IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Jezebel Disraeli
Canon: Godchild/The Cain Saga
Canon Point: Post-canon

In-Game Tattoo Placement: On his chest, directly over his sternum
Current Health/Status: Dead; previously suffered from an unnamed ailment that affected his lungs & digestive system, which made him physically weak/thin/pale.
Age: 27
Species: Human

Content Warnings: Jezebel's canon contains heavy amounts of violence and gore, as well as: child abuse, sexual assault, torture, cults, themes of Satanic rituals and human sacrifice, domestic abuse, animal abuse, self-harm, incest -- basically, most major triggers can be found somewhere in the Godchild manga.

History: Contains massive spoilers for the Godchild/Cain Saga series

Jezebel was born the bastard son of Earl Alexis Hargreaves and, for the first several years of his life, had a happy childhood living with his mother and sisters and being regularly visited by his father. He was a very sweet, caring child, but also very sickly from an unnamed disease that made him very frail.

His childhood took a dark turn when his sisters both disappeared, supposedly to go live with their father. Jezebel did not ever piece together that anything was wrong, especially since he was doted on by their father for being his only son, with talks that Jezebel would be legitimized so that his father would have an heir.

Things changed drastically when Jezebel was about ten years' old, when he had a surgery to cure his childhood ailments. The surgery was successful, and he went to live with his father and begin learning medicine. However, it was not long before his father dropped several cruel bombshells: firstly, he tricked Jezebel into eating the meat of a lamb he had kept as a pet for his entire childhood. He then revealed in quick succession that, 1) he now had another son, one who would be raised as his legitimate heir, 2) his mother and sisters were dead, 3) the surgery he'd undergone had been an organ replacement -- with the organs taken from his sisters, who'd been sacrificed in order to keep him alive.

These revelations psychologically broke Jezebel, and he was never the same. He was brought to feel that he was damned for the deaths of his sisters, and grew up deeply resenting his half-brother Cain. His father raised him to be a doctor and surgeon working with Delilah, a cult organization that participated in occult rituals, wildly unethical scientific experiments, and violent plots in order to gain wealth and property. Jezebel became one his father's main accomplices in his plans, including violent experiments on unwilling subjects and plots to both torment and thwart his brother Cain.

Over time, Jezebel grew more unhinged and violent, eagerly participating in his father's plans even as he resented his father for his abuse and favoritism. As the series progressed, Jezebel remained one of the main antagonists to his brother's plans, deliberately tormenting Cain and his friends with threats and violence. He claimed to both hate and love his brother in turn, hating him for replacing him while also loving him for being the only other family member to understand their father's horrific nature.

Towards the end of the series, Jezebel shows signs that he may begin resisting his ties to his father and shedding his violent behavior. He grows hesitant to hurt his brother or his brother's friends, and begins developing a close bond with his assistant, who urges him to abandon his father. However, he is unable to fully shed those ties -- when a Delilah member attempts to shoot his father, Jezebel jumps in front of him and is fatally shot instead. Still, he dies on a redemptive note, choosing to assist his brother's ally in his last moments by slitting his throat & giving him his blood, which he uses to regain his strength and try to save Cain.

Personality:
Jezebel is first and foremost a person with a long history of violence. He has killed dozens of people in increasingly painful and bloody ways, and leaves an incredibly long body trail throughout the course of his canon series. Other characters comment that Jezebel is enamored with blood, and he shows it in his varied methods of murder, whether it be killing vain women by feeding them parasites "for their looks" or hypnotizing his patients to hack their daughter's friends apart with an axe.  In flashbacks, it's implied that he often felt cold and lonely growing up after the death of his mother & sisters, but that the feeling of blood kept him warm, "almost like being loved", leading to his love of the macabre.

A great deal of Jezebel's violent nature relates to his abusive relationship with his father.  In spite of all of the horrors his father inflicts on him, Jezebel stays with him in Delilah -- partially because his father has convinced him that he is unworthy of love from anyone else, but also because he knows his father will find some cruel way to punish him if he were to try to resist him.  The twisted relationship between them results in Jezebel both loving and hating him in turn, and both enjoying and resenting the violence he's asked to enact.  He is shown openly attacking his brother Cain (in spite of receiving whippings for doing so) and doing things specifically to irritate his father (such as wearing his hair long to look like his murdered mother), while also openly trying to curry his father's favor (especially compared to his more-beloved half-brother) and, ultimately, taking a fatal wound to save his father's life.

