Aren't You Scared?

Player
Name: Wolfy
Preferred Contact: quesadillawizard on plurk
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Beetlejuice, Henry Townshend, JW

Character
Name: Jack Skellington
Series: The Nightmare Before Christmas (Film + Tokyopop Comics)
Timeline: post mirror moon (TBftBK came out later but its a prequel)
Film: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Tim_Burton%27s_The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas
Zero's Journey: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Zero%27s_Journey
Mirror Moon: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_Moon
The Battle for the Pumpkin King: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/The_Battle_for_Pumpkin_King

the wiki is not great

Personality:

He's a man of big emotions. When he's excited about something, he wants to get the whole town involved, complete with power point presentation on why. When he's sad, he is utterly lost in his melancholy and allows himself to fall into trouble like the time he got so sad he just walked out of town into the woods in a random direction until the sun came up. When he's focused on something, forgets to eat and sleep until he's puzzled out what he's trying to discover. Others often have to step in to bring Jack down to earth. He loves to play as much as anyone and loves a spectacle.

If something catches Jack's curiosity, he will pursue it until he feels he fully understands it. This can manifest in many ways: exploration, book study, the scientific method. He's only got a limited scope of understanding though. Jack knows ghosts and ghouls and graveyards and screams. Horrible is wonderful! Scary is spectacular! He was hand-trained by the previous Pumpkin King, Edgar, and taught all he knows about making sure Halloween goes the way it ought to. While he is not part of the governing body of the town, he is still a leader. The townspeople look at him for inspiration. It's a lot to carry on your shoulders, but it's something Jack does with dignity and pride.

His attention span does have a threshold though. He managed to get tired of Halloween, but only after being Pumpkin King for a LONG ASS TIME. Maybe it was a midafterlife crisis. Either way, he did his whole diving into Christmas thing because it was something that wasn't Halloween. I'm sure if he'd ended up in one of the other holiday realms, the same thing would have happened. In this canon update he has regained his love for Halloween once again, but he still has a healthy interest in new ideas.

Although he delights in scaring the masses, as being scary is very important in Halloween Town, Jack is above all a polite and decent fellow. He treats every citizen of Halloween Town as his equal and appreciates all their talents and gifts. His friends are his whole world. When Zero went missing due to his careless placement of one of his inventions, he did not rest until his dog was back in his arms. He enlisted the strongest and bravest monsters to be part of the rescue team. When he saw that his dear friend Sally, who had supported him even in his wildest antics, was being held against her will and tortured, he saw red. His loyalty threw him into action and he did battle with Oogie Boogie until not a bug was left. This is important because Oogie and Jack have a history. He must have already fallen pretty darn far in Jack's eyes. Sometimes you have to kill your childhood best friend. :(

Jack is very hands-on when talking to people, patting shoulders and tugging people in the direction of whatever he's talking about. If he thinks your tongue is important to the conversation, he just might pull it out of your mouth. He's a bit scattered though and does have a tendency to talk over people without meaning to, often missing things that are right in front of him, such as Sally's affection for him or Santa not into being sent on "vacation" via kidnapping in a plastic garbage bag. His intentions really are for the best, he just gets lost in his own whimsy. He can talk himself into anything. This thoughtlessness almost ruined Christmas entirely and since then, he's tried to be more thoughtful when it comes to other realms' customs. His friends won't let him forget, that's for sure.

Jack is very creative. For example, in the contest to become the new Pumpkin King in Training, Oogie sabotages him and makes him drop all his pumpkins. Thinking quickly, Jack pieces the smashed shells together into one big jack-o-lantern and wins points for his efforts. He's known to tinker and invent things on whims as flimsy as a dream (creating the magic mirror) or even pouring months of hard work into furthering the technology of the holiday realms (the portal in zero's journey). He admires Dr. Finklestein and often goes to him for advice on scientific matters.

He's just a little guy and he's out here and he loves the world and scaring people.


Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Edgar the Murkrow

Samples
RP Sample: TDM Thread

Victory Road Sample:

PROSE SAMPLE:

Dust danced in the shafts of golden light streaming through the open door. Jack's shadow stretched across the floor and up the far wall as he and Edgar took their first steps back into Skellington Haus after what must have been almost ten years. The furniture loomed in the corners, covered in great white sheets making them look like ghosts. It made Jack smile.

"Home at last, Edgar," he said.

