Gender: Male
Age: Twenty-five
Nicknames: Jazz, Jay
Occupation: Welder
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Nationality: American with Irish and mixed decent
Years Spent at St. Dymphna's: Three
Mental Disorder(s): Jasper suffers from retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Retrograde amnesia is the loss of all long-term memories before a certain point in time whereas anterograde amnesia is the inability to recall short-term memories. In his time at the home, Jasper has been able to recover measurably. He has partially regained the ability to recall short term memories and his confabulations have decreased. His retrograde amnesia will likely stick with him forever, meaning that he will never be able to recall any memories before his incident.
Height: 6ā2ā
Weight:160lbs
Build: Tall and thin with a coltish build.
Hair Color: Black with a brownish tint.
Eye Color:Dark green.
Scars?: The initials L.C and K.B are messily engraved into his left forearm. Though he cannot directly recall memories involving the scars, he receives a wave of emotions that betray a tragedy upon glancing at them. In addition to these, a number of older short burns dot his hands and arms.
Written Appearance Description: Jasper Bligh is fairly tall with a lanky, slim build. He has an oval shaped face with raised cheekbones and soft features. His hair is black with tight curls that are most often messy or unkempt. His palms are often littered with hastily written notes in pen, this is part of his attempt to remember people. His facial expression generally forms into one of sullenness and it is evident that in his past lies darkness, even if he doesn't remember it.
Clothing Preference: Jasper likes fancy clothing. He enjoys suits and dress shirts and is often seen wearing a button up shirt and his deep blue tie. Silk is favourite material. All of his preferences stem from his poor child hood and aspirations to be middle or upper class. He canāt remember anything from then, but many of his desires made it through.
Skills: Muscle memory is not always affected by amnesia, and as a result, Jasper has retained many of his previous skills. He has shown that he has at least partially retained his welding abilities as he will absent-mindedly spark up an imaginary torch and then, with a steady hand, drag it across a table or wall. He is very talented in soccer and is seen juggling his ball in his room quite often. In his spare time he sculpts, most of his figures are what he imagines his family looked like.
Quirks: Chews his nails, has slight anxiety, always carries a pen.
Likes:Reading, writing, architecture, rain, sculpting, maps, plant life.
Dislikes: Pollution, greediness, violence, knives, stew.
Fears: Losing all of his experiences again, addiction, failure.
Written Personality Description: Jasper is generally cautious around everyone, with his amnesia he knows people could easily take advantage of him, or so it says on his hand. Permanent notes taken on paper litter his room, they include his impressions of people, dates of incidents, and even what he thinks of himself. He uses these notes to determine how he should feel and react to certain things. He is almost paranoid, taking measures to avoid most people. He only truly trusts a few people in the home, and none of them are patients.
Brief History: Jasper grew up in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in his city. It was ravaged by gangs and crime, anyone who could afford to get out did. He lived with his mother up until he was fifteen, when she died giving birth to what would have been his half brother. His mother was extremely poor and turned to prostitution in addition to her work in a textile factory. Jasper's father had been just another one of her clients. From what he heard in gossip, his father was a cruel man, often beating his partners and was heavily involved in a gang. Jasper was disgusted by this. For as long as his mother had been alive he had hated her, both for her work and for making him live in such a scummy place. He desperately wanted out.
After she died he realized how much she sheltered him from the gang violence. She kept a roof over his head an fed him, that was all gone now. He now felt guilty about the ways he treated his mother and took up heavy drinking. Despite this he managed to get himself an apprenticeship for welding and began working. With the money he made from using his new found skills around the city he finally had enough to rent an apartment. Soon after he he met a girl and stopped drinking for a while. Their relationship blossomed and eventually she became pregnant with what would have been their daughter. Jasper would have been overjoyed with their new child, but his fiancƩe became sick with polio and, after a long struggle, died. Jasper's drinking habit soon returned and he found himself on the streets again, kicked out by his landlord. Over the course of months he became malnourished. Some thugs, looking for an easy target, jumped him, injuring him in the process and putting him into a coma. Jasper was taken to hospital by a good samaritan. When he woke up, he didn't know who he was.
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