The result is that Jezebel's morality is difficult to define post-canon -- in life, his actions were tied to the orders of his father, an incredibly sadistic man who had no trouble endangering or abusing his children for his own mysterious goals. However, as time passed, Jezebel seemed to grow more rebellious against those constraints, deliberately disobeying his father's orders even when it resulted in physical abuse, and aiding his brother in times of distress in spite of their rivalry. He also grows resistant to causing violence to others, including his brother, and ultimately dies (after being fatally wounded) when he gives his blood to his brother's ally in the hopes of keeping his brother alive. He seems to desire some sort of freedom or redemption, even though he acknowledges fully that he doesn't deserve it, and may not ever be entirely free from his past or his father.

However, even beforehand, Jezebel has a somewhat gentler side. He is particularly fond of animals and nature, treating all creatures he encounters with love and care. As a child, he felt immense guilt for eating animals as meat, and after his father tricks him into eating his own pet lamb, he spends the rest of his life as a vegetarian so that he might never again harm another animal.  He is shown spending free time feeding birds in London, and even resurrecting a dead dog to keep as a companion after it's abused.  When he dies, he is buried in the woods per his wishes, so that he can go back to nature and be among animals in the afterlife.

Outside of his familial relationships, Jezebel is capable of both intense loyalty and deep cruelty in turns.  It is heavily implied that he has a misogynistic streak, particularly against passive women, because he resents his mother for letting him and his sisters be abused.  This shows itself in multiple romantic relationships with women where he grows to loathe them for their complacent attitude towards violence, before ultimately killing them.  However, he is also shown to have great loyalty to his assistant, who both saves him from danger and urges him to free himself from his father and Delilah.  Jezebel grows to appreciate his help and his companionship, and eventually risks his own torture/sexual assault in a wager to acquire a surgery his assistant needs.  When Jezebel dies, his assistant is the one holding him in his arms as he passes, leading Jezebel to spend his dying thoughts realizing that he was the only person who he ever had a truly caring relationship with.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping: Jezebel is a non-powered human in his own world. However, he does have knowledge of 1) rituals that can raise the dead and clone their bodies, 2) hypnosis that can affect people's willpower and erase/replace memories. The resurrection rituals are unlikely to be used in Deerington, but if his hypnosis needs to be warped, it can be made ineffectual. He is also capable of surgeries that might lean towards the unreal, such as brain transplants and inserting poison capsules into a person's back teeth.

Inventory: 1) a set of scalpels and surgical knives
2) a cross necklace, given to him by his father
3) a set of jars containing human organs in formaldehyde (if this is too gross/graphic, I can leave them out)

Writing Samples:

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OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Catharine
Player Age: 31
Player Contact: queenoftheimps on Plurk, backwardschic@gmail.com by email

Other Characters In Game: Albus Dumbledore, Huntress/Helena Bertinelli
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Jezebel Disraeli: Catharine
Permissions for Character: Located here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes!
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: I love the elevation of normal human fears and emotions using horror tropes. For example, I love the film Hereditary and the way it takes normal human emotions around grief/loss and elevates them with a supernatural plot around ghosts & cults, or how films like Silence of the Lambs can be used to discuss sexism in society/the workplace.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: No, I’m generally not easily triggered and won’t need any specific warnings beyond the general ones provided.
Additional Information: N/A

OOC
Name: Catharine
Age: 29
Contact: backwardschic@gmail.com
Current Characters: None

IC
Name: Jezebel Disraeli
Age: 27
Series Godchild/The Cain Saga
Canon Point: Post-canon/after canon death

Personality: Jezebel is an odd person in that he will easily declare himself to be absolutely insane and bloodthirsty and irredeemably heartless. The truth is a little more complicated. Since he was a child, his father raised him to believe that he was nothing more than a cold-blooded killer and reinforced this idea with horrible physical/psychological abuse . On some level, Jezebel believes this is exactly the truth and embraces it, as well as his father's plans for him. On another, he seems to realize this is all manipulations and hates his father for it. What truth he chooses to embrace tends to vary from situation to situation.

