We welcome James Hook to the city. He’s 25 years old and is a tattoo artist. James is often mistaken for Luke Pasqualino, Avan Jogia or Zayn Malik. He’s taken.
James grew up in a broken home. His parents split while he was still young. Most of his youth was spent being ferried from one home to the other. His parents would often use James to get back at each other, which impacted James quite a large amount. He was regularly yelled at, regularly screamed at. It was incredibly sad. All the frustrations regarding his upbringing were taken out at school. His academic subjects suffered greatly, and he was aggressive in sports. The only area that was good for James - Art. Despite his reputation of being a a bad kid, James was also his art teacher’s favorite. This teacher nurtured his talent and encouraged him to create whatever he needed to. Sometimes his pieces would end up quite morbid, but that was okay. Many people told him that he didn’t have a future because most of his subject grades were down. His art teacher told him otherwise though.
There isn’t even an alternative universe where James would have lived with another person. He wouldn’t even begin to know how to process having to be around another human being that often. There was never a part of him that thought he’d be home often so James only got himself a very small apartment. It’s very neat and tidy, with everything organized exactly how he wants it. One of the walls is covered in sketches that he’s yet to tattoo, or doesn’t think he’ll ever tattoo. It makes the place really feel like it. His art has always be what’s helped calm in so having those up especially helps when he’s getting home from a hard day. Most of his lounge space is taken up by his drawing desk and drawing supply. There isn’t even a TV. James isn’t a massive television person. While he occasionally visit the movies, he’s never seen the appeal in sitting and watching three hours worth of episodes.
No one would be surprised to hear that James has definitely got on the wrong side of people in his time. His reason for moving to Libertas is probably one of the more trivial. After numerous hook-ups, James started to find that women back home were really beginning to hate him. While he liked his reputation, it was beginning to make finding new people to sleep with incredibly difficult. He was regularly getting slapped in night clubs, accidentally hooking up with best friends. It was all beginning to get a bit much. There was also the fact that he slept with the wife of a rather important businessman, and now that guy is after him. So, James stole one of his parent’s credit cards to help get himself to Libertas. Once there, he cut it up, got a new phone number, and started completely fresh.
While James can be incredibly charming, he really struggles on the empathy front. He’ll listen to people’s problems, but only if he knows that he’s going to get something out of it. He’s always been quite a self-absorbed person. It’s very rare he’ll actively ask other people how they are. But, he is also incredibly smart and tactical. James figures out how to play people against each other - Just how his parents used him to play against each other. In fact, this is where he learned it from. This talent with people comes in handy when pulling people on a night out. James is extremely persuasive too, so he really has fun when he comes across gullible people. He enjoys manipulating them into doing cruel things for him. It’s all for entertainment too usually. James just likes seeing people squirm.
Charismatic, suave, witty
Devious, manipulative, childish, vain
Bryoni Tinker (Friend with benefits): James and Bryoni met drunk in a bar once. It became obvious that she needed to unload some stuff, so James let her talk. He was fairly certain they’d end up hooking up, so he let her talk. And that’s the way that it’s remained. Bry calls James up. They meet up. She rants. They hook up.
Wendy Darling (Potential love interest): After hearing repeatedly about Wendy from Bryoni, James had to take a look at the girl for himself. So, he went to the daycare he knew she worked at and immediately found himself captivated by the woman’s beauty. She’s practically ethereal. James has been obsessed with her ever since.
Seamus Vane (Colleague): Most of James’ life is spent at the tattoo studio. One of the faces that he see’s on the regular is Seamus. While the young man is a massive fan of tattoos and art, he’s not quite talented enough to be an actual artist. This is something James like to tease Seamus about a lot.
Peter Panning (Enemy): After basically setting his heart and mind on having Wendy Darling, it would make sense that James’ least favorite person in the world would be Peter Panning. He is the competition after all. The pair haven’t ever actually met yet though. If they ever did, it’d probably be quite tense.
Iracebeth Marmoreal (Friend): James loves his regular customers. They bring in money for him, so why wouldn’t he? Iracebeth has a specific style of tattoos she enjoys, and James just happens to be particularly good at them. There’s no way they’d sit there the entire time in silence. So it’s very likely that they may be friends at this point.
James is based on Captain Hook from Peter Pan.
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