Jack flipped on the lights and crossed the living room to uncover the vintage black velvet sofa. He made short work of folding the old sheet, pausing only to sneeze. Edgar imitated him. He tossed the sheet onto a nearby chair and sank down onto the dark cushions with a sigh. It had been quite the journey from Route 29, but he'd had to hit all the towns on foot if he wanted to reignite his warp passes. It was worth it. With the aid of the Poke'Gear and his Pokemon, he was never alone.

He pulled the device out of his coat pocket and flipped it on to see what everyone was up to today. Someone was challenging a gym. Someone was hiding from mall security. Someone was posting aesthetic photos of sleeping Pokemon. It was all so normal, and yet...

The Murkrow croaked and butted her head under Jack's chin. He stroked her feathers and smiled down at her, remembering what he had told Cali over the network. "I'm alright. It's a vacation! And who knows…something exciting could be just around the corner!"

Edgar flapped her wings and took off. She drifted through the air and landed on top of the tall crooked grandfather clock. There, she tapped forward and pecked at the glass covering the clock's face. The clock hadn't run in years.

"You're right, Edgar!" Jack stood up at once. "We've only got so much time until Halloween!"

APP | IC INBOX | PLAYER PROFILE

HUMAN APPEARANCE:
Jack is a tall, spindly gentleman with wild black hair full of gray streaks that he usually keeps tied back in a ponytail. It's hard to pinpoint his exact age. He moves like a man in his twenties but his pince-nez glasses and the lines that crease his face here and there hint at a long, exciting life. His darkly circled eyes are orange.

RESIDENCE:
Jack currently lives alone in Skellington Haus, a towering mansion on the north side of Goldenrod. It functions as his dwelling as well as a bed and breakfast.

OCCUPATION:
Jack runs a haunted bed and breakfast out of Goldenrod.
-400P a night, comes with a free breakfast for trainers and up to three Pokemon.
-800P to stay in the HAUNTED room. If the customer can stay the whole night without being scared off by Jack and his Pokemon's ghostly antics, they get a refund as thanks for letting him have fun. They're also awarded a button that says UNSPOOKABLE. Haunted rooms must be booked three days in advance.
(he has to get back to this point, he's starting his pokemon journey over AGAIN)

VICTORY ROAD UPDATE:
Jack left for a year his team page is a mess. All you need to know is he has a Purrloin and a Vulpix.

TEAM

These are the Pokemon Jack is currently carrying with him.


Name: Edgar
Species: Murkrow
Gender: Female
Lvl: 67
Nature: Sassy, highly curious
Ability: Super Luck
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Jack's right-hand bird! He is hardly seen without her on his shoulder. Additional Art

Edgar was Jack's first Pokemon partner. She spends a lot of time exploring the path or resting on Jack's shoulder, watching the people on the Poke'Gear's screen. She has hit that 'teenager stage' and has become quite bold in battle. When facing ratatta and bug-type pokemon, she gets excited because they are the pokemon she faced during level grinding early on.

She has a scratch on her beak from getting it stuck inside a tin can.


Name: Doc
Species: Noctowl
Gender: Male
Lvl: 57
Nature: Serious, hates to loose
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Jack captured Doc outside Cherrygrove at night in a last, wild struggle to capture one of the 'spooky' pokemon since he would be leaving soon. The battle involved a steep hill and a creek. Doc's huge orange eyes are always half lidded and he seems to be disgusted with the world at large. Doc is VERY aggressive in battle and only obeys commands that Jack yells angrily. It worries his trainer.

Additional Artwork


Name: Dennis
Species: Gyarados
Gender: Male
Lvl: 48
Nature: Calm, alert to sounds
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: MOVE SET
OT: Heather Mason
Notes:
Heather originally gave Jack the derp-eyed little pokemon to clear space in her team. Also he kind of creeped her out. Though he's fully evolved, Dennis is still fairly young. He likes to put things in his mouth--like people. His eyes don't point in the same direction and this throws off his accuracy. But when he hits, he hits hard.

Additional Art


Name: One
Species: Houndoom
Gender: Male
Lvl: 51
Nature: Bold, mischevious
Ability: Flash Fire
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
One was Jack's Christmas egg and took quite a while to hatch. He was thrilled to find that he had gotten A PUPPY FOR CHRISTMAS OH GOD FOR REAL. He named him One after his old dog, Zero. One comes after Zero, naturally. One isn't afraid of anything and enjoys setting things on fire because the sounds Jack makes are THE BEST.


Name: Noose
Species: Arbok
Gender: Female
Lvl: 47
Nature: Naughty, often lost in thought
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
*Shiny!
Noose was another holiday gift and like many, he feared something was wrong with her when she hatched having never owned a shiny before. She battled Edgar for a place on Jack's arm but soon got too big. She's always thinking up nasty plots to get rid of the bird.