Generally, he has a dry, somewhat cold demeanor, and tends to be wary of new people. However, he can interact with others on somewhat more amiable terms if they're friendly to him first. If he dislikes someone, he tends to be callous and irritable. If he finds himself close to someone, though, his loyalty is ironclad and he will do anything to keep them safe.

His interests lean towards the macabre -- while working for his father, he developed interests in the occult, poisons, dark scientific experiments, and hypnosis. On the more benign side, however, he has a genuine love of animals and enjoys working with/caring for them, and refuses to eat meat as a result.

Please describe your character's sins and how they influence them:
Jezebel has killed a lot of people. As part of his work with Delilah (his father's organization), he's killed dozens of people by his own direct actions, and stood by when at least several dozen more died via his associates. On top of that, he's been guilty of: assault/mutilation, kidnapping, scientific experimentation on unwitting/unwilling human subjects, and hypnosis to erase/affect the memories & personalities of the subjects. Also, a lot of stealing people's eyes.

In terms of how it affects him: his father had taught him ever since he was a child that he was damned to hell and would never be worthy of anything else. His father also abused & brainwashed Jezebel into being obedient to everything he asked of him, which mostly revolved around bloodshed for his own purposes. So Jezebel has been essentially taught his entire life that violence was the only thing he was good for, and that hell was the only inevitable fate for him. Before his death, he was beginning to wake up to the idea that this might not be the case, but he died before he ever really got to escape his father's influence.

Abilities:
Jezebel is a normal human without any inherent supernatural abilities; he does, however, have arcane knowledge from his time working with Delilah. The main thing he knows how to do is (temporarily) bring corpses back to life, both human and animal; he can also keep them alive with doses of blood, though these reanimated bodies always fall apart after enough time. He is also capable of extreme hypnosis, ranging from convincing someone that their identity is completely different to making generally non-violent people capable of murder.

In terms of his medical knowledge, his main work is with surgery and with using various poisons/parasites, and he has detailed knowledge of both (at least as far as it can go with the Victorian Era, anyhow). He is also skilled at operating on/taking medical care of domestic/farm animals.

Ideas:
Before his death, Jezebel was slowly starting to wake up to the idea of not being obedient to his father and breaking free of the murder cult he'd been ensnared in since childhood. He seemed to be getting close to getting over his brainwashing, including multiple occasions where he helped his brother fight her father, or actively thwarted his father himself. But then at the very end, someone tried to shoot his father and he leapt on the bullet, still not entirely able to let go of his attachment to him. So his character development was halted before it could really finish -- he died conflicted, and now he has to go forward and either truly come around to being a better person, or revert back to his old ways without the excuses he had before. It would be interesting to see how he reacts to the influences of others and to the punishments being inflicted, and



Sample:
Jezebel remembered feeling warm and cold all at once. The blood loss had left him chilled to the touch, but the blood spattered out of him had felt hot on his drained skin. And then there had been Cassian's hands supporting him, his face watching in horror as he faded out --

-- and then he was awake.

The first thing Jezebel did was trace the line of his throat, surprised to feel it smooth and whole. The pain in his chest had evaporated, as had the crumbling tower around him. And Cassian was no longer holding him steady. He was alone.

Perhaps he should have been frightened or startled by the change, but all he was left with was a sense of detached curiosity. Jezebel observed the dead trees and the sky with an idle, wandering glance, before resting his gaze on the sign: "Welcome to Penance".

Ah. He smiled slightly, ruefully. Penance. He knew that term well. Was this Hell, then?

For a moment, he looked himself over. His body, his hair, his clothes were all the same. Around his neck hung the metal cross his father had gifted him so many years ago, still small and light around his throat. Jezebel pinches it in his fingers, the pointed ends digging into the pads of his fingers, and the rueful smile remains. Of course this would follow him into the pits of damnation.

His father was not there, nor Cassian, nor his brother. Perhaps they were alive. If they were, it meant he was really, truly separate from everything he had ever been tied to. He had no obligations, no ties, no loyalties, no demands placed upon him. It might be Hell, but it was a hell that he was truly alone in.

That was a surreal thought to behold. He did not know if it pleased him or not.

Well. If it was Hell, he supposed it was time to pay the piper. It would be unpleasant, but he supposed that was his due. No sense delaying it now.

Jezebel released the cross and let it hang loosely against his neck once more before he walked through the gate, calm and resigned and expectant.