respect for his mercy and the genuine good he had given the world. It was a criminal who was also a saint; a thief who was also a good man. It was a new shade of gray that colored every single interaction he ever had with a criminal, and opened up to him the possibility that criminals may have —dare he say—just and kind motivations. This horrified Javert, who could not integrate this new information with his world view. He could not arrest Valjean and deliver him to the law, his conscience would not allow it. He could not return to work without arresting Valjean, that made him unworthy of his badge. So what order should he have bowed to? The supreme being, God's authority, whom he never before considered very deeply?

Javert's two paths were impossible, irreconcilable. He rejected his options and selected a third out: resignation from work, resignation from the world, resignation to God. He killed himself.

Thus will begin Javert's experiences in Ryslig with a single narrowed eye begrudgingly open to the gray 'middle ground' between good and bad, right and wrong. He will still exhibit mostly the same (unpleasant) personality traits of the man he was in life, but now, he simply does not understand where he fits in this world, compounded by the frightening changes in himself that he will be doomed to endure. His first big struggle will be to work through his cognitive dissonance over his shattered world view, discover what it is he is meant to do and channel it productively. Presumably seeking out simple, menial work to occupy his body and mind in the meanwhile will be his first priority. After that, he will have to contend with his waning humanity as a horrific consequence of his life's failures.

Moving past his initial shock and post-traumatic stress, Javert will begin his ‘afterlife’/monster life as a deeply emotional and highly disturbed individual encased in iron-clad self control. On the outside, he is cold, calm, disarmingly self-assured, and always ready with a sassy quip. Yet inside he is a veritable mess, constantly second-guessing himself, constantly displeased, constantly confused... and fatalistically learning to accept his outcomes as a form of punishment for his oversights in the past.

After three and a half full years on Ryslig peninsula, Javert has come around to accept his station as a Monster against men. He slowly grew embittered against humanity through his own experiences fighting monster hunters and poachers, and lost faith that any one of the lost souls of Ryslig deserve anything less than misery, violence, and death. This is his punishment; this is all of their punishment. He pledged himself to the Fog and rose through the ranks to become one of Her most devout Priests, and in the process, suffered enough deaths to forget a sizable portion of his human life. He still retains the same personality traits through it all, and whenever he is reminded of the glimmers of humanity slumbering deep inside his heart, he must force himself to quash it with all the despair of someone who lost all hope in his future.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Self-destructive
+ Observant
- (Melo)dramatic
- Uncompromising
+/- Impassioned
- Severe
+ Sharp-witted
+ Dedicated
+ Principled
+/- Enigmatic

Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either. I love surprises, but I’d love for it to be a great (but unexpected) fit or a completely off-the-wall conflict to cope with. Javert is a Vampire
Opt-Outs: Slime, Harpy, Pooka, Arachne, Troll, Naga Javert was sorted as Vampire and will return as a vampire.

Roleplay Sample:

Fourth Wall event with Robin
Fourth Wall with Rey
Fourth Wall with Hawkeye and Lup