Name: Gladstone Lily
Species: Skuntank
Gender: Female
Lvl: 44
Nature: Sassy, often dozes off
Ability: Aftermath
Moves: MOVE SET
OT: Donald Duck
Notes:
Lilly was gifted to him through mysterious circumstances from Donald Duck. Jack, not wanting to make the same mistake twice, quickly renamed the little stinky pokemon. She has become fast friends with One the Houndour who is only slightly younger than she is.

SCARACTORS

These ghosts work in Jack's haunted house attraction!


Name: Eric
Species: Yamask
Gender: Male
Lvl: 22
Nature: Careful, highly persistent
Ability: Mummy
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Eric worries almost constantly. If you have the sniffles, a cough, are walking too close to a thorny bush or steep edge, he will be in your face trying to herd you away from danger. Was a paramedic in a past life.


Name: Hindenburg
Species: Driftloon
Gender: Male
Lvl: 14
Nature: Lonely nature, somewhat of a clown
Ability: Unburden
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Poor Hindenburg went unused for a couple of years because he wasn't deemed scary enough to be a right and proper ghost. He's constantly trying to act out and please others in fear of being 'boxed' again. He hates to be alone and tugs on peoples' arms.


Name: Harvey
Species: Gastly
Gender: Male
Lvl: 15
Nature: Timid, scatters things often
Ability:
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
One of a pair of poltergeist twins, he is almost always invisible. He favors hanging clothing from ceiling fans and other high places.


Name: Elvis
Species: Gastly
Gender: Male
Lvl: 15
Nature: Rash, scatters things often
Ability: Levitate
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
One of a pair of poltergeist twins, he's eager to start laying on the scares as soon as guests set foot in the door. Loves to steal poke'gears.


Name: Marolyn
Species: Haunter
Gender: Female
Lvl: 27
Nature: Impish, somewhat vain
Ability: Levitate
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
This little ghosty adores mirrors and often replaces guests' reflections with her own.


Name: Christmas Present
Species: Gastly
Gender: Male
Lvl: 21
Nature: Jolly, impetuous and silly
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Hypnosis, Lick, Spite, Mean Look, Curse, Night Shade, Confuse Ray
Notes:
CP loves to laugh, especially in the middle of the night when everybody is trying to sleep. He is fond of good-natured pranks.


Name: Shreik
Species: Gastly
Gender: Female
Lvl: 24
Nature: Gentle, quick to flee
Ability: Levitate
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Shriek is incredibly shy. Usually the only clues she's even been around are cold spots left in the air.


Name: Fester
Species: Gastly
Gender: Male
Lvl: 13
Nature: Lonely, loves to eat
Ability: Levitate
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
If you come into the house with food, you will not be leaving with it. Fester will see to that. Often found in the fridge.


SWARM: x20
Species: Noibat
Gender: Male and Female
Lvl: 5 - 10
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes: For fuck's sake, Joker, why did you think this was a good idea?


Name: Lenore
Species: Pumpkaboo, small size
Gender: Female
Lvl: 5
Nature: Quiet, proud of its power
Ability: Pick Up
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes: Though she is tiny, Lenore is the LOUDEST screamer in the scaracting squad.


Name: Boomer
Species: Pumpkaboo, super size
Gender: Male
Lvl: 6
Nature: Bold, likes to run
Ability: Frisk
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes: Boomer often drops out of the air right behind guests, making a loud THUD.

RESIDENTS

Pokemon who are on break from battling and scaracting or kept around for companionship.


Name: Bram
Species: Zubat
Gender: Male
Lvl: 12
Nature: Calm, proud of its power
Ability: Innerfocus
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Bram was captured in Union Cave while he and his traveling buddy, Rainbow Dash, were talking about how homesick they were. When the flock of zubat flew overhead, Jack HAD to have one. They reminded him so much of the misty skies of Halloween Town. Bram is fairly young and chill. He's got a bit of a smuggy smug face goin' on.


Name: Holly THE DELIVERER
Species: Skiddo
Gender: Female
Lvl: 6
Nature: Timid, likes to eat
Ability: Sap Sipper
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Holly was found in Jack's back yard munching on one of his new hedge maze rows. One day Jack was taking her for a walk and discovered her ledge-jumping ability. He promptly went insane afterward.


Name: Nightshade
Species: Skiddo
Gender: Male
Lvl: 5
Nature: Bold, loves to run
Ability: Sap Sipper
Moves: MOVE SET
Notes:
Nightshade was found in Jack's back yard munching on one of his new hedge maze rows.